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Ewan
Sep 29, 2008

Ewan is tired of his reputation as a serious Simon. I'm more of a jokester than you people think. My real name isn't even Ewan, that was a joke it's actually MARTIN! LOL fooled you again, it really is Ewan! Look at that monkey with a big nose, Ewan is so random! XD

Jimmy Little Balls posted:

It's hot here now so everyone has shaved their dogs, but not the head or feet. It's amazing.
That always makes me sad because as far as I understand a dog's fur is part of its temperature control, and if you shave it, it actually makes the dog much much more likely to overheat.

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Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

McGavin posted:

Probably somewhere around this level:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4KtQrhdyWA

Everything about this is absurdly Chinese.

1) Commentators unable to grasp concept of long term strategy vs short term strategy. Don't understand how player scoring more points early can score fewer points later.

2) Ridiculous accusation of faulty equipment after Japanese win, leading to players swapping places (????)

3) Nonsensical scoring system. The final round is worth as many points as both rounds that came before it??? Like wtf.

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
I was going to go out and do something with my normal non-plunge friend I haven't seen in a while, so we met at the metro station to go. A sudden wall of water canceled our plans, so she said she was hungry. We were at the station near my apartment, so all I knew near there was... Saliya, my dumpy pizza joint.
She wanted to have some salad while complaining that she was under the impression that I eat there seven nights a week (it's once per week now). I was telling her she needs to come try my cooking, and our server girl took our order. I noticed the other server girl staring at me. I always thought she was cute and pleasant, and I will admit I wish I could get her Wechat without ruining my chance to ever eat there again. I have flirted with her every time I have eaten while she was there.

Since this is China, most people see a girl and a guy eating a table and they will automatically assume we're on a date or a couple, and this girl was shooting some spicy eyes at my friend. I would make eye contact with her, and she would look at my friend and back to me, like I had betrayed her.
Our meal was almost finished and the cute and pleasant server came up and pointed at something near/on my friend, I don't know what, and started shouting at her. She kept shouting and finding some fault and it was a majestic display of face and pissiness. My friend just sat there, taking this wall of face and saying nothing. The server left and I asked my friend what she said. "Don't talk about it." "Why?" "Don't."

I guess I will never know.

Atlas Hugged posted:

One of these days I'll put together a list of goons I've seen in compromising situations in bars of ill repute and it will be a heck of a list.
As someone who doesn't drink and also avoids bars, could you imagine how ridiculous my China experience would be? The girls from bars would be waaaay worse than those dating app ones, and I am sure I'd get into fights weekly.

Jeoh posted:

Inside each individual pod is a chair, monitor, computer and gamepad, and men can sit and play retro 1990s games.
This sounds rad, and I would go. Then I would get a wicked gnarly staph infection from it.

Universe Master
Jun 20, 2005

Darn Fine Pie

Impressive, you've gained the ability to bring out the crazy, not only before plunging, but before even talking to them.

ladron
Sep 15, 2007

eso es lo que es

Haier posted:

My friend just sat there, taking this wall of face and saying nothing. The server left and I asked my friend what she said. "Don't talk about it." "Why?" "Don't."

I guess I will never know.

First off, this is bullshit, you should have demanded to know, like a foot-stamping tantrum, at least for our curiosity. think of your constituency.

Haier posted:

The girls from bars would be waaaay worse than those dating app ones, and I am sure I'd get into fights weekly.

korea and china - not so different

Steakandchips
Apr 30, 2009

Haier, we need to know what was said by the tantrum waitress. Please find out.

Also, sigh at this: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...g-a3588336.html

Guess we are in for lovely bike litter too.

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

Yeah it's like oBike launched all over Europe this month. Their bikes are loving atrocious.

Automatic Slim
Jul 1, 2007

So much face loss.

Ted Cruz wants to rename the street the Chinese embassy is on in DC after Liu Xiaobo.

https://goo.gl/kZrD1s

Automatic Slim fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Jul 15, 2017

Krinkle
Feb 9, 2003

Ah do believe Ah've got the vapors...
Ah mean the farts


Does anyone have that picture of the tourists taking a photo of the sign "this way to the mona lisa" because I can't find it.

