Taiwan Number 1

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The Great Autismo!: Mar 3, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Hey remember when world class Oscar joined Shanghai in the Chinese league for an amazing amount of money? Playing with such incredible talent in a country that is far developed beyond Brazil, what could go wrong?

Oh wait here's Oscar going crazy on the field and inciting a brawl, joined with some just hilariously bad refereeing decisions

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vOPPDzuQ8ns

When my friends say poo poo like "just colonize this shithole already"...this is the type of thing they are talking about

# ? Sep 5, 2017 13:05

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# ? Jun 5, 2024 05:02

Power Khan: Aug 20, 2011; by Fritz the Horse

The Great Autismo! posted:

Hey remember when world class Oscar joined Shanghai in the Chinese league for an amazing amount of money? Playing with such incredible talent in a country that is far developed beyond Brazil, what could go wrong?

Oh wait here's Oscar going crazy on the field and inciting a brawl, joined with some just hilariously bad refereeing decisions

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vOPPDzuQ8ns

When my friends say poo poo like "just colonize this shithole already"...this is the type of thing they are talking about

Lol, I couldn't watch. To what degree does face play a role in referee decisions?

# ? Sep 5, 2017 13:15

GoutPatrol: Oct 17, 2009; *Stupid Babby*

That looked like a loving high school game

# ? Sep 5, 2017 13:21

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

http://shanghaiist.com/2017/09/05/pregnant-woman-jumps-to-death.php

# ? Sep 5, 2017 13:22

Mr. Fix It: Oct 26, 2000; 💀ayyy💀

Grand Fromage posted:

Zainichi Koreans are the big one. Born and raised in Japan, often back multiple generations, but do not have citizenship because of their ethnicity. They can get it but have to jump through various degrading hoops.

I think it's the easiest it's ever been for Zainichi Koreans to get Japanese citizenship, but they, and anyone else who naturalizes is required to take a Japanese name. Masuyoshi Son somehow circumvented that, tho IIRC. Some of the Kanedas (金田) and Kanekos (金子) you run into will be naturalized or not Zainichi's who's last name was/is Kim (金). Even Westerners have to jump through that hoop. Everyone's favorite activist Arudou Debito (有道出人) was David Aldwinkle, and there's a former Finn named Tsurunen Marutei (弦念丸呈) who's a politician and used to be Martti Turunen. Definitely incomparably worse for the Koreans to give up an identity that the Japanese spent decades trying to erase in order to be grudgingly granted the franchise than for goofy white guys to take nearly as goofy "Japanese" names. Just sharing that cuz it's kinda interesting to me.

# ? Sep 5, 2017 13:22

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

https://twitter.com/levonwei/status/899945958066335744

# ? Sep 5, 2017 13:25

The Great Autismo!: Mar 3, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

GoutPatrol posted:

That looked like a loving high school game

Oscar and Carlos Tevez and all these amazing world class footballers sold out for more money to come and live and play in china...and some are months behind in their pay

It's just so china. It's so, so, so good

# ? Sep 5, 2017 13:28

Geisladisk: Sep 15, 2007

I'm reading the Three Body Problem, a Chinese sci-fi novel. It's really good! The prologue is set during the cultural revolution. I initially assumed that it was a alternate history version, because it was just so loving crazy. I then read the wikipedia page on the CR, and :dogbutton:

. I knew that the CR was kind of insane, but wow. I had no idea.

It's really good. One of the plot points in the beginning is that China builds a particle accelerator, and the lead scientist on the first project it's used for is a young twenty something graduate student - Because none of the famous middle-aged scientists in China sent in applications for their projects, because they were all afraid of losing massive face if they'd get rejected. It also has a abrasive, chain-smoking buzzcut, corrupt cop as one of the supporting characters. Very authentic Chinar.

