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Haier posted:This was a good post, and thanks for the photos and story. This whole part stood out to me as a big difference between Mainland and Hong Kong. Thinking about the city's problems? Thinking about other people and their problems? Thinking about anything at all? Whaaaaaaaat? I give it another generation or two after all the Mainlanders have flooded HK (and the locals have run off to other countries) to make all those weird things go away. Were you born in Wuhan and grew up in Hong Kong?
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Yes you guys are finally out of LAN
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Sep 28, 2016 01:34
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It slowed down a bit. Lots of people are frantically trying to offload their properties or pay lawyers crazy amount of money to expedite the transactions. But guess what? There's 13 billion people so another wave will be here pretty soon!
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Sep 28, 2016 01:52
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Imperialist Dog posted:My old school was in a rural HK village (it means it was a whole 15 minute walk to the KCR station), but mostly served middle class parents. Someone put a giant banner across from the school advertising London properties as investment so parents would see it when they left the school. Nobody calls it the KCR anymore you hipster
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Sep 30, 2016 09:45
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Grand Fromage posted:Today I asked students to name a hero from Chinese history and all of them said Mao immediately. It took a second for me to contain my disgust before I could continue. Not even a deng xiao ping or sun yat sen? Heck I would settle for the first emperor of china. Freaking backwater Sichuan
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Sep 30, 2016 09:46
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Dump that bitch.
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Oct 8, 2016 17:14
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My girlfriend is awesome and never does poo poo like that ever. She might be a bit more doting on me but she truly cares about me and I love her
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Oct 8, 2016 17:15
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Triple freaking post I'm in a Japanese bar and bumped into my Japanese sushi chef. He was complaining that Chinese customers aka mainlanders are too happy go lucky and making him down sake too much. They talk and social too much in his ULTRA SERIOUS restaurant. To his defense things can get out of hand with a excited crowd at a out of this world dining experience
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Oct 8, 2016 17:17
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Oct 8, 2016 18:47
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I hate all lower class people. Especially when they are traveling and going to trashy areas doing trashy stuff. Actually rich people can be just as obnoxious. Honestly I think it's just more of a numbers game. Tour groups and cheaper places increases the odds. I still remember my first time going to the empty robuchon restaurant in Macau when it first opened. It was not as well known and years ago. There were 2 other tables of mainlanders but holy smokes they look refined. It was as if I was dining in Europe with old money high society. Everyone else were too busy throwing their money in the VIP tables and eating fast food. Nowadays people in china ... bah why bother I'm going to stick with the juicy stories
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Oct 14, 2016 02:08
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nerdz posted:Is this another "defending chewing with the mouth open as a culture thing" discussion? It's just ironic to me that only now they think "well, maybe we should shut down all the whorehouses in respect of the god king". I also love all the extra warnings about committing Lesè Majesté. But the funniest thing here is my friend getting hosed over on his vacation due to bad timing TRUMP 2016
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Oct 14, 2016 02:20
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Hey club rats can be crazy too! There's nothing wrong with sending naked pictures online. As long as the other party is ready for it and likes it. If not then you are no better than some rear end in a top hat flasher in the subway
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Oct 19, 2016 05:27
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The Great Autismo! posted:is it normal in hook up apps to sext? I have no idea, it is a culture/subgroup I am completely unfamiliar with It's not sexting when it's unsolicited, it's sexual harassment.
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Oct 19, 2016 06:58
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The Great Autismo! posted:Forums user have goatcx'd me, hell caberham you are the moderator of a group chat with far worse than dick pics in it...are you complicit in mass sexual harassment then? Because that's the argument you're making right now 
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Oct 19, 2016 08:47
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Please go on and tell us how much more clarification you need
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Oct 19, 2016 08:50
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Do you feel that you have been harassed
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Oct 19, 2016 08:59
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The Great Autismo! posted:no not at all, if I didn't I wouldn't have joined the group. Or used the app 
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Oct 19, 2016 09:03
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Hey Haier, how's Shenzhen? There's double typhoon and major rains. Hong Kong is doing ok because it's actually a well planned city for flood mitigation. Shenzhen, not so much. I remember a shenzhen goon got trapped in a bus when a 15 minute bus ride turned into a 2 hour spectacle. And there's another typhoon coming friday so maybe more rainstorms this weekend
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Oct 19, 2016 11:12
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History is fake. Mao killed the gentry
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Oct 19, 2016 14:41
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If you really want to experience face culture you should just go to Japan. Or even Korea, which is rip off version of Japan. Heck, there's even keigo, which is a specific kind of speech for business and formalities with a lot of different honorifics. Going to Japan as a tourist is awesome because they treat you the customer as God. Deep down, customer service might think you are a piece of poo poo but you wouldn't know! As for the education system, meh.
