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ladron
Sep 15, 2007

eso es lo que es

very clever with maracas posted:

Yangon has just opened a new terminal full of fancy air bridges, but still runs a few airlines out of the old lovely terminal where you walk across the tarmac to the plane while dodging betel spit and propellors


They've allocated Air Asia to the fancy new terminal, but Malaysia Air is forced to operate out of the crappy old walk-up terminal




Massive snub from myanmar to malaysia, massive face loss for Malaysia. Probably geopolitical because Myanmar hates that Malaysia keeps telling it not to kill Muslims. Luckily the Malaysians are probably too simple to realise they're being insulted.

I thought malaysian airlines kinda had trouble, you know, getting planes to their destinations anyhow...

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Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

Imperialist Dog posted:

Did anyone save a screenshot of the Texas Man article? People's Daily pulled it already.
:ssh: The URL is fake.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
On the other hand, how many airlines offer chances to win a direct flight to Atlantis?

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

Imperialist Dog posted:

Also the government has amazingly ordered the handover organisers to unbox the Queen.

Glad to hear she's getting resurrected. Zombie Vicky will set things straight.

Osama Dozen-Dongs
Nov 29, 2014
Are Chinese troops clowning around in India and "jostling" with the defenders like a bunch of grade schoolers just business as usual, like Russian planes playing chicken in international waters or doing airspace violations, or is it something to be concerned about?

P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

Osama Dozen-Dongs posted:

Are Chinese troops clowning around in India and "jostling" with the defenders like a bunch of grade schoolers just business as usual, like Russian planes playing chicken in international waters or doing airspace violations, or is it something to be concerned about?

This kind of shits been happening off and on for fifty years.

Ceciltron
Jan 11, 2007

Text BEEP to 43527 for the dancing robot!
Pillbug
It's to test The Unnamed Country's commitment to The Untamed Country's defense.

big time bisexual
Oct 16, 2002

Cool Party
"i'm telling you... have... a... REST"

https://my.mixtape.moe/hyarny.mp4

webmeister
Jan 31, 2007

The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.

very clever with maracas posted:

Yangon has just opened a new terminal full of fancy air bridges, but still runs a few airlines out of the old lovely terminal where you walk across the tarmac to the plane while dodging betel spit and propellors


They've allocated Air Asia to the fancy new terminal, but Malaysia Air is forced to operate out of the crappy old walk-up terminal




Massive snub from myanmar to malaysia, massive face loss for Malaysia. Probably geopolitical because Myanmar hates that Malaysia keeps telling it not to kill Muslims. Luckily the Malaysians are probably too simple to realise they're being insulted.

AirAsia is Malaysian too though? :confused:

peanut
Sep 9, 2007


It's a mess (and they're butthurt about the Dalai Lama)

Only registered members can see post attachments!

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

big time bisexual posted:

"i'm telling you... have... a... REST"

https://my.mixtape.moe/hyarny.mp4

You're posting the best vids. It's so exciting to guess what will happen here.

- Collapsing buildings
- Loose car
- Truck tearing everything down
- Fire/explosions
- Slapfight
- Landslide

Nongmin ded.

mikerock
Oct 29, 2005

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/canada-china-no-hacking-agreement-1.4178177

quote:

Canada and China sign no-hacking agreement to protect trade secrets


"The two sides agreed that neither country's government would conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property, including trade secrets or other confidential business information, with the intent of providing competitive advantages to companies or commercial sectors," says a communique from the Prime Minister's Office.

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

Well that's an agreement that will surely be respected equally by both parties. :newlol:

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

:china: We didn't know we were stealing all your trade secrets.

JacksAngryBiome
Oct 23, 2014

Atlas Hugged posted:

Yeah uh last week I flew from Taipei to LAX and our super modern plane that had no problem connecting to the terminal in Taipei landed in a field and me and my closest 200 friends had to take a bus to the terminal.

To be fair though, I think these were permanent disembarking stairs because LAX can't handle the volume that passes through it.

