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How many Chinese people does it take to park a car https://twitter.com/pdchina/status/854040669584797696
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Apr 17, 2017 19:40
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Seen that same joke from other countries.
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Apr 17, 2017 19:47
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angel opportunity posted:How many Chinese people does it take to park a car I don't have audio at work, so please tell me Yakkety Sax was playing. (The sped-up background traffic makes this even better).
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Apr 17, 2017 19:49
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I've seen this exact same video about 5 other times. Women having trouble parking in a tight spot, can't do it because lol women drivers. Another person comes and helps and after a lot of maneuvering they manage to just barely fit their car in the parking spot. The person who helped then gets into one of the cars that was blocking the parking spot and drives off. lollll oh my god why didn't he just move his car?!
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Apr 17, 2017 19:53
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Imperialist Dog posted:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/08/boarding-school-syndrome-joy-schaverien-review
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Apr 17, 2017 19:55
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angel opportunity posted:How many Chinese people does it take to park a car I genuinely can't believe what I'm seeing... how could a human being have such little logic/forethought?
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Apr 17, 2017 20:02
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angel opportunity posted:How many Chinese people does it take to park a car that guy just driving his car away lol
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Apr 17, 2017 21:07
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angel opportunity posted:How many Chinese people does it take to park a car the ending really makes this
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Apr 17, 2017 21:32
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I'm the van parked perfectly across two spaces
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Apr 17, 2017 22:12
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I'm triple parked next to a bike lane out of frame
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Apr 17, 2017 22:17
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GoutPatrol posted:I hate all people in pursuit of the "real" I agree, I have always been searching for the tril.
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Apr 17, 2017 23:16
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angel opportunity posted:How many Chinese people does it take to park a car I think you'll find that actually its good how the chinese do community participation cooperation for many things that in the west (imperialist) we insist on doing "individually" and that doing it "individually" is wasteful and is the reason for so many environmental problems.
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Apr 17, 2017 23:33
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Kashwashwa posted:I genuinely can't believe what I'm seeing... how could a human being have such little logic/forethought? Because that's how you would park a scooter in that situation.
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Apr 17, 2017 23:41
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Glenn Quebec posted:If you haven't guessed my day at work loving sucks assholes. 
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Apr 17, 2017 23:44
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So, I've basically been in rear end covering mode all day today in work. Canvassing over a ton of e-mails and basically gathering my defense for the oncoming shitstorm. Whenever I have to work with my twin in HK, I make drat sure that anything said over the phone is followed up in e-mail, "Just to reiterate what was said on the phone we are doing: (bullet points covering the things we discussed). Everything copacetic?" Around mid day, in the middle of my usual work day drudgery I get a phone call from my counterpart. Mind you the difference in time is twelve hours and it might have been my frayed nerves but she sounded boozy. "Hi this is Glenn." "Hi Glenn this is Eustace (She uses some old timey persons name thats out of vogue in the U.S.) We have the numbers you needed and we worked all night for them." I had to break to her that I straight up do not have any confidence in any of the numbers that her team provided last week and I'm not interested in them at this point but that I would recommend that her team use them over last years data ripped from me, and the team I worked for. It was dead quiet and then I got layed into royally. Mind you, we are not directly responsible for each others numbers and we merely are liaison to each others teams for communication purposes. So really, should could of divorced her from the China teams gently caress up and claim that she had no idea the numbers were lovely / falsified. But, no, in order to save face she blamed everything else on earth. Saying wildly dumb poo poo like I had given her my consent to use the old data, that I also commanded her to do so (her words) and that she was heart broken that we were such a good team and how could I be so duplicitous. I went into white collar professional mode and stoically told her that we are all on the same team and that we will figure something out. Of course I'm simultaneously getting all my poo poo together Mission-Impossible-The-Time-Is-Running-Out style. We sort of amicably get off the phone as she felt thoroughly satisfied and face-saved since I apparently capitulated by saying "we will work together on this." I got two e-mails unread from her thereafter, like two mins off the call. Idgaf. I'm basically presenting my case to my boss tomorrow, who, by the by, was like -- I hear that some poo poo is going down with the HK team people are going crazy - are we cool? I was like no dude, we are so far from loving cool.
