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I liked the first one enough to finish it, haven't read the other two.
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The start of the first book I enjoyed, made the cultural revolution seem as harsh as it was then the books just become more and more terrible (and obsessed with suicide if you ask me), they're bad sci-fi books and I dont get why everyone like them.
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Boiled Water posted:Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Physics, Old Habits, and Old Ideas Old wonder it's dark
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by.a.teammate posted:The start of the first book I enjoyed, made the cultural revolution seem as harsh as it was then the books just become more and more terrible (and obsessed with suicide if you ask me), they're bad sci-fi books and I dont get why everyone like them. China will be #1 in science fiction by 2020, and people don't want to be left behind.
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dregan posted:Old wonder it's dark Nice.
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Mar 29, 2018 19:22
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I've always wondered that during official state visits, it must be awkward to talk through a translator with another head of state. I doubt Winnie the Pooh knows any Korean, and I doubt Kim jong Un speaks passable Mandarin.
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Peter Daou Bundy posted:I've always wondered that during official state visits, it must be awkward to talk through a translator with another head of state. I doubt Winnie the Pooh knows any Korean, and I doubt Kim jong Un speaks passable Mandarin. Hilarious if they just speak English to each other Serious answer: with trained translators it's near instantaneous and they must be used to it.
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Mar 29, 2018 19:54
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLuzmXLORSg
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When I first came to Thailand, I stayed in a resort where the door to my room just wouldn't work. You shut a door, it clicks into place, and it doesn't open back up. This door had difficulties accomplishing that. On closer examination, I discovered that the latch had been installed backwards. So instead of a nicely curved piece of metal sliding against the frame and then keeping the door from swinging back open, a flat bolt of metal would smack into it and if I turned the knob and shut the door, it would just slide back open since the curved side couldn't brace the door shut. Maintenance took one look at it, shrugged, and switched my rooms. It was easier to just have an empty room than it was to deal with the problem. In that new room, the AC wouldn't produce cold air. I called maintenance again and they told me that in Thailand, one cannot expect instant cold air. I needed to wait. So half an hour later when it still was just blowing out hot air, they switched me to a third room. This one was covered in ants, but gently caress it, the door stayed shut and it was cold. A year later, I was living in a condo. I locked myself out of my bathroom and of course there was no key (this wasn't a pushpin door, but a literal lock and key door). The landlord helpfully sent a locksmith. He examined the knob for a good five minutes, got out a screwdriver, carefully set it against the knob, then whacked the butt of the screwdriver with a hammer. "You'll need to buy a new knob."
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Mar 30, 2018 00:50
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I lived in a highrise apartment in China once where the door baffled me, 2 other foreigners and a chinese guy. It turned out that you turned the key really hard to open the door, and you pushed what looked like the thumb latch lever to -lock- the door from the outside. We spent like 15 minutes unlocking and then locking it. One of the neighbors came out to see what the commotion was and my chinese buddy asked him to help but he said it didnt have anything to do with him and went back inside. My friend talked to the landlord later that night and he explained it. The door would also make very loud buzzing noises when it was windy that alternated pitch as the winds changed, and the whole interior of the apartment was painted pink.
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Mar 30, 2018 01:02
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hakimashou posted:I lived in a highrise apartment in China once where the door baffled me, 2 other foreigners and a chinese guy. Lmfao The door plays pleasant music, why are you complaining
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Goddamn, this is one horrifying self-ownquote:https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/hit-run-driver-distraught-learn-12275296
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Mar 30, 2018 01:53
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Imperialist Dog posted:Hilarious if they just speak English to each other Maybe possible, I'm sure Xi speaks English and Lil Kim probably did while living in Switzerland.
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thoughts and prayers posted:Goddamn, this is one horrifying self-own "The Article posted:Zhang revealed to police that he, his wife and their son had gone to a relative's home for dinner that night.
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Kim speaks decent English and reportedly middling-to-passable German because of his Swiss school days. No idea if he picked up Mandarin at some point but it wouldn’t be surprising, I guess.
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Pirate Radar posted:Kim speaks decent English and reportedly middling-to-passable German because of his Swiss school days. No idea if he picked up Mandarin at some point but it wouldn’t be surprising, I guess. Do you think he's fairly intelligent due to his excellent education or one of those spoiled rich idiots who gets other people to do their homework for them?
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Mar 30, 2018 04:14
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Escape Addict posted:Do you think he's fairly intelligent due to his excellent education or one of those spoiled rich idiots who gets other people to do their homework for them? People who went to school with him said he was kind of a crappy student who cared more about basketball and video games than homework, which is a comfortingly normal thing to hear.
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Mar 30, 2018 04:35
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Pirate Radar posted:People who went to school with him said he was kind of a crappy student who cared more about basketball and video games than homework, which is a comfortingly normal thing to hear. Yeah but now he gets to torture people who screw up on the basketball team and have people get blown up and machine gunned like in video games where instead maybe if he'd done his homework he could do economic reforms or some poo poo.
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thoughts and prayers posted:Goddamn, this is one horrifying self-own quote:Witnesses who rushed to inspect the accident No rushing to help, just look at a thing.
