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Grand Fromage posted:son of a btich Well it's a civil engineering thing on all drawings
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Central/Eastern Europe is big on stamps. I don't know about Africa and South America and the Middle East.
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In North America, or at least Canada, the all-important school's stamp is effectively replaced by "THE SEAL" which is basically a fancy rear end sticker on letterhead usually embossed somehow. But yeah I don't get this obsession with officialdom - usually it's pretty drat easy to check if something is official with a quick phone call or google search, but no, everyone has to pretend we're living in the 1800s. Is there an academic source on the stamp-fixation in east asian culture? I'd love to understand more about it.
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Jul 24, 2014 16:56
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Woo. Got my VISA. Now I just have to avoid all of the drat plane crash horror stories.
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Is there another one that I don't know about? Because as far as I know there was a plane crash like 5 months ago and then another one got shot down. Don't fly over any excitable Ouagadougou!!!  Taiwan? Man this is getting a bit out of hand. Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Jul 24, 2014 |
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A crappy little one crashed in Taiwan yesterday and now another has gone missing over the Sahara. it is a good time to fly
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I think it's no longer over the Sahara, if you know what I mean. It crashed and a lot of people died.)
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I'm grounded for three weeks of visa processing and actually feeling pretty good about that.
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Arglebargle III posted:Is there another one that I don't know about? Because as far as I know there was a plane crash like 5 months ago and then another one got shot down. Don't fly over any excitable Two Malaysian flights, the one Taiwan flight, and now an Air France (???) one has up and disappeared into the African wilderness. I fly to JFK in a week and then Pudong in two months.
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Don't worry they probably used up all the bad luck.
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Jul 24, 2014 17:41
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Fortunately, I am already dead.
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Did I nuke you?
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Jeoh posted:Fortunately, I am already dead. WE are the walking dead!
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Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:Two Malaysian flights, the one Taiwan flight, and now an Air France (???) one has up and disappeared into the African wilderness. At least if you do crash and don't die, all that DayZ experience will prepare you for surviving in China.
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Zophar posted:Qingdao Zuhzuhzombie!! posted:Woo. Got my VISA. Now I just have to avoid all of the drat plane crash horror stories. Welcome welcome welcome to this amazing country full of 5000 years of history! China group is pretty strong for 3 years but welcome! This is the more "serious thread" about jobs, living questions, traveling, etc... Then there's the lan thread where it's poo poo on dick jokes (and vent). We scared one guy away, hopefully we won't scare you guys too!
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If you want to sue your boss, post here. If you want to quit your job, post here. If you want to tell us about how your poop is sick, or that you are gay (we are all very gay) post it in the LAN thread. That's pretty much how I see it. There's a flowchart somewhere explaining this, I think.
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Lady Galaga posted:At least if you do crash and don't die, all that DayZ experience will prepare you for surviving in China. Shoot on site and don't trust anyone who says they are friendly? Which is the LAN thread? I got this one, street making GBS threads, and the language thread bookmarked. ed Thanks VVV Zuhzuhzombie!! fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Jul 25, 2014 |
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That would be the thread in the LAN forum.
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GOON MEET BBQ TOMORROW TIME: 1PM LOCATION : TAI WO STATION We are going to some god forsaken villager's house (lurker goon). So logistics will be slightly complicated. Food wise I should be ok. No requests, I'm a bit burnt on herding everything. Contact: wechat, forums, or call me nine four three three two seven eight eight Goon roll call:
Goons who will be missed 1. Beefeater 2. Cool Lawyer goon 3. Henan crew 4. Wonton (hehehehehehehe  )5. RocknRoll, Blinky and Fear, Dilber, and all the goons gone from China. 6. PRO PRC LAO WAI 7. Lurkers gently caress it, we got 12-14 guys already. I'm tired of fishing out the lurkers. I got a lot of chicken to marinate. But will be fun
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Does that mean there will be at least double the amount of fedoras and jorts at this meet?
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So if I'm in Chengdu this August (with Eifert so Caberham better come), what other city is a good train ride away? Was looking at Kunming because Yunnan  . Going to try and buy a ticket today? Anyone use Hotspot shield in China on the phone?
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Hey guys, I'm taking a trip to the Guilin area and then around the Yunnan province for a few weeks soon, and I've got some questions about cellular data. The first is whether data service in those areas likely to be good enough to justify buying a prepaid SIM while I'm there? Second, I told I'll need some sort of VPN to access stuff like google, do you have any recommendations one to use on an iPhone? Any info is much appreciated. And actually, any suggestions on those regions in general is cool too, if anyone is aware of some absolute must-see sights or activities.
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Prepaid is dirt cheap and those areas aren't really that rural. Vpn I can't tell you. Try host vpn free trial 2 cents
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Before I book these tickets, what is the cab to and from the airport like in Chengdu? I'd be arriving at midnight and flight leaves at 830am.
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Do you know where you're staying? It's hard to answer that question without that information.
