Taiwan Number 1

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Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Fojar38 posted:

the ones in the shanghai marathon are 100% doping and probably a decent number of local athletes as well

olympians and whatnot though are mostly legit iirc

lol no

# ¿ Dec 19, 2016 10:37

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 05:35

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

The Great Autismo! posted:

Tianjin this past weekend

Did you know that China leads the world in green energy? The western media is just trying to stop China's inevitable rise! The pollution is not that bad! You're probably just a self loathing racist who could never cut it anywhere else! China has 5,000 years of history, do you dare to question how it runs?

these pictures make me really ambivalent about separating recycling from normal rubbish

the world is hosed

# ¿ Dec 19, 2016 19:26

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

someone post that story about the restaurant using opium poppy seeds in their noodles to get their customers addicted

# ¿ Dec 19, 2016 19:50

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

basic hitler posted:

I just see it in terns not unlike alcoholism in that its life destroying but at least You're not fueling a cartel murder spree across three continents, spreading hiv, and setting yourself up to shed your mortal coil that will devastate anyone who ever cared about you. We need more modern approaches and attitudes to addiction management in this country, not crackdowns that ultimately pushes script addicts to the black market

no it just leads to that excessively after the fact

like i get fentanyl is an opiate and its cheap but killing off your customer base because its so insanely strong seems like a bad idea to me instead of just adding chinese baby milk formula

# ¿ Dec 19, 2016 21:29

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...t-a7350186.html

quote:

A deadly drug, which has been banned from the battlefield under the Chemical Weapons Convention and is being blamed for a spate of drug overdoses in the United States, can be easily bought over the internet for just a few thousand pounds, it has been revealed.

Twelve Chinese online businesses said they could export carfentanil � a synthetic opioid which is being cut with heroin and other illicit drugs - at just $2,750 (�2,233) to the US, Canada and various European countries including the UK, an investigation by the Associated Press found.

Carfentanil is the most potent commercial opioid in the world, according to the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).

Its chemically similar cousin fentanyl is up to 50 times stronger the heroin and carfentanil is 100 times stronger than fentanyl itself.

Before being discovered by drug dealers, carfentanil and substances like it were viewed as chemical weapons. Assistant Secretary of Defence for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defence Programmes between 2009 and 2014 described the drug as a �weapon�, adding �companies shouldn't be just sending it to anybody�.

The drug was first developed in the 1970s and its only official use is to sedate large zoo animals such as elephants. Just 10mg of carfentanil will sedate a 5000kg elephant.

In 2014, US authorities seized 3.7kg of fentanyl. This year, until mid-July, they have seized 134.1kg, according to US Customs and Border Protection data obtained by the AP. Fentanyl is the most frequently seized synthetic opioid, US Customs reports.

In China, however, carfentanil is not a controlled substance and it can be manufactured legally and sold openly online.

"We can supply carfentanil . for sure," a saleswoman from Jilin Tely Import and Export Co told the AP in an email in September. "And it's one of our hot sales product."

Vendors said they lie on customs forms, guaranteed delivery to countries where carfentanil is banned and volunteered strategic advice on sneaking packages past law enforcement.

At a chemicals industry conference in Shanghai last month, several vendors said they would be able to supply carfentanil and some also recommended sending the drugs via EMS, the express mail service of state-owned China Postal Express & Logistics Co.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2016 11:28

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Probably a combination of whats legal in china and what the market is like. LSD in particular is both hard to synthesise and also degrades quickly. Why make LSD when you can just make some other drug that has similar effects but is easier to make. The fact that its incredibly easy to OD on and lose limbs/life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromo-DragonFLY are just a side effect that the manufacturer doesn't care about

MDMA was manufactured heavily in china until the chinese government banned one of the precursors leading to a global shortage a few years back iirc

# ¿ Dec 20, 2016 13:05

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

north korea share a border with the largest population in the world i'm not sure they need to go through the trouble to export globally

# ¿ Dec 20, 2016 14:46

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

its cool that the Philippines president is allowing extrajudicial killings of drug dealers while being a fentanyl fiend

# ¿ Dec 20, 2016 16:15

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Blistex posted:

I've heard that the first clue that one of the containers holding Carfentanil's seal has broken is that you pass out and die. Apparently its handled in a manner very similar to how one treats chemical weapons.

thats because its literally a chemical weapon :thumbsup:

# ¿ Dec 20, 2016 21:26

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

its been proven it was carfentanil. and yeah everyone died because they told medics to bring narcan and unsurprisingly they weren't prepared for a hundred people plus ODing on carfentanil which requires far more of it

# ¿ Dec 20, 2016 21:50

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Embarassing. Why would you share you being a bitch rear end snitch?

