OfficialGBSCaliph posted:

There's a documentary on the BBC right now suggesting the terracotta army was built by Greek trained sculptors. So disrespectful!

Blistex posted:

A little bit of back story to set the stage...

Let us English posted:

I wish I lived in the hard drinking area of China. Everyone in Sichuan is in bed by 11 o'clock.


Don't geckos keep spiders away? I'll take the geckos in the bungalo.

We occasionally get them at work, and their the least harmful of pests. I'll take 100 geckos over the giant toilet spiders, poo poo eating rats, mosquito swarms, giant wasps, or poisonous caterpillars that show up more frequently than chill lizard bros.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/AP/status/821310212888002560

Pirate Radar posted:

Wait--like, the US exported the concept of blackface/yellowface? Nobody in Europe thought of putting makeup on their face and dressing up as a caricature before Americans did it? That's fascinating, I didn't know that.

oohhboy posted:

Tale of two Siblings

During one of my visits with Popo she decided it was a good time to blow off some steam regarding family issues, namely my Sister's situation.

My Sister had been living in Hong Kong for about 1.5 years by the time I made my visit. Mom had bait and switched/pressured Sister into staying in Hong Kong when there was no plan of any kind causing everybody to scramble to get her situated. Sister had declined accommodation from Popo or any of the family friends initially, couch surfing from one new friend to another from her earlier visits

Eventually she did stay with family friends and was even offered a pretty cushy job teaching a pair of primary school kids English that paid quite well. Popo blamed Sister's tongue stud, but Sister lost the job. She has been hopping from job to job since.

Even from NZ I had heard some of the troubles Sister went through, so when Mom turned to me and ask me to go to Hong Kong for a visit I said no. She even gave me the whole "You will find better jobs and opportunities there and the economy is great!" and offered airfare. I would tell her that is not a plan and it is all very backward pointing to Sister's situation and that I was functionally illiterate there. This went on for 6 months. You might have noticed both Mom and Aunt are very persistent once they latch on an idea regardless of how stupid it is.

Popo told me that she was worried sick the entire time and was extremely happy I came to visit as Sister didn't. When you go visit Popo you get Dim Sum which is a pretty good reason to go and it is a very easy way to pay filial respect with some easy phrases. Sister was likely driven off by Popo's rightly but excessive worrying.

Had she played along and accepted family's hospitality she would have had a much easier time. She is now almost completely dependant on BIL having burned her savings, student loans are calling and worryingly detached from family in HK.

As a finisher she didn't teach BIL any Cantonese greetings when he first arrived which is an inexplicable move.

TL;DR Don't move/go to another country without a plan or goal beyond not dying.

angel opportunity posted:

How many Chinese people does it take to park a car

https://twitter.com/pdchina/status/854040669584797696

big time bisexual posted:

Fojar38 posted:

So it's come to my attention that Huawei has an almost Apple-cult like following on the internet

Why

Haier posted:

Her: "Sir... this is real?"
Me: "What do you mean?"
Her: "This is what it really looks like outside? Is this a real camera?"
Me: "LOL, no! It's an app. The planets are look like that, but it's an app."
Her: "I don't see Buddha."
Me: "Oh?"
Her: "I don't see him. Does it mean Buddha is not real? Where is he?"
Me: "Buddha isn't flying around in space. The energy dissolved upon passing away after reaching nirvana."
Her: "How do you know?"
Me: "Shut up and enjoy the ride!"

Cichlidae posted:

Two Chinese rocket failures in a month. How much face do you lose when your giant flaming space phallus goes flaccid and explodes on the way up?

Ceciltron posted:

I'm sitting in the airport in Vancouver and the kid across from me has the most astounding leggings.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Speleothing posted:

I dunno, that's less than 6/day.

Also, finally caught up with the thread in time to meet my brother's Chinese gf this weekend.

quote:

Canadian pipsqueak Justin Bieber may have successfully turned around his reputation by staying out of the headlines and converting millions of cynical pop fans by releasing uncomfortably decent music, but his good behaviour tour hasn't yet worked on the Chinese government, who have banned the star from performing in the country.

When a Chinese Bieber fan contacted the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture to ask why her idol hasn't been seen in the country for several years, despite scheduling dates in nearby Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the Philippines on the Asian leg of his latest world tour, they were met with a friendly if firm response.

"Justin Bieber is a gifted singer, but he is also a controversial young foreign singer," the bureau told the fan in a statement. "In order to maintain order in the Chinese market and purify the Chinese performance environment, it is not suitable to bring in badly behaved entertainers.

"We hope that as Justin Bieber matures, he can continue to improve his own words and actions, and truly become a singer beloved by the public."

StevoMcQueen posted:

I was in South Korea last week with the future wife, visiting her hometown, Jinhae. The nearby city of Changwon has a huge roundabout, and according to her, in order to cash in on it's minor fame, Jinhae decided to copy it. But smaller. And in doing so, demolished a perfectly good clocktower to make space, rather than incorporate it into the design. So instead of a pretty little clocktower, they now have a very run of the mill roundabout.

I think I may also now be in the midst of a face battle with my future father in law over our pending wedding.

bongwizzard posted:

Also is check-splitting not a thing in non-US? I think I have to exchange money with friends maybe 2-4 times a year at max, maybe double that if you include weed stuff. The idea of that being a super desirable feature for an electronic payment system is so weird to me.

Atlas Hugged posted:

Except there's two separate fees. There's the fee for renouncing and then there's a one-time tax based on what you "would have" paid in taxes over a ten year stretch.