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etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Kharnifex posted:

I recently went to Hobbiton in New Zealand and saw a live re enactment of The scouring of the Shire



lol

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Top Hats Monthly
Jun 22, 2011


People are people so why should it be, that you and I should get along so awfully blink blink recall STOP IT YOU POSH LITTLE SHIT

How long until “oops he got away”

fish and chips and dip
Feb 17, 2010

Top Hats Monthly posted:

How long until “oops he got away”

He is probably already in Beijing.

Atlas Hugged
Mar 12, 2007


Put your arms around me,
fiddly digits, itchy britches
I love you all

fish and chips and dip posted:

He is probably already in Beijing.

I really hope that someone follows up on this story here because I'm totally going to forget about it in a week and I'd love to know if this was the outcome.

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

quote:

MyNicNaxs, LLC Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Various Dietary Supplements Due to Undeclared Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) 
Thursday, 12 July 2018, 7:16 am 

MyNicNaxs, LLC, Deltona, FL is voluntarily recalling all lots of dietary supplements distributed nationwide to the consumer level. The products have been found to contain undeclared active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). The presence of Sildenafil, Sibutramine, Diclofenac and/or Phenolphthalein in the dietary supplements renders it an unapproved drug for which safety and efficacy have not been established and, therefore, subject to recall. These products were distributed from January 2013, to December 2017, though our websitehttp://www.mynicnaxs.com. The undeclared drug ingredients found in these products may pose serious health risks because consumers with underlying medical issues may take them without knowing that they can cause serious harm or interact in dangerous ways with other drugs they may be taking.

This is funny because Sildenafil is Viagra and Phenolphthalein is a powerful laxative, so you'll wind up making GBS threads yourself, but with a raging erection.

GoutPatrol
Oct 17, 2009

*Stupid Babby*

McGavin posted:

This is funny because Sildenafil is Viagra and Phenolphthalein is a powerful laxative, so you'll wind up making GBS threads yourself, but with a raging erection.

Where are the problems, this seems an efficient way to do your sinful business.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Top Hats Monthly posted:

How long until “oops he got away”

he's not dexter

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

GoutPatrol posted:

Where are the problems, this seems an efficient way to do your sinful business.

save a fortune on enemas too

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?


McGavin posted:

making GBS threads yourself, but with a raging erection.

Do you not?

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


McGavin posted:

This is funny because Sildenafil is Viagra and Phenolphthalein is a powerful laxative, so you'll wind up making GBS threads yourself, but with a raging erection.

Don't knock it till you try it.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
For those who aren't familiar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei3GODrdezY

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012


I am not Chinese, so I cannot understand.

Bajaj
Sep 13, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
Every time these get posted I lament my choice of username. "Dale Mas" has me LOLing.

Edit:

McGavin posted:

This is funny because Sildenafil is Viagra and Phenolphthalein is a powerful laxative, so you'll wind up making GBS threads yourself, but with a raging erection.
This is the TRUE reason hotels all have glass walls and doors on the bathrooms.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
What does Dale Mas mean?

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?


More Dale.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!

Kharnifex posted:

I recently went to Hobbiton in New Zealand and saw a live re enactment of The scouring of the Shire



I'unno, looks fairly tame. What were you doing in Matamata anyway?


It's nice to be loved :3:

Groda
Mar 17, 2005

Hair Elf

fish and chips and dip posted:

All of Europe is like that as well, my driver's license expires on my 100th birthday.

Wait what?

Are you in some bullshit country like France? I thought they'd harmonized on 10 years after the 2013 EU directive.

fish and chips and dip
Feb 17, 2010

Groda posted:

Wait what?

Are you in some bullshit country like France? I thought they'd harmonized on 10 years after the 2013 EU directive.

Umm, that might be the case? I haven't lived in Europe since 2012 though. I got my licence in 2007 and it's valid until my 100th birthday.

Kharnifex
Sep 11, 2001

The Banter is better in AusGBS

WarpedNaba posted:

I'unno, looks fairly tame. What were you doing in Matamata anyway?


It's nice to be loved :3:

Eating pork pies and harassing hobbits and pukeko

Sentinel Red
Nov 13, 2007
Style > Content.

fish and chips and dip posted:

Umm, that might be the case? I haven't lived in Europe since 2012 though. I got my licence in 2007 and it's valid until my 100th birthday.

In the UK it has to be renewed at 70, though I don’t think you have to retake any tests, rather just answer a questionaire that you haven’t any neurological conditions/haven’t suffered brain injuries, or degenerative eyesight issues, etc.

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




Sentinel Red posted:

In the UK it has to be renewed at 70, though I don’t think you have to retake any tests, rather just answer a questionaire that you haven’t any neurological conditions/haven’t suffered brain injuries, or degenerative eyesight issues, etc.

Well that's dumb. One of the key things about neurological conditions and brain injuries is that your thinky bits don't work so good, impairing your ability to evaluate your own thinky bits.

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4
Ha, the highway being built in Montenegro, courtesy of the Chinese is woefully incomplete and Montenegro ran out of money because of it. They had to axe important social programs and freeze public sector wages.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-silkroad-europe-montenegro-insi/chinese-highway-to-nowhere-haunts-montenegro-idUSKBN1K60QX

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Send it to the idiots in DnD, not that they ever learn anything. This is exactly what I told them what would happen with BRI projects. I wonder what is the dollar to face conversion.

