LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:

E: ^ I've never heard that, nachos always need toppings. Otherwise its just a chip or a tostito.

Blistex posted:

In all I made about $4000 in free money from different administrative gently caress ups which paid for my entire wedding ceremony (~200 guests) and wedding photos in China.

Atlas Hugged posted:

I paid nothing out of pocket for my wedding and it was fine. My wife's family covered expenses and kept all the red envelopes and I'm told it was profitable. We did it on a shoestring and no one noticed.

Darkman Fanpage posted:

jerk off instructions

Sheep-Goats posted:

https://my.mixtape.moe/mecben.webm

Haier posted:

binge crotching posted:

Where the hell is this? I'll be there for work in a few weeks, and I really want to see what Taiwan calls poutine.

The Great Autismo! posted:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TACerrSK1Hk

Pirate Radar posted:

Alaska is embarrassing to teach about because the Japanese invaded, then left before the American response force showed up (because the islands were useless frozen rocks and the whole point was to plant a Japanese flag on American soil), then the Navy bombarded empty islands for a while and a bunch of guys died during the landings from accidents or friendly fire. Not exactly America's finest hour.

Gorilla Salad posted:

Good lord, I have no idea what they were thinking with that.

Ouch.

Atlas Hugged posted:

As a little girl growing up, my wife was only allowed to have very limited participation in weddings. She couldn't really go anywhere near the bride or the wedding chamber whereas other kids would be invited to roll around on the bed for good luck (especially Rabbits). All of this because she was born in the year of the Tiger.

Taiwan still carries a lot of the cultural baggage of being Chinese. Kids who have night terrors or bad dreams are regularly taken to exorcists. It's just what you do, don't you know?

"The Good" China Post posted:

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Uber Taiwan, facing mounting government pressure and fines, announced Thursday that it was temporarily suspending operations in Taiwan starting Feb. 10.
In a company statement, Uber says it was temporarily ceasing operations and hoped to return to negotiations with the government to "innovate transportation technology" on the island.

"This is a difficult decision," the statement indicated, adding that the service had helped make 15 million trips possible in its four years of operation in Taiwan.

The announcement came after the ride-share service was fined by Taiwan's government repeatedly, amassing fines of up to NT$1.1 billion (approximately US$35 million) since Jan. 6.

The Transportation Ministry ordered Uber Taiwan to cease operations and said that the service ban would continue until the company abided by local laws.

Outrail posted:

Uhgggh Jesus that's brutal. loving use the brakes? Or get off the accelerator?

Pirate Radar posted:

Haier has me wondering what the Who's On First sketch is like in Chinese.

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

We came back to work yesterday after the month-long holiday to find that mice had laid waste to the office. My coworker had left some snacks in her desk- no idea if they were sealed or not, but I had mice find and chew through a sealed bag of peanuts earlier this year, so it's possible.

So much mouse poo poo.

Fojar38 posted:

sure, i was referring more to the fact that you get op-eds and statistics that say "China has a huge middle class!" and your average joe thinks that means that 800 million chinese now live lifestyles equivalent to the american or european middle class

gently caress, apparently even corporate ceos think this

JaucheCharly posted:

No matter how she looks, you need to take the plunge.

Glenn Quebec posted:

No way man I love running up to ethnic groups and marginalize whatever horrific historical event happened to their face

Imperialist Dog posted:

Miasma theory is Traditional Western Medicine

Also please remember that BONGHITZ just copy-pastes sad tales from Reddit.

ladron posted:

I was riding my motorcycle thru seoul headed home, and I made an illegal turn because it cut like 20 minutes off my commute. I did it all the time. Lots of people did it all the time. One time, during korea's "crack down on traffic scofflaws week so cops can sleep in their cars the rest of the year" a cop was standing there, right after the turn, obviously busting people for it. He walked over yelling at me, and I pulled down my sunglasses so he could see my (blue) eyes, and he immediately turned around and walked away muttering, proving once again that being white is pretty cool.

P-Mack posted:

My dad used to supervise a 911 call center and they dealt with a third party service for anything beyond Spanish. The first thing that would happen is it would go to an expert who could listen to terrified screams in fifty languages and quickly figure out which one it is before redirecting.

