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simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


Maybe I will resell them, who wants to buy a post on page 888?

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Mr. Fix It
Oct 26, 2000

💀ayyy💀


simplefish posted:

Maybe I will resell them, who wants to buy a post on page 888?

Page 888 Post Contains Hidden Drug Ingredient

Porfiriato
Jan 4, 2016


Mr. Fix It posted:

Story for page 888: I sat in on a Skype interview (audio-only) with a candidate for a position we are trying to fill in Beijing. Audio never quite worked. This thread has poisoned my mind so much that I can't help but wonder if they guy sabotaged his audio so he could do the interview via chat and avoid speaking. Or maybe the party is loving with skype so we have to use wechat and get monitored.

Skype does work like dogshit in China, but in the spirit of this page there’s also an 88% chance your hypothesis is correct.

Simplefish should get probed for inharmoniously trying to bogart all the auspicious page 888 posts for himself.

Edit: gently caress

Edit edit: Since my post actually has content I’m declaring it an inalienable part of page 888. Anyone speaking up in disagreement is only going to lose face by doing so. :colbert:

Porfiriato fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Jun 29, 2018

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


Known Lecher posted:


Simplefish should get probed for inharmoniously trying to bogart all the auspicious page 888 posts for himself.

Edit: gently caress

You were not on page 888, you cannot comment on what is harmonious or inharmonious in my posting culture. Anyway, what about thread arguments in the Game Room? You cannot criticise me. Get your own house in order first

Porfiriato
Jan 4, 2016


simplefish posted:

You were not on page 888, you cannot comment on what is harmonious or inharmonious in my posting culture.

Face lost, face-loser :colbert:

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


Known Lecher posted:

Face lost, face-loser :colbert:

Check the dates and timestamps, my claim to the Page 889 dashed cutoff line is more historic than yours

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


You have hurt my feelings

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


11184 posts of history

Porfiriato
Jan 4, 2016


I have in my possession an ancient screenshot that shows the undisputed historical fact of my edit coming before your nine-dashed cutoff line.

No, you can’t see it.

caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer
889 better than 888 because 889 includes longevity

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

caberham posted:

889 better than 888 because 889 includes longevity

words of the sour peasant who lost much face by missing out on 888

caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer

Mr. Fix It posted:

Or maybe the party is loving with skype so we have to use wechat and get monitored.

Hahahhaha no need for that because the party can grab all the logs from Skype if they want. There’s no need to actively screw with some insignificant job interview. Skype is just bad because of the stupid fire wall.

Most of the China Life Advice here is pretty bad or exaggerated

caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer

The White Dragon posted:

words of the sour peasant who lost much face by missing out on 888

I posted on page 168 so its ok

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar
Supermarkets here selling these:




I'd call it blatant pandering, but the checkout chick tells me she has people buy half a dozen at a time.

It also half confirms by personal theory that the first bank to put out gold coloured EFT cards will loving clean up on overseas students and tuhao.

Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 09:22 on Jun 29, 2018

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
My aunt was a bank executive in the bay area and i remember when I was a kid she would tell us they had to reserve big blocks of 100 dollar bills with consecutive 8s in the serial numbers for their Chinese clientele and that if they didn't they'd bank at a different bank.

I didn't think much of it at the time but many years later i realized it was absolutely true.

peanut
Sep 9, 2007


lol

Pompous Rhombus
Mar 11, 2007

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.

Part of my job in college was going through old, out-of-copyright stuff to mine for content - one thing I came across was that in the 19th (and probably early 20th) century, it was easier to marry your first cousin than someone of another race in most of the Southeastern US.

Haiar posted:

and I grew up with Native friends and Pow Wow culture and stories and all that.

If noone buys you a 'please respect Pow Wow culture' title I will be very disappointed.

Fleta Mcgurn
Oct 5, 2003

Porpoise noise continues.
DAMMIT SIMPLEFISH YOU FAST-FINGERED rear end FARM

Hmph. I suck my teeth.

It is fine you did that, I do not care, you lower yourself with such things, and I am untouched. I never cared and you are making up stories that I cared about page 888. I have already bought page 88888888 and my son lives there, very handsome and Iowa University man. *tucks shirt hem between tits and gut and walks away with an injured air of false pride*

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

Known Lecher posted:

Simplefish should get probed for inharmoniously trying to bogart all the auspicious page 888 posts for himself.
He merely posted in the spirit of the thread by selfishly hogging as much of a valuable resource as he could.

Steakandchips
Apr 30, 2009

Like stealing ornamental fish out of a pond?

Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme
Someone repost that story where some old lady got their house ransacked and destroyed because she gave away some stuff for free and every single bystander thought "well if they got something for free then I should too"

Pro PRC Laowai
Jun 14, 2018

Blistex posted:

"Wow something interesting must have happened in the last hour or so. . . oh."

No poo poo. gently caress.

LimburgLimbo
Feb 10, 2008

Pro PRC Laowai posted:

No poo poo. gently caress.

