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ladron: Sep 15, 2007; eso es lo que es

Blast of Confetti posted:

how much of western movies being really popular in china is people laundering money through movie places because the warcraft movie was apparently selling full houses to a province that was dealing with floods

well, I mean, what do YOU do during a flood?

# ? Sep 9, 2017 11:36

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 16:47

WarpedNaba: Feb 8, 2012; Being social makes me swell!

ladron posted:

well, I mean, what do YOU do during a flood?

Either mute the guy or switch to a private channel.

# ? Sep 9, 2017 12:05

Fleta Mcgurn: Oct 5, 2003; Porpoise noise continues.

This must be why everyone's pants are way too short lately. :corsair:

# ? Sep 9, 2017 12:08

Pirate Radar: Apr 18, 2008; You're not my Ruthie!
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I know it wouldn't change anything, but I'd love to see the reaction to someone saying "This is a sensitive issue, and because I am not Taiwanese, I should not comment. Saying that Taiwan is China hurts the feelings of the Taiwanese people."

# ? Sep 9, 2017 12:37

Steakandchips: Apr 30, 2009

Subtle mocking would fly right over their head.

# ? Sep 9, 2017 12:41

The Great Autismo!: Mar 3, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Steakandchips posted:

Subtle mocking would fly right over their head.

out of all the amazing things the Chinese have mastered in the past 5,000 years, subtlety is not one of them

# ? Sep 9, 2017 13:38

WarpedNaba: Feb 8, 2012; Being social makes me swell!

I'unno, Yangdi caught on pretty quick to the insinuation from the first address from Prince Shotoku.

# ? Sep 9, 2017 14:54

Ccs: Feb 25, 2011

Atlas Hugged posted:

As said above, the annoying things for me as an expat are not paying taxes (as I don't earn enough as a teacher to come anywhere near the threshold) but all the dumb paperwork I have to file just because I'm American. Getting married was a terrible move and now I know why so many people overseas have a ceremony, but don't ever sign the paperwork.

Basically, as soon as I married my wife, who is far more responsible with money than I am, I gained a stake in her savings, and so now must report the existence of all of her bank accounts to the IRS. The intent of course is to prevent wealthy expats from hiding money in their spouses' accounts, but this is the one time the net is very wide. Additionally, whenever I open a bank account I have to go through a bunch of extra paperwork so that the foreign bank can report my activity to the IRS if necessary. Even small rear end local Thai banks with no international ambitions comply with IRS regulations.

This has led to all sorts of fun conversations.

"Please give us your permanent address in the US."
"I don't have one."
"But you are American."
"I left in 2008."
"So what was your address when you left?"
"The building was literally demolished." (this is true)
"What is your parents' address?"
"My parents are dead." (not true, but I wanted to see what would happen)
*looks at passport, notices Place of Birth is Maine* "Your permanent address is Maine."

That at least worked to get the account open. Then I lost my ATM card and wanted to apply for a replacement.

"What is your permanent address."
"Maine."
*stares at screen for a long time, presses buttons on computer, calls manager* "No. The system has rejected it."
*repeat conversation from above*

Eventually I just caved and gave them my parents' address, but it's super loving frustrating because there's no system in place for if I really didn't have an address I could put down. It would be possible for me to have cut all ties with my family and friends back in the States, but I couldn't do any banking overseas without an address. It's in situations like these I'm tempted to give out 1600 Pennsylvania Ave as my address.

Do you also send in an FBAR every year? I recently learned I have to do this since I've held a bank account in Canada for a couple years now. And yeah, all this is a hassle. Getting married one day will make it even more of a hassle.

# ? Sep 9, 2017 19:25

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# ? Sep 9, 2017 20:42

Riot Bimbo: Dec 28, 2006

big time bisexual posted:

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im really curious what she's saying. Any chance you guys can give the roughest, most general translation for why her tantrum needed to end by sitting on an apparent stranger?

# ? Sep 9, 2017 20:47

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

I don't speak Chinese, but judging from my experiences on the Skytrain in Vancouver he's obviously sitting directly under a sign that says "These seats are reserved for women/seniors/the disabled" and is refusing to move.

# ? Sep 9, 2017 22:22

WarpedNaba: Feb 8, 2012; Being social makes me swell!

basic hitler posted:

im really curious what she's saying. Any chance you guys can give the roughest, most general translation for why her tantrum needed to end by sitting on an apparent stranger?

Following tantrum logic, he wouldn't give up his seat.

^ If what he says is true, then it ain't a tantrum. That's a legit issue.

# ? Sep 9, 2017 22:25

Accretionist: Nov 7, 2012; I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

https://twitter.com/Lhatseri/status/906175294649753600

# ? Sep 10, 2017 01:42

mrbotus: Apr 7, 2009; Patron of the Pants

Is that lady cursing the Chinese for loving up Tibet's environment?

# ? Sep 10, 2017 01:59

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Accretionist posted:

https://twitter.com/Lhatseri/status/906175294649753600

You mean China's Tibet Province?

# ? Sep 10, 2017 02:31

Meme Poker Party: Sep 1, 2006; by Azathoth

nickmeister posted:

Is that lady cursing the Chinese for loving up Tibet's environment?

# ? Sep 10, 2017 02:31

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

quote:

Something similar happened when I studied in HK.
The teacher needed to know how many countries they were in the world. And a student said 196.
Then the teacher asked if it includes Taiwan, the student said yes.
And the Chinese students insisted he reduced it to 195.

# ? Sep 10, 2017 02:34

Fleta Mcgurn: Oct 5, 2003; Porpoise noise continues.

Two thousand years ago, when I was a college student, the only response anyone ever gave to a Chinese kid yelling at them was "If you don't want to hear it, leave my class. This is not up for discussion. Stop wasting time," or similar.

