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

Atlas Hugged posted:

As far as I'm concerned, white people food is just various edible vehicles to carry sauce into your mouth.

nachos are mexican and mexicans are brown. idiot.

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Atlas Hugged posted:

As far as I'm concerned, white people food is just various edible vehicles to carry sauce into your mouth.

Finally the whites have stolen something worthwhile. 饺子 and 醋 that is.

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Bajaj posted:

Yesterday Chaoshan Girl

I swear, until now I've been pronouncing this in my head as Chaos Chan Girl

As in she's the cute personification of chaos in your life

I saw that Youtube video and finally it sunk in

:sweatdrop:

# ? Nov 7, 2017 15:10

Atlas Hugged: Mar 12, 2007; Put your arms around me,
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Darkest Auer posted:

Finally the whites have stolen something worthwhile. 饺子 and 醋 that is.

I believe you mean 餃子.

# ? Nov 7, 2017 15:16

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

The only people I knowbfrom hiroshima are Perfume and I dont think theyve made a nuke song

There's a coincidence - I was watching Vs Arashi today and they played against a team from Hiroshima team and it had Perfume in it.

Didn't even know they were all from the same place until today and now it came up again.

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

Pirate Radar posted:

American food is the cheapest possible ground beef arranged on a baking sheet to spell out I’M GAY and then put into the oven at 350 degrees for 1 hour

Then covered in ranch

Ftfy

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McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

thoughts and prayers posted:

I swear, until now I've been pronouncing this in my head as Chaos Chan Girl

CHAOSHAN = CHAOS HAN

:aaaaa:

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

McGavin posted:

CHAOSHAN = CHAOS HAN

you have solved the underlying mystery of the universe

# ? Nov 7, 2017 16:35

P-Mack: Nov 10, 2007

Grand Fromage posted:

The Yasukuni Museum is the funniest museum I've ever seen and I highly recommend it if you enjoy things that are stupid. Their WW2 narrative is essentially: the perfidious Chinese attacked our troops outside Beijing for some reason that cannot be comprehended, then we defended ourselves bravely until the Americans rolled up and nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki because ????? woe is us.

They also have an original Zero, which is neat. And the antique market outside the shrine on Sundays is way cool.

I'd love to see it if I could get in without giving them money.

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Bajaj: Sep 13, 2017; by FactsAreUseless

ntan1 posted:

P much. Midwestern, deep south food. What people eat completely changes based on region, and lots of folks on the coasts are way more adventurous, but there are tons of people i've known and grown up with who are afraid of trying new things.

EG:

Pizza - oven
Yams - roast them in the oven
Brussel Sprouts - add salt and pepper and roast them in the oven
Chicken - add seasoning and roast it in the oven
Turkey - roast it in the oven
Bread - cooked in the oven
Pie - oven
Pasta - speed things up by putting in the oven
Meatloaf - also oven
Grilled Cheese - oven
Potatoes - I guess we just boil them and add butter, but you can also roast them.

I guess theres the deep fryer too

LOL, this is one of those "Foreigners eat only bread or sandwiches" ideas thought up by people with zero experience of the outside world, except posted by someone who absolutely does have experience (maybe).

ntan1 posted:

ABC represent

I would like to mention that Mantou are loving delicious and all you need is a little bit of spring onion or sugar mixed in and they are perfectly fine. It's basically bread, except better than wonder bread.

Also, American food on average is pretty bland and has too much sugar. There are lots of good things, but classic American families do pretty much make _everything_ using an oven.

I think what you are referring to is called the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.), and yeah, it's horrendous for taste and health. I would argue there is definite Standard *X country* Diet, which has a lot of poor quality foods, but the SAD is just really, really bad. Around the world, when you have a schooling and working population that chooses price and ease over quality, it's not going to help them. You can still be totally unhealthy without being obese. "Bald girl is not bald, it is very normal for China, do u know? Don't say she is balding!"

By "American food," I think you're trying to say "White American food," because "Americans" are people from across the globe. Foods that were once popular like 60 years ago because after WW2 suddenly everyone was able to afford a refrigerator and oven in the home, and wanted to make all sorts of weird poo poo just because they could. The age of Jello for dessert and Kool Aid for the kids has passed and been replaced with something else. This whole thing about having an abundance of foods to buy and ability to buy things out of season is still completely new.
I think it was in How I Met Your Mother where the tall guy and red head go back to Minnesota to visit, and she's complaining how "salad" means mayo and everything is made out of mayo.

