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Blistex posted:The thing that I worry about is that the CCP is going to get entrenched into Canadian business and politics through a massive spending spree before their final death throes, that they are going to actually harm our nation's ability to put its own needs before the Mainland. They're making solid progress in Australia.
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Jul 12, 2017 04:31
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Haier posted:I still find the place less frustrating on a daily basis than China. it feels better to be insulted than to be ignored. you should try a controlled experiment sometime
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Jul 12, 2017 04:34
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Fojar38 posted:lmfao what is this poo poo reporting http://www.bbc.com/
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Jul 12, 2017 06:20
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Blistex posted:Once North Korea has a working missile that can reach the US, and possibly a working SLBM with the nukes small enough to fit on them this will never happen because if they get close we will blow that poo poo up. history clearly demonstrates that america talks the talk when it comes to human rights abuses but doesn't walk the walk. we start getting all shooty and bomby as soon as you can "legitimately" threaten us, and no earlier
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Jul 12, 2017 06:21
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Haier posted:I personally hope that VPN thing goes through for a month and every foreigner and foreign business flees and that begins the downfall of China when dumbshits finally realize doing business here is a really bad idea. This, reflected in the previous mentioning of Wanda's theme park/real estate deal: how many foreign investors will buy into all that Chinese land and do to China what they're doing to Africa and the Caribbean, on,y for the government to refuse the purchase? Better yet, how many foreign investors want to invest in China? At this point, I'm genuinely curious at which is stronger, the tire fire of China's economics, or the vulture capitalists who want to huff those sweet noxious fumes for money?
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Jul 12, 2017 06:29
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Fojar38 posted:lmfao what is this poo poo reporting its not the reporters fault that some dumb scientists called it teleportation. The actual significance, and a better article title is, photon entanglement maintained over record distance
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Jul 12, 2017 06:52
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Modest Mao posted:its not the reporters fault that some dumb scientists called it teleportation. an impractical distance using an impractical satellite much face from headlines tho
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Modest Mao posted:its not the reporters fault that some dumb scientists called it teleportation. 
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Jul 12, 2017 07:11
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Jul 12, 2017 07:17
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GBS China Thread: And with an inexplicable lack of Haier, things start to fall apart
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Jul 12, 2017 08:46
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Baronjutter posted:I get really sad when someone tells me they're "learning chinese" because Chinese will be the 2nd or maybe even most important language in the near future and you'll totally need it for your career. In the uk about 15 or 20 years ago (that is, before 24hr tv and 5000 channels on cable was a universal thing) the bbc used to show adult educational tv from about 2am to 6am. I had a bad bout of insomnia around that time and just to lay half awake watching this poo poo for hours and there was a regular programme on 2 or 3 nights a week that was all about learning chinese and chinese customs because any day now China will be #1 and you better learn mandarin if you want a high-powered career! Ni hao!! They often had parts presented by like 15 or 16 years old kids who were studying the language to prepare them for coming chinese century. I wonder what those kids are doing 15 years later...
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Jul 12, 2017 08:56
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iirc most of that educational poo poo was open university stuff. i also remember a lot of signed tv programs being on around that time
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Yeah it was all OU, but i dunno if non-brits know what the heck the OU is.
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Jul 12, 2017 09:03
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Jeoh posted:Paul Zimmerman is a former Dutchman who has Chinese nationality as a resident of Hong Kong. Zimmerman is great. If only all our legislators and district councilors act like him. He deals with nitty gritty details of urban planning and provides rational answers and reasoning. Pedestrian crossings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=channel?UCVQrdOxj9IupFYFNyx3gBKg On minibus and transport planning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuGTYPdEVuI Recyling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNidEYvMHfg
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Jul 12, 2017 09:48
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About hotels, yeah the cheaper/weirder/dodgier places don't allow foreigners. Heck they don't even accept Hong Kongers. But your usual Starwood/Marriott/Hyatt chains are fine. Your bugdet hanting/motel66/whatever is fine. If I really wanted to stay in one, I can have my fiance check in with her China ID card and then let me in afterwards. If the front desk asks, just say that you won't be staying overnight and no one cares.
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Jul 12, 2017 09:53
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And if you are traveling with your boss's family, can't your boss just use her husband to register another room? It's not hard at all to figure out.
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Jul 12, 2017 09:56
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quote:It feels like they've given up trying to "civilize" the visitors to this madhouse of a park. Finally I get a mocha and a red bean pastry. I sip on my mocha. This is the highlight of time at Disneyland Shanghai.
