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 Link to previous thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3790448 Welcome to the latest incarnation of the GBS China thread.  In this thread, we mostly shitpost and make fun of China, but also share cool things about China and the Chinese diaspora. For example, we may talk about Good China (Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore) and Bad China (Vancouver) and generally complain about living in all of these places. We have our usual crew of sexpats who have a connection to China in some way: Imperialist Dog (me): Hong Kong sexpat Fleta McGurn: Korea sexpat Fojar38: Conspirational sexpat Grand Fromage: Professor sexpat Bajaj: Comprador sexpat Caberham: reverse sexpat Simplefish: drunkard Pirate Radar: mysterious sexpat The Great Autismo: married sexpat (aren't they all) Atlas Hugged: Thai anti-sexpat Accretionist: photo sexpat Jeoh: a wisp of smoke from a joss stick Glenn Quebec: investment sexpat WarpedNaba: research sexpat Darkest Auer: cynical sexpat oohhboy: returned Hongkonger sexpat baronjutter: BC budpat sincx: rational sexpat Sogol: possibly dead sexpat ****: secret sexpat bewbies: militant sexpat I would blow Dane Cook: sexpat enhancer barbecue at the folks: dragon sexpat LimburgLimbo: squat toilet sexpat tote up a bags: feminist liberator sexpat Power Khan: hidden ingredient sexpat peanut: cool person I'm sure there are a bunch of others I'm forgetting but in general these people can be counted on to make the thread interesting. Some even actually know what they're talking about!  In general it is OK to criticise aspects of China but make your context clear to avoid being racist. For example: "Chinese people don't know how to line up." --> BAD. You are making a racial generalisation that all Chinese people are incapable of lining up. "Chinese people from the PRC don't line up because anyone and their family who followed the rules and actually lined up for their food ration during the Great Leap Forward literally died of starvation while the line-cutters and thieves survived. Compare this to capitalist Hong Kong where queuing up became commonplace in the 1970's because of McDonald's." --> GOOD THREAD IN-JOKES "Wealth beyond measure, outlander" - from an Elder Scrolls game in a town choked by pollution, but the inhabitants only think of how much money they can make "No Why" - a translation of 沒有爲什麽, better known as "for no particular reason", used as a response to seemingly inexplicable events "5000 years of history" - frequently used to explain why China does things while being superior to other short-lived nation states "You cannot understand" - the idea that only Chinese can understand China due to its inscrutable nature "But America did X" - referring to whataboutism that is often used to defend something negative about China, e.g. "They may be putting Uyghurs into concentration camps in Xinjiang, but did you know America did the same thing to its native people? Typical Westerners, excusing American behaviour." Peanut brittle - you probably don't want to know POPULAR TERMS Chengguan: City guards, a kind of police who are not the police. Famous for being thugs and beating up street hawkers. Chabuduo: "it's be fine" attitude, "more or less" e.g. "The train leaves at 9:02 so I can come at 9:04, as it's more or less the same". Now apply it to infrastructure standards. CCP: Chinese Communist Party ROC: Republic of China (Taiwan) PRC: People's Republic of China, also called "Mainland China" and for our purposes normally what we mean when we say "China" Xinjiang: China's westernmost province, until recently inhabited mostly by Muslim Uyghers and now full of concentration camps Shenzhen: The city on the border with Hong Kong in the south Shanghai: The port city on the east coast of China Beijing: The capital of China Zhongnanhai: The CCP headquarters Sexpat: sexpat KMT: Nationalists, the guys who were in charge before 1949 and then fled to Taiwan. From Kuomintang, "Nationalist Party". Pinyin: How to write Chinese in Roman characters. Mostly in Hanyu Pinyin, like Zhōngguó. Wade-Giles: The pinyin system before Hanyu Pinyin came around, made up by British sinologist Thomas Wade in the 1800's. Hong Kong: Former British colony that was handed over to China in 1997, which for some reason annoys a lot of Hong Kong people POWER KHAN: One of many illegal sexual enhancers with an awesome name https://www.fda.gov/drugs/resourcesforyou/consumers/buyingusingmedicinesafely/medicationhealthfraud/ucm234539.htm  PEOPLE Confucius: Travelling teacher during the Warring States period who tried to convince rulers to adopt his hierarchical system of propriety Qin Shihuang: The First Emperor, said Confucius sucked and everyone should follow Legalism (death penalty for everything) Chiang Kai-Shek: Leader of the Nationalists, lost the Chinese Civil War and retreated to Taiwan to continue the fight. Mao Zedong: Leader of the Communists, known for his far-sighted economic and cultural policies Deng Xiaoping: Communist leader after Mao, thought "maybe letting people do business