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Pirate Radar posted: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. What does it mean?
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Steakandchips posted:What does it mean?
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Yes I did the translate too, still no wiser.
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What's the deal with the zebra stripe fashion, did some famous person wear it once?
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Serephina posted:What's the deal with the zebra stripe fashion, did some famous person wear it once? These are usually very limited edition stuff. Kids, especially Asian kids think that fashion is wearing a combination of the rarest and most expensive pieces, like an RPG.
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wasn't there a game about that, the world ends with you, or something to that effect, I think it was pretty fun DS game.
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I misremembered, it was 高中 and not 國中--"Zhongzheng High School, 1948" kids!
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Steakandchips posted:Yes I did the translate too, still no wiser. 
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:These own! agreed, Anti Social Social Club is so great
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Bajaj posted:The weirdest part to me is that even though men with thinning hair is normal, you don't really see or notice it on men at the ages these girls/women are doing their balding. Like, a 20-year-old girl should not be balding, but they are, and their boyfriends aren't (though Mainland men have their own set of issues). It could be a variety of reasons, and it seems to affect them off and on. Chaoshan Girl has twice gone through "normal head of hair into thinning hair" phases since I've met her. I had one while I was in China last time, it lasted about two months and I have no clue what caused it. My hair was falling out like mad and even the photos at the time showed that my hair was thinning in the front. Then it went away as mysteriously as it began. Probably some gutter oil toxins in your system, might want to keep tabs on your liver in the future with regular checkups.
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Serephina posted: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!  no i think we just cracked it
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Sorry about your colorectal cancer, Haier
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Pirate Radar posted: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. I read that with a sexual undertone.
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中正 is how you write Chiang Kai-shek in Mandarin. Chiang Kai-shek was the He's likely directly responsible for the victory of the Communists and the fall of the RoC and losing the Mainland. He instigated brutal policies on the island in an attempt to wipe-out the Hokkien identity. But he preserved the remnants of classical Chinese culture and kept the island free from Communist China, maybe? It's possible those things would have happened without him and there wouldn't have been a need to flee with the Qing dynasty's last treasures if he had just been a reasonable adult during the Civil War and allowed the Communists to be defeated by someone other than him. The short of it is that following WWII and the resumption of the Civil War, Chiang Kai-shek was removed from the presidency in favor of a far more capable and popular guy. Unfortunately Generalissimo Chiang had direct access to the Nationalist Party's funds and by extension the Republican treasury. He took all the soldiers loyal to him and walked off with all the money and told the new guy, "You go right ahead and be president. Let's see how that works out for you." Eventually, after several military defeats and losing key cities and defensible locations, the acting president handed power back over to CKS. CKS gladly resumed his role as president, but of course things were so far gone at that point that there was no hope in turning back the Communists and Mao. The United States had by then seen the writing on the wall and realized it was futile trying to support CKS in a land war against Mao and had withdrawn their direct support. And the rest is history. In other words, Communists rule China now because of one rear end in a top hat having a face tantrum.
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So basically Face is the root of everything wrong thereabouts.
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Jeoh posted:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-03/hollywood-studios-are-said-to-be-shortchanged-by-chinese-cinemas Hey, Wolf Warrior 2 totally outsold Dunkirk fair and square!
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https://b.doko.moe/hapldy.mp4
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I knew a Chinese girl from Hawaii with that same kind of baldness and she said it was a result of her mother harshly combing her hair back from a young age, just ripping out huge amounts of hair each time. This nonsense tradition of super harsh combing done over a period of many years resulted in a receded hairline which she must conceal as an adult with bangs. It's hairline erosion from bad moms. No why.
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Escape Addict posted:I knew a Chinese girl from Hawaii with that same kind of baldness and she said it was a result of her mother harshly combing her hair back from a young age, just ripping out huge amounts of hair each time. This nonsense tradition of super harsh combing done over a period of many years resulted in a receded hairline which she must conceal as an adult with bangs. Yeah, that's also very common on black communities that do the same thing to the girls. It's called "Traction Alopecia"
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Jeoh posted:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-03/hollywood-studios-are-said-to-be-shortchanged-by-chinese-cinemas quote:Ticket revenue grew less than 3.7 percent in China last year, slowing from more than 35 percent average growth in the previous five years, according to researcher Artisan Gateway. 
