Dicky mouse posted:

where are you getting TMC in japan?

Kharnifex posted:

Last time I was in Hong Kong there was two scams running, one was smuggling meat in to beat some 0.002 cent tax per kilo and the other was fake eggs.

The whole salers sold them for cheap and disappeared, they were nice and heavy so market goers bought them, they were made using crushed seashell, seaweed extract and a rubber bouncy ball.

Haier posted:

Since I sometimes talk about India, I wanted to mention this because it owns.

http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/pm-modi-speaks-to-nation-tonight-at-8-pm-1622948

Basically, Modiji is requiring all Indians to bring in their 500 and 1000 rupee notes to the banks or post offices to turn in and exchange later for the new 500s and 2000 notes. It was mentioned a long time ago that he had wanted to crack down on "Black money," or money that criminals amass and horde, as well as tax-evading businesses, terrorist funding, gangs, and other people like that. There was little warning about this, which was the point, and it's going to be a huge headache for a lot of people as the deadline is very soon.

What this scheme is doing is genius though. The people and organizations who are sitting on trashbags full of 1000 rupee notes will have no way to turn them in legally. Once the deadline passes they immediately become valueless except in small increments with government ID, and they'll get hassled for it. If they want to take them to a bank to turn in, they can only turn in a small amount unless they use their PAN card (like a personal identifier for income and money transactions), which will immediately flag them for suddenly trying to put in wheelbarrows of money. The guys and organizations with black money have millions of dollars, all unclaimed, mostly illegally gained, and untaxed (of course). They are all screwed, and the only options are to let it all go to waste and lose all of it, or try some schemes to put it in, but eventually someone is going to get flagged and arrested and linked back to the horde. If they can, they might be able to send hundreds of guys to every bank in a 1000km radius, but there's not enough to time to do that, especially with every normal citizen waiting in line to exchange their tender. There's just no way they can get rid of this money in those huge amounts without being caught.

This doesn't just gently caress over the big time criminals and corporations, this also screws the grandpas who have retired on embezzled cash and keep a mattress full of 1000s to live off of. This is the guy over-charging customers for years, or skimming off the top for a new car. This gets the people who take "donations" for services (bribes) and other easily-passed money. This gets everyone who stole money and is keeping a certain amount or higher. Since corruption is one of the most hated elements of Indian society by those who must deal with it, this is going to hit a LOT of people.

loving LMAO. There's going to be tons of rich assholes who are going to be poor as hell very soon.

caberham posted:

WHY? i hope you have friends there. My aunt lives there and it's so boring

caberham posted:

No one in Hong Kong can squat really well because everyone uses regular toilets.

I think that's why mainland girls have nicer legs, they squat all the time and wear super high heels

Haier posted:

JaucheCharly posted:

The issue is EXTREMELY complex, but the consensus is that there are a whole host of factors that lead to this constellation of "poo poo".

We can vaguely summarize by saying that China was never good

Sheep-Goats posted:

This is a street map of Bangkok, that you are showing to a taxi driver, in Bangkok.

Automatic Slim posted:

So can you pick and choose which organs you wanted to donate? Or is it all in/ all out?

JaucheCharly posted:

Sometimes toddlers eat stuff that they find under the couch.

ladron posted:

there's a brand of korean instant ramen called "nagasaki"