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champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

Fututor Magnus posted:

yo bajaj, you should drug rape this crazy person

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ladron
Sep 15, 2007

eso es lo que es

Fututor Magnus posted:

yo bajaj, with that weird drugged out thai chick that showed up high - or on the tail of a high - on meth you shouldn't have been weirded out by it and chased her off, you should have invited her to shower with you so you can clean her up, get that bloody pad and vagina cleaned up, and the possible feces smears on her body, and then you could have sex with a freshly cleaned meth'd out thai chick with little self-awareness, you could probably put a baby in her and she wouldn't have minded. then you never meet her again.

you could also have filmed it, burned some pictures of the king, and uploaded it to youtube

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

Fututor Magnus posted:

yo bajaj, with that weird drugged out thai chick that showed up high - or on the tail of a high - on meth you shouldn't have been weirded out by it and chased her off, you should have invited her to shower with you so you can clean her up, get that bloody pad and vagina cleaned up, and the possible feces smears on her body, and then you could have sex with a freshly cleaned meth'd out thai chick with little self-awareness, you could probably put a baby in her and she wouldn't have minded. then you never meet her again.

yikes

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Fututor Magnus posted:

yo bajaj, with that weird drugged out thai chick that showed up high - or on the tail of a high - on meth you shouldn't have been weirded out by it and chased her off, you should have invited her to shower with you so you can clean her up, get that bloody pad and vagina cleaned up, and the possible feces smears on her body, and then you could have sex with a freshly cleaned meth'd out thai chick with little self-awareness, you could probably put a baby in her and she wouldn't have minded. then you never meet her again.

Caredresser parachute account spotted.

Dr.Radical
Apr 3, 2011
Can we go back to talking about the five piece suit? Jesus.

vanity slug
Jul 20, 2010

Fututor Magnus posted:

yo bajaj, with that weird drugged out thai chick that showed up high - or on the tail of a high - on meth you shouldn't have been weirded out by it and chased her off, you should have invited her to shower with you so you can clean her up, get that bloody pad and vagina cleaned up, and the possible feces smears on her body, and then you could have sex with a freshly cleaned meth'd out thai chick with little self-awareness, you could probably put a baby in her and she wouldn't have minded. then you never meet her again.

is this how you were conceived

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!

Fututor Magnus posted:

yo bajaj, with that weird drugged out thai chick that showed up high - or on the tail of a high - on meth you shouldn't have been weirded out by it and chased her off, you should have invited her to shower with you so you can clean her up, get that bloody pad and vagina cleaned up, and the possible feces smears on her body, and then you could have sex with a freshly cleaned meth'd out thai chick with little self-awareness, you could probably put a baby in her and she wouldn't have minded. then you never meet her again.

Moral repugnancy aside, that's ripe grounds for a dick-melting STD.

WarpedNaba fucked around with this message at 11:24 on Mar 13, 2018

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
a bunch of people in hong kong and china got scammed and they're really mad and want the british government to do something lmao

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/13/buyer-funded-development-scandal

quote:

It was one of many such glamorous projects devised by property company North Point Global, marketed with great fanfare in China and Hong Kong and sold off-plan to investors with the lucrative promise of high yields, before mysteriously grinding to a halt. Three years on, the company has pulled out of its planned £360m suite of projects across the city and stopped picking up the phone, leaving buyers to believe they are the victims of a ruthless scam, fiercely denied by the developers in question.

“We all thought the UK was a safe place to invest,” says Florence Leung, a retired Hong Kong accountant who put a substantial chunk of her life savings into a unit in Baltic House, and has since had to return to work to make ends meet.

Along with many others, Leung said she was wooed at a lavish promotional roadshow at a hotel in Hong Kong and convinced to pay 80% of the price of a student flat upfront, with promises of 6% interest on her deposit, followed by guaranteed 9% returns in rental income once the project was finished. Months later, buyers received requests for further funds to complete the building, before North Point Global announced it was stopping work all together – and couldn’t refund the buyers’ deposits.