# ? Sep 5, 2017 13:30

peanut: Sep 9, 2007

This Chris Hart dude from Palo Alto sings cover songs here and he got JP citizenship but hasn't released his Japanese name in public (probably his wife's name + a version of Kurisu)
http://www.shiritai4ne.com/archives/1858

# ? Sep 5, 2017 13:42

Pretty good: Apr 16, 2007

Geisladisk posted:

I'm reading the Three Body Problem, a Chinese sci-fi novel. It's really good! The prologue is set during the cultural revolution. I initially assumed that it was a alternate history version, because it was just so loving crazy. I then read the wikipedia page on the CR, and . I knew that the CR was kind of insane, but wow. I had no idea.

It's really good. One of the plot points in the beginning is that China builds a particle accelerator, and the lead scientist on the first project it's used for is a young twenty something graduate student - Because none of the famous middle-aged scientists in China sent in applications for their projects, because they were all afraid of losing massive face if they'd get rejected. It also has a abrasive, chain-smoking buzzcut, corrupt cop as one of the supporting characters. Very authentic Chinar.

The first book is pretty good, a lot of people think it goes completely off the rails at the end and I see their point but I still liked it. Second and third books are fuckin insane and some of the best sci fi I've read in ages. And yeah Shi Qiang is dope, probably the best character in the whole trilogy.

Shame the film is trapped in development hell. They finished shooting two years ago and there's been no news since it came out that they fired the entire visual effects department last June.

# ? Sep 5, 2017 14:14

Power Khan: Aug 20, 2011; by Fritz the Horse

Sexpat stories, domo aligator.

# ? Sep 5, 2017 15:12

LimburgLimbo: Feb 10, 2008

Grand Fromage posted:

Zainichi Koreans are the big one. Born and raised in Japan, often back multiple generations, but do not have citizenship because of their ethnicity. They can get it but have to jump through various degrading hoops.

Depends on how degrading you consider having to take a Japanese name. It's also, as someone else mentioned, the same thing everyone else has to do. Other than that it's just submitting paperwork and getting it rubber stamped. I suppose you could get rejected if you have willing and close ties to North Korean organizations, but other than that it shouldn't be an issue to change to citizenship.

So it kinda sucks I suppose, but there's not really much/any major systemic oppression of zainichi by the government right now. It's mostly just perpetrated by racist individuals.

# ? Sep 5, 2017 15:39

Fleta Mcgurn: Oct 5, 2003; Porpoise noise continues.

Sexpat stories! I want to gauge if you are someone I knew in Tokyo. He plunged a girl at the Musashi-Koganei Seiyu once.

# ? Sep 5, 2017 17:00

mrbotus: Apr 7, 2009; Patron of the Pants

HAT FETISH posted:

The first book is pretty good, a lot of people think it goes completely off the rails at the end and I see their point but I still liked it. Second and third books are fuckin insane and some of the best sci fi I've read in ages. And yeah Shi Qiang is dope, probably the best character in the whole trilogy.

Shame the film is trapped in development hell. They finished shooting two years ago and there's been no news since it came out that they fired the entire visual effects department last June.

If it's a mainland Chinese production it probably sucks anyway.

The third book should have been two books since the second half is pretty much unrelated to the trisolarans.

# ? Sep 5, 2017 17:07

peanut: Sep 9, 2007

Does anyone know how difficult the Korean govt makes it for Zainichi Koreans living in Japan to renounce Korean citizenship, since Japan doesn't allow dual citizenship? The butthurt must be intense.

All of this could be avoided if Japan would just allow dual citizenship, especially for multi-generation families and kids born here.

# ? Sep 6, 2017 00:03

mrbotus: Apr 7, 2009; Patron of the Pants

Do Zainichi have Korean citizenship? It would suck if Japan basically left these people stateless by default.

Part of me hopes Japan stubbornly sticks to their xenophobic immigration policies just to see what it will be like in 30 years.

# ? Sep 6, 2017 00:20

peanut: Sep 9, 2007

This article from last year says they don't have Japanese citizenship.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/07/national/media-national/japans-resident-koreans-endure-climate-hate/

My impression from that article is that every coin has ~~two~~ three sides and they're all stupid assholes.

peanut fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Sep 6, 2017

# ? Sep 6, 2017 00:36

peanut: Sep 9, 2007

God's CHOSEN People hehehhee

# ? Sep 6, 2017 00:43

ladron: Sep 15, 2007; eso es lo que es

peanut posted:

God's CHOSEN People hehehhee

Oh man, how long have you been sitting on that one?

