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also sochi was the most expensive olympics ever. insane amount of money stolen.
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Stink Billyums posted:also sochi was the most expensive olympics ever. insane amount of money stolen. More expensive than all other previous winter olympics combined.
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Horatius Bonar posted:In the better China, people have learned to live in harmony with nature. I had one of those apartment trees growing outside my window for a long time. My landlord tried killing it several times until something finally worked last year. It was quite resilient to being cut down and would come back like a weed.
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Stink Billyums posted:also sochi was the most expensive olympics ever. insane amount of money stolen. China needs to step up their game and get to #1.
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I moved to a new neighborhood a year ago and the street dogs took a while to get used to me, but now they just ignore me when I bike in and out. Those first few times when they chased me were less than pleasant though!
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i cant think of anywhere ive seen street dogs in chinese cities. when ive been out to the boonies they've been around, but inside cities it's just cats. cats forever, tons of cats. i love jingan park in shanghai cuz it just has a huge colony of fat cats that lay out in the sun. my current xiaoqu has a big orange guy who comes up to me every morning when i go the gym and yells at me cuz i'm not the elderly woman who feeds him around the same time i head out.
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Kharnifex posted:Gotta agree with Sochi being the fondest memories, street dogs, group toilets, doors that can't be opened from the inside of rooms It’s like a warning against ever hosting the olympics in your city / country.
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I saw a few of what I thought were street dogs in Taiwan, but they were all dressed in clothes. Not dog clothes though, but filthy human clothes. Like there would be a small pack of dogs roaming the street wearing dirty human t-shirts. Maybe someone was going around clothing the street dogs. I don't think I saw a dog without clothes the whole time I was there.
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Feb 9, 2022 06:04
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Nice Van My Man posted:I saw a few of what I thought were street dogs in Taiwan, but they were all dressed in clothes. Not dog clothes though, but filthy human clothes. Like there would be a small pack of dogs roaming the street wearing dirty human t-shirts. Maybe someone was going around clothing the street dogs. I have a hazy memory of people doing that for dogs that were 'owned' or maybe just taken care of, like dog collars I guess. Maybe it was animal welfare groups doing that or something as a campaign, so the dogs didn't get culled. Also I saw a stray golden retriever splashing around in a small stream by a river park in Taipei, and he caught himself a fish and ate it. A whole rear end fish. Good dog.
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Feb 9, 2022 06:28
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There are tiny packs of wild dogs on the rural outskirts of the city I live in - ~2-4 pooches wandering around together. No-one there seems to care, and the dogs stay well clear or people, so /shrug.
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Feb 9, 2022 07:01
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The factory south of Wuhan where I worked had street dogs that lived in it and were fed by the labourers who lived on site. They'd wander around outside and sit on the driveways in the sun. I never saw any in the city though, come to think of it.
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Feb 9, 2022 08:07
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I don't remember seeing street dogs in Chengdu, but I was surprised by how many people walked their dogs without leashes, given the unpredictable nature of being a pedestrian in China. There was one man who trained a MASSIVE Doberman on the loving sidewalk every morning when I and many children were walking to school...never stopped being scared of that dog.
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I'm sure someone in Chengdu uses a leash but I sure can't remember ever seeing a leashed dog. This leads to a lot of people screaming at their dog which is running away, which once also included the old guy kicking at it, the dog then leading him into traffic (unintentionally?) and a truck almost plastering him. Many problems which could have been solved with leash technology. Cats were mostly leashed though. And the guy in my neighborhood who had a goat walked it with a leash.
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i saw a bunny on a leash in shanghai over the weekend.
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I posted that pic of a guy walking his duck or something on a leash like a million pages ago. I often think about him, and wonder how he's doing. He was so proud. edit: it might have been a goose i dont remember double edit: I found it   I dont really know birds BrainDance fucked around with this message at 09:27 on Feb 9, 2022 |
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idk what it is but im fairly certain it aint a duck
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It's a pheasant.
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Betty Wight posted:It’s like a warning against ever hosting the olympics in your city / country. China has the current games mostly because Norway chose to withdraw our application - because we had a lot of news about how insanely expensive it would be and how the IOC had some supremely arrogant demands both for personal treatment and for e.g. shutting down all third party outdoor advertisement in Oslo. The polls at the time showed a majority against hosting the games both nationwide and in Oslo (the planned host city) - the only support was from the regions around Oslo. Parliament prepared to vote on whether to continue the process, but the olympic committee that was running the project read the room and chose to withdraw the application before it came to a vote. (Ref https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2014/10/05/oslo-2022-bid-hurt-by-ioc-demands-arrogance/16759151/ )
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Computer viking posted:China has the current games mostly because Norway chose to withdraw our application - because we had a lot of news about how insanely expensive it would be and how the IOC had some supremely arrogant demands both for personal treatment and for e.g. shutting down all third party outdoor advertisement in Oslo. Huh. Good on Norway. More countries ought to demand more from the IOC.