“The UK government must take action,” says James To Kun-sun, a member of Hong Kong’s legislative council, who has been inundated with complaints from hundreds of local buyers claiming they have been victims of UK property fraud. He estimates more than 700 buyers have lost an average of HK$500,000 (£45,000) in Hong Kong alone, with many more across Asia and beyond. “People here have a sentimental link with the UK, as a place with a responsible government, democracy and the rule of law, so it is shocking that this can be allowed to happen. It seems the development industry isn’t properly regulated and politicians are willing to endorse any kind of project. In Hong Kong we reformed our system 40 years ago, so buyers’ deposits cannot be released to the developer until a project is completed.”

yaffle
Sep 15, 2002

Flapdoodle

Jeoh posted:

is this how you were conceived

It's how he thinks everyone is conceived.

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Jose posted:

a bunch of people in hong kong and china got scammed and they're really mad and want the british government to do something lmao

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/13/buyer-funded-development-scandal

The scam was based in the UK so they do have final jurisdiction. If you're having a cry it is the right direction. They aren't going to get anything back either way.

Parallels ICOs (Initial Coin Offering) where it is used to bypass regulations ie Buttcoin. If you can't float shares or get loans from a bank or angel investor or personally mortgaging to start your company what you have is poo poo or a scam.

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


ladron posted:

wtf is it with east asians and staring?
do the japanese stare?

My experience in Japan is people don't really stare anymore, especially somewhere like Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto nobody gives a gently caress. But honestly even in fairly rural Japan I didn't notice it, people just interacted with me normally. If they do stare they try to be real sneaky about it, they won't just walk right up in your face staring at you, mouth agape, the way Chinese do. And they have the decency to look away and appear ashamed if you catch them.

Korea has also largely gotten over staring compared to what it was like when I first went there.

ladron
Sep 15, 2007

eso es lo que es

Grand Fromage posted:

My experience in Japan is people don't really stare anymore, especially somewhere like Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto nobody gives a gently caress. But honestly even in fairly rural Japan I didn't notice it, people just interacted with me normally. If they do stare they try to be real sneaky about it, they won't just walk right up in your face staring at you, mouth agape, the way Chinese do. And they have the decency to look away and appear ashamed if you catch them.

Korea has also largely gotten over staring compared to what it was like when I first went there.

korea's staring game was on point, that's why I asked

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


ladron posted:

korea's staring game was on point, that's why I asked

lol I didn't even remember who I was replying to, sorry for Koreasplaining.

The only time my presence was even acknowledged as a honkey last time I was in Japan was a woman at a restaurant told me how happy she was that I wasn't a Chinese tourist. When I told her I lived in China she was horrified and gave me a free beer.

ladron
Sep 15, 2007

eso es lo que es
right on. I guess japan, having developed the human concepts of self-awareness and shame, don't stare blatantly or at least try not to.

(they didn't develop it, they stole it, like they stole everything. evil people.)

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


It's also familiarity. Japan started getting foreign tourists and residents before the other East Asian countries. Same reason Hong Kongers and Bangkok people don't stare, they've been over it for a while.

But yeah it is refreshing being in a country with politeness and public decency. I don't care how insincere it is, I'll take it.

It's fun when mainlanders say staring is rude in Chinese culture and Chinese people would never stare at you. They're so insistent about it and dumb.

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

evil_bunnY posted:

All the >6 figgies medical devices companies I've interacted with have all the smarts hidden away in the software. Like it's cool that you repro the device, but interpreting the output stream takes actual engineering. The solar industry is a v good example of what happens when you delocalize reproducible manufacturing IP. All the "western" companies still in business make money on the integration and middleware.
I think this is also a reason for the rise of "Assembled in the US" products. It's (in theory) harder for a Chinese company to rip off your product when you spread production of individual components among competing factories and ship them separately to the US* to be assembled.

*San Diego or El Paso

Khorne
May 1, 2002

ladron posted:

do the japanese stare?
Not anymore than people in the US. They are more likely to look at you briefly on public transport instead of avoiding eye contact at all costs like on US public transport. They definitely gauge your reactions to things sometimes, like if you order real spicy food or very Japanese foods, and if you're on the taller or broader side (or fatter I guess) then you will run into situations where the world is not made for you and get glances.