So maybe sometimes the infrastructure can't keep up even in real countries.

LA airport isn'tba real country, it is a lower level of hell.

Johnny Five-Jaces
Jan 21, 2009


big time bisexual posted:

"i'm telling you... have... a... REST"

https://my.mixtape.moe/hyarny.mp4

i'm the engaged brake lights visible when the jumpsuit man walks behind the car

plumpy hole lever
Aug 8, 2003

♥ Anime is real ♥

webmeister posted:

AirAsia is Malaysian too though? :confused:

Ya but its not government owned and its not the flag carrier


It's like sticking qantas is a shed while you give tiger air the rolls royce treatment

angel opportunity
Sep 7, 2004

Total Eclipse of the Heart
https://twitter.com/Zhang_xu_1995/status/880111912406499328

Double Monocle
Sep 4, 2008

Smug as fuck.

big time bisexual posted:

"i'm telling you... have... a... REST"

https://my.mixtape.moe/hyarny.mp4

My favorite part is the wife casually getting out of the car, wagging her finger, then doing literally everything possible wrong on basic care for an unconscious person.

Atlas Hugged
Mar 12, 2007


Put your arms around me,
fiddly digits, itchy britches
I love you all

JacksAngryBiome posted:

LA airport isn'tba real country, it is a lower level of hell.

This is also true.

Lupin
Feb 21, 2007

very clever with maracas posted:

Ya but its not government owned and its not the flag carrier
:cawg:
Look at this guy trying to save face after his bizarre Myanmar rant

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
Eh, nobody cares.

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

Double Monocle posted:

My favorite part is the wife casually getting out of the car, wagging her finger, then doing literally everything possible wrong on basic care for an unconscious person.

I cringed when she flopped him over like a ragdoll. I also clasp my hands behind my back whenever I get up in someone's grill.

Slim Jim Pickens
Jan 16, 2012

Haier posted:

I don't care that this isn't China or Chinese anything, or that it's old.

http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.c...ow/37097278.cms


Bangalore Japanophiles open up a Japanese-only hotel and restaurant and won't let any non-Japanese people inside it except the staff, who are all Indian. Even other non-Indians get turned away. LMAO

It's good to know that advanced Weabooism apparently crosses borders.

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
#SavingFace #5000Years #JustChinaThings #PengYous



For a decade now, I have found this to be a very common experience with my fellow Mainland friendos.

GoutPatrol
Oct 17, 2009

*Stupid Babby*

Double Monocle posted:

My favorite part is the wife casually getting out of the car, wagging her finger, then doing literally everything possible wrong on basic care for an unconscious person.

Who cares how you move them when they're dead

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle





Haier will never escape. By the time he gets to India, India will also be China.

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

Haier posted:

I don't care that this isn't China or Chinese anything, or that it's old.

http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.c...ow/37097278.cms


Bangalore Japanophiles open up a Japanese-only hotel and restaurant and won't let any non-Japanese people inside it except the staff, who are all Indian. Even other non-Indians get turned away. LMAO
You should xpost this in the India thread

Imperialist Dog
Oct 21, 2008

"I think you could better spend your time on finishing your editing before the deadline today."
\
:backtowork:
aw man not the cocaine :sad:

https://twitter.com/fion_li/status/880269473558577152

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
The politicians prefer Ketamine, so, like, whatever, man.

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


The PLA told journalists not to bring pens? That's a classic right there.

Ups_rail
Dec 8, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

Haier posted:

#SavingFace #5000Years #JustChinaThings #PengYous



For a decade now, I have found this to be a very common experience with my fellow Mainland friendos.

I can not parse this

Whats going on?

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

simplefish posted:

The PLA told journalists not to bring pens? That's a classic right there.

Just use a pencil

Alzabo
Oct 23, 2002

You watched it, you can't unwatch it.

