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here's beijing from this past long weekend, pretty basic tourist stuff but figured i'd add some original content for people because why not    first three are from the forbidden city, including my favorite little turtle dragon guy Bixi, one of the nine sons of the dragon king    next three are out near Cloud Valley, i was in a hotel out there for the long weekend. i had never been out there before, it's supposedly beijing's tech hub area. it was super nice. baidu and lenovo had headquarters out there.    mutianyu great wall hike for the day. china is cool and good.
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The Great Autismo! posted:china is cool and good. those cool and good things are despite being in china
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Fojar38 posted:those cool and good things are despite being in china there are some aspects of china that is bad but it is not like universally bad across the board. my biggest complaint about beijing is how many people there are, and out in cloud valley there were very few. forbidden city was madness but we got there kinda early and went straight to the back, still too many people. the great wall we hiked way past the last security guard so there was no one up there.
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May 3, 2017 23:36
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dragon tortoise is my new favourite animal
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May 3, 2017 23:37
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Let us English posted:I have now show Hidden Figures to two of my classes, and I'm shocked but very happy that they a) Did not make fun of black people during the screening and b) the girls in particularly seemed super engaged and really seemed to enjoy the movie. Usually anything cool I try to show these classes fall flat and the appearance of a single black person on-screen is often cause for mild tittering at best or crude jokes at worst. Have you shown them Get Out yet?
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May 3, 2017 23:41
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Baidu is really cool and all. Just don't be that Chinese tourist who comes to Silicon Valley to visit famous tech company that their kid will go to in a giant tour bus, mocking employees and blocking traffic as they're walking in between buildings during business hours.
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May 3, 2017 23:54
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ntan1 posted:Baidu is really cool and all. Just don't be that Chinese tourist who comes to Silicon Valley to visit famous tech company that their kid will go to in a giant tour bus, mocking employees and blocking traffic as they're walking in between buildings during business hours. just to quell your fears i took this picture at about 8:00 pm on a saturday night on a holiday weekend from the sidewalk
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May 3, 2017 23:55
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Animal testing is a good thing. It sucks but I don't take anyone seriously who doesn't believe in the primacy of homo sapiens sapiens and our needs as a species. up to and lincluding cosmetic testing and other stupid capitalism poo poo.
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The Great Autismo! posted:just to quell your fears i took this picture at about 8:00 pm on a saturday night on a holiday weekend from the sidewalk We get those too. I often go to the office gym at on Saturday morning and there are tour buses full of Chinese people then too. "HALLO, Can you take me inside building so I can take picture!?"
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May 4, 2017 00:11
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ntan1 posted:We get those too. I often go to the office gym at on Saturday morning and there are tour buses full of Chinese people then too. i was at princeton for a conference in 2014 and it was just non-stop tour busses of chinese people coming, and walking around, trying to get into buildings, asking us to take pictures. i was with a few other people at the conference and i was the only one who lived and worked in china and i asked one of them "do you know how i know this is an ivy league school?" and the guy said "the tour busses of chinese people flocking here to take pictures?" and i was like "ya lol" The Great Autismo! fucked around with this message at 00:26 on May 4, 2017 |
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May 4, 2017 00:24
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basic hitler posted:Animal testing is a good thing. It sucks but I don't take anyone seriously who doesn't believe in the primacy of homo sapiens sapiens and our needs as a species. up to and lincluding cosmetic testing and other stupid capitalism poo poo. counterpoint: poor people need money.
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Ceciltron posted:counterpoint: poor people need money. An integral economic sweetener for Hong Kong's integration into Greater Shenzhen
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 Beijing today. Yay. 
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hong xiuquan's great great great grandson lookin good
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BCR posted:
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BCR posted:
Bye, guys... The Great Autismo! posted:here's beijing from this past long weekend, pretty basic tourist stuff but figured i'd add some original content for people because why not That's so clear, how can this be near Beijing? These pics look remarkably relaxing. China is cool and good but I am over it and happy to be leaving soon.
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I have never seen parts of beijing that clear in pictures or real life
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:That's so clear, how can this be near Beijing? These pics look remarkably relaxing. late april to september or october is usually fine in beijing and tianjin. you gotta get out by november and then come back sometime around mid april. i thought it was a really nice day but one of the italian professors i was with kept talking about how bad the pollution was. idk the AQI was like 70, i thought it was a nice day, but these guys all work and live on the adriatic coast so i would imagine beijing is a bit more dirty and polluted than they were used to.
