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BCR: Jan 23, 2011

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# ¿ Sep 17, 2016 23:30

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 22:18

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

http://basketballbuddha.com/allen-iverson-trip-to-china-ruined-by-chinese-agents/

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Iverson, Abdur-Rahim, and the rest of the crew got back to the hotel in Xi�An only to see government officials still present. David Lee, who was working with Li Dong negotiate side deals with local promoters was being detained in a small room next to the front desk of the hotel. Li Dong was there too, but wasn�t locked in a room. So Li Dong and Abdur-Rahim had a meeting discussing the current status of the tour. �Li Dong said he was going to give Iverson $10,000 a minute, but maximum five minutes so $50,000 per game. This time I was very direct with Li Dong, I told him, �Li it�s not about the money. It�s about doing things the right way. We had a contract. Iverson wants to spend some times here with his family and be with his fans in China. That�s it. It�s not about the money�,� said Abdur-Rahim.

Li Dong continued to insist on a new deal, and Abdur-Rahim continued denying him. Iverson joins Abdur-Rahim and Li Dong in the meeting. Now things are about to get serious because in this room is Li Dong, Abdur-Rahim, Iverson, and Tawanna. Now Li Dong is desperate, and throws a ridiculous number at Iverson. Li Dong offers Iverson $1 million for a combined 10 minutes of playing time for the remaining four games of the tour. That�s $1 million for two-and-half minutes per game. Iverson�s eyes light up, and he says� no. �My intent when I came to China wasn�t to play. I�m not going to mislead my fans and give them a bad show. I gave you my word that I�m going to coach and I�m sticking to the word I gave. There�s no amount of money that�s going to make me play,� says Iverson.

For Iverson, his word is bigger than a dollar value. His word was he�s not going to play, and for Iverson his word is stronger than anything. Unfortunately, for Li Dong, this is not what he wanted to hear.

�That�s when Li Dong played me as a fool,� says Abdur-Rahim.

�He played me using emotions. As soon as Iverson rejected the �final offer� of $1.5 million to play two minutes per game in four-games, Li Dong said, �if Iverson doesn�t take the deal and play, David Lee will go to jail for misleading the public. And before David Lee goes to jail, he�s going to commit suicide by jumping off the hotel building�.�

# ¿ Sep 17, 2016 23:33

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I'm woken up by a phone call from the TV company. I'm filming my bit tonight. We haven't even talked to Guinness about the details of my record, but yep, apparently I'm filming tonight. Alright. I grab my suit, and off we go back to the studio. I share a ride with the bottle-walker, and another performer, who mentions in passing that yeah, he's done this show a bunch of times and they usually spring a surprise competitor on you, and change the record your attempting. Most people just go along with it because, y'know, TV.

We get to the studio at about noon, and we're rushed into make-up. Odd, since the show doesn't tape until seven. They give me a basic foundation to cover up the fact that I'm 46 � and have lived a life, and then they go to work on my eyebrows. And boy do they. I walk out of the makeup room looking like a particularly startled Groucho Marx, and go right into the bathroom next door to wash off the borderline clown make-up. Odd.

Next is a camera rehearsal. We rehearse my entrance, walking down the stairs, waving to the imaginary audience, chatting with the host, and doing the trick. Doing their trick. No mention of the big tablecloth. No mention of the reason why I travelled five thousand miles. I bring it up. Everyone looks shifty, and confused, and shifty. I get told that we'll deal with that soon, that I'll talk to the producer again and we'll sort it all out, and then I'm told to go back upstairs and wait.

I've done enough TV to know that if something isn't covered in the camera rehearsal, it's not going to happen in the show, so once I'm back in my dressing room, I ask to speak to the producer. Sure, I'm told, she'll be right here.

I ask to speak to her every half hour. It becomes a bit of a running gag between me and the other performers. I use my grown-up �This is important� voice. Nothing. I say that there is a very real chance I won't be doing the show. Nothing. I spend my day sitting in a feezing cold dressing room, being ignored and not taken seriously.

