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Atlas Hugged posted:Wait what's all this about eggplants? Aubergine.
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The one I'm really not sure about is whether a gorget and a gherkin are different things or the same veggie.
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Jan 28, 2016 15:54
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Brawlholler, I think it was.
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Feb 3, 2016 13:27
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The thread is here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3302316&perpage=40&pagenumber=33
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Feb 18, 2016 03:00
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Pandemonium posted:Here's where I make another post making fun of ESL teac Yeah, fair.
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Feb 18, 2016 05:26
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Which school did you work at before you got into the translating gigs?
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Feb 18, 2016 09:27
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Pandemonium posted:Nah, it's for projecting and claiming other people you don't know not only know of but also believe in stuff like spermjacking. It's also for using words like cishet unironically. What's wrong with cishet? It's clear, it's concise.
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Feb 18, 2016 11:20
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Atlas Hugged posted:I sleep on the floor of a semi outdoor bar surrounded by kittens. I haven't found one of these here in Taiwan yet, I might have to move back to Thailand
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Mar 23, 2016 14:54
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Atlas Hugged posted:There's no way it's as bad as lining up at 6:45am and not even being the first one there and knowing it'll be at least 3 hours before you're finished, if you're lucky. On the other hand, at the Taiwan immigration office I can't buy an entire cake while I'm waiting in line
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Mar 25, 2016 10:39
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Pandemonium posted:It's also not like these foreign laborers don't know what they are getting themselves into with respect to work hours and salary. Of course not the abuse, but they are all aware of the basic structure of their contracts and yet they still choose to come here. Hmm... makes you think, huh? It makes me think you're okay with people being treated poorly, yeah.
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Apr 26, 2016 06:13
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Pandemonium posted:This thread: people who sign contracts to come over and work in Taiwan are all literal slaves, to a one. In addition, what was true about slavery in America is equally true and relevant to Taiwan and its relationship with its foreign laborers. All of them. Pandemonium really takes it personally when people threaten stray animals because without the dogs that live down by the river he would have nobody to talk to.
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Apr 26, 2016 06:18
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I'd try dog. Does this prove that white western American culture is degenerate and inferior?
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Apr 26, 2016 07:09
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Ba hahahahahahahaha
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Apr 26, 2016 12:24
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Sure, I'll learn a little Chinese. Do you want to get classes together? All you had to do was ask.
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Apr 26, 2016 14:11
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Pandemonium posted:http://i.imgur.com/1AeetxB.jpg Nice view! I'm all the way in town on the red line but I'm up near the Beitou area often enough. Let me know if you want to hang out and get a coffee or a beer.
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Apr 27, 2016 07:17
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Yeah, the view from your roof is great. Makes me miss having a view like that.
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Apr 27, 2016 08:18
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Pandemonium posted:http://i.imgur.com/PAqBwSZ.jpg Nice. Even if my current place isn't so nice I really like being so close to the river and the sports center. It's great to have stuff like that so close and easy to get to.
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Apr 27, 2016 10:26
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RIP Pandemonium, killed by bingo
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Apr 27, 2016 18:43
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"Worships at the PC altar" Wait, what? Idgi
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Apr 28, 2016 03:29
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Pandemonium posted:And PC = Politically Correct. I thought that was a well-known acronym, no? When you actually defend dog eating cuz it's just how they do things over there and who are we to judge, to me that is PC multicultural garbage, sorry. Agree to disagree, whatever. But I pretty much made up my mind on this nonsense after reading a Stanley Fish article on multiculturalism, something he wrote in the late 90s, well before this current ultra-PC regressive liberal climate in the west. I mean... I get what PC means, I just didn't think people actually talked like this outside of Fox News talkshow panels. Ultra-PC regressive liberal climate? This is word soup.
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Apr 28, 2016 04:06
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Atlas Hugged posted:You're really in the wrong country for miniatures. There's a decent boardgame scene and I assume some people play X-Wing in the Bei Area, but anything more elaborate is going to be a handful of enthusiasts running it out of their house. Yeah, shockingly enough there's another city where the expat scene is goonier than here, or at least large enough so that the total amount of gooniness is greater just through weight of numbers. Some of the expats even agree with Pandemonium about Asian cultures being backwards trash heaps, too!
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Apr 28, 2016 04:20
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Pandemonium posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=user?RubinReport So what does "regressive liberal" actually mean to you?
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Apr 28, 2016 04:21
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YF19pilot posted:I am a historicals grog-nerd. I have transcended mere rules arguments. Rather my arguments are about numbers of rivets, appropriate fringe coloring on 19th century soldiers, and whether or not that is the correct green for German tanks in the summer of 1944. Now, just imagine having this argument with a drunk guy in 35 degree C weather and that's an average Sunday for Atlas these days.
