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Korea has the best healthcare I've personally used. The most I ever spent living there was like ten bucks (the doctor visit and the medicine combined), the doctors I went to were super professional, no wizard poo poo. Korea does have TCM but it's separated from the actual medical system. It was great. I even was there once on vacation and my eye was hurting like crazy so I went to have it checked out. Had scans and got medicine and stuff, not as a resident and with no health insurance, and it was all still under a hundred bucks. They got their poo poo together, medical-wise.
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Toronto: "Unlicensed driver crashes new McLaren 720S into parked Audi R8" https://i.imgur.com/ykskRXg.mp4 "A Chinese passport was recovered from the car after the driver took off" E: here's actual video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS-6c7VzHm0 Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 14:24 on May 11, 2018 |
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May 11, 2018 14:21
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I still can't figure out Taiwan's obsession with TCM.
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May 11, 2018 14:25
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Der Shovel posted:Toronto: "Unlicensed driver crashes new McLaren 720S into parked Audi R8" Lol the Supreme sticker makes so much sense
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May 11, 2018 14:38
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Atlas Hugged posted:I still can't figure out Taiwan's obsession with TCM. Anecdotally though, most people see it as like vitamins and poo poo, stuff to keep you holistically healthy, but not to replace real medicine. Which is fine I think. I'd actually be really interested in seeing numbers on people in the Sinosphere who believe in TCM as a replacement for actual medicine, versus people in the west who believe the same for various western woo like chiropractors or homeopathy
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May 11, 2018 14:59
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Der Shovel posted:Toronto: "Unlicensed driver crashes new McLaren 720S into parked Audi R8" Cant wait for that douche to get a light slap on his wrists, and learn absolutely nothing. Like this guy: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/b-c-ferrari-driver-hit-with-750-fine-for-doing-150-km-h-over-limit-1.3921649 quote:A Ferrari driver who was clocked at triple the speed limit in Vancouver last summer has been hit with a $750 fine and 16 months of driver probation as punishment for his fourth speeding offence since 2015. That'll show him!
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May 11, 2018 14:59
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fish and chips and dip posted:Cant wait for that douche to get a light slap on his wrists, and learn absolutely nothing. - Four speeding offences in 3 years. - Doing 210 KM/h in a loving 60 km/h zone (that's 130mph in a 35 zone for you Yanks) This rear end in a top hat didn't lose his permit / get a jail sentence because ... ?
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May 11, 2018 15:03
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Where I live it's automatic loss of license for doing more than 45 km/h over the limit, in addition to fines and other possible charges. I thought Canada was a civilised country?
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May 11, 2018 15:06
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Der Shovel posted:- Four speeding offences in 3 years. Obviously the Vancouver PD does not want to hurt the feelings of the Chinese people. But seriously, being from Scandinavia, this just blows my loving mind. Where I am from you'd lose your license for being 36kmh over, and you'd go to prison for 96kmh over in a 60kmh zone.
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GotLag posted:Where I live it's automatic loss of license for doing more than 45 km/h over the limit, in addition to fines and other possible charges. I thought Canada was a civilised country? It is here but money loving talks. You can go in and just ask to see the calibration records for the radar/laser device and they'll drop most tickets down to minimum.
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May 11, 2018 15:19
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https://gizmodo.com/australia-bans-cash-for-all-purchases-over-7-500-start-1825946888 If this isn't at least somewhat about China I'm the ghost of Deng Xiaoping.
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May 11, 2018 15:31
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Platystemon posted:How often do you get ear infections? FYI he swims in Chinese pools I can only speculate about chlorination adequacy, but join me, speculation is fun
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May 11, 2018 16:44
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The Great Autismo! posted:china's healthcare system is actually quite good, smells like whataboutism, brother
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May 11, 2018 16:49
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Honestly it kind of wraps around, doing 130 in a 35 and not crashing is respectable. I can dig that. Horrifically irresponsible, naturally, but I appreciate it in its own way.
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May 11, 2018 17:44
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Like if you’re gonna speed
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Pirate Radar posted:Like if you’re gonna speed ...plow into an Audi. Yeah yeah I read the instructions.
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Pirate Radar posted:Honestly it kind of wraps around, doing 130 in a 35 and not crashing is respectable. I can dig that. Horrifically irresponsible, naturally, but I appreciate it in its own way. Khorne fucked around with this message at 22:49 on May 11, 2018 |
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May 11, 2018 22:43
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Tour group of Chinese students visiting a local elementary school. 99% of them huddled shoulder-to-shoulder in the shade, and it's only 70°f/20°C out. 
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simplefish posted:FYI he swims in Chinese pools Well I know we didn’t find Khrushchev’s account.
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Lupin posted:Tour group of Chinese students visiting a local elementary school. 99% of them huddled shoulder-to-shoulder in the shade, and it's only 70°f/20°C out. Why are they visiting a local elementary school?
