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McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

senbe1 posted:

Speaking of laowai kicking suitcases, this happened a month ago in Taipei:

Foreign English teacher kicks elderly woman's suitcase, curses Taiwanese on Taipei MRT

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3424798

Thanks for the link! Oh hey, what's this on the side?

Taiwanese blogger posts steamy images of nude wife, reveals she's his cousin

quote:

After Taiwanese netizens were shocked when a Taiwanese blogger posted nude photos of his wife at a hot springs bath in Japan, they were aghast when he revealed that his wife is also his first cousin.

When writing about his family visit to the Japanese hot spring Arima Onsen in Kobe, Japan Taiwanese blogger Andy Tsai (無敵小恩恩) on Tuesday (May 15) shocked his followers by posting two photos of his voluptuous wife, Annie, seated in one of the baths fully nude.

When netizens suggested that he should be more careful about editing the photos to cover her breasts, Andy responded with comments such as "It's beautiful, there's no need to fix it, "My wife said it's just a nipple. What do I need to be careful about," and "Everyone has areolas."

Tsai claimed that the photos were posted with the concent of both parties and that to those who said that the photos were inappropriate, he said that they were not pornographic in nature. He said that everyone was making too much of a fuss over a trivial matter and that they did not care about the criticism from trolls.

In response to criticism that he was doing this to gain more traffic to his website, Tsai said "I don't lack traffic or money." His wife made comments in support of her husband such as "Don't be angry, it was meant to be innocent, but we failed," and "It's OK, I didn't mind."

Despite claiming to not care about web traffic, on his Twitter account this morning he proudly announced the 1.75 million hits his blog received after posting nude photos of his well-endowed wife.

Tsai then revealed that Annie was the daughter of his uncle, and therefore his first cousin. Tsai says he ran into Annie, who was his childhood friend, at their grandfather's birthday party in 2012, and they started making phone calls to each other.

He said in the beginning, her parents opposed their marriage, however he said that they persisted and after a "micro family revolution" her family eventually accepted their union.

Tsai said that because Taiwanese law does not permit close relatives to wed, they had to register their marriage overseas, and have never registered in Taiwan.

In response to concerns from netizens that their children might suffer birth defects because they are so closely related, Tsai admitted that they had the same concern, but after multiple tests on both children were carried out by physicians, he claims that the they are completely healthy.

# ? Jun 27, 2018 05:46

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# ? May 29, 2024 13:35

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

Mods, please change my name to Big Tit Cousin-Wife.

# ? Jun 27, 2018 05:48

GoutPatrol: Oct 17, 2009; *Stupid Babby*

Grand Fromage posted:

I'm basically having a screaming meltdown inside my head every moment I'm outdoors now, but keeping it as contained as I can. 34 more days, I can make it.

Where are you heading, laowai?

# ? Jun 27, 2018 05:57

simplefish: Mar 28, 2011; So long, and thanks for all the ~~fish~~ gallbladdΣrs!

McGavin posted:

Mods, please change my name to Big Tit Cousin-Wife.

Mods, "Everyone has areolas" for me please

# ? Jun 27, 2018 06:29

peanut: Sep 9, 2007

It's legal to marry a first cousin in Japan... but I've never met anyone who did.

# ? Jun 27, 2018 06:44

Pirate Radar: Apr 18, 2008; You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

peanut posted:

It's legal to marry a first cousin in Japan... but I've never met anyone who did.

It�s actually not legal in Taiwan (according to the article anyway, I didn�t know that) so they got married overseas

# ? Jun 27, 2018 06:52

Atlas Hugged: Mar 12, 2007; Put your arms around me,
fiddly digits, itchy britches
I love you all

It's legal in a surprisingly large number of US states. At one point, it was way more acceptable to marry a cousin than it was to marry a person of the same gender.

# ? Jun 27, 2018 07:18

champagne posting: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

Atlas Hugged posted:

It's legal in a surprisingly large number of US states. At one point, it was way more acceptable to marry a cousin than it was to marry a person of the same gender.

I imagine in some of the lower states it�s more acceptable to marry your first cousin than a person of the same gender or different color

# ? Jun 27, 2018 07:20

Coolguye: Jul 6, 2011; Required by his programming!

a lot of places don't bother legislating against it because kissing cousins is more gross than strictly genetically bad. i don't remember the exact numbers but birth defects are something like 10% as likely between cousins when compared to direct blood relations. the numbers are actually fairly low, though.

still, it's an entire other risk factor that you can turn to loving zero by just telling people to go on a few more dates with any of the thousands or tens of thousands of potential partners who aren't related to you, so...

