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A friend found this on the steam community page for a videogame.
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Ceciltron posted:A friend found this on the steam community page for a videogame. Thank you I've been looking for this for ages.
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Oct 21, 2017 03:51
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I just finished one of the lamest probations I've ever had. I guess ole Gene figured out who I am and was making up for lost time. I know you're reading this! I saw this yesterday on my Wechat wall. People are spamming this. Wow, an old guy whose job is standing around talking can still stand around and talk... without hot water!!  Imagine if your birth name was Taiwan, and you were black or mixed-race, and you wanted to go to the Mainland for a visit.  Pham Nuwen posted:Bajaj did you get your saat sabzi for Diwali? Or is that only a Sindi thing? I ate a bunch of leftover sabzi today with puri. Also chawal kheer. And I've had at least 30 "pan bites" since Wednesday... not as good as real pan, but it's only $2.50 for a box of 60. I did not get any sata subzi, but I went to a gau/go puja thing yesterday at a dairy farm and got to play with a ton of baby cows while the mom's spazzed out at the influx of people and sprayed diarrhea everywhere on people's clothes. Anyway, there was a good feast after. This is my 5th diwali here, and I hate them. The fireworks are done for a week leading up to it, and still show no signs of stopping. Just relentless window-rattling bombs that most other countries would ban for how strong they are. Some idiots on my street did them until 2am, and then resumed at 5 and 6am. I've had to keep my doors closed all day and night now because the smoke from the bombs is terrible. Delhi's AQI on Diwali night was 600-1000+, lingering now at a pleasant 300+. I am so glad I am not there. We're under 200 where I am now, and I am just waiting for the little shitstains to go back to school on Monday and stop blowing poo poo up. I felt like I had a head cold for a while until I realized it was just pollution from fireworks. The neighborhood was blasting 24-hours a day for several days in a row, but it's less now. Indians are notorious for never telling each other to stop their bullshit, and this is more normal when the person is like 16 and younger. Many have a really strong aversion to telling kids "no" or reprimanding them, preferring to let them be obnoxious shits until they get to high school or university. I guess psychologically this makes them bypass the rebellious phase, because they never have limits on their conduct, but it's so annoying. My favorite was when I was at a fancy restaurant with my dad (in India) and some people came and were seated next to us with two 10-ish-year-old kids, each of whom had one of those lovely wood flutes poor guys make and sell on the side of the road. The kids were blowing on them as hard as they could non-stop, tweaking everyone's ears. The parents and their relatives/friends with them were completely ignoring it. The rest of the restaurant was ignoring it or giving them those dirty looks but of course would never say anything about it. My dad asked politely if the parents could stop the flute blowing because it was ruining our meal. Their dad looked at him and said "Why? They are only children. Just let them play. It's not bad." My dad said "We came here for a nice meal, and I don't want to pay money to listen to these kids blow on these flutes." One of the kids asked if he should stop, and the dad gave them this face and hand motion that meant "keep doing it," because it was pissing off the foreigner. Indians love to make petty face gains like this, like Chinese, and he had this smirk on his face like "Nobody can tell me what to do!" The waiter came over and asked my dad if there is anything we need, and my dad said loudly "YEAH, I WANT THESE loving KIDS TO SHUT THE gently caress UP WITH THESE loving FLUTES. CAN DO YOU DO THAT?" The waiter knew he could not, since waiters are low-class and have no power, and he just kept saying "Um, sir..." The dad at the other table yelled back "WHY ARE YOU RUDE!? IT IS MY CHILDREN, THEY WILL PLAY THE FLUTES!" My dad stood up and said "SHUT THESE loving KIDS UP OR I WILL TAKE THESE loving FLUTES AND BREAK THEM OVER YOUR HEAD. STOP ACTING LIKE AN rear end in a top hat!!" Much like China, many people here will act like assholes until it's time to put up or shut up, and then they will shrink down into nothingness. The guy slumped in his chair and stared and frowned at my dad the rest of the time we were there.
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Oct 21, 2017 06:39
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At that point the whole restaurant stood up and clapped. And those flutes, were Albert Einstein.
