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Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
For the OP

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Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

110? Lol poo poo. Rip us all

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Poldarn posted:

Hey where does "the unnamed country can only salivate" come from?

The great lecher, Rene Chang

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

Why the hell would you counterfeit 1 dollar bills?

No why

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

WarpedNaba posted:

Was going to say, if we were the type to cheer on the murder of Chinese then Mao Zedong would be our eternal hero.

Somebody said Mao?

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

The White Dragon posted:

don quijote has "dont poo poo in the urinals" in various languages but chinese is the only large block font one

I was at one of the smaller natural wonders in Austria, and they specifically had ones like these up on the toilets. Smaller font in english, large one in mandarin. Also drawings of "don't squat on the toilet seats".

Btw, I was in Rome at the colloseum and the palatine a while ago, and without failure, all the toilet seats in a large radius were ripped off.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
Quite fitting that it's the year of the plague rat

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Official WHO announcement: "Okay, fine, NOW you can panic."

Starbucks has closed more than half of its coffee shops in mainland China. Ikea closed all it's mainland stores (no more napping on the beds there). Lufthansa ceased all flights to chinar. Etc.

Guess everything is peachy!

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
Begs the question "What would Haier have done"

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

BrainDance posted:

poo poo, how did he pick that up?

Breathing

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
It's a pretty handy skill tbh, considering that we'll be all Mad Max roawarriors or dead meat in a few years

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

"Monopoly of eggs in all of China" has a great ring to it.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Quick, someone rework that meme with The Rock and Becka

"Kay, why do you hate socialism?"
"They took my great grandfather's monopoly of eggs in all of China"
*Mao looking over the backseath* "drat right we did, Kay you little centipede poo poo"

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

LifeSunDeath posted:

How do you have weeks+months of stored up food/water. Like do you have a huge bunker and MRE's? How long have you been preparing for this? I think I can fit maybe 2 weeks of food in my pantry/fridge for my house, maximum.

That poo poo didn't just happen yesterday.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Grand Fromage posted:

I had those just as a normal thing anyway. And avoided the bad MREs.

You had cinese MREs? Lol

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Mr Luxury Yacht posted:

Steve, a man who did not get sick from eating a can of beef literally from the Boer War, became violently ill from PLA rations.

Maybe it's an army thing because I vaguely recall the one PLAAF ration he ate was fine if a little boring.

The MRE guy on youtube had some, and meant that they were the worst MREs that he ever had.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
Man, I bet Haier has some plague-time plunge stories to tell now.

Ah nah, he's probably shacked up with Chaoshan girl somewhere in Germany, running a facemask and desinfectant hustle on the side.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

D-Pad posted:

I mean I saw a ~3 year old poo poo in a bucket his mom was carrying around in the bread aisle of whatever that big french supermarket chain is in Shanghai 2008.


That's a pretty handy approach, if you're faced with ultra disgusting bathrooms and toddler bowel movements

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Atopian posted:

Certainly not if ayis are involved

Edit:
Slightly more seriously, a huge way that China will be improved is first when the current crop of Olds die off, and second when the current crop of late-middle-aged die off.

Lots of progress that just can't happen before then.

That sounds very familiar...

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
Uncle Xi is gonna deliver an whoooole lot of aid blankets to the uyghurs

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

Just appoint a rando kid as the new Panchen doctor and move on.

That's some high level chinathread posting there

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
The Pangolin strikes back

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Grand Fromage posted:

Also to no one's surprise all the emergency hospitals are just a shitload of beds all crammed together in open areas with no way to quarantine sections and no hygiene equipment, so they're basically a bunch of warehouses designed to make sure everyone in them gets infected.

"China built a hospital in 10 days"

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Chomp8645 posted:

Intellectual Property Man. A new hero for the modern world.

I'd rather be visited by Baiju man

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

My FIL chugged that instead of chemo to fight his throat cancer. He was dead within 4 months.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Mistle posted:

I seem to recall the horse meat incident from a while ago where "surprise, IKEA meatballs may contain horse meat!" was a thing that made people mad in the EU and US because eating cows was fine but murdering my little pony for Swedish deliciousness was verboten. China IKEA posted a response something along the lines of "We don't use imported horse meat, we use Chinese meat" and suddenly they were very unpopular with Chinese people because China doesn't have a problem with horse meat, but "Chinese meat" had that very bad connotation of "it was a living thing once, whatever it was"

Maybe they import it now, maybe not, but that was one very :lol: moment from a past China thread :china:

Trivia, there's a german thing called Pferdeleberkäse, which literally translates to "Horse liver cheese"

Have a nice day, my friends.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Chomp8645 posted:

Never forget Brazilian garbage-fired pizza.

Is that a weird euphemism for some sex-stuff?