Top Hats Monthly
Jun 22, 2011


People are people so why should it be, that you and I should get along so awfully blink blink recall STOP IT YOU POSH LITTLE SHIT

Milo and POTUS posted:

he's not dexter

I just have a mental image of him appearing in the embassy

Glenn Quebec posted:

Ha, the highway being built in Montenegro, courtesy of the Chinese is woefully incomplete and Montenegro ran out of money because of it. They had to axe important social programs and freeze public sector wages.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-silkroad-europe-montenegro-insi/chinese-highway-to-nowhere-haunts-montenegro-idUSKBN1K60QX

:thunk:

fish and chips and dip
Feb 17, 2010
Ugh, I hoped the A2 highway in Poland, which the Chinese completely and utterly hosed up and abandoned half finished would be enough to scare most European countries to not touch that loving poisoned chalice. Also part of the story is, that after COVEC abandoned the project, the Polish government went to Bank of China and China EXIM Bank to get them to repay their guarantee which they were required as per the contract. Both BoC and CEXIM told them to get hosed and didn't pay what they owed.

gently caress Chinese infrastructure so much.

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


But it's such a bargain, I mean they're willing to do the job for two thirds of the price, we got a responsibility to the tax payer to not waste money and there practically giving the road away!

-Every middle level bureaucrat ever

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4
My favorite part of it all is axing the social programs. For a highway that doesn't need to exist. Lmao

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

Typical white liberals who think poor countries don't deserve infrastructure. White people don't build anything anymore, now it's China's turn to show the world. China will help poor countries develop as the west decays and this makes western liberals mad. Sure the highway is absolutely useless and now mothers don't get their critical support, but did you know the US did a bad thing too once? Did you know how many people the USA killed in Iraq and Afganistan? Do you know how hard it is to be a hapa in the US and find a girlfriend? Think about those things the next time your sexpat white liberal brain says financially crippling highways to nowhere foisted on poor countries by China are a bad idea.

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

Baronjutter posted:

Typical white liberals who think poor countries don't deserve infrastructure. White people don't build anything anymore, now it's China's turn to show the world. China will help poor countries develop as the west decays and this makes western liberals mad. Sure the highway is absolutely useless and now mothers don't get their critical support, but did you know the US did a bad thing too once? Did you know how many people the USA killed in Iraq and Afganistan? Do you know how hard it is to be a hapa in the US and find a girlfriend? Think about those things the next time your sexpat white liberal brain says financially crippling highways to nowhere foisted on poor countries by China are a bad idea.

wow, makes u :thunk:

MetaJew
Apr 14, 2006
Gather round, one and all, and thrill to my turgid tales of underwhelming misadventure!
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/8z7m6o/chinas_first_100mbudget_film_asura_pulled_from/e2gp6zd/

Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010




From the article:

quote:

So perhaps it's unsurprising that the film's producers, which include Jack Ma's Alibaba Pictures, decided to take desperate action after the movie opened to just $7.1 million over the weekend.

quote:

Chinese studios have sometimes alleged that their scores were unfairly hurt by fake negative reviews — or that the competition was boosted by purchased positive ones. Such ghostwriters for hire are known in China as "shuijun," a pejorative term that literally means “water army,” because companies pay them to “flood” forums with fake reviews.

quote:

Asura's producers are now alleging that they were targeted by a particularly aggressive "water army" attack. [...] they say they discovered a large number of 1/10 reviews for Asura posted to Maoyan by suspicious accounts immediately after the film's release. Describing the episode as "the shame of the industry," they say a sizable discrepancy soon emerged between Asura's early average scores on Maoyan (4.9/10) and on Alibaba's Tiao Piao Piao (8.4/10).

Well, I've got an idea where the discrepancy came from, and it might not be purchased negative reviews...

Mistle
Oct 11, 2005

Eckot's comic relief cousin from out of town
Grimey Drawer

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

What does Dale Mas mean?

Actually in Spanish it means "Give(to another) more" which, given the origin of the phrase on a dick pill, clearly indicates "Give her more" :eng101:

Imperialist Dog
Oct 21, 2008

"I think you could better spend your time on finishing your editing before the deadline today."
\
:backtowork:
https://twitter.com/Wimbledon/status/1018648680297926656?s=19

Comments rolling in as expected

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
🇹🇼 #1

mrbotus
Apr 7, 2009

Patron of the Pants
If trump shatters the world through his foolishness, it would be a nice constellation prize if more and more countries turned to China only to get screwed by scams and chabuduo.

Devils Affricate
Jan 22, 2010

Actually I've never seen such a consistent pro-Taiwan dogpile. Was expecting a few timid posts getting relentlessly attacked by an army of wumaos.

BexGu
Jan 9, 2004

This fucking day....

nickmeister posted:

If trump shatters the world through his foolishness, it would be a nice constellation prize if more and more countries turned to China only to get screwed by scams and chabuduo.

Forever loser Hillary Clinton is already warning about that.

https://twitter.com/paulmidler/status/1018981256887824386

augias
Apr 7, 2009

Mistle posted:

Actually in Spanish it means "Give(to another) more" which, given the origin of the phrase on a dick pill, clearly indicates "Give her more" :eng101:

And also "keep going"

Ziv Zulander
Mar 24, 2017

ZZ for short


BexGu posted:

Forever loser Hillary Clinton is already warning about that.

https://twitter.com/paulmidler/status/1018981256887824386

One of her campaign promises during the election was to stop Chinese steel from being used. But come on, news.com.au? Really?

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webmeister
Jan 31, 2007

The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.

Ziv Zulander posted:

One of her campaign promises during the election was to stop Chinese steel from being used. But come on, news.com.au? Really?

I haven’t clicked but given the picture shows Leigh Sales, I’m going to assume they’ve regurgitated an interview done by her. She’s probably one of Australia’s best tv journos so I have faith.

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