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Hi! If I'm gonna be in Taipei for three days, what should my sightseeing stops be? Right now I have these down on my planning paper: -101 -CKS Memorial Hall -National Palace Museum -Longshan Temple I also want to go see a nice park or garden, any recommendations there are appreciated. I'll be there in October.
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duckfarts posted:a night market visit is required Thanks! Any recommended markets? What time of day is best for Maokong?
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Aug 29, 2015 16:09
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Atlas Hugged posted:Anytime but 2:00pm. That's when it rains. So I'll bring a jacket.
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Sep 3, 2015 17:51
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Atlas Hugged posted:Apparently there are bars in Pingtung and they rule. I can confirm that there are bars in Kaohsiung and Pingtung and they are tight. Also, does anyone want to invite me to the Line group? Username is the same as SA name, no capitals, no spaces. This island is tight, I want to move here.
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Oct 24, 2015 18:10
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I get the impression the value of a CELTA jumps a lot if you already have a year or two's experience and want to make ESL teaching a long-term thing.
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Dec 8, 2015 19:32
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Slightly speaking of which, what are salary expectations like for ESL jobs in Taipei?
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Dec 9, 2015 02:13
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Atlas Hugged posted:If you're making less than 50k you're a chump and if you get the right job you can easily be making 65k or more. You will likely have to sacrifice location for salary. When you say that, do you just mean "not downtown" or "not MRT-adjacent at all"? The Taipei MRT is so extensive compared to some places that I wouldn't, at first glance, expect it to be hard to find a job paying the right range that puts you on an MRT line.
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Dec 10, 2015 19:50
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Is there a local Craigslist-alternative that Taiwan uses? I don't see as much listed on Craigslist as I ought to. I'll be landing in Taipei looking for work mid-January.
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Dec 22, 2015 08:03
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Sorry, that was unclear. I mean for housing.
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Dec 29, 2015 19:56
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Pandemonium posted:getting a giant hard-on as a result of all the tears that are going to be shed You must be a hit at funerals.
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Jan 18, 2016 04:52
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I read this as "mtgow" at first and thought it was gonna be a Magic Online thing
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Jan 18, 2016 05:32
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Pandemonium posted:I approve! You sound stressed. Have you thought about unwinding sometime, maybe cracking open a beer or ten?
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Jan 19, 2016 12:50
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Did someone mention bowling? I like bowling.
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Jan 20, 2016 06:29
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Spanish Matlock posted:I like to go bowling and have beers. I'm sure pandemonium has strongly worded incorrect opinions about both of those things It might be considered rude to bowl in Hakka circles.
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Jan 20, 2016 07:16
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Pandemonium posted:And girls sitting in bars are probably not the best targets in Asia for a number of reasons. Wait, what do you mean?
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Jan 20, 2016 13:59
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How did you meet this very attractive girl? Was she sitting in a bar?
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Jan 20, 2016 19:05
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Now I'm hung up on the mental image of a grown man fiendishly dunking on a Taiwanese woman and then going  "Sorry lady, try not to cry like a little baby about it."
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Jan 21, 2016 04:06
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Pandemonium posted:Who said she was playing? I don't remember the last time I saw a mixed game of douniu. The courts I play at have one or two baskets reserved for girls. Please don't jump to conclusions. Sorry, I should have thrown a sarcastic emote in there to show that I was joking.
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Jan 21, 2016 10:00
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Is this a preview of a page-a-day calendar? Which month will be devoted to relationship theories?
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Jan 21, 2016 14:46
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"Poh-tay-toe poh-tah-toe," is the expression, surely?
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Jan 22, 2016 03:30
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Pandemonium, when can we expect your fantasy novel?
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Jan 22, 2016 03:40
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What exactly is tumblr tone policing supposed to be?
