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Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"


God drat! Petty but amazing.

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Khorne
May 1, 2002

Baronjutter posted:

God drat! Petty but amazing.
that's petty amazing

Kharnifex
Sep 11, 2001

The Banter is better in AusGBS
Makes me wonder if it's true

mojo1701a
Oct 9, 2008

Oh, yeah. Loud and clear. Emphasis on LOUD!
~ David Lee Roth


I can't think of a better way for someone to lose face.

Despera
Jun 6, 2011
Alot of people dislike America's goverment. What this tells me is they are really rascist towards Americans.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

A beautiful world with beautiful places to visit

Barudak fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Jun 28, 2021

Small Gay Planet
Aug 2, 2019

by Fluffdaddy

Despera posted:

Not going to lie, living 10 years in china, learning chinese, marrying into china, and having chinese children is a good cover for being racist against china

Yeah its like that goony-loving white dude who was married to an Indian friend of mine for 4 years, convinced her to move to Singapore from London, then spent all his time telling her she was the wrong sort of Asian and he wanted to bang Chinese girls cuz he could easily do that as a mediocre, racist piece of poo poo on account of the caucasoid features


Small Gay Planet fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Jan 30, 2020

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:

I'm sure this response will be calm and measured.

Despera
Jun 6, 2011

Outrail posted:

I'm sure this response will be calm and measured.

its a little dickish

Vegetable
Oct 22, 2010

It’s almost definitely not true

lilbeefer
Oct 4, 2004

Agreed. That has got to be selective photography and a made up story to go with it. I'd love it to be true however.

Bobcats
Aug 5, 2004
Oh
It’s hosed how my emergency radar has been pegged since 9/11 and I can’t seem to feel one way or the other about this maybe or maybe-not doomsday.

Come and fight me you virus bitch.

lilbeefer
Oct 4, 2004

Bobcats posted:

It’s hosed how my emergency radar has been pegged since 9/11 and I can’t seem to feel one way or the other about this maybe or maybe-not doomsday.

Come and fight me you virus bitch.

I was actually thinking that this morning. At least once a week since 9/11 I have woke up and wondered if any godawful disasters have occured overnight, while I reach for my phone.

Inevitably I just see that it was just a huge earthquake or a virus outbreak and just go get some breakfast.

The Clitoris
Jan 29, 2020

Finding it makes all of your dreams come true
Gonna die from this virus, what's up

Cheesemaster200
Feb 11, 2004

Guard of the Citadel
5000 years of legendary hospitality:

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Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Small Gay Planet posted:

Yeah its like that goony-loving white dude who was married to an Indian friend of mine for 4 years, convinced her to move to Singapore from London, then spent all his time telling her she was the wrong sort of Asian and he wanted to bang Chinese girls cuz he could easily do that as a mediocre, racist piece of poo poo on account of the caucasoid features

She killed him, right?

The Clitoris
Jan 29, 2020

Finding it makes all of your dreams come true

Cheesemaster200 posted:

5000 years of legendary hospitality:



A friend of mine was teaching English in SE Asia and her father came to visit. Ended up booking a hotel called "The Golden Banana" and remarked to himself that it sounded like a Western hotel which catering to the LGBT crowd. Turns out it was totally that but in SE Asia

Small Gay Planet
Aug 2, 2019

by Fluffdaddy

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

She killed him, right?

One can dream

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?


lilbeefer posted:

Agreed. That has got to be selective photography and a made up story to go with it. I'd love it to be true however.

I'm sure they're real but equally sure they aren't a new thing to gently caress with China because of coronavirus. People wear face masks frequently in East Asia, there are lots of decorative styles.

Kill All Cops
Apr 11, 2007


Pacheco de Chocobo



Hell Gem

Blistex posted:

Please


Stop


Engaging

Just thread ban him already so we contain the virus to CSPAM

Klyith
Aug 3, 2007

GBS Pledge Week

Cheesemaster200 posted:

5000 years of legendary hospitality:



wow, with the whole trade war thing I didn't think China would have allowed Trump to open a hotel there.

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
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Klyith posted:

wow, with the whole trade war thing I didn't think China would have allowed Trump to open a hotel there.

Why do you think he won't say anything bad about Xi

Kharnifex
Sep 11, 2001

The Banter is better in AusGBS
Bystander syndrome has spread to Australia,

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Barudak posted:

One of my favorite tanky moments was someone stating you cant be racist against americans because they arent a race.

“Neither is ‘Chinese’.”

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

Despera posted:

its a little dickish

Maybe even cigarette lighterish.

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

Kharnifex posted:

Bystander syndrome has spread to Australia,



Our Enlightened government of cut rate nazis has worked out a deal with China to fly Australian citizens home.

The catch is that they will be quarantined for several weeks on one of our offshore concentration camps.

The second catch is that they will have to pay for the privilege of being quarantined on a hellhole so terrible that the children interred there, some as young as six, self-harm and have suicidal ideations.


And I'm sure the idea that all those inconvenient refugees might catch the coronavirus and die from the near total lack of medical care on the island has never entered our politicians' heads.



