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Bloodnose posted:That's not what I said. You're not listening. sorry I corrected this to be a direct quote
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Lady Galaga posted:Street making GBS threads and/or little kids with poopy pants if your name rhymes with babe omg lol
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holy poo poo this is the real thread looool
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goldboilermark posted:holy poo poo this is the real thread looool I realise this now and am upset at my poor judgement in posting geography.
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Aero737 posted:Welp, ask me about spending 6 hours detained by Chinese police for being a suspected terrorist. That really sucks. I was almost detained once for trespassing in a military zone but my employers were with us and talked us out of it. I imagine those police had no idea what they were doing and had to go back and forth to a guide book. I'm sure most police in China don't know what to do with foreigners other than take their picture, which they did, and bust them for drugs, which they couldn't do at that time. Most people I know who get detained get a chance to bribe their way out. A coworker of mine did after he got detained for drunkenly kicking a cone outside the Iranian consulate but I guess with the recent attacks they can't just do that anymore.
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Has anyone been given the third degree reentering the mainland on a completely legit and valid RP? I've never been questioned entering on a tourist visa but got a bit of hastle this summer returning back from a month long trip back home on my new RP.
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Woodsy Owl posted:Has anyone been given the third degree reentering the mainland on a completely legit and valid RP? I've never been questioned entering on a tourist visa but got a bit of hastle this summer returning back from a month long trip back home on my new RP. It all depends on the person working the desk. I once got a 5 minute of hassling leaving China because the guy thought I didn't look like the picture on my passport. He didn't ask me any questions about my date of birth or other information, just "Is this you? Really?" over and over again. The immigration officers apparently get bonuses for catching people so they go out of their way to be assholes because they want you to slip up. RocknRollaAyatollah fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Oct 15, 2014 |
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Is taking pictures of planes at an airport a british thing or something?
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Baddog posted:Is taking pictures of planes at an airport a british thing or something? Please keep the racism out of this thread. We've made it 180 pages without any incidents until now.
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drat dude intense RCE  Hope you don't get paranoia-fired.
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Ok so exact dates I will be around: Hong Kong: November 1st to 5th (Goonmeet? I know I owe some of you, especially meramjert, a round of drinks) Shanghai: November 5th to 8th Xi'an: 8th to 11th Chengdu:11th to 15th (Foooooooooooooooooooood gooooooooooooooons) Who should I PM to get this poo poo going?
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Ceciltron posted:Who should I PM to get this poo poo going? The answer to that is always "caberham."
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Aero, sorry you got China'd I get down on my knees everyday and thank gods that I don't believe in that I'm no longer in China.
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I knew the first response to that would be a fart simpson post.
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You could have been the change you desire.
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fart simpson posted:You should probably see a psychiatrist. Breathing the fresh air of freedom is all the therapy I need.  Anyways, I got a flood of qq messages in the last few weeks begging me to do something about the shitbag who replaced me at the university. Apparently, he had these sophomore English majors singing Christian fellowship songs to "learn English" after my year of phonetics, rhetoric, and public speaking classes. Sadly, my strongly worded letter to the guy didn't seem to have much effect. So sad. I do miss my classes.  E: also, lol at changing China Spiderjelly fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Oct 19, 2014 |
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I didn't like living in Los Angeles but I don't really think about it much anymore, because I don't live there anymore.
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fart simpson posted:I didn't like living in Los Angeles but I don't really think about it much anymore, because I don't live there anymore. Back to your baby poo poo waller, you.
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Spiderjelly posted:Anyways, I got a flood of qq messages in the last few weeks begging me to do something about the shitbag who replaced me at the university. Apparently, he had these sophomore English majors singing Christian fellowship songs to "learn English" after my year of phonetics, rhetoric, and public speaking classes. Sadly, my strongly worded letter to the guy didn't seem to have much effect. So sad. I do miss my classes. This is why pirates are better than missionaries.
