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simplefish posted:That footage is going to get mysteriously and very unfortunately deleted irrecoverably in the process of trying to send it to you, because you are making noises about going to the police (which yeah you have to do). But with footage there's liability for the school and the guard, and without it it's your word agains theirs over who lost the passport Seriously, I don't care about the liablilty. I don't care whose fault it is. I just want my passport. Now I probably hosed myself in teh arse by, when yelling at the security cam guy, I accidentally let slip amongst the yelling "This is YOUR fault! You stole my passport!" Both of which he was angry about, as related to me by the friendly foreigner wrangler/admin at the school. So they may do as you say. But either way, with the police report, I have done the right thing, and the legal thing, and even though it will be an expensive clusterfuck, I should be able to get everything settled by the start of teh new semester. ... Hopefully.
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Fortunately, as a foreigner you are automatically at fault.
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BrigadierSensible posted:But either way, with the police report, I have done the right thing, and the legal thing, and.... Lol, you're not in central europe.
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Imperialist Dog posted:So simple and convenient! lol I know the voice actor who did the voiceover for that
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BrigadierSensible posted:But either way, with the police report, I have done the right thing, and the legal thing ... and it won't do you any good. China.
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Holy poo poo, I can't wait to see the insane parking shenanigans resulting.
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HK people, is having mainland insurance common at all there or am I right in thinking that “you have to have insurance from three places to drive across this bridge” is a really weird requirement for a bridge?
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Pirate Radar posted:HK people, is having mainland insurance common at all there or am I right in thinking that “you have to have insurance from three places to drive across this bridge” is a really weird requirement for a bridge? Yeah I mean it's weird, the weirdest part is for insurance over the bridge. You'd think it'd be like taking a car ferry anywhere else - the bridge company would take out a policy for any driver on it and roll it into the toll/fare. The whole "its mainland waters!!!1!!1 is bizzare too but if there's something the ccp is going to get a stick up its arse about, it'll be maritime jurisdiction. For the macau car park, if it's all private land then drivers shouldn't need Macau insurance, but didn't that video say they just needed the Car Park ID sticker? Which yeah that's normal here to sign up to a car park membership in HK and havr to display a sticker
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simplefish posted:lol I know the voice actor who did the voiceover for that I can fake a posh colonial accent, set me up with a sweet government job
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Passport shenanigans conclusion: They found it! Somewhere in teh Guards room. I am loathe to ask too many questions. When they had me up in the office "reviewing the footage", after about 20 minutes, the securioty guard shadowing me gets a phone call. tells me to wait and he nips down to the gate, fiddles about a bit for 5 mins and returns with my passport! All it took was some yelling and threatening to go to the police. I guess that is China for you, all it takes is one misplaced envelope, and adventure awaits.
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Yeah mate you aren’t getting it back  Just get even at some point. EDIT: holy poo poo!
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Lets conjecture what use the guard could have for an aus passport. I think he liked looking at ur picture in bed, imagining the places youve travelled as he goes through your port of entry stamps, and cranking his hog all the while.
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Imperialist Dog posted:So simple and convenient! Incredible. quote:Fears parts of world's longest sea bridge are floating away https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/09/fears-parts-of-world-longest-sea-bridge-are-floating-away I would blow Dane Cook fucked around with this message at 12:53 on Jun 20, 2018 |
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Old news, latest scandal is the MTR covering up a bunch of unsafe construction procedures while building the new underground railway stations.
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Imperialist Dog posted:So simple and convenient! The "mainland waters" part is loving hilarious. Also compare that to the ease and convenience of something like the Øresund Bridge, which goes between *gasp* two different countries! https://www.oresundsbron.com/en/prices
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quote:The Artificial Island in May 2018 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong%E2%80%93Zhuhai%E2%80%93Macau_Bridge People are going to die aren't they?
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"authority’s deputy director Yu Lie". No, you.
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But... but... look at how fast China is building infrastructure! China gets things done!
