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My unofficial rankings of the different chinas China + If you're a 20ish year old white male, you will enjoy the lack of rules, heavy drinking no fucks given culture. + Being competent is seen as a superpower. - Everything is poison - You will be reminded of your guest worker status repeatedly and randomly Taiwan + Is no 1 + had a civil society so you can be a goddamn adult, doing adult things and having adult opinions - less pay because less people so on the money but thank gently caress you're not part of the meat sandwich that is rush hour China public transport - too many expats coming from Korea who are so so soooo damaged Hong Kong + has warm south China climate + has independent thoughts - on the way to being just another chinese city - the rent on a loving rabbit warrens shelf is some ridiculous bullshit because the the loving elite went from fygm cocksucking brits to fygm cocksucking china elites condemning the under 40s to max commute japan hours work with a bowl of noodles being the only loving luxury you can have Singapore + hot + small - is a claustrophobic company town that you need to fly out of once a month to get somewhere where you can finally loving breathe goddamnit
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 12:53 |
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# ? May 30, 2024 07:29 |
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MY TAIWAN BBALL IS LIKE AN EX GIRLFRIEND
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 12:55 |
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Cultural Revolution poo poo is coming back https://twitter.com/hancocktom/status/838389718224011264?s=09
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 13:15 |
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BCR posted:My unofficial rankings of the different chinas Japan + is the best - i'm not there right now
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 14:33 |
what would happen to an explicitly maoist but entirely populist cultural revolution style popular movement would the government still disappear them and crack heads or would they more or less tie their hands and look the other way
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 14:38 |
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basic hitler posted:what would happen to an explicitly maoist but entirely populist cultural revolution style popular movement What would happen to anything that challenges the status quo as Xi wills it? Hint: the government would disappear them
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 14:40 |
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the last person to do some vaguely maoist poo poo was bo xilai and look where that got him
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 14:43 |
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The 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution was last year and the Maoist marches for it were mostly suppressed. The funniest story of if all was a group of Maoists who went to Hong Kong to do their Cultural Revolution Mao march because it was the only place with freedom of speech that they could march in.
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 14:46 |
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They're super careful about letting anything become popular including their own programs, like how the anti-japan movement was suppressed a few years back after it became inconveniently big.
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 14:52 |
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nickmeister posted:I don't know. On the one hand, if you don't have an Asian face you're going to be treated like some sort of radioactive alien no matter how well kempt you are. On the other hand, they're white so they can still get laid without trying if they put down their DS for a moment. If you're black or brown, you REALLY have to put your best foot forward to get something approaching decent treatment. So of these very average looking nerds with very average nerd personalities can stop giving a poo poo and still partner up with average women who are still way out of their league, why don't they go 'Hmm, I'm a 4 and no effort gets me a 6, I wonder what happens when I put in some effort?'. Not that I condone pickup artist bullshit but you get my point. The answer is they're lazy goony nerds but it seems frustrating to see? I guess the other option is 'I'll make an effort but instead of the 'best' women I'm going to plumb the depths of the metaphorical jungle for undiscovered cryptofauna' and we get the Dr. Livingstonesque Haier (who is doing very important hands on cultural studies and please never stop posting). Outrail fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Mar 31, 2017 |
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Sheep-Goats posted:Growing up poor is a good reason to insist that your people have always had horses. Sure, but like it doesn't actually help anything and just makes everyone else in the world think you're kind of an idiot.
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 15:05 |
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Vesi posted:They're super careful about letting anything become popular including their own programs, like how the anti-japan movement was suppressed a few years back after it became inconveniently big. Yeah, also the anti japanese stuff a few years ago around whatever island it was was way, way bigger than this korea stuff now from everything i've seen. p much all the 7-11s in the country were closed for like a few days (this was a bigger deal than it sounds cuz there are like 1000000 of them everywhere), people were vandalizing any Japanese car they saw, and traffic was stopped from mass marches around town. I remember the US consulate also had huge crowds around it with people mad the US was keeping silent on the issue of island sovereignty. This time it's basically old people with nothing better to do saying lotte is bad.
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 15:13 |
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Schools are also pushing the hate. Students at mine always hated Koreans but it's gotten significantly worse over the past month or so.
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 15:15 |
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that reminds me of the best thing I saw during the Japanese stuff years ago which was an ad all over campus with a PLA dude pointing out at the reader and giant text that translated to: "The diaoyu islands are China's, and great spoken English can be yours! Call our English school for more info!"
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 15:20 |
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BCR posted:
please expand upon this, sounds like some good stories...
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 15:57 |
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We called it the one way door.
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 16:08 |
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A true and accurate representation of ESL teaching in Korea.
