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CIGNX: May 7, 2006; You can trust me

nickmeister posted:

Flame looks fake...? Not sure because I'm watching on my pgpne. But why add fire when it's already good enough?

Also that in laws story was hilarious. Is Chinese culture a homebody culture?

It's more like being broke in the brain from having spent your formative years in a deprive and/or abusive environment. For the in-laws, it is probably the worst of the Mao years. For a lot of the recent Chinese students overseas, it's the irrationally strict upbringing along with the social stunting that comes along with it. They never develop the emotional experience and skills to process new stimuli, let alone tolerate it. So their brain defaults back to its safe place and sticks with what's familiar. They come up with vague excuses like "tastes bad" or "not healthy" after the fact to mask their brain short-circuiting.

What I'm really saying is that being raised by a tiger mom is the same as going through the Cultural Revolution.

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hakimashou: Jul 15, 2002; Upset Trowel

ekuNNN posted:

I'm going to Beijing for work for 10 days soon, this thread has gotten me very excited for it

go see the forbidden city and preserved mao and the temple of heaven its p cool

# ? Nov 6, 2017 02:20

Relin: Oct 6, 2002; You have been a most worthy adversary, but in every game, there are winners and there are losers. And as you know, in this game, losers get robotizicized!

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/31-chinese-cities-economies-big-countries/

but apparently

quote:

Unfortunately it is comparing GDP nominal of countries to GDP PPP of chinese cities, that is complete nonsense and has no value at all. So the Shanghai actually has half of that GDP, 414 billion USD.

# ? Nov 6, 2017 02:41

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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Relin posted:

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/31-chinese-cities-economies-big-countries/

but apparently

PPP the gift that keeps on giving

# ? Nov 6, 2017 02:48

Coolguye: Jul 6, 2011; Required by his programming!

Relin posted:

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/31-chinese-cities-economies-big-countries/

but apparently

the author responded to that in the comments saying the brooking's institute mislabeled them or something (he then changed nothing)

# ? Nov 6, 2017 03:33

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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Coolguye posted:

the author responded to that in the comments saying the brooking's institute mislabeled them or something (he then changed nothing)

lmfao

"yes this does make my entire article lies but i will keep it up for reasons"

# ? Nov 6, 2017 04:25

Porfiriato: Jan 4, 2016

It kind of got lost in the larger story of crazy in-laws, but mantou is really The Worst. It�s basically a large dinner roll-sized lump of absolute flavorless blandness that makes a slice of processed white bread seem like a taste explosion by comparison.

On top of that, despite being steamed it is somehow so dry that it actively leaches moisture from your mouth as you try to chew and swallow.

There�s tons of delicious steamed Chinese dumplings/baozi/etc. out there, but I just can�t imagine mantou coming about except as a famine food, as in �welp, this rice flour is all we have, so it�s either this or starving�. It�s the very definition of unsatisfying empty calories, and frankly if my in-laws had been forcing them on me 3x/day I might have lost it before AO did. Even a bowl of plain white rice would be far more tolerable.

# ? Nov 6, 2017 04:32

bob dobbs is dead: Oct 8, 2017; I love peeps; Nap Ghost

mantou is made of wheat flour

execution makes it vary a little, but it's the second most plain food i've ever eaten, after fufu. white bread is actually pretty flavorful in the grand continuum of bland-rear end foods, because it is in imitation of real bread, which is delicious with only a little butter

never eat either mantou or fufu without something else, god

e: greatest breakfast I ever had was in paris, a baguette straight from the brasserie with some cultured butter

can actually have a quite analogous experience with rice and some vegetables

can't w/ mantou or fufu

# ? Nov 6, 2017 04:35

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

Plain mantou is like Wonderbread, it�s nothing special. Something like a gua bao (braised pork, pickles, peanuts, cilantro in a sort of mantou pocket) is pretty good though.

