Grand Fromage posted:

A restaurant in Chengdu got in trouble for serving cats instead of rabbit and it was confusing, I can't see how that'd possibly be any cheaper.

Inkfish posted:

I went to a uni that was in an australian national park and at the right time of year, enterprising students would wander the forest collecting magic mushrooms which they would sell at this concrete bench across from the library

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Chinese tourists

big time bisexual posted:

Grand Fromage posted:

I don't think you guys get what he's talking about. You need a food that everyone would autistically insist on having at every single meal, every day.

WarpedNaba posted:

Prawns. You put prawns on the range.

lambskin posted:

Stolen from the cursed images thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZE-a_bX1c4

oohhboy posted:

Sooo, a bendy bus. What will China think of next? A 2 level bus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX2YOjU1IMw&t=37s

McGavin posted:

lol at the dude just laying there next to his severed fingat like he loving died

ladron posted:

That prisoner identification thing - lemon yellow skin - where did asians being called yellow start ? I just do not get it. Maybe like kinda tan? Even if my yellow is different from your yellow, I have never met an asian I would ever call "lemon-yellow".

ladron posted:

I am not saying they are not a different hue, and I absolutely agree that white people are really pink, I'm just saying I for real don't get "yellow" as an adjective.

Coolguye posted:

for someone who talks about perspective you truly have none. like seriously, high-rise apartment buildings are literally built by government official owned construction companies and then sold back to the government purely so some dickhead can grift billions of RMB off of the Chinese public, who then see no benefit whatsoever from this construction because the apartment buildings are built too far away from even basic services for anyone to consider living there. nobody is ever punished for this. this is so common in China you can trivially find dozens of videos on youtube describing the process in detail and detailing the evidence. find me one detailing a similar scam run in America or any Western European country.

government-linked officials in China own over 80% of the economic activity in the country. the army alone is almost 50% of that activity. in the USA it's less than 15% - with defense spending largely put out to private contractors whose strongest connection is lobbying activity. you could make the argument that the USA's number is still altogether too high (and it is), but that is not even remotely comparable to a weapons manufacturer's chairman and the producer of the contract literally being the same person, which happens routinely in china. being part of the CCP is the only way to get ahead.

the tax bill in the USA is bad poo poo but oh my loving lord trying to compare it to chinese abuses, which literally include going to neighborhoods, compelling the people to donate blood, selling the blood to the red cross for a quick buck, and not even using clean needles, resulting in loving AIDS infecting half of the population is so incredibly tone deaf that you simply must be trolling.

e: also, yeah, in real economies bullshit like bitcoin is just another foreign currency, which both the IMF has affirmed for the euro zone and the american IRS/SEC has confirmed for america. in china it is an existential threat because something with literally no real backing beyond a mathematical equation is considered more trustworthy than the CCP's full faith and credit promise, lol

Khorne posted:

Physics. The tree's root/trunk/whatever is way past the mid point of those low tires. Most SUVs are flip prone trash vehicles.

Bajaj posted:

The percentage of Steam client users by language. I'm so glad I don't play online games.

fish and chips and dip posted:

In other news, some dumbshit clickbait website made a map of stereotypes, and what do you know, China is full of geniuses!

Not gonna link to it, as don't want to give them more clicks.

Gorilla Salad posted:

The gently caress is "balancia" anyway?

Platystemon posted:

Insulated pipes.

Yeah they leak energy, and more than electrical lines, but turning heat to electricity to heat is less efficient than keeping it as heat the whole way by a factor of 3–10 to begin with, so they have a lot to lose before they’re worse.

There’s a good reason your car’s heater bleeds heat from the engine cooling system rather than running a space heater off the alternator.

Pirate Radar posted:

The district heating infrastructure is already there, and this way, instead of turning radiation into heat into power into heat, they just heat the water (in a PWR design or something similar the water that’s heated doesn’t become radioactive) and put that into the pipes. You’re just taking an existing system and replacing the coal or natural gas furnace with a small nuclear reactor similar to what you’d see at research institutions, training centers, or colleges with particularly well-funded physics departments. Undergrads with a semester of training can run them.

*edited because I’m not 100% sure these would technically be called PWRs, I’m not an engineer

HerStuddMuffin posted:

If you track several indicators at once it gets much easier. Face + SIM card, for instance. Even better if they have some sort of ID they need to scan periodically like in a mass transit system. Face alone is kinda poo poo, even without a pool of one billion.

fish and chips and dip posted:

The concept of old is something I find interesting in modern China. Last place I lived was built in 1992 and was universally described as old by locals. Fair enough the condition was awful but 1992 isn't that long ago. When my wife visited my parents in Europe she was schocked when I told her that the building my parents lived in was built in the late 50's.

I've also had songs and movies from about 10-15 years ago referred to as old or very old.

kimcicle posted:

poo poo like this is why it's hard to buy superglue in Korea; whatever is in it can give you a high (or so I'm told).

GoutPatrol posted:

yes yes yes

but what about those lebbos australians hate so much

value-brand cereal posted:

You people don't know how to make gently caress? Like I could teach you but I'd have to charge.

The Great Autismo! posted:

not here, but in D&D you will be reported within minutes

Raptor1033 posted:

Wonder how many of those soldiers developed PTSD and offed themselves. Or does Face allow one to disconnect that cause you were doing a good job following orders?