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Had a little China experience when I was on holidays in the UK recently. A few minutes before we went to check into our hotel, about 40 elderly Chinese folks showed up completely out of the blue and jammed up the checkin desk for over an hour. They had no reservation, they literally just walked into the hotel with 40+ people and asked for 20 odd rooms. They stayed for only one day. Amazing planning there. Got several free drinks to make up for it at least.
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Jul 11, 2017 03:19
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Spatial posted:Had a little China experience when I was on holidays in the UK recently. Mama and baba go to have a look at the foreigners.
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Jul 11, 2017 03:35
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Lmao Shanghai Disneyland. How are HK Disneyland and Ocean Park doing with the ～more patriotic customers～ going to Shanghai instead?
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Jul 11, 2017 03:55
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webmeister posted:Not defending this at all, but IMO there's one country on earth which hasn't earned the right to complain about the poor behaviour of tourists http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/86GixwjKNlruSzwmWuxRHg It's an article about how SPOOKY STRICT the US immigration system might become under Trump. I used Google to translate it and had an LOL at how scared they are about not being able to flee with their piles of money to the USA. I liked that they used a photo of some random Portuguese document with "Chinesa" written on it, which as nothing to do with US immigration. quote:The United States has begun screening for people who have green cards, including those who have enjoyed benefits during the United States, who have been assessed as strict, and those who have taken food vouchers and who have enjoyed free lunch at school will be the target. quote:This almost declares the end of the American dream of living in the United States with a green card, living by the bottom of the welfare of the "comfort" life.
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Jul 11, 2017 04:26
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Spatial posted:Had a little China experience when I was on holidays in the UK recently. I was doing a street performance once, and a random Chinese woman and her family walks up to my friend and I to ask where a hotel is. Our Mandarin is lovely but we try to help her, asking what the name of the hotel is, what street etc. Turns out she just came to HK with her family with no hotel booking and was just walking around trying to find one.
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Jul 11, 2017 04:35
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Imperialist Dog posted:I was doing a street performance once, and a random Chinese woman and her family walks up to my friend and I to ask where a hotel is. Our Mandarin is lovely but we try to help her, asking what the name of the hotel is, what street etc. Turns out she just came to HK with her family with no hotel booking and was just walking around trying to find one. This is how a lot of porns start.
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Jul 11, 2017 04:39
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Are you overstaying a visa or something haier? Used to be getting a hotel room was a never a problem they just wanted to photocopy your passport or something.
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Jul 11, 2017 04:40
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hakimashou posted:Are you overstaying a visa or something haier? Hotels need to be authorised to have foreigners stay there or something. When you give them your passport that's so they can register you are staying there with the police. In big cities you won't usually have a problem getting a hotel, but when I go somewhere like my girlfriends hometown a lot of places will say I can't stay there until my girlfriend has screamed at them enough for them to give in.
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Jul 11, 2017 04:47
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hakimashou posted:Are you overstaying a visa or something haier?
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Jul 11, 2017 04:54
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Can someone link the Levon Wei post of a young man enjoying his day on the Chinese Diaoyu islands when an elder accosts him to tell him of a very old country called "america" that once did china a great favor by nuking japan and then he has to go play dota.
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Jul 11, 2017 04:57
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WOW, SHANGHAI SO MAGIC. MANY PRETTY LIGHTS. LOOK AT THE KEBAB TOWER! I LOVE SHANGHAI, SO MODERN AND BEAUTY.
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Jul 11, 2017 04:57
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thats a loving hideous city
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Jul 11, 2017 05:02
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Huh, must be a clear day that day if you can actually see it.
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Jul 11, 2017 05:08
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I never went to shanghai and I don't regret it. Closest I got was Nanjing where some bum violently accosted the chick I was with in 'china's safest city.' I threatened to hit him with my big fancy british umbrella but a jingcha came and told me and the chick to zou ba. The only place I wish I'd seen was Dunhuang and the gobi desert. hakimashou fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Jul 11, 2017 |
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Jul 11, 2017 05:12
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Please tell me that photo is just an establishing shot from Dredd
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Jul 11, 2017 05:17
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basic hitler posted:Please tell me that photo is just an establishing shot from Dredd In china all that blade runner dystopia poo poo is real
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Jul 11, 2017 05:19
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To be fair look on google earth at Tokyo or something, the scale and density is just beyond comprehension but from all accounts it's a very cool place to visit or even live. What matters less is what a city looks like from the air and more what it's like on the street.
