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GoutPatrol posted:The one last night was one of the bigger one's I have experienced, and I'm no where near Hualien. Pirate Radar posted:We all felt it up here in Taipei, that’s for sure. I’m up on the 5th floor, so no time to run out. I just have to hope my building’s walls are really reinforced concrete instead of empty paint cans covered in spackle. Gf is in Hualien and the hotel that collapsed it just behind her house. Her street is now off limits, and she lost power in the initial quake. Kinda crazy. She’s a doctor and on-call tonight so hopefully anyway so hopefully they’ll have opened up her house by tomorrow morning when she’s done and she can get sleep.
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WarpedNaba posted:I'unno, if you haven't got anything else going on, why not date a few? Currently married with a kid so I think the wife would be upset if I did so. 
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kimcicle posted:Currently married with a kid so I think the wife would be upset if I did so. dude that's the perfect time. you've already proven that you are mature and stable.
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kimcicle posted:Currently married with a kid so I think the wife would be upset if I did so. Aw, man, you got no solidarity. Hook a brother up!
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McGavin posted:This guy is from Hong Kong or at least Cantonese and I can hear his accent in my head perfectly. Wang? Jin? Those are mainland surnames. It's Wong and Kam
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caberham posted:Wang? Jin? Those are mainland surnames. It's Wong and Kam I don't know if this applies in BC, but in the US a lot of people who emigrate directly from Guangdong and speak primarily Cantonese use the pinyin/mainland spelling for their name in official documentation. CIGNX fucked around with this message at 08:33 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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Feb 7, 2018 08:28
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Who told the story of the coworker in had surgery in Mongolia, but they removed the wrong organ and they died of cancer anyway?
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Feb 7, 2018 11:34
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Surgery In Mongolia! New band name, I call it.
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I went to visit a museum with a friend of mine and realised that I do the old Chinese man walk with both hands behind my back. I think it's genetic.  Museum was nice though. If you're ever in Kuala Lumpur hit up the Islamic Arts Museum.
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http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/new...CQZKsYI.twitter l m a o
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Having a crisis of faith since reading this yesterday. Smdh.
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Ibblebibble posted:Museum was nice though. If you're ever in Kuala Lumpur hit up the Islamic Arts Museum. Seconded, it's real good.
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Makes perfect sense, in China they wouldn't have all these problems abusing children
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the economy does not dominate the public discourse in china yeah no just everything about the entire society revolves around money, making money, spending money, gambling money, and swindling people out of money definitely no economic incentives there christ, this guy is so wrong he's not even right about catholic social policy too - francis has said a bunch of times that the only economic policy the church has is that the poor and vulnerable need to be helped as part of a healthy economy, which is also something that china doesn't do as a catholic, EAT A DICK, BISHOP DUDE
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Coolguye posted:is that the poor and vulnerable need to be helped as part of a healthy economy, which is also something that china doesn't do http://shanghaiist.com/2016/10/17/sharing_fridges_ransacked.php quote:Shanghai 'sharing fridges' plagued by greedy residents trying to snatch up all the food for themselves On the opposite side of this, Chaoshan Girl took part in a Buddhist thing where they were giving out free cookies. They had a bag of 1200 package fresh-baked cookies made by one of the members. I got to try and they were like fresh version of those Danish Delights Butter Cookies. CG and a team went out and tried to give away free cookies and had some flyers to give out for these Buddhist restaurants and meditation meetings. After three hours not one cookie had been taken. She said people could come up and look at the cookie like there had to be some serious problem with it, or else nobody would just give a loving cookie away for free. She said several people handled the cookies and stared at them, but put them back in the basket and left. They were so suspicious that someone cold be dumb enough to give away food for free that there were no takers at all. It was near a Metro station and she asked me to come by and pretend multiple times to be interested in free cookies, hoping someone would see me and try it too, but I was not in the mood. I should have, she went home with about 100 cookies herself and I think I ate 70 of them.
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That bishop sounds like what he’s really trying to say is: “China is an untapped market of 1.2billion and we think we can get an exclusive deal if our collective noses get brown enough.”
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Bajaj posted:Reminds me of: What she should have done is set up a big stand as if she was selling the cookies for a high price then leave it unattended with a little money cup and a sign saying to please pay using the honour system. Those cookies would move FAST.
