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What's up with the Chinese fear of "side-effects?" I know lots of Chinese people who refuse to take any medicine except as an absolute last resort out of a fear of unspecified side-effects.
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"Don't you know? Traditional Chinese Medicine is wholesome and natural and safe! Who knows what's in those crazy chemical drugs!" Cause? Hell if I know.
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Bloodnose posted:What's up with the Chinese fear of "side-effects?" I know lots of Chinese people who refuse to take any medicine except as an absolute last resort out of a fear of unspecified side-effects. Death is a side effect of life, dude...
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Aug 5, 2014 10:56
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Getting better is a side effect, isn't it? Or, wait, what's the primary effect of medicinal drugs?
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A really great high that you can coast on for days.
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Aug 5, 2014 13:52
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I can imagine that with poor regulation since the days of the Republic of China and Chinese doctors usually only having a 4 year degree, mistakes happen.
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Fun little article on NPR a day ago about the Chinese (and other East Asians) eating loving Pangolins to extinction because according to our favorite thing ever, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Pangolin scales make you fart and lactate more or some bullshit. Oh and they're not farm raised so they're auspicious to eat during business deals or something. Generally I try to be a pretty culturally sensitive person and at least try to see the nuance in something like TCM but you know what gently caress that poo poo, TCM is a goddamn plague upon this earth and if it were stomped out tomorrow with an iron boot I'd be applauding all the while.
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Wouldn't you eventually get tired of applauding after a few hours?
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How are u posted:Fun little article on NPR a day ago about the Chinese (and other East Asians) eating loving Pangolins to extinction because according to our favorite thing ever, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Pangolin scales make you fart and lactate more or some bullshit. Oh and they're not farm raised so they're auspicious to eat during business deals or something. I believe it. I saw Pangolin on the English side of the menu in a restaurant in Vietnam. I only knew what it was because there was a picture of one in a PYF thread I'd seen a week before. I wonder how you eat it, it just looks aggressively inedible. They also had porcupine.
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I shouldn't post on here, but this is great. The (HK) Communications Authority has blasted an RTHK special about the HKTV debacle and will take action against it. Not only is this going to remind everybody how hosed up and corrupt the Communications Authority is after the actual ordeal, but it's also loving dumb because nobody will have even heard of this special until they put their foot in it. I'm not sure if the government here is mentally ill or just stupid, but I think only one of those explanations fits and either way this city is hosed. Edit: Apparently they hid this item behind 3 or 4 mundane issues to try to hide it. Jeez. hong kong divorce lunch fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Aug 6, 2014 |
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Aug 6, 2014 06:21
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Hmm... just opening that document. Let's take a look at what spurred the issue here... HOLY gently caress THREE PEOPLE COMPLAINED I wonder if those people were The Ghost of Run Run Shaw, Richard Li and Shadowy iCable Cabal. At least the Communications Authority isn't actually doing anything. Their decision was "pay more attention to the regulations." So it doesn't seem like a big deal. Hopefully it just gets people angrier at the government and we get some fireworks at the end of August/Early September.
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hailthefish posted:"Don't you know? Traditional Chinese Medicine is wholesome and natural and safe! Who knows what's in those crazy chemical drugs!" God I hope the Portlanders don't/haven't learned about TCM anytime soon.
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Chickenwalker posted:Of course they already have. I've lived with two consecutive sets of dirty hippies trying to tell me about how dried tiger dick is good for my spleen. What, really? Wouldn't hippies be interested in environmental conservation, and protecting endangered species?
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Abilifier posted:What, really? Wouldn't hippies be interested in environmental conservation, and protecting endangered species? There is a strong correlation between distrust of one's national-level political institution and distrust of all institutions. That and hippies are apt to hold FYGM views as anyone else. No, see, this tigerdick cured my son's autism! What do you mean, did I get it diagnosed professionally? I turned to WebMD. E: Soon enough, I expect Ebola Virus will provide an impetus to culturally change that behavior. There's a sound epidemiological reason why street excrementation should be shamed to cultural extinction. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ My Imaginary GF fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Aug 7, 2014 |
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Aug 7, 2014 00:53
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So have any China expats here tested the limits of street pissing/making GBS threads yet? Like just run over to a street light in broad daylight hike your leg up and piss all over it like a dog.
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Oh when foreigners do it it's proof of how barbaric and shameless they are.
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Modus Operandi posted:So have any China expats here tested the limits of street pissing/making GBS threads yet? Like just run over to a street light in broad daylight hike your leg up and piss all over it like a dog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Rq9ontNwc
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He says Hong Kongers should get over the street pissing. Downvoted. My rebuttal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJeE0P2Bb8w
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Well, I guess that answered it. People in China are consistent in just not giving a gently caress.
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Holy gently caress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rytAwkfzXBA gently caress you, Information Services Department.
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Bloodnose posted:Holy gently caress The gloves are off. There is no (Feigned) neutrality anymore. Either the central government is really scared or thinks they can get the knockout punch.
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Trying to catch up on this week's Economist before next week's comes out tomorrow, I just endured this excruciating letter from the Chinese embassy in London.The Hurt Feelings of the Chinese People posted:SIR – “No panderers, please” and “Tamed hounds” (July 19th) misinterpreted the Chinese government’s policy on Hong Kong. Both articles accused the Chinese government of oppressing press and religious freedoms in Hong Kong and exerting influence over its political-reform process. Yet the truth is, since Hong Kong’s return 17 years ago, the principle of “one country, two systems” has been implemented earnestly and the rights and freedoms of Hong Kong residents guaranteed to the fullest extent. I think I just won Chinese Position on Hong Kong BINGO
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Any ideas on what the new WeChat crackdown will mean for foreigners (with the required real name etc)? quote:"A few people are using the platforms to disseminate information related to terrorism, violence and pornography as well as slander and rumors," said Jiang Jun, spokesman of the SIIO. "Such behaviors have raised bitter feelings among netizens." Xinhua source
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quote:Authorities believe the regulation will help protect citizens' legitimate rights to freedom of speech.