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Apr 28, 2016 04:38
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But... I could say some poo poo like "I'm the best Mandarin speaker my Taiwanese friends have ever met" and it means just as much as you saying it, i.e. absolutely nothing. And everyone here will care just as much about me talking myself up as they do about you calling yourself the best. E: and anyway yeah, like I said I'm down towards the city from where you seem to be, but if you ever want to get a coffee or a beer, just let me know! Pirate Radar fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Apr 28, 2016 |
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Apr 28, 2016 10:18
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Unrelated to language talk: the Sev has a whole bunch of new good beers now. Is this that summer seasonal thing I heard about?
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Apr 28, 2016 13:28
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Pande "I Skip Leg Day" monium
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Apr 29, 2016 06:41
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God, I wish me thinking "he can get bent" was how the US government decided who to kill.
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May 16, 2016 15:51
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The next time I'm back home and somebody cuts me off in traffic? poo poo, they'd better get ready to meet my friend Mr. Smith & Wesson. Get bent! Pandemonium posted:Not a lot of people murdering others on subways and then being apprehended on the spot with CCTV and shittons of witnesses to boot. A bit different than being placed on death row cuz of some DNA or even less substantial evidence. Or, god forbid, a making a murderer scenario. It's a good thing that dude and mrt murderer literally have nothing in common. So how much certainty is actually needed, then, y'know, where do you specifically draw the line? You must be this clearly, irrefutably guilty to be eligible for the death penalty. If you want that to be the policy there literally has to be a way to quantify how sure we are that someone's guilty. And the system has to be robust enough to resist governmental negligence or malfeasance.
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May 16, 2016 16:04
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TetsuoTW posted:I like that the problem is apparently a question of the circumstances of the case and whether they warrant a death sentence and not whether death should even be a sentence. I might not agree that it should, but I can accept the idea that if there's any case it could be applied in, it might be this one. But even then I can't see how you would set up the law to institutionalize "well this time we really really know he's guilty" and keep it abuse-proof.
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May 16, 2016 16:12
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Would you say that he can get bent?
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May 16, 2016 16:20
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My point is, where do you draw that line? How do you write that law that can judge flimsiness? If you're going to say "there's a difference between this one case where someone was convicted of murder and this other case where someone was convicted of murder"--well sure, there is, but that difference needs to be written into the law. How do you write the law so that it executes one of them and not the other? It's not as easy or simple as saying "well that's a different case and it's dumb to compare them."
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May 16, 2016 16:55
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Pandemonium posted:If you are caught at the scene of the crime with the murder weapon and victim DNA on you with CCTV and witnesses corroborating each other I'd say that goes down as an open-and-shut take him out back and put him down case. One of the few--if not the only--case that I think would fall into this category. I watched "Making a Murderer" like everyone else. I know how hosed justice systems are/can be. I'm not advocating for death row inmates to all be gatted. But when it is arrested-at-the-scene-of-the-crime-with-the-murder-weapon obvious, well, I'll make an exception. So to be clear, you want a law that says "The accused shall be eligible for the death penalty if they are caught at the scene of the crime with the murder weapon and victim DNA on them with CCTV and witnesses corroborating each other."
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May 16, 2016 17:04
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GoutPatrol posted:So if they had taken a week to find him they should execute him later, got it. Not sure what you're getting at, to be honest.
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May 16, 2016 18:26
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How about a roller coaster that kills you with G-forces? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster quote:The Euthanasia Coaster is an art concept for a steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers.[1] In 2010, it was designed and made into a scale model by Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives "with elegance and euphoria".[2] As for practical applications of his design, Urbonas mentioned "euthanasia" or "execution".[3] John Allen, who served as president of the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, inspired Urbonas with his description of the "ultimate" roller coaster as one that "sends out 24 people and they all come back dead".[4]
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May 16, 2016 18:52
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Geez, I feel weird drinking in/outside of the Sev. I wouldn't do it in the US so it goes against instinct.
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May 18, 2016 07:06
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Pandemonium posted:I can pay like a 1/4 of the price for my booze and be around a bunch of trees and poo poo. Not a tough choice, really. Also, notice I said at a park and not simply outside the bianli shangdian like a claseless gongren. Yeah, being an expat is a lot like being in college again. We're on the same page there.
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May 18, 2016 09:02
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Pandemonium posted:I ain't peter panning like a large number of expats here, sorry. Got my business going; doing pretty well; blah blah blah. Drinking some beers outside occasionally is not synonymous with living a college lifestyle in your late 20s, early 30s. Hey, whatever you need to tell yourself. I don't judge, much.
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May 18, 2016 14:59
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Pandemonium posted:Day drinking?! ...why?
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Jun 6, 2016 14:36
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Pandemonium posted:Brass monkey for the rugby. Come on over! Hey, usually I'd love to, but I'm busy for at least the next few hours. Will you be out later tonight, though?
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Atlas Hugged posted:Brass Monkey is like every bar in Bangkok that I hate. If you move on, let me know. If the Brass Monkey were in Bangkok it would be one of the superficially respectable ones that later turns out to be a Russian mafia front or a boiler room scam or something dumb like that. But the food would probably be better.
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