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Scam Likely posted:Yes but have considered the fact that GOVT IS TRYING TO BAN THE THING I LIKE?!? They should also ban people who like the Tick Tock, IMHO.
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TEMPLE GRANDIN OS posted:pls don't tell trudeau Afraid of getting promoted?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:They should also ban people who like the Tick Tock, IMHO. good thing we still have https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S28FMoZ4P4I
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Hong Kong passed new legislation which gives pretty much ends any question of dissent by the citizens in the future. https://www.npr.org/2024/03/19/1239403058/hong-kong-new-article-23-national-security-legislation quote:Pro-Beijing lawmakers have argued the legislation is needed to fill loopholes left by the sweeping 2020 national security law.
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Feels kinda redundant to make dissent illegal when you'll imprison and torture anyone who does it regardless
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Mar 19, 2024 15:27
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There's no need to dissent in a communist utopia
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Or, for that matter, in any media which wishes to retain its mainland viewership/readership/playerbase. It's a good thing no Western company would cave to rank authoritarian censorship of those merely expressing their desire for liberty and democracy.
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I was at the pharmacy earlier and they had their in-house radio playing. Ads for stuff in the store, then a song or two, the usual. Only one of the songs played was by Twice. I know Kpop has gotten a lot more popular in the last few years with some boy groups even making the charts in the US, but hearing it in a suburban Australian pharmacy felt surreal.
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Cugel the Clever posted:Or, for that matter, in any media which wishes to retain its mainland viewership/readership/playerbase. It's a good thing no Western company would cave to rank authoritarian censorship of those merely expressing their desire for liberty and democracy. haha lol
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I was at the pharmacy earlier and they had their in-house radio playing. Ads for stuff in the store, then a song or two, the usual. Soft Korean Power. I know several women who went to Korea to find husbands. Of course, they got hit with how sexist Korea is, but still.
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Mar 21, 2024 13:05
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after winter sonata aired I remember seeing on the street tv interviews with women saying they wanted to go to korea to find a husband
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Mar 21, 2024 13:17
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Jesus how godawful would the local men need to be to make Koreans seem a good option by comparison?
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ili posted:Jesus how godawful would the local men need to be to make Koreans seem a good option by comparison? They're comparing against a fictional character.
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Mar 21, 2024 13:59
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one of the grand problems of modernity is peeps not understanding that fiction is fiction
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I remember a Korean woman saying that Korean women would try to date Chinese guys to avoid Korean guys and wondering how awful Korean guys must be. It seems like they could just arrange a trade.
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ninjoatse.cx posted:They're comparing against a fictional character. Well, yeah, they make those dudes in some secret lab in Seoul.
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Nice Van My Man posted:I remember a Korean woman saying that Korean women would try to date Chinese guys to avoid Korean guys and wondering how awful Korean guys must be. It seems like they could just arrange a trade. It seems like Chinese dudes figured out that the closer they look like Kpop dudes, the more likely lady expats are attracted.
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Okuteru posted:Well, yeah, they make those dudes in some secret lab in Seoul. the plastic surgery clinics are not at all secret, they advertise on the 1 and 2 lines. actually most of the lines
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Okuteru posted:I know several women who went to Korea to find husbands. Of course, they got hit with how sexist Korea is, but still. I met several people like this too. Quick road to burnout and going home. Nice Van My Man posted:I remember a Korean woman saying that Korean women would try to date Chinese guys to avoid Korean guys and wondering how awful Korean guys must be. Yeah the Chinese guys are nice thing is a really common stereotype, I've heard it a lot. Given my experience with Korean dudes I would not dispute it.
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Nice Van My Man posted:I remember a Korean woman saying that Korean women would try to date Chinese guys to avoid Korean guys and wondering how awful Korean guys must be. It seems like they could just arrange a trade. In the early 70s my Korean aunt was sold/married to a Chinese import exporter in Hong Kong but then he was committed after running naked in the streets so they annulled the marriage or something. So yeah trading is definitely an option.