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Jul 11, 2017 05:24
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Though Tokyo does look a lot less dystopian from the air. Or at the very least, more Mirror's Edge dystopian than Blade Runner dystopian.
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Jul 11, 2017 05:33
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Le Corbusier was the most influential architect of France in the 20th century. He designed everything to look good from the air and that is why every one of his projects was a horrific mess to live in. Besides the racist aspects of allocation, he and his theories are the biggest reasons why public housing has failed in the places it has failed Brasilia was a purpose built capital city designed by Costa and Niemeyer. They made it look really really great from the air which is precisely why a shantytown immediately popped up of the construction workers who built the loving thing but couldn't afford to live in it curufinor fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Jul 11, 2017 |
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Jul 11, 2017 05:36
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Ceciltron posted:Memories of New Years/Spring Festival. quickly, as someone who has now drank with this uncle, this is an incredibly good description of how the night went. I know simplefish also really enjoyed him
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Jul 11, 2017 05:50
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Haier posted:WOW, SHANGHAI SO MAGIC. MANY PRETTY LIGHTS. LOOK AT THE KEBAB TOWER! I LOVE SHANGHAI, SO MODERN AND BEAUTY. Just outside of seoul is a bit worse when it comes to rows of identical, near windowless apt buildings. Each block is a like a mini town with their own shopping complex on the bottom floors and underground.
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Jul 11, 2017 06:33
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Haier posted:WOW, SHANGHAI SO MAGIC. MANY PRETTY LIGHTS. LOOK AT THE KEBAB TOWER! I LOVE SHANGHAI, SO MODERN AND BEAUTY. Having only heard about New Jersey from things like Futurama, this is kinda how I imagined it to look. Only with more open tire fires.
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Jul 11, 2017 06:33
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OMG, all that http://i.imgur.com/A2rd5Nl.gifv Edit: I'm the glorious shower of cigarettes to calm and cool the nerves during these scary times.
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Jul 11, 2017 06:40
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The Great Autismo! posted:quickly, as someone who has now drank with this uncle, this is an incredibly good description of how the night went. I know simplefish also really enjoyed him Yeah if thats the uncle i think it is hes a pretty cool dude
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Jul 11, 2017 06:49
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Fauxtool posted:Just outside of seoul is a bit worse when it comes to rows of identical, near windowless apt buildings. Each block is a like a mini town with their own shopping complex on the bottom floors and underground. When the alternative is american style suburb rows of bloated idle rich and listless teenagers it doesn't sound very bad to me.  Now Kabul, whew that's a lot of goat poo poo
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Jul 11, 2017 06:54
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Jul 11, 2017 07:39
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Jimmy Little Balls posted:Hotels need to be authorised to have foreigners stay there or something. When you give them your passport that's so they can register you are staying there with the police. In big cities you won't usually have a problem getting a hotel, but when I go somewhere like my girlfriends hometown a lot of places will say I can't stay there until my girlfriend has screamed at them enough for them to give in. Actually the worst time I had with this was in Beijing, took about three failures before we just went online to search for "foreigner-friendly hotels." I think in larger/more "important" cities hotels take poo poo like this seriously. In Kunming or Xi'an or Suzhou they haven't given a gently caress.
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Jul 11, 2017 08:34
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Hey Chinagoons, so about that internet access  Guardian: China moves to block internet VPNs from 2018 the graun posted:China will completely block access to much of the global internet as part of a sweeping crackdown aimed at suppressing dissent and maintaining the Communist party’s grip on power.
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Jul 11, 2017 10:03
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That ain't gonna stop TOR or similar protocols will it?
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Jul 11, 2017 10:04
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basic hitler posted:That ain't gonna stop TOR or similar protocols will it? TOR stopped working in 2009, it's one of the easier things to block. A full VPN block won't happen because it'd harm the industry too much
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Jul 11, 2017 10:16
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I bet they will think about technical measures, say chabuduo and block tls/ssl or something lolsy like that Just do banking in http or whatever
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Jul 11, 2017 10:17
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Haier posted:Another aspect of this is someone sent me this link today and said "SO TERRIBLE!!!" Where have you been denied a hotel room because you're a foreigner? Haven't heard of that happening in like ten years.