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Oct 21, 2017 06:54
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Oct 21, 2017 13:53
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Oct 21, 2017 13:59
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Man is in the doors Man something woman, diagonally downwards (e2: yeah the middle one is like tabletop) Man on the left of something Man up and to the left of woman, three somethings below (bottom character looks familiar e: yeah it's bed, that's what I thought) I'm gonna take a stab at loss.jpg I always thought the nurse in panel 2 was a man but looking again I guess not simplefish fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Oct 21, 2017 |
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Oct 21, 2017 14:02
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Left bottom is a man with a doctor. Bottom right above bed is the compound word for miscarriage. My favorite detail is the positioning of the characters.
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Oct 21, 2017 14:31
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Ceciltron posted:A friend found this on the steam community page for a videogame.
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Oct 21, 2017 14:33
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Dude, I don't know a single drat character of that language, and it's still blazingly obvious it loss.jpg. It's glorious
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Oct 21, 2017 14:37
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Bajaj posted:I just finished one of the lamest probations I've ever had. I guess ole Gene figured out who I am and was making up for lost time. I know you're reading this! genesplicer is a really bad moderator. which is sad because he's a pretty decent poster but i guess power corrupts and all that.
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Oct 21, 2017 16:08
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McGavin posted:It's like how in Japan objects that have reached their 100th birthday become alive and self-aware, but in China they hit 6 months, collapse, and die. Poor ol' sign, thought of scooters and died.
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Oct 21, 2017 17:08
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Oct 21, 2017 21:05
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A student today told me, "America has 100 years of history. China has ten thousand years of history!" He seemed really  about it, too. I just made him math up 2017 - 1607 and went, "is that more than 100?" Then we practiced more than/less than/equal to.I don't miss teaching kids older than 10 at all.
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Oct 21, 2017 21:06
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Bajaj did the flauting stop?
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Oct 21, 2017 21:12
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:A student today told me, "America has 100 years of history. China has ten thousand years of history!" He seemed really Just going forget about the Native Americans and such?
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Oct 21, 2017 21:30
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FillInTheBlank posted:Just going forget about the Native Americans and such? *to
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Oct 21, 2017 21:34
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Natives have lived in America for 12,000 years, so America has 12,000 years of history. Please respect America's history or you will hurt the feelings of the American people.
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Oct 21, 2017 21:36
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*sensually racists at u*
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Oct 21, 2017 21:38
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Someone itt explain how a person can clip their nails with a nail clipper for nearly an hour straight. It shouldn't be possible, there couldn't be any nail left at the 10 minute mark. And why do they wait until they're on the bus to do so
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Oct 21, 2017 23:13
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value-brand cereal posted:Someone itt explain how a person can clip their nails with a nail clipper for nearly an hour straight. What bus takes an hour
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Oct 21, 2017 23:17
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serious norman posted:What bus takes an hour most busses in a chinese city during rush hour, especially if you work near "first ring road" and live on like "fifth ring road"
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Oct 21, 2017 23:21
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angel opportunity posted:most busses in a chinese city during rush hour, especially if you work near "first ring road" and live on like "fifth ring road" Would guess an intercity bus. To be fair I've been on a 36hrs bus ride from Barcelona to Venice
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Oct 21, 2017 23:26
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A reminder:quote:In the 17th century, the idea of a spherical Earth, now considerably advanced by Western astronomy, ultimately spread to Ming China, when Jesuit missionaries, who held high positions as astronomers at the imperial court, successfully challenged the Chinese belief that the Earth was flat and square.
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Oct 21, 2017 23:35
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Oct 21, 2017 23:36
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Crosspost from the Military Food Threadchitoryu12 posted:Chinese Ration (Type 13)
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Oct 22, 2017 00:15
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serious norman posted:What bus takes an hour A bus that gets caught in weekend traffic AND a car accident in the middle of an intersection so that cops gotta do their arm wavy nonsense to tell idiot dummies to stop staring at the ambulance and loving drive on. But no worries no one died, afaik. It's merely driving with various Asian characteristics and lack of a brake pedal.
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Oct 22, 2017 00:35
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There's that classic Taiwanese "lunchbox" where they jam rice into bamboo and that is always so solid you basically have to take bites out of it with your teeth. So this is maybe deliberate?
