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Actually they are often depending on which cart you happen to go to - the shandong ones have a thin crepe like exterior and most of the others have a thicker eggy Swedish pancake like shell.
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In Russia-America, marathon blow up you!
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It's being reported as a bad thing but no breaking news in TV like you'd see in the USA. All the fengqing are already posting on CNN "a bunch of firecrackers went off, no big deal". I guess it happened in Terminal 3, and given the way things work there it's not really possible to do a lot of damage. Lots of big, open spaces, plexiglass and steel.
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Bloodnose posted:Why is this post in any way related to tourism and travel in China? I dunno but every day I see poo poo that's pretty much just like blade runner. Or Sarajevo. What was the deal with all the fireworks last night? There were like six separate hour-long fireworks shows near the zz apartment i am staying in. All in different places but happening near-simultaneously.
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Jul 23, 2013 05:50
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Probably not, the stuff you read online about China only issuing certain visas in your home country is old, just something they instituted for the 2008 Olympics and removed after the Shanghai Expo was over.
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Jul 31, 2013 12:26
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VideoTapir posted:people still care about in flight entertainment? The selection of in-flight movies on Air Canada is awesome. They have lots of artsy independent films and cool lesser-known TV shows in addition to the normal blockbuster/network fare. Also their international films are usually subtitled in multiple languages so you can watch French or Japanese movies you've never heard of before instead of Big Bang Theory or whatever. They also showcase a lot of awesome and creative Canadian short films.
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Aug 21, 2013 05:02
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What are some English short stories that would be appropriate and interesting to 9th grade students in China? The school nixed my plan to have the students buy Kindles (breaks already constantly broken school rule on electronics) and now I have to make my own textbook and have it printed in the next few days. The only stories I can think of right now are by Flannery O'Connor and Shirley Jackson, both of which I read in school and in retrospect they are pretty disturbing. I have three goals - cultural literacy, learning vocabulary through reading, and hopefully getting them interested in seeking out and reading cool books. They need to be more on the 7th grade reading level, though.
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Aug 29, 2013 12:11
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Big Alf posted:On the contrary, I can see bad day making a Hollywood rom-com dash for the departure gate in a last ditch effort to tell the horse cock porn of his dreams how much he loves it and doesn't want it to leave. He will then walk out of the airport carrying it Richard Gere style with everyone hooping and a hollerin. This isn't even vaguely clever but you are on my list now.
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Aug 30, 2013 11:33
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Jeoh posted:Listen buddy, the more three letter acronyms I can slap on my resume, the bigger my ego. You should make sure to put ISO9000, ISO9001 on there for good measure.
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They look like brightly-colored medieval torture devices.
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Arglebargle III posted:Having people stare at me all day every day has made me less self-conscious somehow, but I still have bouts of it bothering me. It doesn't bother me as much as the constant talking about me as if i can't understand them, even if they know full well that I can. My halfbreed baby seems to be on a first-name basis with everyone in my community and my cousins-in-law don't even know my name. It's often innocuous poo poo like "I see he bought yogurt today. He didn't buy yogurt yesterday." but it often makes me feel like I'm being group stalked or something, I had a friend here who was a super-nice guy and really very fat. Everywhere he went people were gaping at him and saying poo poo like "oh gently caress look at that big loving fat foreigner" but he couldn't understand them, and I could. One time a taxi driver in Beijing started fretting about his suspension and wouldn't let him into the taxi. We told him the guy said no foreigners. I think if my friend understood Chinese he would have been really freaked out by constantly being the subject of public conversation and ridicule. I know that hanging out with him and overhearing these conversations I always felt very uncomfortable, and he definitely got the sense that this sort of thing was going on and tried to brush it off. Eventually he got kinda weird and panicky and went home. I don't mind it - probably I'm the most visible guy in my community - but I certainly think it's creepy and don't necessarily revel in the attention. "Welcome to China" is the only that really bugs me. I know it is more of a token "you are welcome here" but when you've already explained to someone how you have been living here 5 years and they come back with "welcome to china" it makes you think they haven't been listening to you at all.
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VideoTapir posted:Sometimes I think I'm the only person in China who can read one. I think I broke pro-prc. He keeps making retarded, unfunny jokes about me, aside from making weird anti-Zionist posts in GBS. Oh well, if I were a 70 year-old man on the Internet i would probably get rather annoyed at someone buying me a ponytar because i tried to copycat an actually funny troll in a stupid and repetitive way, without any original thought of my own. And I wouldn't dare buying a new avatar because the person I was picking on for no reason has another  to waste on me.Oh well I better get back to shouting at my neighbors about parking rules.
