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Fojar38 posted:chinas ascent to scientific superpower lookin good Yeah but the project was just starting so idk even what he made off with. Next time wait until we have something patentable, or at least publication-worthy before espionaging smdh
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Murray Mantoinette posted:Yeah but the project was just starting so idk even what he made off with. Next time wait until we have something patentable, or at least publication-worthy before espionaging smdh
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Tupperwarez posted:Keep an eye on the headlines. Maybe he'll commission a 3rd-tier supplier to mass produce the nascent project and it will result in a hilariously catastrophic industrial accident. You could be famous by proxy! I am a horrible misanthrope who wants everyone to die, so maybe hiring Chinese post-docs to work on sensitive medical or industrial projects could work out well, puppet master-style.
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oohhboy posted:People have tried to dick me over in HK for more than the price of coffee. was it over a five-piece suit
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Grand Fromage posted:I always enjoyed this. Literally no one, staff or student, at any school I worked at in Korea ever picked up that I actually spoke some Korean and could understand what they were saying about me. I punished multiple students every single day for telling me to gently caress off or whatever in Korean, often the same student daily, and not one of them ever seemed to put together that I understood them. Reaction of total shock every single time I translated all the vocab words on the board or wrote anything at all in Korean. I found that my students in Korea and China both picked up on people understanding their languages pretty quick. In Korea the guys were totally oblivious until someone actually spoke Korean to them for at least a full minute. The women would hear it from others and then ask you how much you spoke. In China my coworker would speak to both male and female staff for up to 5 minutes, then the next day they would be talking poo poo about her within earshot and when they would make eye contact with her (while talking about her) they wouldn't pick up that she knew what they were saying. (she would be making a wide-eye, mouth agape, palms facing upwards pose, to no effect)
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The weirdest was people's surprise at my ability to read. It's an alphabet guys, it's not hard. I had a 14 hour plane ride, I was literate by the time I landed. China has a much better excuse for illiteracy and I totally understand people here being confused that my spoken Chinese is much worse than my written.
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Taxi drivers seem to have no time for anything (including learning the layout of the city or how maps work) and they all seem to speak some crazy rear end hillfolk language instead of Mandarin so they're probably used to it.
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It can't be all negative though? Y'all can't be that goon that ya haven't had some ladies discuss you in positive terms at some points? I get that a lot with the Germans; they really think that no-one outside of their part of Europe understands them for some reason.
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I've heard some positive things from Chinese students. In Korea I didn't but that's not a foreign thing, poo poo-talking seems to be the default topic there.
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Murray Mantoinette posted:Also in more recent news the Chinese postdoc in another lab that's collaborating with us apparently ran off back to China with all of the supplies we purchased for the project and a copy of whatever data and notes he had. What were the supplies? Did he do that thing where people use cardboard boxes as checked luggage?
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Wait lol, has China-tinder always shown western Zodiacs or is that new? Why not domestic ones? Or maybe ape the Japanese some more and go with blood type?
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Wait lol, has China-tinder always shown western Zodiacs or is that new? Yeah it's always been that zodiac. They don't do the Nazi blood type personality thing here, that's only Japan and Korea I think.
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Grand Fromage posted:The weirdest was people's surprise at my ability to read. It's an alphabet guys, it's not hard. I had a 14 hour plane ride, I was literate by the time I landed. hakimashou posted:cantonese chicks were always complimenting me as the hamsap guy. 
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Tupperwarez posted:Isn't another term for Hangul, "achim-gul", in the sense that "you can learn this in a single morning"? That's for Koreans silly, foreigners cannot possibly comprehend our 8,000 years of most scientific language.
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Imperialist Dog posted:was it over a five-piece suit It was some shorts actually. They tried to off load a longer pair instead of the shorter one I wanted. I had them cut and re-tailor the long pair to match on the spot. Summer clothing was out of season and you cannot find shorts in the chain stores that isn't sporting apparel.
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Grand Fromage posted:That's for Koreans silly, foreigners cannot possibly comprehend our 8,000 years of most scientific language. Has it ever happened anywhere that people assume East Asians to be incapable of grasping the Latin alphabet?
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Kopijeger posted:Has it ever happened anywhere that people assume East Asians to be incapable of grasping the Latin alphabet? Closest thing I can think of offhand is there's a belief in Korea that speaking English requires a longer tongue than Koreans have, so there's a tongue lengthening surgery some people get to try to remove their accent (they are inexplicably obsessed with not having an accent but not so much about actually comprehending the language).
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Grand Fromage posted:Closest thing I can think of offhand is there's a belief in Korea that speaking English requires a longer tongue than Koreans have, so there's a tongue lengthening surgery some people get to try to remove their accent (they are inexplicably obsessed with not having an accent but not so much about actually comprehending the language). wait what  I knew Koreans are really into creepy invasive cosmetic surgery but this just broke my brain.