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remember when jackie chan bragged about how china was about to become the worlds largest film market and that finally the perfidious americans would be forced to grovel at the feet of their new mandarin overlords as is the natural order of things
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So all those studios adding chinese roles to their movies and "chinese market only" scenes are just wasting their money? Because if so, lol King Kong Skull Island was hilarious with the chinese actress that could barely speak english and had like 5 broken english lines in the whole movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U70KsBSQPtg
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My favorite one is the one who is a relative of Wang Jianling, head of Wanda, who even people in China are like “please stop putting her in hollywood movies, she sucks at acting” but here we are.
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I think Hollywood studios are putting Chinese actors in their films to satisfy the Chinese authorities, not the actual Chinese theatergoers.
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Fantastic Flyer posted:I think Hollywood studios are putting Chinese actors in their films to satisfy the Chinese authorities, not the actual Chinese theatergoers. How do you explain this poo poo then??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK1V14s66a0
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nerdz posted:How do you explain this poo poo then??? I don't know how anyone can explain that poo poo, my man
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nerdz posted:How do you explain this poo poo then??? Can't even make an original song, WTF? Also, I think her English wasn't that bad (in the Kong movie). Also curious that they actually let her be in an implied (?) relationship with a black man (if their goal was to appeal to China). Actually, seeing that made me think that maybe she wasn't Chinese.
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I only know of two token-Chinese movies where it came close to not sucking: Looper and Pacific Rim.
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Jeoh posted:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-03/hollywood-studios-are-said-to-be-shortchanged-by-chinese-cinemas Basically, they're bilking Hollywood of the cut of profits by underreporting, meaning the movies are doing better than expected. Means many things: China not getting their cut, Hollywood not getting their cut, American cinema is doing better than numbers say, theaters making bank, and the movie industry is growing. The pandering seems to be working, but skimming off the top for propaganda and profit seems like an expected and chronic sort of problem, and I doubt it will be fixed without a reworked agreement. Also, someone is going to lose face over these audit numbers, so maybe a lump sum of hush money and some concessions to save face might happen. But that's just my 
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:It can't be from Corea (Korea). I sped 3 miles over the posted limit in a small suburb last month. They insisted I attend a court date and see a judge *eye roll*. I just finished attending "court". They read of a list of defendants to take roll-call in alphabetical order and one of them had the last name of Corea. Is that really a last name? [edit] I paid 30 dollars + 80 in "court fees" and also 1.5 hours to wait for my name to come up. gently caress tiny asss suburbs with 3 cops.
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Wendigee posted:I sped 3 miles over the posted limit in a small suburb last month. They insisted I attend a court date and see a judge *eye roll*. I just finished attending "court". I'm guessing Virginia, only because this exact scenario happened to me like 5 times when I lived in DC
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Someone wearing one of those WHITE shirts just got on the train and is clambering all over the wheelchair handrail
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ladron posted:I'm guessing Virginia, only because this exact scenario happened to me like 5 times when I lived in DC The single worst thing about the US is that they let any housing developer or other group of assholes incorporate their own city. You might point to all manner of other things that n look worse; but try and name one that isn't caused almost exclusively by this municipal fragmentation, or which isn't made worse by it. 'Course, where I'm from there's always at least 10 miles of nothing between incorporated towns (or even Census-Designated places), so dozens of them right next to each other seems unnatural regardless.
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nerdz posted:These are usually very limited edition stuff. Kids, especially Asian kids think that fashion is wearing a combination of the rarest and most expensive pieces, like an RPG. Role-playing Game or Rocket-Propelled Grenade? Because the latter's gotten a lot cheaper as of late.
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Mistle posted:Basically, they're bilking Hollywood of the cut of profits by underreporting, meaning the movies are doing better than expected. No face required for straight up fraud. Hollywood no way managed got the real numbers. China have a low start point so high growth is expected but crashing like that points to fraud on a massive scale as everyone takes their "cut". Also lol at them only getting 6.6 billion from such a "large" market even with the pandering no one wants.
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ladron posted:I'm guessing Virginia, only because this exact scenario happened to me like 5 times when I lived in DC What part? Up here in NoVA everyone does 5-10 mph over at all times, unless it's like a school zone.
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https://i.imgur.com/19o8mJo.gifv I am shocked and awed at the consideration shown here. Wendigee posted:They read of a list of defendants to take roll-call in alphabetical order and one of them had the last name of Corea.
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