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Laopooh posted:This thread provides a lot of valuable insight, especially for someone who lives in best China (japan), but what’s up with the death gif posting? I don’t like it. Haier esp is all about those and ‘ugly girl’ tinder pics...it’s weird and negative and mean (● ˃̶͈̀ロ˂̶͈́)੭ꠥ⁾⁾ Death gifs keep me alive
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 08:06 |
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Uh excuse me but best China is still Taiwan. Anyway, I was told this morning by my former Head of Department (they can't fire him outright because the school would lose face, so he's just been demoted and given fewer hours at the same pay) that I was getting a new student in my upper level junior high English class. He had a good laugh because he has the low level class and the kid speaks no English but he gets to be my problem and not his. I go to class and the kid speaks absolutely no English. I pulled some students aside and I ask them if they're aware that this class is writing intensive and if they've informed their new classmate. They said, "Oh, it's OK, he's from Fujian." Which leaves me scratching my head of course. We're in Thailand, he's from Fujian, so they stick him with the white English teacher when there's a quadlingual Singaporean (including Hokkien and Mandarin, the two main languages in Fujian) teaching low level English next door to me. So why the hell is he in my class? "Oh, but you speak Chinese and he needs his English to get better." Apparently he's only here for five days and I'm not supposed to actually grade anything he does. And it's presentations all week so it's not like there's any teaching. And at no point has any of this been told to me by anyone actually above me. It's all word of mouth through the students.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 08:29 |
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Teach him French.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 09:13 |
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Laopooh posted:This thread provides a lot of valuable insight, especially for someone who lives in best China (japan), but what’s up with the death gif posting? I don’t like it. Haier esp is all about those and ‘ugly girl’ tinder pics...it’s weird and negative and mean (● ˃̶͈̀ロ˂̶͈́)੭ꠥ⁾⁾ it isnt death if the person was never alive to begin with remember the expressions on the faces of that family that rode their scooter directly into a sinkhole 1 meter in front of where they had parked? there was nothing there
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Atlas Hugged posted:Uh excuse me but best China is still Taiwan. Laopooh posted:This thread provides a lot of valuable insight, especially for someone who lives in best China (japan), but what’s up with the death gif posting? I don’t like it. Haier esp is all about those and ‘ugly girl’ tinder pics...it’s weird and negative and mean (● ˃̶͈̀ロ˂̶͈́)੭ꠥ⁾⁾
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 09:18 |
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Outrail posted:Teach him French. He'd come out speaking about as much French as he does English. For a laugh, my colleague put a reading passage in front of him. The student quite proudly read the whole thing out loud. Then he put the comprehension questions in front of him. The boy rested his head on the desk for the remainder of the period. You see, he knows English phonics quite well. He just has zero comprehension of what it is he's reading. This was one of the things I actually liked about learning to read Chinese versus learning to read Korean. I can sure as poo poo read a Korean sentence, but I have no clue what it is that I just read. I may not know the correct way to pronounce it, but I can more or less work out what a Chinese sentence is trying to say. Bajaj posted:I feel like it would be bad enough to be dealing with Thai style workplace on a daily basis, but to add Mainland style on top is just the diarrhea icing on a heaping poo poo cake. You're a glutton for punishment, sir. To be fair, it's Singaporean style.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 09:20 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfGMlMEZr18&t=50s McGavin fucked around with this message at 09:31 on Feb 5, 2018 |
# ? Feb 5, 2018 09:27 |
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"IM JENNYYYYY" *windows shatter* Otherwise that clip owns.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 09:35 |
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 10:23 |
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Haier, got any new Haier dad stories? I'm particularly fond of his dad-dozer destroying lovely cars, so any in that sort of vein would be lovely.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 10:37 |
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Why is this so disturbing? She sounds like she is suddenly possessed.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 10:50 |
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Saw a boar on my way home today! It was just off the hiking trail that I took my cub scouts on ...
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 12:18 |
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Scouts 'n' Snouts
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 12:28 |
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TTerrible posted:Why is this so disturbing? She sounds like she is suddenly possessed. She goes from the buzzing whine Koreans think is adorable in women to decent English using a more natural tone.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 12:49 |
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So whatever happened to the blanket VPN ban? Is there news on that, or did they quietly stop mentioning it?
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 17:08 |
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They half-assed it as usual. There was about a week where VPNs weren't working very well but they're fine again now. This is what happens every time.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 17:21 |
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I've been using Tantan again for a few days. The Thais on there are much nicer than on Tinder, maybe because there are zero non-Chinese tourists on there. There's quite a few Chinese on there that work here in Bangkok and I matched with a Taiwanese woman working here that is not fat but has boobs the size of a drat Buick. Just absurd boobs. The kind that you know her quality of life is suffers a lot because of it. We may have a date for this weekend if her schedule works with mine. Please wish me luck, or at least so that I can have an awkward story to come back with eventually.nickmeister posted:So whatever happened to the blanket VPN ban? Is there news on that, or did they quietly stop mentioning it?