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Borscht posted:In the early 70s my Korean aunt was sold/married to a Chinese import exporter in Hong Kong but then he was committed after running naked in the streets so they annulled the marriage or something. So yeah trading is definitely an option. Please tell me you have more details about this story.
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Found some sage advice from a tibetan yak herder: https://twitter.com/naaiyaudo/status/1729517903668740463 Edit: wrong thread w/e I'm leaving it. Cpt_Obvious fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Mar 22, 2024 |
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thats me
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There's not a single tree in that video.
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steppe off, pal
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Found some sage advice from a tibetan yak herder: Only lovely pissbaby trees lose their leaves, ever. Or have leaves. Pine trees 4TW.
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Grand Fromage posted:Please tell me you have more details about this story. That part of her life she leaves the most vague. I know that during the war she got separated from her family at 5 or 6, got taken in by a super old blind couple and that that’s when she ‘ate worms’ to not starve to death. She worked from a very young age in restaurants and as a forager (when we go to the beach with her we don’t take lunch and eat like kings). In her teens, she saw her brother at a market (“we are mountain people and taller than everyone else so I saw him far away in the crowd”) after the Hong Kong thing she moved to Tokyo where she met my uncle who a radio man stationed somewhere in the gulf of Tonkin and was 12 years younger than her. They moved to the Bay Area after the war and she worked at Luby’s, sings karaoke, hikes, and gardens like a beast. Oh and somewhere in there she was forced sterilized but she doesn’t talk about that for obvious reasons.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Only lovely pissbaby trees lose their leaves, ever. Or have leaves. yer mom's a pine tree
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I was at the pharmacy earlier and they had their in-house radio playing. Ads for stuff in the store, then a song or two, the usual. I remember, maybe 13 years ago, being in Korea and being constantly told "do you know the Korean wave?!? It's the next big thing! Korea will be a cultural powerhouse loved by all!" And I was like "ya ya sure whatever, this roly poly song is catchy I guess but.." And now here we are.
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13 years ago, hallyu was already ubiquitous in southeast asia and japan. so it's more of a statement of "we'll figure out a way to get those white and latino and black peeps" more than a "we'll do it", they'd already been doing it by then
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Found some sage advice from a tibetan yak herder: 
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bob dobbs is dead posted:13 years ago, hallyu was already ubiquitous in southeast asia and japan. so it's more of a statement of "we'll figure out a way to get those white and latino and black peeps" more than a "we'll do it", they'd already been doing it by then When I heard "Nobody" back in 2008, I knew I was never escaping that song anywhere on the planet, and if I somehow did, I wouldn't escape the next one. Then Gangnam Style came out.
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I remember when Asian men were not seen as attractive and were the butt of romantic jokes in pop culture. Now you have women traveling to Korea to meet their personal Jungkook. How times change.
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Don’t get it twisted. Asian guys have a hard time dating still.
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Yeah some of that wanting their own Korean boyfriend stuff is because of the stereotype that Asian men are less masculine overall - so there's this idealized romantic ideal of a gentle Asian lover vs rough American/European men. So it's not like that sorta racism went away, Western people still feminize Asian men, it's just become 'ok so what if they're less masculine, that makes them better! 😍'
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Celebrating 20 years of Dragonstea (numa numa song), the greatest contribution of Moldova to global society in this century.
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Borscht posted:Don’t get it twisted. Asian guys have a hard time dating still. as a korean dude, my yield for matches on right swipe on tinder in 2017 at 220 lbs in san francisco was 0.01%, my yield for matches on tinder in singapore at 170 lbs in singapore in 2018 was like 20%. 5' 7". that's some difference highly recommend being not fat, that was ruined by the roni unfortunately
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bob dobbs is dead posted:highly recommend being not fat, that was ruined by the roni unfortunately Too much of the San Francisco treat will do that.
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the san francisco treat
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hellyeah keep it going
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