It really only happened once or twice, in my first-year East Asian Studies course. Most of the butthurt in that class came from the Korean students because the course was CHINA CHINA CHINA, then at the end of the year, three days about Japan. Korean history was reduced to a single handout and not discussed in lecture at all (but still on the final, of course.)

# ? Sep 10, 2017 02:50

whip: Apr 9, 2007; by Lowtax

My wife's friend insists on being described as "from Taiwan/Taiwanese"

# ? Sep 10, 2017 03:11

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The majority of Taiwanese do nowadays. They don't want to be associated with mainlanders and I don't blame them.

# ? Sep 10, 2017 03:22

ladron: Sep 15, 2007; eso es lo que es

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

three days about Japan. Korean history was reduced to a single handout and not discussed in lecture at all (but still on the final, of course.)

I can only imagine the butthurt

# ? Sep 10, 2017 04:03

Atlas Hugged: Mar 12, 2007; Put your arms around me,
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:

Two thousand years ago, when I was a college student, the only response anyone ever gave to a Chinese kid yelling at them was "If you don't want to hear it, leave my class. This is not up for discussion. Stop wasting time," or similar.

It really only happened once or twice, in my first-year East Asian Studies course. Most of the butthurt in that class came from the Korean students because the course was CHINA CHINA CHINA, then at the end of the year, three days about Japan. Korean history was reduced to a single handout and not discussed in lecture at all (but still on the final, of course.)

My East Asian studies course sounds way better. We had the world's biggest weeaboo as the professor, but he actually was fairly even handed and split the course into thirds for China, Korea, and Japan. If anything Japan got the short end of the stick because he felt there wasn't much to say for long stretches of its history and where there was, it's was nitty gritty details outside the scope of the class, which was supposed to be as surface level as possible. So Korea and China got lists of Kingdoms and Dynasties, then a crash course on the modern eras, and Japan was like, "Here are the major islands, they were basically barbarians who hated foreigners, then they attacked Pearl Harbor."

# ? Sep 10, 2017 04:24

Fleta Mcgurn: Oct 5, 2003; Porpoise noise continues.

The professor was an expert in Chinese classical literature. The course was widely known for being a way for Chinese students majoring in Commerce to get their humanities credit out of the way, and honestly there weren't many actual EAS majors in the class. My TA was a Korean Studies PhD candidate who seemed just as confused as we all were. The lectures were all right, but the tutorials were complete bullshit with me and the only other not-Chinese student in the class being the only participants while the others just stared at their books with a look of panic.

I have no idea if this is true, but I'm guessing the first year/100-level classes at my alma mater are taught by professors in exchange for tenure or something, which would explain why a quarter of my introductory Bio class was solely on limnology. WTF literally no one cares, you weirdo lake weeb. So I'd wager he got saddled with the class and decided, "gently caress it; I ain't researching Korea just for these turds."

e: He also warned us on the first day that the lecture was pretty much only going to be about China. I think it was so that weeaboos would drop out and he wouldn't have to deal with people yelling SUGOI DESU NE or something.

# ? Sep 10, 2017 05:12

peanut: Sep 9, 2007

Yo it's true though I saw that Language Studies required history classes and I was like Lol Nope and changed to the broader and more pretentious Linguistics.

# ? Sep 10, 2017 05:58

Fleta Mcgurn: Oct 5, 2003; Porpoise noise continues.

peanut posted:

Yo it's true though I saw that Language Studies required history classes and I was like Lol Nope and changed to the broader and more pretentious Linguistics.

Yeah; I though it would be more of an anthropological course, rather than a history class. Don't get me wrong, I like history- it ended up being one of my majors- but it wasn't what I had hoped for based on the course description. Easy A, though.

I sort of did the opposite of what you did- I briefly flirted with being a Middle Eastern Studies major, but having to take Arabic plus another language was never gonna happen. Arabic is deadass too difficult for me. I am not good at learning new languages and have never been interested in one long enough to really tackle it.

# ? Sep 10, 2017 06:07

simplefish: Mar 28, 2011; So long, and thanks for all the ~~fish~~ gallbladdΣrs!

Linguistics can suck my bored balls

# ? Sep 10, 2017 06:10

whip: Apr 9, 2007; by Lowtax

We can't even teach you all of Chinese history because you'd be dead by the time you learned it all

# ? Sep 10, 2017 06:18

Fleta Mcgurn: Oct 5, 2003; Porpoise noise continues.

I am sad to say that not one sentence on the Korea handout started with "Do you know?"

Fleta Mcgurn fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Sep 10, 2017

# ? Sep 10, 2017 06:23

ladron: Sep 15, 2007; eso es lo que es

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

I am sad to say that not one sentence on the Korea handout started with "Do you know?"

I wish koreaisbest.com was still around

https://web.archive.org/web/20100503031252/http://koreaisbest.com/

# ? Sep 10, 2017 07:45

Fleta Mcgurn: Oct 5, 2003; Porpoise noise continues.

ladron posted:

I wish koreaisbest.com was still around

https://web.archive.org/web/20100503031252/http://koreaisbest.com/

Well! I have five hours to kill and I'm done with ExpatHell for now, so...

Homeless Sexual is what I'm going to call my predilection for scruffy dudes with manbuns.

# ? Sep 10, 2017 07:53

HerStuddMuffin: Aug 10, 2014; YOSPOS

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

I am sad to say that not one sentence on the Korea handout started with "Do you know?"

I read somewhere* that Korea has four seasons, is it true?

*: This thread.

# ? Sep 10, 2017 08:12

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

As you know of course Korea has four distinct seasons. It is the only place in the world so blessed.

# ? Sep 10, 2017 08:14