The real PPRCLW would rejoice at such a celebration of Chinese culture

GotLag
Jul 17, 2005

食べちゃダメだよ

LimburgLimbo posted:

Lol that guy also saw TokyoSam, the most awful garbage of Japan vloggers, and said ah man I want to be associated with this guy

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

Tokyo Sam is awful garbage in real life, too. I had the misfortune of renting a room in his house, and despite paying for a month I just had to leave after two weeks. There were no clear flat surfaces in the kitchen to prepare food, and the sink was always full of dirty dishes which he'd brush his teeth over and spit the toothpaste on.

I'm still angry at the (former) mutual friend who hooked me up with that place.

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Steakandchips posted:

Like stealing ornamental fish out of a pond?

gently caress you all got all of mine with Chinese characteristics.

Steakandchips
Apr 30, 2009

And butchering said fish in a public train station loo.

LimburgLimbo
Feb 10, 2008

GotLag posted:

Tokyo Sam is awful garbage in real life, too. I had the misfortune of renting a room in his house, and despite paying for a month I just had to leave after two weeks. There were no clear flat surfaces in the kitchen to prepare food, and the sink was always full of dirty dishes which he'd brush his teeth over and spit the toothpaste on.

I'm still angry at the (former) mutual friend who hooked me up with that place.

Oh I have no doubt. Was this a house that he owned or just the same guesthouse or something?

One time there was a hanami run by some friends that had a Facebook page going to organize, and somehow he was invited and posted some cringy poo poo as you might imagine, which had the immediate reaction from everyone of “okay who in the gently caress invited him?!”

GotLag
Jul 17, 2005

食べちゃダメだよ
He rented the house and sublet the bedrooms. One night I came home and immediately tripped over, turned on the light and the genkan was full of bags of trash which he couldn't be bothered taking outside.

Edit: I just watched a bit of that video and holy poo poo he's even fatter now than he was back then, I guess he really never did start that diet he was always about to begin

GotLag fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Jun 29, 2018

Mameluke
Aug 2, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
What's his deal? Why does this gross waygook have his fingers in so many pies? And was he the fat man or the suit man from that video?

mrbotus
Apr 7, 2009

Patron of the Pants
He's been on his own since 16. I don't think he ever learned how to have genuine connections with people hence the bombastic and obnoxious attitude. Last video I watched of him he watched a video of a young black woman who had a negative experience in Japan and basically said she was wrong to feel the way she did.

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

mynameisbatman posted:

i dont know anything about china but now im in a youtube black hole and i just found the best thing i've ever seen

as a fellow alcoholic who owns a boston jersey i totally get this dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgRNoH56318

pro click

Khorne
May 1, 2002
All 3 sharks videos cracked me up.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Currently in China. One block from the residential area Im staying in is a 24 hour sextoy vending machine and now I wonder how worked up square dancing is getting these grannies

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

Why is security so painfully uptight at those basketball games?

fish and chips and dip
Feb 17, 2010
The UK government is really going all in on selling key infrastructure to state owned companies backed by a hostile foreign power lol. http://m.lse.co.uk/news/view-article.asp?article=sc_27665731

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Who is this guy? He for real? loving beautiful.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Mr. Fix It posted:

Page 888 Post Contains Hidden Drug Ingredient

[6-20-2018] The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising consumers not to purchase or use Page 888 Post, a product promoted for sexual enhancement. This product was identified by FDA during an examination of international mail shipments.

FDA laboratory analysis confirmed that Page 888 Post contains sildenafil, the active ingredient in the FDA-approved prescription drug Viagra, used to treat erectile dysfunction. This undeclared ingredient may interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs, such as nitroglycerin, and may lower blood pressure to dangerous levels. People with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or heart disease often take nitrates.

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

fish and chips and dip posted:

The UK government is really going all in on selling key infrastructure to state owned companies backed by a hostile foreign power lol. http://m.lse.co.uk/news/view-article.asp?article=sc_27665731

I think the idea is you can build these things and if it goes sour kick them out and keep the infrastructure

The joke is it ...
a) collapses because of shoddy 3rd world workmanship (from U.K. builders...)
or b) has complex software too complicated to easily take over or full of bonzi buddy malware

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler
Sitting in the clinic right now. Mainlander guy (he has his passport out in his lap) is surfing on his phone and going knuckle-deep into his nose with his baby finger.

He's been diong this going on 5 minuses and there are about 8 people just watching him in abject horror as he rolls these nuggets up and drops them on the floor without looking away from his phone. I can count 4 of them, all with a black hair or two sticking out.

LOL. He's digging in his ear now, but hasn't struck gold yet. These white-bread Albertans in the waiting room are absolutely horrified.

Someone needs to redo the Blade Runner speech with mainlander content.

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Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Audis on fire off the shoulder of the road. I watched diarrhea glitter in the dark near the Dong Dan Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like gutter oil in the drain. Time to die. . . of an easily treatable ailment because I chose to put my faith in TCM.

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