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Mar 30, 2018 06:47
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Atlas Hugged posted:"You'll need to buy a new knob." hakimashou posted:I lived in a highrise apartment in China once where the door baffled me, 2 other foreigners and a chinese guy. The locks on the doors in my apartment building have been designed so if you lock the door on one side, it cannot be unlocked from the other. I've a friend who once accidentally locked his GF in the apartment when he left for work, and she was trapped until he could return to let her out again. Bonus points for them living on the second floor, so there are bars over the outside of all their windows. It's one of the worst fire hazards I have seen and I've no idea who thought it was a good idea to design locks in such a manner.
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KillingPablo posted:The locks on the doors in my apartment building have been designed so if you lock the door on one side, it cannot be unlocked from the other. I've a friend who once accidentally locked his GF in the apartment when he left for work, and she was trapped until he could return to let her out again. Bonus points for them living on the second floor, so there are bars over the outside of all their windows. It's one of the worst fire hazards I have seen and I've no idea who thought it was a good idea to design locks in such a manner. accidentally
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hakimashou posted:Yeah but now he gets to torture people who screw up on the basketball team and have people get blown up and machine gunned like in video games where instead maybe if he'd done his homework he could do economic reforms or some poo poo. Knowing that North Korea is run by a probable gamergater would help make sense of a lot of things
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Atlas Hugged posted:When I first came to Thailand, I stayed in a resort where the door to my room just wouldn't work. You shut a door, it clicks into place, and it doesn't open back up. This door had difficulties accomplishing that. On closer examination, I discovered that the latch had been installed backwards. So instead of a nicely curved piece of metal sliding against the frame and then keeping the door from swinging back open, a flat bolt of metal would smack into it and if I turned the knob and shut the door, it would just slide back open since the curved side couldn't brace the door shut. Looks like I could find employment in Thailand.
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Pirate Radar posted:People who went to school with him said he was kind of a crappy student who cared more about basketball and video games than homework, which is a comfortingly normal thing to hear. The thing about the north koreans is we really dont have any insight into their goverment kim might be held up as the dear leader but where does the power really lay in that country.
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This is in Thai, but someone translated it to English: https://news.sanook.com/5848778/ quote:A Chinese woman defecated in a Bangkok taxi on Monday and then refused to pay anything towards the cleanup cost. Chaoshan Girl just left after a short holiday here. I haven't opened my computer since we went out together. We had a decent time. Not much else to report.
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Mar 30, 2018 10:52
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Designated making GBS threads taxi
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"The policeman reportedly said there was no law to cover such an incident"
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Mar 30, 2018 11:56
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Darkest Auer posted:"The policeman reportedly said there was no law to cover such an incident" I feel like that is a law the Thai King could easily take care off ( The old one, not sure about the new one).
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Mar 30, 2018 12:23
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Have the taxi retroactively declared a temple.
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Mar 30, 2018 12:25
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KillingPablo posted:The locks on the doors in my apartment building have been designed so if you lock the door on one side, it cannot be unlocked from the other. I've a friend who once accidentally locked his GF in the apartment when he left for work, and she was trapped until he could return to let her out again. Bonus points for them living on the second floor, so there are bars over the outside of all their windows. It's one of the worst fire hazards I have seen and I've no idea who thought it was a good idea to design locks in such a manner. That'd be extremely illegal in Europe. The door to my apartment is classified as "break in delaying" which means any lock needs to be fashioned in a way that allows people inside of the apartment to be able to unlock it without a key at any time.
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Mar 30, 2018 15:57
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Darkest Auer posted:"The policeman reportedly said there was no law to cover such an incident" Taxidriver surely had an image of the king in the car....that woman defecated in face of the king, thus insulting him. Problem solved
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Barudak posted:Shes uncomfortable with that and its Japan so abortion is extremely tightly controlled and adopting the child out is absolutely the worst thing you can do so shes basically been forced to be a single mom against her will. I am one of five (foreign) women I know who easily procured an abortion in Japan. 
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Mar 30, 2018 16:34
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BexGu posted:So Amazon is going to spend a billion dollars on this? This is part of section that in intensely critical of the Cultural Revolution. It's part of the backstory for the main character. Three Body Problem is good.
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Mar 30, 2018 16:36
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gently caress, that’s on my list but I haven’t gotten to it yet
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barbecue at the folks posted:Knowing that North Korea is run by a probable gamergater would help make sense of a lot of things North Korea makes perfect sense to me after living in South Korea. It's SK that's the weird one.
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https://twitter.com/modacitylife/status/979395971086917632 did u know?
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Last I checked, diesel Volkswagens weren't littering the street
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Ziv Zulander posted:Last I checked, diesel Volkswagens weren't littering the street they were also put there by a mammoth buy-back from VW loving up software in their vehicles that compromised nice extras like "brakes", not the entire abortive clusterfuck that is the bike sharing debacle like literally, one is a large company loving up and paying the price for it, the other is a government loving up, not admitting it, and letting their citizens pay the price for it.
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don’t worry they’ll get shipped to chinese landfills and then some enterprising farmer will build a jaeger out of them or something
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Huh I wonder how this lift broke? https://twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/status/979859566975361026?s=19
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