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LimburgLimbo posted:I'm not an autist. LimburgLimbo posted:Your lack of self awareness is really quite mind boggling.
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The Chinese couple right behind me is taking turns going up to the head of the immigration line and just staring at the immigration officer as if it will somehow make them go faster, while the other jostles to try and get in front of me in line. They're successful in neither of these endeavors but they sure are making life hard for themselves and others.
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LimburgLimbo posted:They're successful in neither of these endeavors but they sure are making life hard for themselves and others. china.txt
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LimburgLimbo posted:I'm in Bangkok DMK immigration and there are so many Chinese tourists and they suck at lining up. Come drink beer and or whiskey and or tequila with me.
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Feb 24, 2017 11:25
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Atlas Hugged posted:Come drink beer and or whiskey and or tequila with me. Take him to that amazing restaurant we went to.
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Feb 24, 2017 11:29
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Grand Fromage posted:Take him to that amazing restaurant we went to. I was there with a former Singapore goon on Wednesday! I even let that goon sleep on my couch. I'm the anti-Haier.
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Feb 24, 2017 11:35
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Is it the same one you took me to?
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I'm on a HK minibus and some dude just dropped some tube on my leg. That's my China story
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Feb 24, 2017 12:09
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He also said solly solly so I think overall there was no face loss on either side
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Feb 24, 2017 12:10
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Nobody sane in HongKong would pull face on poo poo like that. Save that for the government and the police.
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Feb 24, 2017 12:13
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Just in case you guys didn't believe me here is a picture of the leg in question
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Lady Galaga posted:Just in case you guys didn't believe me here is a picture of the leg in question No jorts or bulging cargo pants, this definitely isn't a goon leg
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Feb 24, 2017 12:19
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Lady Galaga posted:Just in case you guys didn't believe me here is a picture of the leg in question what kind of tube? did you mean tuba?
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Feb 24, 2017 12:19
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The first time I rode a HK minibus the gal I was with told me that the speedometer thing started flashing when the driver sped so that people could yell at him to slow down.
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Feb 24, 2017 12:21
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webmeister posted:Is it the same one you took me to? Yeah, I take every goon there. I think the only goon who hasn't been is the guy who ended up being hounded by a drug dealer in Cambodia. That guy was cool if kind of a train-wreck, but when he got back to the US, he was pulled aside by TSA and detained because of irregularities in his passport and the suitcase full of loose computer parts. They wanted to know "who he had been with" in Thailand and being able to think of no one else of repute, he gave them my name. Here's hoping I don't get black-bagged when I show up with my little brown baby next year!
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Feb 24, 2017 12:24
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Atlas Hugged posted:Yeah, I take every goon there. I think the only goon who hasn't been is the guy who ended up being hounded by a drug dealer in Cambodia. That guy was cool if kind of a train-wreck, but when he got back to the US, he was pulled aside by TSA and detained because of irregularities in his passport and the suitcase full of loose computer parts. They wanted to know "who he had been with" in Thailand and being able to think of no one else of repute, he gave them my name. Here's hoping I don't get black-bagged when I show up with my little brown baby next year! Wow, snitching. Totally not cool! Could you elaborate on the drug dealer thing?
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nickmeister posted:Wow, snitching. Totally not cool! Could you elaborate on the drug dealer thing? He was doing the digital nomad thing in Bangkok before taking a short vacation to Cambodia. There he did what you do and spent a few days staying with a drug dealer doing drug related activities and attending the guy's wedding. Afterwards the dealer kept going to the guy's hotel until he finally switched and ditched his burner.
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poo poo I have computer parts I am taking back! Oh wait I have everyone in HongKong to vouch for me, visas and travel documents I can use. I can't smoke these "computer" parts so I am extra safe.
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Atlas Hugged posted:He was doing the digital nomad thing in Bangkok before taking a short vacation to Cambodia. There he did what you do and spent a few days staying with a drug dealer doing drug related activities and attending the guy's wedding. LOL. Did he hide from him? Was the dealer trying to squeeze more money out of him or something? oohhboy posted:poo poo I have computer parts I am taking back! Oh wait I have everyone in HongKong to vouch for me, visas and travel documents I can use. I can't smoke these "computer" parts so I am extra safe. All joking aside, I ultimately decided not to take my gaming PC parts with me on the plane in case someone thought it looked "suspicious."
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nickmeister posted:LOL. Did he hide from him? Was the dealer trying to squeeze more money out of him or something? The dealer was just shaking him down since he knew where to find him. I think he ended up handing over an extra $100 after the initial purchase.