Ups_rail posted:

I can not parse this

Whats going on?

farmer: My poo poo broke, you fix it now.
Haier: Busy right now, will fix it later.
farmer: You are not helping me, you are an rear end in a top hat.
Haier: I want to help you, but I have things to do when you contact me suddenly.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
---------------------------->
https://www.shanghaiexpat.com/news/chinese-built-bridge-collapses-after-kenyan-president-inspects

quote:

A bridge being built by China Overseas Engineering Group collapsed on Monday just 11 days after Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta came to personally inspect and commend the 10 million dollar project. At least 27 workers on the bridge were injured in the collapse that happened before bridge was completed baffling the company's engineers. Construction has been halted while the government works out what it wants to do about the problematic project.

The bridge is located on the River Nzioa, a site where 11 people lost their lives trying to cross back in 2014. “This is very unusual because all the standards and specifications required by the employer were met,” One of the project managers stated. “We have experienced engineers and we are equally baffled by what happened. We hope to find the root cause of the problem and rectify the matter.”

The accident is bad news for the many Chinese companies operating and hoping to score contruction contracts in Africa. The nation has worked hard to shed its reputation for poor quality and cutting corners in safety checks. It's not good for the president either, whose rival has repeatedly critisized the current government's large and expensive infrastructure projects, one of which has just fell through before it was even finished.

Duckbox
Sep 7, 2007

I'm guessing that "hard work" they did to improve quality and stop cutting corners was compromised by low quality and corner cutting.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
10 million dollars of sand, spit and kickbacks up in smoke.

Tupperwarez
Apr 4, 2004

"phphphphphphpht"? this is what you're going with?

you sure?
I was kinda wondering what would happen when 'Africa wins again' and 'chabuduo' collided...

BCR
Jan 23, 2011

Tupperwarez posted:

Regular company, or English school? Just wanna set up my expectations for future updates.

This was a small Chinese middle man company based in Beijing and the north east that got its cash from being the go between for foreign companys and Chinese companys.

Some highlights off the top of my head.
* Everyday I would turn on the cold water tap of the water dispenser and it would be turned off by the time I came back to use it.
* I try and drink about 4 to 5 litres of water everyday. Whatever the conversation was before, it would turn to commentating that I am drinking water, and that this was an amazing thing.
* My main job was sitting and patiently annoying someone to do the 'right thing' in paperwork, or marketing or whatever for a Chinese or foreign client. I would video myself doing this as evidence, or have the wechat screenshots, or the Chinese instructions in an email. This was for when they finally did the right thing while I was there, then when I left, they would sometimes go back to the wrong old easy way then try to blame the foreigner for it. This would happen at least a few times a week with the same people. Who were continually surprised that the foreigner who sat by their desk telling them to do the right thing was actually documenting it and had proof of their gently caress up every time.
* One group said they liked spicy food, so took them to Indian restuarant without telling them what the restuarant was. Half the group flat out walked away without going in.
* I mainly only eat out at Xinjiang or Buddhist restuarants, which was a source of amazement, as well as continually being asked if I like rice and being surprised when I said no.
* I went to one KTV where the IT team stripped and had a whipped cream fight. This is pretty normal for a group of guys maybe once or twice a year in a sports season, but this was their go to having fun thing a couple of times a week. They were willing to do other things like escape rooms but they still had their whipped cream ktv.

The best way to describe working there was it was like people with goldfish memorys who were trolling their pet foreigner daily and they would get annoyed with pet foreigner who stopped being interesting as soon as he was getting them to do their actual jobs.

Positives was got paid well and on time the correct amount by sitting there and patiently annoying the money man till it happened. Which was normally after the third or fourth person would come looking for me because they needed something and me saying sorry can't help right now I'm working out something with the money man which would lead to one of the bigger bosses coming down and telling the money man to just pay the foreigner we need him for something. This would happen every pay day.

The thinking was maybe this time we can get the foreigner to take less pay so I can get those dumplings, ktv stripper, english lessons for my brat.

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Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme
You just described all jobs in chinar, but especially that water cooler thing is pretty triggering

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