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Oct 20, 2016 05:10
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Stringent posted:baaaahahahahahahahaha
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Oct 20, 2016 07:01
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There's also shipping, customs, warehousing and other fixed costs. So yes it costs less than a dollar for 10 000 units but getting the product to you will make it at least 3 dollars
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Oct 20, 2016 08:46
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Nutrition will eventually off set that though. If you go to old German castles in Europe the ceilings and doorways are super short and the average height was 150cm. After generations of farmers and better nutrition the average height got taller. With the westernization of diets and increased protein uptake everyone's going to grow
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Oct 21, 2016 02:29
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Oh man it's typhoon day. Yay I get time off but I can't buy a kale salad
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Oct 21, 2016 02:30
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Accretionist posted:Any strong opinions on destinations for food-oriented solo-travel, w/good transit? The food here in China is great. I posted in the other thread, but there's a big difference between the north, south and other regions. In the south and southwest it's a lot more sub tropical so you can different kinds of fruit, seafood and spices. In the North and North east there's a bigger muslim population and mongol/pasture influence so you get more lamb dishes and the lamb tastes freaking awesome. It's also more of a wheat based diet and people there are pickier with their dough. You get better dumplings and heartier stews and meals. Then there's the Northwest and and tibet where poo poo is just wild west there. For the off beaten path pick somewhere in Gansu. The Lanzhou pulled noodles there are awesome - there's a chain or hui restaurant of some sort in every big city but the taste is just better there.
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Oct 23, 2016 16:04
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It's beertopia next
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Deceitful Penguin posted:Whoah for a few pages I was certain I´d accidently entered the LAN thread Hey Hey Hey Leave LAN ALONE
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Oct 24, 2016 04:58
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It's called 漢方医学
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Pon de Bundy posted:what is alcohol culture like in china , sounds like Korea and Japan have them beat . do Chinese men drink a lot ? do they drink with their boss and coworkers ? There's a huge difference between the north or rural areas and the south. North Eastern China is just Korean levels of bad where dudes are BRO and 哥們兒兒兒兒兒兒 as gently caress and chug baijiu. Everyone drinks as in the mom, the dad, the daughter, and the aunts drink poo poo loads of alcohol because winters there are just miserable. In the south it's way more tame. You do get baijiu fueled business meetings and KTV nights but you can weasel your way out of it. The alcohol abuse gets worse the more related the business is to a government body. Be it licensing/contracting/permits/bureaucracy. I would say the "defacto" national beer is Tsing Tao which is a Germany Lager legacy. The original factory and brewery in QingDao still imports wheat from Germany and make Okay lager. Everywhere else in China is just contracted brewing where rice is the major ingredient like Budweiser. There's also a craft brewery scene in the major cities because you can get cheap industrial brewing equipment from tao bao. As for non beers, there's different kind of rice wine but not as meticulous as Korean soju culture. You get yellow wine in Eastern China which tastes pretty good and more of a dry vinegar kick. Baijiu has a bad reputation but the home made stuff or higher quality stuff is actually really really smooth and tasty. You just take small sips of it like drinking cognac.
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I just want to say: Glass Northern China
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Nov 2, 2016 19:40
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McGavin posted:The de facto national beer in China in terms of liters downed is Snow. It's the most popular beer in the world by a lot. Considering that it's only available in China, enough is consumed so that everyone in China drinks 10L annually.  I want to gag
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The Great Autismo! posted:this is what annoys me most about whataboutism. i'm not saying china is DIFFERENT, i'm saying china is on a different LEVEL. which it is. any sane person who is not completely in love with china before they come here would agree. china takes it up a few notches. That's very true. But a lot of bullshit like office politics is more universal than just in China kind of thing
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Drunk & Ugly posted:gently caress off. i want to know about chinese in the uk and how they immigrate and where from mostly. i assume hong kong because of the past ties makes it easier for them to do so, but im not going to start questioning them while they run a busy shop I was in London last Christmas. China town used to be immigrants from Hong Kong / Guang Dong Province / Fujian Province. But nowadays the new immigrants are from North Eastern China and Interior China like Sichuan. So the Chinese restaurants are shifting flavours and catering the food to new immigrants and students from the rest of the Mainland. You get a lot more spicy hotpot and dumplings. The food is also unforgettably bad because the chefs are now students making some extra cash and winging it. loving blows. If you want to try Chinese food in London, try A Wong.
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Haier posted:From this thread and the Female Rasputin thread, all I can summarize from previous Korea-havers is that the only thing to talk about is alcohol. Does the country suck that much, or are the foreigners there that bored/boring? Goonsgiving is great. I attended once and I loved it. Korean goons are the best goon hosts in the whole wide world. I only knew a few people from hosting them in Hong Kong but when I went to korea the goons offered me their homes. As for the country itself, it's wedged between China and Japan so it does get neglected in terms of history/culture/tourism. So Korea is always trying to prove themselves. One wise goon said "Think of it like Canada" and as a Canadian I totally understood what he meant  At worse, you can call Korea - "Looks like Japan, but feels like China" but it's really modernizing and developing its own scene pretty quickly. Kpop is still bad but they grew out of Jpop and new Korean cuisine is actually amazing.
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Grand Fromage posted:No but alcohol is central to Korean culture so it is involved with a great many things. I rather stay in Korea than West Lafayette or anywhere in Indiana.
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The Great Autismo! posted:in all fairness you went to where else? in WL lol irl Also went to Indianapolis. The comedy stop over is Gary.
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People won't get our of their way to make friends with expats because they know they will eventually leave or don't want to speak another language
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Vernii posted:There are a surprising number of Indiana & Purdue goons. They don't like any out of towners
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Pon de Bundy posted:so chinese people hate weed. . . People still smoke weed. But it's the ones you find in the wild and the THC content is super low. It's mostly a farmer thing
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Technically you do have to register for each guest staying overnight but you don't really need to. As long as someone is already registered and have the room key card you can just walk past the front desk and dont give a gently caress. If front desks asks for registration just say that you are not sleeping overnight.
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