EDIT: Sorry, to make a correction - the youngest child interred on the island is four and was born in the detention centre.

Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Jan 30, 2020

Cheesemaster200
Feb 11, 2004

Guard of the Citadel
Christmas Island has a high concentration of boobies, and that is something which will make anyone recover from the plague.

Atlas Hugged
Mar 12, 2007


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

Stink Billyums posted:

Last time I was in Japan I saw a lot of signs in Chinese saying poo poo like "don't shoplift, there are cameras watching", "don't litter", "don't touch this", without having similar signs in English.

I live in Bangkok and used to take boats up and down the river frequently for work. There would be signs posted in Thai and English saying things like, "Stand here for boats going north/south," and then next to them were signs in Chinese that said, "Stop throwing your trash in the river."

Cheesemaster200 posted:

5000 years of legendary hospitality:



In Taiwan, 酒店 means "brothel" and not hotel so this gets a double chuckle out of me.

CIGNX posted:

It started as a Cantonese thing that is sort of spreading into Mandarin in southern China. People used to refer to younger women professionally as 小姐 or "young lady", but that term become more and more associated with prostitutes. People in rural Guangdong started using 靓女 or "pretty girl" as a substitute, and then it spread into mainstream Cantonese. I haven't heard it much from people in northern China, but I haven't been back there in a while, so who knows now.

小姐 is still the default in Taiwan and I don't think I ever heard 美女. 妹妹 was somewhat common as a nickname or name of affection for little girls (like parent to daughter).

Cheesemaster200
Feb 11, 2004

Guard of the Citadel

Atlas Hugged posted:

In Taiwan, 酒店 means "brothel" and not hotel so this gets a double chuckle out of me.

Maybe it does in Xi'an too; would explain a lot.

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?


"Golden rain" is a less pee tape-y translation.

Atlas Hugged
Mar 12, 2007


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

Cheesemaster200 posted:

Maybe it does in Xi'an too; would explain a lot.

I'm under the impression that in China it's just a bog standard hotel, but who knows about specific provinces or cities. A couple of goons lived above one in Taipei for awhile and they (the brothel, not the goons) made meth in the basement so there were regularly fires and police raids. They have since moved out of the building.

Despera
Jun 6, 2011
Post the Taiwan masks in r/sino for lulz.

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?


Atlas Hugged posted:

I'm under the impression that in China it's just a bog standard hotel, but who knows about specific provinces or cities. A couple of goons lived above one in Taipei for awhile and they (the brothel, not the goons) made meth in the basement so there were regularly fires and police raids. They have since moved out of the building.

酒店 just means hotel in the mainland. Though there are plenty of prostitutes associated with hotels of course, but there's nothing implied by the name other than hotel.

Atlas Hugged
Mar 12, 2007


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

Grand Fromage posted:

酒店 just means hotel in the mainland. Though there are plenty of prostitutes associated with hotels of course, but there's nothing implied by the name other than hotel.

Does China do the thing Korea does where the elevators in a hotel would just be covered in the business cards of prostitutes and the concierge would hand them out to discerning patrons?

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?


Atlas Hugged posted:

Does China do the thing Korea does where the elevators in a hotel would just be covered in the business cards of prostitutes and the concierge would hand them out to discerning patrons?

I never actually stayed in a proper hotel hotel in the mainland, but I was advised if I did the first thing I should do is unplug the phone, because otherwise there are just constant calls about prostitutes all night.

McSpanky
Jan 16, 2005






peanut posted:

crosspost

Pig is stored in the balls

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Grand Fromage posted:

I never actually stayed in a proper hotel hotel in the mainland, but I was advised if I did the first thing I should do is unplug the phone, because otherwise there are just constant calls about prostitutes all night.

This is correct. First night staying in a hotel I received three calls from hotel employees of increasingly better English skills.

9:00pm - "Herroror you wa. . . . amowouh . . . nigah. . ." <dial tone>
10:30pm - "Hello, alone. . . help . . . nigah . . . help?" <dial tone>
11:00pm - "Hello, you need massage from pretty girl?
Me: "No thanks, I am trying to sleep."
12:00pm - <phone rings>
<unplugs phone>

Despera
Jun 6, 2011

Grand Fromage posted:

I never actually stayed in a proper hotel hotel in the mainland, but I was advised if I did the first thing I should do is unplug the phone, because otherwise there are just constant calls about prostitutes all night.

I stayed in a few and feel left out

fish and chips and dip
Feb 17, 2010

Grand Fromage posted:

I never actually stayed in a proper hotel hotel in the mainland, but I was advised if I did the first thing I should do is unplug the phone, because otherwise there are just constant calls about prostitutes all night.

I never got any calls, but what happened was people would just slip the prostitute business cards in under the hotel room door. Sometimes while I was in the room.

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WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!

lilbeefer posted:

I was actually thinking that this morning. At least once a week since 9/11 I have woke up and wondered if any godawful disasters have occured overnight, while I reach for my phone.

Inevitably I just see that it was just a huge earthquake or a virus outbreak and just go get some breakfast.

I'm just hoping I can get sick so I can use up some sick days. I've hit the balance ceiling of 20 already.

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