# ? Nov 6, 2017 04:42

Porfiriato: Jan 4, 2016

^^^^^^^
Yeah that�s like a really fluffy baozi and not bad at all. My hate is mainly reserved for plain mantou which is what I assumed his in laws were eating.

bob dobbs is dead posted:

mantou is made of wheat flour

I�ll be damned you�re right, somehow I had it in my head it was rice flour. Makes sense why it�s more a northern thing then.

Porfiriato fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Nov 6, 2017

# ? Nov 6, 2017 04:42

Atlas Hugged: Mar 12, 2007; Put your arms around me,
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Mantou can be good, but again Taiwan Number 1. It's the one thing my father-in-law makes that's not awful. But he rarely leaves them plain. He mixes in fruit and flavorings (brown sugar for instance) so they're not just dry steamed wheat flour.

# ? Nov 6, 2017 04:42

CIGNX: May 7, 2006; You can trust me

Known Lecher posted:

I�ll be damned you�re right, somehow I had it in my head it was rice flour. Makes sense why it�s more a northern thing then.

Some Vietnamese-style steamed buns will use some rice flour mixed with wheat, and they are shittier because of that. The buns crumble apart like cake and somehow taste blander.

# ? Nov 6, 2017 05:09

LentThem: Aug 31, 2004; 90% Retractible

my favorite part of that in-laws story is that cultural factors have completely destroyed their reaction times, spatial awareness, survival instinct, and compassion for life partners

if these guys were centenarians i'd be like okay fine, but aren't they like in their 60s?

yo my wifes face is meeeeeega hosed up, but i only get a chance to buy pigs feet and chinese vegetables once every couple of weeks and im sure the bleeding will stop while she waits in the sun for an hour, things are fine

# ? Nov 6, 2017 05:34

mrbotus: Apr 7, 2009; Patron of the Pants

All this talk about bland, unimaginative Chinese food reminds me of that Vice article written by an angry ABC girl who was angry about bland "white people" food. And also Marco Polo brought cured ham from China only actually the Romans were doing it in like 200BC so

# ? Nov 6, 2017 05:51

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

angel opportunity posted:

My in-laws have been here over 2 months again. They are thankfully leaving soon. There's a number of things that happened but I'll type up the "best" one. I didn't really feel like typing this up because it makes me more mad than anything. I don't really find it funny as it's mostly just infuriating.

Just like people in this thread have been saying, Chinese people are terrible at eating. My in-laws are from Shandong and eat a bunch of "Mantou" every meal. This is white flour and water mixed into dough, then steamed. It's basically just as bad as white rice, and it tastes just as bland. They probably eat 2-3 of these every single meal no matter what. They go through like 3 bags of flour in 2 weeks.

Mantou is basically just really bad bread

In addition to the mantou, every meal they eat some kind of vegetables and meat stir-fried together. After the stirfrying is done, they pour some water into there, which they call "soup". So every single dish they eat is just one vegatable and one meat sit-fried together with water dumped in it. They also will eat egg/tomato mixtures. They also eat rice porridge. They eat like barbarians and slurp everything as loud as possible.

I find this food extremely bland and can only eat it once in a while. There's no flavor added other than a light dash of soysauce, and it's simply the most boring and plain food I've had. It's at least not offensively bad tasting, but it's just too boring to eat often.

They hang around the house all day in their pajamas and never go out. The ONLY time they actively want to go out is to go to the Chinese grocery store. We tried to get them to go do some fun stuff downtown, but they backed out at the last minute and said "Let's just go to the Chinese grocery store."

Around the end of their first month here, right after my wife gave birth, they said they "had no food" and "needed to go to Lotus (Chinese store.)" They seemed extremely stressed out and concerned that they had "no food." They cook like clockwork 3x per day. At 7am, 1pm, and 6pm. My wife and I tried to cook for them or take them places, but they always very visibly hated it. Sometimes MIL even would say "This tastes disgusting."