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

Automatic Slim posted:

So much face loss.

Ted Cruz wants to rename the street the Chinese embassy is on in DC after Liu Xiaobo.

https://goo.gl/kZrD1s

For his grand finale, the Zodiac Killer tears the face off the entire nation of China. :rip:

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
the west should not interfere in chinese matters

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
http://i.imgur.com/jVTxYlL.mp4

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4
When does her dick fall out?

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
Thx, now I have yellowfever.

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

The best thing to come out of the D&D thread.

Mods please change my name to Lewd Sauna Ayi.

Gath
Sep 23, 2009
This seems topical. Story on Chabuduo

https://what-chinese-corner-cutting-reveals-about-modernity

hailthefish
Oct 24, 2010


Even the URL is chabuduo

(I think you meant https://aeon.co/essays/what-chinese-corner-cutting-reveals-about-modernity)

The Great Autismo!
Mar 3, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

this could not be a more perfect China.jpg post

Gath
Sep 23, 2009

eh Chabuduo

Sten Freak
Sep 10, 2008

Despite all of these shortcomings, the Sten still has a long track record of shooting people right in the face.
College Slice

Excellent article. Thanks

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

quote:

‘There’s a Tianjin-level explosion every month,’ a staff member at a national-level work-safety programme told me, asking for anonymity. ‘But mostly they happen in places that nobody cares about.’ Careless disasters are buried all the time; when a chemical plant exploded in Tangshan in March 2014, a friend there told me of the management’s relief after the Malaysia Airlines flight 370 went missing the next day, swallowing up all other news and making sure nobody but them noticed, save for 13 widows.

:eyepop:



e: god drat this is the article that keeps on giving...

quote:

Many Chinese cities are half building site; I’ve gone on walks through back alleys that resembled Super Mario levels, full of grinding wheels shooting out flurries of super-heated sparks, bricks dropped from scaffolding above without warning and cords strung across the pavement. ‘Why don’t you put tape around that?’ I asked at one spot, pointing to a guttering pit next to the road, deep enough to break a neck. The migrant workers shrugged. ‘Nobody told us to.’

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax

Krinkle posted:

Does anyone have that picture of the tourists taking a photo of the sign "this way to the mona lisa" because I can't find it.



Judging by the hair, they may be Korean though.

Ewan
Sep 29, 2008

Ewan is tired of his reputation as a serious Simon. I'm more of a jokester than you people think. My real name isn't even Ewan, that was a joke it's actually MARTIN! LOL fooled you again, it really is Ewan! Look at that monkey with a big nose, Ewan is so random! XD

Steakandchips posted:

Haier, we need to know what was said by the tantrum waitress. Please find out.

Also, sigh at this: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...g-a3588336.html

Guess we are in for lovely bike litter too.
Problem I see this scheme facing in UK cities is that the cycling infrastructure isn't great, and that cycling traffic rules are strict and well-enforced. Ofo and Mobike work well in Beijing because cycling infrastructure kinda exists with segregated road-width lanes (albeit in a very chabuduo way. The lanes themselves are pretty chaotic as also have pedestrians, silent e-bikes going 40kph, taxis, buses, etc, but you somehow feel a hell of a lot safer than cycling in London, as you are segregated from mainstream traffic). It also works in Beijing due to the much laxer enforcement of traffic rules when it comes to cycling, meaning you can cycle on the pavement, go the wrong way, go through red lights etc, and no one cares.

I literally use Ofo twice a day and it is great, but I just can't see it working so well in a city with proper traffic rules and/or lack of segregated cycling infrastructure. Also lol at the people saying "Well Mobike won't work in Manchester because they're all vandals and they'll nick the bikes!". They obviously haven't seen how most people in China treat the bikes...

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
Someone on Wechat sent me this sticker and I can't stop laughing at Chinese Bobby Hill. I must have had too much milk tea today.

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax

quote:

In the bedroom, the ceiling-high air-conditioning unit runs its moisture through a hole knocked in the wall, stuffed with an old cloth to avoid leakage, while the balcony door, its sealant rotted, has a towel handy to block the rain when it pours through.

