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Sunglass Hut has a much harsher (and weirder) twitter game than I would have thought.
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bones 4 beginners posted:I might have just gotten lucky somehow but every public bathroom I've been in in Hong Kong has had soap, running water, and some way to dry your hands. Even random public ones on trails that I thought for sure would be disgusting were not. So coming from the mainland, it was a real relief. I had all the good public toilets in Wuhan memorized and it was not an extensive list. Yeah, Hong Kong changed a lot after SARS, toilets used to be super gross, unless you could use your white privilege to go poop in the bathrooms of a hotel lobby, they were awesome and a little old guy in a starched white Mao jacket who lived in there would hand you a folded cloth towel to dry your hands with. <sigh>
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Feb 6, 2020 03:03
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Please, it's Clancy. The pangolins would be pregnant not underage. Why not both?
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Feb 11, 2020 01:39
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Ziv Zulander posted:That thing about them lasting forever is just a myth too. They last longer than they should, but they’ve still got eggs in em, and anything with eggs has a definite shelf life I read this and I was thinking "bug eggs?" but then I realized you meant chicken eggs, which I didn't associate with Twinkies.
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Feb 13, 2020 14:03
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Despera posted:Wish there was a way for a MMA fighter to beat the poo poo out of TCM "And in the red corner, about to embark on world tour, he's the flu from wu, the cytokine storm, NCoV 19!"
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Feb 16, 2020 02:36
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I'm amazed any of these guys were allowed a grenade until they had done the "Private! throw this bucket of grenade size rocks over that wall one at a time, now go pick up the rocks!" drill 20 times while a drill instructor screamed at them.
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Feb 19, 2020 02:33
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Fojar38 posted:Dude, you're claiming that this pre-modern earthquake killed 4 times more people than Hiroshima and Nagasaki getting loving nuked did A couple of burst dams, cholera, a period of warlordism and the ensuing famine, why not?
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Feb 21, 2020 01:55
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Atopian posted:I always had a soft spot for the various equine encephalitis viruses (EEVs) - don't much care between EEEV / WEEV / VEEV / etc. Poor ol' freckles, thought of bats and died.
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Feb 25, 2020 13:16
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Megillah Gorilla posted:A cult with a secret membership who still refuse to come forward to say they've been potentially exposed Didn't I read somewhere that they believed it was their duty to bring about the end of the world and so they were deliberately spreading it, and that they've tried to do that before with other diseases?
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Mar 3, 2020 05:36
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Just got "official" word from our school that all foreigners entering china through Beijing must spend 14 days in a "quarantine facility" (cheap hotel?) at their own expense. I guess I'm glad we never left...
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Mar 15, 2020 12:00
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BrigadierSensible posted:dong bad No! Dong good!
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Mar 20, 2020 02:26
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hakimashou posted:The world would be much cooler if more places were like Bhutan and big into their traditional dress, instead of everyone everywhere dressing like they are british or americans. Last time I was in Shanghai there were tons of young people more or less cosplaying in traditional Chinese dress, my wife said she thinks its some kind of nationalistic thing.
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May 12, 2020 10:32
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I think that's a pretty common symbiosis in Vancouver - house full of young people and a little old Chinese lady colonizing the garden and recycling all the cans. My mother in law has almost exactly that house next door to her complete with an Ah Yi and her makeshift bean trellis.
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May 21, 2020 22:08
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Skynet with Chinese characteristics.
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Jun 7, 2020 15:20
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WarpedNaba posted:Scuffle on the India/China border, apparently no bullets fired but they beat each other to death with clubs and rocks. Which is... odd? As I understand it neither side lets the border guards have guns, so they don't start a war.
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Jun 16, 2020 11:30
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Magna Kaser posted:My favorite part of that was how Taiwan, not immune to caring too much about worthless rocks, also chimed in to say the islands were in fact theirs. Our school fed us all salmon at an end of term dinner literally a week ago, no symptoms yet.
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Jun 17, 2020 06:02
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Can't have dam chat in the china thread without talking about the Banqiao Dam disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure Everybody's favorite part is when they called in airstrikes against downstream dams to relieve pressure, the guy who made that call had balls made of, well, reinforced concrete. Also I would like to see a transcript of the phone call to the airforce C/O who dispatched the bombers. "You want us to WHAT in the next 30 minutes?!"
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Jul 23, 2020 04:12
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Apparently a livestream of the three gorges with all the sluice gates fully open, it's been going for a few hours at least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhddcv7p2QM
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Jul 24, 2020 16:54
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mobby_6kl posted:Very cool, plov is all over central and eastern Asia and always a bit different. Here's my grandfather making Uzbek version: Unless there is an extremely subtle joke I'm missing about Uzbeks all moving to central Germany I think you posted the wrong picture.
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Jul 31, 2020 10:40
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hakimashou posted:If the 3 gorges dam did collapse, who do you think the communist regime would try to blame for it? Ethnic minorities? Japan? US? Watch Xi start a loving war.
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Aug 18, 2020 05:15
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Mr. Nice! posted:In many parts of the English speaking world, 1000 people is enough for a city. Some places do not distinguish between cities and towns. Texas, for example, has no townships. The minimum size you need for a municipality in TX is 600 people. You cannot be a "home rule city" with your own charter and such until you reach 5000 people, but there are plenty of tiny cities all over Texas. The same is true throughout the United States. Cities have cathedrals, 1000 people is a village.
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Sep 20, 2020 15:05
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Mr. Nice! posted:
In the UK a town can only become a city when it has a cathedral, not a church, so unless those podunk churches have bishops they remain villages or towns, no matter how big they grow.