# ? Jun 27, 2018 07:36

GoutPatrol: Oct 17, 2009; *Stupid Babby*

Coolguye posted:

a lot of places don't bother legislating against it because kissing cousins is more gross than strictly genetically bad. i don't remember the exact numbers but birth defects are something like 10% as likely between cousins when compared to direct blood relations. the numbers are actually fairly low, though.

still, it's an entire other risk factor that you can turn to loving zero by just telling people to go on a few more dates with any of the thousands or tens of thousands of potential partners who aren't related to you, so...

Cuz their so attractive. I thought that was the whole point of being an expat

# ? Jun 27, 2018 07:38

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

Tiny brain: Marrying your first cousin is gross and wrong.

Normal brain: Marrying your first cousin is legal in some places, but I wouldn't do it.

Glowing brain: Marrying your first cousin actually only increases the chance of birth defects from 4% to 7%.

Galaxy brain: Both Darwin and Einstein married their first cousins.

# ? Jun 27, 2018 07:50

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?

Genetic defects require a lot of multigenerational inbreeding to become a serious issue. The real problem is it's gross and bad.

# ? Jun 27, 2018 07:56

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

McGavin posted:

Tiny brain: Marrying your first cousin is gross and wrong.

Normal brain: Marrying your first cousin is legal in some places, but I wouldn't do it.

Glowing brain: Marrying your first cousin actually only increases the chance of birth defects from 4% to 7%.

Galaxy brain: Both Darwin and Einstein married their first cousins.

Everything in this post is 100% true, except Einstein's wife was actually his first and second cousin. :barf:

# ? Jun 27, 2018 08:00

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

McGavin posted:

Everything in this post is 100% true, except Einstein's wife was actually his first and second cousin.

Second wife. His first one was an unrelated classmate who he made sign a contract that basically said "you're my maid, get out of my face."

# ? Jun 27, 2018 08:03

hakimashou: Jul 15, 2002; Upset Trowel

Cousin wife is pretty i looked it up.

# ? Jun 27, 2018 08:39

Pirate Radar: Apr 18, 2008; You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

hakimashou posted:

Cousin wife is pretty i looked it up.

And as a bonus, she�s not your cousin

# ? Jun 27, 2018 09:11

Fur20: Nov 14, 2007; すご▞い！
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね！

Mister Olympus posted:

Second wife. His first one was an unrelated classmate who he made sign a contract that basically said "you're my maid, get out of my face."

look man he understood that he needed an einstein wrangler but didn't realize you could just pay someone to do it

# ? Jun 27, 2018 09:12

ninjoatse.cx: Apr 9, 2005; Fun Shoe

hakimashou posted:

Cousin wife is pretty i looked it up.

Definitely would.

# ? Jun 27, 2018 09:52

Kharnifex: Sep 11, 2001; The Banter is better in AusGBS

peanut posted:

It's legal to marry a first cousin in Japan... but I've never met anyone who did.

Yet marrying your students is still legal wth

# ? Jun 27, 2018 10:30

Collateral Damage: Jun 13, 2009

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/25/china-blocks-hbo-after-john-oliver-parody-of-xi-jinping

quote:

HBO�s website has been blocked in China after censors on Chinese social media platform Weibo banned mentions of John Oliver following the British comedian�s parody of Chinese president Xi Jinping.

According to the anti-censorship and monitoring group Greatfire.org, HBO�s website was completely blocked within China as of Saturday, days after media reports emerged that Weibo had censored new posts mentioning Oliver or his HBO show Last Week Tonight.

The episode has been removed from YouTube as well.

# ? Jun 27, 2018 12:37

LimburgLimbo: Feb 10, 2008

Collateral Damage posted:

The episode has been removed from YouTube as well.

That bit still there on the official channel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OubM8bD9kck

Maybe you saw a copy uploaded by someone else thats now down.

# ? Jun 27, 2018 12:46

LimburgLimbo: Feb 10, 2008

Pirate Radar posted:

It�s actually not legal in Taiwan (according to the article anyway, I didn�t know that) so they got married overseas

"Y... yeah, I only knew that because of the article"

*studiously avoids looking at diploma on wall reading Pirate Radar, M.A. Incest Studies*

# ? Jun 27, 2018 12:48

Poldarn: Feb 18, 2011

LimburgLimbo posted:

That bit still there on the official channel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OubM8bD9kck

Maybe you saw a copy uploaded by someone else thats now down.