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Spiderjelly posted:Aero, sorry you got China'd So what ever ended up happening with you? All I remember is: -Punched some Chinese dudes -Went to Thailand -BYOB
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Tell me: why do Chinese university students do military training? Today at the uni I swim at they were doing this but it was lno different than Red Light/Green Light. They would walk in line and all have to halt in mid step. This is a game I played in kindergarten? Guys this is literally something that the future of China is learning in university. They are playing Red Light Green Light. ...wtf
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goldboilermark posted:Tell me: why do Chinese university students do military training? You seem to go through life with more of a childlike understanding/amusement of the world than most other people, to be honest.
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goldboilermark posted:Tell me: why do Chinese university students do military training? Our students at the university in Beijing loathed their military training. They said it was all ridiculous stuff like this and not practical at all -- with the exception of the first aid and trauma training that they got from a really wonderful nurse. They liked her a lot and even got to use their training a couple weeks after they got back when this complete idiot classmate of theirs from Chongqing fell off his bike coming back from the Wudaokou McDonald's at like 3am and broke his leg. Honestly I think that kind of basic first aid knowledge is a great thing for the kids to be learning and I wish it were a mandatory thing in American high schools.
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We played First Aid in kindergarten? Wtf...
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Officers in the PLA spend more than half their time learning propaganda rather than logistics, strategy, and management.
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I spend more than half my time posting on Something Awful and my company is doing alright.
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blinkyzero posted:Our students at the university in Beijing loathed their military training. They said it was all ridiculous stuff like this and not practical at all -- with the exception of the first aid and trauma training that they got from a really wonderful nurse. They liked her a lot and even got to use their training a couple weeks after they got back when this complete idiot classmate of theirs from Chongqing fell off his bike coming back from the Wudaokou McDonald's at like 3am and broke his leg. I was trained in CPR and first aid for over a decade and agree it has incredible value. If I saw students doing this I would openly encourage it. However, they are openly practicing for a game my classmates mastered when we were 5.  if they all join the army and ever have to win a battle by playing a game of freeze tag, they'll absolutely slay the competition.
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fart simpson posted:I spend more than half my time posting on Something Awful and my company is doing alright. I also saw that documentary about when UK soldiers went on exchange with PLA cadets and the PLA soldiers couldn't decipher a map.
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LentThem posted:So what ever ended up happening with you? All I remember is: Yeah, I tried to go to Taiwan, but the universities there have actual standards, so I wasn't able to find appealing employment, as I lack a PhD, but It turns out that I really enjoyed all that teaching spoken English stuff and was pretty good at it, so I'm trying to translate those skills into a different field. I have applications in for a couple of speech therapy programs in New Zealand, and I should know by January. Also, BYOB 
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goldboilermark posted:Tell me: why do Chinese university students do military training? No idea. They implemented it in 1990 and as well know absolutely nothing of any note involving students happened in 1989 so v  v
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Could they start teaching students to give directions and read maps?
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They have to raise armies on blind nationalism alone, if the majority of chinese were allowed to think critically CCP would be hosed.
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One of my coworkers described it as "mostly pointless and dumb, but also a good chance for the students to get to know the classmates they'll be stuck with for the next 4 years." And my old roommate said when he had his training (he's like 30 now), they actually had target practice with real guns with 5 bullets for each student. But I guess they did away with that. It also gives you the first week of the semester off if you teach freshmen classes so hell ya military training. edit: the real dumb thing about Chinese university is the mao zedong thought classes that no one goes to but the poor teacher still has to lecture to a 99% empty classroom. Tom Smykowski fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Oct 19, 2014 |
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Hi Tom.
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fart simpson posted:Hi Tom.
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I think the PLA is a good and effective military fighting force of whom I live in fear. I have no reason to believe this because they haven't been in a fight since like 1979 but it's probably 100% true. That's why I don't take pictures of airplanes taking off.
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The hardest, baddest, most frightening dude I ever met in China, who, by the way, was fiercely patriotic, wanted nothing more in his life than to be in the PLA. He was rejected because he had been in a fight in high school. Take this as you will.
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