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Grand Fromage posted:
"Guys, I found a brand of testicular irritation powder that only slightly irritates your balls."
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Blistex posted:"Guys, I found a brand of testicular irritation powder that only slightly irritates your balls." I drank it intentionally and then did so again. I was as surprised as anybody.
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Aug 2, 2021 01:55
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Blistex posted:"Guys, I found a brand of testicular irritation powder that only slightly irritates your balls." I was going to say something like "... implying you went looking for baijiu", but I too get inexplicable cravings for it every couple of years. Maybe my body craves trace levels of some extremely rare organic fraction formed as part of the manufacturing process?
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Aug 2, 2021 02:03
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I was just at a liquor store and saw Cincinnati craft baijiu, and what am I going to do, not buy that? It was only $20. Then was pleasantly surprised that it's drinkable. There are Chinese recipes that use baijiu so having one around that isn't repulsive has value.
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Aug 2, 2021 02:04
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Grand Fromage posted:I drank it intentionally and then did so again. I was as surprised as anybody. That reminds me, I should try Malort some time.
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Aug 2, 2021 02:05
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:That reminds me, I should try Malort some time. I tried it last month. Disappointing. It's bad, but it's nowhere near bad enough to deserve its reputation. Not sure it'd crack my top ten worst alcohols.
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Aug 2, 2021 02:06
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Aug 2, 2021 02:23
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Grand Fromage posted:I tried it last month. Disappointing. It's bad, but it's nowhere near bad enough to deserve its reputation. Not sure it'd crack my top ten worst alcohols. Yeah, Malort sucks, but it wasn't a struggle to swallow it or anything.
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Aug 2, 2021 03:33
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Alan Smithee posted:he'd probably make an interesting DND player Good god, never picked Mr Welch to outrank Skippy. And highlighting that one of your generals should have his command revoked would probably make 'em stronger, sure.
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Aug 2, 2021 05:51
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I found a bottle of Taiwanese mystery alcohol at my grandpa's house, it tastes kind of like what I assume a Molotov cocktail tastes like.
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Aug 2, 2021 06:07
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Same only it was my house and I had no idea how it got there. Also same taste, by the sound of it.
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Aug 2, 2021 06:29
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Don Gato posted:I found a bottle of Taiwanese mystery alcohol at my grandpa's house, it tastes kind of like what I assume a Molotov cocktail tastes like. no label or just kaoliang du jour?
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GoutPatrol posted:got another one The class should be labelled C-SPAM and it should just be 'say the line', imo.
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Aug 2, 2021 14:05
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Grand Fromage posted:I was just at a liquor store and saw Cincinnati craft baijiu, and what am I going to do, not buy that? It was only $20. Then was pleasantly surprised that it's drinkable. There are Chinese recipes that use baijiu so having one around that isn't repulsive has value. In China they have "delicacies" such as mouse wine, snake wine, bee wine, etc. My guess is that Cincinnati baiju is Skyline wine or cigarette butt wine...
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Aug 2, 2021 14:29
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https://www.smh.com.au/business/ban...728-p58dof.html Top Hong Kong Investor Claims China's Crackdown will be 'better for business'. Yum yum, gee whiz that boot is sure tasty.
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Aug 3, 2021 02:03
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BrigadierSensible posted:https://www.smh.com.au/business/ban...728-p58dof.html my very socialist comrades the HKPF and HSBC want the same thing I do, stability in hong kong. to achieve this we must rid the city of book sellers and journalists, the true enemies of the people
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Aug 3, 2021 04:40
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journalists and book sellers have already been pacified, weeks, months, years ago it's now trying to weed out the teachers unions and people entertaining for democractic parties voting campaigns
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Aug 3, 2021 04:47
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GoutPatrol posted:no label or just kaoliang du jour? Probably just kaoliang but the label had fallen off.
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Aug 3, 2021 06:16
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Trouble blowing in to my little corner of Jiangsu. Outbreak centred around Ningbo airport and staff has led to a local cluster of covid cases, so we're getting the "test the whole city" treatment, along with a shutdown echoing the earliest days of the pandemic. Watching with concern to see how this develops.
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Aug 3, 2021 14:25
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I mean, at least they're responding to it appropriately.