Mantou is steamed white flour. Wonder Bread is an abomination, but wins in regard of "which is healthier?" Mantou has the same effect on the blood sugar and body as drinking a soda. It would be healthier to eat a Snickers bar, because the peanuts might count for something. It's bottom-rung "food," and is probably more unhealthy than shoveling away giant bowls of plain white rice. If we wanna go the "Whataboutism" path, North American foods are full of HFCS, sugar, salt, and fat because that's what makes people keep buying it and it was all part of a push to get money out of idiots. It was researched and perfected. It's working in China and Asia, too, and it's still normal for me to be waiting at the check out lines to see people <25 buying chips and soda/milk tea for lunch. In my opinion, the slimy stuff with the rice they could buy at the corner food stall isn't much better. Everyone across the world eats way more sugar and salt than they should, but parts of Asia, especially China, are unique in that they add sugar where it shouldn't go. Like on beans. gently caress that, that's inexcusable.

ladron posted:

nachos are mexican and mexicans are brown. idiot.

I feel that US and North American versions of international foods are American foods in the same way that something like Indian Chinese foods are just Indian. They're inspired by the idea of these foods, but due to lack of similar ingredients or local tastes, it's something different in the shape of the food it is trying to be. A burrito I had in Oregon is not going to taste like any I could get in Mexico, but it's unique to its own place and time. It's an American burrito. Like Taco Bell or something is totally not "South of the border" food, but it is going to be some local/domestic ingenuity. California rolls are an example, and there are other foods that have been adopted and adapted. Italians whined to me about Chicago-style deep dish stuffed-crust pizzas when I was staying in Italy, saying it's not real pizza, but LOL, those purists would never try one and know how good it tastes as an oily treat.

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Bajaj: Sep 13, 2017; by FactsAreUseless

LMAO:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mantistek-gk2-collects-typed-keys,35850.html

quote:

Multiple online user reports claim that the MantisTek GK2 mechanical keyboard's configuration software is sending data to an Alibaba server. One of the reports even includes an analysis of the software�s traffic, which seems to include typed keys.

The MantisTek GK2 is a cheap RGB mechanical keyboard from China that costs half as much (or less) as the mechanical keyboards from better known companies. Multiple gadgets that come from China seem to have either poor security or privacy issues caused by collecting user data without consumers' explicit permission. The MantisTek GK2 seems to be one of those products.

The main issue seems to be caused by the keyboard�s �Cloud Driver,� which sends information to IP addresses tied to Alibaba servers. Alibaba sells cloud services, so the data isn�t necessarily being sent to Alibaba, the company, but to someone else using an Alibaba server.

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Barudak: May 7, 2007

Italians lost the fight to be recognized owners of the word Pizza. They wom Margherita and I think Neapolitan. Too bad those are trash pizzas and the thing everyone on the globe thinks of when they think of pizza is American.

Pizza Hut china remains an upscale abomination, however.

# ? Nov 7, 2017 17:54

mrbotus: Apr 7, 2009; Patron of the Pants

Bajaj posted:

I feel that US and North American versions of international foods are American foods in the same way that something like Indian Chinese foods are just Indian. They're inspired by the idea of these foods, but due to lack of similar ingredients or local tastes, it's something different in the shape of the food it is trying to be. A burrito I had in Oregon is not going to taste like any I could get in Mexico, but it's unique to its own place and time. It's an American burrito. Like Taco Bell or something is totally not "South of the border" food, but it is going to be some local/domestic ingenuity. California rolls are an example, and there are other foods that have been adopted and adapted. Italians whined to me about Chicago-style deep dish stuffed-crust pizzas when I was staying in Italy, saying it's not real pizza, but LOL, those purists would never try one and know how good it tastes as an oily treat.

Yeah, but you're not allowed to make your own version of things.

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McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

Barudak posted:

Italians lost the fight to be recognized owners of the word Pizza. They wom Margherita and I think Neapolitan. Too bad those are trash pizzas and the thing everyone on the globe thinks of when they think of pizza is American.

Pizza Hut china remains an upscale abomination, however.

Hawiian pizza was invented in Canada.

Makes u think.