This one always says "Video not available" when I click on it, but I think that's because I'm in :canada:

# ? Jun 27, 2018 14:24

Pirate Radar: Apr 18, 2008; You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

LimburgLimbo posted:

"Y... yeah, I only knew that because of the article"

*studiously avoids looking at diploma on wall reading Pirate Radar, M.A. Incest Studies*

That�s probably someone�s actual specialty, somewhere

# ? Jun 27, 2018 14:25

Pirate Radar: Apr 18, 2008; You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

Also if I had a master�s I could... idk, have a master�s and probably work the same job I do now but with student debt

# ? Jun 27, 2018 14:29

LimburgLimbo: Feb 10, 2008

Poldarn posted:

This one always says "Video not available" when I click on it, but I think that's because I'm in .

As noted above it's been blocked in places where the Chinese government is in power.

# ? Jun 27, 2018 14:54

Imperialist Dog: Oct 21, 2008; "I think you could better spend your time on finishing your editing before the deadline today."
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Pirate Radar posted:

Also if I had a master’s I could... idk, have a master’s and probably work the same job I do now but with student debt

This is what I did but it makes you look better to employers so actually less debt

# ? Jun 27, 2018 15:01

Imperialist Dog: Oct 21, 2008; "I think you could better spend your time on finishing your editing before the deadline today."
\

LimburgLimbo posted:

As noted above it's been blocked in places where the Chinese government is in power.

Works fine for me in Hong Kong

The revolution has succeeded

# ? Jun 27, 2018 15:02

Bajaj: Sep 13, 2017; by FactsAreUseless

X-Files theme starts playing:

X-Files theme intensifies:

I'm the cat:

She had the typical Central Asian look to her. I feel sorry for her.

If I have to make any complaint about this time in China, it's the food. gently caress, I feel so exhausted here. I feel like a diabetic on the verge of a low blood sugar crash half the day. This food loving sucks rear end so loving hard. I can't even find any reason to enjoy it this time, after a wealth of worldwide choices for super low prices in Thailand (and even India had like 100X more variety than here). In China, it's all carbs, carbs, carbs, salt, carbs, and the worst kind of oils (peanut oil is good for healthy, LMAO, no wonder they spray diarrhea on every surface over here). On top of that, they put loving sugar in all the carbs (like bread). I've been going out to eat my past favs and I have been so utterly disappointed on all fronts during and after the meal.

I miss having my big kitchen and variety of foods to cook as in Thailand. I miss my usual huge hydroponic salad. I am still cooking at home every day, but somehow all the protein and fiber I cook at home mean nothing by the end of the day or while out cruising around. I went from eating once per day in Bangkok and feeling and looking fine, to needing like twenty meals a day here and always miserable. My body is so angry at me for the total change of diet in a negative way. Food is important to me, and I am food-sad here. Bangkok was really boring to me, but those supermarkets and vegetable markets and restaurants and food stalls spoiled me.

Grand Fromage posted:

I'm basically having a screaming meltdown inside my head every moment I'm outdoors now, but keeping it as contained as I can. 34 more days, I can make it.

I know this feel. I was super rude for like a month after leaving, too. I didn't wait for anyone, was always impatient, and barged around like a Mainlander seeing suckers waiting in line. Despite falling into polite manners as the culture and society called for, with strangers I was a jerk for while. It will pass once your brain breaks the super defense mode required to survive around Mainlanders.

Devils Affricate posted:

Haier is a noble First Nations man with over 5000 years of ancestral history but I think he said he often gets mistaken for a South East Asian

LOL.
Dad is a white first-gen German-American, mom is of the plains of North America, family from the Reservation and were herded on the Trails of Tears back in the day. My mom's family are tanned skin, black haired, smaller eyes, slimmer features. She was heavily involved in her people's culture, has a legal Native name, and I grew up with Native friends and Pow Wow culture and stories and all that. A lot of it is pretty rad on the surface, but thankfully I never got to experience the sweet "cultural" parts like all the hate, distrust, alcoholism, ignorance, and so on that goes with reservation life. Sadly, I could not apply for scholarships like my friends, who paid for university completely just by being Eskimo like five generations removed from Eskimo life.

Chinese ask if I am mixed white-Asian, or some India-Indian despite always answering "no" when I ask if I look Indian. Indians think I am "Chinese" or mixed white-Asian. Everyone I talked to in Thailand thought I was one of the lucky half-white Thais and were shocked I wasn't and couldn't speak Thai. The one Thai I decided to get with told me she liked me because I didn't look "scary" like the white guys with their blond/red hair and light eyes and paper-white (or deep purple and freckled) skin.The consensus is that I am mixed and confusing to pinpoint, but definitely not a standard honkey. I am the perfect starter-foreigner because I look familiar-yet-different, and I have been told this a few times. I now believe this to be the secret to my success here.