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Jul 12, 2017 10:18
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caberham posted:About hotels, yeah the cheaper/weirder/dodgier places don't allow foreigners. Heck they don't even accept Hong Kongers. I have a friend from the PRC who became an American citizen a couple of years ago. Anyway, when he visited China with his parents, there were all sorts of things he couldn't do as a "foreigner," like take money out of a bank or register at a small hotel in the countryside. Pretty LOL at the idea that China is looking to become the world's next "super power."
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There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic current of phrases, unless a kind of note at the foot of the last page, scrawled evidently much later, in an unsteady hand, may be regarded as the exposition of a method. It was very simple, and at the end of that moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash of lightning in a serene sky: ‘Exterminate all the brutes!’
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I wasn't talking about jus solis citizenship (America's "one weird trick") but the fact that getting residency is more straightforward in most other developed countries. Most Americans think they're still in the Ellis Island model of immigration when actually it is more like this:
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Jul 12, 2017 12:20
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Pompous Rhombus posted:I wasn't talking about jus solis citizenship (America's "one weird trick") but the fact that getting residency is more straightforward in most other developed countries. Most Americans think they're still in the Ellis Island model of immigration when actually it is more like this: Which countries do you think make it easier?
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Jul 12, 2017 12:29
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caberham posted:About hotels, yeah the cheaper/weirder/dodgier places don't allow foreigners. Heck they don't even accept Hong Kongers. 海友 and 如家快捷酒店 both rejected me in Beijing. Maybe it's a Huazhu thing  nickmeister posted:I have a friend from the PRC who became an American citizen a couple of years ago. Anyway, when he visited China with his parents, there were all sorts of things he couldn't do as a "foreigner," like take money out of a bank or register at a small hotel in the countryside. Pretty LOL at the idea that China is looking to become the world's next "super power." I was able to open an ICBC debit account after much effort with the lady behind the counter but I was told flat out that because I'm a foreigner I can't do online banking, so if I want my transaction history I need to go get it printed out at an ICBC.
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Jul 12, 2017 12:33
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Warbadger posted:Which countries do you think make it easier? Check the UK, Canada, Australia, and NZ for starters; you're awarded points for various things (age, education, English ability, profession, etc), pass the threshhold and you get a visa and/or residency without needing a job offer from a company. Source: American, have immigrated to Australia.
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Jul 12, 2017 12:35
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The Something Awful Forums > Main > GBS: And with an inexplicable lack of hair, things start to fall apart > Pretty LOL at the idea that China is looking to become the world's next "super power."
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Jul 12, 2017 12:40
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Haier posted:The Something Awful Forums > Main > GBS: And with an inexplicable lack of hair, things start to fall apart > Pretty LOL at the idea that China is looking to become the world's next "super power." D&D > Pretty LOL at the idea that China is looking to become the world's next "super power"
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Jul 12, 2017 12:42
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Trammel posted:They're making solid progress in Australia. A couple of weeks ago I posted a question asking Australians if they felt that foreign Chinese with CCP connections donating huge amounts of money to their politicians was a security risk on Quora (LOL!!!!). All I got were Chinese who didn't even live in Australia saying things like, "Aren't Australian citizens free to donate money?! Are you racist?!?!!" (My question specifically stated that I was talking about foreigners, not Australian citizens). A few talked about corruption in Australia unrelated to China, or even things about America (WTF). I think I eventually got one Australian who basically said the people who were bribed by China were already corrupt before being bought by China, therefore is was okay somehow. Pompous Rhombus posted:Check the UK, Canada, Australia, and NZ for starters; you're awarded points for various things (age, education, English ability, profession, etc), pass the threshhold and you get a visa and/or residency without needing a job offer from a company. Don't they automatically send all brown people to gulags? Does their concentration camp off the mainland even technically count as Australia? Amergin posted:D&D > Pretty LOL at the idea that China is looking to become the world's next "super power" D&D > Pretty LOL at the idea that China is looking to become the world's next "superBANNED!
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Jul 12, 2017 13:18
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Check the UK, Canada, Australia, and NZ for starters; you're awarded points for various things (age, education, English ability, profession, etc), pass the threshhold and you get a visa and/or residency without needing a job offer from a company. Spain got the best hobo residency program. If you spent 3 years in Spain even illegally and don't have criminal record you can get permanent residency permit.
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Jul 12, 2017 13:27
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I looked up the changster the other day and he hasn't posted on discus in 9 months. I searched some more and found his facebook and his last posts from 2015 were filled with typos like he could no longer work a keyboard. I think his neurological disease finally got to him 
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I think I realized why Mandarin is such a difficult language. They bore the poo poo out of you with the same three or four questions about food or where you are from. And then before you can how to express yourself properly in normal situations, you've bored into moving on to esoteric poo poo like Tang Dynasty poetry or obscure chengyu. Meanwhile, you still don't know how to tell someone to stop doing the thing where they "take a selfie" as a slick way to take a picture of the foreigner without interacting with him.