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Aug 3, 2021 20:26
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Are they even still attempting to vaccinate people with the Chinese made vaccines? Or have they completely backed off since they don't really work. I'm assuming they're frantically trying to get MRNA ones scaled up.
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Atopian posted:Trouble blowing in to my little corner of Jiangsu. Same here, mass testing in Zhengzhou to try and test everyone, cant really do anything until the negative test results come back, part of town locked down yesterday with a "you can go in but you cant go out" box. I think last I heard around maybe 60 cases? But I just woke up so who knows now. Death toll from the flooding is up around 300 now I think too. I still think it's higher. So, things have kinda sucked lately.
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Aug 4, 2021 00:48
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SerCypher posted:Are they even still attempting to vaccinate people with the Chinese made vaccines? They don't work to prevent infection, but they have halfway decent efficacy in terms of hospitalisation/death, so better to have than not. High-risk groups have generally had two shots so far, vaccination of children aged 12-17 began a few weeks ago, although none have had 2 shots yet. A third shot is almost a certainty at this point, although there is some speculation as to whether it will be more of the same or something RNA-based. Back to the current government public health response, as someone noted above, this stuff has tended to work in the past. No complaints about efficacy so far, just general nervousness.
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Aug 4, 2021 03:08
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Thailand tried going all in on the sino-x vaccines, but they could never even get enough of those to vaccinate the population. Only Phuket got close to full vaccination and as we've seen, the sino vaccines do not stop transmission as was mentioned above. So all the targets or thresholds to keep Phuket open to tourists that the government established have been blown through as daily infections there keep increasing. Nationally, Thailand is only at about 6% fully vaccinated. Expats have been scrambling trying to find avenues to get vaccinated and the government has sworn that we're included in the free vaccine schemes because we basically have to be for herd humanity to be achieved. Things are not looking great here. Lots of places have closed permanently (including the iconic train market) and the education system is a mess. My school is threatening to reduce staff because parents are refusing to pay fees if we're online. Things are not great.
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Aug 4, 2021 03:18
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A half-rear end vaccine and a full-rear end lockdown isn't so bad as long as the testing doesn't also... well, you know.
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Aug 4, 2021 03:19
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By contrast, Thailand was half-assed on everything. Everyone who had seen or read about what happened in Europe and North America said that Thailand needed to lockdown immediately in January and stay the gently caress locked down until March at the earliest, but the government refused to do anything meaningful until after Songkran (Thai New Year). Taiwan, on a similar timeline, executed its rigorous response plan and has gotten the country back down to the low 20s per day. I just read that Thailand has hit 20,000+ cases for the first time in addition to 188 dead. The smaller airport in Bangkok has also been converted into a field hospital.
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Aug 4, 2021 03:45
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Crazy thing is that Taiwan's response wasn't even a very hard lockdown or anything. People were still taking trains and still going to work, just masked everywhere and with really well implemented contact tracing, and basically all leisure activity shut down. If we did a hard lockdown there would be a good shot at getting to zero cases, but never a guarantee and given timeline Taiwan is just going to go for herd immunity via vaccination it seems like.
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Aug 4, 2021 03:52
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I have to wonder if the threat from delta has anything to do with it coming out of India vs Wuhan or Britain. The saving grace of last summer was that covid didn't seem to do well in warm, dry weather and now that seems to have gone to poo poo. I can't even laugh about how it's engineered to end Florida faster than climate change.
