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Cry Havoc posted:but you better believe they won’t stop calling it burma lol Nah, BBC calls it "country of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma" It's like "A Tribe Called Quest" you have to say the whole thing Grand Fromage posted:Yeah they're just rightfully scared that those products in China are fake. They don't trust importers to be genuine either. China may hate Japan, but they don't hate Japanese products. Besides, fancy rice cookers with actual accurate temperature gauges, a keep-warm mode, and--most importantly--the multiple tunes and chimes for when it finishes cooking really scratch that conspicuous consumption itch and scream "premium import" to all the people who eat rice as guests in your house.
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Well??? What does it say?
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Pirate Radar posted:Well??? What does it say? "Wear a fancy suit consisting of more than four, but fewer than six, pieces."
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It has a great web site: http://www.asianworldpress.com/about.html
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Trust me the kid doesn’t give a poo poo
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In my history class, I'm currently teaching about various ancient systems of government. The textbook says that after Qin Shi Huangdi unified China, it was a single, stable government for the next 2,200 years. So in class today I pointed out that the textbook is a loving liar and that the students would be stupid to believe it. Since the major theme of the course is teaching students to look for credibility in sources, this was about as good a way as I could think of to apply the skill to the real world.
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Atlas Hugged posted:In my history class, I'm currently teaching about various ancient systems of government. The textbook says that after Qin Shi Huangdi unified China, it was a single, stable government for the next 2,200 years. Where are you teaching?
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If it was so loving stable we would still be under the Qin Dynasty. Holy poo poo what a load of bullshit. This textbook is actually quite counter revolutionary and sidestep the Japanese invasion and 1911
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That's right! They dishonour the heroes and martyrs of the century of humiliation!
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Based on the cover, it starts with a hearty helping of GHB.
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Platystemon posted:Where are you teaching? Bangkok, fortunately(?).
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I have this book, it’s hilarious
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Snowy posted:I have this book, it’s hilarious Pointers, please? My usual panty-dropping arsenal of awkward, open-mouthed stares followed by an insincere compliment about her shoes is... somewhat lacking. HAHAHA JK, I'm not gonna gently caress her if her shoes are ugly.
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Baronjutter posted:I remember watching some documentary on the treasure fleet and a bunch of ship builders and historians were saying the official chinese party line on the size of the ships was physically impossible. Like they were most likely real, and most likely very big for the day, but they weren't 300 or even 500 feet like some like to claim. Yeah. Zheng He and the treasure fleet definitely were a thing, and the ships were probably pretty impressive (keep in mind how tiny the early European ocean exploration ships actually were, they were a lot smaller than you think) but the PRC lies about the ships. Like how Korea lies about turtle ships being ironclads. caberham posted:If it was so loving stable we would still be under the Qin Dynasty. Seriously. The Qin collapsed like, immediately. I don't think they lasted five years after Qin Shi Huangdi died. Three Kingdoms???????????
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Grand Fromage posted:Yeah. Zheng He and the treasure fleet definitely were a thing, and the ships were probably pretty impressive (keep in mind how tiny the early European ocean exploration ships actually were, they were a lot smaller than you think) but the PRC lies about the ships. Like how Korea lies about turtle ships being ironclads. This was literally what I said. Everyone in Thailand knows Three Kingdoms because half of their dumb TV dramas are imported versions of it and since the first thing I did was teach my students how to read a timeline, they all had a good laugh at the book's insane claim.
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looks like someone wasn’t getting the good stuff from australia
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Grand Fromage posted:Yeah. Zheng He and the treasure fleet definitely were a thing, and the ships were probably pretty impressive (keep in mind how tiny the early European ocean exploration ships actually were, they were a lot smaller than you think) but the PRC lies about the ships. Like how Korea lies about turtle ships being ironclads. They were even smaller than what Fromage is making them out to be, the first European ship to reach Australia was 20m long (the Duyfken). I slept on the replica of it when I was a kid, I can't imagine spending several months on that thing with a full crew. underage at the vape shop fucked around with this message at 17:31 on May 16, 2018 |
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May 16, 2018 17:21
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Boner pills made from Zheng He's fleet.
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I thought the average treasure ship size was 300', this is very unsettling.
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european exploration ships were small because being on the high seas means being small enough to be able to roll with the waves, and caravels were even capable of staying afloat during hurricanes with a skilled crew that the chinese were apparently obsessed with building hulking face monstrosities is not a point in their favor in terms of naval engineering underage at the vape shop posted:I slept on the replica of it when I was a kid, I can't imagine spending several months on that thing with a full crew. lots of singing and gay orgies hth
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Trying to grow things and keeping livestock on a long sea voyage sounds incredibly stupid and implausible. It reminds me of a kickstarter idea that sounds good but isn't physically possible because the person behind it has no scientific or engineering expwrtise.
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nickmeister posted:Trying to grow things and keeping livestock on a long sea voyage sounds incredibly stupid and implausible. It reminds me of a kickstarter idea that sounds good but isn't physically possible because the person behind it has no scientific or engineering expwrtise. I don't know about growing things, but most western sailing vessels on long voyages would have had chickens for eggs and a goat or cow for milk, sometimes pigs as well.
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Animals can get sea legs like anyone else, but yeah, generally just basic things and it's a little bit weird in hindsight that nobody seems to have made a serious go at growing fruits and vegetables on a ship. Maybe because we're spoiled nowadays by access to the ubermensch of vegetables, the potato, which Europeans obviously didn't have. Fishing was also an important supplement which is why the Grand Banks of Newfoundland blew European minds to the extent that it did.
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this is peak China for anyone who has never been here. It’s absolutely perfect
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Fojar38 posted:Animals can get sea legs like anyone else, but yeah, generally just basic things and it's a little bit weird in hindsight that nobody seems to have made a serious go at growing fruits and vegetables on a ship. Maybe because we're spoiled nowadays by access to the ubermensch of vegetables, the potato, which Europeans obviously didn't have. Kevin Costner made a pretty good go of it in that documentary he did 20 years ago. Did pretty well until his ship was destroyed if I recall.
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Carrying water for plants seems awfully excessive.
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nickmeister posted:Carrying water for plants seems awfully excessive. Theoretically one could catch rainwater, but yeah, nowhere near as reliable as livestock.
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Outrail posted:The problem with that is you're in the middle of the pacific, stranded on a boat with a ton of the earthly embodiment of belligerence and spite. Okay but we were talking about early modern European exploration, not going on a cruise in 2018
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Atlas Hugged posted:Who needs water when you can just drain a turtle. For those who might not get the reference. "Giant tortoises were invaluable to sailors, as they could be kept alive for at least six months without food or water. Stacked helplessly on their backs, they could be killed and eaten as and when necessary. Better still, they sucked up gallons of water at a time and kept it in a special bladder, meaning that a carefully butchered tortoise was also a fountain of cool, perfectly drinkable water. Large-scale commercial whaling in the 19th century was only made possible because the giant tortoises enabled ships to stay at sea for weeks at a time."
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Blistex posted:For those who might not get the reference. Homo Sapiens wins again
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And we ate most of them into extinction.
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Fojar38 posted:Okay but we were talking about early modern European exploration, not going on a cruise in 2018 I've got no problem eating the average modern cruise ship passenger should the need arise.
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Cry Havoc posted:those sailors must’ve been having so much sex with each other from all the turtle boner medicine They weren't endangered at the time. It only gives boners if the thing is rare AND unusual.
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