by themselves will be a good idea" Jiang Zemin: Communist leader who oversaw the Handover of Hong Kong, leader of the Shanghai faction Xi Jinping: Current Chairman and leader of China, recent actions like removal of term limits have China watchers worried Commissioner Lin: Imperial official who threw a bunch of opium into the sea Li Feng: Communist hero who just wanted to be a cog in the machine, famous for dying when a telephone pole fell on him  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VNvUbeulOs IMPORTANT EVENTS 2000 BC: Semi-mythical dynasties & poo poo. Stuff of legends. Oracle Bones: shamans write pictures on turtle shells and burn them to divine the future. Earliest evidence of Chinese writing. Really old poo poo. 700 BC: Spring and Autumn Period: Confucius's time. 500 BC: Bunch of wars with Chinese states trying to conquer each other. Think Europe but it's anyone's guess as to which will make the Roman Empire. 220 BC: The First Emperor beats all the other kingdoms and makes "China" 206 BC: First Emperor dies which is good because he was a right bastard, it's Han Dynasty time! 220 CE: Han Dynasty falls apart and you get some rubbish dynasties for a while, but also Three Kingdoms. 618 CE: Time for Tang! Also now we have Buddhism thanks to our Journey to the West. This and 3 Kingdoms will form the basis of all Chinese movies forever. 960: Tang are gone, now it's Song who are doing kind of OK until 1279: HOLY gently caress IT'S THE MONGOLS 1368: Turns out steppe nomads aren't good at running an imperial state and now it's MING 1644: Some pissed-off general leaves the gate to the Great Wall open and in come the Qing! 1840: Britain is pissed off at China's restrictive trade rules that they start a war over drugs and get Hong Kong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgQahGsYokU 1860: Britain teams up with loving France over opium again and now gets Kowloon. The Chinese court immediately starts infighting. Adopt Western practices like Japan, or conservatively resist? 1895: Adopted-Western-Practices Japan defeats Conservatively Resisting China in what is totally not a sneak attack. Imperialist countries now go totally nuts trying to carve up China.  1898: Britain "negotiates" a new treaty to get everything north of Kowloon up to the Shenzhen River added to the Colony of Hongkong for 99 years, or as good as forever 1911: China decides gently caress this and gets rid of the emperors, ushering in a completely unstable republic 1936: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Nationalists almost finish killing all the Communists and consolidating total control of the country, if all goes according to plan 1937: Japanese full-scale invasion of China means all is not going according to plan 1945: WWII ends with truce between Nationalists and Communists which will definitely not be broken immediately 1949: Communist victory, Nationalists escape to Taiwan, let's all rebuild 1958: Great Leap Forward, turns out melting your iron tools to make iron tools doesn't work 1966: Cultural Revolution vows to destroy all culture that isn't Mao-worship 1976: Mao dies and the Cultural Revolution gets blamed on a woman 1982: Deng Xiaoping becomes leader, creates sort-of free-market zones bordering Hong Kong which become super rich 1989: Students pressing for greater reforms get slaughtered at, among other places, Tiananmen Square 1997: Lease on the New Territories runs out and the whole of Hong Kong is handed over to China 2008: Giant earthquake in Sichuan. Huge outpouring of sympathy for China, but concerns start to surface about substandard construction and misuse of relief funds 2013: "China's peaceful development" official slogan changes to "China Dream", associated with a more confident, aggressive China out to restore national glory under Xi Jinping, compared to the "soft touch" of previous leaders. yes I know I'm leaving a bunch of stuff out like the Xi'an Incident and the Yellow Turban Rebellion but there's only so much space ok BANNABLE TOPICS: hotpot There are tons more but this is supposed to be the lovely GBS thread so let's start shitposting. Imperialist Dog fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Jul 30, 2018 |
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This is actually a post I started writing LAST YEAR during the summer, then never got around to finishing it as I started my new job. For two weeks (in 2017!) I was in Hangzhou, a city in China west of Shanghai that is famous for a) having a lake b) the lake is situated to the west and c) is the most beautiful city in China. Please do not dispute these facts. It's also the city Marco Polo visited and the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty (which my father in law won't shut up about) until it was inevitably overrun by the Mongols. My parents in law live in a new development on the other side of the mountain, along the river. It's a gated community with artificial streams, ponds etc with three (or four, if you include the basement & garage) storey houses.  Some of the ponds have lotus flowers in them.  