curufinor posted:

Grand Fromage's friend's scenario, specifically could actually happen in Japan, I think. Japan included protection of sensitive information in the privacy law May 30 2017 (two weeks ago) but it's routine to add a rider to employment contracts that medical information is collected by the company and used by the company. Nothing nearly as strict as HIPPA. Moreover, big employers also routinely do actual health checks on their employees. In fact, they're mandated by Japan's equivalent of OSHA to do so, I think, and are required by same to store that poo poo (in a secure DB).

(frankly, if Americans didn't have HIPPA, I could easily imagine a completely identical scenario in the deep rural South. thank Kennedy I guess)

edit: Taiwan has an adultery law on the books which is actually enforced and fairly supported - lol. Adultery legal in Korea since 2015, but still a valid tort in Japan. Technically illegal in Massachusetts I learned - but getting a prosecutor to prosecute... lol

Haier posted:

Y'all know that feel when you're tired of Chinese food and you go to the foreigny supermarket and they got that deli with non-Chinese stuff going on and you find your take-out box? That's a good feel.



They had pasta salad last time, but spaghetti will do. Cheese potatoes was p good. I still had to eat it all with chopsticks though. SAD.

Blistex posted:

simplefish posted:

Chinese businesses are more stereotypically Jewish about pennypinching than any real-life Jew I've ever met, who have all been very generous

Stringent posted:

google "hun skull"

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Hong Kong Economic Journal Insight posted:

http://www.ejinsight.com/20170615-anti-bca-parents-burn-test-papers-outside-kowloon-tong-school/

Anti-BCA parents burn test papers outside Kowloon Tong school

A group of parents staged a protest and burned test papers outside a school in Kowloon Tong where the Education Bureau’s controversial Basic Competency Assessment (BCA) exams were being held, prompting police officers and firemen to arrive at the scene.

The protesters gathered outside the entrance of the Holy Family Canossian School (Kowloon Tong) (HFCSKT) at around 7:45 a.m. on Wednesday and burned test papers in a metal joss paper burner to protest the BCA, which they said is overburdening their children with more reviews and studies, hk01.com reports.

School principal Magdalen Shiu Yuen-fun said the students were frightened by the group’s protest, prompting some of their parents to call the police, adding that the children panicked when the fire engines arrived.

Shiu was seen taking a video of the protest and ripping some posters calling on parents to boycott the BCA, Ming Pao Daily reported.

Cheung Yim-shuen, a spokeswoman for another anti-BCA parents’ group, said they were not encouraging parents to take it out on schools, although it is understandable that parents are indignant because the government insists on pushing through with the controversial tests.

Cheung stressed that it is the education system that is at fault, and not any particular school or principal.

At the same time, she advised school administrators not to overreact and call the police when parents stage protests.

Lawmaker Ip Kin-yuen said he fully understands the parents’ emotions but it is important to ensure the safety of all concerned.

The Education Bureau had earlier announced that all primary three students of subvented and direct subsidy schools are required to sit the BCA tests.

Shiu has been a vocal supporter of the BCA scheme, saying the tests would help schools review and improve their teaching methods.

Ups_rail posted:

I am assuming these men dont know how the pill works right? that its kinda a maintenance medication that you use everyday rather than when you want to bone.

Are women suppose to hold on to their "virtue" untill marriage? or are they suppose to put out.

The Great Autismo! posted:

Hong Kong owns and is one of the best places in the world and everyone should go there

simplefish posted:

The more that I live here the more convinced I become that I'm in a 1950s timewarp

Whether it is me being able to get hotel guests' details over the phone that I shouldn't be able to get, just because I speak English nicely

Or gentleman's clubs waiving rules for me because I'm the right colour (wearing shorts in Dunhill's, ordering drinks in the Foreign Correspondents' club even after the ambassador whose guest I was had left, turning up to a swanky rooftop restaurant/bar opening with half-nude waitstaff in black tie, while in my sailing clobber, having come from the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club where I'd crewed for an ex-marine policeman, while definitely not being a member myself)

Or the lovely "piazza" with tinny Latin music over the tannoy, and yachts registered in the Caymans moored up just beyond the seawall

Or the CONSUME CONSUME CONSUME AND HAVE "THE HELP" CLEAR UP AFTER mentality

Or clients sending me cases of wine as a thank you

Or the rampant functional alcoholism that puts even the UK pub culture to shame

Or the corporate tickets to the rugby that I get each year on paper thin reasoning

Or the gender politics of the non-business classes

Or the Star Ferry and trams and wetmarkets

Or being in non-rejuvenated/non-gentrified bits of Kennedy Town where actually nothing has changed architecturally (lovely concrete medium-rises for all!)

Or the fact that I can hang out in lavish British colonial places and drink sundowners slowly and not be hurried up or kicked out

What I'm saying is Hong Kong is the sweaty arsecrack of China, far too humid and everyone tends to pass through it on their way out. But it has its strange appeals.

Lady Galaga posted:

congrats on Making It In hong Kong as a White Man and not ending up in the coked up sex pat blender factory

curufinor posted:

Grand Fromage's friend's scenario, specifically could actually happen in Japan, I think. Japan included protection of sensitive information in the privacy law May 30 2017 (two weeks ago) but it's routine to add a rider to employment contracts that medical information is collected by the company and used by the company. Nothing nearly as strict as HIPPA. Moreover, big employers also routinely do actual health checks on their employees. In fact, they're mandated by Japan's equivalent of OSHA to do so, I think, and are required by same to store that poo poo (in a secure DB).

(frankly, if Americans didn't have HIPPA, I could easily imagine a completely identical scenario in the deep rural South. thank Kennedy I guess)

edit: Taiwan has an adultery law on the books which is actually enforced and fairly supported - lol. Adultery legal in Korea since 2015, but still a valid tort in Japan. Technically illegal in Massachusetts I learned - but getting a prosecutor to prosecute... lol

Lady Galaga posted:

congrats on Making It In hong Kong as a White Man and not ending up in the coked up sex pat blender factory

Lady Galaga posted:

HK airport has plenty of smoking rooms, you can feel the stuffy cancer smoke as soon as you open the door. Stockholm puts you in open cages but the ventilation is good in those

Lady Galaga posted:

congrats on Making It In hong Kong as a White Man and not ending up in the coked up sex pat blender factory

The Great Autismo! posted:

how do i get involved in the coked up sex pat blender factory, sounds like something that should be right up my aisle

The Great Autismo! posted:

how do i get involved in the coked up sex pat blender factory, sounds like something that should be right up my aisle

Stringent posted:

well, you've already managed step 1, ditching your wife and kids

quote:

If you weren't going on a bender, and you were just out drinking until 3 a.m., you could go to work and function. I was one of them -- I was still functioning. But if I had a three-day bender then I had to make up excuses for being off sick, or whatever, or somebody would cover for you.

Generally, no one was really that worried. In my office there were three guys who would regularly go AWOL for three or four days, and of course the wives would worry and would be ringing everybody. People would be trying to get hold of them but you kind of knew, "they're alright, they're just in a bar somewhere, on cocaine, and they'll turn up in a few days looking ashamed and promising they won't do it again, for a week."

The Great Autismo! posted:

Hong Kong owns and is one of the best places in the world and everyone should go there