Fleta Mcgurn posted:

Aw, c'mon, cockroaches and rats are totally wildlife.

Collateral Damage posted:

I assume that in China, all the wildlife has already been killed and ground up into TCM dick pills.

VideoTapir posted:

So, baby got some new toys today.

VideoTapir posted:

So, baby got some new toys today.

Bajaj posted:

I have to get used to Bajaj as a username, but it's yet another multi-faceted conglomerate brand like Haier.

Darkest Auer posted:

YLE shows only one episode a week so we're probably a little behind here in Finland, but does the "Pups Weed Out the Jewish Filth" episode come after "Pups Learn the Core Socialist Values and Are Blessed By Uncle Xi the Eternal Pillar of the People's Communist Party" or before it?

McGavin posted:

Missed opportunity to be rebranded as Tata.

JaucheCharly posted:

Want to get rid of a wasp nest? Get out the flamethrower.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Bo2ro60ro

Surprisingly nobody got burned, or maybe they edited it out. The proper way of dealing with that yellow black scum.

Bajaj posted:

My friend got me at the station and took me straight to a dosa shop and we ate big plates of dosa and uttapam, washed down with cold Limca sodas. A perfect welcome back to Hindustan.

angel opportunity posted:

this is pretty funny: http://chinadailyshow.com/opinion-let-me-give-you-my-invaluable-insight-from-spending-a-whole-week-in-china/

big time bisexual posted:

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

big time bisexual posted:

when you're so engrossed in your phone that you don't notice your friend being hit by a car

(mp4 linked because it's graphic)

angel opportunity posted:

this is pretty funny: http://chinadailyshow.com/opinion-let-me-give-you-my-invaluable-insight-from-spending-a-whole-week-in-china/

angel opportunity posted:

this is pretty funny: http://chinadailyshow.com/opinion-let-me-give-you-my-invaluable-insight-from-spending-a-whole-week-in-china/

Accretionist posted:

Steakandchips posted:

Bajaj, what are the foods you have most been looking forward to in India?

Pham Nuwen posted:

if he's eating random panipuri, Haier's stomach problems will at last have a legitimate basis instead of just stomach breathing/no why.

McGavin posted:

Missed opportunity to be rebranded as Tata.

barbecue at the folks posted:

I was actually surprised how glad I felt when I checked this thread after a while and saw that you're finally out of China and feeling fine, Mr. Plunger. I've been lurking these threads and following your exploits in Chinar for so long that to see them end with you making it out alive and safe and sound is a real treat, good for you! Welcome back to (relative, I guess) sanity.

I would be super interested to hear about your regular goings-on in a proper India thread, but God knows we can't have such a thing without goons turning it into an instant racist shitshow.

kimcicle posted:

Sub out the Limca for a Thums Up, and that's usually what I end up doing when I go to India.

Devils Affricate posted:

I'm actually looking forward to reading about CG's inevitable culture shock meltdown(s) in India. I'm surprised she wanted to go so much in the first place. I thought Chinese generally look down on India as a lesser nation not worth visiting.

@Bajaj are you concerned she's going to be harassed by desperate, frustrated virgins when she's there? Or maybe you'll be jealously harassed for being the only single guy in a 50 mile radius who has a plunge buddy?

In some China related news, we had one of our Brazilian office guys visiting here this week and we took him to dim sum. He absolutely loved it. I was kind of surprised, given that all of it was new to him, but it's a pretty good dim sum place. Full of Chinese olds yelling at each other in Canto, so you know it's authentic. I saw a guy walking around with his hands behind his back and then he started doing that dismissive hand wave thing at his wife, made me think of this thread.

Bajaj posted:

Idli, dosa, vada, vadapav, Indian chowmein, and fist-sized gulab jamuns. South Indian food is my favorite but some of the modern adaptations, like vadapav and Frankies, draw me without fail.

Bajaj posted:

My friend's restaurant will give me a stack of about 10 rotis and then I can choose the old people food or the spicy regular stuff.

Bajaj posted:

My friend's restaurant will give me a stack of about 10 rotis

Steakandchips posted:

When my mother used to make them, round ones were savoury and square ones were sugared.

Bajaj posted:

Cool India stuff

Bajaj posted:

I was cruising around on my bike and posted some photos on Wechat, and got a bunch of angry comments about how I always refused to ride a bike in Shenzhen, but will do it in India. I told them that I can't trust Chinese walkers, bikers, or drivers, and I will take my chances with the cows and dogs in the streets here. It's much less chaos than it looks once you're out in it, and I find it easier to handle than the zig-zagging and veering of China. People here don't force themselves to always pass in the front and claim the king's right of way, either.
After seeing those videos and reading the news stories about people getting rammed by bulls while riding and then dying from exploded lungs and crushed upper torsos, I am honestly terrified of the cattle in the roads now and I keep thinking any one of them is going to end me.

