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a guy i work with went home a few weeks ago and heard a cat in his stairwell that i guess had wandered up to his floor? or someone had left it there? i dunno, he lives on the 50th story, no idea how it got there. he loves cats, he has two, and while it was meow-ing in the hallway a guy from his floor came out, picked up the cat, and threw it out the window of their hallway. can't imagine the cat made it after falling 50 stories, the guy was crushed at work the next day.
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Saint Rude posted:Anyone know why Angel Opportunity closed the last thread? he closed it because it turned to poo poo
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the China threads were cool for like 5,000 posts but now it's like the equivalent of a toddler taking a poo poo on the thread
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I think it's because all of the intellectuals about China like modest Mao and sincx took their money and intellect and fled the thread for nicer threads when they saw it was getting lovely and now it's just shitposters and crazy people running things
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it also doesn't help in this thread that rules are loosely and rarely enforced, and then randomly enforced every now and then, it's difficult to really run a thread that will rule GBS that way ~~when the CHINA THREAD rules GBS~~
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Jeoh posted:hello i am here to inform you that the "no why" meme has been thoroughly run into the ground and no longer provokes any response, thank you for reading and have a good day there's really no meme that hasn't been run into the ground at this point wrt china, its one of the reasons all the china threads are dying. we've made fun of china enough, there's not too many new jokes to make. doesn't mean we should stop making them, though
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Yeah, this happens loving everywhere. It's not just China. in fairness to Haier, it is a bit different in china like you have people drilling into places they shouldn't be drilling, because the building infrastructure was supposed to be not drilled into, at 9:45pm on a tuesday night in china. and it will be the room right above you. and you'll go ask them "when do you finish? because i have to work tomorrow" and it will be six guys, five of them smoking, one drilling, looking completely clueless, and then one will go "whoa. foreigner" while holding his cig and squatting down that doesn't happen everywhere. that happens in china
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Darkman Fanpage posted:Good job on the Great Wall restoration work. quote:"Repairing it like this has wiped out all the culture and history.” i'd say they did a pretty good Modern China job then
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http://ahtribune.com/world/asia-pacific/1198-rise-of-china.html lol  paging fojar quote:Ninety-nine percent of Westerners cannot accept the fact that today, China is a communist country, economy and people. Until I researched and wrote 44 Days Backpacking in China: The Middle Kingdom in the 21st Century, with the United States, Europe and the Fate of the World in Its Looking Glass and then China Rising: Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations, I was among this huge majority. The experiences and knowledge I gained in China, since 2010, allowed me to deprogram the Western avalanche of Pavlovian propaganda about the evils of communism and socialism. Sounds reasonable
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Blistex posted:He hasn't replied to this yet? Do you think he read the article and had a brain aneurysm? the reasons they said he is able to report on China is that he lives in China and speaks Chinese and went to Oklahoma state university Not a very high bar for writing about the inevitable rise of the glorious Middle Kingdom
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Haier posted:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/vancouvers-new-tax-slows-foreign-property-buying-to-a-trickle-2016-09-22 no one mention maine, plz
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Facebook Aunt posted:Think of all the great selfies they could get with the fall foliage! my wife and i were in freeport in august at the outlets and its usually a bit busy but doable, and we went to Tommy Hilfiger and there were these two kids with their parents that were borderline screaming in mandarin while they were waiting in line in front of me and i told them in chinese "you shoudln't talk so loudly, look around, its a quiet place here" and the cashier thanked me after they left lol
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Haier posted:This guy is way more entertaining than Rene. LOL this is probably  because i have to assume that a few of these people didn't make itim the dude at 2:06 who watches his friend get blasted and then kinda shrugs and crosses the road slowly
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really tho the main problem is that a lot of people on bikes dont' think that the stoplights apply to them. my best friend in tianjin is a tianjin born canadian dude, he has lived in montreal for 11 years off and on, and he has an ebike and when we are going to places he NEVER follows the lights, he told me specifically no one thinks they are for bikes. on my way to work every day the cars do a decent job of stopping at lights, but they usually fill up intersections first and then clog the intersection and the light changes so they can't run the light, but bikes never stop. ever. they just constantly are going both ways which really fucks up the flow of traffic. most of the people getting slammed in that video are on bikes. eeeesh.