My wife told me I needed to take them to Lotus so they would stop complaining. I got them in the car with me, and it's worth noting that they both have that godawful Chinese BO. I think they take a shower like once every two weeks, maybe less? They sit in the backseat together when I drive as if I were a limo driver, but I can smell the strong BO all the way from the back.

Lotus is in the "Strip District" of Pittsburgh, and it's next to this non-Chinese store that specializes in meat at really good prices. This store even has signs up in Chinese because they sell poo poo like chicken gizzards etc. My in-laws were very excited to go to both places. I had to park a few blocks away because Lotus has a free spot to park there rather than doing pay parking. We park and got out, and I started walking toward Lotus with them.

I was actually planning on telling them "Meet me here in 1.5 hours" so I could go somewhere interesting while they shopped.

We were walking toward Lotus, which is downhill from the parking spot, and suddenly I saw someone just face plant onto the ground next to me. I looked down and saw my mother-in-law just facedown on the concrete. You know how when western people trip, they have an instinctive reaction to put their hands out and brace the fall? I didn't see the moment of impact except for in my peripheral vision, but it looked like she just fell face first into the sidewalk.

There were like three other American people standing near us as she fell, and they pulled out some tissue paper while I helped MIL stand up. She got up and her entire face was just like bleeding and cut up. She had 6-7 separate bleeding gashes all over her face. Her wrists (which confirms to me she landed without getting her hands out at all) were also cut up, and her pants were all scuffed up.

The American people hand the tissues to us, and she took one and started pressing it against some of the bleeding cuts on her face.

I said, "Let's go home and then (my wife) will go to the urgent care clinic with you."

It didn't look bad enough that I had to rush her there, and I figured it would be better if my wife could translate for her.

My father-in-law looked at me with this super worried look, then he looked back over his shoulder at Lotus, which is just like 50 steps away, and said "But we don't have any food at home..."

I just said "Are you serious? She's injured really badly, we need to leave."

He said, "I will go in and quickly buy food, then we can go."

Mother-in-law looked at me and says she's fine even though her face was just like totally hosed up. She said we needed the food.

I didn't want to deal with them acting like dumb babies, so I just called my wife and put her on the phone with my mother-in-law, hoping she'd make them just leave and go home.

While they were on the phone ,my father-in-law was just talking at me with increasing urgency that he could just get the food really really fast, but he said he needed my credit card. I decided I really didn't want to have to drive back here again, and I also told myself if they ever want to do something really loving dumb that makes no sense, I'd just let them rather than arguing pointlessly with them for an extended period.

I gave him the card and said "HURRY!"

He ran off sheepishly toward Lotus. It's worth noting that other than his gold pajamas he wears all day, which have 5,000-years-of-culture items on it like rice, seal script, etc., he has one single green polo shirt. This is his "outside shirt" So he was in his outside polo and dad jeans, and he was half-rear end rushing toward Lotus to make a show of how fast he was going to shop.

After he was out of sight, I got the phone and my wife just says "Let them shop, they will have to come here again if you don't."

I stood there with my mother in law on the sidewalk, leaning against this metal guardrail thing while she held these few tissue papers up to her face. After something like 20-30 minutes, he finally came out with physically as many groceries as he could carry. It was like 10 bags and you could see by the way he carried them that he barely could lift them. I snatched them out of his hands and said, "Okay, that took way too long, let's go."

He looked up at me and said. "But...I only got vegetables," then he points over toward the meat place. "I still need to get meat."

I said "No, we're leaving."

I turned around and started walking toward the car with the bags. I thought that if I just went without arguing they would give up and just follow me back. I didn't want to look back in case they tried to argue, and I wanted them to see how mad I was. When I turned the corner after a block, I looked back and saw mother-in-law still standing alone by the guard-rail, and father-in-law was gone.

I went back down and mother-in-law said he would be really fast.

I stood there for like 15-20 minutes and he was still in there. I told her I was going to go get him.

