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Not two days ago a student said the Neanderthals went extinct because they didn't have enough money.
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Mar 17, 2017 02:58
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Grand Fromage posted:Not two days ago a student said the Neanderthals went extinct because they didn't have enough money. Huh, I was certain the Neanderthals were older than 5,000 years....
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Mar 17, 2017 03:00
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Sheep-Goats posted:I have always had your back on this bud, in case u have forgotten ~~ you are cool and good imo
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Mar 17, 2017 03:43
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I got sick. Just a sore throat and possible fever (time will tell). I posted about it on my Wechat wall and got a flood of advice, which all amounts to: "Go to the hospital!!!!" "Take medicine!!!!!" "WARM WATER!!!!!!" Nobody believes me that it will go away on its own after a few days. I am very curious where this idea of any sort anything that happens to the body requires a pill/"medicine." I know it's a country full of hypocondriacs, but nobody trusts the hospitals here yet they all still go just to get the same bag of mystery pills that will help cause cancer later in life. I don't know where they got this idea that absolutely everything needs medicine ("it's cold, better take medicine"), but somebody is getting rich off it. .. While I am writing this, my landlord is showing the empty apartment two doors down to a VERY VERY VERY VERY loud woman and her silent husband (I opened the door to see who was screaming so drat much). She didn't see me, and I wish she had, because it might have scared her off. I really hope they don't take it. I prefer the phone-addicted ghostly college kids who hid in their apartments and only order food to their doors. Ups_rail posted:I noticed haier just uses the word hillbilly these days
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Mar 17, 2017 03:47
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What? Nong?
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Mar 17, 2017 03:51
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The Great Autismo! posted:lol i love you being here in china and in the china threads with the little star next to your name, because in like late 2013 to 2014 i went through a phase where in china threads on SA I would say something like "i really don't trust the construction workers in my complex to do a good job" and everyone was like "this is very racist, what is wrong with you" and now its like 3.5 years later and we can just say poo poo like "lol can anyone in this country think of something other than money?" and everyone is like "this is a good post, agreed" Holy god damned poo poo The first China.jpg was posted on Oct. 11, 2014. It doesn't seem like it's been that long. I fell into a rut at work and all of 2016 went down the memory hole. By the time I quit, I was time travelling from week to week. China sounds like a stimulating environment. Does that help with poo poo like that?
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Mar 17, 2017 04:05
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Glenn Quebec posted:What? Nong? Nope, Nong is now back in fashion. It's that other word.
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Mar 17, 2017 04:51
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What's the Chinese version of this?  Accretionist posted:China sounds like a stimulating environment. Does that help with poo poo like that?
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Mar 17, 2017 04:54
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Haier posted:What's the Chinese version of this? marriage proposal without an apartment and car
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Mar 17, 2017 04:59
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Nucken Futz posted:Nope, Nong is now back in fashion. Nork?
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Mar 17, 2017 05:36
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Mysteries I'm thinking about today. As we enter 15 minutes straight of a phone ringing, I wonder why it seems no one in China can comprehend the idea of "not at my phone". I've had people call me ten times in a row. Stop. Calling. I get you left the phone ringer on at max volume at the office because everywhere and everything must be as loud as humanly possible at all times. Knocking on doors is accomplished by pounding on the door and screaming like a loving maniac, then waiting 0.2 seconds and doing it again, wait another split second, continue. They also do this in Korea. Questions: A) Do you expect everyone is just sitting next to the door waiting for someone to knock? Typically, we wait an interval for the person to respond before knocking again. B) What's with the screaming? You already slammed my door like you were a bunch of Vandals with a battering ram trying to break it down. C) If I don't answer the door within ten seconds, frequently you have vanished. Do you not understand that it might take some period of time for a person to stop what they're doing and get over to the door to answer it? Connected to A, I suppose.
