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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_hostage_crisis  Basically, a crazy guy took a tourist bus hostage and almost killed all the passengers with an automatic rifle. The whole event was a live broadcast. The city was in shock and glued to the TV seeing how bad and terrible the police in Manilla was in handling the situation. Then there's the sensitivity issue after the tragedy where people just go up to the bus and take photos for their face book wall and status. Which angered Hong Kongers even more and created a huge major back lash to this day  Many overseas domestic workers from Philippines were afraid of losing the jobs from the racial back lash or afraid of going out to get mobbed  The only benefit is a much cheaper and easier time to get Philippines for a vacation. Hey Imperialist Dog, you should come hang out in the China thread! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3413886 . We also have a WegoonChat https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ao_-L8ioMQ71dEs4V1o4M0x2WFpxSVlkYmVZbjhsc3c#gid=0 and wow the list just ballooned up. It's a massive chat channel but everyone there would love your poo pictures or whatever pictures you find! I'm a Hong Kong goon as well and hopefully we can get some goon meets going on in the city. Or play video games. caberham fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jan 30, 2013 |
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Two years ago, a Hong Kong tour group got shot up in Manila during a hostage situation on a bus (pictured). It was sad. But guess where I'm going for my Chinese New Year vacation? Top tier trips to the Philippines are cheap as hell, even during the peakest of the peak season. Carry on, blacklist! Efb
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The ultimate victor of that incident seems to be Beijing, all things considered.
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Imperialist Dog posted:Not sure if this should be posted here or the "crazy political discussion" thread, but I got into an interesting argument last night on Twitter The latest update on that front is Yan Xuetong's suggestion that Norway take China's side in the Diaoyu island dispute to "make amends". That is, for our war crime of allowing a private foundation to issue a prize. Good luck with that. I find it sort of telling that the CCP has never, to my knowledge, issued an official apology of any sort for the Great Leap Forward, or for the Cultural Revolution, or for any of the other numerous crimes it has committed against its own citizens. Apologies, to the CCP, imply loss of face and legitimacy. Which means their apology-extracting overtures amount to nothing more than a sort of fratboy hazing, meant to humiliate lesser nations without the leverage to stand up to them. Edit: I guess I'm conflating ordinary citizens with the government here, so sorry about that. french lies fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Jan 30, 2013 |
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Welp, time to get this thread back on track:Shanghaiist posted:Outrage at mainland mother who let son poop at Taiwan airport
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Frankly the fact that she put down paper (and presumably cleaned up after her son) are amazing. Truly China is making great strides in the development of 文明* society!  *The propaganda buzzword of the year. It means "cultured" and every city in interior China has slogans plastered everywhere declaring the local city to be a 文明 city and urging the people to be more 文明. It's a little stronger than "cultured" in the English language because the Chinese see themselves as extremely cultured and it's a pretty important ideal to educated Chinese.
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Dammit, french lies, I came here to post that! Ah well, have the picture:  Having used the toilet in Lanzhou Airport, I can say that " toilets in Chinese airports are nearly always perfectly clean and hygienic" is laughable and only applies to "rich" cities' major airports. Requesting mods to change title to China Megathread-making GBS threads everywhere is the right of the Chinese people.
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China Megathread: Street-making GBS threads and baby formula discussion zone When I worked at the Shanghai EXPO, I had several encounters with visitors that attempted to make their kids poo poo in the trash-cans inside the pavilion. When I pointed out that the toilet was literally just outside our pavilion, a lot of them were all like "well he/she's gotta go so bad!!" ("他太急了!"), like they could see nothing indecent about the whole thing. I'll freely admit I was spouting the standard classist bullshit about suzhi and the countryside unironically for about a year after that.
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I've seen it in one of the most expensive malls in Beijing.
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What exactly is the point of posting these street-making GBS threads photos? To show that the mainland Chinese are socially backward?
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Yeah, although the action in the photos is in incredibly poor taste, I'm not sure the way to show how much more superior and civilized you are is by recording the incident and sharing it with the internet...
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This thread explains why they had to post "Please don't poo poo in the garbage can" signs all over University of Toronto residences, considering the high number of Chinese students studying here.
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Fojar38 posted:This thread explains why they had to post "Please don't poo poo in the garbage can" signs all over University of Toronto residences, considering the high number of Chinese students studying here. The intersection between Chinese students who can afford overseas studies and people who poo poo in garbage cans is not particularly large.
