Taiwan Number 1

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oohhboy: Jun 8, 2013; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Kid is making GBS threads in the middle of the street but running them over even in an accident is just straight up negligent. Not getting off them and coming out to have a look is just Chinese mainlander thing they could do. I honestly was expecting the them to drive back and forwards a couple of times to "Make sure".

Gromit posted:

If the driver is low enough in the seat they probably didn't see the mother and child at all, given that she is bent over and matches about the height of the front of the car. Probably thought she got caught up on a traffic cone or something.
Well, so long as the driver's attention wasn't on looking at the crossing before she rolled over it, of course.

There is no level of excuse for this in a civilised country but China so YOLO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQp9RC2sfT0

# ? Sep 18, 2017 05:20

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# ? Jun 8, 2024 20:10

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

if the person genuinely didn't see the child and old lady, who were both squatting in the middle of an intersection, it isn't really a reflection on the society. the driving, that is. there are car accidents in Canada, the United States, Germany, UK, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, etc. all the time due to people checking their phones, maybe finding someone on Uber or whatever, or simply not paying attention. it happens. the book "A Deadly Wandering" is a fantastic look at distracted driving. if they didn't see the people they probably had no idea they had just hit someone, they probably though, as someone said, that it was a traffic cone. maybe a cat or dog. my first thought when I feel a bump in my car isn't "I wonder if I just ran over a child who was taking a poo poo".

look, lets not speak ill of people who were run over by a car, but if you want to talk about negligence, you might need to look at the people who got hit sometimes. the thing that is not really that common in a civilized society is that it is not very common to stop and squat and take a dump on the crosswalk.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 05:43

Bajaj: Sep 13, 2017; by FactsAreUseless

The Great Autismo! posted:

look, lets not speak ill of people who were run over by a car, but if you want to talk about negligence, you might need to look at the people who got hit sometimes. the thing that is not really that common in a civilized society is that it is not very common to stop and squat and take a dump on the crosswalk.

Better in than out. Do u know? Baby can't wait.

Countless times I went to throw something in the trash at the metro bins before the train arrived and I was stopped by a grandparent holding a kid to poo poo or piss into it.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 06:02

HerStuddMuffin: Aug 10, 2014; YOSPOS

JaucheCharly posted:

Oh poo poo, I wonder who saved face here.

Not sure about saving, but I know a tire that gained a lot of it.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 06:16

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

HerStuddMuffin posted:

Not sure about saving, but I know a tire that gained a lot of it.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 06:32

LentThem: Aug 31, 2004; 90% Retractible

whip posted:

Seriously why does she not check the driver's side of the vehicle. Surely she felt it raise up

if that other video where a woman breaks her leg trying to stop a rolling car with her foot is any indication, a chinese peron's vestibular system completely fails when they're inside of something (including water of which there are a ton of videos, but i wont post that for NMS reasons)

edit: a sober person drowned in a Koi pond because they kept trying to swim by repeatedly thrashing their arms upwards which just pushed their head underwater and couldnt figure out how to move half a meter laterally to grab one of the edges of the pond.

LentThem fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Sep 18, 2017

# ? Sep 18, 2017 06:58

Imperialist Dog: Oct 21, 2008; "I think you could better spend your time on finishing your editing before the deadline today."
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gee I wonder what provoked such a reaction, must be pretty inflammatory

https://twitter.com/UselessTree/status/909612142738915329

a white guy mused about what the HK chief exec will do when members of the legislature are calling for the death of anyone advocating HK independence

racist scum

# ? Sep 18, 2017 07:36

Bajaj: Sep 13, 2017; by FactsAreUseless

Imperialist Dog posted:

gee I wonder what provoked such a reaction, must be pretty inflammatory

https://twitter.com/UselessTree/status/909612142738915329

a white guy mused about what the HK chief exec will do when members of the legislature are calling for the death of anyone advocating HK independence

racist scum

I am a white guy and I advocate the killing on sight of wumaos. Or least insta-perma-bans from all forms of non-Chinese social media and newspaper comments.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 08:40

oohhboy: Jun 8, 2013; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

The Great Autismo! posted:

if the person genuinely didn't see the child and old lady, who were both squatting in the middle of an intersection, it isn't really a reflection on the society. the driving, that is. there are car accidents in Canada, the United States, Germany, UK, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, etc. all the time due to people checking their phones, maybe finding someone on Uber or whatever, or simply not paying attention. it happens. the book "A Deadly Wandering" is a fantastic look at distracted driving. if they didn't see the people they probably had no idea they had just hit someone, they probably though, as someone said, that it was a traffic cone. maybe a cat or dog. my first thought when I feel a bump in my car isn't "I wonder if I just ran over a child who was taking a poo poo".

look, lets not speak ill of people who were run over by a car, but if you want to talk about negligence, you might need to look at the people who got hit sometimes. the thing that is not really that common in a civilized society is that it is not very common to stop and squat and take a dump on the crosswalk.

