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I was in South Korea last week with the future wife, visiting her hometown, Jinhae. The nearby city of Changwon has a huge roundabout, and according to her, in order to cash in on it's minor fame, Jinhae decided to copy it. But smaller. And in doing so, demolished a perfectly good clocktower to make space, rather than incorporate it into the design. So instead of a pretty little clocktower, they now have a very run of the mill roundabout. I think I may also now be in the midst of a face battle with my future father in law over our pending wedding.
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He was from Africa, or maybe London. I don't know.
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StevoMcQueen posted:I was in South Korea last week with the future wife, visiting her hometown, Jinhae. The nearby city of Changwon has a huge roundabout, and according to her, in order to cash in on it's minor fame, Jinhae decided to copy it. But smaller. And in doing so, demolished a perfectly good clocktower to make space, rather than incorporate it into the design. So instead of a pretty little clocktower, they now have a very run of the mill roundabout. How?
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Jul 21, 2017 19:22
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Well hes John Travolta and StevoMcQueen is Nicholas Cage and its all very confusing.
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Grand Fromage posted:I had to do some bullshit middle school stuff for a couple months and one class was obsessed with dicks. They finally broke me down with their demands to know penis words in English so I said okay. I'll tell you two that are also words in Chinese, and informed them that wang and dong both mean penis. A boy in my high school was named Harry Wang, for some reason he always flew under the radar
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Haier has been doing the fake article thing for a while, how have so many people fallen for that last one? He always posts a 404 error people's daily URL, then quotes the article text below
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Jul 21, 2017 20:22
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The Great Autismo! posted:me first me first
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Jul 21, 2017 20:23
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I seriously think like 80 percent of Haier is made up bullshit and that he's bored and lonely.
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Jul 21, 2017 20:25
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Glenn Quebec posted:I seriously think like 80 percent of Haier is made up bullshit and that he's bored and lonely. That's just what a sexpat English teacher would say
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Jul 21, 2017 20:26
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I do not care about China, but I follow this thread solely for Haier's stories.
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Jul 21, 2017 20:29
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:A boy in my high school was named Harry Wang, for some reason he always flew under the radar One of the Vietnamese kids in my grade was called Phuc. That lasted less than a month before he changed his name. To Richard.
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Jul 21, 2017 20:32
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I'm wondering how net censorship and VPN blocking is going to play out in the long term. It seems like the average Chinese citizen doesn't -really- care as long as money is not involved. Even then how many livelihoods are in jeopardy if a working VPN ban is put in place? It's hard to imagine a scenario a big enough number to cause real pushback against the government.
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Sten Freak posted:I'm wondering how net censorship and VPN blocking is going to play out in the long term. It seems like the average Chinese citizen doesn't -really- care as long as money is not involved. Even then how many livelihoods are in jeopardy if a working VPN ban is put in place?
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Darkest Auer posted:That's just what a sexpat English teacher would say Listen, I'm saving my sexual conquests in Asia for when I'm a disgusting old retiree.
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Jul 21, 2017 21:23
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I don't actually think I like China all that much tbf
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In other China tech news... http://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-wosign-startcom-certificates-banned,35055.html quote:WoSign, StartCom Certificates Won't Work In Chrome 61 And Beyond Cha bu duo company management followed by bold faced lies, not only about how they were handling certificates but even lying about the company acquisition. Both of which are easily traceable and provable, but hey, first line of defense is to just deny, deny, deny.
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Jul 21, 2017 22:40
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Sounds like my job
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Eh, short version is it started as a friendly "outbuy the other person", and now looks to be devolving into filiel piety shaming after FIL threw his toys out the pram. Thank you China thread for preparing me for what I imagine is going to be a loving ridiculous debacle.
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angel opportunity posted:Haier has been doing the fake article thing for a while, how have so many people fallen for that last one? He always posts a 404 error people's daily URL, then quotes the article text below While it's possible for Haier to make up an article and post it, making fun of the Chinese characteristics of China, it's also possible that the propaganda farm of news agencies in China put that article out in a genuine attempt, but were then informed--only after the fact, mind you--that it was actually a bad article and did the opposite. Nobody was going to say anything beforehand, because it wasn't their problem, but now that public face is involved, people actually have to do their jobs, and thus, the article was pulled with incredible haste. In this era of alternative facts and truth bending the evidence, my version has the added benefit of Occam's Razor.
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Been at it since noon China thread. Good luck with your vpns Haier and other Chinese thread goons. I.hope China doesn't get you.
