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Yeah, face culture has had an effect on Domestic violence. It's treated as "none of your business" and "victim blaming". Hell, when two of my colleagues got sexually assaulted by the same guy last year, my foreign boss, who went full native, slut shamed them to save her job. Women hold up half the sky, if they know what is good for them.
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 Hong Kong’s Iconic Jumbo Restaurant Capsizes in South China Sea quote:Hong Kong’s iconic Jumbo Floating Restaurant capsized on Sunday after facing adverse conditions in the South China Sea. Very sad.
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Jun 21, 2022 02:08
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Never tip the waiter, never tip the restaurant.
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Jun 21, 2022 02:30
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This would have been a disaster of epic proportions if it had been full of people at the time. I guess coronavirus actually ended up saving some lives. 
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Jun 21, 2022 02:47
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Well, except it was never supposed to be sailing around while full of patrons, it was always just an overpriced tourist trap with the "novelty" of having to take a small boat to actually get on and off a junk heap floating in the harbour. Good riddance I say!
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Devils Affricate posted:This would have been a disaster of epic proportions if it had been full of people at the time. I guess coronavirus actually ended up saving some lives. I mean, it looks like the reason why it was out on the open ocean getting towed and thus being in a position to capsize in the first place was because the owners had to sell it after it consistently lost money due to coronavirus restrictions, otherwise it would still be sitting nice and safe in its protected harbor sooooo call it even for coronavirus?
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Rabelais D posted:Well, except it was never supposed to be sailing around while full of patrons, it was always just an overpriced tourist trap with the "novelty" of having to take a small boat to actually get on and off a junk heap floating in the harbour. Good riddance I say! Oh ok, that makes sense. I figured it kind of functioned as a cruise ship.
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rip to a real one. Looking forward to the PLAN putting some missiles on it and calling it a new island.
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Jumbo sinking is some sort of really multilayered metaphor that I’m still figuring out. I imagine it will only get better as it emerges that it was an insurance fraud scheme.
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Smeef posted:Jumbo sinking is some sort of really multilayered metaphor that I’m still figuring out. I imagine it will only get better as it emerges that it was an insurance fraud scheme. Frankly it would be disappointing if it doesn't turn out to be an insurance scheme
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It's hard to imagine it not being insurance fraud.
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Smeef posted:Jumbo sinking is some sort of really multilayered metaphor that I’m still figuring out. I imagine it will only get better as it emerges that it was an insurance fraud scheme. My immediate first thought.
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It COULD be insurance fraud, but to be honest just looking at the drat thing it doesn't look at all designed for open waters. I'd hate to be on board that thing in anything like a seaway at all, let alone real bad weather. That's not to say it's NOT insurance fraud, but if it was I don't think they really needed to do anything more nefarious than "order it to go to sea in anything but a predicted weeks-long flat calm."
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Jun 21, 2022 04:33
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A combination of incompetence and insurance fraud. It was supposed to "accidentally burn down" but it sank due to negligent towing practices before that could happen.
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pretty much HK in a nutshell and I bet the owner knew what would happen towing a boat not built for open sea voyage, happy insurance money with no dismantle fee. last time a similar restaurant use boat being relocated, it is being craned and sit on another open-sea transporter vessel.
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mikerock posted:A combination of incompetence and insurance fraud. It was supposed to "accidentally burn down" but it sank due to negligent towing practices before that could happen. hmmm yeah I bet insurance fraud
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Chow Yun Fat dove through it with guns akimbo and the bullet holes made it take on water
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 This dude still sucks, but this image also still makes me laugh.
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for real am i crazy or was there an actual john woo movie action scene in the restaurant boat
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"Imagine how happy all the fish will be" 
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big time bisexual posted:"Imagine how happy all the fish will be" Legit looking forward to photos of a coral-encrusted restaurant in a decade's time.
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Atopian posted:Legit looking forward to photos of a coral-encrusted restaurant in a decade's time. It sank where the depth was like 1000m, so let’s just hope it didn’t crack open some kaiju lair.