Kid making GBS threads on the road is irrelevant. On the road it is 100% the driver's responsibility outside of no fault situations. Her actions don't speak well for them either.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 08:51

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

In the future, just please link videos where people die/are probably dead. You never know when someone's kid might be standing behind them without their knowledge, if nothing else.

Titty twister vid is good, 10/10.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 09:00

Collateral Damage: Jun 13, 2009

Bajaj posted:

Countless times I went to throw something in the trash at the metro bins before the train arrived and I was stopped by a grandparent holding a kid to poo poo or piss into it.

To be fair everyone who's ever had to deal with kids knows the "Do you need to pee before we leave?" "No!" "Okay then." *five minutes after leaving the house* "I have to pee!" routine.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 09:10

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

HerStuddMuffin posted:

Not sure about saving, but I know a tire that gained a lot of it.

I said goddamn

# ? Sep 18, 2017 09:23

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?

Collateral Damage posted:

To be fair everyone who's ever had to deal with kids knows the "Do you need to pee before we leave?" "No!" "Okay then." *five minutes after leaving the house* "I have to pee!" routine.

As I recall, the response to that was "tough poo poo, hold it til we get there".

I have to walk past a kindergarten on the way to the subway after work, so invariably I see at least a few kids pissing/making GBS threads everywhere every day. Right outside the kindergarten which I assume has bathrooms they could go back in and use.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 09:24

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

Grand Fromage posted:

As I recall, the response to that was "tough poo poo, hold it til we get there".

I have to walk past a kindergarten on the way to the subway after work, so invariably I see at least a few kids pissing/making GBS threads everywhere every day. Right outside the kindergarten which I assume has bathrooms they could go back in and use.

I think China really should market itself to pedophiles with a scat fetish

# ? Sep 18, 2017 09:26

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

quote:

Knox mothers sue each other for defamation over WeChat outbursts

Two mothers who bonded over their Chinese backgrounds and sons at Knox Grammar are now suing each other for defamation following a string of instant messages which one woman says made her out to be a "savage person" and they other says painted her as disloyal.

Ava Wei Wu, who wrote a reference for Michelle Li Chen's son to attend the Wahroonga boys' school in 2014, allegedly used a WeChat forum for non-English speaking Knox parents last year to denounce her erstwhile friend as a "green tea prostitute" who thought she was high class because she sent her children to a private school and bought fake handbags, according to Ms Chen's statement of claim.

Ms Chen allegedly responded by claiming to a group of more than 1000 WeChat friends that Ms Wu was a "barking dog" who had "amnesia" when it came to paying her debts, nearly ran down a policeman who stopped her for a roadside breath test and was deluded in thinking that she was helping Ms Chen to make friends since she didn't understand English, according to Ms Wu's statement of claim.

"After all, such a person who was a mistress and destroyed the families of others is bad in essence," Ms Chen allegedly wrote.

The spat has now reached the NSW Supreme Court, where it is listed for a five-day hearing in July involving three barristers - one a silk - after the women failed to resolve their differences through mediation.

Each woman denies the other's allegations, the truth of which remain to be determined by the court.

According to court documents filed in the dispute, the friendship had begun in 2010, but it split wide open one evening in March 2016 after Ms Wu posted a series of messages about her former friend on a Knox WeChat forum, and Ms Chen hit back in a separate forum.

Ms Wu lodged a statement of claim in the Supreme Court in March, saying that Ms Chen's posts contained the defamatory imputations that she was a "savage person likely to cause harm to others" and an "unethical person" who had destroyed another person's family and tried to avoid paying her bills.

Ms Wu claims these imputations were contained in translated screenshots of conversations filed with the Supreme Court in which Ms Chen allegedly informed her followers that she had "kicked out a barking dog from the friendship circle".

"Ava, self-proclaimed chair of ESL, brutally attacked and abused me in our ... group and her friendship circle," Ms Chen allegedly said in her post.

Ms Wu alleges that Ms Chen defamed her by claiming in the forum that Ms Wu told Ms Chen's daughter she should retaliate when hit, and nearly killed a policeman by accelerating when he stopped her for a roadside breath test. It was only his quick reactions that saved him from sustaining an injury more serious than a skin bruise, Ms Chen allegedly said.

"This is the first time in my life I have met this type of shrew," Ms Chen allegedly said.