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other main problems that i see all the time that may contribute to this: at night time i'd guess one out of every seven cars i see doesn't have their lights on. also cars seem to go SUPER slow when they are turning. like when i am taking a left turn in USA, i wait until i have a break in traffic and accelerate into it, so im going with the flow of traffic. look at the car at 10:05. for some reason it is turning left and slows down, ultimately coming to a complete stop, as it gets blasted by a truck. like if he had just gunned it he may have made it across, if the truck slowed down? or he could have just waited? but somehow choosing to to hit the breaks and come to a complete stop in the direct line of path of the truck was deemed the best choice. idgi
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then there are some, like the one at 12:00, where the person had to be watching a drama on their phone or something, because they just straight plowed into a stationary person without slowing down at all, and the person made zero effort to get out of the way
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last you have the kind of accident that TRULY boggles the mind, at 14:17, where the intersection is comically large, you immediately see the intersection and think "no possible way that there is an accident here" and you see one small little bike and one car and you think "this is such an inanely large intersection i can't actually believe these two vehicles will collide" and then you watch and despite their best effort to avoid each other, the vehicles ultimately end up crashing
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Sep 26, 2016 08:24
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Mongolia and Indonesia were both worse than China in my opinion
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a girl from outside changsha that i was... come to think of it i think that was the last time i ever saw her
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guys my company tried moving today and I'm not shocked at all with how it went but I'm sure it will sound unbelievable, I'll post the story tomorrow. All of us have the day off tomorrow because of how bad the move went. I can't wait to post it, I'd do it now but I'm on my iPad
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so my office is moving buildings. this is an amazing process. it started last spring, when we were told we would be moving offices. we were told maybe august, maybe september, maybe november. no one seemed to know, other than the fact that we were moving. as the time got closer, we were told "we aren't sure, just wait, we will move soon". last week, we were told we are moving this week. maybe wednesday, maybe thursday. no one was sure. finally we were told last friday. we will move on wednesday! everyone was happy and excited. monday came and went. on monday i talked to the HR girl, i asked her if i could look at the new office, to make sure there wasn't any horrific chinglish mistakes like the last two offices we have, that have stuff like "to change the history a person to be then" plastered on the wall. she lived in australia for three years and said "don't worry, i've seen the new office, there's nothing like that, it's ok" and i was like "alright then". tuesday came and went. on tuesday we were told "please pack up your things and be ready at 1pm wednesday, the moving company will come then". tuesday afternoon was filled with the staff, foreign and chinese, packing up everything we owned. we get to the office on wednesday, its moving day! woo! our electricity is shut off and we get there and everyone is just hanging out. we are moving across the street, to a new building connected to the four seasons. super nice building from the looks of it. we will move at 1pm. around 12:30, we are told "maybe wait until 1:30 to 2", we said ok. around 1:30pm three chinese guys show up. they are the moving company. we have like 30 people in company and all of us have tons of books and stuff. they look around, smoke a cig, and leave. around 2pm we are waiting for the moving company, i go to the bathroom, i come back and all the foreigners are gone. i figured they went to go get a coffee or something, but they actually went across the street to our new building to move their stuff, even though they weren't supposed to. i get a message at 2:30pm from this guy rich who says "are you sure we are moving to this building? because no one knows who we are, no one seems ready for us and this place looks like a war zone", so i ask our HR girl about it and she says "it isn't ready! you are supposed to wait! we will go at 4pm today with our company boss!" so i tell rich "yo you aren't supposed to go there yet, hang tight, come back". no one comes back, i later learn they all went to a bar to drink. i joined them later, but at this point i was waiting at the office. around 3pm our HR girl says "the moving company has ran away, they will not move us today, you can have tomorrow off, everyone can have tomorrow off", I say "what, the moving company ran away?" and she says "yeah, they said it was too much work". so the moving company that we have contracted to move us, to like, do their job, that their company does, thinks we are too much work. so they won't do it. uh, ok. around 3:10pm i get this picture from this guy andy, who had gone over to the new office.  this is two hours AFTER we were supposed to move into this building. like...this is the new office people chose to move to on wednesday the 28th at 1pm. and everyone kept looking at it and kept being like "yup, we will move on wednesday at 1pm", even up until like wednesday at noon, people were like "we will be ready to go at wednesday at 1pm", and then after 1pm came, it was "wait an hour, we will be ready at 2pm" but like, who in the world thought this would be ready in an hour? so they told us to take today off, but come in on friday. and the entire foreign staff said "yeah we will take friday off too, no way that building is ready" and this one chinese girl was like "why would you take it off, we have to work on friday" and one guy said "LOOK AT THIS, do you think it will be ready?" and she said "why not, they said we will work on friday, so we should go there to work" i'm expecting a message in our work chat group around 4:45pm today that says "no work tomorrow, have a rest". in fact, i expect a bunch of these messages for the next week or two, because this does not look remotely ready to move into. and we can't go back to our old office because everything is packed up and finished. how hard is moving? shouldn't it be like "here is a new office. its ready. great. pack up your stuff. a moving company moves it to the new office. start work again" this is like "we want a new office. we will move on this day. pack up your stuff. lets go. poo poo it looks like its half done. wait an hour. wait another hour. poo poo take tomorrow off. in fact take a week off. we may or may not move next week. just hang tight for a minute" yesterday ended with our staff getting really drunk together and laughing and enjoying our lives because what the hell are we supposed to do when china rules the world
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the worst part is the police station has my passport, my wife's passport, and my son's passport because we are getting our residency permits renewed, so even if we have a few weeks off we can't go back to japan, we are stuck in china! lol! fml!