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 16:44 |
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Sheep-Goats posted:Also while I appreciate that growing up poor in a lovely environment and drawing your identity from an abused people lends some advantages and creates other obstacles, but everyone has things they can forgive for and things they can't. I grew up in a place where our minorities were natives and have heard the usual "gently caress you white boy" at 2am walking to my car or diatribes about my thieving lying soul at 1:45 am before leaving that same bar, that's fine. If I run into some kindly old native woman telling me a story about how the earth was made that's fine, I'll be nice to her. But when a young man in 2017 wants to insist that his people have had horses since the time the turtle laid the world egg I'm not going to bend over backwards to allow for it or understand how his tortured soul came to this misalignment, I'm going to laugh at him. That said, there's shitlords in every group and being part of a marginalized one doesn't magically not make you one, so I ain't sayin' his experience wasn't garbage either. Ehhh. Jeoh posted:the last person to do some vaguely maoist poo poo was bo xilai and look where that got him
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 18:34 |
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Outrail posted:I guess the other option is 'I'll make an effort but instead of the 'best' women I'm going to plumb the depths of the metaphorical jungle for undiscovered cryptofauna' and we get the Dr. Livingstonesque Haier (who is doing very important hands on cultural studies and please never stop posting). I walked 5km back home with them safely out of her 'gina.
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 19:36 |
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Speaking of used condoms, on your last day, put a used one over the doorknob of the gnome. Along with a note in chinese "Your exwife sends her regards. Best, laowai neighbour."
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 21:01 |
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ew, dude, wtf
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 21:02 |
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Efexeye posted:ew, dude, wtf beats the alternative
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 21:17 |
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Haier posted:LOL, y'all act like you've never waited until she went to the bathroom so you could stuff the used condoms and clean-up tissues into your bag because you're worried she might try to stuff them up her cooch when you leave her house. Out of all the possible emotions I think I'm going to go with 'impressed'. And I'm going to have that in the back of my mind every time. Thanks.
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 21:32 |
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Haier posted:LOL, y'all act like you've never waited until she went to the bathroom so you could stuff the used condoms and clean-up tissues into your bag because you're worried she might try to stuff them up her cooch when you leave her house. Legit fear.
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 21:58 |
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Considering how many of these ladies have meltdowns demanding a hybrid baby I don't hold that level of paranoia against him.
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# ? Mar 31, 2017 22:23 |
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The preferred nomenclature is, "a beautiful halfie."
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# ? Apr 1, 2017 01:18 |
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Accretionist posted:The preferred nomenclature is, "a beautiful halfie." Weird that's what most women call my dick too...
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# ? Apr 1, 2017 01:29 |
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ladron posted:please expand upon this, sounds like some good stories... Eh, some damaged and some not. But I do meet a lot of people here who taught in Korea before and have the usual range of Korea experiences from "eh it was okay I guess" to "man, gently caress Korea so hard"
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# ? Apr 1, 2017 05:31 |
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I dressed like an adult in china and got a lot of mileage out of it.
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# ? Apr 1, 2017 07:19 |
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Pirate Radar posted:Eh, some damaged and some not. But I do meet a lot of people here who taught in Korea before and have the usual range of Korea experiences from "eh it was okay I guess" to "man, gently caress Korea so hard" I've never lived in Korea, just spend 1-2 weeks a year there for work. The US/UK guys that I work with who live there love it, but maybe it's because they don't have to teach? I know I always have a good time in Seoul/Daejon, although eventually I get tired of eating kimchi and banchan with every meal.
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# ? Apr 1, 2017 07:58 |
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Living in Korea without working for Koreans is a very different and much superior experience.
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# ? Apr 1, 2017 08:05 |
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http://i.imgur.com/zIQTNRg.gifv
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# ? Apr 1, 2017 08:06 |
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Wanna know how I got these scars?
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# ? Apr 1, 2017 09:09 |
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I know the Darwin awards exist, but why.
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# ? Apr 1, 2017 10:34 |
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WarpedNaba posted:
A good way to remove eyebrows?
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# ? Apr 1, 2017 11:20 |
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JaucheCharly posted:A good way to remove eyebrows? Nah his eyebrows are covered, he just hates shaving. Probably gets razor burn or something
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# ? Apr 1, 2017 11:27 |
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Last time I went for a haircut at the local turk, he used a lighter to remove the soft fluffy hair from my ears. So yes, that makes sense.
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# ? Apr 1, 2017 11:33 |
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I'm dumb man...
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# ? Apr 1, 2017 14:13 |
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https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/848195559303327750
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# ? Apr 1, 2017 17:11 |
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From r/techsupportgore - "He dropped phone in fire wondered why screen wasn't working." *Zooms in* "Makes sense." quote:"After three years in the job it was a first for me, too. He was trying to film himself while barbecuing and was holding the phone with his chin when he dropped it into the BBQ between the slats. Hahahah."
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