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They are really freaked out about things like lithium batteries and compressed gases busting open on airplanes or in the back of overheated mail trucks. I have had vinyl records shipped from the us and they had really obvious heat damage. I guess the logic is they aren't careful enough to protect your package from adverse conditions so they just make sending anything remotely explosive against the rules.
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YF19pilot posted:I don't think I've applied to enough places for the former, so I'll tell myself it's the latter. Honestly you don't want to work for EF. When do you want to start? What experience do you have as a teacher? What is your race? If you are Asian, few schools will want to hire you.
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Oct 4, 2013 05:01
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I figure if you're working as some sort of concierge it wouldn't be difficult to make lots of money on the side helping people find imported alcohol/prostitution/drugs for VIP clients.
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Oct 6, 2013 04:47
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Where can I buy that special Henan tea that's picked by mouth by virgins with large breasts?
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Oct 27, 2013 17:53
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I got my first university job because one of their foreigners died.
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Facepalm Ranger posted:Ugh, I just paid £145 for a physical exam that I didn't have to take to get into South West. Congrats, you're going to have to do it again after arriving in China but it will only be 350 kuai or so.
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I actually like living in Henan. On days like today where you can see the sky. My life's pretty easy, there's enough to do that I don't get bored but am also not overwhelmed. People are generally pretty nice, nobody puts on airs.
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FearCotton posted:But sometimes people don't want to mess with mixing a Chinese and a US medical history. I don't quite understand this because there is literally no such thing as a Chinese medical history. 90% of prescription drugs can be bought from a pharmacy without a prescription. For example I just take zoloft and it's kind of hard to find so I just go to the store and order 6 months' worth for about $30 and they have it the next day. A lot of times you might ask for something and the person will be lazy and tell you they don't have it, but if you google translate the generic name and show it to them they can most likely order it. The only classes of drugs they put restrictions on are benzos and opiates, as far as I can tell. And diphenhydramine, for some reason.
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Spiderjelly posted:have a recommendation? I used to take Ativan (lorazepam) which you could buy over the counter without prescription, but I'm not sure if you still can. Most drugs that are fun (benzos, opiates) are restricted here, but you can still get them from a doctor, although they don't like to give them out. The only benzos I have seen here are Ativan and low-dose Valium. A lot of times a pharmacy will insist they don't have something but can actually order it if you find an employee/manager willing to call the supplier. But you can get all sorts of stuff on Taobao, and it know for a fact that people in the us who buy powdered xanax and whatever over the internet are sourcing it from China. So such things are no doubt possible. I found taking 50mg of Zoloft daily had a profound impact on my anxiety problems.
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Perhaps. I knew a guy who had anxiety problems and went to a doctor and they gave him Valium. I've only really had experience with dentists who don't want to use painkillers and you have to argue with them.
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If you have real anxiety problems your brain is responding to a nonexistent stimulus, though. I used to get panic attacks and basically my body would go into fight-or-flight for no reason whatsoever. I took benzos for a little while but eventually went back to Zoloft and smoking weed every now and then, which seems to be the ideal solution for me. Marijuana has a paradoxical effect, though, in that occasional use helps with anxiety but chronic use exacerbates the problem. So I have to moderate significantly, which China does for me anyway because it's somewhat rare and hard to find. I don't think you can understand what this problem is like unless you have it, though. Basically your brain is triggering primitive defense mechanisms for no reason whatsoever, and being in a place where you are always an otherized center of attention can make things a lot worse.
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Lately I've found beating the poo poo out of hookers and shooting cops in the face in GTA to be amazingly therapeutic, though.
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You are right, though - China is full of awful people doing awful, selfish things. But so is everywhere else, generally. If anything my time here has made me more aware of the incongruities of first-world lifestyles and how we devote massive amounts of time and effort to passionately arguing with each other and complaining about "problems" that barely exist. I have a really hard time carrying on a conversation with people other than long-time friends when I go home. The subject inevitably turns to politics or offensensitivity issues and I want to start punching people in the face and lecturing them about how they should be loving grateful they didn't grow up in a dirt floor farmhouse in rural Henan and they have absolutely nothing to complain about.
