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Don't worry, they have lots of wedding/reception dresses for massive baby bumps. They'll even have an assistant shadow you and adjust your skirt every time you stand up, sit down, turn your head or smile.
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http://www.therisingwasabi.com/red-panic-button-activated-after-foreigner-asks-why/quote:Red Panic Button Activated After Foreigner Asks ‘Why?’
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here's another company that likes to see employees slap the poo poo out of each other https://a.pomfe.co/gdyzje.mp4
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big time bisexual posted:here's another company that likes to see employees slap the poo poo out of each other kinda disappointed this porn isn't more explicit
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icantfindaname posted:http://www.therisingwasabi.com/red-panic-button-activated-after-foreigner-asks-why/ what. this is a joke right
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Coolguye posted:what. Yes Though there's an edge to a lot of stuff on that site that tells you the white expats writing it have a whole barrel full of issues and Opinions under the surface, that article being a great example
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The people who write for that site immediately show that they grasp what it's like living here in Japan.
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ladron posted:jesus, as if the wedding hall factory assembly line weddings weren't bad enough, I've been to one or two where the bride was clearly weeping not from joy because she was being forced to get married because she got knocked up. drat that's sad. At least they've been a couple for a while and were already talking about marriage soooooooo not too sad on our end I think. TBH I kinda like the factory assembly line, it makes planning a wedding easier with less coordination headaches.
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kimcicle posted:I kinda like the factory assembly line, it makes planning a wedding easier with less coordination headaches. what did you do for your wedding? did you have one in each country or did everyone fly back tho the oma land? every time an ex student got married and invited me, they assured me that it was not at a weeding factory because they knew I hated them
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kimcicle posted:poo poo like this is why it's hard to buy superglue in Korea; whatever is in it can give you a high (or so I'm told). you've never heard of sniffing glue?
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ladron posted:what did you do for your wedding? did you have one in each country or did everyone fly back tho the oma land? Wedding factory in Gangnam for her family + her extended + her friends + my extended family that still lives in Korea, flew out my core family. Wedding in LA for my extended family + friends + her extended family that lived in the US, flew out her core family out. Gap of about seven months between the two. underage at the vape shop posted:you've never heard of sniffing glue? Where I grew up the accepted method was to huff paint. :shrugs:
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icantfindaname posted:Yes Their biggest offense is not being funny
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ladron posted:EDIT: maybe not just from being knocked up, but also "I am almost 30, and this could be my last chance to get married before I wither on the vine" I have a Chinese friend who just turned 30. She recently finished a graduate program in England, for which she spent enough to buy an apartment. She's back in china now and making no more money than she was before, with no change in career prospects. She was talking to me constantly while she was there. In between asking me for help with her writing (took a couple months to convince her to go to the school's writing center), she was lamenting how lonely she was, and making excuses for why she couldn't get out and meet people. Too busy with these writing assignments, being one of them (but if she'd taken my advice on changing her approach she'd have finished in half the time). She usually explicitly asks for my advice, and any time I say anything she doesn't want to hear about what she is doing wrong (like "get the gently caress out of your apartment" or "go drink with some classmates or something") she responds by belittling me and my relationship with my wife. She's basically impossible to get along with. She is a total psychic vampire. Our mutual friends have all deleted her on QQ and Weixin. I probably should, too. Anyway, she recently messaged me saying she dumped a guy because he was too short. No other reason. She requires a guy who is at least 175 cm tall. "I deserve a guy who is above average because I am above average." Setting aside that she very well may be making excuses for having been dumped by him; I can totally see her being in that situation sometime soon.
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If you don't live here than its useless without context. If you live here it just reads like a documentary transcript thats been edited for time. Satire doesnt work if it's not an exaggeration from reality.
