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Mr Teatime: Apr 7, 2009

My vision of 100% american cuisine is still faded 50s recipe books where everything is jammed into aspic.

# ? Sep 15, 2017 18:27

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 15:14

oohhboy: Jun 8, 2013; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

China doing something right?!?!?? Government is clamping down on Buttcoins which has resulted in one exchange announcing the stop of trading by the end of the month.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41276348

quote:

One of China's biggest Bitcoin exchanges has said it will stop trading, after a government warning over virtual currencies.

BTCC said it would stop buying and selling on 30 September in response to tightening regulation.

It comes after authorities banned initial coin offerings on 5 September.

The country has seen an explosion of digital currency trading, sparking fears about the financial risks and speculative investing.

The price of Bitcoin tumbled sharply following the BTCC announcement late on Thursday but has since regained some ground.
Cracking down

Chinese authorities expressed concern over the investment risks involved in crypto-currencies and ordered a ban on initial coin offerings, or ICOs, earlier this month.

A growing number of tech companies are opting to sell digital "tokens" to raise funds because they are quick, easy and unregulated.

The coins and "ICO" are such a naked scam even saving Face isn't cutting it. The CCP no doubt also wants to control and suppress this channel of capital flight and the money that isn't going into the stock market.

The governments that are validating the coins are idiots as they are foregoing their monetary controls therefore an element to their sovereignty to what is effectively junk bonds.

# ? Sep 15, 2017 18:55

mojo1701a: Oct 9, 2008; Oh, yeah. Loud and clear. Emphasis on LOUD!
~ David Lee Roth

Mr Teatime posted:

My vision of 100% american cuisine is still faded 50s recipe books where everything is jammed into aspic.

All to show off that you own a refrigerator.

# ? Sep 15, 2017 18:55

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?

Yeah the buttcoin crackdown is just because people have been using it to evade the rules about sending money out of the country. Since the CCP is incapable of making a country where anyone wants to live, they instead have to create laws and regulations to force people to stay instead of fleeing with all their cash to Canada.

# ? Sep 15, 2017 19:02

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Nice!

It's my understanding that bitcoins are only valuable thanks to legally questionable activity

# ? Sep 15, 2017 19:10

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?

They're like 90% Chinese now so this is going to crash the whole system I presume.

# ? Sep 15, 2017 19:13

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Btw, those Subway India ads were really showing off the bread.

Are American style sub rolls a big part of the draw?

# ? Sep 15, 2017 19:41

Fasdar: Sep 1, 2001; Everybody loves dancing!

Jeoh posted:

Like what?

Ex-wife's mom would cook fish they'd kept in the freezer for a few years "just in case" by baking it in the oven in about a half inch of water for "steaming." This resulted in a sort of mealy, freezer burn soup type dish.

This method was also applied to chicken, to similar results.

# ? Sep 15, 2017 20:48

Jim Barris: Aug 13, 2009

Fasdar posted:

Ex-wife's mom would cook fish they'd kept in the freezer for a few years "just in case" by baking it in the oven in about a half inch of water for "steaming." This resulted in a sort of mealy, freezer burn soup type dish.

This method was also applied to chicken, to similar results.

omfg. Your ex mother-in-law is a sick person and must be stopped before she commits theses atrocities again.

# ? Sep 15, 2017 20:58

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

That's insane. I've been eating a lot of frozen tilapia lately and, ugh

Thaw straight from frozen to room temp. Use warm water

Pat dry, cook in skillet w/olive oil.

Comes out perfect every time. Like, zero effort.

# ? Sep 15, 2017 21:29

champagne posting: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

Grand Fromage posted:

They're like 90% Chinese now so this is going to crash the whole system I presume.

I imagine it's going to happen the moment one person stands to make a dime, or possibly penny.

# ? Sep 15, 2017 21:34

madeintaipei: Jul 13, 2012

Accretionist posted:

That's insane. I've been eating a lot of frozen tilapia lately and, ugh

Thaw straight from frozen to room temp. Use warm water

Pat dry, cook in skillet w/olive oil.

Comes out perfect every time. Like, zero effort.

I worked for a Taiwanese family at a restaurant when I was younger. The mother of the family delighted in telling me they called tilapia, "the chicken-poo poo fish". Way to sell the menu there.

# ? Sep 15, 2017 21:37

vanity slug: Jul 20, 2010

Tilapia is the most boring fish

# ? Sep 15, 2017 21:47

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Which is perfect. You have a very light, meaty flavor that doesn't get in the way of anything

# ? Sep 15, 2017 22:36

Coolguye: Jul 6, 2011; Required by his programming!