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we're out soon, just would be nice if I have a few weeks off to get out for a bit, I know the fam would like it too. Ah well it is what it is
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Farmland Park posted:You will get one of three responses: I often get the "you're not Chinese so you can't understand" line.
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it's time for TGA's "Hey, We're Moving Offices in China! lol!" part one, in case you missed it well, i set the over/under on days off that we will get as a staff at 15.5. a few people have bet the over, so the line has moved to about 17.5. we are on our second day off. today my wife was near our old office, it's just like two blocks away, and said she saw three girls with boxes and bags outside our office, waiting around. one boxed had broken and fallen open and stuff was everywhere, it looked like a bunch of books, so my wife assumed it was my company. it sounds like the moving company won't be coming back, and despite the fact that i've asked work time and again if i can help them move, as i'm a dude that works out 5-6 times a week and is fairly well built, but I'm always turned down, it sounds like they have the marketing girls moving stuff, which is very lol and i secretly kinda like it because for all the hours they've spent playing FarmVille or DiamondCrush or whatever loving dumb game they are playing, it's nice of them to earn a paycheck for once. i asked my wife "please tell me you took a picture?" and she said no, it was too embarrassing. which is exactly why you should take a picture imo, but my wife is all class. i'm not. we now have five days off for the holiday, and we were kicked out of our old office today. we are officially office-less, if you don't count the picture in the original post. the HR girl i referenced in the original post is absolutely irate, she was talking to me and said "do you remember how you always say Chinese people tell you to 'wait a minute?' and then walk away?" and i was like "yeah", and she said "that's all anyone is doing to me now also" and i said "welcome to china" and she said "i'm furious" and i just wrote "lol". i kinda feel bad for her because i don't think she's that involved in this, other than it was her job to save face for herself and the company, which got blown up when andy and rich went over there and took pictures of our new office. lol! i'm going to spend the next few days drinking IPAs and Asahi Dry Black and playing with my son and not thinking about work at all, because there's nothing really we can do, because i'll ask people time and again if i can help in any way, shape or form, and even though i'm like the third highest person at the office, everyone assumes i am literally incapable of anything simply because I'm a foreigner. "Hey, don't forget you have to go to Beijing this week for that meeting," they'll say, and I'll say "yup" and they'll say "Did you buy the train ticket yet?" and i'll say "yup" and they'll say "Ok, please don't lose it, and please don't forget it" and i'm like "ok thx". people in my office unironically think they moving better than myself and the foreigners could have arranged. like they feel they are doing the best job that could have possibly been done. which is probably true given the circumstances, because none of us would have let our lease run up without a ready made office ready to move into. just seems like the first step in the moving process, right? ah well, who knows. will def. keep the thread updated as we figure out if this could be the very thing that causes a mass exit of employees and if this is the thing that ultimately kills the company. it would be funny if it were, lol!
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in other news, yesterday the fam was out and about and we saw a lady put a newspaper out on the sidewalk outside a shopping mall for her kid to poo poo, but then held the kid over the very edge of the newspaper and it pissed and crapped and missed the newspaper. there was also a huge fight at the mall, involving two ladies, and there were definitely a few slaps and a ton of face lost, as well as a huge group of people standing around with their arms behind their backs, myself included. it was a good day off
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KomodoWagon posted:Wow, he just had a vague idea of "present weapon, receive money" and ran with it with not even a second's worth of further thought. He didn't factor in that there might be resistance, or armed guards, or any kind of inconvenience. Even when he's there, he's so completely void of all independent thought and reason that he picks up his phone immediately to just chat about some other poo poo while he's robbing the bank. "Phone ring... so pick it up yes?? What means 'wait until better time'? This very confuse" it's like he works for my company and he was in charge of our move 1. decide to move 2. find a new place 3. pick a date to move 4. move on that date 5. finish skip the steps like "is the place ready to be moved into" or "check on the office" or "think 'can this actually get done in a few days?' a few days before"
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url posted:So I get maybe $500 Wife and I have saved more than enough and aren't worried at all about the money. If I don't get paid full on the 15th we can always leave to Japan while we wait for the next move. I know one or two people that are living paycheck to paycheck so if I were in that situation yes I'd worry, but my entire mantra has been "you have to be able to up and leave at a moments notice in China" and we'll see if everyone has taken that advice. I mean my first paycheck in China I put 7,000rmb in my sock drawer for an emergency ticket if I needed it. I never have but you should always be ready to leave...always.