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

Peace Corpse

Baronjutter posted:

That seems insane that they can just claw back the money.

big time bisexual posted:

many a migger makes a mingzi

Darkest Auer posted:

This is pretty good

Imperialist Dog posted:

I HAVE DISCOVERED A CRAZY PILE OF poo poo

https://ihatehongkong2.wordpress.com/


There's YEARS of entries like this.

big time bisexual posted:

many a migger makes a mingzi

Jimmy Little Balls posted:

I rarely ever see people playing the fighting games when I go to the lovely arcades, the big crowd is always around that one where you have to guess which of 4 monkeys will climb the tree the fastest. In the one in the building where my company was there's always a massive crowd of Tibetan women playing one of the bullet hell games.

Escape Addict posted:

In college, I had a mainland Chinese roommate. He exhibited the picky eater trait too. We went to a diner for breakfast once and I ordered chicken-fried steak with eggs over medium, which came with biscuits and gravy. Rather than evaluate the menu, he just told the waitress, "Me too." When the food arrived, he poked an egg with his fork and watched in horror as the liquid yolk drained out.

He said, "I don't think they cooked this."

I told him that's what "eggs over easy/medium" means. He frowned at the meal in disgust, unwilling to put any of it in his mouth. He begged to be taken to a Chinese restaurant.

So we go to one, a really lovely Americanized fake Chinese food place. I asked him, "Is any of this like what you eat back home?"

He said, "Not at all." And yet he loved it since it was labeled Chinese food.

I always figured he was on the autistic spectrum and really immature. This thread has opened my eyes to how culturally ingrained some of these behaviors are.

Jimmy Little Balls posted:

My students would always go on about how Bruce Lee was a great Chinese person do you know him he is very faymurs, but if he was from Hong Kong doesn't that mean he's actually British?

Deceitful Penguin posted:

You and I are reading very different lectures if you think that the man that decides to disregard "an examination of the complex political issues behind the
'Opium Wars' tonight" in favour of spending the next three pages going: "No, guys, Opium isn't addictive at all and is no problem, really." is simply talking about the failures of prohibition.

It especially stands in such clear contrast with "The Opium Wars" which is pretty much about the complete opposite because that's what matters but still manages to point out that "no guys, actually opium is pretty bad" which isn't a terribly unpopular position outside of places like TCC.

hakimashou posted:

If you look at the work the new mod is doing, it is good work.

I shouldn't have posted what I did. I got probated, but its OK, I have been probated before.

I am not a martyr, I support the new D&D mod.

ocrumsprug posted:

I cannot imagine any rich Chinese parents spending money to send their kid to a farm.

Darkest Auer posted:

For once the answer here is the same as it would be anywhere else in the world. Japan. It's just that in Chinar it's the only sex ed people have.

Magna Kaser posted:

I dunno I've met a bazillion 23 year old fresh grad english teachers in my time here and they're always insufferable in p much this way, or close to it. The international students are even worse. There's some fetish among them to find "real china" and experience "real china" and oh ho ho you went to that place that serves nice beer and not 8¥ bottles of snow beer served at room temperature? Look at this guy!

Kashwashwa posted:

I genuinely can't believe what I'm seeing... how could a human being have such little logic/forethought?

Baronjutter posted:

Punctuality is civilized behavior and a lack of punctuality is degenerate barbarism. The germans and dutch have the right idea. Going to be 5min late? You phone/text and apologize and better have a drat good excuse. If you say yes to a plan, that's literally written down in your planner and it's a set commitment that you don't flake out of. Dinner at 5:15? You're there at 5:15, and if you don't bring a +1 unless it was agreed on before hand.

My co-worker is dating a fellow from south africa and there's a lot of this "cultural time" poo poo. In his culture you apparently just say yes to all plans and commitments, but it doesn't mean anything it's just being polite. "Dinner at 5 tomorrow?" yes. "Movie at 5:30 tomorrow?" yes. "Are you free to help me move from 3 till 6?" yes. Then you just show up to some or none when ever you have time and act very confused when people are upset because you certainly don't expect anyone else to be punctual or do what they said. Already an hour late to an event and they're asking you if you are coming? Say yes even if you're still in bed. Just always say yes. Can you finish this by the end of the work day? Yes. You didn't finish it, will it be done in the morning? yes. You said it would be done in the morning?? Afternoon? yes. next day? Yes. Always yes, it's always ready soon. It's not that you don't know how long it will take, you knew from the start it would take 3 days, but you just say yes to what ever timeline they said because it will be done when it's done, what's the fuss?? Have a rest.

Let us English posted:

I'm glad to see people saying 'take a rest.' For some reason Korean ex-pats lose it over this particular phrase and will insist up and down that a native English speaker would never say it, ever.

Though, at least Korea had running water and electricity.


Thankfully unrelated to this thread's derail.