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My roommates were convinced someone in our neighborhood was trying to kill their dogs, because there were strange piles of food in the alleyway near us. Besides the several other dozen dogs and cats living around us
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The Great Autismo! posted:
This exact story happened to me in August. The. Exact. Story. At least we were just moving to a new part of the campus. I actually freaked out looking at your picture because it looked exactly like my school 2 days before it started in September. AND THEY ADDED ENGRISH ON THE loving WALLS WHEN THERE WASN'T ANY BEFORE. We begged them. BEGGED THEM. To look at what they were doing before it went up. And they wouldn't let us. And they got rid of the teacher's only bathroom.
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Sep 29, 2016 08:36
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Imperialist Dog posted:
Why are so many goons copying my life
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Sep 30, 2016 02:52
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Jeoh posted:the street is sloped I thought we said we didn't want this thread closed again
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Oct 3, 2016 14:48
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Haier posted:
If it was that we'll behaved it was probably a gerbil.
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Oct 9, 2016 14:22
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Serephina posted:Welcome to the thread. Haier is our very official mascot and local hero. I would buy a collection of his posts for .99 on Amazon.
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Baronjutter posted:Yeah I remember when Jackie Chan was making it big in the 90's in north america and all the HKers in my high-school were always trying to tell us what a piece of poo poo he was, and that was just in the 90's over the way he treated women. Becoming a mouthpiece for the chinese government wasn't even on the radar yet. So is he HK Woody Allen or something
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Oct 16, 2016 00:06
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And how many will still be around in 10.
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Oct 16, 2016 02:25
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My fiancé had to wear those kind of contacts for our wedding photos. They made her eyes weird but she liked it.
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Oct 18, 2016 08:11
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Rockin Orthodontist posted:What? If you've had the wedding isn't she your wife not fiance? I mean the pre-wedding photos. Like the ones where you are standing in a field and you spend 12 hours of your day taking photos. I did them last month. We did them in a studio because gently caress doing an outside shoot in the middle of summer. We had a fake library, fake staircase, fake castle door, fake cafe, billowy curtains, all that poo poo. I hated it and will never post them here. Metal Geir Skogul posted:Who is forcing her? You?! The photographer.
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Oct 18, 2016 09:06
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Imperialist Dog posted:Depending on the time of day, the McDonald's in HK are filled with old people. When school finishes it then gets packed with young people. This being Hong Kong though, both sides are as loud as possible. This is not just a Chinese thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85k8aDgk4lI&t=331s
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Oct 19, 2016 02:26
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Imperialist Dog posted:Speaking of cultural appropriation: this got pass over but i'm letting you know this is a cool and good video
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Oct 19, 2016 11:24
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Boiled Water posted:Why are you taking antibiotics for food poisoning? If it's not a bacterial infection you're doing yourself more harm than good since you're killing off your intestinal flora. I only have the numbers for Western Europe but here's one thing in the realm of 65-70% of food poisoned my cases are caused by norovirus. You'd be better off laying off of whatever pills you're taking and eating some yogurt, provided you aren't terribly lactose intolerant. Everywhere outside of the developed world you get antibiotics for everything. Every time I've been to the ER in Taiwan I get antibiotics. I go to the ENT for anything, antibiotics. My fiance has psoriasis and she was given antibiotics. The super bacteria of the world all come from there.
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Oct 30, 2016 11:23
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ladron posted:it doesn't even bite him or maul him or anything good, it just rolls around with him (insert gay/bear joke here) That was the best part. The best thing it could do to attack him was just roll their fat onto him.
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Nov 1, 2016 11:24
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Chinese may work on mobile things where you can write the character with your finger on a screen and the correct one will show up. Using a keyboard to write Chinese in China, HK, and Taiwan all have different systems that are so lovely. I've been professional Chinese secretaries take agonizingly long to type on keyboards and continually needing to delete, go back to the base radical and search for the right character.
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Nov 2, 2016 05:57
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The Great Autismo! posted:fbr got banned??? wtf?? Im pretty sure fbr is just pro-prc laowai alt anyway
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Nov 6, 2016 04:07
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simplefish posted:
You find shopkeepers who are good to you and hold on to them forever. I always go to the same shops again and again because I trust them. And they treat me well.
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Nov 6, 2016 12:11
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nickmeister posted:I've heard the whole "leave the windows open when it's cold" story a few times in this thread. Has anyone gotten a solid answer before? Believing in miasma theory.