# ? Sep 6, 2017 01:18

Baronjutter: Dec 31, 2007; "Tiny Trains"

I just remembered a gross personal asia story to fill the void in this thread.

I was in Malaysia because I had hooked up with a chinese girl and she was showing me off to all her friends. She took me to her rich friend's house which actually had a western style toilet. They didn't really use it, but it was a status thing to have one at the time. I always get blocked up when I travel, and I was not ok with the squat toilets, but days of chinese food and this familiar looking bathroom combined for a bowl destroying poo poo. The problem is, the drat thing wouldn't flush, I jammed the thing up. Since they didn't really use this toilet there was no plunger or anything. To make matters worse we HAD to go that second, we were already late when my guts decided it was time. I told my girlfriend and she told her friend who told us she'd take care of it and we need to get moving or we'd miss what ever we were going to. This poor girl had to deal with a massive 4 day western poo poo that had clogged the toilet to that dangerous will it or wont it overflow zone. I felt very embarrassed.

# ? Sep 6, 2017 01:33

Outrail: Jan 4, 2009; www.sapphicrobotica.com

Baronjutter posted:

I just remembered a gross personal asia story to fill the void in this thread.

I'm still not 100% on face culture, but I think you won, she lost?

# ? Sep 6, 2017 01:57

Blast of Confetti: Apr 21, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

he definitely won 6

# ? Sep 6, 2017 01:59

ladron: Sep 15, 2007; eso es lo que es

Baronjutter posted:

I just remembered a gross personal asia story to fill the void in this thread.

I was in Malaysia because I had hooked up with a chinese girl and she was showing me off to all her friends. She took me to her rich friend's house which actually had a western style toilet. They didn't really use it, but it was a status thing to have one at the time. I always get blocked up when I travel, and I was not ok with the squat toilets, but days of chinese food and this familiar looking bathroom combined for a bowl destroying poo poo. The problem is, the drat thing wouldn't flush, I jammed the thing up. Since they didn't really use this toilet there was no plunger or anything. To make matters worse we HAD to go that second, we were already late when my guts decided it was time. I told my girlfriend and she told her friend who told us she'd take care of it and we need to get moving or we'd miss what ever we were going to. This poor girl had to deal with a massive 4 day western poo poo that had clogged the toilet to that dangerous will it or wont it overflow zone. I felt very embarrassed.

was it even connected or was it like a home depot demo toilet?

# ? Sep 6, 2017 02:25

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

Baronjutter posted:

I just remembered a gross personal asia story to fill the void in this thread.

I was in Malaysia because I had hooked up with a chinese girl and she was showing me off to all her friends. She took me to her rich friend's house which actually had a western style toilet. They didn't really use it, but it was a status thing to have one at the time. I always get blocked up when I travel, and I was not ok with the squat toilets, but days of chinese food and this familiar looking bathroom combined for a bowl destroying poo poo. The problem is, the drat thing wouldn't flush, I jammed the thing up. Since they didn't really use this toilet there was no plunger or anything. To make matters worse we HAD to go that second, we were already late when my guts decided it was time. I told my girlfriend and she told her friend who told us she'd take care of it and we need to get moving or we'd miss what ever we were going to. This poor girl had to deal with a massive 4 day western poo poo that had clogged the toilet to that dangerous will it or wont it overflow zone. I felt very embarrassed.

Sounds like a rl version of the famous Dumb and Dumber toilet scene

# ? Sep 6, 2017 02:27

Skrill.exe: Oct 3, 2007; "Bitcoin is a new financial concept entirely without precedent."

Baronjutter posted:

I just remembered a gross personal asia story to fill the void in this thread.

