|
Got a good haul from Goodwill today. Hopefully I will learn the answer to the question: Why no why?
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 03:41
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 13, 2024 21:39 |
|
|
Life and Death in Shanghai is a terribly sad book.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 03:54
|
|
|
ntan1 posted:https://medium.com/shanghaiist/chinese-tourists-clash-with-japanese-police-while-stranded-at-tokyo-airport-552471b375e2 “Local police then arrived and tried to take one of the tourists away. Footage from the scene shows officers and travelers exchanging pulls and shoves while some of the tourists begin singing the Chinese national anthem in the background.” a nation of literal children
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 04:00
|
|
|
it’s like a football game wherever they go
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 04:09
|
|
|
Red China Blues was a solid read when I read it years ago. Sort of the tale of the emergence and ultimate disillusionment of a Canadian-Chinese proto-wumao in Cultural Revolution era China.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 04:09
|
|
|
I would blow Dane Cook posted:"Or how about this one? Remember when it was the day after the election, and the president of Taiwan called Donald Trump to congratulate him? And Donald Trump, of course, took the call and talked to the president of Taiwan. The problem with that was… Taiwan doesn’t have a president. The United States functions on what they call “a one China policy,” and Taiwan is a renegade province of said China. And Donald Trump didn’t know that, and picked up the phone and started yammering away, and… the media ate his rear end up. And I’m not gonna lie, I was laughing, I was like, “Oh, poo poo. This dumb motherfucker is in trouble.” And then that night, I was in bed drifting off to sleep, and then, I had to admit it to myself. I was like… “I didn’t know that poo poo, either.” And then I realized the media got the story wrong. The story wasn’t that Donald Trump took the call. The biggest story is that nobody told Donald Trump not to take the call. That’s terrifying." that 2nd part of his stand up is terrible and it feels like the first part is 99% walking back his trump support
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 04:29
|
|
|
china is a nation of trumps
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 04:31
|
|
|
I can't believe I've never seen this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHxIsq6Uwtw LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDMhTVrvNB4
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 04:35
|
|
|
do they enjoy steamed hams in china
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 04:37
|
|
|
Any other recommendations for autobiographies? I'd also love to read anything on like, the period when capitalism came to China.Cry Havoc posted:do they enjoy steamed hams in china i'm a fan of the "Boiled Pig With Sauce (#19)" from my local Szechuan place, so yes i think so.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 04:51
|
|
|
Known Lecher posted:Red China Blues was a solid read when I read it years ago. Sort of the tale of the emergence and ultimate disillusionment of a Canadian-Chinese proto-wumao in Cultural Revolution era China. Yeah it's really good. It also got her banned from China so she had to sneak back into China illegally to do her second book.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 06:25
|
|
|
caberham posted:Do you have a compensation clause in your purchase agreement? We promise to ship everything on time and guarantee a quality range of 100 parts defect per 1 million. If we do not ship on time then we pay compensation to our customers. I pay with credit card through PayPal so when 1/3rd of orders inevitably get hosed I can charge back on two levels because they never want to fix it. Every other year I can find a reseller who gets multiple orders correct in a row but they always always get greedy and send an inferior product eventually
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 08:23
|
|
|
 5,000 years of racial harmony, if DnD is to be believed.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 09:20
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/z1564011001/status/939893079376461824 Imagine working in a Chinese Bitcoin sweatshop.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 11:19
|
|
|
The one on the right still makes it look like T'Challa has a weird neckbeard.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 11:22
|
|
|
Bitcoin and their ilk need to dead so fast. Literal waste of power.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 11:31
|
|
|
WarpedNaba posted:
https://i.imgur.com/W5E0SdT.gifv
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 14:48
|
|
|
I am convinced, that he is going to get cancer.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 15:43
|
|
|
A new challenger appears!quote:Indonesia’s military said in a statement that a tweet sent by Rebecca Henschke, BBC Indonesia’s editor, had “hurt the feelings of TNI (Indonesian military) personnel” involved in relief efforts in the Asmat area. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-rights/bbc-journalist-ordered-to-leave-indonesias-papua-over-tweets-idUSKBN1FN0EQ
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 15:50
|
|
|
Pirate Radar posted:Playing dead seems like a decent strategy here tbh. I admire the determination of the guy with the shovel. http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2131711/rampaging-wild-boar-kills-villager-northern-china the dude is dead, the girls just severely injured tho
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 17:00
|
|
|
Martha Stewart Undying posted:http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2131711/rampaging-wild-boar-kills-villager-northern-china
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 18:27
|
|
|