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Glenn Quebec posted:Been at it since noon China thread. Good luck with your vpns Haier and other Chinese thread goons. I.hope China doesn't get you. this dude should post in LAN
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guys he did the fake news article thing a week ago in the same way of course its fake jesus wanna make a trump joke on short memory StarMinstrel posted:Do arrow signs not exist over there? nobody looks at arrows or signs ever; there are tons of photos showing chinese people standing on or next to markings telling them where to go or stand and not noticing. if you bring it to their attention you are making them lose face and that makes you the rear end in a top hat so you also lose face
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i follow a weibo account that focuses on chinese people not respecting or comprehending defined boundaries and it has tons of stuff like this constantly being uploaded              
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http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/21/news/china-rice-us-trade/index.htmlquote:
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LentThem posted:i follow a weibo account that focuses on chinese people not respecting or comprehending defined boundaries and it has tons of stuff like this constantly being uploaded i watched the first video on that account and i'm already  https://my.mixtape.moe/cuechl.mp4
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The imported rice market is pretty big. Everybody who can afford it buys imported because of the pollution. Thai and Taiwanese rice are both popular.
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The man is mad that a child is banging a rock on some utility poles? Is he a utility pole enthusiast? A thing I like from these videos where someone shames someone else on video is that gesture I keep seeing of pointing that everyone does. I am old and you are young and here comes a finger. I'm pointing at you as I yell. You're the one at fault here buddy. Finger doesn't lie. The tai-chi people who wouldn't move for the people who registered the space for their basketball practice was great for this. 30 people all pointing at the basketball teen.
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Grand Fromage posted:The imported rice market is pretty big. Everybody who can afford it buys imported because of the pollution. Thai and Taiwanese rice are both popular. How can you import Taiwanese rice? 
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Tweet of same news: https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/888206946527883264 I bet some people just made a poo poo load off futures
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Grand Fromage posted:The imported rice market is pretty big. Everybody who can afford it buys imported because of the pollution. Thai and Taiwanese rice are both popular.
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Krinkle posted:The man is mad that a child is banging a rock on some utility poles? Is he a utility pole enthusiast? My takeaway is that the poles are painted to be nice and these kids, at the encouragement of the olds, have made all those dents (they are all kid-height). Dents and chips in paint which we know will never be repaired or repainted. He has a sense of civic responsibility that is laudable, especially in China.
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Ceciltron posted:My takeaway is that the poles are painted to be nice and these kids, at the encouragement of the olds, have made all those dents (they are all kid-height). Dents and chips in paint which we know will never be repaired or repainted. He has a sense of civic responsibility that is laudable, especially in China. I can't get my head around how a parent would think it's a good idea to encourage that kind of behaviour? What's the end goal? What's the short term goal?
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Shenzhen update: still good to visit
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Outrail posted:I can't get my head around how a parent would think it's a good idea to encourage that kind of behaviour? What's the end goal? What's the short term goal? It's fun to hit things.
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I was waiting for the one kid to hit the other in the back of the head with that axehead rock, while his father huffed and puffed about that other dude complaining.
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Pirate Radar posted:It's fun to hit things. 2001apecatchingthighbone.gif
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HAIER SATURDAY: Shenzhen department of beuuareau city sent me a text message saying tomorrow will be big rain due to a typhoon, and to stay away from rivers and the sea. I don't know what they are talking about, but the forecast does say rain, so I was bummed and decided to go and get my movement in today. I went out and cruised around for 7 hours, stopping to eat here and there. I carried a cup of popcorn all day but didn't eat it, even though I know it's good popcorn. I will take a photo of this popcorn if requested. I wanted to eat dinner at this buffet and spent some of my walking just wandering waiting for the time it opens for dinner. I got there at the opening time to find it all torn down and gutted. They are revamping it and will be closed for who knows how long. I had to settle for fried rice noodles with onions. I took it to a little square to eat. I was sitting and Wechatting while eating, and suddenly there's a pair of feet next to mine. I look up and see this old guy standing there, trying to look at my phone screen. His wife comes up and then they sit less than a meter from me. There had to be like 15 meters of space on this bench. She pulls out the bag of