"I feel very sorry to have met someone lovely like you. It feels like stepping on [dog poo emoticon]."

Ms Wu's barrister told the Supreme Court in May that the Ms Chen's posts contained defamatory imputations that Ms Wu "taught children to act with violence" and "attempted to commit the act of murder".

Ms Chen has responded by lodging her own claim for defamation, arguing in court documents that Ms Wu fired the first shots by posting a series of messages about her over several hours earlier that evening.

"You really think you are a high class lady by sending your children to a private school and buying a few fake handbags?" Ms Wu had allegedly posted.

"In front of people you compliment them but behind people's backs you curse them and allege they belong to the Falun Gong ... You are two-faced and ghost like ... And don't forget the reason why your son got into Knox is because I noticed the vacancy and told you and acted as your referee."

According to Ms Chen's statement of claim, Ms Wu's posts defamed her by conveying the imputations that she was disloyal to her friends, dishonest in pretending to be friends with people she later betrayed, had no conscience and was willing to harm her friends to get ahead in business.

Each woman has doubled down on her WeChat attacks by raising a defence of truth.

Ms Wu claimed in her defence that Ms Chen had gossiped about her with the mother of one of her daughter's friends at Pymble Ladies College, and this is what she was referring to in her statement that Ms Chen was two-faced.

Ms Chen allegedly told the PLC mother that Ms Wu was a bankrupt, had stolen her current husband from a previous marriage and was poor and unpopular.

Ms Chen said in her defence that she would argue it was true that Ms Wu was an unethical person who began her relationship with her husband when he was married to another woman and did not pay her bills.

Ms Wu's husband had told a story at a dinner party about how she had attempted to run over a policeman who stopped her for a breath test and then bought him off to avoid charges, Ms Chen's defence filed with the Supreme Court alleged. Ms Chen also claims Ms Wu told her she planned to pay students $600 to accept responsibility if she committed any driving offences.

Ms Chen's defence also said she did not approve when Ms Wu, who was the convener of a group for non-English speaking Knox parents, asked people to contribute $30 towards food and flowers for a function held for them at her home.

Ms Chen herself had paid only $11 because Ms Wu had never paid back $19 she borrowed to buy her son a school tie, her defence said.

Fairfax Media does not suggest that either woman is in fact guilty of any of the allegations that have been made against them. The women's claims remain to be determined by the Court.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/knox-mothers-sue-each-other-for-defamation-over-wechat-outbursts-20170915-gyi6vd.html

# ? Sep 18, 2017 09:44

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

oohhboy posted:

Kid making GBS threads on the road is irrelevant. On the road it is 100% the driver's responsibility outside of no fault situations. Her actions don't speak well for them either.

i don't disagree with you, but you said "this type of thing doesn't happen in the civilized world". people get hit by cars all the time in the civilized world. it happened to two different kids on my street in boston growing up. drivers sometimes hit people. that happens in the civilized world. it's called "an accident"

i have never met someone who shits on the street in boston though. or any place in usa. or japan. or hong kong. or canada. or the UK. or france. or portugal. or spain. or iceland. or south korea.

i think you get the point.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 10:19

WarpedNaba: Feb 8, 2012; Being social makes me swell!

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/knox-mothers-sue-each-other-for-defamation-over-wechat-outbursts-20170915-gyi6vd.html

Talk about a slow news day.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 10:29

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

for some reason, i got this in my email

https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-people-in-China-brush-their-teeth

i don't even think i have a quora account, at least i don't remember setting one up. haha.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 10:34

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

The Great Autismo! posted:

for some reason, i got this in my email

https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-people-in-China-brush-their-teeth

i don't even think i have a quora account, at least i don't remember setting one up. haha.

Didn't Mao claim that chewing green tea leaves was good enough? Also washing his penis in through plunging?

The "clean your teeth by chewing twigs" philosophy isn't that unusual, although he was a few centuries behind the rest of the known universe- Some tooth-brushing history.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 10:38

WarpedNaba: Feb 8, 2012; Being social makes me swell!

Did he actually believe that, or was it a coping mechanism from killing all the dentists?

# ? Sep 18, 2017 10:43

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

WarpedNaba posted:

Did he actually believe that, or was it a coping mechanism from killing all the dentists?

To be fair, I think a lot of people might kill all the dentists, were they suddenly in a position of autocracy.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 10:46

peanut: Sep 9, 2007

Twigs are/were probably good enough in places where the sweetest thing you ate was an orange at Christmas, and the majority died before 50.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 10:56

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?

Sugar causes some tooth decay but you get plenty without it. You see some gnarly fuckin' teeth in archaeology class.