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May 12, 2018 02:36
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Khorne posted:It's a bridge. It's probably one of those "speed limit is so low for no apparent reason" situations. Most bridges around here people regularly do 160km/h+ on in shitbox cars. Intentionally gunning it on a bridge in a real nice car makes sense. People speed so much and old people whine so much about it that sometimes they park police cars at the entrance to the bridge lmao. Yeah, but embedding a supercar into a concrete divider doesn't run the risk of destroying a suspension line or bucking the roadway enough and dropping a length of thoroughfare into a water feature. Lupin posted:Tour group of Chinese students visiting a local elementary school. 99% of them huddled shoulder-to-shoulder in the shade, and it's only 70°f/20°C out. I'm the collective body heat reaching like 85°F in the shade, but not the resulting bad breath-grade perspiration.
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May 12, 2018 03:35
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Saw a lady today with one of those surgical masks being used as an ineffective barrier for fine particulate pollution (in Vancouver) She had cut a hole in it for her mouth.
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May 12, 2018 04:42
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Lupin posted:Tour group of Chinese students visiting a local elementary school. 99% of them huddled shoulder-to-shoulder in the shade, and it's only 70°f/20°C out. They really don't like sunlight over here.
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May 12, 2018 05:20
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The chinese fear of sunlight can get pretty ridiculous. I saw a big group of tourists, mostly 20-somethings not old grannies, all huddled under huge black umbrellas. At the same time they were all zipped in in parkas because it was only like 18c out. Everyone else around them is enjoying the spring weather, the sun, the warmth, and they're huddled under umbrellas while also dressed for arctic survival. They were moving in a tight group like some roman turtle formation because there weren't enough umbrellas for everyone and obviously even a few seconds in direct sunlight would explode them like a vampire. Like god drat you're already in jackets with hoods, hats with visors, you're going to be ok, enjoy the weather and your vacation.
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May 12, 2018 05:50
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LentThem posted:these people are going to be your in-laws yeah i hate them and they hate me
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mikerock posted:Saw a lady today with one of those surgical masks being used as an ineffective barrier for fine particulate pollution (in Vancouver) the hole is really weird but usually it's not for pollution, but because they're sick and don't want to infect others
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a7m2 posted:the hole is really weird but usually it's not for pollution, but because they're sick and don't want to infect others People do use them for pollution though, and I see them sold for such. I also like when people have the mask pulled down to expose their nose, that's helpful. Once I saw a dude who had a proper 3M pollution mask with a hole cut in it for his cigarette.
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a7m2 posted:yeah i hate them and they hate me I hope your wife to be is on your side, and not on her parents side. My father in law is a horrible rear end in a top hat, but that's OK as long as my wife isn't afraid to straight up tell him to go gently caress himself.
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Grand Fromage posted:People do use them for pollution though, and I see them sold for such. I also like when people have the mask pulled down to expose their nose, that's helpful. Amazing.
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May 12, 2018 09:30
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Lupin posted:Tour group of Chinese students visiting a local elementary school. 99% of them huddled shoulder-to-shoulder in the shade, and it's only 70°f/20°C out. I'm gonna go with too much sunlight to play phone except in the shade
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May 12, 2018 09:52
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Grand Fromage posted:People do use them for pollution though, and I see them sold for such. I also like when people have the mask pulled down to expose their nose, that's helpful. Lol but also wouldn’t a cigarette filter genuinely help wrt pollution?
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May 12, 2018 10:07
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009JFKYGC/ref=sspa_dk_detail_1?psc=1 I feel boosted and ready to take a walk in a big circle while I slap my shoulders and thighs!
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Considering Chinese people don't trust china grown food products, is it much of a stretch that they don't trust sunscreen? It tends to be expensive, and I can' imagine that foreign made and purchased sunscreen is costly. Much easier to huddle in the shade. Plus if everyone else is doing it, you must also huddle.
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I've never seen Chinese made sunscreen. I presume it exists. In Korea you never buy the Korean made stuff because it all has skin bleach in it. My assumption is they have some bizarre TCM belief about sunscreen being dangerous.
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Sunscreen protects against UV rays but not from the fire-qi energy that will kill you dead if you spend even one minute outside in direct sunlight, or even worse, it will make your skin black
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Grand Fromage posted:Korea has the best healthcare I've personally used. The most I ever spent living there was like ten bucks (the doctor visit and the medicine combined), the doctors I went to were super professional, no wizard poo poo. Korea does have TCM but it's separated from the actual medical system. It was great. And yet Korean doctors are villified the way teachers are in the US. I don't know why anyone becomes a doctor in Korea if they don't even get paid well or respected.
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Darkest Auer posted:it will make your skin black Actually I know Chinese people who believe this and think sunscreen doesn't work. An umbrella is all you need.
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a7m2 posted:the hole is really weird but usually it's not for pollution, but because they're sick and don't want to infect others That would require consideration for others.
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In Thailand I saw Chinese tourists at the beach wading around in thigh-deep water while shielding themselves with umbrellasBajaj posted:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009JFKYGC/ref=sspa_dk_detail_1?psc=1 Speaking of healthy slapping, I was taking a walk after lunch and saw two people shuffling along together and using unopened bananas to beat themselves around the neck and shoulder blades. I assume this is healthy somehow
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Blistex posted:That would require consideration for others. Yes the real reason is so you can cough without covering your mouth and nobody will shout at you Even though the efficacy of surgical masks when damp (say because they've been coughed into all day) is questionable
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