Grand Fromage posted:

They're like 90% Chinese now so this is going to crash the whole system I presume.

nah the strict majority of buttcoin whales are western, actually. this is one of the reasons why the CCP has hated buttcoin since like 2010 when their attempts to brute force their way to 51% of the mining bandwidth failed. it was loving funny as poo poo at the time, the same dumb "let's throw tons of resources and money at the problem but never follow through" thing that they've done for solar power to AI to space research to whatever else, crashed and burned like every other dumb thing the CCP does. for every country that doesn't manipulate their own currency and live in mortal fear of a financial kerfuffle starting a blood-soaked civil war cryptocurrencies pose no threat and are just another foreign currency to be handled like all other foreign currencies until they do something that makes them something more than a plain jane asset (like certain ICOs have done by offering things like voting rights). but even then, real countries can just say "okay, they're a security now and you have to comply with the law surrounding that" like the SEC did a few months ago. for real countries with real monetary policy cryptocurrencies are straight out not a big deal. fiat currencies are never going away, crypto is just slowly moving into a parallel market where it'll do a bunch of stuff that fiat currencies aren't good at (like triple-entry bookkeeping for large purchases, automatic contract execution for large, trusted systems, or administration of too-large jobs like DNS storage, etc - a lot of problems don't scale to the global stage real well just because the money behind them was never meant to be global).

this entire thing is hysterical if you're one of the few people who knows china's history of dumb poo poo and also familiar with the particulars of the crypto market. i was shooting pool with a couple BTC whales i know a few days after the news broke and the guy with the most BTC in the room was laughing so hard about it that he scratched the cue ball twice.

Coolguye fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Sep 15, 2017

# ? Sep 15, 2017 23:51

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jttHoJ7ikDo

as always, the comments are :eyepop:

# ? Sep 16, 2017 00:03

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Face Culture Quiz Time:

If this had actually happened, how should the last two paragraphs have unfolded?

# ? Sep 16, 2017 04:31

angel opportunity: Sep 7, 2004; Total Eclipse of the Heart

In real life she would have not realized what happened, even if OP had responded in perfect Chinese they still wouldn't have even noticed or made any connections about them having trashtalked her etc.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 04:46

Bajaj: Sep 13, 2017; by FactsAreUseless

I went to the gym last night. I was sweating so hard and felt like I was going to die. It wasn't just because I haven't used weight machines in over a year (before going to China). The ACs on the wall said they were set to 17C/62F, but it was a lie. There was a clock on the wall with a thermometer in fahrenheit and it said the room was 88F/31C. I suppose they had set it to F so the gym-goers couldn't read it and know the reality.
The trainer man barely spoke any English. I asked if I had to clean the machines after using them and he said "Clean, okay." I asked where the spray bottle of cleaner is, and he said "No, no clean." I asked how to clean the machines. "Clean if you want." I asked in simple English and hand signs and noises if there was a "chh chh" spray bottle and towel. He said "Clean no, no clean, no worry." Mid-lifting, he stood next to me and said "Do you know New Jersey City?" I said yes. He said "My uncle... he in New Jersey City." I asked if he had business there, and he said yes. I asked what business. "He sell food. Chinese noodles."

I am sore as hell and going out later to buy some Frankies and "Bombay" sandwiches. Using the Zomato app (anyone going to India absolutely needs this food app, it's the best), the menu of the place I am going has a family meal combo special that looks about the proper amount of food for me. It's Saturday, which means the place might be jammed with people, but if no one is staring at me then I will take a photo.

Blistex posted:

Face Culture Quiz Time:

If this had actually happened, how should the last two paragraphs have unfolded?

But the comments by the wife are so real and common that I could believe it. They are so petty and whiney that this could be any Mainlander saying these things.

It would mean the husband is sick of his idiot wife and wanted to help her in her face loss, causing him to gain face for scolding along with the cashier.

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

It's British, unsurprisingly.

It's one of those holiday foods people seem to love to hate, like fruitcake. It's not my favourite, but it's not horrible. Kind of bland and a bit gooey.

I thought you were from Hawaii? What kind of word traitorism is this?

Steakandchips posted:

You repeated her question in Gujarati or English?

Does she not speak English, if she does, why didn't she ask you directly?

Why would him asking you in English embarrass her?

She said it in Gujarati, my friend translated, and then I repeated what he said back to her as if I was asking her. She speaks English very well. She's a local girl and felt too shy to be asking me questions directly, and wanted to ask about me rather than ask me myself. He embarrassed her by telling me what she said, since she only used their language because I can't understand it and it would have kept her questions private.

