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Atlas Hugged posted:They already have an aircraft carrier! Looks like they are buying some submarines..... from China? Looks like the two might be closer on speaking terms then I thought.
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BexGu posted:Looks like they are buying some submarines..... from China? Looks like the two might be closer on speaking terms then I thought. Yeah, the new Thai government has been building closer ties to China. They’re also building a rail link between Thailand and Yunnan (which hasn’t existed thus far).
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BexGu posted:Looks like they are buying some submarines..... from China? Looks like the two might be closer on speaking terms then I thought. Thailand is one of the countries in SEA whose territorial claims are not threatened by China's push into the South China Sea, so they don't mind getting chummy with China.
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Anyone got that news story bout the couple that literally did not know kids came from sex?
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Grand Fromage posted:Koreans were stoked when China restricted travel there and I bet Thais would have the same reaction. Id love it if australia did. Not for racist reasons, they outnumber locals at the things locals go to. Those places end up pandering to China and actively get worse for locals. I miss moreton island pre china renovations 
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Some serious face loss spotted in Munich
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Honestly most tourists underpay the infrastructure, especially when it comes to nature parks or rural areas https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9971452/Crumbling-Italian-village-to-charge-entrance-fee-to-pay-for-foundations.html Tourists use roads, produce garbage, and is a load on local infrastructure. Sure there’s a hotel tax but they don’t pay for any road taxes or other maintenance fees. And when the tourist dollars come in, it goes to the pockets of hotels and restaurants and shops which may or may not be enough to fund infrastructure. So yeah charge visitors a park pass like they do in Canada and USA. Introduce quotas or better yet auctions to streamline tourists. Tourists themselves shouldn’t be blamed for wanting to visit your country, they just need to be better directed to managed. And letting those flag waving 0 fee predatory tour groups owned by Chinese people instead of locals run the mass market show? That’s an administrative failure. Hell there are wireless headsets for your groups nowadays. Tour guides don’t need to yell across the room and making a giant fuss
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underage at the vape shop posted:Id love it if australia did. Not for racist reasons, they outnumber locals at the things locals go to. Those places end up pandering to China and actively get worse for locals. I miss moreton island pre china renovations I miss Moreton island pre Japanese renovations, the guy who manages the resort is a horrible bastard.
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I'm finding now that some tourist places have wifi you connect to and a website with whatever audio tour they have.
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Kharnifex posted:I miss Moreton island pre Japanese renovations, the guy who manages the resort is a horrible bastard. Have you seen the new bar/restaurant they built pretty recently? Generic as hell, with a complete lack of atmosphere. Also they have security guards to annoy white people on the beach that they suspect are people who came over just for the day. gently caress if you have an Australian accent you might have to prove you're a guest just to use any of the stores. So if you take your own boat/the ferry to the island, you are completely shut out of getting anything unless you have a 4x4 to get to the small bars at either end of the island, or feel like hiking through soft sand for hours. I have a good friend whos parents own/operate a villa in the resort, I stay there a lot, youd think the guards wouldnt question my presence any more. E: for everyone else, theres 1 place on the whole island to buy stuff beyond snacks/bathers. Moreton island is a small sand island within eyesight of Brisbane, less than an hour on a ferry. underage at the vape shop fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Jul 12, 2018 |
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underage at the vape shop posted:Some serious face loss spotted in Munich The new Egypt museum owns.
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underage at the vape shop posted:Have you seen the new bar/restaurant they built pretty recently? Generic as hell, with a complete lack of atmosphere. Also they have security guards to annoy white people on the beach that they suspect are people who came over just for the day. gently caress if you have an Australian accent you might have to prove you're a guest just to use any of the stores. So if you take your own boat/the ferry to the island, you are completely shut out of getting anything unless you have a 4x4 to get to the small bars at either end of the island, or feel like hiking through soft sand for hours.
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Prebook though I guess if you turned up and told them you wanted to book, theyd probably let you. The ferry isnt run by the resort I dont think. Also the resort only owns the tiny slice of land they built on. Most of the rest is a national park or owned by residents. underage at the vape shop fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Jul 12, 2018 |
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Ceciltron posted:Anyone got that news story bout the couple that literally did not know kids came from sex? https://www.dramafever.com/news/married-couple-havent-had-sex-/
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underage at the vape shop posted:Some serious face loss spotted in Munich Since I teach (taught I guess, I'm done) history here I've always had a unit about the origins of civilization. All of my students have always said Egypt is the world's oldest civilization, so I think this is accepted here. Then I get to blow minds of the three students paying attention that the next oldest was in Peru and they've never heard of it. Civilization... in the Americas???? (then we get to how this is all arbitrary and meaningless)
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Grand Fromage posted:That makes sense. So is that tampering with, disabling, or destroying? Disabling requires knowing/caring about what you're doing. Destroying it is!