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SerCypher posted:Are they even still attempting to vaccinate people with the Chinese made vaccines? They do work tho? They are much better than nothing, which is the key thing to care about in most regions. They do well protecting against hospitalization and death in every place they've been rolled out in and to perform roughly the same as AZ or J&J which is much worse than mRNA, but that's more based on the tech used than the fact they're Chinese made. mRNA was a huge gamble which thankfully worked out great but given the relatively slow rollout and production of mRNA vaccines it's good multiple parties went for more mature tech which was more easily produced and transported in the bulk of the world. The two mRNA vaccines literally weren't an option for p much everyone outside of western Europe and North America for a long time. Supposedly China's vaccinated a lot of people, and still are, and has a higher per capita vaccination rate than the US at this point. I'd believe it if only because the US is a very low bar to beat and I've seen like one gazillion vaccination points in Shanghai where locals can just drop in and grab one. Most of my friends and colleagues who were very against getting vaxxed in April or March ended up getting them in June or July when they started giving out poo poo, lol, so I'd believe it's probably high. I read in some more rural places they just handed out cash for getting vaccinated, but I'm not sure how true that actually is. Caixin reported last month right before the Nanjing cluster that Fosun were already starting to ramp up production of the Pfizer vaccine and wanted to start mass rollout in late August or September. I assume this has been expedited somewhat since the recent outbreaks. They reported they would give Pfizer out as a booster to people who got a domestic vaccine first, which Turkey, the UAE and a few other regions have already done either with a Chinese vaccine or AZ and seems to work fine. It makes sense from a logistics standpoint as well as if they only have to give one dose of Pfizer to everyone it'll be easier to vaccinate more people, and they probably still have hundreds of millions of Sinopharm or Sinovac laying around. They were also testing their own mRNA vaccine but idk how that went if they're reporting they're just gonna go all-in on Pfizer. I have a couple friends who got it in the test group. They're all alive and fine but no idea what the efficacy is. Ailumao fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Aug 4, 2021 |
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IT BURNS posted:In China they have "delicacies" such as mouse wine, snake wine, bee wine, etc. My guess is that Cincinnati baiju is Skyline wine or cigarette butt wine... Living in Ohio, it was called Cinci-Nasti Still better than Columbus the arm pit of the us Midwest. What’s the armpit of China’s non costal region?
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IT BURNS posted:In China they have "delicacies" such as mouse wine, snake wine, bee wine, etc. My guess is that Cincinnati baiju is Skyline wine or cigarette butt wine... malort is worse than most baijiu i've had.
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LimburgLimbo posted:Crazy thing is that Taiwan's response wasn't even a very hard lockdown or anything. People were still taking trains and still going to work, just masked everywhere and with really well implemented contact tracing, and basically all leisure activity shut down. I don't know that we even needed a hard lock down. The country needed measures with some degree of synergy. They closed bars pretty early, but indoor dining hung on for a long rear end time. Work from home was somewhat common, but shopping centers were packed and were only shut down a few weeks ago. Plus, interprovincial travel, especially between Bangkok and the surrounding provinces where the infection rates are the worst, was never controlled. It certainly didn't help that a plastic factory exploded on the edge of Bangkok right in the populous suburbs of Bangna and Samut Prakan and everyone who could scattered to Rayong and Pattaya for a week while that got cleaned up. For months, a lot of the more remote provinces have been requiring people to quarantine if they came in from Bangkok, but enforcement has been spotty if there at all. I have a buddy who has been driving around Thailand every weekend and hasn't seen a single checkpoint. Before you ask, yes he's an rear end in a top hat. He at least got vaccinated despite whining about having to stand in a queue for two hours and be directed from station to station. loving diva.
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Ailumao posted:malort is worse than most baijiu i've had. Malört is pretty much just wormwood right? Its in most bitter-ish snaps around the nordic parts, but I dont remember it being that bad... Otoh youre usually a bit too pissed to notice by the time you get to the snaps anyway.
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BrigadierSensible posted:https://www.smh.com.au/business/ban...728-p58dof.html Apart from, lol, HSBC, quote:the government’s moves to rein in its technology giants could boost competition.
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Threadkiller Dog posted:Its in most bitter-ish snaps around the nordic parts I thought it was from/only available in chicago. that's the really bad one everyone is talking about anyway, it probably took its name from something not so bad
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Aug 4, 2021 23:44
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Yeah I mean whatever they have around Chicago a friend gave me when I visited once (while we were eating deep dish). It was among the most vile things I've ever had.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58075743quote:Chinese gold medallists face investigation over Mao badges
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Mao medals, Mao problems.
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Ailumao posted:malort is worse than most baijiu i've had. Ort means "area", ört means "herb". Use the Ö key - it's right between L and Ä.
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Ailumao posted:They do work tho? I guess I should have said 'Don't really work" in the sense they don't have a chance of stopping the virus through herd immunity like the mRNA ones. People I know in China were basically getting forced to get the vaccine for a while, but that has seemed to slow down. I didn't know they were going to produce pfizer internally, that makes sense at this point given it has a good track record.
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