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nickmeister posted:LOL. Did he hide from him? Was the dealer trying to squeeze more money out of him or something? I am surprised you took the risk of them getting smashed. The amount of packaging to ensure protection can be pretty bulky. But I am not flying to the USA. Korea doesn't give much of a gently caress and New Zealand is more concerned with fruit and animals than anyone with a bomb unless they are French.
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Lady Galaga posted:He also said solly solly Hmm, yes, go ahead... quote:so I think overall there was no face loss on either side I'm not so sure about that
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oohhboy posted:unless they are French. What? Please elaborate.
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Lazer Monkey posted:What? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
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Hong Kong mini bus story: Me and my ex were taking one home from the Peak. Two drunk guys came on and both started insisting on paying for the other for several minutes until the driver yelled "stop being polite and sit down!" I don't have good stories but at least they're short.
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In Chinar politeness causes a large loss of face were the two unharmonious drunks suggesting that others cannot afford their fare??? Much to think about *clasps hands behind back, shirt twisted over stomach. Regurgitates phlegm and spits on own pantleg. *
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All Hong Kong people I talked with liked to bitch about Mainlanders and how garbage they thought they were. Some of them told me that manners in China died with the intellectuals in the Cultural Revolution.
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Grevling posted:All Hong Kong people I talked with liked to bitch about Mainlanders and how garbage they thought they were. Some of them told me that manners in China died with the intellectuals in the Cultural Revolution. The cultural revolution was just the deathblow, the collectivization and the great famine a couple of years earlier destroyed the social fabric so thoroughly, you wouldn't believe it. Dikötter wrote a pretty good book about that. Just unbelievable what these people had to suffer.
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JaucheCharly posted:The cultural revolution was just the deathblow, the collectivization and the great famine a couple of years earlier destroyed the social fabric so thoroughly, you wouldn't believe it.  I might buy and read that.
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This one is good too, but the one that I mean is called "Mao's great famine"
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JaucheCharly posted:This one is good too, but the one that I mean is called "Mao's great famine" I read that, thought it was a pretty good read. Some people take issue with his death toll estimate methodology, but it's a pretty minor component of the book, and it's not like killing "only" twenty million would make any difference in how we evaluate the Great Leap. He has a third one, "Tragedy of Liberation", about the post war purges, but I haven't read it since I don't really need more bad feels at the moment.
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Oh yeah, I remember from taking a university course on Stalin's purges how much the estimated number of deaths can vary. The commonly cited number for Stalin was based on faulty data, but it's also the largest so of course it gets cited often. And then there's the question of wether or not you should include the victims of the Holodomor (which imo happened due to ineptness, not as a deliberate scheme to kill off Ukrainians but it was horrible enough anyway). Sorry to be posting non China related things.
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Speaking of the holodomor, there's a movie about it coming out called bitter harvest. May check it out.
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P-Mack posted:I read that, thought it was a pretty good read. Some people take issue with his death toll estimate methodology, but it's a pretty minor component of the book, and it's not like killing "only" twenty million would make any difference in how we evaluate the Great Leap. "The communist party lifted millions over millions of people out of poverty" ...
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Atlas Hugged posted:Come drink beer and or whiskey and or tequila with me. You're in Bangkok? I would but I'm basically doing nothing but playing rugby and drinking the next couple days and have literally no free time. Expect for maybe Monday but I'll be nursing a hangover and have a flight back to Japan at 24:05 just past midnight Monday night/Tuesday morning after which I need to work, so going to avoid over doing it.
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Grevling posted:e victims of the Holodomor (which imo happened due to ineptness, not as a deliberate scheme to kill off Ukrainians but it was horrible enough anyway). My dude do not say this in front of a Ukrainian less you want to get into a fight.
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LimburgLimbo posted:You're in Bangkok? I would but I'm basically doing nothing but playing rugby and drinking the next couple days and have literally no free time. Expect for maybe Monday but I'll be nursing a hangover and have a flight back to Japan at 24:05 just past midnight Monday night/Tuesday morning after which I need to work, so going to avoid over doing it. Life is full of decisions.
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bongwizzard posted:My dude do not say this in front of a Ukrainian less you want to get into a fight. The potato famine in Ireland was just some bad trade regulations all within one country, it wasn't like racist or anything, I mean ireland wasn't even a country. Actually did you know ireland is an entirely invented and fake country if you examine history correctly and the very idea of an irish "culture" or "nation" is just an Iberian and later nazi plot to encircle poor great britain? Did you know some of these so called "irish" nationalists worked with nazi? Ireland is a fake country and a nazi country and england is justified to re-take it.
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