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, the company loses new business, potentially loving my bonuses, and risks a potential closure.
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KomodoWagon posted:How are you able to stay in this country? This would infuriate me beyond measure, especially when surrounded by people so ineffectual and lazy. Do the Chinese not have any concept of self-criticahh who am I kidding we know they don't. You just have to assume that every single possible thing is going to be hosed up beyond all recognition every day, all the time. Then find places that usually don't gently caress up and hit them up regularly. Whenever I go to a new restaurant I just assume they will gently caress up the dishes. When they don't it's like "hey what a great day", whereas in the USA I assume everything will just run smoothly and when it doesn't people freak out. It's the complete opposite end of the spectrum and totally doable if you have the right mindset
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here's some China text from my Facebook from three years agoquote:lol best text interaction last night. A girl that used to work at my office asked if I would be willing to help her friend find an oral English teacher. I said ok. All of this happened in Chinese. this is one of my most favorite Chinese gags. "Ok we will do your plan" but my plan is just their original plan, under the guise of "my plan". As in "we've decided to do your plan. Your plan is [my original plan]. Good luck" I've gotten it a ton, and it must work on other people in this country, but it doesn't work on me.
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oohhboy posted:I can't wait for the inevitable nationalist BS to follow. people in China on a daily basis will cheat each other, fight each other, hit each other and then run over the person to make sure they are dead. They will lie and ignore people in need because it isn't their problem. They will sell fake rice to make a few bucks. They will literally poison food to save money. God forbid someone from a foreign country do this though. A national humiliation. South Korea has long humiliated the Chinese. We must not take it!
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Sheep-Goats posted:Still lollin about your students gleefully yelling Mao at you hehehe this is the answer every time for that question, or any question about a famous chinese person, you specifically have to tell them "you can't say Mao" and then every kid will cross off their answer and look at like you like "cmmmmmmmmm"
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bongwizzard posted:That loving ladder. Everything about this picture and this story is peak China. It's the best possible China experience you could imagine from the comfort of Europe or USA or Australia. So sit back and enjoy, because more is coming. That or I have no job, in which case you can find me in the Japan thread Page snipe bitch
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peak china is bongwizzard posted:they clearly have wood, tool, and a basic idea how how a ladder is built this bongwizzard posted:I cannot understand why they would do it like that. plus this
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Grand Fromage posted:I don't know enough about ladders to see why that one is particularly bad. They always look flimsy as hell to me but I've never seen one break. you have saved face for your chinese friends and/or the chinese goons who don't want to post here, +5 points for you for them
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Grand Fromage posted:As usual I have no idea what you're talking about. ok buddy, whatever you like
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Haier posted:So most of the people I know thought that a national holiday was the best time to go to all of the tourist spots that are normally packed. on the holiday, its fun to travel. you can travel on the holiday. if you travel at that time, you feel the fun life, because you can enjoy travel on the holiday, it is fun. so have fun on the holiday with travel. thanks to a forums user for the avatar, and also the inspiration for the post
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MisterOblivious posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPk2jkrwJRw if you can have a basic english conversation with kids and use the socratic method to have them practice their english, you are probably doing a better job half drunk than their chinese english teachers are sober
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like i've worked off and on in chinese high schools for after school seminars or whatever and the kids in tenth grade have absolutely perfect writing, you would be floored how good their writing is, but about 3/4ths of them i'd guess are not even somewhat capable of holding a conversation in English. because their classes are taught in chinese with the teachers having them say things like "to mail a letter" in unison over and over and over, so they learn the phrase "to mail a letter" but never have any actual experience making conversation or understand how to converse in english. which is like, i can't say for sure, but what i think to be the most important part of a language. if that dude has two beers and then goes and makes kids actually listen and interact in english, he is doing something that is incredibly important. people poo poo all over foreign english teachers, and sometimes rightfully so, but their job is actually pretty important in the educational scope of things, because everything in education in this dumb country is so compartmentalized no one ever actually teaches them how to actually have an english conversation\ it wouldn't be an important job if china understood how to run an education system, but it is the deaf, dumb and blind leading people who don't bother to question them, so you actually need this job right now. if they ever revamp the system, they can easily get rid of foreign teachers very quickly. out of the six/seven years i took spanish, i only had one foreign spanish teacher...the rest were all americans. and i'm fluent now (more or less, worked in mexico a bit, spent some time in spain, all of it with no problems at all interacting with people spoken, written, listening or reading) The Great Autismo! fucked around with this message at 13:05 on Oct 2, 2016 |
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