I'm still un-China-ing my social skills (I now say please and thank you, and I stopped cutting in front of people or shoving just for the hell of it), but it will take me a little while to adjust back to "I need a chaperone to have a conversation with a girl here" in many social circles. If this were China, I'd already be asking if she wants to watch a scary movie at my house.

Gromit posted:

I wanted to see some Google Street View from India but lo and behold they have banned it citing privacy issues. So then I find a bunch of 360 degree photos on http://street360.net/india which has loads of weirdly-chosen photos taken in random locations. I've only looked at a handful but have seen some filthy shops that would look great if someone could be bothered giving them the most basic lick of paint. And lots of cows.

India has been working on their own map for a while now that is supposed to keep up with the ever-changing urban hellscapes and roads being put in everywhere. This is one reason why they are not letting Google do the usual stuff for their apps here. I don't think they will ever finish it, and if it they do it will probably be fill with bugs, but it's touted as set to beat Google for domestic mappery. I am sure it's just another scam.
I can't get that map site to work. Sad.

Ceciltron posted:

It is actually a well documented fact that WWII rationing improved the state of health in britain and the average wartime diet actually was better health wise than the prewar one. The Brits are just returning to form.

I thought a lot of that was just because of the insane sugar consumption?

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McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

Bajaj posted:

I thought you were from Hawaii? What kind of word traitorism is this?

The Hawaiian flag:

# ? Sep 16, 2017 06:20

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

I'm from New York! :confused:

Where did Hawaii come from? Do I have to show my birth certificate now?

I sometimes flip my US/non-US spellings because my tertiary education was entirely in Canada and the UK. Also my phone is set to UK English because :effort:

# ? Sep 16, 2017 06:56

Bajaj: Sep 13, 2017; by FactsAreUseless

I un-privated my Instagram since I am out of China and don't have to worry about being harassed by bag sellers and Taobao businesses. A day later (today), I got a random angry message by an ABC because he saw a post I made making fun of Mainlanders. I stopped location tagging ages ago because my friends all knew where I was, and somehow this nerd still found me and wanted to say I couldn't talk bad about China because now I am in India. I called him some names and I guess it's back to a private account. loving wumaos find ways to ruin anything.

McGavin posted:

The Hawaiian flag:

Come on, it's been owned and controlled by the US since the 1800s.

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

I'm from New York! Where did Hawaii come from? Do I have to show my birth certificate now?

I sometimes flip my US/non-US spellings because my tertiary education was entirely in Canada and the UK. Also my phone is set to UK English because .

Ok, I am confusing you with some other girl poster that said she was from Hawaii.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 09:04

Brutal Garcon: Nov 2, 2014

Ceciltron posted:

It is actually a well documented fact that WWII rationing improved the state of health in britain and the average wartime diet actually was better health wise than the prewar one. The Brits are just returning to form.

Healthier, but probably not "better".

English food culture's problem was that the country industrialised really early; dinner was what you could cook on with your tiny coal-fired oven in the hovel you were sharing with 3 other families... in a time and place where most spices were well outside the price range of a normal person. (Rich people still ate well, if boringly by our standards, but that's not what most people are working from)

The world wars (and the rationing afterwards) meant that Britain didn't start getting over this until the 1960s.

(From taliking to my dad, who's about 65: the problem was never that good food was completely unavailable; it's more that people didn't really have any standards. Even now, in urbanised areas that are far from both the major cities and any immigration, this is still unfortunately the case...)

# ? Sep 16, 2017 09:11

Pirate Radar: Apr 18, 2008; You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

One thing I like about Taipei is that various waves of immigration and a big international population mean there's all kinds of food here. Your basic everyday Taiwanese diet might be fairly same-y but not bad: rice, pickled veggies, chicken drumstick or pork chop. But there's a huge range of restaurants in the city because of somebody's grandparents from whatever province showing up on the boats in 1949 and bringing recipes with them. And maybe because of diplomacy or all the Latin American students, I've started finding great South American food. Maybe it's not strictly authentic to be buying a Cuban sandwich from a Salvadoran dude, but it's still a good loving sandwich.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 10:46

GoutPatrol: Oct 17, 2009; *Stupid Babby*

When I get back home I'll post my lunch from the Onam Festival last week. Lots of good stuff eaten with your hands served on a banana leaf.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 11:09

vanity slug: Jul 20, 2010

Pirate Radar posted:

One thing I like about Taipei is that various waves of immigration and a big international population mean there's all kinds of food here. Your basic everyday Taiwanese diet might be fairly same-y but not bad: rice, pickled veggies, chicken drumstick or pork chop. But there's a huge range of restaurants in the city because of somebody's grandparents from whatever province showing up on the boats in 1949 and bringing recipes with them. And maybe because of diplomacy or all the Latin American students, I've started finding great South American food. Maybe it's not strictly authentic to be buying a Cuban sandwich from a Salvadoran dude, but it's still a good loving sandwich.