I went through the seafood and then to the regular meat, and I see father-in-law staring down at something and not moving. I walked up right beside him and stood there with my arms crossed. He was lifting up various pre-packed containers of pigs feet, comparing the weight/price combos. I stood there and remembered the "Chinese people have no peripheral vision" thing from this thread. He seriously couldn't see me at all even though I was right next to him.

He finally settled on one pigs feet container after a full minute or so--and keep in mind he'd been deliberating well before I arrived, so in no way was he at all trying to hurry even though his wife was bleeding outside with her face all hosed up.

He then turned toward me, looked me right in the eye, and made what is probably the dumbest looking face I've ever seen. It was like this stupid, idiotic, flabbergasted look where his eyes bugged out and his mouth just fell slack like he was in a coma. Then he made this sound that was kind of like "Ughghhhhhhwaaaahhhhhhhh????" Finally, he used words, and said, "Oh, you're here?"

I said, "Let's go, come on."

He then made me tell the guy behind the meat counter to cut a piece of some chunk of meat, and we got that and I forced him to finally leave.

When we got home my wife saw her mom's face and started crying because it looked so bad, and she took her to the urgent care place. I think it ended up taking like 3-4 weeks for her face to fully heal.

After that happened I've refused to eat any of their cooking.

Shortly after that my wife blew up on her father-in-law for how he used to physically abuse her as a kid, yet he's lived here for two months after that. They didn't talk to each other for almost two weeks, but now she just makes excuses for him again.

love u bud

# ? Nov 6, 2017 06:06

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
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hakimashou posted:

go see the forbidden city and preserved mao and the temple of heaven its p cool

By "go see" I hope you mean, "take a photo of the front gate and keep walking". It's 99% empty, and is almost literally the same 2 empty buildings over and over again. It's like some lazy level designer for a game just copied and pasted his three models until he got bored. The only artefacts in it are really, really unimpressive. Check out the military museum instead.

# ? Nov 6, 2017 06:21

Mx.: Dec 16, 2006; I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
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Blistex posted:

By "go see" I hope you mean, "take a photo of the front gate and keep walking". It's 99% empty, and is almost literally the same 2 empty buildings over and over again. It's like some lazy level designer for a game just copied and pasted his three models until he got bored. The only artefacts in it are really, really unimpressive. Check out the military museum instead.

I like the section where they pasted a bunch of rocks together for reasons I don't fully understand

edit: I don't understand why the glued the rocks, but I also don't understand why I liked it

# ? Nov 6, 2017 06:28

LentThem: Aug 31, 2004; 90% Retractible

Blistex posted:

By "go see" I hope you mean, "take a photo of the front gate and keep walking". It's 99% empty, and is almost literally the same 2 empty buildings over and over again. It's like some lazy level designer for a game just copied and pasted his three models until he got bored. The only artifacts in it are really, really unimpressive. Check out the military museum instead.

temple of heaven is okay because the archways are like you are walking through ancient buttholes

# ? Nov 6, 2017 06:29

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

This pretty much sums up the Forbidden City

# ? Nov 6, 2017 06:33

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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Blistex posted:

By "go see" I hope you mean, "take a photo of the front gate and keep walking". It's 99% empty, and is almost literally the same 2 empty buildings over and over again. It's like some lazy level designer for a game just copied and pasted his three models until he got bored. The only artefacts in it are really, really unimpressive. Check out the military museum instead.

Military museum run by the CCP is probably really funny

# ? Nov 6, 2017 06:42

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

Fojar38 posted:

Military museum run by the CCP is probably really funny

Are there any countries that have museums that are like "oh yeah we got our asses handed to us. we also hosed up situations plenty without outside interference". I remember the korean ones were all like "AND SO THE NOBLE PEACEFUL KOREAN FINALLY REPULSED THE EVIL JAPANESE MONKEYS" and then "(some other countries may have helped)" like way at the bottom. or "BEHOLD THE AMAZING NETTING RECOVERED FROM AN EXCAVATION THAT WAS USED BY OUR SEAFARING ANCESTORS" and it's really really clearly nylon and I think I see a price tag on it too

I vaguely recall exhibits at the smithsonian, but not really the tone. when I'd take students there they always wanted to see the hope diamond.

