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Cry Havoc
May 10, 2004

This cyberpunk cartoon avatar is pretty dang ol' good, I tell you what.
china is also apparently communist too

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caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer
There's quite a few hurdles to pass:

1. You have to be close friends with them - that's more of a universal thing
2. Depending on how big the subject is, you wouldn't be complaining in public, - people in China are more sensitive about this
3. Their political background. - again related to point 1
4. How X policy / tax will affect them

People criticize the government plenty enough, that's why something new is always loving censored and the government spends god knows how much on propaganda.

When it comes to Chinese politics and the white elephant in the room, people are really nihilistic and just roll their eyes all the time. So if you are complaining about the lack of democracy and opaque government or something more abstract then people might give you a funny look. Whereas you talk about something smaller like all public school teachers passing a chastity test and having permission from the principal to have a kid, then yeah people will talk about it.

Complain about the new housing tax, mandatory phone searches and checkpoints for everyone in Xinjiang, one child policy family planning? Sure more people might bite.

Gossip about the son of a higher up party official getting drunk and running over some pedestrians without getting any punishment by using his dad's name? Yeah people are gonna be pissed.

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

Like poo poo happens all the time and people can get super rowdy, the government then steps in and depending on the official handling the case either things get resolved or nothing happens and it flares back up again. Regardless, news is hushed and silenced.

Then again, most people are kinda apolitical.

caberham fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Jul 11, 2018

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



Thankfully Xi seizing power will certainly mean china will be stable especially after he dies. As we all know, authoritarian governments never collapse after the original strongman leaves power.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

ChaseSP posted:

Thankfully Xi seizing power will certainly mean china will be stable especially after he dies. As we all know, authoritarian governments never collapse after the original strongman leaves power.

His death was one of those Goals for 2020 which means he's now immortal.

pr0k
Jan 16, 2001

"Well if it's gonna be
that kind of party..."
I'm seriously considering getting a tattoo

不为什么


NO WHY

Is this the right thread to be abused for this horrible idea?

P-Mack
Nov 10, 2007

pr0k posted:

I'm seriously considering getting a tattoo

不为什么


NO WHY

Is this the right thread to be abused for this horrible idea?

It's 沒有為什麼 not 不為什麼 .

Also the idea is terrible.

e: also traditional characters are preferred for tattoos since they will more quickly smudge into an illegible mess and hide your shame.

caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer
Tattoo 救命

madeintaipei
Jul 13, 2012

Known Lecher posted:

I bet that guy’s work “to help bridge ideological divisions between Muslims and non-Muslims” is curriculum development for the re-education camps in Xinjiang.

The ghost of Naftali Frenkel walks amongst us, no doubt.

Typing that produced a shudder of disgust.

Punk da Bundo
Dec 29, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
china sounds fuckin' cool

caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer
man I love Hong Kong soccer commentary. An English player gets hit in the nuts and the commentators say

“Oh men get hurt the most, right there!”

Holy poo poo just missed Croatia’s goal because of posting gently caress

caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer
All the metaphors about a guy’s true feelings when he get hits in the nutsack.

Punk da Bundo
Dec 29, 2006

by FactsAreUseless

caberham posted:

All the metaphors about a guy’s true feelings when he get hits in the nutsack.

is this a metaphor but taiwan is china's nuts and the they turn off when

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

Peter Daou Bundy posted:

is this a metaphor but taiwan is china's nuts and the they turn off when

only if the nuts are shaven and polished

if they're like hairy and droopy and poo poo then no taiwan is not china's nuts

Devils Affricate
Jan 22, 2010
If China were a eunuch, Taiwan would be its balls

CIGNX
May 7, 2006

You can trust me
Is Japan the penis? Korea the scar tissue?

Switzerland
Feb 18, 2005
Do what thou must do.

quote:

that's exactly what archaeologists led by Zhaoyu Zhu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found in a 2.1 million-year-old layer of ancient wind-blown sediment in China's southern Loess Plateau: a collection of stone cores, flakes, scrapers, borers, and points, as well as a couple of damaged hammerstones

2,100,000 years of History in Plun'Qing, outlander!

Mr. Fix It
Oct 26, 2000

💀ayyy💀


Help China thread: I need to come up for a three letter code for a new production environment in China. The current one is the unimaginative CHN, and TWN has been shot down. I was hoping to think of something secretly subversive, but all of my ideas are too on the nose.

coolusername
Aug 23, 2011

cooltitletext
So the hotel the company put me in is playing "screw the foreigner." Broken lock, then downgraded room when I complained then some more fussing and rattling.