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DontAskKant posted:So if I'm in Chengdu this August (with Eifert so Caberham better come), what other city is a good train ride away? Was looking at Kunming because Yunnan Kunming and Yunnan is OK. P much everywhere but Chongqing is pretty far from Chengdu, to be honest. Even Yunnan is a very long train ride. Lanzhou is a weird place that is pretty neat, can you could go way far out to like Dunhuang or Qinghai Hu via train. Not idea on hotspot shield! Bugblatter posted:Hey guys, I'm taking a trip to the Guilin area and then around the Yunnan province for a few weeks soon, and I've got some questions about cellular data. 3G service here is very strange in that is is actually really reliable. Everything is pre-paid here, so you should just get a unicom SIM. I know they do 300mb of 3G for like 69rmb or something (11USD). It'll work almost anywhere. Use Unicom because they use all the bands most providers in Europe/Rest of Asia/N. America use. The other providers are CDMA or use weird poo poo.
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DontAskKant posted:Before I book these tickets, what is the cab to and from the airport like in Chengdu? I'd be arriving at midnight and flight leaves at 830am. The Chengdu airport is ridiculously close to the city. If you're in Chengdu proper, IE anywhere inside 3rd ring road, the airport won't take more than an hour to get to since to make an 8:30 am flight you'll probably be heading there 5:30-6-ish and missing rush hour entirely. It will probably be between 40 and 70rmb for a cab from the airport to the city.
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Caber style best style. 830am flight, arrive airport 750am.
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Magna Kaser posted:The Chengdu airport is ridiculously close to the city. If you're in Chengdu proper, IE anywhere inside 3rd ring road, the airport won't take more than an hour to get to since to make an 8:30 am flight you'll probably be heading there 5:30-6-ish and missing rush hour entirely. Thanks, oh man I forgot that in China an hour is ridiculously close. I remember it being a lot faster in Nanjing, but that city is smaller. Was a little concerned about price and language, but got it pretty quickly at 4 in the morning and did it without English so toot to my horn. Just... got comfortable in Korea and hear stories from China. Unfortunately had to wait on buying tickets because of work bureaucracy, but i can now and trying to find how i want to spend my $500~ and my $240 visa. This is way more than expected, if EifertPosting wasn't going I'd probably bail.
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DontAskKant posted:Thanks, oh man I forgot that in China an hour is ridiculously close. I remember it being a lot faster in Nanjing, but that city is smaller. Was a little concerned about price and language, but got it pretty quickly at 4 in the morning and did it without English so toot to my horn. Just... got comfortable in Korea and hear stories from China. Depending on where you are it can be a lot less. From where I live, near the city center, it's 30minutes or so. I meant an hour is about the longest it could ever conceivably take. If you stay at one of the many hostels in southern Chengdu it's closer to 20 minutes. Compared to other places it is pretty close, though. Getting to Pudong airport from Puxi is like 1.5hour minimum. And when I lived in Hangzhou it took at least 2 hours to get to the Airport from the city. Ailumao fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Jul 25, 2014 |
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Incheon to Qingdao arriving at 10 am Aug 15. Leaving at 2 and arriving in Chengdu at 3ish. Leaving Chengdu on Aug 27 and leaving at 730am. Arriving in Shanghai at 10 and leaving at 6pm. It's not possible to see Qingdao I think, but Shanghai I'll be out for. Who wants to welcome me? 
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DontAskKant posted:Incheon to Qingdao arriving at 10 am Aug 15. Leaving at 2 and arriving in Chengdu at 3ish. Guess who's also in Shanghai that day. Let's get Uzbeki food.
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Jeoh when are your times again? Would like to have lunch on 27. but chances are slim 
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caberham posted:Jeoh when are your times again? 24 to 29 Come on Cabe, we can make it a kgooooonmeet. In Chinar!
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Jeoh posted:24 to 29 It's only fair. Korea invented China, after all.
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Hey tupper when are you coming back, we got a big BBQ tomorrow. drat it, I keep on typing BBW. Let's catch up sometime in Dong Guan~~~ Hmm double out of town weekends? Going to be a bit tough
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I'm in Vietnam until August 6th, dogg. With an eventual transfer down the pipe. But I'll most likely take trips back up the Dongguan to talk with the mothership, of course.
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Oh my god this visa process is a nightmare. I'm not getting my invitation letter and application until July 30th, and I have to fly out on August 7th. I already exchanged the tickets once to move it back to that date because they were slow getting the visa application together. Since I live in Nebraska, I have to go directly through the embassy in DC. How hosed am I? Will a courier be able to get it all done in time without costing me a fortune?
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If you get your invitation letter, I would drive or fly to DC and go to the embassy personally. Is that your plan? They don't do same day processing anymore (as of October 2013, but this is subject to change at literally the whims of someone), but if you're there by like 10am you can get next day. If you get your invitation letter on the 30th, you can be in DC on the 31st or the 1st. You can have your Z-visa by the 2nd or the 3rd if everything goes smoothly. I don't know where the weekends are but you should be ok. The whole Nebraska being served by the DC embassy is the biggest loving joke, when we hired a guy from Bowling Green, Kentucky he was required to do everything through DC, and for some reason, so was a guy from Miami though that might have had to do with his personal address. I have no idea how this all works, and I'm not sure how strict they are about it. When I got my Z-visa in 2009, my permanent address was in Maine but I was living with my girlfriend in Madison, Wisconsin and I did it through Chicago and no one gave a poo poo. Furthermore, I don't understand why some companies buy the plane tickets before they have the visa, every single time we hire someone we wait until they have the Z-visa in their possession and then immediately buy the person a ticket. Unless you had to buy the plane ticket yourself, in which case, that sucks.
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