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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Why is this so common? Genuinely curious, not being sarcastic. I can certainly take a guess, but I'd like to know for sure. is it actually common or is it a subreddit of angry incels making generalizations i am also not being sarcastic because i immediately dismissed it as the latter
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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:is the weeb one or the japanese guy wanting to come to America to become a cowboy the first of this series? This thing has been going around for like 15 years and its origin is lost to the mists of time for me do you really think Rawhide Kobayashi is a real guy
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Riptor posted:do you really think Rawhide Kobayashi is a real guy In my dreams....
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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:is the weeb one or the japanese guy wanting to come to America to become a cowboy the first of this series? This thing has been going around for like 15 years and its origin is lost to the mists of time for me I'm pretty sure Gomenasai, I am Ken-sama came first.
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Speaking of weebs, chinaboos, and reverse-weebs, apparently Japan has a significant number of people obsessed with a highly romanticized idea of Paris, to the point where the term "Paris Syndrome" has been coined for those who actually went to visit and subsequently had melt downs when they saw the real thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome The world is such a strange place. I wonder if some Japanese message board user has made something analogous to the Ken-sama or bento box memes, except with a French-obsessed Japanese guy talking about baguettes (the finest bread on Earth) and champagne (which can only truly be made in Champagne, France). \/ lol I know dude Devils Affricate fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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Devils Affricate posted:Speaking of weebs, chinaboos, and reverse-weebs, apparently Japan has a significant number of people obsessed with a highly romanticized idea of Paris, to the point where the term "Paris Syndrome" has been coined for those who actually went to visit and subsequently had melt downs when they saw the real thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome Well yeah, Champagne is a regionally protected name. like Scotch having to be from scotland, or Parmesan being from only certain areas.
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Blistex posted:No, that's the pinky as it (I guess) is an ideal size for snorting coke. Also just from pantomiming for a few seconds, the pinky works much better as a scoop than your thumbnail would. Using your thumb demonstrates how much more coke you can afford.
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Devils Affricate posted:Speaking of weebs, chinaboos, and reverse-weebs, apparently Japan has a significant number of people obsessed with a highly romanticized idea of Paris, to the point where the term "Paris Syndrome" has been coined for those who actually went to visit and subsequently had melt downs when they saw the real thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome There is a poo poo ton of crap here in Huzhou named Paris-this, Paris-that. My apartment complex is "Paris Spring." One of my coworkers and I were talking about how bizarre that is, given the number of canals they have here, that if this town were going to obsess over a European city, they don't go with Venice.
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VideoTapir posted:There is a poo poo ton of crap here in Huzhou named Paris-this, Paris-that. My apartment complex is "Paris Spring." Paris is more famous though
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It would fit though. People stink and are rude as hell.
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Riptor posted:do you really think Rawhide Kobayashi is a real guy Well at least THIS guy is real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDEQcqmX7HI
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Chaoshan Girl India Trip Update 02: She got diarrhea all day yesterday, but went shopping. I told her not to eat at this snack shop near a hotel, because I went there and it gave me diarrhea last time. She ate at the snack shop and has been lying in bed since. LMAO. She's complaining how she has to hand wash everything, and blew $120 USD on clothes yesterday and has to wash all of them. She plans on bringing back a total of 20 dresses to China for herself, her sister, and her friends. There's no way that's going to fit in her baby luggage. She was having trouble at shops because she was converting everything in her brain to RMB for some reason. RMB and Rupee are almost a 10-to-1 exchange rate (100 RMB = 1000 rupees), but she was being retarded and multiplying. The total bill for her hotel for her trip is 8000 rupees, and she was think it would be 80,000 rupees, which is 8000 RMB (like $1300 USD). She didn't bother to learn about Indian money, and tried to pay for a 20 rupee water with a 2 rupee coin. As someone who does well in business and earn a lot of money every month, I thought it was pretty funny that she was unable to strictly in numbers. I am not sure if this really happened, but the idiot was carrying all her USD in with her rupees, and apparently paid $100 USD for 100 rupees (like $1.20) of snacks. She is trying to deny it now because I got angry, but I think she's trying to save face. Holy poo poo.
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Oct 3, 2017 10:09
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Lol whoever sold her that candy loves Chinese people now.
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Just wanted to remind everyone that the hot takes machine of Internet op-eds knows that China will soon rule the world!!! https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-end-of-empire/ Highlights include citing China being better at all technology and also their infallible economy.
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Oct 3, 2017 12:12
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Every English teacher in China has this same story: https://i.imgur.com/2ktAv27.gifv
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Oct 3, 2017 13:26
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Bajaj posted:Every English teacher in China has this same story: LOL, where the hell is this from? Also, gotta wonder where he found his wife...
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oohhboy posted:That bloody owns. Lets see the suit.
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[quote="“Steakandchips”" post="“477012825”"] Lets see the suit. [/quote] Lol
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Oct 3, 2017 15:42
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nickmeister posted:LOL, where the hell is this from? Also, gotta wonder where he found his wife... Buster Keaton in "Hard Luck" (1921)
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I'm LOL'ing at that "dragon rising" article. Since when is China a "military juggernaut?" I'm willing to entertain the notion that Trump is the heralding of America's downfall, but I can't imagine anyone who knows about China and isn't a paid shill could really believe that China would be able to fill America's shoes as the world's super power.