I can believe half of China doesn't brush, judging by the smells I encounter.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 11:01

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

Also considering that not that long ago people just straight lost all their teeth pretty commonly, I don't think a stick is just kinda fine. George Washington having false teeth is one of the better known things about him and that was like yesterday on a historical scale.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 11:03

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?

Fluoride treatment has been an incredible advance. Even just my parents have lovely teeth because they grew up before that.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 11:09

Imperialist Dog: Oct 21, 2008; "I think you could better spend your time on finishing your editing before the deadline today."
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Lots of patriotic frothing today on the Chinaweb as 18 September is the official (according to the PRC) start of the glorious 14 year people's resistance to Japanese aggression

Chiang Kai-Shek and the Young Marshal may also have been involved but we cannot be sure so we need to stick to the facts of CCP victory

# ? Sep 18, 2017 11:14

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

Imperialist Dog posted:

Lots of patriotic frothing today on the Chinaweb as 18 September is the official (according to the PRC) start of the glorious 14 year people's resistance to Japanese aggression

I shall help them celebrate by viewing Chinese instead of Japanese porn today

# ? Sep 18, 2017 11:17

peanut: Sep 9, 2007

I'm grateful to live in the era of toothpaste, hot showers and bidets.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 11:18

He Who Smelt It: Jun 14, 2012

Driver to grandma of street making GBS threads kid:

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

"I feel very sorry to have met someone lovely like you. It feels like stepping on [dog poo emoticon]."

# ? Sep 18, 2017 11:18

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

peanut posted:

I'm grateful to live in the era of toothpaste, hot showers and bidets.

counterpoint: nah, destroy toxic masculinity, this heteronormal caucasian patriarchal hierarchy is oppressing far too many people IMO

# ? Sep 18, 2017 11:20

vanity slug: Jul 20, 2010

The Great Autismo! posted:

counterpoint: nah, destroy toxic masculinity, this heteronormal caucasian patriarchal hierarchy is oppressing far too many people IMO

Are you calling toothbrushes gay

# ? Sep 18, 2017 11:22

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

Jeoh posted:

Are you calling toothbrushes gay

you know who else asked me once on the internet if i thought toothbrushes were gay? a neo-nazi. makes you think, eh?

# ? Sep 18, 2017 11:28

WarpedNaba: Feb 8, 2012; Being social makes me swell!

The Great Autismo! posted:

counterpoint: nah, destroy toxic masculinity, this heteronormal caucasian patriarchal hierarchy is oppressing far too many people IMO

Pull up, pull up!

# ? Sep 18, 2017 11:30

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

WarpedNaba posted:

Pull up, pull up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7FXeaahRsg

# ? Sep 18, 2017 11:33

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

The Great Autismo! posted:

counterpoint: nah, destroy toxic masculinity, this heteronormal caucasian patriarchal hierarchy is oppressing far too many people IMO

So is the joke here that toxic masculinity invented toothpaste or... what?

I mean I get it but... I get it, I guess.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 11:38

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

Pirate Radar posted:

So is the joke here that toxic masculinity invented toothpaste or... what?

I mean I get it but... I get it, I guess.

peanut said that they liked living in this age and i was saying this age is terrible

who said anything about me joking

# ? Sep 18, 2017 11:41

Dr.Radical: Apr 3, 2011

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

Didn't Mao claim that chewing green tea leaves was good enough? Also washing his penis in through plunging?

The "clean your teeth by chewing twigs" philosophy isn't that unusual, although he was a few centuries behind the rest of the known universe- Some tooth-brushing history.

Mao was a pragmatist. I remember reading something about how despite saying all that poo poo about how the Chinese style of dentistry was good enough, when he had some serious tooth problem he got a Western style dentist to fix it and he extolled the virtues of Western dental technology. In private, of course.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 11:51

GoutPatrol: Oct 17, 2009; *Stupid Babby*

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

Didn't Mao claim that chewing green tea leaves was good enough? Also washing his penis in through plunging?

The "clean your teeth by chewing twigs" philosophy isn't that unusual, although he was a few centuries behind the rest of the known universe- Some tooth-brushing history.

quote:

Betel nut was included in toothpaste in England in the 1800s,

what thje gently caress

# ? Sep 18, 2017 11:57

webmeister: Jan 31, 2007; The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.

GoutPatrol posted:

what thje gently caress

Red stains good for healthy

# ? Sep 18, 2017 13:13

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# ? Jun 8, 2024 20:10

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

Chinese western dentists are better than western western dentists, in my experience.

# ? Sep 18, 2017 13:58

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