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Grand Fromage posted:I haven't been to Laos but in Cambodia there is weed everywhere and it's either legal or no one cares, you can go get it on your pizza or whatever. I also have never been offered so many drugs anywhere else I've been. Guys following me down the street shouting YOU WANT COCAINE?! HEROIN? METH? that happened to me in ho chi men city, they started with coke, and I was thinking "coke what the gently caress this aint south america" or they would ask if I wanted a virgin or a boy. what sucked was at every corner there would be a dude a "barker" or what ever you want to call him. and I would cross the street and run into the next one and it would go like that for loving seven blocks. At one point I wished I knew a enough vietnamese to be all "oh pretty girl very pretty? but i am tired very tired cause I built a dog house last night, and I hosed your mother in it"
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Grand Fromage posted:It's not permissive, you are incredibly hosed if you're caught. It's just that people are so ignorant even cops don't know what it is. I told this story in a previous thread, but and you're spot on. I was living in a school provided apartment in Shenyang and my coworker who lived next door would drive all over the place on his scooter and pick it. He smoked a lot back home, so he knew which ones to pick and all that stuff. One day three cops and a translator knocked on my door and asked to come in to talk. It was right before the Olympics, and Shenyang was hosting all of the football matches. They just wanted to do a survey of the foreigners and basically catalogue us. They asked me a few random questions, took my photo, and were on their way. They moved on to my coworker's apartment next and were in there for about 15 minutes, as opposed to the 5 with me. He was 95% fluent in Mandarin, so he was probably chatting them up. When they left I went over to his place to talk about what just happened. I walked into the dining room and looked over to see his literal garbage bag of pot was open on top of the kitchen table. He had forgotten to put it away, and they were all sitting around it, chatting. Not once did any of the three cops or the translator bring it up. Some old people in the Northwest will smoke it for their arthritis, but generally they just boil poppy seeds and make a tea.
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China public executions over drugs alarm web users http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-42403250 Fun times
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I went to Chinatown (here in Bangkok) because I was walking nearby, and then posted on Wechat about how much it sucked because of Mainlanders. I know I was trying to provoke people, but I don't care. My Taiwanese and Malaysia Chinese friends liked it, but obviously some of the Mainalanders had an immediate butthurt reaction. The main question was "why?" so I told them that Mainland tourists are rude and it was an abrupt change from the usually-friendly Thais who know how to share a sidewalk and not spit on everything in sight and blow smoke in your face. "THAI PEOPLE ARE ROUGH AND RUDE!!" or other comments, posted by people who've never left China. When I point this out, I get that loving smiling emoticon that has permanently been giving it's Chinese sarcastic "gently caress you" status in my mind. Or I got deleted. Whatever. I'm not going back. Having smoking Mainland Buzzcuts in their vacation clothes and fanny packs was a sight I could have done without. Going from regular but polite foot traffic into "FACE WALKING ZONE" just made me as angry as it did when I was in China. Tour buses randomly pulling up and 45 people standing right outside the door, forcing everyone else to walk in the middle of the street. 90 of them standing anywhere, taking selfies, screaming at each other in redneck language. I'm sooo over it.
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To be fair Thais aren't good at walking on sidewalks but for entirely different reasons. Their pace is super slow, so I always overtake them, but they have this uncanny ability to swerve in front of you the instant you're about to pass them. So then you play this bizarre game of trying to go to their free side to get around them and suddenly they swerve again. Every. loving. Time. Thailand is a diverse country with a bunch of cultural and language groups but this is the one thing shared by all Thais. It's baffling.
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Yeah I agree Thailand would be so much nicer without Chinese tourist. Though I have to say I managed to avoid the worst behavior except for one clueless dumbass in Krabi.
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I get offered way more drugs in Barcelona than I ever did in SEA, but it's equally poo poo. LOL yeah I'm gonna follow this random man to his "coffee shop" and pay 30 Euro for a single joint that's half actual grass, instead of walking into the nice, clean co-op down the street where everyone speaks English and they also have video games and comfy couches. C'mon, son.
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Atlas Hugged posted:To be fair Thais aren't good at walking on sidewalks but for entirely different reasons. Their pace is super slow, so I always overtake them, but they have this uncanny ability to swerve in front of you the instant you're about to pass them. So then you play this bizarre game of trying to go to their free side to get around them and suddenly they swerve again. Every. loving. Time. VideoTapir posted:I have a Chinese friend who just turned 30. She recently finished a graduate program in England, for which she spent enough to buy an apartment. She's back in china now and making no more money than she was before, with no change in career prospects. She was talking to me constantly while she was there. In between asking me for help with her writing (took a couple months to convince her to go to the school's writing center), she was lamenting how lonely she was, and making excuses for why she couldn't get out and meet people. Too busy with these writing assignments, being one of them (but if she'd taken my advice on changing her approach she'd have finished in half the time). She usually explicitly asks for my advice, and any time I say anything she doesn't want to hear about what she is doing wrong (like "get the gently caress out of your apartment" or "go drink with some classmates or something") she responds by belittling me and my relationship with my wife. She's basically impossible to get along with. She is a total psychic vampire. Our mutual friends have all deleted her on QQ and Weixin. I probably should, too.