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Jul 12, 2017 13:38
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Amergin posted:海友 and 如家快捷酒店 both rejected me in Beijing. Maybe it's a Huazhu thing Hey at least you convinced her to open an account  What a piece of poo poo.Yeah counter service staff like that is so hit and miss. Even when I wanted to deal with basic sim card stuff some of the staff are really bad. Sometimes you are better off going to another branch and asking the same thing. Happens here in Hong Kong as well (not as much and only for really cheap services like CHINA UNICOM). Some people are just loving morons.
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Pompous Rhombus posted:Check the UK, Canada, Australia, and NZ for starters; you're awarded points for various things (age, education, English ability, profession, etc), pass the threshhold and you get a visa and/or residency without needing a job offer from a company. Hong Kong you just need to work here for 7 years without being a dirty labourer (or brown person) The first visa lasts 1 year, the next 2, the next 4 and boom you are a permanent resident and can't be deported.Singapore has a fast track program if you are super high level and can get PR in 2 years. But it's usually 5. Even Taiwan allows Permanent residency in 5 years?
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don't blame me, I'm doing my absolute best to poo poo up the d&d thread
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nickmeister posted:I think I realized why Mandarin is such a difficult language. They bore the poo poo out of you with the same three or four questions about food or where you are from. And then before you can how to express yourself properly in normal situations, you've bored into moving on to esoteric poo poo like Tang Dynasty poetry or obscure chengyu. Meanwhile, you still don't know how to tell someone to stop doing the thing where they "take a selfie" as a slick way to take a picture of the foreigner without interacting with him. So what you're saying is we need a conversational Mandarin book based on real life situations and scenarios.
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Jul 12, 2017 14:34
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caberham posted:
As long as you had continuous employment, not even one day wiggle room. I made an effort post about it in the Taiwan thread in February when I got it.
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Jul 12, 2017 14:43
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Paladin posted:So what you're saying is we need a conversational Mandarin book based on real life situations and scenarios. No, not real life situations. Like I said, that would just be, "Where are you from? What do you think of China? Can you use chopsticks?" For forty chapters. Also, no more tea houses and 北京烤鴨. GoutPatrol posted:As long as you had continuous employment, not even one day wiggle room. I made an effort post about it in the Taiwan thread in February when I got it. Link, please?
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Jul 12, 2017 14:48
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caberham posted:Hong Kong you just need to work here for 7 years without being a dirty labourer (or brown person) I think it's 1-3-3 not 1-2-4 Also you can be unemployed if youre married and still get permanent residency Student visa years count too But PR doesnt give you ALL THE RIGHTS, for that you need sam shing ***
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Jul 12, 2017 15:00
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Chapter 1 : HALLLLLLLLLLO Chapter 2 : where are you from? Chapter 3 : do you like Chinese food/responses for compliment on chopsticks Chapter 4 : learn to say 不敢当 when someone says your Chinese is incredible Chapter 4.5 : learn to tell the Chinese person their Chinese is also really good for a hearty chortle Chapter 5 : do you want a Chinese wife? Chapter 6 : how much money do you make? Chapter 7 : do you hate the Japanese? Do you know about Nanjing? Chapter 8 : see chapter 4 at this point for review Chapter 9 : cheers and drinking culture Chapter 10 : how to pretend to pay for the check without ever really going for it but making sure you put in enough face to make the person feel like they have gained face Chapter 11 : what to do when your new friend is puking out the door of the restaurant Chapter 12 : choosing a KTV girl and how to politely ask for the next batch after the first group is inevitably insufficient Chapter 13 : "I don't want my handjob just yet" Chapter 14 : (for the poor) bargaining for the prostitute (only for lower end KTVs) Chapter 14 : (for the rich) bragging to a taxi driver about getting a blowjob at KTV Chapter 15 : how to bitch out the 7-11 worker when the fridges aren't plugged in for your nightcap Chapter 16 : lying to your girlfriend about where you were all night Chapter 17 : how to tell your boss you're a bit sick and having a rest
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The Great Autismo! posted:Chapter 1 : HALLLLLLLLLLO
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The Great Autismo! posted:Chapter 1 : HALLLLLLLLLLO Yeah, this is what I'm talking about. None of that bullshit about Chinese culture, Tang Dynasty poets or chengyus lol
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