There was some really attractive 6'8+ nordic or slavic woman who had great proportions for sports in one part of Tokyo and people were staring at her. She would have gotten stared at in the US too. She was in top shape and probably played some kind of sport professionally, but I didn't know enough to recognize her. She was a total monster compared to a 6'6 guy I know who is really well proportioned as well. My neutral eye level while walking was not even at her clavicle and I'm 6'1.

Khorne fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Mar 13, 2018

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/rogerVcente/status/973431077657182209?s=19

Fleta Mcgurn
Oct 5, 2003

Porpoise noise continues.
Japanese people don't thousand-yard stare, but boy howdy do drunk old man gawp at foreign chicks.

But, I mean, put a Japanese woman on a subway car with a drunk old Western man, and likely just as much harassment would occur. Maybe less actual boob-touching.

Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010



LimburgLimbo posted:

Lul, a majority of academic fields are being overtaken or have been overtaken by China. It is a done deal, and the US is wavering. But saying China still lags behind is widely untrue and displays a lack of understanding of Chinese research which has lead the world for a few years now. The US is no longer the military or scientific power of the world (and I could cry happy tears)

A quote by someone who has never done work in a scientific field and thus never been exposed to Chinese-authored papers.

Heer98
Apr 10, 2009
One of my friends is a grad student and he spends all of his free time editing his Chinese professors papers. He actually got pretty good at it and now a bunch of Chinese professors in the faculty pay him under the table to edit their work.

He got taken to some New Years gala in NYC and offered what sounds suspiciously like a no show foreign professor job at a middle tier Chinese university, it actually sounds pretty awesome.

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

Pham Nuwen posted:

A quote by someone who has never done work in a scientific field and thus never been exposed to Chinese-authored papers.

Chinese researchers are publishing more scientific papers, so naturally they must be better since all papers are of the same quality and impact.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

TsarZiedonis posted:

One of my friends is a grad student and he spends all of his free time editing his Chinese professors papers. He actually got pretty good at it and now a bunch of Chinese professors in the faculty pay him under the table to edit their work.

He got taken to some New Years gala in NYC and offered what sounds suspiciously like a no show foreign professor job at a middle tier Chinese university, it actually sounds pretty awesome.

If you have no scruples about letting people use your name and white face as totems of their own authority and legitimacy then you can go pretty far in China.

Serephina
Nov 8, 2005

恐竜戦隊
ジュウレンジャー

Imperialist Dog posted:

This #npc2018 will be remembered for this lady when went viral:

idgi? either the guy behind her was copping a feel, or she was reacting to the public speaker saying something disagreeable

value-brand cereal
May 2, 2008

Morning commute: older chinese couple gets off bus and immediately stops right out side the site looking around. His wife doors the same. Then after minute of being shoved passed by passengers they todder towards the left where other bus stops are. He trips over a black homeless man's belongings, almost over a little girl kneeling to tie her shoes, and a loaf of bread pigeons are conquering. His wife fares much better as she is merely orbiting around him.

Then he wanders right towards other bus stops and stays there.

I can't tell if he is completely clueless or a master of Face. I only thought to type this up because he looks exactly like Kermit the frog doing that pursed lip 'oh really?!?!?' face. It's uncanny.

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

Japanese people don't thousand-yard stare, but boy howdy do drunk old man gawp at foreign chicks.
I don't know a noncreepy way to ask this question but is your experience biased by your self-reported giant boobs or do they just stare at all foreign ladies regardless

Beefeater1980
Sep 12, 2008

My God, it's full of Horatios!






Serephina posted:

idgi? either the guy behind her was copping a feel, or she was reacting to the public speaker saying something disagreeable

She’s reacting to the woman in red. From hastily skimmed Chinese reportage, they’re both journalists; red is the girl who covers the NPC formally for CCTV and is widely rumoured to have slept her way into the position, and blue is going to end up sleeping with the fishes after publicly embarrassing someone powerful’s mistress.