:thunk:

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His Divine Shadow: Aug 7, 2000; I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Haven't you guys ever heard of what the swedes can do with pizza? They are the masters now. Masters of evil yes, but masters.

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Barudak: May 7, 2007

Pizza in Japan involved Mayo and lets just say I started having serious thoughts that maybe all of the offspring of Izanami and Izagami should have been sent on a boat and sent away from the lands of Japan.

Barudak fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Nov 7, 2017

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Gargamel Gibson: Apr 24, 2014

Barudak posted:

wom

Classic.

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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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Bajaj posted:

LMAO:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mantistek-gk2-collects-typed-keys,35850.html

lol chinese products come with literal loving keyloggers

china to be most innovative high tech superpower by ~~2020~~ 2025

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peanut: Sep 9, 2007

McGavin posted:

Hawiian pizza was invented in Canada.

Makes u think.

Hawaiian pizza is like al pastor tacos without spice. And I like both! !!

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Barudak: May 7, 2007

peanut posted:

Hawaiian pizza is like al pastor tacos without spice. And I like both! !!

I hope that when you reincarnate as a lower creature you will understand the Karma you have accrued.

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peanut: Sep 9, 2007

I'm gonna be a red panda

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Atlas Hugged: Mar 12, 2007; Put your arms around me,
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I love you all

His Divine Shadow posted:

Haven't you guys ever heard of what the swedes can do with pizza? They are the masters now. Masters of evil yes, but masters.

I was talking to a Swede about this the other week and he didn't find it strange at all that they put banana on pizza or that they had a pizza named after Africans.

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Mistle: Oct 11, 2005; Eckot's comic relief cousin from out of town; Grimey Drawer

peanut posted:

I'm gonna be ~~a red panda~~ an animal that's poached, and have my bones ground into TCM for superstitious yokels to ingest me in the false hope of being imbued with my qualities.

You mean "Extinct due to assholes wanting status pets" right?

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

Atlas Hugged posted:

As far as I'm concerned, white people food is just various edible vehicles to carry sauce into your mouth.

Is that how your mother describes me or is this entirely whole-cloth for you

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Kill All Cops: Apr 11, 2007; Pacheco de Chocobo; Hell Gem

His Divine Shadow posted:

Haven't you guys ever heard of what the swedes can do with pizza? They are the masters now. Masters of evil yes, but masters.

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Meme Poker Party: Sep 1, 2006; by Azathoth

I'd eat that pizza.

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Barudak: May 7, 2007

The topping distribution is completely hosed up on that pizza, I thought you all were socialists?

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Bajaj: Sep 13, 2017; by FactsAreUseless

Atlas Hugged posted:

I was talking to a Swede about this the other week and he didn't find it strange at all that they put banana on pizza or that they had a pizza named after Africans.

I had durian pizza with banana cream sauce while in China. It was so yellow that I thought I had finally found a plain pizza slice. That was one of the biggest disappointments of my entire time in China. I took a photo of myself holding it and put it on Wechat that I think Chinese don't know how to make pizza. I hurt the feelings of the Chinese people that day, on purpose.

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Bajaj: Sep 13, 2017; by FactsAreUseless

http://www.espn.com/espn/now?nowId=21-0719650133695795822-4

quote:

Three UCLA men's basketball players -- including LiAngelo Ball -- arrested in China for shoplifting, sources told ESPN. Story coming.

Haha...hahahaha.
"They look like basketball players... maybe we can ask them for a lot of money if we arrest them for something. Maybe say they are stealing from China!"

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I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

quote:

Authorities believe the players shoplifted from a Louis Vuitton store near the UCLA team hotel outside of Shanghai. The Bruins are in China to play Georgia Tech on Saturday in the season opener. The players were arrested Tuesday after local law enforcement came to the team hotel and questioned both UCLA and Georgia Tech players before taking the three away. ESPN first reported the arrests

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I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

LiAngelo Stats

0 points

0 assists

1 steal

0 rebounds

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Gonna go out on a limb here (I don't follow basketball so don't know anything about these lads) and assume they were basically guilty of being black in a designer shop in China

# ? Nov 8, 2017 07:25

Bajaj: Sep 13, 2017; by FactsAreUseless

I was browsing Kindle Deals in Amazon, and this popped up:

https://www.amazon.com/Jade-Dragon-...7YASC2QE5TQQYAS

quote:

On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell.

Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now he is an exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with travelers, soldiers, and merchants. All have come for a spectacle unprecedented in this remote province: an eclipse of the sun commanded by the Emperor himself.

When a Jesuit astronomer is found murdered in the home of the local magistrate, blame is hastily placed on Tibetan bandits. But Li Du suspects this was no random killing. Everyone has secrets: the ambitious magistrate, the powerful consort, the bitter servant, the irreproachable secretary, the East India Company merchant, the nervous missionary, and the traveling storyteller who can't keep his own story straight.

Beyond the sloping roofs and festival banners, Li Du can see the mountain pass that will take him out of China forever. He must choose whether to leave, and embrace his exile, or to stay, and investigate a murder that the town of Dayan seems all too willing to forget.

A Chinese detective? LMAO. Face culture makes being a detective an oxymoron. "Hmmm... this guy said no to the crime, and I know he is lying because we have seven witnesses, but he said no so I have to just walk away and accept that. I'll just blame it on this poor beggar. Maybe it is better I go poke my nose into more imperial business."

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I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

This is a reminder to read the story about what happened when Allen Iverson went on tour in China.

# ? Nov 8, 2017 07:54

Porfiriato: Jan 4, 2016

quote:

Report: Arrested UCLA players in China could face prison time
By Scott PhillipsNov 7, 2017, 9:15 PM EST
9 Comments
UCLA freshmen LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill could face between three and 10 years in prison if standard Chinese practices are applied and they are convicted under suspicion of shoplifting, according to a report from Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports.

Wetzel, citing a conversation with William Nee, a Hong Kong-based researcher of the Chinese court system for Amnesty International, reported that the three UCLA freshmen could face stiff penalties after the trio was arrested for allegedly shoplifting in a Louis Vuitton store next to the team�s Hangzhou hotel.

The Bruins are in China for the week as they prepare to face Georgia Tech on the first day of the regular season on Friday.

Nee told Wetzel that Chinese prosecutors will usually make a defendant wait 30-37 days before an official indictment. Research from Nee also indicates that Chinese prosecutors enjoy a 99.2 percent conviction rate among those who are indicted.

There is a chance that the United States consulate could step in to help broker a quicker resolution, but they don�t dictate the terms of the Chinese legal system. During Nee�s research into Chinese law, he found that defendants could be held in detention for weeks at a time before prosecutors might even decide how to proceed with the case. In other words, American-style bail is usually very rare in the case of Chinese law procedure.

There�s no way that�s actually going to happen, but it would be interesting if China treated them like they normally treat foreign criminal suspects with their skin color who don�t have first world passports.

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Collateral Damage: Jun 13, 2009

Atlas Hugged posted:

I was talking to a Swede about this the other week and he didn't find it strange at all that they put banana on pizza or that they had a pizza named after Africans.

The pizza I ate last night had both banana and pineapple on it. And chicken and curry and onion and cheese.

I have an italian friend who calls it the "war crime pizza"

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Ups_rail: Dec 8, 2006; by Fluffdaddy

Known Lecher posted:

There�s no way that�s actually going to happen, but it would be interesting if China treated them like they normally treat foreign criminal suspects with their skin color who don�t have first world passports.

This is interesting.

Universities are whores for forgien china money, But they are also whores for sports money.

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Imperialist Dog: Oct 21, 2008; "I think you could better spend your time on finishing your editing before the deadline today."
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https://twitter.com/tomgrundy/status/928234057330069504

YOU ARE A BUS
YOU CAN'T EVEN DRIBBLE

# ? Nov 8, 2017 13:49

caberham: Mar 18, 2009; by Smythe; Grimey Drawer

Imperialist Dog posted:

https://twitter.com/tomgrundy/status/928234057330069504

YOU ARE A BUS
YOU CAN'T EVEN DRIBBLE

That's why it's travelling :downsrim:

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Bajaj posted:

http://www.espn.com/espn/now?nowId=21-0719650133695795822-4

Haha...hahahaha.
"They look like basketball players... maybe we can ask them for a lot of money if we arrest them for something. Maybe say they are stealing from China!"

Reminds me of this incident back in the 1990's: http://articles.latimes.com/1992-12-16/news/mn-1947_1_university-band

I was working in a photo lab and printed a couple rolls of photos from someone who was on the trip. The guy who brought in the film seemed to think it was a big joke. TSU ended up disbanding the band.

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