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Devils Affricate posted:Track list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkaimt1xIc4 07. Foreigner Go Home 08. I Took My Mistress To Paris 09. Taiwan Belongs to China 10. I Took My Wife To Hainan 11. Black Skin Country Girl 12. My Buzzcut All of the music is shamelessly ripped off from popular Western songs.
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My major China whinge for the day is that there are no bars in Fuzhou showing the AFL Grand Final! It is a fun game to watch, and I am sad and annoyed that I had to pay the AFL and am currently watching it alone in the English Department office at school, (I haven't got internet at home yet.) I'm sure Shanghai, and Beijing have expat pubs, or sports bars, but here in my tiny little 7 million people town such things are difficult to find, especially ones that are open at midday on a weekend.
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Sep 30, 2017 07:16
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BrigadierSensible posted:My major China whinge for the day is that there are no bars in Fuzhou showing the AFL Grand Final! I bet you can't even get Vegemite.
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Sep 30, 2017 07:47
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"Victims of Chinese (Boxer) revolution lie beheaded in the streets. 1911." https://imgur.com/HFazGpp The streets look cleaner and more orderly than they do now.
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Sep 30, 2017 08:47
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Bajaj posted:Umm, track one's title was already taken by Enrique Iglesias. In the same spirit, track 1 should be the Enrique Iglesias song.
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Sep 30, 2017 13:06
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Bajaj posted:"Victims of Chinese (Boxer) revolution lie beheaded in the streets. 1911." They still look pretty casual about dead people in their streets, though.
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Sep 30, 2017 13:56
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I'm in Kuala Lumpur this weekend and I have to say I think Haier would really love this city. Beautiful buildings, friendly people, great food... many restaurants don't even serve alcohol! There's just one problem for him, and I think we can all guess what that is... that's right, the way the streets are here makes it a little hard to walk places.
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Sep 30, 2017 14:38
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KL is kinda boring and horribly laid out, but otherwise yeah it's pretty nice.
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Sep 30, 2017 14:53
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nickmeister posted:They still look pretty casual about dead people in their streets, though. If that happened today the only difference would be the people taking pictures on their phones.
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Sep 30, 2017 15:33
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I had a really good time in KL years ago.
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Sep 30, 2017 16:26
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Bajaj posted:The streets look cleaner and more orderly than they do now.
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Sep 30, 2017 16:48
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Grand Fromage posted:KL is kinda boring and horribly laid out, but otherwise yeah it's pretty nice. My friend and I spent nearly half an hour today trying to walk half a kilometer and at the end realized the only way to manage the last hundred meters or so was to buy an MRT ticket so we could go from exit 3 to exit 1 because that was how we could get there and there's no way to just cross through the station without a ticket.
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Sep 30, 2017 16:53
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I got yelled at for using the wrong door at a museum in KL once. Tried to walk out the way I came in and they ran after me and forced me to go down to the proper exit. Then the power went out. Ended up walking through an exhibit of celebrity coffins, including luminaries such as Eazy E. Then I ate hot pot. In other words, KL is pretty fun.
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Sep 30, 2017 17:19
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Pirate Radar posted:My friend and I spent nearly half an hour today trying to walk half a kilometer and at the end realized the only way to manage the last hundred meters or so was to buy an MRT ticket so we could go from exit 3 to exit 1 because that was how we could get there and there's no way to just cross through the station without a ticket. I had high hopes for walking KL until I got there. What looked like a local road on google maps turned out to be a limited-access expressway. Wound up ubering all over the place. There is a pedestrian underpass/overpass/maze that gets you over the river and across the highway by the old KL train station.
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Sep 30, 2017 17:21
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Fleta brings up a good topic, hot pot. What are everyone's opinions on hot pot? Is it good? Is it bad?
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Sep 30, 2017 17:42
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Hot pot is alright as a novelty but as someone who somehow winds up eating it a couple times a month without thinking, goddamn do you realize it gets real old real fast.
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Taintrunner posted:Hot pot is alright as a novelty but as someone who somehow winds up eating it a couple times a month without thinking, goddamn do you realize it gets real old real fast. This is pretty much my opinion as well. It's a lot better if you make it yourself, and you can add as much of whatever you want as possible, and you know that the oil isn't on it's 15th batch, but more than 2-3 times a month is too much for me.
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Dr.Radical posted:Fleta brings up a good topic, hot pot. What are everyone's opinions on hot pot? Is it good? Is it bad? I don't usually like the kind that's all oil, like Sichuan hot pot, but I like any other kind I've ever tried.