When that article was first posted, it reminded me of my own window:

VideoTapir
Oct 18, 2005

He'll tire eventually.

Grand Fromage posted:

Yeah I always enjoy watching the recycling and trash bins emptied into the same filthy, reeking tricycle. That's why I save most of my recycling in separate bags and leave it out for the old/homeless people, then it gets turned into the actual recycling center and they get some cash.

My wife's family saves them to turn into her dad who is a sort of recycling aggregator as part of his business.

peanut
Sep 9, 2007


Haier posted:

Someone on Wechat sent me this sticker and I can't stop laughing at Chinese Bobby Hill. I must have had too much milk tea today.



hfzrzgcghzgzgkhkfgsjg rofl that's excellent

Atlas Hugged
Mar 12, 2007


Put your arms around me,
fiddly digits, itchy britches
I love you all
So I'm working on my master's right now and though I'm taking classes in Thailand, it's an American program and American professors are sent out to our site a few times a year. Most of my peers are teachers in the international schools who are looking for an easy pay boost and the rest are foreigners who work in the Thai public schools and need a master's to keep their visas since Thailand keeps raising the standards for burned out sexpats to spend their weekdays around children. They haven't bothered increasing the base pay for teaching in a Thai public school though, so the only people who do it are former Russian prostitutes and 19 year olds on a gap year in addition to the aforementioned sexpats.

And if you think I'm exaggerating about anything in the above paragraph then you don't know Thailand at all.

Anyway, I'm sitting in class and the guy next to me is basically blind. His smartphone's screen is blown up to the maximum zoom so you can't help but read his messages as they come in and the professor is droning on about the dangers of having children sit on carpets during reading time. Usually it's pretty boring stuff like making dinner plans or having someone look at a leak under his sink but yesterday I saw the following message:

"6000 baht, short time, no anal"

Naturally I wasn't the only one who saw this particular text and so when the guy walked away during break everyone in the immediate vicinity started discussing why the hell he was being quoted a price that high. The consensus was it's because he's black.

God bless this country and everyone who works in it.

Ups_rail
Dec 8, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
So why does thailand have the rep for sex wonder land?

also whats the going rate for short time no anal?

Atlas Hugged
Mar 12, 2007


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

Ups_rail posted:

So why does thailand have the rep for sex wonder land?

Thailand is sex capital of Asia if not Earth. They even have a red light district that is exempt from the alcohol restrictions on Buddhist holidays.

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
https://i.imgur.com//X9rMTip.gifv

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
If it's not just because he's black he must have some nice expensive taste

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?



Holy poo poo nice aim.

Maybe the 6000 baht hooker is super hot?

E_P
Feb 22, 2003

Maybe he is buying not renting.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

Ups_rail posted:

So why does thailand have the rep for sex wonder land?

Well, to a large extent it is.

quote:

also whats the going rate for short time no anal?

A deaf hooker once quoted my coworker 1000 baht, but I don't know if that included a discount

Gromit
Aug 15, 2000

I am an oppressed White Male, Asian women wont serve me! Save me Campbell Newman!!!!!!!

E_P posted:

Maybe he is buying not renting.

I'd save a bit longer and get the anal option pack. It's got to help any resale value, surely.

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
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i found a chicago tribune article from 1995 that i felt belonged in this thread for some reason

quote:

Japan May Still Surpass U.s. To Become Leading Economic Power By The Year 2000
April 10, 1995|By Reviewed by Ronald E. Yates, a financial writer who served 8 years as the Tribune's Tokyo bureau chief.
Blindside: Why Japan is Still on Track to Overtake the U.S. by the Year 2000

By Eamonn Fingleton

Houghton-Mifflin, 406 pages, $27.50

It's been 25 years since futurist Herman Kahn made the audacious prediction that by the year 2000 Japan would surpass the United States as the leading economic power in the world.

There was considerable sniggering and snorting when Kahn's "The Emerging Japanese Superstate" hit the bookstores in 1970. Most economists and policymakers dismissed it as one man's vastly overstated view of an island nation too heavily dependent on imports of energy, raw materials and calories to be taken seriously as a global economic power.