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flatbus posted:The intersection between Chinese students who can afford overseas studies and people who poo poo in garbage cans is not particularly large. True. It could've just been some drunken gently caress, but it's strange that it'd be widespread enough for them to bother posting signs.
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Vegetable posted:What exactly is the point of posting these street-making GBS threads photos? To show that the mainland Chinese are socially backward? I think because people are upset and outraged that other people are taking shits on their street.
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hitension posted:Yeah, although the action in the photos is in incredibly poor taste, I'm not sure the way to show how much more superior and civilized you are is by recording the incident and sharing it with the internet... Because media reports that street-making GBS threads is a Hong Kong myth made up to embarrass mainlanders/be chauvinistic. Sadly the pics are taken to prove that it happens and we're not making this poo poo up. http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/one-country-two-systems-not-lately/
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Vladimir Putin posted:I think because people are upset and outraged that other people are taking shits on their street.
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Imperialist Dog posted:Because media reports that street-making GBS threads is a Hong Kong myth made up to embarrass mainlanders/be chauvinistic. Sadly the pics are taken to prove that it happens and we're not making this poo poo up. Well it does happen. I saw it in a park the second day after I first arrived in China, I went to a park in Beijing. And anybody who has been to China has noticed that babies there don't have diapers, just holes in their pants to facilitate street-making GBS threads. I think it's more the idea that adults regularly practice it that is apocryphal.
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Imperialist Dog posted:Dammit, french lies, I came here to post that! To be fair, that entire airport smells like piss.
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Wait, guys, wait! There's still more to talk about on this baby formula thing. Someone has gone so far as to start a White House petition about it. WhiteHouse.gov posted:Baby Hunger Outbreak in Hong Kong, International Aid Requested I have no idea what they expect Obama to do  edit: I'm signing this poo poo because I really want to see the response. Deep State of Mind fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Jan 31, 2013 |
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Why do I suspect the relevant foreign aid agencies have bigger fish to fry than HONG KONG of all places Hong Kong people should just start to go to another nearby country that's even more uptight than they are (Japan?) and buy up all the formula there to compensate. It would work perfectly because nobody in Japan is having babies anymore anyway.
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Jan 31, 2013 03:41
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People who poo poo in the street, that kind is BASTARD.
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Vegetable posted:What exactly is the point of posting these street-making GBS threads photos? To show that the mainland Chinese are socially backward? To rail up the Hong Kongers. I am all for it.
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Bloodnose posted:Wait, guys, wait! There's still more to talk about on this baby formula thing. What shitheel would ask for international aid for loving HK when there's people in other countries starving to death. Like I'm sure as I write this post a couple kids literally starved to death. hitension posted:Why do I suspect the relevant foreign aid agencies have bigger fish to fry than HONG KONG of all places It's not easy for Chinese people to get into Japan, as I recall. You have to apply for visas and all.
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Hong Kong's birth rate is actually lower than Japan's, once you take out babies born to two non-permanent resident parents, who tend not to stay in the territory.
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On a sidewalk in Bangkok the Chinese mother would have been forced to push the dog turds out of the way first so her son can have a clean spot to poo poo on.
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Bloodnose posted:Hong Kong's birth rate is actually lower than Japan's, once you take out babies born to two non-permanent resident parents, who tend not to stay in the territory. I wonder why that is. I mean the Japanese aren't having kids because they are loving wierdos. HKers though? I'd think they are the type to get married have kids and do all of that kind of poo poo.
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Because families live in shoeboxes here, make an average of 19k a month and each kid costs approximately nine gajillion dollars in baby formula, pre pre school, pre school, kindergarten admissions counseling, kindergarten interview tutoring, kindergarten tuition, then fourteen years of exam prep in the form of six zillion hours of tutoring. Also to earn that 19k a month, both parents have to work at least 50 hours a week, six days a week.