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Bajaj posted:On the opposite side of this, Chaoshan Girl took part in a Buddhist thing where they were giving out free cookies. They had a bag of 1200 package fresh-baked cookies made by one of the members. I got to try and they were like fresh version of those Danish Delights Butter Cookies. CG and a team went out and tried to give away free cookies and had some flyers to give out for these Buddhist restaurants and meditation meetings. Probably for the best. The alternative would be getting swarmed by hell grandmas.
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Feb 7, 2018 19:57
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should’ve said they were pangolin cookies
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Cold cookies bad for healthy.
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The Great Autismo! posted:wait wait wait wait wait wait jesus turned cold water into mulled wine
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Jeoh posted:jesus turned cold water into mulled wine Jesus why did you turn the water into wine? No Why?
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5 When Chinese Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” 6 He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do. 7 Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!” 8 Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up, 9 “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?” 10 Chinese Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there). 11 Chinese Jesus then took the loaves and the fish, gave thanks, and an auntie pushed to the front of the line, took the loaves and the fish, and hosed off. Chinese Jesus said, “Cao ni ma”, and had a rest.
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Pastor: 差不多 Congregation: 差不多
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quote:As part of the diplomacy efforts, Bishop Sánchez Sorondo visited the country. “What I found was an extraordinary China,” he said. “What people don’t realise is that the central value in China is work, work, work. You can't fool me, that's just someone's racist grandpa
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The Mongol just messaged me to tell me she was riding her e-bike and a traffic officer walked into the road in front of her and stopped her. She asked what was wrong and he said she was going too fast. She said she wasn't. He said 20 RMB will solve this. She paid him a 20 and left. I guess the guy really needed some cigarettes?
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was she the one who called your professor?
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So a China story in America. My wife is a Chinese National, and needed to renew her chinese passport. Easy right? So she makes an appointment, heads to the Consulate, and gives them all the paperwork. First, they tell her the passport photo is wrong, and make her pay some fee to use their 'special camera' that is just a regular camera. In any case, they check the papers, give her a slip and tell her to bring it back in 14 days. Strangely, anyone is allowed to pick it up for her, so she gives the slip to a friend who lives nearby. The friend heads there, and the staff scramble around, then eventually claim the application was missing lots of things. So my wife emails the friend, who prints out the copies, and submits the paperwork again. Now the passport should be ready again, but we have no way of checking without making the two hour drive to the consulate. They have a listed phone number, but no one ever picks up, and according to chinese/american social media, no one has ever successfully gotten a response. The only other way to contact them is the email address on the official consulate website:  I just don't understand how a large consulate of china could use a gmail address for its official correspondence... My wife is sort of bewildered by all this, because she's become used to American bureaucracy, which is slow and annoying, but ultimately usually makes sense and works. We're just going to have to drive to the consulate, and hope her passport is there this time. SerCypher fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Feb 8, 2018 |
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Apparently the new Chinese embassy in Quebec that recently opened up is actually efficient and has good workers. I've heard a lot of horror stories about the Toronto one, where the only way to make an appointment was thorough a website that only works on a very old and specific browser, and the staff all take half days.
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Ccs posted:Apparently the new Chinese embassy in Quebec that recently opened up is actually efficient and has good workers. I've heard a lot of horror stories about the Toronto one, where the only way to make an appointment was thorough a website that only works on a very old and specific browser, and the staff all take half days. There is a 100% chance that the new embassy is manned almost entirely by spies
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Fojar38 posted:There is a 100% chance that the new embassy is manned almost entirely by spies Whatever gets the job done, man
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they’re gonna steal the secret to putin
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The secret to dealing with Chinese embassies is to not deal with Chinese embassies. Pay an agent $50 or $100 and mail/hand them your paperwork. They have the connections and know who to slip a few bills to in order to make sure things actually get done. Worth every penny to not have to handle it yourself and be told to come back because your passport photo is 1/16 of an inch too big or the stamp on this document is slightly smeared.
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Fojar38 posted:There is a 100% chance that the new embassy is manned almost entirely by spies Stealing all those valuable Canadian secrets.
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Ccs posted:Stealing all those valuable Canadian secrets. They just want to know where all the money went...
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Ccs posted:Stealing all those valuable Canadian secrets. uh, yes? to say nothing about spying on the political situation and canadas very large chinese diaspora
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