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It's like tongue tie surgery for babies but done on elementary school kids with terrible parents
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Grand Fromage posted:Closest thing I can think of offhand is there's a belief in Korea that speaking English requires a longer tongue than Koreans have, so there's a tongue lengthening surgery some people get to try to remove their accent (they are inexplicably obsessed with not having an accent but not so much about actually comprehending the language). EDIT: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2024857/Rhiannon-Brooksbank-Jones-tongue-lengthened-help-speak-Korean.html quote:Student Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones dreams of living and working in South Korea once she finishes university, even though she has never visited the country. I really wish they would do a follow-up with her about how she feels being a white girl in Korea, and if it was as magical as soap operas made it out to be. EDIT AGAIN: Clive Bigams, England quote:i hope with this new tax payers funded tounge, she will put it to good use and clean the floors in some of our hospitals. Haier fucked around with this message at 09:15 on Apr 7, 2017 |
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I am glad to see Haier posting Sometimes I worry some woman stole his condom
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Obligatory this is my first post on /r/China, I want to share a couple bad experiences that I've had in meeting girls on Tantan and Jiayuan. About 4 months ago I started using Jiayuan mostly to practice my Chinese with online strangers and the whole process of making my profile was a language learning experience. The first girl that I met in person met me in the evening around 9pm and took me to a cafe of her choice. She showed up with a friend, they bought about 5 plates of various 小吃, coffee and a bottle of wine, I wanted a tea. After 30 minutes they wanted to leave and left me with about a 4,000 RMB bill. I felt completely taken advantage of and wanted to just run out of the restaurant but I found myself surrounded by all of the wait staff at the restaurant demanding I pay our bill. I was afraid to have the police called and with my limited Chinese I couldn't express my confusion. I paid and got the hell out of there, blocked the girl from my contact list and put it behind me. Live and learn I said to myself, I keep the receipt in my wallet to remind me not to let anyone take advantage of me again. I met a girl today from Tantan and I immediately felt a lot of red flags in my head reminding me of the previous experience. Maybe it was only paranoia. Firstly, the girl looked nothing like her pictures. Second she showed up with a friend who I don't know why but she gave my a bad feeling, I immediately didn't trust the woman. I told them I want to eat Hotpot because I usually eat alone and I don't get the opportunity to eat it much, I wanted to take them to a really good hotpot restaurant right next to the mall where we met up, and they refused. They took me to the most expensive restaurant that I know of at the bottom of a 4 or 5 star hotel, and told me that they want to eat here. I told them no, I want to go to a really good restaurant just across the street. They both looked panicky, the friend took out her phone and tried to record me (she thought she was being sly but it was so obvious) then asked why I don't want to eat there. They started talking to each other in hushed voices and the friend called someone on her phone and in a frantic voice talked, though I couldn't understand what she was saying. The girl that I had arranged to meet told me she needs to go to the bathroom and goes into the expensive restaurant, I assumed to talk to someone who was in on their plan. I looked around, the light at the corner was green, and I ran across the street and into the mall. I turned around as I entered the door and it seemed as if her friend, still paying attention to her phone, didn't notice my departure. Maybe I was being paranoid, but I don't care, the girl wasn't the same girl in her profile pictures, she was unattractive and I felt like she was untrustworthy. Her friend gave me the creeps. I ghosted, I don't regret running off at all. Some things I can't stand when meeting someone from Jiayuan or especially Tantan: fake profile pictures, I find it untrustworthy; asking about my salary, again it's untrustworthy and none of their business if I'm not in a relationship; asking me several times if I'm used to living here and repeatedly asking how long I've been here, I felt like they were trying to gauge whether or not I knew about scams. TL;DR: met a girl on Jiayuan got a 4,000 RMB bill for some snacks, coffee and tea. Met another girl from Tantan got a bad feeling, trusted my instincts and ran away.
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Haier posted:If she won't pay on the first date, she ain't worth it. My fiancee constantly reminds me that she paid for dinner on our first date by not realising that if she offered to pay, I would be honored and accept rather than fight her tooth and nail for it. I love her, she's the best.
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Ceciltron posted:My fiancee constantly reminds me that she paid for dinner on our first date by not realising that if she offered to pay, I would be honored and accept rather than fight her tooth and nail for it. I love her, she's the best. the inscrutable ways of the occidentals...
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Obligatory this is my first post on /r/China, I want to share a couple bad experiences that I've had in meeting girls on Tantan and Jiayuan. 4000 RMB bill for what amounts to about 40 RMB of food products cooked in oil and supermarket soy sauce. Ceciltron posted:My fiancee constantly reminds me that she paid for dinner on our first date by not realising that if she offered to pay, I would be honored and accept rather than fight her tooth and nail for it. I love her, she's the best.
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https://zippy.gfycat.com/ExemplaryCoolFinwhale.webm
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Why? (I am genuinely curious how a tiny-titted stripper chose to stop a power tool with her breasts in front of some toddlers, please don't say "no why")
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Pirate Radar posted:I mean that's a pretty neat trick I've studied this for minutes and I'm pretty sure she's using her hands
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Mameluke posted:Why? Either she demostrates how firm her titties are, or she wants to show the quality of that lovely chinese knockoff motor that's clearly not meant to double as an angle grinder. Just lol at the thought of doing that with a real one, if you've ever used one to cut steel or stone.
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