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 18:41 |
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Skype's been loving up without a vpn for us for about a week now.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 18:45 |
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It always stresses me out a little when they talk about it but they've tried so many times. I don't see how they can without cutting off outside internet connections entirely, which isn't going to happen.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 18:49 |
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It’s not “outside internet connections” they have to worry about, it’s all the legit-even-by-CP-standard forms of encryption.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 20:17 |
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I assume that it’s hard to get into the USA even with some China money. I think you need a ton for citizenship now.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 20:37 |
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Pick posted:I assume that it’s hard to get into the USA even with some China money. I think you need a ton for citizenship now. The investment program is relatively unchanged because charging the 14,000 most interested rich people half a million to come here is popular on both sides of the aisle. The issue is other countries like Canada do bonkers progams and historically look the other way regarding your finances way way harder than the US
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 20:43 |
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Pick posted:I assume that it’s hard to get into the USA even with some China money. I think you need a ton for citizenship now. Only a cool million USD is needed to get a EB-5 visa, which is the fastest way a foreign citizen can get US citizenship without marrying a US citizen. Seeing how housing around here (SoCal) is getting picked up in full cash offers from Chinese buyers, I don't think it'll be too hard for them to do so.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 21:01 |
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Canada is hilarious. You used to be able to just buy permanent residency by giving the government a big chunk of cash. At least the government's making money right? Nope, it's a deposit, they just hold it and then give it back just to prove you are the correct class of person to launder money through our RE market. This became contentious so the government shut the program down. But because is a special delicate province they demanded the right to set some of their own immigration rules, which can sometimes supercede federal rules. So Quebec jumped on this demand from rich mainlanders who all pay in, claim they are moving to Quebec, then instantly go to BC to buy up houses and condos. Quebec makes a little bit of money off the whole thing but mostly gets to spit in the face of the rest of the country so it's win win for them. Vancouver/BC can do as much as they want to try to stop "foreign buyers" but quebec is giving everyone permanent resident cards so anyone can buy their way into the market.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 21:10 |
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Couldn’t you all sell Quebec to France or something? They seem like asses.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 21:17 |
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Warbird posted:Couldn’t you all sell Quebec to France or something? They seem like asses. Quebec's also a nice buffer against the more conservative elements of our society.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 21:32 |
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Warbird posted:Couldn’t you all sell Quebec to France or something? They seem like asses.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 21:44 |
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A loving million dollars? That’s it????
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 21:52 |
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Pick posted:A loving million dollars? That’s it???? governments are stuck in the 1980's wrt inflation
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 21:56 |
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Fojar38 posted:governments are stuck in the 1980's wrt inflation They are stuck in the toothpaste millionaire story from like 1974 when that was actually impressive market capitalization for a startup
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 22:03 |
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Pick posted:A loving million dollars? That’s it???? Yeah. In the US at least that money is basically a loss and theoretically must go to businesses as an investment and those businesses must employ some minimum number (10?) American Citizens. Other countries like Canada just basically want a small deposit so theyre much more attractive to offshoring wealth fleers. Singapore is also an attractive option for a lot of Chinese bigwigs, no need to even change time zones.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 22:20 |
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I often forget china doesn't "do" time zones. That's just nuts.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 22:22 |
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I always thought Canada and Australias popularity with Chinese had something to do with Commonwealth stuff wrt Hong Kong but I'm thinking that's wrong
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 22:22 |
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Fojar38 posted:I always thought Canada and Australias popularity with Chinese had something to do with Commonwealth stuff wrt Hong Kong but I'm thinking that's wrong In the 90's this was true. There was a huge wave of HKers who came to Canada and settled in the Richmond area. It was easy for them to immigrate and many were fleeing what they saw as a threat to their finances or liberty under the boot of China. When China didn't rock the boat toooo badly in HK quite a few of these people moved back, at least the ones who moved out of financial fears (who gives a gently caress about democracy or human rights when you're still making money). Later though in the 2000's Vancouver once again became a popular destination, but this time for rich mainlanders wanting to protect their ill-gotten fortunes offshore. This trickle turned into a flood as their money-laundering and real-estate investments helped create a bubble, with locals seeing it as an easy get-rich-quick scheme and mainlanders seeing it as to way to not just hide/protect their money but also grow it. Many of the first wave HK immigrants do NOT care for the 2nd wave mainlanders. In both cases though they were rich people paranoid the government was going to take their money away, and Vancouver was all too happy to help them stash it away.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 22:28 |
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HerStuddMuffin posted:If the Belgians haven’t been able to pull that off with Wallonia even though it sits right next to France
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 22:56 |
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evil_bunnY posted:France wants them less than they want Quebec. From my experience the snow frogs as a province are assholes when you meet them individually they're all pretty nice. But generally speaking people who are willing to leave their homes are generally more open minded about other people and culture. Generally.
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# ? Feb 5, 2018 23:38 |
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The anglo franco feud is one of the few things that make Canada more than North USA, Quebec must stay
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# ? Feb 6, 2018 02:56 |
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/05/health/hot-tea-esophageal-cancer-risk-study/index.htmlquote:
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# ? Feb 6, 2018 04:12 |
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I’ll tell you what bugs me about French speakers. Their tendency to say “take” when they mean “have.” No you won’t “take” the cheeseburger. That implies you’re stealing it.
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# ? Feb 6, 2018 04:12 |
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since it's so obvious that mainlanders are fleeing with tons of ill gotten goods, why doesn't anyone do anything? surely the chinese government wants that money.
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