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Apr 17, 2017 23:48
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Bro Dad posted:Lol what the gently caress you dont know poo poo dude. Dikotter is one of the best writers on China along with Spence and no amount of sadbrains tankie bullshit will change that. Tombstone is decent, from what I remember, I mostly skimmed it inbetween reading books on the Analects. It also helps it isn't written by a man that thinks that the Opium wars were mostly due to the acts of the perfidious Chinaman and the innocent British were simply forced into the conflict Facebook Aunt posted:Is that photoshop? I find it hard to believe anyone is drinking Crystal Pepsi.
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Apr 17, 2017 23:49
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Oh, and the icing on the cake is that I applied for a promotion and I am 100% sure that even if I get out of this, I can kiss that poo poo goodbye until the next one comes up two or three years later. I hate HK and China by proxy.
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Apr 17, 2017 23:50
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Deceitful Penguin posted:lol Frankie "Opium is cool and good as is the KMT" Dikötter is a revionist in the literal loving sense of the word he tries to rewrite history, badly, and Narcotic Culture is on the same part of my shelf as "When China Rules the World" for deluded horseshit. Good job namedropping Spence too, that Chinese 101 class really shining through. (Protip: the cool and hip one to namedrop is usually Hansen) The KMT is good though?
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Apr 17, 2017 23:52
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hakimashou posted:The KMT is good though? Meanwhile, Diktötter decides that clearly, this was a wonderful point in time and really, it just has a bad rep for ~evil communist~ reasons, where everyone is just taking the Communists at their word and have never really done real research into it, so it's time for some hot takes from him that are such a laughable amount of biased horseshit it's a wonder if he wasn't being possessed by the ghost of Chiang Kai-shek
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Apr 18, 2017 00:06
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Glenn Quebec posted:Oh, and the icing on the cake is that I applied for a promotion and I am 100% sure that even if I get out of this, I can kiss that poo poo goodbye until the next one comes up two or three years later. I hate HK and China by proxy. Your superiors are blaming you for another team's fuckup? Edit: Are the people you answer to on this Chinese?
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Apr 18, 2017 00:19
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Deceitful Penguin posted:We're talking during the pre-Revolution warlord/republican period here, where they were such absolute laughable poo poo that people often preferred the warlords to them. Communism is the worst, most evil, most destructive idea people have ever had though. If you've been to China and then HK or Taiwan, comparing them to one another and realizing things might have gone differently is the source of immeasurable horror.
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Apr 18, 2017 00:19
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VideoTapir posted:Your superiors are blaming you for another team's fuckup? Not overtly but during review for the new position they'll be sure to be like whats up with the snafu with this project? And I don't want to come off like a huge punk by playing the blame game.
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Apr 18, 2017 00:21
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I wonder when the whole choosing a really old fashioned English name will go out of style amongst people in China and the diaspora. I'm 30 and Chinese people I know my age all have old fashioned names for the most part. What are Chinese people naming their kids these days?
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Apr 18, 2017 00:24
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hakimashou posted:Communism is the worst, most evil, most destructive idea people have ever had though. not
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Apr 18, 2017 00:28
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Or I could compare China and India, two huge countries with a large population with one having followed capitalism and democracy and the other having followed Communism for part of its existence and do so at great length orrrrrrrrr One has hair caves. The other has plumpy holes. Therefore
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Apr 18, 2017 00:30
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Or I could compare China and India, two huge countries with a large population with one having followed capitalism and democracy and the other having followed Communism for part of its existence and do so at great length orrrrrrrrr Indians have freedom.