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fish and chips and dip posted:Yeah I agree Thailand would be so much nicer without Chinese tourist. Though I have to say I managed to avoid the worst behavior except for one clueless dumbass in Krabi. Name one place that would not be nicer without Chinese tourists. Name one place that would not be nicer without tourists.
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I'unno, German and French tourists around here have always been delightful. British and Yanks are a bit of a mixed bag, Japanese are cool too.
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Getting a little off the topic, though it did remind me of this: I have had multiple Chinese people, locals, I presume, ask me for directions since I came to Huzhou. On one or two of these occasions, I have actually been able to give them. (Not bad for being in town like 5 weeks at the time) But what is it that makes them think the big white guy is more likely to know where something is than the Chinese people walking around on the same street? Did I just bump into people who were aware of how bad Chinese people generally are at giving directions, or what?
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You might want to check out what Ballermann on Mallorca is.
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WarpedNaba posted:NZ, Auckland specifically. you should hit up my ex, she got divorced like two years ago and is looking
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I think the mainlander in the computer shop tried to China me in New Zealand. Went in for a warranty replacement for a mouse. The product had been discontinued as it got replaced with a better version so this somehow required it to be sent back tot he head office to get a remedy. I gave him a couple of outs to fix the problem but he was adamant as it was procedure. I am pretty well versed in the consumers guarantees act and we have the rule of law so he either tried to scam me out of the warranty, stupid, ignorant or poorly trained. I got the paperwork for evidence, called up head office and 20 minutes later got store credit for the new mouse. If the dumbass just gave me money on the spot I would have brought the newer version without price matching so instead of paying $25 more, I paid $3 difference. By law I was entitled to the newer very near same price item so head office isn't as benevolent as they seem. The Indian guy who priced matched for me was an awesome guy though saving me from an attempted China. Sten Freak posted:China public executions over drugs alarm web users http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-42403250 You implied that they executing people in the public square in the middle of town by shooting then in the head. What is happening is 1% better as they are sentencing publicly and taking them outback to be killed without appeal.
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If you're at the major tourist attractions in NZ, Germans have a worse rep since they'll be a slice of them doing the whole "knows no english, obnoxious tourist" thing. All euro tourists in rental vans have a trash rep anywhere near a popular spot where camping's not allowed, rampant poo everywhere etc. The Auckland population is pretty chill as they're usually the young ones who are on a working visa, they're there to be social.
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Serephina posted:If you're at the major tourist attractions in NZ, Germans have a worse rep since they'll be a slice of them doing the whole "knows no english, obnoxious tourist" thing. All euro tourists in rental vans have a trash rep anywhere near a popular spot where camping's not allowed, rampant poo everywhere etc. Freedom camping is not so much a problem in Auckland. Never met this kind of German around here. Isreali's OTOH...
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Why Germans never wear sunscreen when they travel is beyond me. You start recognizing them straight off by the lovely, beefy magenta color they become.
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simplefish posted:Many Brits do their best cooked lobster impression as well Lobsterbacks!!!
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oohhboy posted:I think the mainlander in the computer shop tried to China me in New Zealand. Went in for a warranty replacement for a mouse. The product had been discontinued as it got replaced with a better version so this somehow required it to be sent back tot he head office to get a remedy. I gave him a couple of outs to fix the problem but he was adamant as it was procedure. I am pretty well versed in the consumers guarantees act and we have the rule of law so he either tried to scam me out of the warranty, stupid, ignorant or poorly trained.
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simplefish posted:Many Brits do their best cooked lobster impression as well Fleta Mcgurn posted:Lobsterbacks!!! p offended that you think it’s okay to say these things in front of Mainers THATS OUR WORD
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simplefish posted:Many Brits do their best cooked lobster impression as well
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