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Mar 17, 2017 05:50
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The phone thing was a serious problem in my office in Bangkok. I could be the only one on the whole floor and there would be three or four phones ringing like mad for hours. The thing is, these were almost always internal calls, so they should have known that the sales team was in the field or that the school managers were out managing.
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Mar 17, 2017 06:02
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If phones ever get truly phased out, offices will get a little gadget that just rings at random intervals through the day to make sure it still seems like people are busy.
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Mar 17, 2017 06:28
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Accretionist posted:Holy god damned poo poo i was posting in t&t travel threads in 2010 about china, which is where it all started for me. we got moved to LAN at some point in like 2012 or maybe 2013? we have a d&d thread that is for really obnoxious people who literally know nothing about china to post in, and then this thread in GBS started in like 2014. i've been a racist for 5 years, more or less, if you go by what people on these forums scream about. Grand Fromage posted:Mysteries I'm thinking about today. the best was when our receptionist at my old job wasn't at her desk, and the phone would ring for like 15 times, and then i would finally get up and answer it in chinese, and hte person would be like "yo is Wang there?" or whoever they are looking for, and i'd have to go find wang. and there are like 7 chinese girls on taobao shopping for clothes, or trying to figure out what food to order for lunch, and everyone is just staring at their screen like "phone wasn't my phone, why would i bother to answer it?", and i actually used this as one of the reasons i got a title change and raise like three years ago. i also cleaned up afer the cleaning man, who would drink bottles of drinks and leave them laying around, or smoke in places he wasn't supposed to and i'd clean up his cigs all over the floor. besides being director of education, director of student development, and outreach director, i also did things like "answer the phone when everyone was online shopping" and "clean up after our dirty janitor" i'm p glad i've left that job, lol!
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Mar 17, 2017 06:35
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Modest Mao posted:like this small boy, there are few moments I don't worry about reimann zeta fuctions Nah man, False Vacuum Cascade is the real pants-browner.
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Mar 17, 2017 06:45
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Blistex posted:Nork? I really want to answer this, but I'm p sure i shouldn't.
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Mar 17, 2017 06:52
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I thought Haier got probated for using the word "muzzies", not any Chinaman slang.
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Mar 17, 2017 06:54
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:I thought Haier got probated for using the word "muzzies", not any Chinaman slang. People did complain, though, that posters were starting to use the word "nong" in a way that sounded broadly insulting to Chinese people* generally, not just Chinese rednecks staring at foreigners or half-assing work. *in the national sense, not using "Chinese" to mean "Han" or something
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Mar 17, 2017 07:06
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Pirate Radar posted:People did complain, though, that posters were starting to use the word "nong" in a way that sounded broadly insulting to Chinese people* generally, not just Chinese rednecks staring at foreigners or half-assing work. There's a difference?
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Mar 17, 2017 07:09
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Grand Fromage posted:As we enter 15 minutes straight of a phone ringing, I wonder why it seems no one in China can comprehend the idea of "not at my phone". I've had people call me ten times in a row. Stop. Calling. I get you left the phone ringer on at max volume at the office because everywhere and everything must be as loud as humanly possible at all times. This is loving infuriating and happens at my office with mobile phones. People will sometimes take a long bathroom break and leave the mobile at their desk. It will start ringing and playing a lovely lovely song at an unnecessarily high volume for 90 straight seconds, stop when the provider times out, and then the fucker just immediately calls back another 1-3 times for the full 90 second duration. Grand Fromage posted:Knocking on doors is accomplished by pounding on the door and screaming like a loving maniac, then waiting 0.2 seconds and doing it again, wait another split second, continue. They also do this in Korea. Questions: The correct chinese style is to scream "wo lai le!" at the top of your lungs when the person pounds on the door, wait 2 seconds, scream "deng yi xia!" and slowly waddle to the door
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Mar 17, 2017 07:30
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big time bisexual posted:marriage proposal without an apartment and car The new hotness is taking her on a cheap foreign vacation to the hot spots (Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, or other cheap places) to prove that it's all about her, and your money and time are hers before it's official. Yorkshire Pudding posted:I thought Haier got probated for using the word "muzzies", not any Chinaman slang.
