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Coolguye posted:the ming destroyed the vibrant trade networks that made china so rich and awesome around that time and it's not arguable. like all merchants had to submit a full inventory of goods to the state monthly, and that was before the emperor failed to make a profit on an insanely decadent trade voyage that was really just an extended luxury cruise (he had a loving giraffe on the flagship junk for gently caress's sake) and forbade all external trade period because if he couldn't make a profit nobody could. the entirety of the cool stuff in the dynasty is just coasting on the lead the Song dynasty had built up. The majestic Qilin was not a luxury. 
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Ok what was the deal with the giraffe?
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Ok what was the deal with the giraffe? Coolguye said "a loving giraffe" so presumably the emperor wanted to be able to gently caress it while at sea.
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I read that Giraffes are delicious, so we can all guess what happened to it in the end.
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Sep 20, 2017 00:12
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Giraffes were the Supreme shirts of 800 AD
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Ok I'll explain. It's actually kind of interesting how this all played out. I'm sure you're all familiar with this guy:  The animal picture on top of the can. The Japanese call this mythical beast a Kirin, but the idea originally came from the Chinese, who refer to it as a Qilin. The beer company draws it as a hoofed lion/dragon but like most fake things from Asia it doesn't really have a concrete definition. It's an animal that's made up of a bunch of different animal parts and has magical nature powers or something. Very lucky if you see one! Anyway, as Coolguye mentioned, they managed to sail all the way to Africa at one point, saw a bunch of crazy new animals, and brought them back to impress everyone and also probably eat them. They were especially stoked by the giraffe, which they decided was the mythical Qirin despite it just being a horse with a long neck and not having any lion/dragon/scorpion/dog/etc features. A chabuduo Qilin. Somehow news of this eventually got to Japan. As a result, the word in Japanese for giraffe is, to this day, "kirin" (キリン). Not a nickname or anything, that's literally the only word they have for giraffe. The beer Kirin Ichiban is obviously referring to the mythical animal but it technically also translates to Number One Giraffe Beer. The end.
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So that's why all the English schools in China are called happy giraffe?
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:So that's why all the English schools in China are called happy giraffe? the long neck deer variety of giraffe is a chain of english schools for kids if you're a good enough foreign monkey there you get to don hanfu 
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How many kids in your English school have undiagnosed special needs?
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big time bisexual posted:the long neck deer variety of giraffe is a chain of english schools for kids plz don't doxx me
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also, living like an hour outside of shenyang, figure out what kind of lifestyle you could have here, compared to your city https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Shenyang i've spent a while on this website this morning, it's great lol
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The Great Autismo! posted:also, living like an hour outside of shenyang, figure out what kind of lifestyle you could have here, compared to your city The cheese, bizarrely enough, costs the same, as do basic utilities and m2 of apartment space.
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Red Hanfu? Scrub tier.
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https://my.mixtape.moe/iccljl.mp4
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genuinely shocked that whoever was filming didn't run him over
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China has surely eaten a lot of dicks over the years.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:How many kids in your English school have undiagnosed special needs? The most frustrating kids at my school are more likely to take the extra English classes. Reasons include their mom wanting a little break and/or socialization in a controlled environment. These kids usually cluster together so I can understand not wanting to get the contact info for your idiot kid's idiot friend.
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My wife found this post on a BBS and thought it was funny. I might translate some more from this guy. Seems really funny to me quote:我终于决定要练习画画和涂颜色了，觉得有生之年没有好好的去做点自己的兴趣爱好， quote:I finally decided that I wanted to learn to paint and draw. I felt that if I didn't do something in my life for myself that I really enjoyed, then something would just be missing. So I went straight away to buy 48 colored pencils. Before I bought them I actually asked around, and people said that--if you're a beginner--32 colored pencils is plenty. I just wanted to get it all done at once, so I bought 48 anyway. 
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https://twitter.com/baldingsworld/status/910335592155590657 Lol
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 What the gently caress university is that?
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Alternatively, I am specifically banned from mentioning China in my classes.
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quote:本来我玩的大型网游《完美国际》已经有点腻了（其实不是不想玩，是时间不够，任务 quote:Joined a guild in an MMO, feeling it's way more fun now same guy
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Holy gently caress this propaganda rag article on that guy's twitter feed. http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1066998.shtml?utm_content=buffer9eb46&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=bufferquote:The first period of New China's development, in 1949-76, then saw the greatest social achievements in world history. 
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The Great Autismo! posted:also, living like an hour outside of shenyang, figure out what kind of lifestyle you could have here, compared to your city Average daily number of HALLOOUUUUUs: 61.5 Average monthly cases of extreme hair cavery: 4 Average number of teeth per person: 17 Average level of personal hygiene (out of 10): 3 Average daily sightings of adults and children street making GBS threads: 29 Average daily loogies hocked by older men and women: 136 Average level of dignity for foreigners (out of 10). 2.7 Average monthly cost of hospital bills for food poisoning or STI treatment: 7000 RMB Average daily number of times the foreigner is complimented on usage of chopsticks or pronunciation of "ni hao": 6 I like that he thought grabbing a moving car with his bare hands was possible. I don't even know why the SUV was swerving. angel opportunity posted:I can't draw anything that really looks good, and I can't draw fast at all, but everyone has to start somewhere. No one ever started out doing amazing drawings, talent has to be worked toward. (At least this is how I comfort myself...)