I joined a gym. Very modern, all imported machines, clean, has lockers, a filtered water machine, and music not deafening. It's about 1km from me by road. The owner was sitting there with his "friend" (definitely his FWB or secret girlfriend), and went over the rates after giving me a tour of the sausage fest that was his gym. I felt sorry for the one single girl trying to use the body weight fitness machines as a gaggle of scrawny guys in knock-off Chucks did bicep curls.
He pointed out the prices to me and then said I would be the only non-Indian in the gym, so he will give me special rates. He slashed prices by about a third. I now pay $8.50 USD per month to get back into the shape I want. Since I will stay longer than 6 months, I bought a year's membership and paid in cash on the spot. I think they were both shocked when they saw how stuffed my wallet was. I have have like $300 USD in rupees in my wallet, but that's about 3-4 months of wages for some people here.
There are no sidewalks in about 80% of this city, so walking as a pastime is no longer feasible for me. The bike and the gym will replace my long wanderings for exercise.

My best friend here has been working 60-hour weeks at his bank job, and took up another job for Sundays because his mom got super sick and they worked up a 300k rupee hospital bill with blood transfusions and more. He's been going non-stop for months now and all his other friends are too busy or got/getting married and have no time for him. He actually jumped and did a little kick when I showed up at his house unannounced, and he ran back into his house screaming to his family that I had returned. It made me sad to see how trashed the guy was. He probably hasn't met any friends in ages, and has had no time to himself when at home because of his mother. I told him the moment he gets a free evening, I am taking him out to eat whatever the hell he wants, and as much as he wants. He got really excited at the idea of a night away from home.

LMAO. That's all it is. A chip filled with water and mashed potatoes. I don't understand how someone came up with it, but they are drat good.

Idli, dosa, vada, vadapav, Indian chowmein, and fist-sized gulab jamuns. South Indian food is my favorite but some of the modern adaptations, like vadapav and Frankies, draw me without fail.

Not random. My friend owns a restaurant and snack shop on two floors. I get free meals whenever I want, even if I go twice a day. I am making a list of stuff in the Zomato Indian restaurant app of where I want to go eat here, since there are so many new restaurants. Oddly, the top of my list is the Mexican place about 4km from me. This city has the cheap but clean street food, like 20 rupees (30 cents USD) for a big meal, and then tons of these upscale places where a coffee costs 300 ($4.50 USD) and entrees are 400 and up.

Indian street and restaurant food doesn't screw me over like Chinese food. In China I was having either diarrhea or week-long constipation (followed by diarrhea). I never get anything extreme like that here, and my stomach adapted to these foods years and years ago. My friend's restaurant will give me a stack of about 10 rotis and then I can choose the old people food or the spicy regular stuff. I've never had any issue eating outside at the little wheeled-cart food guys with badly-worded signs.

I was going to use Tata, but saying "Bajaj" in a thick accent makes me LOL.

Tips bobs at you. Let's see how it goes here. India posting in the China thread is just payback for the land China stole.

I enjoy a Thums, but the soda shops own so much. 5-10 rupees for a glass of your choice of flavors from up to 30 different crazy rear end Indian-flavored sodas. They are everywhere in the city I live, and if I never hanker for a good Fruit Beer or Cherry Whiskey flavored soda, they are the guys to go to. Some guys have Rose or Jasmine flavors, as well as the option to add fresh squeezed lemon juice to anything, or a handful of salty masala (blech). I became addicted last time I lived here and I absolutely had to stop every night for a Fruit Beer.

Before I left SZ, I was regularly seeing a bunch of Brazilians wandering around my neighborhood. I didn't even have to wait to hear them speak to know they were Brazilskis, because the flip-flops, baggy jorts, sideways hats, tattoos, silver chains, drawstring backpack things, and super long tank-tops gave them away from a distance.

CG will hate it. We aren't meeting in my city, which is a nice place and safe for all (especially since Gujarat is a prohibition state, and drunk Indians on motorbikes are like the personification of a bad time for any women outside). She's going with some other Chinese to some other places, and I will meet her along the way. We'll have about a 4 days together, I think. She was complaining about all these places in China that look as dumpy as small towns in India, and she's never been abroad before, so her trip is probably going to be lousy to her brain. She vomits from any smell that is the slightest bit pungent, and she can't handle anything spicy at all. She, like most Chinese, immediately buys into the stereotype about super calculated roving rape squads hiding in every alley and crevice, crawling out of the light fixtures or hiding inside the toilet bowls. I sent a photo from a sports complex where I was playing with friends, and there were some couples in the background.



I'll give updates on that when the time comes in a few weeks.

I also want to add my phone hot spot name that all my neighbors can see when I am home:

beep-beep car is go posted:

The funny thing is, your China posts made me want to avoid China, and your India posts make we want to go to India. Back in the late 90s in the first Dotcom boom, the startup I was working for hired a few programmers out of Hyderabad and my boss was like "want to go to India and help them get settled for a few weeks?" I was still new in the job and only like 20 and I freaked out about international travel and said no. It was entirely stupid of me, I should have gone!

How is only knowing English in India vs only knowing English in China? Any language difficulties?