# ? Nov 6, 2017 07:02

Serephina: Nov 8, 2005; 恐竜戦隊
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NZ war museums tend to have a lot of 'Lest We Forget' chiseled everywhere in stone. The theme is usually how a lot of young guys died for no good reason. Amusingly, for the centenary celebration of Anzac Day there was a US article where the editor was puzzled why we'd celebrate a battle we lost so badly. Kinda says a lot.

# ? Nov 6, 2017 07:08

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

I just realized the smithsonian has a native american museum that was built after I left...I wonder how that is....

# ? Nov 6, 2017 07:30

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
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Fojar38 posted:

Military museum run by the CCP is probably really funny

It's cool to look at all the old Soviet hardware and captured equipment. As far as learning something about history that isn't heavily CCP-coated? :laffo:

# ? Nov 6, 2017 07:40

Coolguye: Jul 6, 2011; Required by his programming!

the US national ww1 museum that's near me in Kansas City generally says "holy loving poo poo this entire goddamn war was pointless why did we do this to ourselves"

it mostly dedicates itself to remembering the build up (and highlighting how goddamn stupid it was) and remembering the fighting (and highlighting how brutally and unrelentingly hellish it was)

individual battles are largely footnotes, and the majority of the exhibits are dominated by memorials to the dead on all sides and shout outs to the civilians who suffered because they were in the way

i guess it's easier to hype up world war 2 because there honestly was a lot of ideology and order of the world stuff at stake, but ww1 was just more stupid bullshit from the colonial era where some rich dude got his poo poo ruined and/or feelings hurt and that meant war had to happen because gently caress you that's why

# ? Nov 6, 2017 07:42

Deceitful Penguin: Feb 16, 2011

nickmeister posted:

All this talk about bland, unimaginative Chinese food reminds me of that Vice article written by an angry ABC girl who was angry about bland "white people" food. And also Marco Polo brought cured ham from China only actually the Romans were doing it in like 200BC so

she also thought that "bone broth", i.e. chicken stock was a specifically chinese invention, never discovered by the barbarians of the west

ABCs and their types really are the best

# ? Nov 6, 2017 07:47

Power Khan: Aug 20, 2011; by Fritz the Horse

angel opportunity posted:

"Ughghhhhhhwaaaahhhhhhhh????"

At least you got to write a good story. Looking forward to the next story when they'll be back.

Hey dude, you don't want to have them back, yea?

# ? Nov 6, 2017 07:55

Double Monocle: Sep 4, 2008; Smug as fuck.

ladron posted:

Are there any countries that have museums that are like "oh yeah we got our asses handed to us......

Us military dude here, I love to go to museums in foreign countries.

Civilized countries treat their losses (ww2 is the biggest source of this) with about as much respect as you can. Japan and Germany are the ones I remember most clearly, and the theme is basically "remembering the past without glorifying our wrong-doing" A overwhelming majority of Japanese people treat WW2 as a dark time for their country. Germany obviously does as well. That said, you still feel super lovely for looking at bombed out ruins and civilian death counts knowing your country did it.

If you want a good analogy, go to a civil war museum. (Note- if you are a college student, ignore this and erase history because it hurts your feelings)

I haven't got to go to one that makes me laugh, but I really want to. I will have to check out SKorea next time im in the area. It sounds like a blast.

# ? Nov 6, 2017 08:11

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

Serephina posted:

NZ war museums tend to have a lot of 'Lest We Forget' chiseled everywhere in stone. The theme is usually how a lot of young guys died for no good reason. Amusingly, for the centenary celebration of Anzac Day there was a US article where the editor was puzzled why we'd celebrate a battle we lost so badly. Kinda says a lot.

The rather sombre bit was the War Memorial in Auckland having a marble wall with the names of the fallen on - pretty standard. But about half the wall is empty.