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Spiderjelly posted:See, it's not that, I don't think. It's more that I'm having trouble measuring out appropriate responses to real stimuli. Freaking out over being stared at, that sort of thing. Benzos can take the edge off. I find Ativan doesn't give you a buzz but makes it really difficult to get upset about anything. The key is to only use these them as short-term or occasional "as needed" because it's very easy to get addicted. People may disagree but I fully believe in better living thru chemistry so long as you are conscientious about using drugs.
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Happy new year, all! I rapped in the new year and got paid for it, hope this year turns out to be better than the last. Drinking a g&t at the bar in your honor right now. Edit: one of the guys from das racist will be in Luoyang on Friday - I know some of you live in zhengzhou or thereabouts - loving come to Luoyang. I will set you up with a hotel next to the bar (sorry I have a babby at my haus) and guarantee a good time, I will be his dj, or something.
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4000rmb is not enough to live on unless you forego every foreign extravagance and eat dumplings/noodles 3 meals a day. Might as well come to Henan and see Heems from Das Racist on Friday.
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Pro-PRC Laowai posted:Me + Wife + newborn + mother in-law have managed to not kill each other for just about a month now. Total monthly expenses in Beijing for 4 people including buying baby poo poo - 3500. Prior to this, we were doing around 2500. Yes but you do crazy poo poo like age your own meat.
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I am currently making ~ 4200 a week from a part-time dj gig (likes to brag about this, sorry). Edit: but that's mostly because I did a show with 阴三儿 and the bar owners mistakenly think I am famous. bad day fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Jan 1, 2014 |
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LimburgLimbo posted:Anyone available should try and hit up bad day to go see Heems because he's a cool dude and makes fun music. Heems couldn't get past the border, some sort of visa issue. So tonight is a bust but tomorrow at midnight I'm doing the history of hip hop mash-up set I was planning to do tonight, that'll be worth seeing, I'm trying to run thru like 40 songs in 20 minutes. Edit: but really it's more like a tribute to GTA San Andreas, my most recent obsession. bad day fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Jan 3, 2014 |
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Tom Smykowski posted:Is he like not coming to China at all now? He was supposed to be in Chengdu on the 12th. Yeah I don't know. I'll ask the venue owner tomorrow - it seems like a couple people I know of have had visa/entry problems in the last week or two.
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Pro-PRC Laowai posted:WFOE, go sole proprietor, 10w registered capital, but it's not like that magically vanishes, it just becomes company money. Yeah and most people have fifteen thousand dollars just lying around.
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Yeah it sounds pretty normal, just don't work for a training center next year if you decide to stay.
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Does anybody know of a hostel in Shanghai where I can for certain store a bag for a couple of weeks? I'm going to Florida, don't want to haul my winter coat back and forth. Any Shanghai goons want to let me crash on their couch Sunday and leave a backpack I can pick up on Feb 1st?
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In theory, yes, but there's no mechanism for the US to know what you actually made in China if you don't bring it back with you. I mean I'm probably the only foreign employee of my company that pays his Chinese taxes because I'm the only one who gets direct deposit and everyone else just gets bundles of cash. And my company is pretty above the board as far as Chinese businesses go. bad day fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Jan 7, 2014 |
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Also if you are using netflix or Hulu why not learn to use one of the Chinese programs like pptv and pps/youku that have all the same content for free?
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Again, I want to stress learn how to use pptv/pps/youkou and search for titles in Chinese - things usually have different names but if you set Google to Chinese and search the English name the Chinese name will pop up in the sidebar. It's free, everything you would want to watch on iplayer/hulu/netflix is online, usually faster than those services get things up. I am a lifelong torrent user and have basically stopped because almost everything I want to see is available streaming on one of these 3 platforms.
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I remember Hong Kong being fairly boring for CNY. I'm just happy I'm spending the entire holiday in America this year. Thank god for corporate finance exams.. ..no, wait.
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I think he wants overtime because of the time displacement due to the New Year holiday (i.e. Saturday and Sunday are now Monday and Tuesday) thus he wants overtime pay for those extra two days. I would say just let it slide, once you get to the point where you're telling your employer that your contract says such-and-such your relationship has deteriorated significantly, and getting up in arms about it is going to piss off all your Chinese coworkers for whom this is a normal thing nobody likes but everyone puts up with because everybody has to do it. If it's, like, every week you are teaching over your hours just kindly explain you either want more money or are just not going to do it. But if this is still about the holiday, this is normal, nobody is trying to screw you here.
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