i don't normally report people but getting the tramadol junkie rereg permabanned was good

# ¿ Dec 20, 2016 22:35

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Captain Yossarian posted:

Lol bless you for real

i'm surprised it took until me stating in the report it was tramadol junkie that he was permabanned. assumed someone else would have done it

you should get plat i've pms i want to send and they include photos :thumbsup:

# ¿ Dec 20, 2016 23:18

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Drunk & Ugly posted:

but can chemists make me a vagina

this would solve most of my problems

you want a surgeon for that

# ¿ Dec 22, 2016 14:37

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

ladron posted:

I always thought coke made you skinny tho?

cartels cutting it with baby milk powder

# ¿ Dec 23, 2016 18:03

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

i would like to gently caress someones mother

# ¿ Jan 2, 2017 11:02

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 12:41

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

mao has probably done more damage to the planet/humanity than any single person ever

# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 21:41

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Darkman Fanpage posted:

nah.

who do you think has done more? would china be polluting less had he not ended up in charge?

# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 22:27

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

fojar who is your worst person ever i'm genuinely curious

# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 23:20

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Fojar38 posted:

I don't really have one because I'm not sure how you can quantify badness beyond saying "Yep, that person is bad." K/D ratio?

i guess i just look at those beijing pollution photos

# ¿ Jan 3, 2017 23:33

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

chinese the sandlot

# ¿ Jan 4, 2017 23:21

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Blistex posted:

In the first 30 seconds of the movie their mothers tell them to get back inside so they don't get sick. The next hour and 10 minutes is watching them study, eat, and dick around on their ipads.

i'm most interested in the chewing tobacco scene

# ¿ Jan 4, 2017 23:27

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

The government are cracking down on football teams spending obscene amounts of money to get players to go to a poo poo league in china

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38524429

quote:

A spokesperson for China's General Administration of Sport said clubs in the country were "burning money".

# ¿ Jan 6, 2017 14:33

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

wasn't he growing weed on government land and got caught when we went to harvest it? I can see that being a hassle to deal with if he won't confess

# ¿ Jan 6, 2017 18:44

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

thats becuase they charge someone only if they think its a sure win

# ¿ Jan 6, 2017 20:22

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

HerStuddMuffin posted:

Then there's about three times as many sure wins a year nowadays than there were probable wins in 1973. Something else is going on.

dna testing makes it much easier

# ¿ Jan 6, 2017 21:57

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

what the gently caress is magic mirror car

# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 10:31

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

i went and searched it on pornhub and i still have no idea

# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 10:41

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

The Great Autismo! posted:

waiting in line isn't really a thing in the mainland. it's crazy though, like when you're traveling you can tell when you are getting ready to get to the mainland, or a group of people form the mainland are nearby. i can't explain it. it's like the aura of the room changes, kind of like when you have the feeling someone is watching you. maybe i have that feeling because a ton of people are indeed staring at me and my family, i don't know, but it's just a different feeling being at a gate with a large group of people from the mainland.

i just flew back to beijing like 28 hours ago, wife and i took boston to narita on japan airlines. just such a beautiful flight. they are so helpful and give our kid free stuff and we always get to board early and they have special utensils for the kid, etc. from narita we had to change to fly to beijing, again on japan airlines. our flight was gate like 67B or something, it was downstairs, so we got there and there was a sign that said "no carts downstairs" and then an elevator right there. you can probably see where this is going but i'll continue. we dropped our cart off and went downstairs and there were like 15 carts all over the place. people sitting in the pregnant lady/old person seats with their shoes and socks off. the decibel level went up significantly. they said "we will be boarding in just a few minutes" and it was like a reenactment of the stampede from the lion king. we waited a few minutes and walked to the front and they said we could board first because we had a child. there were at least 8 Japan airline employees working to organize all of the duty free poo poo people had bought. it was literally unbelievable how much duty free crap was all over the place. while we were waiting to get on a mainlander came up and was like "hey, i need you to stamp my duty free thing" and the girl working the counter said "we can't do that here" and the lady kind of looked at her and said "i need this stamped" and the girl was like "ok, i can't do it, I'm sorry" and the lady said "i don't have time to go do it anywhere else, you have to" and the girl working said "i can not" and the lady didn't move so no one could get up there, and just kind of looked at the girl for a bit, finally the girl said "please go take a seat" and the lady walked away kind of dejected.

we get on the plane and the two ladies in front of us have reclined their seats as far back as possible the second they sit down, squishing my son's head. a flight attendant comes and tells them they have to wait until the plane takes off and they do not fix their seats. the flight attendant fixes their seats for them, and they immediately put them back when she walks away, and another comes and fixes them again, all before take off.