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Blistex posted:

Took the quick way down some stairs this morning and broke my left Scapula. My mother in law was shocked that the following didn't happen. (her first time seeing a western hospital's ER process)

-I didn't call an ambulance (took a cab)
-They didn't collect ID, just my health card
-I had a series of X-rays within 30 minutes
-I was not on some manner of IV drip
-They didn't directly sell me a trail mix bag of random pills
-I was out within 3 hours (didn't stay overnight or up to three days)
-I am able to walk
-I'm planning on being back at school next-next Monday (after the break)

She expected at least 2 days in the hospital and 30 days from work and something more than Tylenol 3s and some anti-inflammatories. She was asking my wife if I was being denied care in some way.

Hope you had some hot water

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Boiled Water posted:

3.6 million infected. Not great also not terrible

How many people does each case infect in return in average? 6?

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

oohhboy posted:

The replication number(r0) is estimated about 4+. Flu is 1.28.

I enjoy seeing "But flu kills way more people each year! Clearly all this worry is purely based on racism" - articles

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
When I worked for an ISP, they had the bright idea to build one of the main 2.4 radio links (that connected to something like 20 or 30 local transmitters and some thousand or so customers on them) over one of the major rivers in europe.

For some *mysterious* reason, there'd be frequent, massive packet loss for everyone hanging on them, that these idiots at the wireless controll couldn't make sense of.

Until they loving noticed that since it's going over a river, there's ships passing through that shot down the whole main link with their radar, radio etc.

The whole system of transmitters was in the mountainous countryside of a german speaking country. They outsourced the on-site support to local radio techs and electricians, only the transmitters were supported by the provider, with predictable results.

I can't even start to describe that stuff. Duct tape installation of antennas, bouncing signals over roofs, mounting antennas facing walls - INDOORS lol, drunk techs, boar attacks, mounting a bridge inside a metal breaker box in the basement, avalances, fires, drunk tractor drivers taking down stuff, transmitters freezing, woodpecker attacks on antennas, not repairing transmitters and not telling the remaining customers on there for months because there's too few of them left to justify that etc.

Man, everybody HATED that system with a passion. We had normal cable to support too, that was in a similar area, and in no way resembling this ultra cursed product. By the time they switched to 5 GHz, the customer base had evaporated, and only then things worked passable.

I guess the takeaway is, it's really expensive to get decent coverage in a hilly/mountainous area, and without a government building and maintaining infrastructure, you're out of luck in any place that isn't densely populated. That stuff constantly breaks down. It's like a countryside miasma that grinds down the wireless infrastructure.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
Hey, can we get a reprise of the "by 2020" china edition?

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

oohhboy posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh8QYoD0n2s

There was a study done in WW2 about optimal grenade throwing. It boiled down to trying to teach a specific throw was a waste of time. Just throw it how you normally in whatever sport you played.

Being the instructor must be funny. You KNOW that this will happen eventually. Every dude that goes up there to throw might blow your balls off

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

oohhboy posted:

They don't look like stick nades. I think they are Russian F1 like grenades. A sleeve would be a very bad idea as you wouldn't know when it would release.



Nobody uses stick nades anymore as they are bulky enough you could carry a second nade or a third with WW2 German sticks. Nade launchers are superior in every way to any advantage the stick has over a normal nade.

Probably old stock knockoffs of RDG-33

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Despera posted:

Mao's son getting napalmed by the good old usa because he was hungry is my favorite mao story

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
No post 90s beauties, only pestilence.

Hey btw, China has a natural reservoir of the black plague. Go look it up.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Chinese local officials force people to drink disinfectantl

This is in a running Washington Post update; scroll down.

Not worse than baijiu

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse
Ehhhh an economic crisis and pestilence. Yay

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Magna Kaser posted:

this kind of poo poo is common in rural china. people forget the party doesn't have complete control like they think and a lot of very rural parts of china are basically the loving wild west with local governors doing crazy poo poo which is often super duper bad and harmful, esp. now when virus has people spooked.

i remember a friend told me she grew up in some rural rear end part of Anhui, and there was a time when for some reason her small town couldn't get any fresh milk, so the local government gave out a ton of white rabbit candy (a "milk" flavored candy which is actually p good) and told them to melt it down and drink it as a replacement lol.

These stories always strike me like an almighty bureaucrat at the top makes a cynical joke, and his lackeys aren't really sure if taking it literally or not is the one that sends them to the gulag.

So they go with the save option and take it literally, killing a shitload of people

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Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

BrigadierSensible posted:

Don't think that China has the monopoly on "bullshit traditional cures" stuff.

In India, an elected official has said publicly that eating cow poo poo can cure CoronaVirus, coz "Hindus good, Indian Hindus best Hindus."

https://www.deccanherald.com/nation...Ds7lUW_EoyKvMnc

Goading a bunch of religious weirdo facists into eating literal poo poo...that's....good?

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