Only about half of the houses are occupied, so the streets are usually empty. Occasionally a maintenance worker rides by on a giant tricycle.  By the front entrance is this banner. Yellow characters on red banners are relatively common sights in China, but you tend to find them in more lower-income areas. This one says "The people have faith, the tribes (minorities?) have hope, the country has strength".  The houses are very nice, like the ones you’d find in a well-off Toronto suburb. They have little gardens and backyards too.  A Rolls-Royce parked in front of one of the houses. Nice and all, but remember: one is driven in a Rolls, but drives in a Bentley.  One house was having its driveway redone. I wonder if the 8 shape is just a coincidence (no).  Air-raid shelters for the inevitable war with AmeriKKKa  There's an estate clubhouse nearby that is like a sauna because the window to the air conditioner exhaust is permanently open  Near this community is what I guess used to be the city's rail yards. It's been turned into a kind of theme park and my boys love it because what boy doesn't like mysterious railway tracks going off into the undergrowth?  Some quality engineering right here  oh poo poo which way  We passed by some company building that had this as their impressive modern art sculpture  Look out! Trains!  There were some derelict railway carriages that you could go into.  Originally these were supposed to be for rent and you could pedal around, but they're chained up and covered in dust.  There was an electric train going back and forth which you could pay to ride on  A cool sculpture installation about the first railways in China and their passengers  Derelict equipment on display  Trucks! Unfortunately I couldn't push them around as they were locked. Full of garbage though.  Some cool Socialist Realism about the labour required to build the railways  This carriage was turned into some kind of bar that you couldn't go into  Side view  We found some kind of old machine shop. Not sure what this is  While passing near the West Lake, you'll find a fenced-off tomb. It's Ding Henian, a poet (d. 1424) who is also the grandson of, I poo poo you not, Aladdin, who built the Phoenix Mosque in Hangzhou during the time of the Mongols.  A propaganda poster informing the populace that hygiene is all part of civilisation Our family had signed up to go on a cruise. What's better than being trapped on a boat with a thousand mainlanders? Being trapped on a boat with a thousand mainlanders from Hunan! My wonderful mother-in-law soon began cursing the "uneducated farmers".  First we had to board the high-speed train to Shanghai to meet more relatives. This is the new Hangzhou train station, which my in-laws all agree is an ugly utilitarian mess and completely inferior to the old station which just happened to have been built by my wife's grandfather.  Just waiting for the train to move, while on the other side we can see one of the standard Chinese carriages.  When we arrived in Shanghai I thought the "Learn From Lei Feng Centre" was amusing. I made sure to stay away from telephone poles.  drat this ship is big.  Well the lifeboats seemed considerably more advanced than the Titanic's so I guess we won't die immediately  If there were some kind of accident you can guarantee I'd be schat-harding  Our room on the ship is about 3/4ths the size of our entire flat in Hong Kong.  The stern of the ship was quickly identified as a top laundry drying spot by the nongren  There was some kind of costume parade in the ship's interior promenade so parents quickly helped their children to stand on the currency exchange countertops despite staff entreaties to please get down. Buffet was pretty nice even if you did have a bunch of Hunanese grabbing as much food as they could.  There were two pools, which my kids loved. The lifeguards had their hands full telling the Chinese kids to not do stupid stuff like climb up the railings, and also the adults to not do stuff like smoke in the pool (sigh).  Eventually, we docked in Nagasaki. Saw some nifty Japanese destroyers.  When we disembarked there was this poster encouraging us to visit the HSBC building that had a connection with Sun Yat-sen, which I wanted to go to, but unfortunately it's all pre-arranged tours.  So we all had to ride on a tour bus for an hour and a half or so. The funniest thing was the tour guide telling the passengers to look around and see how the streets are free of garbage and everything is in good repair, which the Japanese do without threat of violence or monetary fines. Truly amazing! When we finally got off we were told we had 20 minutes to walk around.  Twenty minutes to explore Dejima, the only gateway from Japan to the outside world for like 300 years.  The whole island is maintained as a museum.  Here's where the flag of the Netherlands flew. I think it has the distinction of being the only place where the free Dutch flag flew during the Napoleonic Wars.  Broken dish with the insignia of the Dutch East India Company  The island's only street  Some of the spices and things the Dutch traded  There's a memorial park that was originally prison grounds which were destroyed when the second atomic bomb exploded.  