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nickmeister posted: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. Sounds like a typical night out in Thailand
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Start forwarding them the "Dear Contracts" emails from the Confused Indian Men thread and see what happens.
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# ? Sep 6, 2017 17:06 |
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Wait is there really a whole thread??? Need that in my life, link please enjoy, forums user Punkin Spunkin https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3811789
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# ? Sep 6, 2017 17:13 |
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Cool dog working in china https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzzQlZZpBX4 Also I got chinared. We were remodeling a rental house, I bought some title that looks like wood planks. I went to the store with a plan to make it look like this I did this for my kitchen and I think it works very well But sadly the tile story didnt have that anymore soo sad So being in a hurry I picked out some stuff that looked good, but also ignored what my install taught me to look for. When loading up my truck I looked at the boxes and saw this Tell me china goons what should I ve expected, and done when faced with the writing on the tile box?
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# ? Sep 6, 2017 18:48 |
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Ups_rail posted:
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# ? Sep 6, 2017 18:51 |
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Ups_rail posted:Cool dog working in china Any time I see a dog doing something cute in China I just assume that it's been beaten to hell and back to train whatever cute thing it's doing.
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Baronjutter posted:I just remembered a gross personal asia story to fill the void in this thread. A friend once threw a birthday party on the countryside in his mom's place. They had problems with one of the toilets and put the thing into a small storage space near the door. A few hours into the wine orgy, a dude came up to the host and grudgingly confessed that he shat there. There was even water in the tank left, so he was able to flush it and the whole floor there swam with shitwater. A few hours later, a hungarian dude went berserk and smashed some of the garden furniture with an axe. He threw it away when he was done, almost killing a dude who slept near the bushes. From then on, he was known as "the axethrower". Somehow nobody got seriously hurt and no police was called.
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Ups_rail posted:Tell me china goons what should I ve expected, and done when faced with the writing on the tile box? You're a molon for buying asbestos tiles
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# ? Sep 6, 2017 20:25 |
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Psst the installer complained that the tiles werent even, and combined with a slab thats out of square and uneven made it made the instal job harder. The install spoke to the dude at the independent shop where i bought the tile and pointed out the issue and the sales dude said that "yeah see the owner went to china to the factor and they showed him samples of the tile, and the samples they showed him were good, but the stuff that arrived..." well you guys get the idea.
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# ? Sep 6, 2017 20:42 |
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so I'm reading The Great Zoo of China and it's pretty terrible but also enjoyable if you like making fun of China In the first hundred pages alone you have - 5,000 years of Chinese history - numerous references to how china doesn't innovate and steals designs from other people - little Chinese girl who sees white people and wants to practice English - complete and utter lack of forethought by the Chinese in the book It's poorly written but it's a mindless joyride of dragons destroying something Chinese people made, so if you're looking for a quick read and you like this thread and miss Haier crapping on china, give this book a whirl
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# ? Sep 6, 2017 20:44 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWX7fhzdnks
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# ? Sep 6, 2017 22:50 |
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Come And Take It I want you to know I get this and appreciate it Darkest Auer posted:You're a molon for buying asbestos tiles but this is also quite good
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# ? Sep 7, 2017 02:09 |
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It's probably fake asbestos anyway.
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# ? Sep 7, 2017 02:24 |
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This is the country where I got fake pyrite, so.
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# ? Sep 7, 2017 02:30 |
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Grand Fromage posted:This is the country where I got fake pyrite, so. I know it wont be, but part of me hopes they sent you real gold instead.
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Barudak posted:I know it wont be, but part of me hopes they sent you real gold instead. Sadly, no. I have no idea what metal it is.
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nickmeister posted: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.
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Grand Fromage posted:Sadly, no. I have no idea what metal it is. I'm going to assume they're spray painted rock chips so.....Lead. They sent you mercury tainted lead.
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Grand Fromage posted:Sadly, no. I have no idea what metal it is. cancer.
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Grand Fromage posted:Sadly, no. I have no idea what metal it is. Wouldn't hold it in the bare hand or have it anywhere near you if I were you.
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# ? Sep 7, 2017 06:22 |
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6/10 only a partial ring.
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# ? Sep 7, 2017 06:24 |
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JaucheCharly posted:Wouldn't hold it in the bare hand or have it anywhere near you if I were you. My guess is aluminum. They're pretty light. I got them for mineral testing in geology class so them being fake is bad but I spun it into a lesson about reliability and trusting the data.
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# ? Sep 7, 2017 06:24 |
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Come And Take It ladron posted:I want you to know I get this and appreciate it
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# ? Sep 7, 2017 07:00 |
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-41104634 👀
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# ? Sep 7, 2017 07:37 |
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Kinda says more about the BBC than anything else.