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Mar 17, 2017 07:36
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Haier posted:That was a good one because it showed that many people think Islam is a race. This is some DnD-level rules lawyering, good job. Either meaning of DnD applies here, really
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Mar 17, 2017 07:43
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2014 was only 3 years ago but it feels like it was a loving decade ago jfc
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Mar 17, 2017 07:53
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LimburgLimbo posted:Taiwan honestly got the best deal out of the Japanese empire's expansionist poo poo. It was still lovely imperialism and all but Taiwan was by most metrics the most successfully colony in the history of colonialism, and there's plenty of Taiwanese who look back on it with a level of fondness even, in my experience. Don't know if you've felt otherwise but it's been a common sentiment in the Taiwanese people I've met. For reference in how different they were, the Nanjing War Memorial Museum they has a letter from the Nazi Party/Hitler to the Nazi consulate or whatever it was in occupied China saying "Hey tell the Japanese army stop doing all that, they're going way too far."
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Mar 17, 2017 07:58
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Speaking of superior genes, we've already discussed the Asian (mostly Chinese) genetic predisposition to motion sickness as studied and documented in 1996 (at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8825456) , but another super interesting publication from last year that caught my attention was at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27432177: Motion sickness in ancient China: Seasickness and cart-sickness OBJECTIVE: To find and analyze descriptions of motion sickness in Chinese historical sources. METHODS: Databases and dictionaries were searched for various terms for seasickness and travel sickness, which were then entered into databases of full texts allowing selection of relevant passages from about the third to the 19th century ad. RESULTS: Already in 300 ad the Chinese differentiated cart-sickness, particularly experienced by persons from the arid north of China, from a ship-illness experienced by persons from the south, where rivers were important for transportation and travel. In the Middle Ages, a third form of motion sickness was called litter-influence experienced by persons transported in a bed suspended between 2 long poles. The ancient Chinese recognized the particular susceptibility of children to motion sickness. Therapeutic recommendations include drinking the urine of young boys, swallowing white sand-syrup, collecting water drops from a bamboo stick, or hiding some earth from the middle of the kitchen hearth under the hair. CONCLUSIONS: The Chinese medical classics distinguished several forms of travel sickness, all of which had their own written characters. The pathophysiologic mechanism was explained by the medicine of correspondences, which was based on malfunctions within the body, its invasion by external pathogens like wind, or the deficit or surfeit of certain bodily substances such as the life force Qi. The concept of motion as the trigger of sickness initially appeared in a chapter on warding off the influence of demons and corpses, e.g., ancient magic and beliefs. ----------------- So in other words, people were getting sick from carts, litters, and boats, but nobody associated the nausea with MOTION at first. Wanting to throw up every time you ride in a cart is clearly caused by either a Qi deficit or demonic influence - you'll feel better if you drink some urine and some sand.
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Mar 17, 2017 08:01
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Fojar38 posted:2014 was only 3 years ago but it feels like it was a loving decade ago jfc I was relating a story that was set in 2010 or 2011 and one crucial part of the story was that smartphones and tablets weren't ubiquitous and I got thinking later, "Wait, that was only 7 years ago. I know the iPhone has been around for longer than that and people had Android devices, but were they really not all that common?" And I mean they must not have been; I checked my dates and that's where the story fell, but wow that wasn't very long ago and now it seems like everyone has had a smartphone forever.
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Mar 17, 2017 08:24
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Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator posted:"It is very difficult to phone people in China, Mr. President," said the Postmaster General, "The country is so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number."