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Apr 18, 2017 00:37
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Or I could compare China and India, two huge countries with a large population with one having followed capitalism and democracy and the other having followed Communism for part of its existence and do so at great length orrrrrrrrr agreed china has historically been at its most prosperous at the times it was most communist
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Apr 18, 2017 00:38
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china was bad in the 30s but good in the 70s
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Apr 18, 2017 00:39
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Imagine if China had skipped the genocidal communism mass murder horror civil destruction phase and gone straight to free market reforms and prosperity.
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Apr 18, 2017 00:42
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hakimashou posted:Indians have freedom.  hakimashou posted:Imagine if China had skipped the genocidal communism mass murder horror civil destruction phase and gone straight to free market reforms and prosperity. imagine if they'd learned to drink ocean water and live purely off that, slowly but surely sipping away the sea imagine if free market capitalism wasn't the ideology that has murdered and continues to murder the most amount of people in world history and created the most comical levels of inequality in the history of man what a wild and amazing ride of imagination the China GBS thread is
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Apr 18, 2017 01:05
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In what book does Dikötter argue that opium was a good thing?
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Apr 18, 2017 01:05
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Glenn Quebec posted:Not overtly but during review for the new position they'll be sure to be like whats up with the snafu with this project? And I don't want to come off like a huge punk by playing the blame game. Is there really no way you can put your old figures and the new powerpoint from HK side by side in front of people without coming off worse for it? 
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Apr 18, 2017 01:08
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Now that I think about it isnt there a different thread for """debating""" about China. Also it finally happened, some loon in DnD threw my "posting in yellow face" probie at me in a """debate.""" 
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Apr 18, 2017 01:19
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Jeoh posted:china was bad in the 30s but good in the 70s Outta the fuckin park Glenn Quebec posted:Not overtly but during review for the new position they'll be sure to be like whats up with the snafu with this project? And I don't want to come off like a huge punk by playing the blame game. Ain't the blame game if it's true. If you dicked the chicken by not providing an amount of oversight that you would had to to make it work right, say it, but if the oversight needed would have been like babysitting then say that too. Employ me instead, I am im HK
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Apr 18, 2017 01:33
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Deceitful Penguin posted:
Imagine if you were a good poster.
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Apr 18, 2017 02:13
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Deceitful Penguin posted:imagine if free market capitalism wasn't the ideology that has murdered and continues to murder the most amount of people in world history and created the most comical levels of inequality in the history of man What's that?
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Apr 18, 2017 02:19
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TTerrible posted:Is there really no way you can put your old figures and the new powerpoint from HK side by side in front of people without coming off worse for it? I mean, I could but then people on the business end will make investment decisions based off of this data. Now, imagine doing that and it comes off wildly inaccurate and we lose a poo poo pile of someone elses (and our own money). That's why I'm freaking out. Ok, lets say I do put our numbers side-by-side and someone from HK uses it to make a foreign investment and they go woo-hoo that works great. Thanks for the accurate numbers! Now imagine the vice-versa happens and they are like holy poo poo these numbers are off and our investment tanked, Glenn, what happened?? Since you're our go-to person for the China team??? I go, oh, gently caress I don't know. Someone else WILL dig and be like holy poo poo Glenn these are your numbers from last year but HK says its theres? WTF is going on? Sure as poo poo HK is gonna rear end cover and be trying to save face like crazy so who knows what they would or wouldn't do.
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Apr 18, 2017 02:21
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Wizchine posted:Imagine if you were a good poster. also, the bolded part is simply true. you can whine about it and try and equivocate about how "really, isn't that just a sign of the increased prosperity in general in the world" but it remains a stone cold fact "Soon, huge swathes of the world will be earning more than 2$ a day and all will be well in the world!" Deceitful Penguin fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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Kashwashwa posted:I genuinely can't believe what I'm seeing... how could a human being have such little logic/forethought? See something of the sort literally every day. Glenn Quebec posted:"Hi Glenn this is Eustace (She uses some old timey persons name thats out of vogue in the U.S.) Super common. Rooms full of Ruths and Esthers and Mabels.
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