I was in Malaysia because I had hooked up with a chinese girl and she was showing me off to all her friends. She took me to her rich friend's house which actually had a western style toilet. They didn't really use it, but it was a status thing to have one at the time. I always get blocked up when I travel, and I was not ok with the squat toilets, but days of chinese food and this familiar looking bathroom combined for a bowl destroying poo poo. The problem is, the drat thing wouldn't flush, I jammed the thing up. Since they didn't really use this toilet there was no plunger or anything. To make matters worse we HAD to go that second, we were already late when my guts decided it was time. I told my girlfriend and she told her friend who told us she'd take care of it and we need to get moving or we'd miss what ever we were going to. This poor girl had to deal with a massive 4 day western poo poo that had clogged the toilet to that dangerous will it or wont it overflow zone. I felt very embarrassed.

We all know the pain of not having a plunger around anymore...

# ? Sep 6, 2017 03:19

Laopooh: Jul 15, 2000

Long time reader first time poster who is sad to see the plunger walk off into the night (19.6km). I have a Chinar related question. I've been using the domain translationdirect.net since 2009 and got this email the other day:

quote:

(Please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. Thanks)

We are the domain name registration service company in China. On August 28, 2017, we received an application from Jiaxun Ltd requested "translationdirect" as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (translationdirect.cn, translationdirect.com.cn, translationdirect.net.cn, translationdirect.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it's necessary to send email to you and confirm whether your company is affiliated with this Chinese company or not?

Best Regards,

***** *** | Service & Operations Manager

China Registry (Head Office) | 6012, Xingdi Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, Shanghai 201103, China

I replied saying I'm not affiliated with that company and that I would prefer they used a different name. A day later:

quote:

To whom it concerns,

We will register the China domain names "translationdirect.cn" "translationdirect.com.cn" "translationdirect.net.cn" "translationdirect.org.cn" and internet keyword "translationdirect" and have submitted our application. We are waiting for Mr. ***** ***'s approval and think these CN domains and internet keyword are very important for our business. Even though Mr. ***** *** advised us to change another name, we will persist in this name.

Kind regards

****** ***

Any advice as to how to proceed with this? I don't know much about domain name rights on the nerdweb ><;

# ? Sep 6, 2017 04:12

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?

lol there's nothing you can do about it, China doesn't give a gently caress. I saw an ad yesterday showing highlights from an entire fake Olympics in Liaoning.

Unless you can somehow snipe those domains and register them first then try to hold them over a barrel for cash to get them.

# ? Sep 6, 2017 04:16

peanut: Sep 9, 2007

There is absolutely nothing to do but wait and see if they copy your whole homepage layout too.

# ? Sep 6, 2017 04:21

Pretty good: Apr 16, 2007

><;

# ? Sep 6, 2017 04:32

Outrail: Jan 4, 2009; www.sapphicrobotica.com

Laopooh posted:

Long time reader first time poster who is sad to see the plunger walk off into the night (19.6km). I have a Chinar related question. I've been using the domain translationdirect.net since 2009 and got this email the other day:

I replied saying I'm not affiliated with that company and that I would prefer they used a different name. A day later:

Any advice as to how to proceed with this? I don't know much about domain name rights on the nerdweb ><;

Quick, change your website to link your images to Imgur, when they inevitably steal the entire source code switch the photos one by one. The goatman cometh.

# ? Sep 6, 2017 04:36

Meme Poker Party: Sep 1, 2006; by Azathoth

Outrail posted:

Quick, change your website to link your images to Imgur, when they inevitably steal the entire source code switch the photos one by one. The goatman cometh.

# ? Sep 6, 2017 04:50

Laopooh: Jul 15, 2000

I checked the .cn domains they intended to register and they are still unclaimed. That made me suspicious so I googled 'chinaregistry.org.cn'. Looks like it was a scam.

http://www.theyucatantimes.com/2015/07/beware-of-chinese-domain-scams/

http://squelchdesign.com/featured/chinese-domain-name-registration-scams/

I was looking forward to giving them the goatman redeye so I'm a bit disappointed actually.

# ? Sep 6, 2017 05:07

peanut: Sep 9, 2007

Maybe they expected you to say Wait I'll pay you double to register them for me instead!! and nothing would happen

# ? Sep 6, 2017 10:36

Fleta Mcgurn: Oct 5, 2003; Porpoise noise continues.