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^^^^ You forgot books. There are no hand me downs like public school in America. I wish schools would adpot open source text books and cheaper free software. hitension posted:Why do I suspect the relevant foreign aid agencies have bigger fish to fry than HONG KONG of all places But people are still scared of Japanese radiation fears, so Japan is out of the question. None the less, we already do buy poo poo from overseas. There is a strong parallel import business. For a while my relatives were having fancy USDA approved organic baby formula from Wisconsin  The families with more disposable income already buy formula from New Zealand or where ever. Sometimes they cross the border themselves and cave in to the hoarders and pay 4 times the retail price. That's the biggest thing nowadays as gifts, more so than expensive booze and cars. Tins and tins of milk powder.The middle class families and poorer ones? If they can't lactate, they are screwed. Recently, there are random facebook groups popping up about a casual "milk bank". Which is great but there is one condition: Mothers must feed the babies on the spot because sometimes ladies would use it as a "milk mask" or re sell things LimburgLimbo posted:It's not easy for Chinese people to get into Japan, as I recall. You have to apply for visas and all. God dammit, that's China and their communist red passports, they do have visa free travel to Iran and Cuba. Hongers can freely travel to Japan and other countries easily, but not Iran. To many Hongers, Japan is the ideal short holiday. Great food, clothes, and of course anime and video games. Many many Japanese companies set up shop in Hong Kong back in the 60's. So people here are mostly fond of Japan and the city went on a manhunt when 2 Japanese tourists were randomly assaulted during the car flipping ordeal. caberham fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Jan 31, 2013 |
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Vladimir Putin posted:I wonder why that is. I mean the Japanese aren't having kids because they are loving wierdos. HKers though? I'd think they are the type to get married have kids and do all of that kind of poo poo. Living condition is too crowded (see the ranting post form previous page for reasons). Take the residential apartment you see on Hong Kong TV shows or movies, divide the space by ten. That's the actual living space normal Hong Kongers inhabit.
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Bloodnose posted:Also to earn that 19k a month, both parents have to work at least 50 hours a week, six days a week. Globalization.txt
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caberham posted:Which is great but there is one condition: Mothers must feed the babies on the spot because sometimes ladies would use it as a "milk mask" or re sell things Jesus Christ what is wrong with people? You know what would work better? The blood of poor babies.
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How can people even be sure they are buying genuine formula even if they go to Hong Kong? It can't be that hard to fake the packaging and the profit margin on selling fake must be enormous.quote:Countries like Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand exercise rationed sale to tourist buyers from China for milk powder but the Hong Kong government simply frame the situation as a matter of free trade and refuse to exercise law which is already there to stop cross-border smuggling. We request for international support and assistance as babies in Hong Kong will face malnutrition very soon. If it's gotten to the point that people are hoarding formula from places out of the Pacific Rim, why hasn't American seen some of this crazy buying from tourists?
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For those of you following along at home, that 19k average monthly household income in HK is in HKD and works out to about 2500 USD. This is in a city where a 400 square foot home in an inconvenient neighborhood in the suburbs costs half a million dollars. Welcome to cyberpunk nightmare world. Some light reading on the topic.
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Chinese International students over seas claimed to have paid for their studies by selling baby formula  Everything is relatively cheap in Hong Kong, except for housing. There is a massive waiting list to apply for government subsided ownership, and the average wait is 7 years. So lots of middle class kids or people with a bit more money apply for one once they hit 18 years old. In the past 10 years, there have been major land developments for private luxury residences and rich mainland Chinese have become a target market. So with a dire housing situation in Hong Kong, the perception of lack of basic goods, and the combination of Beijing controlled politics: perhaps seeing kids poo poo on the street will make a lot of people snap and lose their poo poo. Which means a bigger crack down and political pressure from Beijing. Blood nosed provided text, here are some pictures. Michael Wolf is one of my favourite photographers and he is good at capturing that feeling of the "HK Grind". One of his project is "100 x 100" where he just takes pictures of people living in low income government rental housing. They might look like PRO PRC Lao Wai or some old grandpa/grandma but living in small quarters takes a toll on their mind. Friend of mine is a social worker and has to deal with old people going ballistic and chopping their neighbours with a Chinese vegetable knife. Think angry grandpa with a cleaver instead of a shot gun  http://photomichaelwolf.com/#100x100/1
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Vladimir Putin posted:How can people even be sure they are buying genuine formula even if they go to Hong Kong? It can't be that hard to fake the packaging and the profit margin on selling fake must be enormous. Amusingly enough this post just landed on my Facebook wall, claiming (i think) fake milk formula has now been found in Hong Kong. 
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Imperialist Dog posted:Amusingly enough this post just landed on my Facebook wall, claiming (i think) fake milk formula has now been found in Hong Kong. Everyone pay attention!!!!! Even HK-bought milk powder can be fake! Today my sister opened a can of milk powder! She discovered it contained less powder than usual! She talked to me after that! I compared it to another freshly opened can and it really contained much less! And then I tried tasting it! And it really was fake! Really sweet! The milk taste was barely there! Really weak! And the powder was white! [No idea what this means]! Deadly! Next time I'm going to the drugstore to get it! My mom knows how to order good formula! Really scary God that was annoying to translate. Sorry for any mistakes.
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