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CIGNX posted:You do not need fat face to have much face Holy poo poo, they have landed and we are not alone in the universe.
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Nice knowing you Dean
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Jul 8, 2018 10:13
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Dean's organs have been removed and repurposed, the coroner's report is, died of organ irregularities.
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Jul 8, 2018 10:52
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oohhboy posted:Holy poo poo, they have landed and we are not alone in the universe. The Drake Equation was right
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Jul 8, 2018 12:58
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I found this quite amusing: https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/comments/8x05b4/tapping_an_officers_hat_wcgw/ 
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Jul 8, 2018 14:28
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Not sure why I can't get the gif to display, I tried img, timg, video...
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Jul 8, 2018 14:29
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stealing an officers sunglasses you better believe that’s a paddlin
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Jul 8, 2018 14:32
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I had a date with the cutest little foreign lady today. She's been working for years on an expired tourist visa (as in she was supposed to leave China years ago after her visa expired, and she never left and it's now sunk-cost). I want to write the story, but I am so tired. I'll write it tomorrow, but I feel sorry for her. She'll be in jail eventually unless she can find a boat to help her escape to Hong Kong or something. A foreigner taking a legal fight in China? He'll never get out of jail.
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Jul 8, 2018 16:12
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Bajaj posted:I had a date with the cutest little foreign lady today. She's been working for years on an expired tourist visa (as in she was supposed to leave China years ago after her visa expired, and she never left and it's now sunk-cost). I want to write the story, but I am so tired. I'll write it tomorrow, but I feel sorry for her. She'll be in jail eventually unless she can find a boat to help her escape to Hong Kong or something. "Foreign" is a pretty ambiguous word to use in this context. Did you finally give up and start dating Russians? And wtf man, when did I ever say that I'm a doctor? You caused me to lose some serious face in that other thread.
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Jul 8, 2018 21:13
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lol bribery -is- the legal route do they think that they are in a country with the rule of law
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Jul 8, 2018 21:28
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Bajaj posted:A foreigner taking a legal fight in China? He'll never get out of jail. I liked that TV series about people getting trapped in foreign jails. I liked how in many stories they could have just paid the judge a "fine" for the bad behavior instead of having to go through the jail experience.
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Jul 8, 2018 21:44
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Either they literally have no money to pay the bribe and are trying to save face about it or they think they're the prophesied foreigner who will show the corrupt locals the error of their ways and bring justice to the land.
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Jul 9, 2018 03:16
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Fojar38 posted:lol bribery -is- the legal route See this is the weird part about bribery. While bribery is still quite rampant, it has transformed masked as “regulatory fines”, consultancy fees, or some other opaque cost - you just can’t stuff cash in a bag of teas and leave it in your back seat anymore. You need to do that kind of funny business physically out of China ( I know). If you want to bribe a judge, the success depends on the nature of the case. If it’s a big case involving millions in a civil without the government and judgement can go either way, then yes a bribe might help but it better be loving big. If it’s a small time case involving drugs or assault or the evidence is quite strong then it makes no sense for the judge to risk his career for a bribe. Unless the person charged is protected then that’s another matter. Same with your regular officials dealing with environmental and fire safety and construction issues - the scope is smaller so they can collect more. Even with the clamped down social media judges take a lot more heat. Multi national companies working in China do not and will not outright bribe - the scandal is international and just too much to bear - there’s not big boss and everyone is just working for a conglomerate so no one can make these kind of decisions - they have enough money to throw the book back at the officials. In 2 days they can summon a team of different specialists and lawyers and accountants and people with government experience to argue point by point - your small town officials will probably just throw his hands up in the air when he’s surrounded by smart people - and multinational companies rather do everything above ground and spend god knows how much to dispute
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For the record I do not have experience in bribing and do not bribe
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Jul 9, 2018 04:14
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I rather admit that I fell asleep in my house during a goon bbq and left my computer on. My friends then made a post about me being a rent boy in Vancouver.
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Jul 9, 2018 04:15
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Have Chinese officials started using the trick where companies donate money to a nonprofit that happens to employ your family members?
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The six kinds of 5000 years of Chinese male hair cuts: 1. The Circle 2. The Square (aka The Buzzcut) 3. The Flat-Top 4. The Tall Swoosh 5. The Plop 6. The Bowlcut If a Mainland male has anything other than listed above, he is deemed to have been influenced too much by Koreans or Westerners, and he loses Sesame Credit points.
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Jul 9, 2018 04:18
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Just to play devils advocate Justice in amerikkka is non existent for black and poor people. Black people getting shot up by cops barely face any repercussions and get paid administrative leave. Rich white kids speeding a car can use ennui as a legal defense and get away. White male college athletes can commit rape and get a slap on the wrist. Your rural small town is corrupt as hell when it comes to elections and the incestuous relationships between the cops and judges. In fact even in your bigger cities as long as your defense lawyer worked as a a District attorney you would be a lot safer. Oh and district attorneys need money to run for elections and are super chummy with judges, especially when it comes to divorce court. SO RULE OF LAW IN AMERICA IS JUST AS WEAK AND THERES NO REAL FREEDOM FOR POOR PEOPLE THERE - something the real pro prc Lao wai or even fart Simpson would say. I just want to say thankfully America is not the only country with rule of law and is actually pretty far down the list according to the transparency perceptions index for a developed country. Even if a country have all these glaring issues you actually see a slow albeit open process of reform and news don’t get covered up. Media bias, yes but outright pull the plug on news and transparency - nope!