Here's China's.  I think these were made out of paper cranes, the symbol of Japanese hope. Didn't impress the couple in front of me who thought it was garbage left by the park workers.  Here's a memorial from East Germany.  Last stop: what looks to be an abandoned shopping mall but is in fact a literal tourist trap. Everyone had to get off and go buy poo poo. I got out of it by saying I wasn't Chinese, which the tour guide seemed to accept.  A sign in the mall carpark in Simplified Chinese telling people not to throw their rubbish everywhere  On the way back from Nagasaki to Shanghai, there were some extremely bright lights to starboard. The picture doesn't do justice as to how big and bright these lights were. We were told that they were fishing boats using the lights as lures.  On our last night on the ship, all the (mostly Filipino) dining staff had to assemble and sign the Chinese anthem while holding the PRC flag. I asked if they had to do this for any other countries they visited and our waiter laughed and said hell no, only for the Chinese. If anything else, it encouraged my wife to agree to take a short trip to Japan by ourselves as a family instead of joining a tour for sometime in the future. 8/10 would Chinar again.
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Another post I meant to do several months ago. Let's go to the cemetery! The cemetery in Happy Valley has a tram stop. The Chinese reads "Catholic cemetery".  Russian graves with fresh flowers. Seems the family is still in Hong Kong.  Lots of Russians in HK are descended from the Whites who fled the Soviets.  HMS Tamar was the Royal Navy Shore Station, but in the early 1900s it was still an actual ship moored off Admiralty.  It was quite normal to die of tropical diseases, malaria, and minor infections.  Each side of this monument just lists deaths by year of British forces in HK, usually from sickness.  The graves of the Hotungs. Sir Robert Hotung. Sir Robert was a comprador, essentially someone with both European/Asian parentage who could speak English and Chinese and thus was essential for trade. Sir Robert became very very rich and his name is found all over Hong Kong. I met his son Eric a few years back at the Remembrance Day services. His legacy is still fought over today like in the Eurasian Cemetery in the western part of the island. His brother's grandson is Stanley Ho, the casino mogul who owns Macau.  Wong  Likewise, Sir Paul Chater has roads and parks named after him. Armenian but from British India, he made his way to Hong Kong and worked up through the banks and trading firms to become very rich and influential.  In Wan Chai there's a small road called Electric Street, and that's because Sir Paul used his new land company to secretly set up a power station to supply Hong Kong with electricity.  The grave was constructed by the same company that operated the London Death Railway.  A common practice for Chinese graves is to have pictures of the deceased on them.  This poor guy got drowned in a typhoon. I wonder if his body was recovered.  Many of the graves are now overgrown, despite the presence of caretakers.  A child's grave  Subsistence I assume  I guess the tree roots are pushing that grave up  A forgotten soul  A forgotten mother's forgotten son  Cool shade among the dead  Almost faded away, but here lies a Mason  Final resting place of an engineer  I can't remember what this is for. The Winchester was involved in attacking a pirate base on the South China coast; maybe some of the Royal Marines got killed?  HMS PRINCESS ROYAL  Cracked and stained  As a father of 2 young boys these ones are the worst  There's a sizeable Muslim cemetery that I've yet to explore. Well, I've got time; the residents don't appear to be in a hurry.
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I'm writing a doctrinal pub for the army that describes PLA tactics and in doing so I have learned a great deal about Chinese history and culture. That...that's about it
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ground floor one day i hope to be dragged away by the polo shirt police and be a dead white guy in an asian country
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Lol wasn’t Glenn Quebec’s only China connection having some annoying HK coworkers he had to talk to from his NYC office?
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Thanks for the awesome pics and write-up! E: sexpat gang tags?
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LimburgLimbo posted:Lol wasn’t Glenn Quebec’s only China connection having some annoying HK coworkers he had to talk to from his NYC office? It was a bit more then that. Dude had to deal with the head of a China division that completely lied to his face about the a yearly report for over a year, and when caught tried to do a massive face save move that would have caused his company a poo poo ton of money and respect. It was a whole funny saga that was VERY indicative of dealing with China.