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Jul 11, 2017 10:25
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Chill embassy employees wrt visas is not a thing If an embassy employee fucks up hard enough with admissions, people die. Namaste E: chill != bribeable. But the bribes go up a lot
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Jul 11, 2017 10:28
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Haierfternoon: I usually cook at home, but some days I don't want to and I go out to buy food. I realized I have been here 11 months already and will be buying my air tickets this week for my possible forever-departure from China. It's pretty exciting. At the same time, I am so drat tired of Chinese food. As a result, for the past month I have come to rely on Saizeriya/Saliya as my go-to garbage "I don't want to cook, but I sure as hell don't want Chinese food" place. There's one near me and I usually sit in same table every time and take a long lunch break from work. I listen to my paranormal podcasts and zone out, sipping hot milk and coffee and spending 80 minutes to eat what's in the photo. It's become kind of a fond Pavlovian memory now, and I almost don't even want to listen to these radio shows unless there is a matcha milk tea and pizza in front of me.  Pictured cost me 52 RMB, or $7.65 USD. I know this stuff is basically fast food, but a big meal there still leaves me nowhere near as over-salted or bad feeling as a normal-sized bowl of noodles does (which tend to contain three days RDA of sodium in them). It's a blessing to taste melted cheese. Today I was watching this kid. He was probably about eleven years old. His mom was playing phone and he got up about ten+ times to fill his drink cup from the machines. After five or six times of him passing by my table, I watched him go to the soda dispenser, fill the cup to the top, go to the ice machine, have a torrent of ice fly into his full cup and splash soda all over his arms, shake himself off, wash his hands, dump out the entire cup to the sink, and then start over. While watching him, he did this three times in a row before finally putting about 1/4th of a cup of drink and then one ice piece and going back to his table. I was thinking "holy poo poo, this kid is too old to be this loving stupid." There were some of those pompadoured faux-business men at a table near me, and one of the guys got lost looking for the bathroom. He finally walked into the kitchen to ask the guy cooking where the bathroom was and was shooshed out. He returned to fill up his drink cup and, without fibbing or exaggerating, did the exact same thing the kid had done regarding ice and soda levels. He also finally settled on a mostly-empty cup without ice in it. Then the kid got up and also got lost looking for the bathroom (the signs are very clearly marked), and went into the broom closet and closed the door. I am 100% sure he pissed in the closet. He was in there for about two minutes and then came back out. As I was walking home a delivery guy on an ebike came zooming up and abruptly stopped to fiddle with his phone. He started up his bike again with one hand and continued to look at his phone and drove right into a barrier gate bar and flipped his bike. Everything in his basket fell out onto the ground and the bike was on top of him. A few people stood to watch him pick his things up. I kept walking.
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Jul 11, 2017 10:28
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Haier posted:Haierfternoon: Have you considered just lifting your post history in these threads into a Word document and offering it as-is to a publisher? After reading your posts for years I would love to own a copy of Haierventures in Chinar: Diary of a Plunger.
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Jul 11, 2017 10:35
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Haier posted:As a result, for the past month I have come to rely on Saizeriya/Saliya as my go-to garbage "I don't want to cook, but I sure as hell don't want Chinese food" place. i hate to break it to you, but.... no seriously i mean as you can see from the clientele, these are the kind of people that absolutely cant handle western food, so no matter what the food there looks like it's still 100% chinese food its like Bread Talk being called a western bakery also as an aside, in my office cafeteria we have those fast-food style soda fountains (no ice) and despite these guys being programmers and stuff who got engineering degrees from good schools, they almost always over-fill the cups and slosh coke onto themselves LentThem fucked around with this message at 10:43 on Jul 11, 2017 |
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Jul 11, 2017 10:41
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I mean, breadtalk is western inasmuch as it's Singaporean so it has the possibility to not be as chabuduo maybe
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Jul 11, 2017 10:44
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Hedenius posted:As a European I'll take the Chinese immigration system system over the US one any day. At least the Chinese generally don't give a poo poo. But I know several (very middle class Swedish white people) who were busted for smoking weed and had to go to the US embassy for like a two hour interview to be granted a visa and still be refused entry into the US because of some bureaucratic fuckup. I don't even want to imagine what it's like if you're not from an ESTA-country. Can any outsider coming to China do that? No. LentThem posted:i hate to break it to you, but....
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Jul 11, 2017 10:44
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LentThem posted:also as an aside, in my office cafeteria we have those fast-food style soda fountains (no ice) and despite these guys being programmers and stuff who got engineering degrees from good schools, they almost always over-fill the cups and slosh coke onto themselves Even if refills are free. Got to maximize the drink volume per trip ratio.
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