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Sep 30, 2017 18:03
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Anyway, Malatang is the superior "throw everything in a boiling pot" dish.
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Sep 30, 2017 18:09
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Now that summer is over and it's getting cold again, one of my friends has been bugging me about wanting to come over to my place for a sauna with a few others. I was thinking that hot pot might be fun to do for a get together. How the heck do I prepare it? Most of the recipes I seen online treat it like an ordinary soup/stew.
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Sep 30, 2017 18:23
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There are 5000 kinds of hot pot. Look up one of the good ones like nabe, sukiyaki, or shabu shabu.
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Sep 30, 2017 18:33
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Hot pot is good if it's homemade with friends. In restaurants it's kinda meh and overpriced.
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Jeoh posted:Hot pot is good if it's homemade with friends. In restaurants it's kinda meh and overpriced. This is where China is at its best. Befriend a restaurant owner and you will for the rest of time pay absolutely nothing for any food or drink ever.
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Sep 30, 2017 19:59
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One of my fondest memories was hanging out with a bunch of singaporeans and a mainlander and some english people, doing hot pot in 2 rice cookers at chinese new year. get loads of mushrooms and leafy things and noodles to pad out the meatfest, do your best with the broth base, dont forget sesame sauce and soy sauce and vinegar to dip stuff in, maybe some chilli paste if you can take the spicy. but yah best ingredient for hot pot is friends
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Sep 30, 2017 20:27
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If you're lazy or you can't figure it out in time, you could get a Little Fat Sheep soup mix.. It's just a big-rear end instant ramen soup packet, but when mixed with store-bought chicken or pork broth\stock it is good enough. In my experience, the sesame dipping sauce is more important than the quality of the broth. The flavor of the sauce is so dominant that it can mask the difference between good and mediocre hot pot broth. If you can't find a recipe for that sauce, I've been able to improvise it with peanut butter, soy sauce, hoisin, garlic, green onion, and some of the soup base to liquify it more.
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The media is cranky about some new game, which I doubt is even a real game. http://toronto.citynews.ca/2017/09/29/dirty-chinese-restaurant-game-denounced-racist-ont-politicians/ https://youtu.be/6st7cV-R54U
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http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/business/article/2113455/artificial-intelligence-doctors-chinese-patients-cant-beatquote:The use of artificial intelligence in diagnosing and treating cancer and other illnesses could help ease the load on China’s overburdened health care professionals – and they can’t be physically assaulted Edit: 1.5 physicians for every 1000 people doesn't seem like much, or even the 2.8 in Britain, but... Mainlanders got to the hospital for stubbed toes and shallow coughs. My friend used to go to this hospital near her house and they gave number tickets in the morning. A few minutes after opening they would reach maximum for the day and people that didn't get tickets were forced to go home. I got deleted by a girl because she asked me to go to a physical exam her job required and I didn't have time, and she blamed me for not being there to prevent the doctor from asking her if she like having sex and how many guys did she bang, and then calling her mobile phone later after she went home. Bajaj fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Sep 30, 2017 |
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another choice one from that article:quote:China is racing to challenge America’s global leadership in AI technology. Beijing recently said it planned breakthroughs by 2025 and lead the world in AI by 2030. Analysts said the Chinese government aims to use the domestic market to advance made-in-China AI technologies, as the country’s 1.3 billion people would be an ample source of the vast amounts of data needed for machine learning. apparently supremacy has been pushed back another 5 years already, since it's obvious that the local marketplace is going to be slurping a big blue dick for a while.