The caption over that empty bit basically says 'If any names pop up here, you hosed up. You didn't learn a loving thing."

# ? Nov 6, 2017 08:15

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

Double Monocle posted:

A overwhelming majority of Japanese people treat WW2 as a dark time for their country.

a dark time like "man it was rough what they did to us" or dark time like "wow, we all kinda went a little crazy there and got justifiably stopped"?

# ? Nov 6, 2017 08:25

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

Double Monocle posted:

I haven't got to go to one that makes me laugh, but I really want to. I will have to check out SKorea next time im in the area. It sounds like a blast.

definitely check out Seodaemun prison. I men, I don't know if it will make you *laugh*, but....basically, it was a prison used by the japanese to inter koreans during the 40 year or so japanese annexation. the japanese kinda have a justifiable reputation for being kinda brutal around this time, and that is depicted with almost cartoonish glee, and all the propaganda that goes with it..like bugs bunny bucktooth glasses "me so solly" poo poo.

what is decidedly missing, tho, is the fact that the prison was used for like another 40 so years AFTER the japanese left, and koreans were torturing koreans there just as bad as the japanese did.

# ? Nov 6, 2017 08:31

Pirate Radar: Apr 18, 2008; You're not my Ruthie!
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Double Monocle posted:

If you want a good analogy, go to a civil war museum. (Note- if you are a college student, ignore this and erase history because it hurts your feelings)

What college is John Kelly enrolled at?

# ? Nov 6, 2017 08:34

Symetrique: Jan 2, 2013

ladron posted:

a dark time like "man it was rough what they did to us" or dark time like "wow, we all kinda went a little crazy there and got justifiably stopped"?

Depends. Though I've never been, I've seen photographs showing the various descriptions of WWII events from the Yasukuni Shrine museum. It's revisionist and shifts the blame to foreign causes while skipping over any Japanese atrocities.

I'd imagine it's different at other museums though. But I am not a Japanese so I cannot comment.

# ? Nov 6, 2017 08:38

Coolguye: Jul 6, 2011; Required by his programming!

Yeah the tone in Japan depends on where you are. I went to a WW2 museum in Tokyo that was like "yeah we were assholes and we got our poo poo wrecked, rip", but the nuke memorial museum in Hiroshima is 100% "oh dear oh my look how bad we suffered oh dearie me when will nukes be a memory write to those darned warmongers in Washington today" while completely neglecting all of the context behind why the nukes were used and why the modern situation is a little more complicated than "everyone put down the guns ok"

# ? Nov 6, 2017 08:57

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

ladron posted:

definitely check out Seodaemun prison. I men, I don't know if it will make you *laugh*, but....basically, it was a prison used by the japanese to inter koreans during the 40 year or so japanese annexation. the japanese kinda have a justifiable reputation for being kinda brutal around this time, and that is depicted with almost cartoonish glee, and all the propaganda that goes with it..like bugs bunny bucktooth glasses "me so solly" poo poo.

what is decidedly missing, tho, is the fact that the prison was used for like another 40 so years AFTER the japanese left, and koreans were torturing koreans there just as bad as the japanese did.

Lol that is the first museum I visited in Korea. It's a bit dull, except for the above-mentioned.

# ? Nov 6, 2017 09:19

Bajaj: Sep 13, 2017; by FactsAreUseless

angel opportunity posted:

My in-laws have been here over 2 months again. They are thankfully leaving soon. There's a number of things that happened but I'll type up the "best" one. I didn't really feel like typing this up because it makes me more mad than anything. I don't really find it funny as it's mostly just infuriating.

I don't know if this is real or a parody, but it seems so real I would like to believe it. The olds there are so hell-bent on their schedules that this seems like in both their brains they could understand the severity of having to eat barbarian food, or their heavenly Chinese food. My boss's in-laws spent a week in Thailand and enjoyed it, but apparently didn't eat Thai food at all. They utterly rejected my plain pumpkin soup for the simple fact that I had made it. The older they are, it seems like the more particular they are about food and weirdo beliefs. At the same time, I still remember that girl was completely shocked the bread with tomato sauce and yellow stuff on top she was enjoying was in fact cheese, and not egg, and how pizza is so weird and why do people want to eat this stuff. If I hadn't told her, all would be well.