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Sep 20, 2020 21:41
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Fojar38 posted:Is there not a single cartoonist in China who can draw an African person without using a caricature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyXS9qTsb3U From 1989, i can still sing the jingle from memory, unfortunately.
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Sep 24, 2020 14:23
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BrigadierSensible posted:This is certainly a frivolous question, so I am sorry. They are a massive excuse for fat expats to get pissed, I have never seen more drunk people in one place, however you will also see some of the best rugby in the world. I was there in 1990 for this match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cioXQWj_ndY (jump to 15:25 for the good bit). The old government stadium was much nicer than the new one because there was an open running track between the stands and the pitch that made pitch invasions by naked drunk people very easy indeed.
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Nov 12, 2020 22:06
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WarpedNaba posted:So, what, the coffee throws itself out of your hand? The muffins scream before you even get near them? What the hell is an e-sports theme? After it fails the last Timmies in China levitates itself to the edge of the map and refuses to give up.
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Nov 20, 2020 07:47
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Zakrello posted:in short, yes there are I can't find the video but I once watched an interview with an older chinese martial artist talking about different styles of kung fu, he illustrated a point about effectiveness with a clip showing a fight between American and Latin America special forces guys who had, according to him, agreed to a no-holds-barred fight. The yank just poked the other guy in the eye first move and it was all over.
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Nov 25, 2020 10:55
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Zushio posted:I am not even sure I am brave enough to figure out what that is but I assume it involves gutter oil. AFAIK its a Jian Bing, which I quite like, but I don't load them up with weird sausages and whatnot.
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Feb 2, 2021 06:24
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Dongsturm posted:and I'm dubious about claims that China managed it. I'm in China right now, I've been here non stop since last January, and it's managed it. Beijing, a city of 21 million people, has zero cases. I wear a mask to work and the store, my kids wear masks to school. Apart from that Covid doesn't exist for us. (Except we ain't going back to our home countries in the foreseeable future, but that's not really china's problem).
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May 25, 2021 14:17
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Dongsturm posted:I think I'm grasping it just fine. Posting "I don't see it but my feelings tell me it must be there." isn't really all that convincing either...
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May 25, 2021 14:39
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mobby_6kl posted:What "evidence" would you expect to see? Until the pandemic completely overwhelms the hospitals, there isn't much an average person would notice because people aren't just dropping dead in the streets. I'd expect to see all the evidence I saw the last three times there was an outbreak in Beijing: everything non-essential would close, traffic would drop to almost nothing, I'd have to show ID and have my temperature taken at the single open entrance to my neighborhood (all the others being locked). I'd have to fill in several surveys on WeChat about my movements for the last x number of days and scan a QR code with one WeChat mini app and have my temperature checked at the entrance to any indoor space, also show a green code on the other health mini app in WeChat. The streets of my neighborhood would be fogged with disinfectant, all deliveries would go to the main entrance, (you can't actually stop the mighty kuaidi, unless you are willing to use crew served weapons), my kids would begin the slow descent into madness that is online school and my wife would be very happy and bake a shitload.
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May 25, 2021 15:56
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ilmucche posted:A few pages ago someone mentioned an excavator duel. Does anyone have video of this https://youtu.be/Cmm-DFSh6Aw
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Jun 22, 2021 07:31
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Are interracial children racist? Because I really don't know what to do about that, I'm pretty sure I could take out the boy but the girl is bigger and fitter than me and she's mean.
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Jun 29, 2021 03:15
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brakeless posted:saw a statistic a while back saying that the chinese real estate market is hosed, with most of the homes currently bought going to people who already own one or two and like over 20% vacancy averaged over the whole country Just what I've seen but my son is in the scouts and three or four years ago they had to do some basic map stuff, which of course you can't really get in china because maps are secret lest the Americans use them to invade northern Beijing. So we used western maps of the UK and France etc. But for fun I printed a google maps satellite image of northern Beijing at a2 and gave them a bunch of post-its with map feature names on them to stick where they thought they should go. They kept on sticking lakes where I knew there were no lakes, eventually I realized that the big blue green blobs were bulldozed hutongs covered with green scrim to keep the dust down - hundreds of hectares of them. Last week we took a didi at night along a new highway through that area and passed around 100 (I stopped counting at 70ish but didn't start until I realized how many there were) brand new, unpainted, empty, 30 story residential blocks.
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Jun 29, 2021 12:54
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Atopian posted:Was another one swallows, hastily edited to bedbugs later? A friend of mine's kid wanted to know what kind of swallows we get in Beijing, so my friend googled "Chinese swallows".
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Jul 19, 2021 03:42
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I don't eat chickens feet because we kept chickens when I was a kid and their feet were always thickly caked with chicken poo poo.
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Jul 25, 2021 08:26
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I literally had to write a letter for an acquaintance a couple of months ago because his wife had buggered off into the mist with his son and her lover, his lawyer said he needed some sort of proof that he was a good father.
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Sep 11, 2021 04:04
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The littlest kids at school will stroke my hairy arms, but nobody else pays much attention.
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Oct 28, 2021 09:48
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The Alchemist posted:Wow very spooky, they look like literal prisons! Good lord Vittachi is a schmuck these days. My parents knew him in the 80's.
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Nov 17, 2021 04:03
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Honestly if you can get to China right now you can get a job teaching, in an international school at least. All the people who stayed through the lockdowns etc are leaving because they want to see granny and travel. So everyone at the lower tier schools is stepping up a rank because they are a warm body and most schools are only hiring people who are already in China.
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One of my wife's cousins is married to a Korean lady who is home schooling their 4 kids, she is about 30, he's mid 60s with two kids from a previous marriage. Pretty sure it's some sort of cult arranged marriage. He believes in UFO's.
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