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Update on Indian gym goers: I go at the same times every time I go, and see the exact same people now every time. There is now a definite bicep crew. Three guys, including that biceps-only guy I mentioned, all take turns spotting each other on all the machines and free weight exercises that do not require using the legs. They sit for all free weight stuff, and ignore the machines that work more than the arms. They don't even do the bench press, which their team leader really needs for his concave chest. It's really weird how much they seem to go out of their way to shun anything that would use the shoulders or back, and especially the legs. One guy was doing body weight squats and quit after about ten of them. They were all wearing gloves. In fact, I might be the only guy there not wearing gloves. I was using the weighted rowing machine and one of the guy stopped to watch me for a while because I think he's never seen anyone use it. I think he lost interest when he noticed it works the upper and lower back too. There's a chubby guy that arrives about ten minutes after me every time, and he has a routine of doing push-ups, walking in circles, doing more push-ups, and then carrying a 10kg plate around until it's time for more push-ups. There are women, but they stay downstairs using the cardio machines only. One of them was cute and we had a moment of staring, but I know that was only because of her shock at seeing a non-Indian there. Pirate Radar posted:I'm in Kuala Lumpur this weekend and I have to say I think Haier would really love this city. Beautiful buildings, friendly people, great food... many restaurants don't even serve alcohol! There's just one problem for him, and I think we can all guess what that is... that's right, the way the streets are here makes it a little hard to walk places.  Pirate Radar posted:My friend and I spent nearly half an hour today trying to walk half a kilometer and at the end realized the only way to manage the last hundred meters or so was to buy an MRT ticket so we could go from exit 3 to exit 1 because that was how we could get there and there's no way to just cross through the station without a ticket. jailbait#3 posted:I had high hopes for walking KL until I got there. What looked like a local road on google maps turned out to be a limited-access expressway. Wound up ubering all over the place. I have only been to the KL airport, and the international section of it was horrid. It smelled bad, there was nowhere to sit, and they made me go through two security checks just moments apart. I would like to go to KL to see some Chinese people I know, but so far haven't found the timing. Telling me it is not meant for walking makes it a poor choice for me. My friends have cars, though. When I travel somewhere I always want to do a long walk and take in the city. I did many hours across as much of Vienna as I could, and it left me with a strong impression that still lasts. It was before MP3 players, and I carried my CD player in my backpack like a dork. Walking through a new place is how I remember it permanently, and is one of my favorite activities when on vacation or living in a place I want to experience. It was one of the reasons (among many) that I turned down a chance to live in Manila, because the many Filipino friends I asked all said I would most likely be robbed in the area I was going to live in, robbed in the other areas I was looking at apartments, and even taking a jeepney would still probably get me robbed. Everyone was recommending I live on the southern outskirts in Cavite, full of towns with even less chances to go out and look around. "Come stay at my aunties house, she has many rooms because everyone is in the US working now." Nope. One of my Chinese friends just went to KL and the four days of her updates on Wechat were strictly complaints. This girl has been to nearly every major destination in Europe and Asia, and her final post waiting at the airport to leave was "This is the first time I have visited somewhere that made me miss home." fins posted:In the same spirit, track 1 should be the Enrique Iglesias song.
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Japanese workers transferred to KL usually have a daily taxi pickup/dropoff. I assumed it was an over-cautious safety policy, but is it just because they'll get lost and end up living like a caveman on some auntie's roof?
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It's because there are no sidewalks. And I mean none. You take a car when you go for a walk in the neighbourhood park for gods sake.
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peanut posted:Japanese workers transferred to KL usually have a daily taxi pickup/dropoff. I assumed it was an over-cautious safety policy, but is it just because they'll get lost and end up living like a caveman on some auntie's roof? KL is the most car-centered city I have ever seen outside the US. I was staying near the Chinatown and wanted to go to the museum, which is maybe 1.5 km apart. Walking took two or three hours because of how many detours, roads that didn't connect, highways, going through rat mazes, overpasses, backtracking, etc it required. It's actively designed to make walking difficult.
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Our China trip was an absolute disaster. I could call it from miles and miles away. One client didn’t even show up, and swore up and down that we were wrong even though we had emails from him personally saying and agreeing he’d be there at that time. By the third day, we realized nothing was going to get done so we went and did dumb tourist poo poo in Shanghai. Going on a Chinese escalator is an expireince. Riding a chinese bullet train was absolute hell. We just eventually stuck to our hotel and ate there. This really is an idiot country.
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Oct 1, 2017 04:56
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Did you show him these emails?
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chinese hair cave posted:Our China trip was an absolute disaster. I could call it from miles and miles away. either everyone is super racist and is in cahoots to slander the glorious Middle Kingdom, or maybe, just maybe, everyone is telling their own truthful experiences and china really is not that great I like it but am on my way out myself. I've been making order out of chaos for like 8 years now and it's time to move on
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Back in the 70's, my dad actually encountered a "serve stray animals as 'spare ribs'" Chinese restaurant. He went to buy something for my grandma after she got off her shift. There was a sign for a half-off special or something, so he got that. He tasted it after he got in his car, but it didn't taste right so he threw it out. Anyways, about ten days later, there was a news story about the joint getting shut down because the lovely owner was chopping up cats and stuff. I think the owner didn't like black people very much.
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Cats seem like a pretty poor choice to get a significant amounts of meat.
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A restaurant in Chengdu got in trouble for serving cats instead of rabbit and it was confusing, I can't see how that'd possibly be any cheaper.
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