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Nov 8, 2016 14:29
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caberham posted:I tried to make a few jokes here and there but now it's sinking in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSQozWP-rM It was all true
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Nov 9, 2016 09:45
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Grand Fromage posted:Cool. I've been offered a job to be principal of one of those international programs and one of the main reasons I'm not going to do it is I'm pretty sure it'll be illegal in a few years anyway. Looks like I may be right. The IB has been looking at China for alot of their growth over the past 4-5 years. If they get kicked out there is going to be some very hosed people I met in my Indonesia and Malaysia conferences this year.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Truthfully, it's sad they don't have miasma theory. At least then they'd do something about the air quality. They did. In Taichung (where I am) during the Japanese colonial times they hired an American to come in and design the city, which is now the central district, to make sure the streets get the maximum amount of sunlight in the most days in order to dry them out, thereby removing standing water, removing bad smells, and miasma would go away. It pays to tell students to do a history project on the development of their own city 
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Haier posted:My old lab partner from college added me on Facebook recently. She was like "OMG, tell me about China!? So cool you ended up there. Blah blah." and I wrote this huge GBS post about how it's not what she thinks and then I stopped and read it again and felt I looked ridiculous even if everything is totally true, so I deleted it and said China has 5000 years of culture and be careful of some of the food because you get the squirts. I recommended she take a trip here some time for vacation, because I am totally sure she'd love it and how culturally rich it is. shoulda saved it and posted it here
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Vesi posted:looks like it's from independent republic of Taiwan Pretty sure it is. I've seen pictures of that hill before. I pay 3 bucks a week for my gas while my brother pays 40 for his Camry so yes I do love my efficiency.
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Nov 14, 2016 01:59
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I have a Dyson ball vacuum cleaner where part of side of the ball wheel broke off. Its cool, under warranty. I pack it up, ship it back with a courier, they say they will ship it back the same week. Get it back 4 days later, put inside a larger box, unchanged. I really don't know what happened with the vacuum the past 4 days.
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Nov 19, 2016 00:33
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Sheep-Goats posted:
I was reading a chart about each country's main caloric intake. Every country in the world had rice, wheat, or corn. Parts of Africa and Latin America had yams, plantains, sweet potatoes. Except Venezuela. They had sugar.
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Nov 21, 2016 08:43
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I spent 4 hours a week in classes when I first got here and with my new job I basically stopped. My listening skills are pretty good but my speaking has really atrophied. Yue lai Yue bu hao.
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Nov 25, 2016 06:53
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Pirate Radar posted:I've asked Taiwanese people what they think and they go more for Spider-Man, actually  There are many more spelling errors on this mural.
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Nov 25, 2016 17:21
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Many Japanese pornstars I have enjoyed are Japanese-Brazilian. This is my story, thank you for listening.
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Nov 29, 2016 04:13
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fish and chips and dip posted:What annoys me the most watching Chinese TV shows is the super wooden acting. It's like watching a bunch of high schoolers trying way too hard to be ~actors~ during a school play. I personally don't enjoy the "two characters see each other, put on bad surprised face for 30 seconds, shot-reverse-shots until freezeframe and program logo"
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Nov 30, 2016 01:51
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Sheep-Goats posted:Hate to break it to you but you don't have your feet anywhere near each other in a shitsquat / slavsquat / Fuki reading a newspaper on the corner while it's raining and he's smoking squat I have seen many women do that kind of squat.
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Rutibex posted:
Triggering, and also you never ever see the 20 dollar coin around. I have never seen a 2000 dollar bill here as well. 200s are rarer to see than 2 dollar US bills.
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nickmeister posted:This is true. But there are career military people as well as scrawny teens who are doing their 10 months (?) before they can go to college and get on with their lives. Also, I think they must actually train to fight rather than break up protests and riots. Everyone I've talked to that did their stint in the military just said they did a bunch of push ups.
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Every year my school every 8th grade class must perform in an English song competition. My class did Imagine Dragons. Now I wasn't exactly listening to what the song was going to be...and then I notice all the kids come out with beards. OK, must be a santa thing for the holidays. Fine. And then one kid starts speaking...and it is a Zero Mostel impression. And then I take a closer look at what they are wearing...this was pretty much Jewface. They are supposed to pick a modern pop song. And so they did a song from Fiddler on the Roof, "Tradition." And so I have my homeroom class watching this, and they know I'm Jewish. I'm the only one in the school. And so they are watching this...and looking back at me, with faces that only say "this must be what traditional Jewish culture is like, right? Did you grow up like this?" And now they keep playing the song on youtube. There are alot of things that Asia doesn't get.
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I worship at the cult of Fojar
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The Great Autismo! posted:When people say China is a nation of literal children, this is the type of thing they are referring to This is also why foreign teachers are not supposed to watch the other ESL teachers, it will be too much face loss.
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Dec 31, 2016 02:59
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nickmeister posted:I read something somewhere that pointed out that big blockbusters with China pandering tend to have very simple stories and dialogue because they are easier to translate into Chinese. Without the baggage of cultural references, it's easier to sell overseas. I saw Neighbors 1&2 with a Taiwanese audience, there were several times where I laughed at references and everyone else sat on their hands waiting for airbags to blow up.
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LentThem posted:Kids are precious I've seen enough kids not wearing helmets on scooters to know this is true
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caberham posted:Oh right, Gimbap is loving ghetto. What a broke rear end country I believe the word you are looking for is juche
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In other news, the poutinerie in Taipei is great.
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ocrumsprug posted:If you are from the west, the accent is quite slight and almost indistinguishable from west coast US. Like the states, the accents gets more pronounced as you go East. Call all corn chips even without cheese/cheese like sauce nachos...
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