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I can't make fun of a guy learning how to draw from scratch. So many people avoid learning things or developing any artistic ability because of the shameful early results. Good on the guy for learning and posting his first attempts. What I would love someone to find and translate is the china version of this thread. Musings and anecdotes written by mainlanders about the west, preferably by people living/working/traveling there.
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Bajaj posted:Average monthly cases of extreme hair cavery: 4 the X Games are just getting out of control
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Baronjutter posted:I can't make fun of a guy learning how to draw from scratch. So many people avoid learning things or developing any artistic ability because of the shameful early results. Good on the guy for learning and posting his first attempts. I'm not really making fun of her (found out from other posts it's a she), I mostly just am kind of sighing in sadness at the way Chinese kids are raised. Same thing happened to my wife where her parents only allowed her to study and never allowed her to do anything fun. I mostly like these posts because they are very genuine and into stuff with no layers of irony. I think I talked about this before as one of the few things I genuinely like about Chinese culture (the way people will unironically just be into stuff)
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Baronjutter posted:I can't make fun of a guy learning how to draw from scratch. So many people avoid learning things or developing any artistic ability because of the shameful early results. Good on the guy for learning and posting his first attempts. For me, at least, it's more about "this is the number of colours you're supposed to have as a beginner, and supposed to have as an intermediate, and to draw well you must draw fast, and before painting people you must master painting plants" I'm not the worlds best artist but I went from ripping off cartoon strips to pencil portraits and then dabbled in landscape watercolour as my interest took me. Plus the fact that they've immediately sprung for "pencils in a cloth wrap like top end chef knives" because that's *pro* because obviously the tools make the artist, then the self deprecation so face can't be lost (used to get this all the time with uni students, especially female uni students, false modesty to avoid face loss, pissed me right off, like you got into the most competitive university in Hk, you know you're intelligent, loving go out on a limb and make a point in class) but the posting of a sketch anyway really betraying it. The whole thing is like there is some kind of social manual on "HOW TO ARTIST" and loving hell at concept is just depressing Not that it's uniquely Chinese, there was a family friend I knew growing up, decided he'd do Spanish Guitar as a middle aged man, took pretty much this exact approach. But this guy was an anomaly in my experience, whereas in HK and apparently also China, such a perspective is the norm. Bloody hell, the proper number of coloured loving pencils. I ask you.
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angel opportunity posted:same guy holy poo poo how old is that blog post? id never heard of Perfect World but it looks like it came out 12 years ago, and weixin is way more recent. When I read those posts I imagine them being bookended with 
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angel opportunity posted:I mostly like these posts because they are very genuine and into stuff with no layers of irony. I think I talked about this before as one of the few things I genuinely like about Chinese culture (the way people will unironically just be into stuff) My favorite was the highschool kid on twitter that was super obsessed with solving 2x2 rubicks cubes and would post his times simplefish posted:For me, at least, it's more about "this is the number of colours you're supposed to have as a beginner, and supposed to have as an intermediate, and to draw well you must draw fast, and before painting people you must master painting plants" Yeah thats the best part. She cares more about being viewed as an artist than actually making art. Also with the MMO thing where she goes out of her way to explain that she wasn't bored with the game, just that the quests take too long. Doesnt that....mean you got bored? LentThem fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Sep 20, 2017 |
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Baronjutter posted:I can't make fun of a guy learning how to draw from scratch. So many people avoid learning things or developing any artistic ability because of the shameful early results. Good on the guy for learning and posting his first attempts. Was gonna say, he did a drat better job than I could. He's modest about it and has a pretty good attitude.
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Bajaj posted:Average level of dignity for foreigners (out of 10). 2.7 wat the heck
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It's a she, and the posts were made few a few days ago (she posts very often). I'm guessing she's between 30-40 years old from the posts I've read of hers
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simplefish posted:
check out this response, bearing in mind the picture she posted in the OP: quote:Prismacolor ，我最爱的彩色铅笔，我觉得48色是起码的。建议你再入一套verithin配 quote:Prismacolor is my absolute favorite colored pencil brand. I think 48 colors is the absolute minimum. I suggest adding a pack of verithins to your collection. Do you have a pencil sharpener? You absolutely need to buy KUM, two of them. I've used Fable castell before, polychroms are in my personal experience not very good, the colors are just not vibrant enough. It's just not easy to get great colors with them. The ones you got seem to be for students, I've never used them before. I'm looking forward to you sharing your experiences!
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You absolutely need to buy KUM
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Shine on, Colored Pencils Lady. If you wanna spend a ton of money on supplies because it makes you feel more authentic, that's cool. I was a hard-core artfag in high school. One of our core members was this rich girl who always had the most expensive materials, but didn't have much ability. The rest of us were scholarship kids and would look upon her gloopy canvases with despair. "Three whole tubes of Golden went into that painting of what appears to be a melting fairy with trisomy 21." "FFFFFFFFFF--"
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Shine on, Colored Pencils Lady. If you wanna spend a ton of money on supplies because it makes you feel more authentic, that's cool. Maybe she was planning to market it as a postmodern work? That might be how her folks got rich - selling gloss portraits of a brick on a plate.
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