Edit: Had a Shenzhen girl send me a photo of a mixed white-Filipino guy asking if it was me using a second account. I've had several people here speak Japanese to me. A Japanese girl I used to hang out with told me I looked like Kianu Liibus, whoever the gently caress that is. I'm the gooniest mystery.

caberham posted:

Holy poo poo I�m in the sticks of Shenzhen and I see a tall white guy with glasses

Is it yiu haier

Totally not me. I'm in Futian in a swanky foreigner apartment.

How to tell me apart when seeing foreigners outside:

Foreigner on a skateboard? No. Tons of those here working, living, or visiting. Somehow SZ became a popular stopover for skateboarders despite actually offering much, much less than other destinations in the area. IMO, this city blows for it and like everything else here, probably just got known for something because it's next to HK.

Foreigner with a fiveheaded beauty? No. Too many of those around too.

Foreigner walking around with a liter box of milk in his hand and drinking it without stopping? You may have seen me.

Foreigner drinking Half and Half in public? Absolutely me.

Bajaj fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Jun 27, 2018

# ? Jun 27, 2018 15:28

Pirate Radar: Apr 18, 2008; You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

Bajaj the milk-drinking pilgrim, cursed to wander the streets of Shenzhen for all eternity

# ? Jun 27, 2018 15:46

GotLag: Jul 17, 2005; 食べちゃダメだよ

What's "the typical Central Asian look" and is that the reason why you felt sorry for her?

# ? Jun 27, 2018 15:49

uguu: Mar 9, 2014

Bajaj posted:

If I have to make any complaint about this time in China, it's the food. gently caress, I feel so exhausted here. I feel like a diabetic on the verge of a low blood sugar crash half the day. This food loving sucks rear end so loving hard. I can't even find any reason to enjoy it this time, after a wealth of worldwide choices for super low prices in Thailand (and even India had like 100X more variety than here). In China, it's all carbs, carbs, carbs, salt, carbs, and the worst kind of oils (peanut oil is good for healthy, LMAO, no wonder they spray diarrhea on every surface over here). On top of that, they put loving sugar in all the carbs (like bread). I've been going out to eat my past favs and I have been so utterly disappointed on all fronts during and after the meal.

I miss having my big kitchen and variety of foods to cook as in Thailand. I miss my usual huge hydroponic salad. I am still cooking at home every day, but somehow all the protein and fiber I cook at home mean nothing by the end of the day or while out cruising around. I went from eating once per day in Bangkok and feeling and looking fine, to needing like twenty meals a day here and always miserable. My body is so angry at me for the total change of diet in a negative way. Food is important to me, and I am food-sad here. Bangkok was really boring to me, but those supermarkets and vegetable markets and restaurants and food stalls spoiled me.

I know this feel. I was super rude for like a month after leaving, too. I didn't wait for anyone, was always impatient, and barged around like a Mainlander seeing suckers waiting in line. Despite falling into polite manners as the culture and society called for, with strangers I was a jerk for while. It will pass once your brain breaks the super defense mode required to survive around Mainlanders.

What's wrong with peanut oil?

# ? Jun 27, 2018 16:12

Fleta Mcgurn: Oct 5, 2003; Porpoise noise continues.

uguu posted:

What's wrong with peanut oil?

Nothing, unless making GBS threads your pants is somehow not your end goal.

# ? Jun 27, 2018 16:19

Let us English: Feb 21, 2004; Actual photo of Let Us English, probably seen here waking his wife up in the morning talking about chemical formulae when all she wants is a hot cup of shhhhh

I don't think its a coincidence that, a year after leaving China, I have more hair on my head, more muscle mass, and higher cardio-endurance despite inhaling burning plant matter into my lungs on a daily basis.

The week I left China I posted pictures on Facebook. The response from both my parents was literally, "You look like poo poo."

uguu posted:

What's wrong with peanut oil?

It's all rancid. They deep fry poo poo in it, and while the monounsaturated fats in peanut oil are healthy at low temps, they get hosed up at high temps. Too much rancid, boiling hot peanut oil will also make you poo poo your pants for days.

# ? Jun 27, 2018 16:31

Poldarn: Feb 18, 2011

LimburgLimbo posted:

As noted above it's been blocked in places where the Chinese government is in power.

# ? Jun 27, 2018 17:09

peak debt: Mar 11, 2001; b& :(; Nap Ghost

Let us English posted:

It's all rancid. They deep fry poo poo in it, and while the monounsaturated fats in peanut oil are healthy at low temps, they get hosed up at high temps. Too much rancid, boiling hot peanut oil will also make you poo poo your pants for days.

Uhm among typical cooking oils, peanut oil is the one that is the most suitable for high temperatures.

# ? Jun 27, 2018 17:15