we arrived back in beijing and our driver picked us up, but he had forgotten where he parked his car. we got on the elevator to go to the garage and an old guy waited until the doors were almost closed before he hit the "door open" button. he did this twice, for some reason. our driver was getting onto the freeway and there was a big red X at the toll, but he went to that one anyway, and he kinda slowed down but not really and just blew through the toll and broke the barrier. we found out like five minutes later the road was closed due to fog and we had to go back and go a different way. finally got back to my apartment at like 1:30 last night.

it's good to be back, lol

i remember the video of that extremely angry thai lady in an airport

these threads are going to sorely miss haier never going back to china. grand fromage needs to step up

# ¿ Jan 9, 2017 23:14

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Grand Fromage posted:

I'm sorry I don't encounter nearly as many entertaining situations as Haier or TGA.

People in Chengdu are too busy sleeping or playing their 18th straight hour of majiang or that one card game they have here to do anything.

the thread just needs every single china goon meeting everyone from tantan

# ¿ Jan 10, 2017 10:34

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Glenn Quebec posted:

Haier you trimmed a woman's hairy nipple so that you could suck on it some more.

Dude, come on.

i'm glad of it

# ¿ Jan 12, 2017 16:16

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Atlas Hugged posted:

Nothing makes me sadder than going for a jog around the little pond in my condomunity and seeing grandma smoking into the stroller while feeding the infant a bottle of water. Please, don't do any of that. I do not understand the pan-Asian obsession with feeding infants water (I've seen this in multiple countries and parents of multiple nationalities engage in this behavior).

I was on a plane with my boy who was about 6 months old at the time and he was as big or bigger than a kid that was 1 year old and any time the kid got fussy on the flight the nanny stuck a bottle of water in his mouth. Infants don't need water. They need milk. They don't need cigarette smoke either! Christ. As an aside, the mom of that kid was up in first class and would on occasion take the boy up to her, but then he'd cry and it was right back off to nanny.

a 1 year old should be on regular food and water as well as milk. no meat though

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 11:37

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

would you be able to get a sick apartment cheap if you murdered the occupants a couple of times?

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 17:16

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Sheep-Goats posted:

Asia actually has major issues relating to this. Any apartment or house that is not new might have ghosts so very few people will be interested in it. However this doesn't mean the owners decide they should knock the price down at all and still keep ludicrous prices in place and in the case of Japan (and Korea I think?) even for rentals you have to give the landlord an effective bribe known as key money to even get in which can be six months rent. Places will go vacant for years rather than anyone compromise.

What eventually breaks the dam is either a buyer shows up whose lust to own property is so irrational they will pay what is asked or some deal involving friends or tit for tat involving a business, in either case this keeps future deals just as stilted.

i was just thinking about that hong kong real estate website that had cheaper properties where someone had died

# ¿ Jan 13, 2017 17:52

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Drunk & Ugly posted:

also is there a female version of Haier, lets get some dicks in here. Great stuff team

while i'd like to read her adventures like haiers posters in the thread lead me to suggest chinese men would not be able to deal with it

# ¿ Jan 14, 2017 09:35

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

What's the TCM version of an STD test?

cupping therapy on the dick

# ¿ Jan 14, 2017 13:11

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

pentyne posted:

No, more how it's rather obvious, given that she was treated in India since 2014, that India was the source.

india has shitloads of people and is very close to china

# ¿ Jan 14, 2017 22:32

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Cuntellectual posted:

I dated a mainland Chinese guy who declared he was going to kill my previous ex, who was Taiwanese, to prove his devotion. Does that count?

I've actually dated a few Chinese guys. Never been to China, though.

It's actually kinda the opposite of what you'd think in that a lot of mainland Chinese guys seem to be completely ok being treated like dirt because they're under the assumption that spending X dollars means being entitled to Y affection. FIRST DATE. GIVE GIFT. SECOND DATE. GIFT AGAIN. GET KISSY. Like, every time, for maybe 5 or 6 guys. I mean, guys from everywhere are kind of like that to an extent but the sheer degree of it was eerie.

When I was in high school I never had to bother getting a job because a lot of the sons of wealthy immigrants wanted a white girlfriend as fast as possible after moving to North America and hey, I'm a young entrepreneur.

lol nice moves

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 11:57

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Outrail posted:

Why do that when you could rip the control box off existing bikes, create your own app, print your own stickers and become a parasite on the existing companies.

that requires effort and not cutting every corner

# ¿ Jan 18, 2017 20:33

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# ¿ May 22, 2024 05:35

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Taiwan is in full troll mode with sending a delegation Trumps inauguration lol

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 10:04

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