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nickmeister posted:You're not allowed to visit for the day? If that's the rule, how is it possible to go there without already being a guest? It was in the media recently that they have been illegally blocking day visitors from boating over. I spent alot of time there as a kid, it was great before it got overdeveloped and overfished.
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I got a knock on my door. I opened it to find one of the women from the building's main desk, standing and holding a clipboard with a paper full of numbers and check marks. A man in coverall suit was standing behind her. I've dealt with this woman multiple times for my packages and paying some fees, and she speaks fine English. She's also very rude when she wants to be. She looks at the clipboard, and asks in Mandarin "Are you a Chinese or a foreigner?" I look at her and smile. She asks it again, I guess needing confirmation. I reply waiguoren. She starts talking a bunch in Mandarin and smiling at me, checkmarks her paper, thanks me, and leaves. I guess they were taking count of all the foreigners in the building, but I thought it very bureaucratic that she didn't want to speak English, and needed confirmation from me whether I was or wasn't a local. I should have said Chinese.
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Bajaj posted:I should have said Chinese. That's always fun. A few times I've told Thai people that I'm Taiwanese and when they question my credentials I start speaking Mandarin and they get even more confused. But being Thai they just roll with it. In every country I've lived in, whenever a local asks me where I'm from, after I've told them, I always respond with, "And what country are you from?" and then guess a country that we're not currently in. That also elicits some great confusion. Speaking of speaking Mandarin, I was out last night and a large group of Brits accidentally outed themselves as the embassy staff. For obvious reasons, they're supposed to keep that quiet when they're out getting wasted. It was karaoke and I wanted to try singing a Mandarin song, but I wasn't going to if no one else spoke Mandarin, but seeing as how they worked in the embassy, I figured someone might be the Chinese translator. I asked if anyone of them could speak it and one guy immediately leapt up and said he could, so I asked if he knew the song 小蘋果 and he just sort of stared at me for a second before asking if the song was about a dog. Turns out he could poorly say 你好 and that qualified him to be their Mandarin speaker in Bangkok. Tax dollars hard at work I guess.  Leaping back to bureaucracy, a lot of people and companies over here just don't know what to do when the foreigner won't play along with the red tape. As an American, you have to fill out extra paperwork when opening a bank account. For the bank I use in Thailand, one of the sections on the form was for my US address. I haven't lived in the US since 2008 and I wanted to see what would happen if I just said, "I don't have a US address." Turns out you can't bank there! There's no work around in the system. I can give my US social security number, my passport number, my Thai address, my visa number, and so forth but without that magic US address, the computer can't progress the application to the next screen. I was able to get around this when I initially opened the account because they input my place of birth as listed on my passport as my US address. But after I lost my ATM card and needed to get a new one, my account came up as flagged and they needed a full address or else wouldn't give me a new ATM card. They suggested I just put in my parents' address to which I replied, "But my parents are dead." My parents are fine, but again I wanted to see what would happen. They called six supervisors and they all suggested I just put my parents' address from before they died. My friends suggested I put down 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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Bajaj posted:I guess they were taking count of all the foreigners in the building, but I thought it very bureaucratic that she didn't want to speak English, and needed confirmation from me whether I was or wasn't a local. I should have said Chinese. They seek the suit.
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Bajaj posted:I WAS OUT WALKING AND LOOK WHO I FUCKIN' SAW The unnamed painter can only salivate.
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Bajaj posted:I WAS OUT WALKING AND LOOK WHO I FUCKIN' SAW Reported for doxxing my post-90s beauties catfishing account 
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It's now the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere thread
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Why are you posting this in the China thread? Chaos rules.
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Bajaj posted:I got a knock on my door. I opened it to find one of the women from the building's main desk, standing and holding a clipboard with a paper full of numbers and check marks. A man in coverall suit was standing behind her. I've dealt with this woman multiple times for my packages and paying some fees, and she speaks fine English. She's also very rude when she wants to be. well now it's in official documentation that you are a foreigner, and a self-confessed one at that. i look forward to your immediate and brutal punishment.
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Darkest Auer posted:New thread title a bit late but i can do this if people wnat
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yes please (yes way jose)
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Just call it "5,000 years of History in Plun'Qing: It's Co-", chabudou no problem
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Third World Reggin posted:rename thread to taiwa-
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Third World Reggin posted:rename thread to taiwan.jpg Mainland Taiwan.
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This works too
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Thread title is good Fleta lemme know about Spain
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