Start forwarding them the "Dear Contracts" emails from the Confused Indian Men thread and see what happens.

# ? Sep 6, 2017 10:43

Collateral Damage: Jun 13, 2009

Laopooh posted:

I checked the .cn domains they intended to register and they are still unclaimed. That made me suspicious so I googled 'chinaregistry.org.cn'. Looks like it was a scam.

It's a marketing ploy, and in no way unique to china. Basically they look up small/medium sized companies that have registered their name under some top level domains and email them saying "hey a competitor is trying to register your name under these other top level domains" and hope that you'll buy them from them first.

It's was a pretty common marketing tactic in the early 2000s when people didn't really understand how domain names worked and you could scare small/medium business owners by saying "if you don't buy it bad guys will buy it and set up a porn site in your company's name!" Nowadays having your name under every TLD is less important than having good search engine results. And even if someone else does register your domain, domain registries have better intellectual property protections so under most TLDs you can file to get control of the domain as long as you can prove you owned the trademark before the other party registered it. But of course china gives no fucks about IP law and the .cn registrar is laughably corrupt so the scam lives on there.

Of course if you don't have any customers in china you probably don't care about having a .cn domain name anyway.

# ? Sep 6, 2017 13:11

Kharnifex: Sep 11, 2001; The Banter is better in AusGBS

I got an odd voice mail on my landline answering machine in Mandarin saying, hello, this is your last chance to register and the last time you will receive this message.

I wonder if it's the Chinese doctor in Australia doing a campaign to get people to register to vote against gay marriage, or some kind of spam thing encouraging you to call back. Odd thing is it just shut off, no return number.

That or the CCP is tracking me down for annoying people on WeChat.

# ? Sep 6, 2017 14:47

Blast of Confetti: Apr 21, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Kharnifex posted:

I got an odd voice mail on my landline answering machine in Mandarin saying, hello, this is your last chance to register and the last time you will receive this message.

I wonder if it's the Chinese doctor in Australia doing a campaign to get people to register to vote against gay marriage, or some kind of spam thing encouraging you to call back. Odd thing is it just shut off, no return number.

That or the CCP is tracking me down for annoying people on WeChat.

maybe youre some kind of badass sleeper agent and youre about to be activated

have fun destroying the red chinese menace!

# ? Sep 6, 2017 14:50

vanity slug: Jul 20, 2010

Collateral Damage posted:

It's a marketing ploy, and in no way unique to china. Basically they look up small/medium sized companies that have registered their name under some top level domains and email them saying "hey a competitor is trying to register your name under these other top level domains" and hope that you'll buy them from them first.

It's was a pretty common marketing tactic in the early 2000s when people didn't really understand how domain names worked and you could scare small/medium business owners by saying "if you don't buy it bad guys will buy it and set up a porn site in your company's name!" Nowadays having your name under every TLD is less important than having good search engine results. And even if someone else does register your domain, domain registries have better intellectual property protections so under most TLDs you can file to get control of the domain as long as you can prove you owned the trademark before the other party registered it. But of course china gives no fucks about IP law and the .cn registrar is laughably corrupt so the scam lives on there.

Of course if you don't have any customers in china you probably don't care about having a .cn domain name anyway.

first they'll register the .cn domain name and then they'll say that because you are doing business in china you also need an icp license, and the scam goes on and on until you're either broke or become faceplunger88

# ? Sep 6, 2017 14:58

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?

Jeoh posted:

an icp license

loving domain names, how do they work?

# ? Sep 6, 2017 15:01

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# ? Jun 5, 2024 05:02

mrbotus: Apr 7, 2009; Patron of the Pants

So I saw a movie called 贪狼 or Paradox today. It was set in Thailand but had six different Chinese production companies and two of the stars were Chinese. It was never explained why they lived in Thailand. As it got closer to the end it made less and less sense. But the action scenes were pretty good I suppose. lovely ending though.

# ? Sep 6, 2017 16:32

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