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caberham posted:It was a super fun trip. it really was. caberham did an unbelievable amount of planning and networking for it and made it really great. everyone was great and fun and cool and i am pretty sure the damage i did to my liver is irreversible and because all of my successes are my own doing and all of my failures have nothing to do with me personally i will blame this trip when i inevitably die of liver failure Haier posted:We've been having some beauty of a weather lately, so I am glad you got to experience Hong Kong before it disappears forever. you shoulda came man, swing out next time and just tell everyone you're a lurker and don't tell people who are you. it was fun and good
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Any thread on the frontpage of reddit that involves China always has these guys: "I've never been to China"
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Haier posted:Any thread on the frontpage of reddit that involves China always has these guys: great job on the downvote lol
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it is easy for people to explain away problems by claiming every person that is talking about them is racist and a loser. this is a pretty common tactic with all kinds of things, it is much easier to do this than it is for people to fundamentally re-adjust their belief systems, especially if it has to do with identity, and especially if they don't have any actual experience with the thing. i'm one of the most positive people i know about living and working in china and i can't even talk about china on places like Facebook or twitter or news articles because if i say one, just one, negative thing i am quickly a racist who just hates all chinese people i mean look at my avatar FFS lol
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I'm going to HK (and doing a half day Macau trip) in a month, where did you get that Tibetan food because I want it. edit gently caress i thought that was from the HK pictures anyway caberham tell me what to do because my mom is coming and she has only been to HK once in the 70s GoutPatrol fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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The Great Autismo! posted:it is easy for people to explain away problems by claiming every person that is talking about them is racist and a loser. this is a pretty common tactic with all kinds of things, it is much easier to do this than it is for people to fundamentally re-adjust their belief systems, especially if it has to do with identity, and especially if they don't have any actual experience with the thing. this has little to do with the points you're trying to make and everything to do with how bad you are at making them, jfyi
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Stringent posted:this has little to do with the points you're trying to make and everything to do with how bad you are at making them, jfyi thanks for your concern and feedback, stringent
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The Great Autismo! posted:great job on the downvote lol
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The Great Autismo! posted:it is easy for people to explain away problems by claiming every person that is talking about them is racist and a loser. this is a pretty common tactic with all kinds of things, it is much easier to do this than it is for people to fundamentally re-adjust their belief systems, especially if it has to do with identity, and especially if they don't have any actual experience with the thing. Of all things to bring about this sagely advice, you chose a dumbass freshmen's reddit comment? The opposite phenom to what you're describing is pretty insidious too, where people go out and deliberately look for lovely arguments to massage their own opinions. Who do you think is commenting on the average news article besides your brain-dead cousin and methhead larry? smh
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:Of all things to bring about this sagely advice, you chose a dumbass freshmen's reddit comment? i was just making a comment in general, i don't know anything about this reddit user and didn't really assume anything at all, other than the fact that they don't seem to know much about mainland china. this type of thing happens when it comes to politics, it happens when it comes to religion, it happens across the board with everything. "all trump supporters are racist hicks!" "all clinton supporters are liberal uppity hateful people", etc etc. there's no nuance involved. none. people would rather attack the messenger than look into real life experiences from people who have a different view than they do. are some trump supporters racist morons? absolutely. are some clinton supporters liberal uppity hateful people? probably. you're correct that people go looking for lovely arguments to massage their own opinions. i don't disagree with you. i know that happens. i'm just saying that reverting to ad hominem attacks the second someone says something that goes against a belief you have isn't very helpful.
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The Great Autismo! posted:"all trump supporters are racist hicks!" yes and
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There's a Gong Cha I walk by that makes me smile every time. For those that are not in China, Gong Cha is an international franchise/chain of tea shops that are ubiquitous in Shenzhen, and probably also in many popular areas of Chinese megacities. They sell bubble teas and other frappe-esque sweet tea drinks that tend to cost higher than Chinese-based chain brands (which are often better tasting and with much more variety, IMO). Anyway, there are 5 of them within about 500m of my apartment, but the one I walk by on the way to the metro station on the next street plays music on an outdoor speaker from open to close. Since there are no rules about doing this in China, and is one of my most loathed features of where I live, I usually avoid shops that do it out of spite since I am subjected to looped advertisements in my apartment until about 11pm every night. This one is special, though. Since it opened right after Spring Festival, it plays nothing but top US Country music hits. If I opened a list of Country Music Television's most-played songs, I would probably find a majority of these songs being blasted publicly from this tea shop. I heard Toby Keith's "Trailerhood" playing the last time I passed by, and every time I walk by the place I get a smile at the silliness of Chinese people in the shop, street, and apartment above being forced to listen to "cousin fucker" music all day, singing about loving America and Ford trucks and getting drunk after break ups. I was walking with Chaoshan Girl one evening and Florida-Georgia Line's "Round Here" was blaring (one of my most hated songs when I first heard it) and she was asking why I was talking "in that accent" for the next few minutes after passing by the Gong Cha.
