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Anidav
Feb 25, 2010

ahhh fuck its the rats again

I like the scooter about to collide with the sedan.

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Booty Pageant
Apr 20, 2012
real talk

this yanny laurel poo poo isn't anything new


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUz9xCTOPRw

we still haven't figured out whether this man is saying bad rear end or pissssssssss
and it's almost been 10 years

china #1
:piaa:

CIGNX
May 7, 2006

You can trust me

Accretionist posted:

Deus Ex poo poo

Baronjutter posted:

I love really layered urban spaces like that. I imagine it's on a fairly steep hillside?

Looks like it. It's in Chongqing, and the building they're standing on is the 高盛创富中心 (or also 魁星楼?)

The triangular tower at the end of the video is the Chongqing World Trade Center, so apparently they built the CBD on top of the hill?

And here's a nifty 360 aerial night shot on Baidu Maps. You can use this to get a street view of the area.

CIGNX fucked around with this message at 11:30 on May 19, 2018

Ceciltron
Jan 11, 2007

Text BEEP to 43527 for the dancing robot!
Pillbug

Booty Pageant posted:

real talk

this yanny laurel poo poo isn't anything new


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUz9xCTOPRw

we still haven't figured out whether this man is saying bad rear end or pissssssssss
and it's almost been 10 years

china #1
:piaa:

only loving morons hear bad rear end. It's piss.

Top Hats Monthly
Jun 22, 2011


People are people so why should it be, that you and I should get along so awfully blink blink recall STOP IT YOU POSH LITTLE SHIT

Booty Pageant posted:

real talk

this yanny laurel poo poo isn't anything new


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUz9xCTOPRw

we still haven't figured out whether this man is saying bad rear end or pissssssssss
and it's almost been 10 years

china #1
:piaa:

only loving morons hear piss. It's bad rear end

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Top Hats Monthly posted:

only loving morons hear piss. It's bad rear end

Are you trying to loving gaslight me bitch?

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.
it's piss clear as loving day.

mojo1701a
Oct 9, 2008

Oh, yeah. Loud and clear. Emphasis on LOUD!
~ David Lee Roth


No way Mainlanders would celebrate having an rear end like that.

Top Hats Monthly
Jun 22, 2011


People are people so why should it be, that you and I should get along so awfully blink blink recall STOP IT YOU POSH LITTLE SHIT

Mr. Nice! posted:

it's piss clear as loving day.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Are you trying to loving gaslight me bitch?

I do agree that it’s piss. I’ve never actually met a person who thinks it’s badass

Ceciltron
Jan 11, 2007

Text BEEP to 43527 for the dancing robot!
Pillbug

Top Hats Monthly posted:

I do agree that it’s piss. I’ve never actually met a person who thinks it’s badass

You are confusing as hell.

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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Top Hats Monthly posted:

only loving morons hear piss. It's bad rear end

mods?!?

etalian
Mar 20, 2006


Taiwan number 1

Fleta Mcgurn
Oct 5, 2003

Porpoise noise continues.

Mr. Nice! posted:

piss clear as loving day.

...does not exist in China.

Ceciltron
Jan 11, 2007

Text BEEP to 43527 for the dancing robot!
Pillbug

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

...does not exist in China.

They still sell Snow Beer, sorry.

Imperialist Dog
Oct 21, 2008

"I think you could better spend your time on finishing your editing before the deadline today."
\
:backtowork:
gently caress these people forever

https://twitter.com/ChuBailiang/status/997766732965031939?s=19

bamhand
Apr 15, 2010
What's Chinese brisket called in English? And why the gently caress do no groceries carry it.

CIGNX
May 7, 2006

You can trust me

bamhand posted:

What's Chinese brisket called in English? And why the gently caress do no groceries carry it.

It's just brisket. I'm assuming you're in the US, so if a store has any brisket on hand it's going to be in slab form for smoking/bbq'ing, which means you would need to cube it in order to match the Chinese preparation. They also will likely trim the silver skin off, so you won't have anything chewy on it.

bamhand
Apr 15, 2010
What's even the point if they're going to remove the best part.

CIGNX
May 7, 2006

You can trust me
Just throw a couple rubber bands in the pot, you savage.

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Send it to the DnD China thread if you want to witness first hand something almost as sick.

quote:

The program is a hallmark of China's emboldened state security apparatus under the deeply nationalistic, hard-line rule of President Xi Jinping. It is partly rooted in the ancient Chinese belief in transformation through education — taken once before to terrifying extremes during the mass thought reform campaigns of Mao Zedong, the Chinese leader sometimes channeled by Xi.

"Cultural cleansing is Beijing's attempt to find a final solution to the Xinjiang problem," said James Millward, a China historian at Georgetown University.

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?


I hope that's an intentional attack rather than blind idiocy.

HerStuddMuffin
Aug 10, 2014

YOSPOS
He’s a historian at a US university, I expect he chose his words carefully and the reference is fully intentional.

E: and once someone explains it to uncle Xi’s fan club, he should expect a blitzkrieg on his Twitter feed.

HerStuddMuffin fucked around with this message at 10:39 on May 20, 2018

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!

oohhboy posted:

Send it to the DnD China thread if you want to witness first hand something almost as sick.

Didn't think they sent in tanks to concentration camps.

The Great Autismo!
Mar 3, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

ok lol

coolusername
Aug 23, 2011

cooltitletext
I loving HATE shanghai

Booked motel in wechat, show up, oh no!!! Foreigner!! No good!!