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Mar 17, 2017 08:36
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Atlas Hugged posted:I was relating a story that was set in 2010 or 2011 and one crucial part of the story was that smartphones and tablets weren't ubiquitous and I got thinking later, "Wait, that was only 7 years ago. I know the iPhone has been around for longer than that and people had Android devices, but were they really not all that common?" And I mean they must not have been; I checked my dates and that's where the story fell, but wow that wasn't very long ago and now it seems like everyone has had a smartphone forever. Wait do you mean mobile phones or smart phones? By like 2009 in Shanghai a ton of people were using Nokia, Blackberry, and Sony Ericsson phones, and at least Nokia had Symbian and Blackberry had whatever the gently caress.
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Mar 17, 2017 09:09
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:I thought Haier got probated for using the word "muzzies", not any Chinaman slang. Lol I just looked at his rap sheet. He also got prob'd for basically saying "hah, glad I'm off probation. Gene sure does love probating me."
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Mar 17, 2017 09:12
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LentThem posted:Wait do you mean mobile phones or smart phones? By like 2009 in Shanghai a ton of people were using Nokia, Blackberry, and Sony Ericsson phones, and at least Nokia had Symbian and Blackberry had whatever the gently caress. I mean smartphones specifically, devices with mobile data, touch interfaces, extensive internal storage, etc. Mobile phones have been the norm since like 2003 or earlier.
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Mar 17, 2017 09:12
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Magna Kaser posted:For reference in how different they were, the Nanjing War Memorial Museum they has a letter from the Nazi Party/Hitler to the Nazi consulate or whatever it was in occupied China saying "Hey tell the Japanese army stop doing all that, they're going way too far." I have this rugby singlet for that's for Japan rugby but it's pattern is basically a stylized rising sun. I think it looks pretty cool, but when I went to Kaohsiung last week I pointedly didn't bring it even though I knew it was gonna be hot just because some people might understandably be less cool with it. Low and behold in 4 days in Kaohsiung I saw like 3? Taiwanese people wearing distinctly Japanese style rising sun motifs of some variation. Edit: to add another layer I bought it in Thailand from a rugby vendor who sells mostly to western expats.
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Mar 17, 2017 09:19
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Thailand doesn't have any reason at all to dislike the rising sun flag, of course, but not many of the Thais I met learned about WWII as a significant event anyway.
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Mar 17, 2017 09:41
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Pirate Radar posted:This is some DnD-level rules lawyering, good job. Well, they're both based in worlds of magic and fantasy, so...
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Mar 17, 2017 10:10
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LentThem posted:or hiding some earth from the middle of the kitchen hearth under the hair.[/u][/b] of course, that's why you have hair in the kitchen
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Mar 17, 2017 10:39
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Pirate Radar posted:Thailand doesn't have any reason at all to dislike the rising sun flag, of course, but not many of the Thais I met learned about WWII as a significant event anyway. During the Japanese invasion of British Malaya, I was surprised to find that the Japanese were supported by units of the Royal Thai Army.
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Mar 17, 2017 11:39
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Imperialist Dog posted:During the Japanese invasion of British Malaya, I was surprised to find that the Japanese were supported by units of the Royal Thai Army. Never colonized.
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Mar 17, 2017 11:42
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Imperialist Dog posted:During the Japanese invasion of British Malaya, I was surprised to find that the Japanese were supported by units of the Royal Thai Army. 1st Ladyboy Division.
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Mar 17, 2017 11:44
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Imperialist Dog posted:During the Japanese invasion of British Malaya, I was surprised to find that the Japanese were supported by units of the Royal Thai Army. One of the biggest intersections in Bangkok is the traffic circle at Victory Monument, a big obelisk with soldier statues that commemorates Thailand's invasion of... French Indochina.
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Mar 17, 2017 11:54
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LentThem posted:This is loving infuriating and happens at my office with mobile phones. People will sometimes take a long bathroom break and leave the mobile at their desk. It will start ringing and playing a lovely lovely song at an unnecessarily high volume for 90 straight seconds, stop when the provider times out, and then the fucker just immediately calls back another 1-3 times for the full 90 second duration. Also what do people do in the bathroom when they're taking a long poo poo if they don't have their phone? Read the drain cleaner instructions?
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