Mistle posted:It's a matter of water pipe access in a lot of places, because running PVC and breaking open walls is sketchy. I meant back of the head, neck, spine. But yeah, one ineffectual swipe at the legs wasn't the best move he could have done.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 18:33
|
|
|
There's a Korean movie called Chaw that is basically Jaws but with a wild boar.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 18:57
|
|
|
Martha Stewart Undying posted:http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2131711/rampaging-wild-boar-kills-villager-northern-china poo poo now I feel a bit bad about laughing about this when I first saw it
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 19:13
|
|
|
Lol at the dudes who thought boars are a joke.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 19:42
|
|
|
I fully support boars getting even with us. Related, there's a story I love about how one of the University of Arkansas' live boar mascots escaped one time and went on a farm-destroying rampage before he was finally brought to justice. Edit: from the UofA website: "Former mascot Big Red III escaped from an exhibit near Eureka Springs in the summer of 1977 and ravaged the countryside before being gunned down by an irate farmer. Another live mascot, Ragnar, was a wild hog captured in south Arkansas by Leola farmer Bill Robinson. Before Ragnar’s spree was done, the mighty animal had killed a coyote, a 450-pound domestic pig and seven rattlesnakes. Ragnar died in 1978 of unknown causes." Hustlin Floh fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Feb 3, 2018 |
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 19:45
|
|
|
There's a classic thread here about a guy hunting boars on his property that's pretty loving  After reading that, I would definitely not gently caress with boars.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 20:09
|
|
|
would you rather fight a boar or a bear
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 20:13
|
|
|
Black bears are weak and will run away unless they're starving. Boars are just angry and they know you eat their swine brethren.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 20:33
|
|
|
Cry Havoc posted:would you rather fight a boar or a bear Is the bear a top or a bottom? This is important to factor in.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 20:37
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 20:38
|
|
|
Dirt Road Junglist posted:There's a classic thread here about a guy hunting boars on his property that's pretty loving Another good read is that one former mod who ran a livestock farm in the US and made an ask/tell. Most of his animals were nice, maybe weird, but his relationship with his pigs was more like "tentative truce". He was worried about doing repairs in the pig sty because he would always seem to catch the pigs weakening the foundation or chewing out the supports on stuff he needed to climb. If you die or become injured in the midst of pigs, they will advance upon you and break your bones off and feast.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 20:40
|
|
|
I worked an archaeological excavation in Hungary that was shut down three or four times all summer because of wild boars. It was actually nice because otherwise we would have only had one day off all summer.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 21:09
|
|
|
Bajaj posted:I can't believe I've never seen this episode: Zero comments is pretty amazing
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 23:22
|
|
|
Slim Jim Pickens posted:Another good read is that one former mod who ran a livestock farm in the US and made an ask/tell. Most of his animals were nice, maybe weird, but his relationship with his pigs was more like "tentative truce". He was worried about doing repairs in the pig sty because he would always seem to catch the pigs weakening the foundation or chewing out the supports on stuff he needed to climb. pigs really are the animals most closest to us
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 23:37
|
|
|
if boars are a consistent problem i'm quite surprised they don't have spears at easy arm's reach. even something like a pitchfork definitely will not substantially harm a boar but gives you the leverage you need to use its own bulk against it. a sharpened piece of rebar is actually even better because it'll get stuck in the boar and throw the pig off balance as it tries to tear rear end around. i mean, a big gun is best for sure, but on ranches in Oklahoma where this is an issue they tend to have spears of some description hanging from every structure like fire extinguishers, in case a boar gets uppity and you don't exactly have the gun.
|
|
#
?
Feb 3, 2018 23:45
|
|
|
I feel bad that dude got killed by a boar. I thought he was just generally knocked down and playing dead until his useless friends/family rescued him.
|
|
#
?
Feb 4, 2018 00:20
|
|
|
Baronjutter posted:I feel bad that dude got killed by a boar. I thought he was just generally knocked down and playing dead until his useless friends/family rescued him. It looks like he dies of shock or a heart attack or something, all the attacks were to the lower body. he's moving around consistently until 1:35 when his leg just sorta slumps over. 
|
|
#
?
Feb 4, 2018 00:41
|
|
|
Coolguye posted:if boars are a consistent problem i'm quite surprised they don't have spears at easy arm's reach. even something like a pitchfork definitely will not substantially harm a boar but gives you the leverage you need to use its own bulk against it. a sharpened piece of rebar is actually even better because it'll get stuck in the boar and throw the pig off balance as it tries to tear rear end around. Since you can't really harm it without a gun you'd think anything with long reach to help you keep your distance while you get away would be better but I don't know anything about boars
|
|
#
?
Feb 4, 2018 01:43
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 13, 2024 21:39 |
|
|
That scene in Wizard of Oz would have been terrifying when it came out and most Americans seeing it at the time worked on or near farms.
|
|
#
?
Feb 4, 2018 01:54
|
|