Mainlanders grow on strict eating schedules from birth, which do no change from primary school through university, and then into the working life, and into retirement. Everything is exactly the same timing. Breakfast = 6am to 8am, anything later and it's too close to lunch, better starve. Lunch = 12pm to 2pm, usually eat immediately at 12 and then nap until 2. Dinner is 6pm to 7pm, but maybe a little later on Fridays and weekends.
I would say about 80% of the Mainlanders I have talked to or known have formed an inadvertent litmus test for me of seeing how open their minds are at the reaction to my varied eating times. Do they scold me for eating lunch at 3 or 4pm, or comment how strange it is that I am doing that? Do they complain about my occasional intermittent fasting? How many times do they tell me how unhealthy I will be for drinking cold drinks or eating ice cream. My favorite is the "Why are you trying to lose weight?" if I eat a meal a few hours later than they expect me to, as if the pause before a meal is going to drastically alter my body structure. If I eat an early dinner at 5pm or something, they don't understand how I can even go to bed, because I must be dying of hunger. Like, LOL, your white rice and steamed buns just make your blood sugar crash. Try some fiber for once.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
Tank Man was carrying groceries. Face culture abhors when someone else tells you what to do. Tank Man was not a revolutionary or standing up to tyranny. He just wanted to go home and was pissed at all these stupid protesters and tanks getting in his way. Just like that lone car driving the wrong way on a Chinese highway, he was that one guy that wanted to assert himself just because.

# ? Nov 6, 2017 09:29

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

AO, sorry you had to go through that. Thank you for the writeup. It was hilarious.

# ? Nov 6, 2017 09:35

big time bisexual: Oct 16, 2002; Cool Party

Here's an experiment courtesy of reddit for those outside the middle kingdom: what happens when you search 性感 on youtube?

Something is up because with a US based IP address, there aren't any results:

性感 translates to "sexy" so it isn't completely innocuous but it shouldn't be completely filtered if restricted mode is set to off. The Japanese and Korean equivalents (セクシー and 섹시한) both go through fine and return millions of hits.

Searching through Google instead and searching "性感 site:youtube.com" does bring up youtube listings. I am left wondering why Google is tampering with Chinese language search results on youtube when they aren't compelled to do so.

# ? Nov 6, 2017 10:27

JacksAngryBiome: Oct 23, 2014

Coolguye posted:

Yeah the tone in Japan depends on where you are. I went to a WW2 museum in Tokyo that was like "yeah we were assholes and we got our poo poo wrecked, rip", but the nuke memorial museum in Hiroshima is 100% "oh dear oh my look how bad we suffered oh dearie me when will nukes be a memory write to those darned warmongers in Washington today" while completely neglecting all of the context behind why the nukes were used and why the modern situation is a little more complicated than "everyone put down the guns ok"

The Hiroshima museum is just fine as a "nukes loving suck" kind of place. Any extraneous message on reasons they were used would only distract from this.

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# ? May 22, 2024 18:27

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big time bisexual posted:

Here's an experiment courtesy of reddit for those outside the middle kingdom: what happens when you search 性感 on youtube?

Something is up because with a US based IP address, there aren't any results:

性感 translates to "sexy" so it isn't completely innocuous but it shouldn't be completely filtered if restricted mode is set to off. The Japanese and Korean equivalents (セクシー and 섹시한) both go through fine and return millions of hits.

Searching through Google instead and searching "性感 site:youtube.com" does bring up youtube listings. I am left wondering why Google is tampering with Chinese language search results on youtube when they aren't compelled to do so.

Zero results from the Netherlands and an odd white van parked outside my apartment.

# ? Nov 6, 2017 10:42

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