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nickmeister posted:I'm LOL'ing at that "dragon rising" article. Since when is China a "military juggernaut?" I'm willing to entertain the notion that Trump is the heralding of America's downfall, but I can't imagine anyone who knows about China and isn't a paid shill could really believe that China would be able to fill America's shoes as the world's super power. Picking on China is largely a "well who else is there" argument. China's economy could ostensibly get bigger than the USA's (it won't, but its at least in the realm of 'not mathematically impossible' presuming you buy their GDP numbers as real, which again, they're not), and that's what people look for when talking about superpowers. India could maybe do something there given three or four decades of good governance but gently caress off if you think that's happening any time this century. Beyond that every superpower suggestion you could muster, even the cop out of "the EU", can only be met with peals of laughter. The reality of the situation is that if America retreats, the world is going back to a political situation that looks a lot more like the 1750s, where there's no truly global powers and regional powers dick each other over at the slightest provocation and there's no consequences. But nobody wants to admit that because to admit that is to admit that the USA does a lot of good for the world and that's anathema to half the loving planet.
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Neat video on China's (difficult) geography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu5VFxHrLi4
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the "china rising" narrative is fundamentally about one thing and that's the chinese economy and as that peters out we will likely see less "china rising" poo poo. that's already happened actually, I'm seeing "china will soon be the world's largest economy" appearing as an unquestioned fact far less frequently than I used to people who still sell the "china rising" narrative do it either on the basis of total ignorance of macroeconomics (6.7% GDP is higher than 2%, therefore faaaaaaart) or they recognize all of the problems that the chinese economy has but ignore them for stupid and arbitrary reasons. I just read a really bad article in the New York Review of Books and there are honestly too many things wrong with it to list in one post but one of the things that stuck out was quote:Auslin’s analysis is grounded in the contested set of ideas that used to be called the Washington Consensus—the belief that free markets, free trade, and political democracy are necessary for economies to grow and political systems to be stable. Since the Chinese approach disregards this theory, Auslin thinks the country will stumble before it seriously challenges American preeminence. He sees many problems in the Chinese economy, including the excessive number and size of state-owned enterprises, opaque corporate governance, huge government debt (200 percent of GDP by some estimates), a property bubble, and overdependence on exports. But this adds up simply to a description of how the economy is run, not to an argument that this way of running it will not work. 
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Fojar38 posted:a really bad article lol So the key to success is just running your economy as if you were a criminal enterprise instead of a legitimate governing body, got it. Even in a completely amoral, Machiavellian sense this strategy ultimately fails due to the fact that the international community will lose confidence as the bubble becomes impossible to ignore. Also there's the whole issue of having a populace 95% only educated enough to perform manual labor or basic service jobs, with no educational infrastructure or strategy to lift them out of it. The moment it stops being lucrative for other countries to outsource their labor to China is the moment poo poo starts seriously hitting the fan.
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Accretionist posted:Neat video on China's (difficult) geography: This is a really bad video because Taiwan is not part of China and is Number 1. The video did not go into this.
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Oct 3, 2017 23:22
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Modest Mao posted:also it's dumb, and bad As long as they concentrate in business, not killing human like usa, its good
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GoutPatrol posted:As long as they concentrate in business, not killing human like usa, its good But don't they have whole factories dedicated to working people to death? or generating human-killing pollution?
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nickmeister posted:But don't they have whole factories dedicated to working people to death? or generating human-killing pollution? Since when was the East Coast designated as a factory?
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I saw this on r/China, but it's all those dumbos going on their same bullshit vacation destination at once during National Week. How un-fun and terrible can they continue to make their holidays? If Tantan is any indicator, every girl there took the exact same loving photo of them with sunglasses and cloth over their head and wrapped around their necks, with a dune in the background so we know they went to the desert. One girl I know chose a small island in Thailand for the holiday, with a beautiful hotel room with a private pool, high on a hill with a spectacular view of the ocean and other small islands around. She's bored. Why? She can't swim. She doesn't like looking at water.
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I was deleting crap off of my phone and I realized that I never posted this photo I had in my Tantan folder. I believe I matched with her, otherwise I would have had no way to get the full-size photo. This is prime sixhead quality, and one of my new favs. 
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Yikes, seriously what sort of medical conditions is causing 20-somethings or even teens to get 80 year old lady thinning hair? Is it just the horrible food and pollution?
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Baronjutter posted:Yikes, seriously what sort of medical conditions is causing 20-somethings or even teens to get 80 year old lady thinning hair? Is it just the horrible food and pollution? I always just assumed it was life-long malnutrition combined with the rampant hormone fluctuations caused by unregulated industrial chemicals in everything. I ask every single person I know that goes those body checks for work that many jobs require, and they all say the the report says they are low in iron and/or have anemia. My favorite is when I point out that a woman is balding or her hair is thinning, the response is always "everyone has that, she is not balding. It is normal!"
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Eh, I know a girl in NZ who's born and raised here, Chinese parents, but has the same issue. It's not diet, or at least not exclusively. Genes gonna gene!
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I went and saw the Batu Caves the other day. They're amazing caverns that go back into this big, sheer mesa in what's now the northern outskirts of KL; generations of Hindus have used them as a shrine site. One of the caves is full of figures telling the story of the Ramayana, but high above pidgeons are flapping around and every so often a monkey scurries through. In another, the biggest of the caverns, they're building a big temple complex at the moment (visitors are asked to help by carrying a brick up the stairs to the cave mouth). As I looked around the soaring heights of the cave, among shafts of light that flew in through holes in the top of the mesa high above, my eyes were drawn to a singular inscription, about twenty feet from the floor on the eastern wall of the cavern. 中正國中一九四八
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