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Jan 22, 2016 08:55
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Pandemonium posted:Google it, bro. Tone policing is when you don't address the content of someone's post but instead decide to focus all your attention on how the post is written. See Atlas Hugged's referral to his and my similar point that Taiwanese are more immature than Westerns generally speaking but how no one cared when he said it because he used an appropriate tone, yet when I said it--complete with the subtract 5 years of their age to reach their maturity level--I was met with a couple posters calling me a casual racist. Because, you know, my tone wasn't polite enough on SA. Why would I ever need or want the two to be separated? The way that you say something is part of how you communicate it.
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Jan 22, 2016 11:19
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Pandemonium posted:But it should have nothing to do with the validity or veracity of your argument. Especially online. It's very much a bad idea to say "I'm not going to consider what you said because I think you said it with a bad attitude". But you're not the only one here making the argument you're making. Other people agree that dating a coworker is bad without being abrasive... so why should someone listen to you?
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Jan 22, 2016 13:14
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Pandemonium posted:I think you all missed when people were like "Sure sure I bet you were on a date. Like you could get a girl, you big goon" earlier in our very productive exchanges. And I thought it'd be cute to drop some real bombs on the circlejerkers in here. But it's okay. I know I've gone on about it too long. Does she know you're bragging to Internet strangers about her? Does that seem cool to you?
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Jan 25, 2016 02:56
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Spanish Matlock posted:I got you covered.  It's wonderful.
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Jan 25, 2016 04:31
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I don't think we addressed my earlier question.
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Jan 25, 2016 04:39
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TetsuoTW posted:Speaking of your earlier questions, apparently for papaya salad you want to go to Tonghua Street Night Market (Xinyi-Anhe MRT) and there's a stall run by a Thai woman called Joky that's right on your right at the intersection of Linjiang and Tonghua (it's in the part that looks like the leftovers from the actual night market on the left). As for just a legit Thai restaurant, there's a place called Khrua Chaikha (ครัวชายคา) located here. Awesome, thanks dude. I knew there had to be some northeastern Thais who moved over here.
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Jan 25, 2016 08:23
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Pandemonium posted:She's pretty cool. I think if I told her that I mentioned our date in a thread read by a handful of ex-pats she would say, oh 隨便, which means whatever for you 文盲 goons like Moon Slayer (that means illiterate, by the way), and she would have said it in either a negative or neutral-but-leaning-negative tone of voice. Then it would be forgotten as quickly as it was mentioned. I'm just guessing, though. You never know how Taiwanese girls will react, amirite?! (or any girls for that matter, amirite x2?!) Okay, there's the answer. I just wanted to get your take on that.
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Jan 25, 2016 08:36
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Atlas Hugged posted:What if she was sitting on a bar stool? I don't know, you tell me.
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Jan 25, 2016 08:45
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Atlas Hugged posted:Depends on if she was in Asia or not I guess. Never really got closure on that bit of wisdom. He could just mean that she's probably awesome at Connect Four.
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Jan 25, 2016 08:58
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What type is that?
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Jan 25, 2016 10:35
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I'll feel bad if it turns out Pandemonium's first language isn't English because at this point that would explain a lot.
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Jan 25, 2016 13:00
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TetsuoTW posted:i just like to imagine it as one ship full of pirates pulling up alongside another ship and stealing it, except both ships are shaped like cocks and the pirates are sperm See, this is the kind of thing they don't tell you about in health class in the US. What would I do without SA?
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Jan 25, 2016 15:48
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You're doing it in the other direction, like an ESL Benjamin Button.
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Jan 26, 2016 03:07
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I mean, is it a dude in drag or a transwoman? Not the same.
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Jan 26, 2016 10:47
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Also does he or she know you posted here about your date?
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Jan 26, 2016 10:48
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Lady Galaga posted:http://www.technologyreview.com/news/546036/first-monkeys-with-autism-created-in-china/ No loving way.
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Jan 26, 2016 10:54
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Pandemonium posted:You used cishet unironically. You done drank the kool-aid, friend. Wait, huh?
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Is "Sky Dragon Kingdom" the next album from that heavy metal legislator?
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Jan 26, 2016 15:24
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