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May the sparrows leave this auspicious thread alone edit: hells to the yes for sexpat gang tags
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Im glad this thread exists so I can say the most important thing Xiaolongbao are not Baozi
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Barudak posted:Im glad this thread exists so I can say the most important thing Xiaolongbao are not Baozi this is like saying the sun is not the moon. Who thinks that?
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Imperialist Dog posted:this is like saying the sun is not the moon. Who thinks that? Utter assholes and Americans but I repeat myself
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Imperialist Dog posted:BANNABLE TOPICS:
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Op forgot the list of Tainted Sexual Enhancement Products https://www.fda.gov/drugs/resourcesforyou/consumers/buyingusingmedicinesafely/medicationhealthfraud/ucm234539.htm quote:07/09/2018 Public Notification: Dale Mas contains hidden drug ingredients https://www.fda.gov/drugs/resourcesforyou/consumers/buyingusingmedicinesafely/medicationhealthfraud/ucm234539.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emC57zwrEK4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z7s2oaNB5o I would blow Dane Cook fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Jul 27, 2018 |
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bewbies posted:I'm writing a doctrinal pub for the army that describes PLA tactics and in doing so I have learned a great deal about Chinese history and culture. Militant sexpat
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Op forgot the list of Tainted Sexual Enhancement Products Adding now
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I look away for a second and oh my, we've added another China thread to the list of things that didn't make it for 5000 years, unlike China. I'll repost this to give this new thread an auspicious beginning, these things are supposed to bring luck and great vigour, after all. So, last year me and the missus were honeymooning on the French Riviera, and the hotel consierge mentioned that there's a huge show of Chinese antiques open for a couple of weeks in Monaco. I am a history nerd, so off we went! Here's the blurb and some photos of the exhibition, it was huge and amazing: http://www.grimaldiforum.com/en/references-events-monaco/the-forbidden-city-in-monaco-imperial-court-life-in-china The Grimaldi Forum posted:The Forbidden City is one of the most impressive palace complexes, and the world's most popular tourist venue, with some 10 million visitors annually. Now both a palace and a museum, it served as the hub around which the new capital, Beijing, was organised. Created ex nihilo on the orders of the third Ming emperor, it was built at a single stroke between 1406 and 1420, and became the cradle of power for the Manchu dynasty for almost three centuries. However, this post is not about the exhib and the artifacts themselves, this post is about THE BEST DRAGON FACES OF THE FORBIDDEN PALACE This dude graced the official cloak of the Emperor himself. He doesn't seem happy about it.  This chair leg is strictly not a dragon but a Lion. He seems super into it, unlike the dragon behind him!  He seems like he's gotten a bit bored of holding onto those pearl windchimes.  HEYYYYYYYY  He seems a bit more... special than the others. Good show, nevertheless:  This God dude gets in for just being cool as all hell, pun intended:  After all was said and done, I felt a great pleasure in getting to see these pieces, most of which don't leave China too often. I also felt a huge sadness while browsing them: the simply stunning craftsmanship, the superb care and attention to detail that went into all of these artefacts is now lost forever, and not a trace of the culture remains in modern China. It deflated the enjoyment somewhat.
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https://i.imgur.com/q4nqj0W.mp4 I would blow Dane Cook fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Jul 27, 2018 |
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hotpot is really good, post your favorite hotpot
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So how many bottles of Baijiu are we drinking to celebrate this thread?
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Barudak posted:So how many bottles of Baijiu are we drinking to celebrate this thread? 88,888,888
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Jeoh posted:hotpot is really good, post your favorite hotpot bruh
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quote:Atlas Hugged: Thai anti-sexpat It's true, Atlas Hugged does not gently caress
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Haier posted:Closure: She was Mongolian and came riding in on her ebike like the hordes of her ancestors did when they rode across the world. It was fine except she thought biting was sexy and she bit my face and my dick. Other than that 10/10, would plunge 100 more times. The fruit box was about 6/10 because it was the end of the day and not as fresh as it could have been. Not her fault. No crazy and nothing weird. She hates Chinese people and wants to get as much money as she can from them and flee back to Mongolia and live the good life. She really wanted to talk about American independence and why, and also WW2 and why the US and UK were friends even though the US fought for independence and hurt the Crown's feelings.
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quote:I asked her what these several scars on her body are, and she refused to say why, saying if she said the words it could cause them to happen again. I kept naming things and when I got to tumors and cancer she cupped her hand over my mouth and told me to shut up so she doesn't get sick again and die and have to go hell sooner.