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Smeef posted:It sank where the depth was like 1000m, so let’s just hope it didn’t crack open some kaiju lair. This post reminded of the scene in "Pacific Rim" where Ron Perlman is the shady mafia guy in Hong Kong who's collecting all of the kaiju scraps and lice, presumably for some high potency TCM and hot pot
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Tomn posted:It COULD be insurance fraud, but to be honest just looking at the drat thing it doesn't look at all designed for open waters. I'd hate to be on board that thing in anything like a seaway at all, let alone real bad weather. That's not to say it's NOT insurance fraud, but if it was I don't think they really needed to do anything more nefarious than "order it to go to sea in anything but a predicted weeks-long flat calm." if you a person on the internet can immediately see what a bad idea this was then the multitude of people with industry-specific experience could also see it and chose to ignore it for ~~ reasons~~
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Smeef posted:It sank where the depth was like 1000m, so let’s just hope it didn’t crack open some kaiju lair. 1km deep... in the scs?  How strangely unfortunate it sinks deeply in one of the shallowest bodies of water on the entire planet. Tell me again, what coordinates was this exactly Mr. "hard-to-investigate" Wu? For real are there coordinates? Google fails me rn E. See, this is what you get when you're dumb, you mix up the topography of the east china sea and the south china sea and you have to go lie down now because how 
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insurance fraud with chinese characteristics
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:if you a person on the internet can immediately see what a bad idea this was then the multitude of people with industry-specific experience could also see it and chose to ignore it for ~~ reasons~~ Well, I AM someone with industry-specific experience as it happens, albeit not usually on vessels of that size. That being said, I note that while it doesn't look like a good boat in bad weather, apparently one of the barges that made up the Floating Kingdom WAS successfully transferred from Hong Kong to Manila in the past, so it CAN be successfully towed overseas - but I imagine the big caveat is "in good weather." So again, it could have been deliberate insurance fraud by setting out at a time when the weather was known to be unstable, or it could have just been bad luck, bad planning, or desperation that led to the boat heading out at a time when the seas are choppy. Unfortunately weather prediction is still a bit of an inexact science at times and depending on how much money the ship was burning through in maintenance and harbor fees in Hong Kong they might not have been able to wait for a better weather window and decided to gamble.
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So how was the food on the Jumbo anyway?
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Safe to say you could find better elsewhere in HK but two decades ago I had fun there being a tourist. Just another symbol of the old Hong Kong that won't ever come back.
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I remember playing that level in BF4. It could sink as well as part of the in-game map change lol.
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mikerock posted:A combination of incompetence and insurance fraud. It was supposed to "accidentally burn down" but it sank due to negligent towing practices before that could happen. Turns out the Kitchen part had all ready sank in the harbour a few weeks ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9icuG6p9c0A Apparently China had something go bang last October. https://eurasiantimes.com/satellite-image-captures-destroyed-facility-at-chinese-satellite-launch/
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Fumble posted:Turns out the Kitchen part had all ready sank in the harbour a few weeks ago. Is it possible for buildings to invoke the uncanny valley? That thing looked like a cool Chinese palace from far away but the closer the camera got the more it started looking like a cheap carnival fun house.
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Devils Affricate posted:Is it possible for buildings to invoke the uncanny valley? That thing looked like a cool Chinese palace from far away but the closer the camera got the more it started looking like a cheap carnival fun house. Kind of like visiting China, except a cheap carnival fun house (Shanghai Disneyland) it's a surveillance state.
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nobody wants to eat on a boat that's wet cuz it sounds like it's on the 4th floor
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I mean I'd eat at a place that has ankle deep water, but why more is dancing with absurdity.
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nah thats a different gimmick in a different country https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/have-you-seen/2018/09/24/vietnam-cafe-ankle-deep-water-and-fish/1413589002/
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tbf china probably wants to pull a ukraine on vietnam too
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I was imagining the footage of guys making noodles while standing in ankle-deep gray water in Kowloon so I'm glad to see that video
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I've always wanted to try one of those pedicures where they put your feet into a bowl of little fish that eat away the dead skin. Can you get that in the US or do they have some kind of bullshit law that protects animals from being used as tools?
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