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Beefeater1980 posted:

She’s reacting to the woman in red. From hastily skimmed Chinese reportage, they’re both journalists; red is the girl who covers the NPC formally for CCTV and is widely rumoured to have slept her way into the position, and blue is going to end up sleeping with the fishes after publicly embarrassing someone powerful’s mistress.

I still don't get it. Whatever I am looking at is so nothing it makes space look full of chickens.

MetaJew
Apr 14, 2006
Gather round, one and all, and thrill to my turgid tales of underwhelming misadventure!

Dr.Radical posted:

Can we go back to talking about the five piece suit? Jesus.

Not empty quoting

GoutPatrol
Oct 17, 2009

*Stupid Babby*

oohhboy posted:

I still don't get it. Whatever I am looking at is so nothing it makes space look full of chickens.

but the memes

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

oohhboy posted:

I still don't get it. Whatever I am looking at is so nothing it makes space look full of chickens.

Is this a thing people or did you make it up?

Kharnifex
Sep 11, 2001

The Banter is better in AusGBS
If you are outside of Tokyo, you still get kids hiding and giggling or running up and saying gaijin San etc, and the occasional wow foreigners do have big noses!

It's endearing.

MetaJew
Apr 14, 2006
Gather round, one and all, and thrill to my turgid tales of underwhelming misadventure!
Japan's staring game is on point because my girlfriend would tell me they were staring at me, but I could do a full 360 and never saw a single pair of eyes on me. And, if I did catch anyone staring at me, I would just use my gaijin laser eyes and stare back. They would then look away in shame.

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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:thunk:

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

I'm sure there's some fish left in the great lakes? I guess that's not a sea...

Devils Affricate
Jan 22, 2010

oohhboy posted:

I still don't get it. Whatever I am looking at is so nothing it makes space look full of chickens.

Many a mickle makes a muckle

Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010



Baronjutter posted:

I'm sure there's some fish left in the great lakes? I guess that's not a sea...

With all the great connotations of Great Lakes fish:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m390ViWxjEM

(yeah I know they're cleaner these days, jeez, I just wanted to post Stan Rogers)

Ceciltron
Jan 11, 2007

Text BEEP to 43527 for the dancing robot!
Pillbug

angel opportunity posted:

my wife found this thread where chinese people in the US fo home and find how theirmparents have decorated the house in their absence. some AMAZING photos in there, check it out

http://www.mitbbs.org/article_t/Living/33766011.html

Omg I love it but the emotes and timing just make it for me.

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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:backtowork:

oohhboy posted:

I still don't get it. Whatever I am looking at is so nothing it makes space look full of chickens.

Woman in red is asking a vacuous officially approved question designed to show how the regime is On Top Of Things

Woman in blue recognises the question for what it is, and expresses her dissatisfaction with such infantile banality by executing a series of physical expressions and facial twitches designed to alert the seasoned observer of said dissatisfaction. When taken as a whole, these physical changes provoke feelings of empathy and mirth in the observer, but also worry, as the non-verbal messages are also used to target Woman in Blue by the nationalist wumao crowd. Indeed, the clip is already being scrubbed from the China net, and Woman in Blue is rumoured to have not only been fired, but had her journalist license revoked.

In summary: within ineffable China, even the slight raising of the eyebrow can destroy your life

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ladron
Sep 15, 2007

eso es lo que es

Imperialist Dog posted:

Woman in red is asking a vacuous officially approved question designed to show how the regime is On Top Of Things

Woman in blue recognises the question for what it is, and expresses her dissatisfaction with such infantile banality by executing a series of physical expressions and facial twitches designed to alert the seasoned observer of said dissatisfaction. When taken as a whole, these physical changes provoke feelings of empathy and mirth in the observer, but also worry, as the non-verbal messages are also used to target Woman in Blue by the nationalist wumao crowd. Indeed, the clip is already being scrubbed from the China net, and Woman in Blue is rumoured to have not only been fired, but had her journalist license revoked.

In summary: within ineffable China, even the slight raising of the eyebrow can destroy your life

can you say what the thing being said is?

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