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It's not backwards it's Feng shui
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Imperialist Dog posted:So simple and convenient! This is 12 Tasks of Asterisk and Obelix.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:"We have our ways to do it, and you [Hong Kong] may have your ways to do it. You seem to presume that part of the structure had sunk … but it has been designed as such. We do not think there is any problem with that. There are rules and standards for us to follow,”
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Imperialist Dog posted:I can fake a posh colonial accent, set me up with a sweet government job i mean, i have literally hooked you up with a voice acting gig in the past, so...?
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Im at Changi airport (Singapore) right now. All the general stores are the same chain, in their Asian reading sections there are a tonne of books about china and xi and mao. Right in the middle there is a pretty racist looking book titled "can asians think?".
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Short answer is no, which the author backs up by comparing them to jews, who also cant think, as evidenced by them getting run out of palestine 2000 years ago.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Passport shenanigans conclusion: Goongrats!!!!!! now go work a job lol
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Wow what a video. So the park and ride is more geared towards cars with dual hk and China license plates. They all get a free pass as far as I know. But reserving parking spaces? Hah. Honestly the bridge isn’t much faster but if you live on the east end of Hong Kong then driving to the Macau car park might be an option. But if you have all that money owning a dual license plate car you might as well just take the helicopter over
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underage at the vape shop posted:Im at Changi airport (Singapore) right now. All the general stores are the same chain, in their Asian reading sections there are a tonne of books about china and xi and mao. Right in the middle there is a pretty racist looking book titled "can asians think?". Skip to the last page and spoil it for us
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tote up a bags posted:Skip to the last page and spoil it for us It's just a link to this thread
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tote up a bags posted:Skip to the last page and spoil it for us it's just a cartoon flip book spelling out I N S C R U T A B L E
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I left my wallet in a taxi once in like 2009? and got it back the next day from the taxi company office with all the money and poo poo still in it, after getting a friend to call the taxi company right away and say where I'd been picked up and dropped off and when.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Passport shenanigans conclusion: Possible it was going to be "leverage" to screw over the foreigner, if this thread's anecdotes are at all reliable. Also possible: identity theft so they can send some Chinese guy to Australia using your specifics. They already have your info, and how long you're going to be there. This one is more speculation, but given the amount of saturation China is trying to do to Australia, it's a possibility, at least.
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I left my wallet on the seat of a taxi in polite civilized Victoria BC driven by an "old stock canadian". It was on the seat because my fare was $19 and I only had a $20 bill so I had to take my wallet out to pay via card to give him a nice tip. The moment I shut the door I noticed and shouted for him to wait but he sped off clearly after hearing me. I called it in and they said I'd have to wait for him to finish his shift and a lot of people accuse drivers of taking their wallets so maybe I'm not even telling the truth, they won't refund any money I allege was in the wallet either. Hours later another driver came and dropped it off, he wanted $10 "for his time". Went inside to get cash, he snapped his arm back when I leaned in to give him the money, just in case I was trying to snatch my wallet back without paying him. Finally, only after examining the bill and chiding me for making him wait for the money, he reluctantly gave me my wallet and added "there wasn't any money in it, so don't say we took your money" I loving hate uber but yearn for taxi industry death.
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I feel bad for cabbies only because I was party to a very drunk girl barfing in his cab. He screamed at me to give him extra money to clean it (lol) and then got in my face telling me to hit him. Awesome. I did give him an extra twenty for the barf though. Sorry cabbie.
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PLAN 2020 looking good China’s new aircraft carrier is in for repairs — and its project manager faces corruption charges Type 003 carrier is gonna be loving hilarious
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LostCosmonaut posted:PLAN 2020 looking good next up is someone spray painting Taiwan number #1 on the side.
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Didn't they buy that piece of poo poo carrier knowing it was a piece of poo poo so they could use it to grind their "carrier operation and construction" skills before making their own? Like I don't think the outcome is supposed to be a good effective carrier, that's to come later.
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simplefish posted:i mean, i have literally hooked you up with a voice acting gig in the past, so...? But now I'm greedy and want that sweet sinecure that only comes with working for the civil service. Should I pray more?
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Imperialist Dog posted:But now I'm greedy and want that sweet sinecure that only comes with working for the civil service. Should I pray more? should pay more, it is the way of Hong Kong
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