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In an attempt to make this thread not terrible but also not about three people from HK complaining about the Chinese government in between the same three people complaining about the HK government, have some interesting articles from Bill Bishop's Sinocism news roundup: "Chinese Coal Industry Are Jerks, Not Following Laws" Greenpeace reports, shocking no one quote:By combining evidence gathered on seven separate trips to the remote region with satellite images and analysis by legal experts, Greenpeace campaigners have established that the coal development, run by a group of private companies, violates a number of water protection laws and local nature reserve regulations. "China will create own Christian belief system," says official, "LMAO." quote:China will construct a "Chinese Christian theology" suitable for the country, state media reported on Thursday, as both the number of believers and tensions with the authorities are on the rise. China has between 23 million and 40 million Protestants, accounting for 1.7 to 2.9 per cent of the total population, the state-run China Daily said, citing figures given at a seminar in Shanghai. PRC regulators to foreign multinationals: "Get owned." quote:“As the current administrative reforms deepen, the NDRC fears it might lose the power to carry out anti-monopoly investigations so it is pushing these high-profile investigations of foreign companies,” says Liu Xu, a researcher at the intellectual property and competition law research centre of Tongji University in Shanghai. Mr Liu points out that the NDRC has also investigated quite a few domestic companies but does not publicise those cases, which are often resolved by negotiation between the NDRC and agencies or powerful party leaders with close ties to the targeted companies. In this context, foreign companies are easier and more effective scapegoats since they usually do not have Communist Party elders to protect them and punishing them can have a powerful deterrent effect on entire sectors. Recent grads still make less than migrant workers quote:According to a new survey conducted by Peking University, more than one-third of recent Chinese graduates continue to live off their parents. A still-greater number are failing to save any money, the survey found, with 40% reporting that they live paycheck to paycheck. The survey, which covered some 350,000 respondents, found that students graduating nationwide this year had an average monthly salary of 2,443 yuan ($396) — approximately enough to buy half of an iPhone in China, as the Beijing Youth Daily put it. The figure marked an increase of 324 yuan from the previous year. In big cities such as Beijing, figures were slightly higher, with recent graduates commanding an average starting salary of 3,019 yuan. State media outlets tussel with netizens and each other over noodle story quote:The news of muddy water instant noodles was first published by Global Times, a pro-Beijing Chinese tabloid with government background. By applauding how the PLA soldiers have “eaten bitterness” and endured hardship in disaster relief efforts, the piece was meant to be a classic propaganda piece commonly seen in disaster reporting in China to boost patriotism. It sounds exactly like something one’d read from People’s Daily 30 years ago. But China isn’t what it was 30 years ago. Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Aug 7, 2014 |
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Aug 7, 2014 16:20
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Uh, so what exactly is the "limited access" for Wechat? It's kind of important that I use it for the near term.
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Bloodnose posted:Trying to catch up on this week's Economist before next week's comes out tomorrow, I just endured this excruciating letter from the Chinese embassy in London. I remember the British signed a joint document with certain agreements, but I guess that doesn't matter.
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What? It's called the Sino-Sino Unilateral Declaration for a reason. HK is purely internal Chinese affairs and furthermore
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computer parts posted:Uh, so what exactly is the "limited access" for Wechat? It's kind of important that I use it for the near term. Do you have a public account? I imagine Wechat is fighting this one tooth and nail so I don't think they are actually going to make 100% of users re-register when the authorities are likely looking to target a subset of influential users.
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Can't think of many other countries whose entire foreign policy is bully the smaller kids then cry like a baby when anything remotely against your aims or progress occurs.
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sincx posted:I think most countries do this in some format. China is just incredibly stupidly obvious about this. Yeah, the US does that all of the time with "Chinese industrial espionage" and then the NSA.
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Haha, holy poo poo, how naive can you get. "Hmm, let's drum up patriotic fervor for the PLA, but how? Oh, show them using muddy water to eat and drink as proof of how stalwart and tough they are!" Everyone else: "Where is all the money for the PLA going if they still have to use muddy water?" "THE STORY IS FILTHY PROPAGANDA LIES IT NEVER HAPPENED" http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-china-quake-muddy-noodles-army-20140807-story.html quote:The story quoted an unnamed official, said to be in charge of the rescue forces, saying the incident didn’t happen and it was not logical for the rescue forces to do such a thing. “No matter who boils water, they’ll always try to use water that is clean,” said the official.
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sincx posted:I think most countries do this in some format. China is just incredibly stupidly obvious about this. Yeah so it doesn't look like whining. China literally whines.
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Well other countries actually have defined foreign policies enacted by unified governments. China has a bunch of high ranking party members who pretty much independently try to get as much graft money for themselves as possible while trying to avoid public scrutiny. It's Kremlinology 2.0, except this time the country is actually integrated with the outside world and not shut off.
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Slide in Hong Kong’s retail sales continues in June with 6.9pc dropquote:The grim performance of Hong Kong's retail sales continued in June, producing the worst first-half showing since 2009. I guess both mainlanders and Hong Kongers are happy now that they will see less of each other. I was told ordering on taobao and get the item mailed from Japan or US directly is the new trendy thing.
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