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GoutPatrol posted:yes and Was gonna say. TGA, you might wanna quit while you're ahead here, just sayin'.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:Is that kitaro's dad? yes it is!!!!
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The Great Autismo! posted:it really was. caberham did an unbelievable amount of planning and networking for it and made it really great. everyone was great and fun and cool and i am pretty sure the damage i did to my liver is irreversible and because all of my successes are my own doing and all of my failures have nothing to do with me personally i will blame this trip when i inevitably die of liver failure too many times caberham has introduced some random goon to meet ups and i smile and nod as if i give a poo poo
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WarpedNaba posted:Was gonna say. k thank you
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tga you seem like a sincere guy, maybe british politics is better for you
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Lady Galaga posted:tga you seem like a sincere guy, maybe british politics is better for you i think you're right, i'll check it out, thx bud
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The Great Autismo! posted:you shoulda came man, swing out next time and just tell everyone you're a lurker and don't tell people who are you. it was fun and good
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Chav + nong= best reality show ever ...CHONG post more CHONG stories tga pls
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Haier posted:Tks but no tks. I got 2 months left here until I fly out to Armpitistan, and will probably visit HK one more time for the airport and flight out.There may be zero visits in the future, no matter the money offered. My boss wanted to give me a new company and one of her houses and let me be my own sorta manager-boss-man with my own personally-hired employees, and I told her I would rather live like a king for $400 a month in an Indian Tier-2 city than do that, so I am. But then you won't get to eat some of Cabe's cookies Cabe makes good cookies. Seriously good. And there will be hamburgers. No buns because goons but hey. And beer overflowing. Or I can take you to the usually quiet Scottish bar.
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Jeoh posted:...CHONG i haven't seen chong in months but he does randomly message me and tell me he misses me
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^^^ More yuk-yuks for the yuk-yuk god.
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GoutPatrol posted:I'm going to HK (and doing a half day Macau trip) in a month, where did you get that Tibetan food because I want it. She should try some dim sum here - Guo Fu Lou There's no tibetan in HK but there's Hui muslim food, good beef cakes in Kowloon City, it's called - Islam Food If she's not in the greatest shape to hike then take a ferry to the out lying islands
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Haier posted:I'm the sweet pony tail tihng My hair's thinned in those exact spots where he has hair and I'm super-jealous.
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http://www.hormones.gr/8449/article/cigarette-smoking-has-a-positive-and%E2%80%A6.html Cigarette smoking has a positive and independent effect on testosterone levels quote:In conclusion, our study reports that smoking is a positive and independent predictor of TT and FT levels. However, TT and FT levels appear negatively correlated with the dose of tobacco exposure among smokers. Smoking can lead to an acute increase in testosterone levels, but this can decrease with chronic exposure to tobacco by long-term smoking. Therefore, the effects of smoking on testosterone levels depend on personal smoking history. Basically, the paper says smorking increases your testosterone levels and makes you more manly, but only if you smoke sometimes. quote:Wei Wang,1* Xiaobo Yang,2,3 Jianbo Liang,4 Ming Liao,2 Haiying Zhang,2,3 Xue Qin,2,5 Linjian Mo,1,2 Wenxin Lv,2 Zengnan Mo1,2
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So it's come to my attention that Huawei has an almost Apple-cult like following on the internet Why
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Fojar38 posted:So it's come to my attention that Huawei has an almost Apple-cult like following on the internet why does apple have an apple-cult like following? because people are idiots Thanks for the HK pictures btw, it's on the top 5 of my travel to-do list and I really hope I can go there sometime soon
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Fojar38 posted:So it's come to my attention that Huawei has an almost Apple-cult like following on the internet No why
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Fojar38 posted:So it's come to my attention that Huawei has an almost Apple-cult like following on the internet Some people are level-7 susceptible to marketing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gH5QsZpbvA 
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Haier posted:There's a Gong Cha I walk by that makes me smile every time. For those that are not in China, Gong Cha is an international franchise/chain of tea shops that are ubiquitous in Shenzhen, and probably also in many popular areas of Chinese megacities. They sell bubble teas and other frappe-esque sweet tea drinks that tend to cost higher than Chinese-based chain brands (which are often better tasting and with much more variety, IMO). This one made me let out a sensible chuckle irl
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Fojar38 posted:So it's come to my attention that Huawei has an almost Apple-cult like following on the internet
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