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What's with the obsession in China with insane sex related pills , powders or whatever made from all kinds of stuff like tiger boners or whatever . Is it like Chinese toxic masculinity or something
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Peter Daou Bundy posted:What's with the obsession in China with insane sex related pills , powders or whatever made from all kinds of stuff like tiger boners or whatever . Is it like Chinese toxic masculinity or something Its toxic as in its literally killing them, yes
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Peter Daou Bundy posted:What's with the obsession in China with insane sex related pills , powders or whatever made from all kinds of stuff like tiger boners or whatever . Is it like Chinese toxic masculinity or something Viagra doesn't work on Chinese people, so they need to take rhino horn pills instead the rhino horn pills have counterfeit Viagra in them, so they actually work, *and* they feel more ~special~ than taking regular Viagra
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Barudak posted:Its toxic as in its literally killing them, yes Tainted baby formula ... Pirate Radar posted:Viagra doesn't work on Chinese people, so they need to take rhino horn pills instead lol that viagra will make your dick stop working if you take it and don't need it too many times . Are they buying all these boner pills to impress their mistresses ?
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My uncle tole me chinee come tall now. He said they call em yao mings
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Former DILF posted:My uncle tole me chinee come tall now. He said they call em yao mings should call them gao mings imho
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Much less racist and demeaning OP this time, good job SA forums
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Former DILF posted:My uncle tole me chinee come tall now. He said they call em yao mings Well, at least the thread had a good OP to start it off
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Peter Daou Bundy posted:What's with the obsession in China with insane sex related pills , powders or whatever made from all kinds of stuff like tiger boners or whatever . Is it like Chinese toxic masculinity or something Most of the animal related aspects of TCM are horrifying and a legitimate criticism of Chinese culture
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I'm honoured to be listed in the who's who. Very famous. My only real contribution to the thread beyond the usual lazy shitposting are sharing stories of the massive and growing Chinese tourism industry in my city. I've seen it evolve from tour-buses full of new-money mainlanders who spit, litter, and refuse to interact with the locals or learn anything or seemingly enjoy any part of their vacation, to an increasing number of independent travellers out to enjoy them selves and seemingly motivated by a curiosity for the world and new experiences and are able to do things like queue and deposit litter in bins. Just the other day I was at the petting zoo playing with the goats there and a tour bus pulled covered in simplified chinese. It was a mix of your typical aunties with huge plastic sun visors, but also some nicely dressed young families with kids. The petting zoo staff have had some bad experiences with tour groups like these before, and I could see they were a little extra wary and keeping an eye on things. But, the group was quite nice. Parents were explaining about all the animals to their kids instead of just ignoring them and letting them climb over the fences. At one point a small boy tried to chase and catch a chicken, and was firmly and politely reigned in by his parents. Another kid started screaming at some sheep and banging on the fence to get their attention, and again parents quickly stepped in to correct the behaviour and the kid then started to politely whisper to the sheep instead. When the group entered the goat area the parents all gave the children present a talk before entering and pointed at some of the english signage, I assume explaining the rules. Everyone was very nice with the goats, gentle petting, parents letting goats climb on them and chew on their designer handbags and sunglasses. What I did notice though is that all the people dressed like stereotypical mainland tourists stayed outside of the goat area and just watched (even if they had children with them), it was only the the more "western" looking people who went in (again, regardless of age or children). I saw a 60+ year old lady laughing her head off with a goat climbing on her back while some visor'd aunties looked on from outside with a concerned expression and hands clasped firmly behind. I wasn't sure why this was, is interacting with farm animals like this not considered appropriate in China? I really hope all the horror stories and bad reputation mainland tourists have generated over the last couple decades are just the growing pains of a society not used to travel, and that the trends I've noticed at least here in Canada continue. Mainland chinese tourists are getting better year after year. Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Jul 27, 2018 |
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Peter Daou Bundy posted:What's with the obsession in China with insane sex related pills , powders or whatever made from all kinds of stuff like tiger boners or whatever . Is it like Chinese toxic masculinity or something Their dicks don't work, they place no value at all on
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LimburgLimbo posted:Lol wasn’t Glenn Quebec’s only China connection having some annoying HK coworkers he had to talk to from his NYC office? Listen, I'm no I guess I just had to talk to an Asian coworker though.
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