Eamonn Fingleton, a European financial journalist based in Tokyo, is obviously not one of those.

In fact, Fingleton is convinced that Japan-despite recent recessionary setbacks, a deflated stock market and the resurgence of once-moribund American competitors-will transcend the U.S. by 2000.

He cites as evidence several critical facts that many Americans and Europeans have overlooked:

- Measured by current exchange rates, Japan surpassed the U.S. in 1993 to become the world's largest manufacturing economy.

- Japan jumped from 6th to 2nd in per-capita income between 1989 and 1993.

- Japan's net national savings totaled $819 billion in 1993. As calculated by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, this represented 56 percent of the industrialized world's savings. By contrast, the savings in the U.S. came to just $75 billion, or only 5 percent of the industrial world's total.

While these are riveting facts and certainly worth heeding, they, in themselves, don't a superstate make.

What might, however, is Washington's misguided policy of pushing a robust yen to new levels against the anemic dollar. In the first four years of the 1990s, the yen appreciated 27 percent against the dollar. American economists and policymakers insisted that with the yen at unprecedented levels against the dollar, Japanese goods would be priced out of foreign markets and major Japanese exporters would be forced out of business.

In fact, writes Fingleton, nothing of the sort has happened. Instead, powered by the strong yen, Japan ended 1993 with an economy 68 percent the size of America's. By contrast, four years earlier, when the Tokyo stock market was riding high, Japan was just 55 percent of America's economic size.

Why is this happening? Is Japan somehow different? Yes, argues Fingleton, it is. And so is its unique brand of capitalism-a mutant form of capitalism that thrives in a totally different climate from the version practiced in the U.S. and much of Europe.

Whereas American-style capitalism pursues growth by empowering the individual, the Japanese version works by suppressing the individual, Finkleton says.

He insists that the Japanese system rejects the central capitalist idea that individuals (and freely associating groups of individuals) should, in principle, control the disposition of a nation's savings. Instead, savings in Japan are regarded as a national resource to be harnessed to further national economic goals.

Finkleton presents other arguments. Take labor economics. In an economic downturn, American companies sacrifice jobs to protect profits; Japanese companies sacrifice profits to protect jobs.

This is not driven by any paternalism. It's a strategy that says when times get bad, you increase exports and thus force foreign competitors to adjust by reflexively firing their labor in a pattern that ultimately proves fatal.

Then there is the difference between competition and cooperation. In America we compete almost to the exclusion of cooperation. In Japan, businesses cooperate at the expense of competition, he says.

This, Finkleton says, is all part of Japan's Big Logic Economics, as opposed to the West's Small Logic Economics. Japan's Big Logic Economics is guided by a closely-knit group of administrators in the bureaucracy and in banking.

In the West, Small Logic Economics is driven by myriad-and often conflicting-decisions by millions of individual savers, bankers, entrepreneurs, workers, consumers and government officials.

All in all, this is an acceptable analysis of Japan's economic psyche. Where it falters a bit is in trying to convince the reader that it's all part of some huge economic conspiracy.

Not a Japanese conspiracy, mind you, but an American conspiracy. High-minded Americans in the economics profession and the media have been consistently trying to keep the world safe for utopian free trade, Finkleton argues.

In attempting to do that, they have blindsided the American public about the reality of East Asia's superior, Confucian-based system of economics. It's a system of largely non-confrontational economics that is not only responsible for a new brand of East Asian mercantilism but also for what Finkleton is convinced will allow Japan to overtake the U.S. in just five years.

There are some who might argue that this is less a consequence of a conspiracy by elite economists and financial journalists than the product of the West's own arrogance and insular obtuseness.

Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Atlas Hugged posted:

"6000 baht, short time, no anal"

Naturally I wasn't the only one who saw this particular text and so when the guy walked away during break everyone in the immediate vicinity started discussing why the hell he was being quoted a price that high. The consensus was it's because he's black.

Wow, that's like ~$175 bucks.

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Accretionist posted:

Wow, that's like ~$175 bucks.

That seems like a lot for a quickie with a prostitute.

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Ups_rail
Dec 8, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

Zil posted:

That seems like a lot for a quickie with a prostitute.

what do you normally pay?

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