Finally, at 6.45, literally fifteen minutes before the show is supposed to start filming, with a studio audience already filling the huge hangar downstairs, I get granted a meeting. I ask what about the big tablecloth trick. They immediately start shouting. What big tablecloth trick? There was never a big tablecloth trick agreed. You knew you weren't doing a big tablecloth trick. Why would you lie about this? The producer fixed me with a hard stare and told me that if I backed out of the show, they would cancel my return ticket, kick me out of the hotel, and �Your visa, perhaps not so good now�.

http://matricardo.blogspot.com/2016/01/and-world-record-for-worst-gig-ever.html

# ¿ Sep 17, 2016 23:35

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

Vice - pollution in china
Journeyman - Chinas pollution emergency
Under the dome documentary with subtitles

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Arglebargle III posted:
It's like giving a presentation to orcs about cleaning up Mordor. "At first, I too thought that the reeking sulfurous clouds and greasy water choked with the ashes of industry were a normal, healthy part of Lord Sauron's benevolence! But when it was my time to unleash my own hideous brood upon our hated enemy the Earth, I started thinking: is constantly weeping blood and pus really what I want for my wretched progeny?"

# ¿ Sep 17, 2016 23:39

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Haier posted:

I knew it was too good to be true. All that relative quiet and calm in my apartment. This is China, and one must always remember that living in an apartment in China means loving hammering, sawing, and drilling from some nearby apartment, from sun up to sun down, and maybe sometimes into the late evening.

Sunday 7am, 2 minutes drilling
Monday 10pm, 3 minutes bang bang bang
Saturday 2am, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz buzzsaw special

China, home of the no fucks given, with any given power tool

# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 09:34

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Have Blue posted:

China will grow larger!

well played

# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 14:51

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

loving snake people

*meant in a derogatory way, not in a performing a sexual act way.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2016 17:21

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# ¿ Oct 8, 2016 05:49

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Darkest Auer posted:

I don't know which Beijing you've been to, but the one I know doesn't look anything like a dystopian megacity. More like an average lovely farmer village scaled up 10000% with a few more supermarkets and I guess some brand name stores downtown. Which is why it's infinitely more pleasant than the oppressive hellscape that is Shanghai.

While Tokyo has the whole red flashing lights on towerblocks nailed down, Beijing has the whole pollution haze neon vibe going on.

Add the two together and its very 1980s Tech Noir feel

Possible soundtrack to it

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# ¿ Nov 2, 2016 04:48

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# ¿ Nov 2, 2016 05:03

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Wealthy Beijingers left disillusioned after shelling out AU$1 million for Aussie ranch

Unfortunately, despite various plans Lei made for the ranch, fortunes seemed set against him. He had planned to transport powerful fertilizer from China, but Australian law bans the use of fertilizer. He had planned to raise cows to make money selling milk, but the nearest milk-processing facility was located 200 kilometers away. Hiring a driver and workers to transport the milk would cost him AU$1.3 AUD per liter sold. A lack of facilities also forced him to abandon his idea to plant grapes for wine.

What�s more, Lei didn�t anticipate that the local agricultural association would tightly limit the number of cattle he could raise in order to protect the land. He also never imagined that the cost of labor in Australia would be three times that of China.

Forced to find a way to make money, Lei�s wife took on the farm plow herself. She now trims fruit trees, eradicates wild grass, sprays pesticide and covers fruit with plastic to protect it from pests. In her words, she has �endless work,� and no choice but to stick with her tiring routine. The labor exhausts her so much that she uses herbal medicine to relax her muscles at night.

Another disappointment for Lei is the lonely lifestyle. �The nearest neighbor is 50 kilometers away. That scene of barbequing with friends on a ranch only happens in movies,� remarked Lei. Indeed, Candy, a professional realtor specializing in ranches, said many of her Chinese clients have given up their ranches thanks to unsatisfactory dividends and the isolated lifestyle.

Surprise at laws and regulations, environmental protection, lack of planning, forcing wife to back breaking work, using tcm, surprised at lonely life on the range. :allears:

# ¿ Nov 7, 2016 10:11

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

Harbin

# ¿ Nov 7, 2016 10:13

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

I love it. Operating out a shed in the corner of the campus no doubt, which fits the light industry theme, the baoans aren't going to give a flying gently caress who's going in and out. And for the semester project, you could do heres a old beater car, take it apart and put it back together again.

I have so many questions for the students who took this scam. :allears:

# ¿ Dec 14, 2016 10:22

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

Relevant

# ¿ Dec 15, 2016 08:46

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

The opfor general basically said gently caress it and was doing nuh uh my motorbike couriers can travel light speed and i have like a million speedboat kamikazes, pew pew pew

Which can be a problem for a exercise.