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Oct 22, 2017 01:18
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https://i.imgur.com/oJTg8kk.gifv
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Oct 22, 2017 02:23
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Lemonade with Chinese characteristics. chitoryu12 posted:Regardless of the ingredients, these were some of the blandest meals I've encountered. But they had a bigger problem, one which requires me to provide you with video evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcE0aAhbVFc
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Oct 22, 2017 02:28
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It doesn't matter, they will never put their military in a situation that will require them to use field rations anyway.
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Oct 22, 2017 02:31
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How do Chinese soldiers stack up to the rest of the world, anyway? Are they given halfway-decent training or is just marching in formation and shoving civilians? Are their special forces worth writing home about?
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Oct 22, 2017 03:17
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Fantastic Flyer posted:Natives have lived in America for 12,000 years, so America has 12,000 years of history. Please respect America's history or you will hurt the feelings of the American people. Natives have actually lived in the Americas for a while longer than that--there's human settlements in Chile dated to about 16,000 years and the current thinking is people started crossing between 20 and 30,000 years ago.  When I've taught American history the first third of the class is all before a single white person even shows up. The students who pay attention are amazed at the pyramids in Peru many thousands of years older than anything in China. Also, to their credit, they never claim China is the oldest civilization. Usually they think it's Egypt. I don't know what's happening here or why but I'm impressed. Fantastic Flyer posted:How do Chinese soldiers stack up to the rest of the world, anyway? Are they given halfway-decent training or is just marching in formation and shoving civilians? Are their special forces worth writing home about? They're really bad. Their training is 95% how to put down riots/internal rebellion and none of that training is good, either. Bullets are expensive so you get to fire five shots a year at the range, that kind of thing.
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Oct 22, 2017 03:21
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Fantastic Flyer posted:How do Chinese soldiers stack up to the rest of the world, anyway? Are they given halfway-decent training or is just marching in formation and shoving civilians? Are their special forces worth writing home about? Not sure, from what I know they did a big refit after desert storm and havent gone out in force since.
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Oct 22, 2017 03:23
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The PLA went through two major shocks, first in 1979 when they performed embarrassingly badly in the Sino-Vietnamese War because it turns out invading Vietnam sucks (who would have thought), which led to reforms to infantry training and equipment, and another in 1991. China, like many observers, was surprised at exactly how quickly Iraq's army folded under the American invasion, and since Chinese equipment and doctrine was broadly similar to Iraq's at the time, the PLA became concerned that, in the event of a conflict with the US or a US ally, their forces would be at a disadvantage. This led to a lot of weapons programs to bring their equipment up to higher standards (especially with regard to armored divisions and air defense). It's hard to assess how far they've come because we haven't seen them in action recently. A lot of the military is geared towards riot suppression and public order, as people have noted, especially after Tienanmen made it clear that political loyalty was one of the most important traits for a PLA trooper to have.
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Oct 22, 2017 05:33
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Fantastic Flyer posted:How do Chinese soldiers stack up to the rest of the world, anyway? Are they given halfway-decent training or is just marching in formation and shoving civilians? Are their special forces worth writing home about? What does your heart tell you?
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Oct 22, 2017 05:38
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Grand Fromage posted:Bullets are expensive so you get to fire five shots a year at the range, that kind of thing. how can bullets be so expensive when everything else is cheap? is it because they can't really cut corners by using cheap metal or less gunpowder? legit curious.
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Oct 22, 2017 05:42
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ladron posted:how can bullets be so expensive when everything else is cheap? is it because they can't really cut corners by using cheap metal or less gunpowder? legit curious. I'm pretty sure Chinese ammunition is already as cheap as it can be. Ammo costs get expensive when you're buying enough for whole divisions, and since it's relatively adjustable compared to the fixed costs of bases and people it's a simple way to save money.
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Oct 22, 2017 06:05
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also because party official failson officers are grifting the gently caress out of your budget
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Pirate Radar posted:The PLA went through two major shocks, first in 1979 when they performed embarrassingly badly in the Sino-Vietnamese War because it turns out invading Vietnam sucks (who would have thought),
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