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iirc stray dogs just get killed by chengguan
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Betty Wight posted:It’s like a warning against ever hosting the olympics in your city / country. I dunno, the people who made the decision to host the games definitely got what they wanted in Sochi. Tons of money could be shifted around through graft and the dictator got to show off on domestic media while pulling down more gold medals for his flag through a mass doping scheme that would have been very difficult to pull off overseas. As a bonus there's even the possibility somebody got record a bunch of footage of naked athletes! Supposing you can manage the domestic narrative and don't give a gently caress about the average person it's a great deal. Warbadger fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Feb 9, 2022 |
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Grand Fromage posted:I'm sure someone in Chengdu uses a leash but I sure can't remember ever seeing a leashed dog. This leads to a lot of people screaming at their dog which is running away, which once also included the old guy kicking at it, the dog then leading him into traffic (unintentionally?) and a truck almost plastering him. Many problems which could have been solved with leash technology. Cats were mostly leashed though. And the guy in my neighborhood who had a goat walked it with a leash. In Jiangsu cities leash laws have been increasingly strictly enforced over the past ~3 years. Technically any unleashed dogs can be taken by chengguan and effectively ransomed back for a fine, but practically most people just leash while old ayis / uncles don't, then argue until the chengguan give up.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Can you spot it? this but with the geopolitical outlook of the world
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Warbadger posted:I dunno, the people who made the decision to host the games definitely got what they wanted in Sochi. Tons of money could be shifted around through graft and the dictator got to show off on domestic media while pulling down more gold medals for his flag through a mass doping scheme that would have been very difficult to pull off overseas. As a bonus there's even the possibility somebody got record a bunch of footage of naked athletes! The world being distracted with Sochi (as well as the goodwill built up from it) was what allowed Putin to then annex Crimea. The Sochi Olympics took place from Feb 7-23 2014, the annexation began on Feb 20th, 2014. The Olympics hadn't even ended when he made his move. Sochi was massively successful for Putin's needs. By all accounts, he rigged the games by creating a state-run doping program, and clearly used it to rake in money (the facilities lol), but Russia got a record 33 medals at the time (most are now disqualified), which was his aim. By making Russia appear as winners to themselves, he was able to create a swell of national pride enough that they confidently backed him during the annexation and rode a populism wave from there. We are technically still dealing with the aftermath of what began with the Sochi Olympics, what with Ukraine and Russian and NATO being a hot topic. StrangersInTheNight fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Feb 9, 2022 |
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Grand Fromage posted:China needs to step up their game and get to #1. Well they're getting the stolen part right, it's just apparently medals
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Ailumao posted:i cant think of anywhere ive seen street dogs in chinese cities. I used to see the occasional street dog in Zhengzhou but more often than not it was just some idiot walking their dog without a leash. Since it's China's version of the American South, people would just abandon their dogs too when they became too expensive by letting them run the streets. I assume the chengguan killed them after a bit because they were pretty active and heavy handed in Zhengzhou. There were cats every now and then but mostly you'd see dirty, not cared for cats tied off to the front entrance of a store. It was explained to me that they just treated the cats like a guard dog because "they don't come back even if you feed them." Definitely a lot of cat prejudice in central China. Kending in Taiwan was loaded with wild dogs.  I saw a man, dressed like the Maytag man, walking a goose on a leash once. Nobody believed me and I honestly I feel like it was a fever dream.
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:
One of my friends decided to go for a walk in the hills and actually got bit by a stray dog in Kenting, I totally forgot until now. It was an adventure getting to the nearest hospital. But Taiwan is rabies-free, so hey, didn't need to get a shot after.
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Atopian posted:In Jiangsu cities leash laws have been increasingly strictly enforced over the past ~3 years. I refuse to believe that the chengguan do anything except beat up street vendors
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The color in the bottom photo is massively desaturated, lol. You can make anything look way more grim by doing that. Just look at the color difference between the common part of the two images around the jump.
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Jeoh posted:iirc stray dogs just get killed by chengguan Well yeah they need something to do when they take a break from hitting homeless people with sledgehammers.
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Grand Fromage posted:Well yeah they need something to do when they take a break from hitting homeless people with sledgehammers. i don't think they can tell the difference
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Grand Fromage posted:Well yeah they need something to do when they take a break from hitting homeless people with sledgehammers. I thought that was more a Russian teenager thing
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cat botherer posted:The color in the bottom photo is massively desaturated, lol. You can make anything look way more grim by doing that.  Ah, much better.
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cat botherer posted:It looks like an industrial area in the winter. Are we just upset they have industry or something? It's pretty funny to have an olympic ski jump positioned as a lone island amid a grey industrial wasteland 
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cat botherer posted:It looks like an industrial area in the winter. Are we just upset they have industry or something? Don't be deliberately dense. The criticism is (or should be) of Olympic boondoggles that are clearly going to be single use and horribly wasteful of money and resources. China is not unique in being guilty of this but the picture is emblematic of the wasteful theater of the Olympics. Magic Underwear fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Feb 9, 2022 |
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cat botherer posted:It looks like an industrial area in the winter. Are we just upset they have industry or something? ? It's not an industrial area, it's an Olympic venue, and a steampunk restaurant and soon, hopefully, a wedding venue in one of the cooling towers. Who's upset? That's loving sick.
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cat botherer posted:It looks like an industrial area in the winter. Are we just upset they have industry or something? I thought it was a real life fallout mock up
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Magic Underwear posted:Don't be deliberately dense. The criticism is (or should be) of Olympic boondoggles that are clearly going to be single use and horribly wasteful of money and resources. China is not unique in being guilty of this but the picture is emblematic of the wasteful theater of the Olympics. this. Its not a China bash, its a "The Olympics stink!" post.
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well if we're dumping on the olympics, here's some more from a previous olympic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFuBW3wkVm8
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