# ¿ Dec 16, 2016 05:19

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Imperialist Dog posted:

http://m.weibo.cn/2348604107/4057744379882221

"Do the foreigners living in Hong Kong not realize it is part of China?"

"Why don't they remember the Opium War?

"Wait 50 years, it will all be part of Shenzhen"

"Hope they remember the British surrendered without firing a shot" (a big gently caress you to this guy)

You should reply

"its ok, you're a foreigner, you don't understand Hong Kong"

Hopefully that'll light a few fires

# ¿ Dec 29, 2016 11:28

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

Walking into a Beijing subway mens bathroom to see a man taking a squat poo poo into the urinals while some other men stand around in pee puddles smoking and playing with their phones.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 05:49

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

One more from the Beijing trip.

I see a Tibetan Mastiff being walked by its owner in the compound courtyard. I say hello and ask to pat the dog, am granted permission from the owner and start giving the dog a belly rub. We are all happy. Children then run at me screaming HALLO and start stroking my arm hair. I'm not happy. I stand up and walk away. The children are disappointed. One starts crying.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 08:27

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

This is a Chinese ad about human furniture and loving your family.

So going from worker degradation and divide and conquer and you should kill your boss because capitalism is bad to...

You should love your family because they put you first and you've degraded them and their love? Gee thanks China, your socialism with Chinese characteristics is real special. :rolleyes:

# ¿ Jan 19, 2017 16:34

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simplefish posted:

You thought this was about appreciating family, like a government PSA?

Hahahaha hell no it's an advert for a furniture company

"Love your home because your home loves you" means literally buy more poo poo, not about parents' love
That message about not making GBS threads on workers isn't a message for social change, that's just an accepted part of life that customers can relate to: everyone is abused by their lecherous boss and publicly ridiculed by their colleagues in a shameful face-loss incident. The real message is "furniture is important in your life and you should always buy the best". Furniture is people not to show the workers' plight, but to illustrate that it's always there for you and how would you live without it?
The "Buy Imported Blonde Sofa" billboard isn't about how Chinese women in the workplace are treated or objectified, or native Chinese workers feeling threatened by their company bringing in foreign experts with degrees from real universities that will expose the worker's incompetence. No, that is to encourage you to buy domestic - you saw how sad that poor woman was after losing her job, you wouldn't do that to your sofa, right? And guess what, the commercial is for a domestic Chibese furniture company

Really try watching it again after reading that. See if you agree (it's ok to disagree, I only watched the ad once). I think your cultural colourblindness got in your way the first time, and you expected it to appeal to customers in a certain way that adverts just don't in China.

Thanks for that. Rewatched it and I can see where you're coming from. Which makes it all a lot worse.

We don't build for a better future, we go and buy a chinese ikea knock off sofa and call it mother.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 04:30

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

From Iron Girls to Leftover Women - Documentary

# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 04:32

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

Well Red Star Beijing Kunlun the only chinese ice hockey team in the KHL is all Russian.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was some reflagged moldavians

edit: only once chinese on the Beijing Kunlun team

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HC_Kunlun_Red_Star

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# ¿ Jan 20, 2017 05:19

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

Hot water is good for the healthy.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2017 15:14

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

WALK IN, DROP TROU, SPRAY THE WALLS, CALL ME MAO

# ¿ Jan 22, 2017 15:24

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

Raising a child in China by choice is abuse, at best you're shaving life expectency off the kid. At worst, the air pollution, poisoned water, fake food and high cost of quality education will leave its marks.

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Arglebargle III posted:
It's like giving a presentation to orcs about cleaning up Mordor. "At first, I too thought that the reeking sulfurous clouds and greasy water choked with the ashes of industry were a normal, healthy part of Lord Sauron's benevolence! But when it was my time to unleash my own hideous brood upon our hated enemy the Earth, I started thinking: is constantly weeping blood and pus really what I want for my wretched progeny?"