boiled eggs and starts peeling, stinking up the place. He's just sitting there staring at me, leaning and trying to see my phone and what I am eating, how I eat, etc. Some teen kids were walking by and had this look of pure horror on their faces when they saw me eating Chinese food with chopsticks. I think i broke some brains when they saw I was eating and had a small COLD fruit soda with my food. My boss's daughter is my Face Master and taught me the intricacies of face when outside in public. She taught me that no matter what you do, if you really want to keep best face or gain it, never ever ever acknowledge any bullshit you do. Don't even dare look at the other person, because that is a form of acknowledgement, and you lose. Just do whatever you want to do and never look back, never pay attention, never side-step, never stop. This is how you face. Watch old people, they will never even glance at you when they step in front of you, as they expect you to move around them. Because people outside are so oblivious or trying to out-face me, I have written before that I enjoy being a dick to people now. When I do something polite I would have done before coming here, I honestly feel stupid. They don't give poo poo that I was polite or giving right of way, and they would never do it to me, so why am I so foolish to do it? Today I made sure to bump into anyone that was assuming I would move for them. Some guy in flip-flops rudely cut me off on the stairs, so I stepped on the back of his flop and made him stumble and his foot came out of it. I didn't want him to make me fall, but I have no problem if I made him fall. I am become Mainlander. I was in a pedestrian tunnel walking up the bike lane/ramp in the middle of the stairs, another guy ahead of me, when a pair of couples appears at the top. Three of them go on the stairs, and the Office Buzzcut looks at both of us coming up the ramp and decides to Face his way down it in hopes of forcing us both to move out of his way. There are a few types of Buzzcuts, but Office Buzzcuts are very common in cities. They are just watery and fat guys who go for the Buzzcut look, but have zero muscle under that fat, along with the brown skin that goes with working outdoors and doing laborious work. They sit on their asses all day, pale, squishy, and getting up to eat or piss is the most of their movement. They are faux Buzzcuts and carry none of the aggressive drunken tendencies of true Buzzcuts. If you want to talk about "stolen valor," Office Buzzcuts are stealing the valor of the true ones, because it get a little confusing as they try to pass themselves off as anything more than lazy fatsos. Anyway, he was pretending to listen to his friends talking while spreading his girth across where us two guys coming up the ramp were. The guy in front of me skirted around him, but I wanted to gain face. I just kept going straight and I reached up and grabbed his soft shoulder firmly and pushed him aside onto the stairs. For a brief moment he started falling backwards and my mind was thinking "oh man, this is it, this is how I get deported.. a fight in a stairwell," but he saved himself. I just kept trucking forward and pretended nothing happened. He didn't retaliate, but the foreigner caused him to lose major face in front of his girl and his bro. As a bonurs, here is Shenzhen municipal authority reaction to high-standard Chinese engineering against rain:  I saw a big pregnant woman wearing a muumuu shirt that said "No progress in pleasure," and I thought it was a fitting slogan for what she's about to endure. As an end to day of face, I was on the very last car of the train, leaning on the wall. Another guy is near me. There's enough space for a small kid at best between us, when this dumb guy walks up and literally shoves his way between us and manspreads as wide as we can. I was less than a minute away from my stop, but I did the same with my arms while using my phone and shifting around, hitting him with my elbows. I got off the train and bumped into several more people on the escalator and then went to eat pizza and ice cream and hot milk and listen to some guy talk about seeing ghosts in mirrors or something, coming back home about 10:45 at night. simplefish posted:Shenzhen update: still good to visit 1. Brown Muslim man in black Pakistani salwar kameez? 2. Fat Muslim man with big bulbous belly leading the way? 3. One of the 900 Indian men of various builds? 4. One of the 1300 Pakistan men with Muhammad beards? 5. White-ish guy in a pink tank-top speaking French with half-Chinese daughter? 6. Bald bearded white guy in shirt and shorts with massive hi-top sneakers walking like a Gangsta? You had two Chinese guys in their 20s walking behind you imitating you and laughing. 7. Skinny black girl in short running shorts and tank-top and head band, everything head-to-toe Nike brand? 8. Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge fat white guy in a plaid shirt, probably from America? 9. Pack of loud Australians? 10. A very tall and lanky white guy with a very short and bearded white friend? 11. Blond Russian girl that looked like she'd been on a 200-day bender? Me: Sunglasses white guy in Nikes and exercise clothes, holding a cup of popcorn.
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I had a shockingly blatant cut in front. I was behind a dude and maybe there was a foot between us and this woman shoves her way into this tiny-rear end space. I called her a dumb, rude oval office in front of her daughter and for some reason she was extremely upset about this, idk why 
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Haier posted:Free buckets
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Haier I'm glad you're getting out because your behavior is 100% pure meltdown that every long-term China sexpat has seen in their friends
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