Will the boss move me? Will I get a chabuduo? News at 11.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
Just use ZHG or something and don’t create an international incident for laughs

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

Mr. Fix It posted:

Help China thread: I need to come up for a three letter code for a new production environment in China. The current one is the unimaginative CHN, and TWN has been shot down. I was hoping to think of something secretly subversive, but all of my ideas are too on the nose.

if you're willing to NOT live up to your username, give it CBD (chabuduo)

Moonshine Rhyme
Mar 26, 2010

Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate
Start an international incident for laughs, then post itt
KMT

Moonshine Rhyme
Mar 26, 2010

Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate
Or MAO

Pro PRC Laowai
Jun 14, 2018
TMD

CIGNX
May 7, 2006

You can trust me
CNM

China Mainland (Cao Ni Ma)

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

This is good

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
---------------------------->
are POO and rear end taken

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

CIGNX posted:

CNM

China Mainland (Cao Ni Ma)

Mr. Fix It
Oct 26, 2000

💀ayyy💀


Pirate Radar posted:

Just use ZHG or something and don’t create an international incident for laughs

There will be no international incident because I'm going to pick something that is either innocent like that (MKI was my boring pick), or something like one of these that I can massage into an innocent meaning:


Coolguye posted:

if you're willing to NOT live up to your username, give it CBD (chabuduo)

CIGNX posted:

CNM

China Mainland (Cao Ni Ma)
Gotta think of the "official" meaning for CBD (China Beijing something). Trying to gauge my Chinese co-workers reaction to CNM now.

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
---------------------------->
China, Beijing District

Mr. Fix It
Oct 26, 2000

💀ayyy💀


Fojar38 posted:

are POO and rear end taken

lol. rear end is to close another env's name. I saved it from being named AZN, btw.

Pirate Radar posted:

This is good

Okay, someone's gonna have to explain this one to me.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
What about a random string of numbers like 04061989 ?

Tupperwarez
Apr 4, 2004

"phphphphphphpht"? this is what you're going with?

you sure?

Mr. Fix It posted:

Okay, someone's gonna have to explain this one to me.
Enjoy: https://www.chinasmack.com/glossary

CIGNX
May 7, 2006

You can trust me

Mr. Fix It posted:

Gotta think of the "official" meaning for CBD (China Beijing something). Trying to gauge my Chinese co-workers reaction to CNM now.

You could also give it political cover by saying they can also use CNT to mean "China Taipei" like in the olympics

fish and chips and dip
Feb 17, 2010
LXB

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

I was gunna go with that but thought it was too obscure.

Mistle
Oct 11, 2005

Eckot's comic relief cousin from out of town
Grimey Drawer
I like how they got the high-status foreigner co-author from :siren: Exeter University in England:siren: to co-author this paper.

While this could very well be accurate and interesting, it's a diamond in a latrine; that is to say, the questionable academics from China could affect this actually interesting development of the archaeological record.

Also, :ssh: they're actually Mongolian artifacts and reinforce the mongoloid branch of early humans

Mr. Fix It
Oct 26, 2000

💀ayyy💀


My Chinese colleagues felt that CNM was going a tad too far. We'll be christening the CBD env in the next month or so. Thanks goons!

simplefish
Mar 28, 2011

So long, and thanks for all the fish gallbladdΣrs!


Mr. Fix It posted:

Help China thread: I need to come up for a three letter code for a new production environment in China. The current one is the unimaginative CHN, and TWN has been shot down. I was hoping to think of something secretly subversive, but all of my ideas are too on the nose.

FOR

Formosa, also 4 is unlucky

I'm sure you can find a way to excuse it, lke your promary clients, or primary cities you deal with or, Foremost Overseas Region or whatever


E: holy gently caress the Formosa flag was amazing, why haven't I seen this before?

simplefish fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Jul 12, 2018

CIGNX
May 7, 2006

You can trust me

What does this mean?

edit:

simplefish posted:

E: holy gently caress the Formosa flag was amazing, why haven't I seen this before?



That cat looks like a penis, so of course it's amazing.

CIGNX fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Jul 12, 2018

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Pro PRC Laowai
Jun 14, 2018

CIGNX posted:

What does this mean?

Liu Xiaobo

WTP is another one

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