Vice - pollution in china
Journeyman - Chinas pollution emergency
Under the dome documentary with subtitles
China - tainted milk scandal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkk7Fi4gstw Baby milk smuggling
China - Fake meat
China Airpocalypse now
China bullet train crash and cover up.
Tianjin explosion
Chinas car score zero for safety
Heavy metal poisoning in China

A normal beijing scene:

BCR fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Jan 23, 2017

# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 04:21

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

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# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 04:25

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https://i.imgur.com/gUC8cjZ.gifv - NWS Hot elevator action

Mongol throat singing euro dance snake edition

Thanks for all the stories Haier, you should write a small book about it all.

BCR fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Jan 23, 2017

# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 04:40

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If you do want to go to China, go to best China.

Best China has a music scene.
Best China has free access to the internet.
Best China has the best museum in the world dedicated to Chinese culture.
Best China has a people who aren't scarred from 40 years of living on Mt Dooms slag heap.

Taiwan number one

# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 06:47

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

Hong Kong is a great city with nature nearby.
Taiwan is a great country.
Macau, good for a day trip :shrug:

# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 07:01

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BONGHITZ posted:

imagine a child growing up not breathing free american air, how horrific

I know right?

Viva la Mexico!

# ¿ Jan 23, 2017 07:07

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

It means this.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2017 15:02

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Haier posted:

I'm going to start cataloging these from now on.

Daily Racism - Jan. 24, 2017:
I'm walking out of the supermarket tonight, and three older fat guys in sloppy business suits are walking towards me with their rotund bellies leading the way. The balding fatso in the front of the herd makes eye contact with me and immediately throws his lit cigarette my ankles, hitting my shoe with it. It sparks and bounces off and he makes the loud "tssssk" sound that they only do down here when they disapprovingly look at a human being that doesn't exactly resemble them, or they have some major complaint about something that really pisses them off.

you should 'xie xie, ribenren'

Ive forgotton what uncultured is in the putonghua :qq:

# ¿ Jan 24, 2017 15:06

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

cho ni ma isn't same level as you're a uncultured nongmin

but

thanks for mandarin, needed the refresh

# ¿ Jan 24, 2017 15:45

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

It is a foggy winter day. The air tastes of burning. On the crossroads people are squatting and burning paper iphone 7 rosegolds to the dead. Bungbungche's line the streets waiting for passengers. A stray dog begs. I go inside the agricultural bank. It is hot inside. People still have their winter coats on in the 30c heat. Everyone but the staff is sweating. Drip, drip, drip. A grandmother is leaning on a mop by a brown bucket. Everyone is sniffling, blowing their noses and hacking onto the floor. I get a ticket and wait. Drip. There are ten counters and three bank tellers. A child starts screaming, then the parents let him go. Off he runs doing laps of the chairs slapping their backs. Drip. Slap. A phone rings next to me. Wei? Wei? Wei? A middle aged woman starts screaming at the bank tellers 'Why is this taking so long? I have important things to do. Why cant you go faster? I need to go to a meeting'. The bank tellers say the sorrys then ignore her. Drip. Slap. Wei? The woman storms off saying she'll have them all beaten up and pulls the fire alarm. Drip. Slap. Wei? Alarm. The tellers start telling people to get out, the banks closed, they need to restart the system. Everyone starts yelling. I walk out and put on my mask. No banking for me today.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2017 05:26

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

Thought it was a pig at first.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2017 06:20

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

One of the china bingo cards.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2017 07:49

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

https://bingobaker.com/

Feel free to make your own bingos.

Glorius Chinar has a long history of copys

Real talk, I've started reading romance of the three kingdoms. About 150 pages in, yet to see cao cao be this bad rear end of bad asses yet.

Edit: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/lazy-and-white-go-teach-in-china

The Vice article.

BCR fucked around with this message at 12:25 on Feb 2, 2017

# ¿ Feb 2, 2017 12:23

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ladron posted:

multiple pages explaining that we are all really nice guys and people should just give us a chance and maybe try going out for a little bit

We should have a rest, have some hot water, open the windows and fiercely fight for the 1 mao hongbao

# ¿ Feb 3, 2017 04:07

BCR: Jan 23, 2011

This is china, so we know it won't be dairy.

It'll be green tea shenme shenme wotsit doo dah for 11 kuai

# ¿ Feb 3, 2017 15:13

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 22:18

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Its off near important stuff so you can't cruise missile it using baidu maps.

The rest of the time its pretty accurate, but map reading seems to be a skill many people lack.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2017 07:41

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