Jeoh posted:

im permabanned poster levonstomper58. i first started visiting chinar when i was about 12. by 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "face" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "you can have a rest" and "the courage push the bravery！" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing things in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now on antipsychotics. i always wondered what the kind of "face" style of chinar humor was all about; i think it's the unconscious leaking in to the conscious, what jungian theory considered to be the cause of schizophrenic and schizotypal syptoms. i would advise all people who "get" face to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace.

Steakandchips posted:

Go on. Like what? Doors don't close properly? Taps leak?

Haier posted:

Like all the tiles, sinks, toilets in the two bathrooms are so hastily done it is obvious. The electric sockets are loose. The wood flooring has some loose pieces. The sliding doors don't seem sturdy (her last house, the sliding glass door suddenly shattered on its own one day, nobody knows why). The front door has a gap that lets in a draft. There's other stuff, but I wasn't actively looking for it. It's obvious a bunch of workers were just trying to get it all done as fast as possible. There's 5 buildings where she lives, 6 apartments each floor, 32 floors each building. 6 X 32 X 5 = 960 apartments that needed to be done with some wacky deadline. This also explains why so many apartments in China are remodeled after purchase, besides people hating the floor plans but buying anyway. Her other house is practically unrecognizable if you compare it before she got it remodeled.

Steakandchips posted:

And if people want it done right do they need to get people from America or Europe or somewhere else to do it right?

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TAIPEI: A samurai sword-wielding attacker carrying the national flag of China slashed a military police guard outside Taiwan's presidential office Friday, authorities said.

The Taiwanese man who was arrested at the scene said he was expressing his political views and had stolen the sword from a nearby history museum, police told AFP.
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"A Chinese national flag was found in his backpack. He said he wanted to express his political stance by going to the presidential office," the official said, adding that the man had wanted to fly the flag there.
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Local media reported that he had repeatedly left pro-China messages in comment sections online, including praise for the Liaoning, China's only aircraft carrier.

"Wow! So gorgeous ... Cheering on the great China dream!" said a message left in Lu's name under a YouTube video of the Liaoning passing through the Taiwan Strait last month.

The sword he used is carved with the words "Nanjing battle, (this sword) killed 107 people", according to a photo released by police.

Haier posted:

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/samurai-sword-attack-outside-taiwan-presidential-office-9134760

Haier posted:

Chaoshan Girl and I have gone our separate ways officially, but we will keep minor contact on Wechat. She was upset to find out that her TCM gallbladder medicine is boiled chicken and animal gallbladders with some stevia in it, to get all that Qi out and transfer it to her gallbladder. I'm so over talking about TCM with Chinese people.

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“A few Chinese tourists were recently arrested by French police and put under investigation for flying drones in Paris,” the embassy said in a statement posted online last week, without giving further details. “The embassy reminds all visiting Chinese nationals and residents in France to abide by local laws, and to travel in a civilised manner.”

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The local Miyako Shinpo newspaper reported on the issue. The owner said he had operated the store for 14 years but only recently put the sign up after becoming tired of dealing with Chinese visitors.
“Chinese tourists have terrible manners,” he said. “I have tolerated them for years but as I don’t want to rent to them now I decided to charge them 10 times as much.”
Asked whether his actions were not discriminatory, the man replied, “I have experienced a case in which five Chinese tourists sat on a chair meant for one person and broke it.
“I don’t want to rent to them simply because I do not want any more broken chairs,” he said.
“It is not discrimination.”

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This summer, some ­middle-class mainland parents will take their children to visit the most prestigious overseas universities in the hope of inspiring them to greater academic heights. And many of these parents will be doing the same thing at home.
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“My boys will start the fourth grade in autumn and they’re starting to understand the concept of university,” Chen said. Queuing for hours was no big deal, she said, adding she had also taken her sons to Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou last year.
“It will be too much pressure if I pin my hopes on them going to this university, but I can at least show them Weiming Lake [a scenic spot on campus] and give them a sense of what it feels like to be at China’s top university,” she said. “Hopefully they will be ­enriched by these experiences.”

Glenn Quebec posted:

Lmao you can't make this stuff up. Did the sword also have connections to the unnamed country somehow?

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

I can imagine there would be some swords that killed 107 people in Nanjing, although they would be Japanese Swords.

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The sword was used by the Japanese imperial troops during the 1937 Nanking Massacre and engraved with the words: “107 people killed in the Nanking battle.”

Coolguye posted:

but not upset enough to actually admit she's going to cause herself an unnecessary permanent injury by continuing to take it, of course

it continues to stun me how anyone lives past 40 in china when the solution to all life's ailments are generally equivalent to chomping on a thousand dollar placebo. my go to answer to the the morons in my life who think the grass is so much greener over the pacific has been boiled down to one word: "Paracelsus."

Glenn Quebec posted:

Google Soviet mouth kiss montage

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Grand Fromage posted:

I'm not sure if that's the reason for it but comrade is used to mean gay by anyone who isn't old, yeah. Which created a funny situation when the Xi government declared party members have to start calling each other comrades again. It'd be like the president saying everybody has to use gay to mean happy again starting now and don't you dare use it to mean homo stuff!!

Jeoh posted:

Jeoh posted:

im permabanned poster levonstomper58. i first started visiting chinar when i was about 12. by 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "face" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "you can have a rest" and "the courage push the bravery！" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing things in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now on antipsychotics. i always wondered what the kind of "face" style of chinar humor was all about; i think it's the unconscious leaking in to the conscious, what jungian theory considered to be the cause of schizophrenic and schizotypal syptoms. i would advise all people who "get" face to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace.

Grand Fromage posted:

I mean, if you get old enough eventually one of your organs fails so technically...

Haier posted:

People are passing around storm videos from today. I'm uploading them to Imgur. Woooo.

http://i.imgur.com/QVlP8tu.gifv

Grand Fromage posted:

Yuki is really common for an English name here. I've had five or six in class.

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All it took was one man dashing for the carriage door to spark panic on the Shenzhen metro earlier this week, according to a Tencent News report.

The incident happened at around 9.30pm on August 13, when a man bolted from a metro carriage as the doors opened at Science Museum station. Everyone else on the carriage soon followed suit, clearing the carriage in record time. Thankfully, no one was injured.

This week’s incident happened less than a month after a stampede erupted on a Line 7 train passing through Huanggangcun Station, triggered by a passenger who began running through the carriage for 'unknown reasons.'

After the incident, the train was removed from service and the passengers 'comforted,' according to the report, which ends on a high note, reminding passengers not to blindly follow others in a panic or spread lies.

Grand Fromage posted:

Yuki is really common for an English name here. I've had five or six in class.

HAT FETISH posted:

Keep em coming

Haier posted:

Pro tip: DO NOT TRY TO SECURE A GOD drat TRUCK AGAINST THE WIND WITH YOUR MIDDLE-AGED ARMS. YOU WILL LOSE.

http://i.imgur.com/bzlaGhY.gifv

I have a video of the aftermath, but it's really bad.

Haier posted:

I have a video of the aftermath, but it's really bad.

Haier posted:

I have a video of the aftermath, but it's really bad.

schmuckfeatures posted:

now you've piqued my curiosity.

may i have the aftermath video link good goon sir?

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

post a link.

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

Please don't post it...or just post a link.