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The Great Autismo! posted:it really isn't just me, he endlessly talks about white people in the china d&d thread. you can see his posts if you click the little question mark under his name. almost every post he makes is accusing someone of being a sexpat or a white loser in their home country, or a racist. it's actually kinda weird his first like 10-15 posts in the china threads are interesting and informative and then he goes off the deep end and just can't stop shitposting. i actually kinda like the guy so i hope he doesn't hate me he's an internet troll I think
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My only time in Beijing was during spring festival one winter, I went up for about a week to see the place, got to be there for the mandarin oriental burning down. Is it still absolute madness tet-offensive anarchy with the fireworks during spring festival? I was staying not far from zhongnanhai and the forbidden city and stuff in the Hutong area, and there were guys in uniforms outside their offices setting off fireworks all the time. When I was at the Temple of Heaven my phone's battery was dying, but when I got up on the main central altar of heaven thing my battery stopped saying it was dying and it let me take a bunch more pictures. Chinese magic~
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Fojar38 posted:animal cruelty is required by law in china lmao on the positive side what are the chances they actually go through with the tests
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hakimashou posted:he's an internet troll I think Based on what I've seen on Reddit and from some of Steven Pan's other posts he actually unironically believes what he says
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Glenn Quebec posted:Where I am now? Probably slightly prejudiced against the Chinese in a professional setting and I look at anything said by a Chinese person with a jaundiced eye. Quite frankly a year ago, I would have felt terrible to think in such a way, but now? Welcome to the Republican party.
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Xelkelvos posted:They're possibly attached to the pipe walls or something and thus, most of the poo poo you poured just scoured them a little but then drained off. You'd've probably needed to get a pipe snake or something to scrub them off. Then you'd've probably needed to burn the thing what with all of the other stuff it would've caught too. Yeah I feel like a better option would have been to put little upside down bowls or screens on the drains to cap them when not in use
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May 4, 2017 03:25
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Covering the exposed floor drains is the first thing I do in an Asian apartment.
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Vesi posted:on the positive side what are the chances they actually go through with the tests Fake the results, eat the rabbit. EVERYBODY WINS!
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The Daily Mail reminds us that some English teachers in China would rather kill themselves than go back to teaching after some time outside of the country: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4469708/Teacher-22-hanged-Valentine-s-Day.html quote:A teacher destined for a promising career as a linguist hanged himself after feeling cut off from society and suffering from depression while teaching English in China. So to anyone thinking about coming to China to teach....don't.
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LentThem posted:The Daily Mail reminds us that some English teachers in China would rather kill themselves than go back to teaching after some time outside of the country: Hey you survived
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LentThem posted:The Daily Mail reminds us that some English teachers in China would rather kill themselves than go back to teaching after some time outside of the country: you actually have this completely backwards. this is the first time i have ever heard of someone going to china, going home, and then killing themselves. if you accept that the annual age-adjusted suicide rate is 13.26 per 100,000 individuals, and considering there have probably been tens of thousands of people i've heard from, met, or read about on the internet that have never killed themselves, i would say working and living in china actually lowers your chance of suicide. if you want to actually decrease your chances of killing yourself, it seems that moving to china to work is one of the ways you could do it.
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Fojar38 posted:animal cruelty is required by law in china lmao In a country that already has issues with heavy metals poisoning wouldn't guaranteed animal testing actually be a plus?
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Grand Fromage posted:Covering the exposed floor drains is the first thing I do in an Asian apartment. great use for an actual plunger
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The Great Autismo! posted:you actually have this completely backwards. the foreigner chose to end their life rather than go one more minute outside of glorious china
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Fojar38 posted:the foreigner chose to end their life rather than go one more minute outside of glorious china lol 
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The Great Autismo! posted:if you want to actually decrease your chances of killing yourself, it seems that moving to china to work is one of the ways you could do it. i see through your plot to increase the number of GBS deaths caberham posted:Hey you survived i faked my suicide LentThem fucked around with this message at 05:45 on May 4, 2017 |
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Pirate Radar posted:The way this thread tends to talk about D&D they'd say Mao was 70% good 30% bad and catch a week's probation for it. Saying drat near anything risks a week's probation. Hell, I've only just realised that I don't get probed often is because I'm in different timezones to California, New York and Europe. I'm usually asleep when it hits and at work when it expires - at least, for the last three probes. Grand Fromage posted:Some people are just physically incapable of anything but shitposting. I'll have you know I'm also an excellent cook 
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WarpedNaba posted:Saying drat near anything risks a week's probation. Hell, I've only just realised that I don't get probed often is because I'm in different timezones to California, New York and Europe. I'm usually asleep when it hits and at work when it expires - at least, for the last three probes. Hahaha I just realized you actually caught one over the dog rule
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WarpedNaba posted:What dog rule? It's when the dog can be caught by an infielder with an ordinary amount of effort when first and second base (or first through third base) are occupied before two outs. alternatively, Check that it's really bulgogi.
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