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# ? Sep 7, 2017 07:42 |
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quote:Wrapped in Plastic, China's Farmland Is Suffering: QuickTake Q&A https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-06/wrapped-in-plastic-china-s-farmland-is-suffering-quicktake-q-a
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Also Blistex posted this like a year ago but I never understood the chemistry of it all, what is the nitrogen doing to the soil?quote:Another problem is that you have these 农民 who are being sold fertilizers that they have never used before (your run of the mill nitrogen/urea solid granular stuff). So they are told to set their spreaders to one of the lighter settings to get a 500p/m coverage. Their yeild of corn comes in, they have had plenty of rain, lots of sun and heat, and it's a bumper crop and they make 25% more this year than previous years. Well the next year they set it up to 700p/m and it's just amazing conditions with the perfect blend of sun/rain and lots of heat. The corn yield increases by 15% from last year, and the farmer decides to buy an apartment in a nearby city as an investment property. The next year conditions are not great, the rain came too early, it was an overly wet spring, and seeding was delayed nearly a month. The farmer plants his corn, and this time he ups the coverage to 1000p/m. His reasoning is that the extra fertilizer will counteract the late planting, and he will still have a bumper crop. The growing season wasn't nearly as hot and wet as the previous years, and the 农民's crops come in, and they are about the same as his pre-fertilizer yields. He figures the fertilizer saved him from disaster. The next year he sticks with 1000p/m and has a decent yield. This is two times he has used this setting on his spreader, and both times the corn grew. 1000p/m is his new default, and if he figures it is going to be an ideal summer, he pushes the coverage even higher. After another 2-3 years he is seeing a steady decline in his yield. He never considers soil testing, as he thinks he is getting poor seeds, so he orders them from somewhere else and ups the coverage more than he has before. His corn comes in looking like it was sprayed with weed killer, and decent stalks are scattered throughout the field (areas where there was better drainage or where soil saturation of fertilizer wasn't as bad. For some reason the insects are just demolishing what looked like healthy stalks, and even if they only nibble on a leaf or two, the corn stalks seem to drop their cobs for no reason. The year after that pretty much nothing grows, but he notices that weeds and plants around the perimeter of his field are massive, and his neighbour's field just below his is starting to show increased growth in areas closer to his field. When looking around some of the low areas of his field, he notices a white crusty substance in areas that were once puddles. "It looks like . . . that spot where I spilled some fertilizer and it killed the grass. . . OH poo poo!"
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# ? Sep 7, 2017 08:07 |
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The Taiwanese staff gave the foreigners a geography quiz today (blank map of the island, label the cities/counties). I got bonus points for drawing arrows in the corners to label the Diaoyu Islands and Taiwan's tiny little airstrip-island in the SCS.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Also Blistex posted this like a year ago but I never understood the chemistry of it all, what is the nitrogen doing to the soil?
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# ? Sep 7, 2017 08:48 |
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Hahaha hahaha holy gently caress
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# ? Sep 7, 2017 08:51 |
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I'm the confused policeman.
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Grand Fromage posted:My guess is aluminum. They're pretty light. I got them for mineral testing in geology class so them being fake is bad but I spun it into a lesson about reliability and trusting the data. So you got the aluminum. Remember when we tried to get aluminum foil for that one experiment and they gave us foil that was labeled as aluminum, but was actually a mystery? Pirate Radar posted:The Taiwanese staff gave the foreigners a geography quiz today (blank map of the island, label the cities/counties). I got bonus points for drawing arrows in the corners to label the Diaoyu Islands and Taiwan's tiny little airstrip-island in the SCS. hahahaaha
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Collateral Damage posted:I'm the confused policeman. Isn't that just a security guard, not police?
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Pirate Radar posted:The Taiwanese staff gave the foreigners a geography quiz today (blank map of the island, label the cities/counties). I got bonus points for drawing arrows in the corners to label the Diaoyu Islands and Taiwan's tiny little airstrip-island in the SCS. You mean the Senkaku Islands?
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# ? Sep 7, 2017 15:25 |
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"Dokdo is Japan" is like the only Korean I try to remember.
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# ? Sep 7, 2017 15:33 |
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Atlas Hugged posted:"Dokdo is Japan" is like the only Korean I try to remember. lemme know if you ever need a refresher on that
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Atlas Hugged posted:"Dokdo is Japan" is like the only Korean I try to remember. Just call it takeshima and it gets the point across
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Atlas Hugged posted:"Dokdo is Japan" is like the only Korean I try to remember. I'll never forget the time I was watching a Korean light entertainment programme about girls from the city living in a small fishing village and they spent an entire 90 episode where the girls sat and watched a man from the government tell them about how Dokdo was always Korean, complete with lovely tripod presentation stand. 90 minutes of national butthurt
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