No where will take me under 700rmb for the next 9 or so hours before i train home for work

So im sitting in a fancy hotel lobby pulling an all nighter since they felt so bad for me. gently caress SHANGHAI

kenner116
May 15, 2009

coolusername posted:

gently caress SHANGHAI

Last summer when I had a long layover in Shanghai I just wondered around until I stumbled across a youth hostel north of the Bund at 2 AM. Napped for a few hours on the couch there and was good to go.

coolusername
Aug 23, 2011

cooltitletext
I did try a couple of places but they were packed. And the hotels wanted to charge me 700-1300 rmb for a nap.

But the fancy hotel didn't care if a well-dressed white girl hung out so I spent the past while in the lobby watching their inside koi fish pond and now I'm grabbing an early train. Shanghai is the worst China.

caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer

coolusername posted:

I loving HATE shanghai

Booked motel in wechat, show up, oh no!!! Foreigner!! No good!!

No where will take me under 700rmb for the next 9 or so hours before i train home for work

So im sitting in a fancy hotel lobby pulling an all nighter since they felt so bad for me. gently caress SHANGHAI

Man this loving sucks they better at least give you your money back.

And next time try to book at hanting. It’s an ok chain and if you stick with the newer ones it’s fine.

Also post travel related poo poo in the travel thread

coolusername
Aug 23, 2011

cooltitletext
Oh, my apologies, I thought "loving hell China" rants went in this thread specifically

caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer
That’s like every thread though. If I knew earlier I totally would have helped helped book a hotel or directed to a hostel. Or I’m sure some other goon could have helped

What’s the name of the property by the way?

And if it’s a work trip then just stay in what ever hotel and charge the company.

Oh and pudong is terrible

coolusername
Aug 23, 2011

cooltitletext
Yeah, next time I'll ask. Since I just wanted a place to crash over night I didn't care too much... then gg.

Also I wish it was company, they put you in reasonably nice places. But I just wanted to see a concert.

Motel 168/上海江川经济城(上海华龙大酒店西南) 上海市闸北区. Lady at the front desk would not do anything but gesture me to the door and refuse after I walked in.

caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer
Holy loving poo poo 168.

I’m just glad that you are still alive in one piece. 168 is sketchy as loving gently caress. And regardless of hotel, always dead bolt lock your hotel room. There have been cases of sexual harassment and other crazy poo poo 2 years back and the internet got censored.

One time I came back from running in a early morning and forgot my room key. I asked reception for the wrong room number and front desk just handed it to me without verifying ID. I mentioned my name which was in the hotel record but it didn’t match the room number I mentioned.

Front desk just cha bu duo gave me a key card and I ended up in some random dudes room and scared him.

But the room was filled with peanut shells on the ground and bottles of empty baijiu playing some random tv show

coolusername
Aug 23, 2011

cooltitletext
... okay so suddenly "spend all night chilling on phone in random fancy hotel lobby" is looking like a pretty great life choice.

caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer
So a lot of cheaper places are registered as 内宾 which means domestic visitors only. It’s basically a legacy system of the old days during the 80s where only fancy hotels could allow foreign guests. It’s also probably easier to set up a hotel that way because international guests *involve paper work*. You see more of these hotels in less developed places of china or cheaper places.

I’m a Hong Konger and even I’m not technically allowed to stay in domestic visitor hotel. Because I don’t have a regular China ID. It’s really loving bull poo poo and I had to be smuggled in by a regular Chinese national.

I said technically because recently I was forced to meet a client in the middle of nowhere between shanghai and Hangzhou. The only available hotels were basically all domestic guests only but my go to hanting managed to weasel me through.

I did have to sign a waiver declaring my arrival airport because I’m a separatist Hong konger

peanut
Sep 9, 2007


lol very unity

coolusername
Aug 23, 2011

cooltitletext

caberham posted:

So a lot of cheaper places are registered as 内宾 which means domestic visitors only. It’s basically a legacy system of the old days during the 80s where only fancy hotels could allow foreign guests. It’s also probably easier to set up a hotel that way because international guests *involve paper work*. You see more of these hotels in less developed places of china or cheaper


Huh. That isn't in the travel op, is it?

Seems like my trouble is I registered in Chinese on wechat via coworker so... yeah. I thought it was a case of "bring my passport" not "poo poo a foreigner". Also I'm never letting them choose a good deal for me again

Khorne
May 1, 2002

coolusername posted:

Huh. That isn't in the travel op, is it?

Seems like my trouble is I registered in Chinese on wechat via coworker so... yeah. I thought it was a case of "bring my passport" not "poo poo a foreigner". Also I'm never letting them choose a good deal for me again
It's something most people don't know or think about. There are lots of things like that in every country, pretty much.

EasternBronze
Jul 19, 2011

I registered for the Selective Service! I'm also racist as fuck!
:downsbravo:
Don't forget to ignore me!

Khorne posted:

It's something most people don't know or think about. There are lots of things like that in every East Asian country, pretty much.

Fixed that for you.

Khorne
May 1, 2002

EasternBronze posted:

Fixed that for you.
In the US, too. Some states have messed up liquor laws when it comes to out of state IDs. Think the drinking age is 21? Try 25, or even not being able to buy alcohol at all, with certain out of state IDs in some of the states.

I don't personally drink, but I've had people visiting run into this issue.

I'm sure there are plenty of other dumb laws that you'll never encounter in day to day life that someone visiting here could potentially encounter.

Khorne fucked around with this message at 01:02 on May 21, 2018

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fish and chips and dip
Feb 17, 2010
The no foreigners thing is a China thing, not just Shanghai. Sometimes when you contact the hotel ahead they don't even know themselves. I hate Chinese hotels so much.

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