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Jul 9, 2018 04:34
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It’s all true
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Jul 9, 2018 04:35
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Pirate Radar posted:Have Chinese officials started using the trick where companies donate money to a nonprofit that happens to employ your family members? Yeah it was the Chinese Red Cross and this chick took a lot of money out of the Sichuan earth quake donation fund. And 15 years ago during a big flood in zhejiang, Chinese officials asked manufacturing businesses for a donation - not much of a trace. I think over the years I’m kind of cynical about a lot of NGOs - the way they maintain expenses and the sleazy dudes they keep on rotations.
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Jul 9, 2018 04:36
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I am extremely confused about the rent boy tale Spent all day yesterday with my kids at the Maker Faire at PolyU. Used the time to read the Paul Midler book. Not as funny as the first one, but agree with the general thesis that a lot of the mindset we ascribe to post-1949 China actually has much deeper roots. Reading a historiography of "Foreign visitors complain Chinese people act like X" would actually be quite interesting. Imperialist Dog fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Jul 9, 2018 |
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Jul 9, 2018 06:37
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caberham posted:Yeah it was the Chinese Red Cross and this chick took a lot of money out of the Sichuan earth quake donation fund. Oh hey, I remember that. It was when she started flashing around Gucci and Sports Cars, right?
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Jul 9, 2018 07:00
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Imperialist Dog posted:Reading a historiography of "Foreign visitors complain Chinese people act like X" would actually be quite interesting.
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Pirate Radar posted:Have Chinese officials started using the trick where companies donate money to a nonprofit that happens to employ your family members? Yeah, this is how they buy Canadian politicians.
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Jul 9, 2018 07:27
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As if there was ever any doubt. "Mysterious source of illegal ozone-killing emissions revealed, say investigators On-the-ground investigation finds use of banned CFC-11 is rife in China’s plastic foam industry" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/09/mysterious-source-of-illegal-ozone-killing-emissions-revealed-say-investigators
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From that article: "A representative of one company, Aoyang Chemical Co, in Dacheng, Hebei province, told the EIA that 99% of its foams used CFC-11, bought from “shady and hidden” factories in Inner Mongolia. Another, from the nearby Wan Fu Chemical Co, said it was easy to avoid inspections: “When the municipal environmental bureau runs a check, our local officers would call me and tell me to shut down my factory. Our workers just gather and hide together.”
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Jul 9, 2018 10:41
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fish and chips and dip posted:From that article: somebody post the gif of the investigators going into the illegal factory and the worker literally crawling into the machinery and closing the hatch behind him
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Jul 9, 2018 10:45
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I think they can just schedule a check up on a Sunday or the evening when everything is closed or Chinese New Year lol
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Jul 9, 2018 13:36
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Or just walk around the outside building and call it a day
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I had a friend who managed a German owned construction supplies factory in Zhejiang province somewhere. He said that they had to follow all the environmental regulations to the letter, filters on smokestacks, how to dispose of waste (hazardous and non hazardous), proper ventilation, everything. There were frequent controls, and if they didn't they'd get severely fined, or could face closure. He also said that next to his factory where two factories owned by the local government, and he would often see the workers dumping chemicals down the drains in front of the factory, they would burn tires in the front yard, and on days when the gate to the factory building was open, he could see thick dust or smoke inside. This was in 2014. The problem is that still even today a lot of the municipalities, towns, and cities still very much rely on the factories they own for their wealth (personal, and public), so there is little to no incentive to police those too hard. And yeah, you can say that things have gotten better, and they have in some ways, at least in Beijing and Shanghai. But the environmental problems isn't really fixed, it's just moved inland, away from the "flagship" cities, where it's less visible, but no less destructive. I spent four days in Shanxi (the heart of China's coal industry), and after those four days my new pm2.5 mask was as black and dirty as masks I've been using for a month or more in Shanghai.
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Jul 9, 2018 14:03
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caberham posted:I rather admit that I fell asleep in my house during a goon bbq and left my computer on. My friends then made a post about me being a rent boy in Vancouver. a chinese fuckbuddy of mine back in tokyo kept his lights on for the first two years of his life there as a gay rentboy: AMA some hosed up stuff: 1. he was 14 when he got there (i did not meet or plunge until he was like 27 before you ask!) 2. condoms? no no we don't have those in asia, because japanese don't have AIDS, unlike westerners who all do 3. he once turned up at this dudes house and they paid him an extra couple 10000 yen notes to "handle the whole group" and it turned out to be like 15 dudes hosed up
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Jul 9, 2018 15:12
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Okamoto is famous for its condom tech and it’s record for thinnest condom just got beat by some fake rear end Chinese company. The new Chinese record holder condom company makes bad condoms
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Jul 9, 2018 15:30
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caberham posted:Okamoto is famous for its condom tech and it’s record for thinnest condom just got beat by some fake rear end Chinese company. The new Chinese record holder condom company makes bad condoms Yeah, but they're the thinnest and therefore the best.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:38
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Pound me in the rear end pls
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Jul 9, 2018 15:47
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The “I don’t need to use condoms/get tested” thing seems to be common across Asia.
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Jul 9, 2018 15:53
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I'm sure Chinese condoms are terrible quality but Jissbon is the best condom brand name ever.
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Jul 9, 2018 16:00
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Yeah, alot of fake Durex break very easily
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Jul 9, 2018 16:07
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Kharnifex posted:Yeah, alot of fake Durex break very easily They lube em up with cheap mineral oils too, mmm genital carcinogens
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Kharnifex posted:Yeah, alot of fake Durex break very easily I had Durex I got in HK break 3 goddamn times
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Yeah, I'll stick to Ansell ones not made in china
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