Tell me about the location of these Cuban sandwiches.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 11:26

Pirate Radar: Apr 18, 2008; You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

There's been a Cuban sandwich cart at Shilin night market recently, at the corner of the market by Jiantan MRT across the street from the big Death Star performance center they're still working on. There's also a Latin food place that has them down in Yonghe that's pretty good, but I don't remember the address, a friend took me. Also, up at Yuanshan park, where that row of food stalls is by Maji and Triangle, there's a Colombian stall now selling arepas and it's great.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 11:35

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

Bajaj posted:

Ok, I am confusing you with some other girl poster that said she was from Hawaii.

Is cool. Hawaii has to be better than upstate NY. Most things are.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 12:00

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

Jeoh posted:

Shandong cuisine is adding boiled water to everything

Uh, Shandong jianbing is awesome.

I am in Zhejiang, and I saw a shop with a sign claiming they had Shandong jianbing, but it was just regular jianbing. Christ, it's like Hokkaido ramen in Japan.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 13:04

oohhboy: Jun 8, 2013; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

You know about this "Sharing Economy" back when they called it renting and rental? Well, you can have ~~sex dolls~~ "Shared Girlfriends" no doubt with Chinese characteristics we all know and love with an app of course!.

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/09/15/new-chinese-sharing-economy-app-lets-users-rent-sex-dolls-week/

Just hire a prostitute.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 16:05

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

bongwizzard posted:

Amazing, I am going to hit every Indian market around me until I find some weird sodas.

Portello.

Soft drink of the loving gods.

# ? Sep 16, 2017 16:19

HerStuddMuffin: Aug 10, 2014; YOSPOS

You can't change the bottom part between users on a prostitute. :colbert:

# ? Sep 16, 2017 18:48

Third World Reagan: May 19, 2008; Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.

https://twitter.com/CheetoSantino/status/909147924717801478

# ? Sep 16, 2017 23:03

Meme Poker Party: Sep 1, 2006; by Azathoth

# ? Sep 16, 2017 23:08

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

Third World Reggin posted:

https://twitter.com/CheetoSantino/status/909147924717801478

As you can see, Americans are all obese soft drink wearing weirdos, just like the media says!

# ? Sep 16, 2017 23:35

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

From some guy's vacations photos of ANHUI PROVINCE, CHINA!
_{(Full Album)}

HONGCUN VILLAGE:

XIDI VILLAGE:

# ? Sep 17, 2017 03:31

Bajaj: Sep 13, 2017; by FactsAreUseless

MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, mercury and industrial run-off flavored yum yums.
https://i.imgur.com/zoaQ4w1.gifv

# ? Sep 17, 2017 04:21

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

china is a shithole, thanks for reading

# ? Sep 17, 2017 04:29

LentThem: Aug 31, 2004; 90% Retractible

Accretionist posted:

From some guy's vacations photos of ANHUI PROVINCE, CHINA!
_{(Full Album)}

HONGCUN VILLAGE:
XIDI VILLAGE:

the nature photos in that album are great but the man-made stuff...

its really impressive to me that in both villages the water is the only surface that is not-uneven and not-disgusting

its like all the stone roads and benches are messed up on purpose

and somehow the walls along well-traveled roads look as moldy and peeling as UrbEx photos of asylums that have been vacant for a decade or more

im just amazed all the time at how little of a poo poo people give about anything

Xidi Village, pronounced lovely Village :boom:

# ? Sep 17, 2017 06:07

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# ? Jun 6, 2024 15:14

Relin: Oct 6, 2002; You have been a most worthy adversary, but in every game, there are winners and there are losers. And as you know, in this game, losers get robotizicized!

oohhboy posted:

You know about this "Sharing Economy" back when they called it renting and rental? Well, you can have ~~sex dolls~~ "Shared Girlfriends" no doubt with Chinese characteristics we all know and love with an app of course!.

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/09/15/new-chinese-sharing-economy-app-lets-users-rent-sex-dolls-week/

Just hire a prostitute.

i've got some news for you

http://nypost.com/2017/08/22/sex-dolls-are-more-popular-than-real-prostitutes-at-this-brothel/

# ? Sep 17, 2017 06:10

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