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Jose posted:Can someone post more cyberpunk looking photos of china tia
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A Jupiter posted:Also as I learned from Sleeping Dogs, apparently running a private bus service that steals passengers from other bus companies? I think that's a money laundering thing.
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Accretionist posted:Hong Kong and Taiwan mixed in (because gently caress da' police): I love these so much and try to take a pic whenever I see one
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When I was living in Zhong Jie (older downtown neighborhood) in Shenyang they were doing a shitload of demolitions and construction before the Olympics came to town. There were buildings like this all over the place where they were just working down a row of apartments and shops and every other day they would take the next one in line down. I guess they forgot to do their check when starting on an apartment and brought the place down on top of some homeless guy who was passed out drunk and didn't wake up in time. The next day they had the place taped off and police were crawling all over the ruins. Apparently one of the poured exterior concrete walls fell in and landed flat on the guy. The description I heard was it was like knocking over a very heavy book on top of an uncooked egg. Another demolition I saw (same city) on the way to one of the high schools I taught at had the last wall of a 4 floor building teetering on the brink of falling down. I guess the crane that had the wrecking ball was out of commission, so this one guy would go to the base of the wall, (in what was the inside of the building) hit the wall a few times, remove a foot of brick, then run out when he thought it was going to come down. This went on for ten minutes, with him running out and stumbling over rubble every time he thought it was going to come down. Luckily for him they got the wrecking machine up and running again, but it was legit the most suspenseful thing I have ever witnessed in my life.
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Blistex posted:When I was living in Zhong Jie (older downtown neighborhood) in Shenyang they were doing a shitload of demolitions and construction before the Olympics came to town. How did you like living in Shenyang? I have the impression that it is analogous to Pittsburgh (i.e. a post-industrial city trying to reinvent itself). Any reason why you chose to live there rather than a more livable city like Dalian?
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I think that's a money laundering thing. Actually a protection money thing. They don't steal passengers either
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DetroitVectorSmooth posted:How did you like living in Shenyang? I have the impression that it is analogous to Pittsburgh (i.e. a post-industrial city trying to reinvent itself). Any reason why you chose to live there rather than a more livable city like Dalian? I've never been to Pittsburgh, but I think the comparison is somewhat close. . . assuming Pittsburgh had another 6 million people living in it. I was living and teaching there because my wife (at the time girlfriend) was finishing up her masters degree at Shenyang Normal University (Normal is what they call Teacher's Colleges). I didn't mind it, but would have preferred to live in Dalien (seafood and navy yard), Jilin (not full of coal dust), or even Changchun (better road layout) but that's just how things happened. If it wasn't for the massive amounts of coal dust everywhere and the abysmal city planning when it came to roads, I would not have had a complaint. Best part about being in Shenyang were the fireworks during Spring Festival. Apparently due to the density in the one area, it's even more impressive than Beijing (random people setting off fireworks, not city sponsored ones). The constant light and explosions made the Shock and Awe campaign in Baghdad look tame. Another great thing about Shenyang is that it has a really diverse selection of restaurants that are representative of the whole country, and even rivals Beijing. This also includes foreign food, as there were lots of Japanese, Korean, and western style restaurants, due to the large number of people working from all over China and the world due to the factories there.
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China is the future of the 1980's
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What is not normal about these? Have I been here too long?Accretionist posted:
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simplefish posted:What is not normal about these? Have I been here too long? I was thinking the same thing, but also including the fake construction worker arm waver guy.
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# ? Jan 16, 2015 17:39 |
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saw a similar thing in Shenzhen where they had built the sidewalk up so high that it went around and over a fire hydrant that was rendered useless as a result
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# ? Jan 16, 2015 17:45 |
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To be fair, it does look like you can pull those rails away without too much effort to get into the case. To digress, I think by this point in my life I've seen about twenty different productions / interpretations of 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms.' And, as I understand it, people think Liu Bei was a 'balla rear end nigga' courtesy of the very positive portrayal from the Luo Guanzhong treatment in the historical novels, but actual history points him at being a petulant, shady little con-man that used a threadbare familial connection to Han royalty and a pair of loyal but barely containable brutes to manipulate himself into wealth and power.
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5er posted:To be fair, it does look like you can pull those rails away without too much effort to get into the case. Shows what kind of morals the Chinese want in their heroes I guess. Except Guan Yu. Guan Yu is clearly a badass and not an alteration of history.
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any news on whats being done about the Blade Runner like pollution in china?
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# ? Jan 16, 2015 19:08 |
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Why does everything in China look like they've never seen one of these:
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5er posted:To be fair, it does look like you can pull those rails away without too much effort to get into the case. ive only read the book/played the games how do they handle the scene where he throws his newborn son headfirst on to the ground to prove to his adviser that he can get a new son but not a new adviser
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:ive only read the book/played the games how do they handle the scene where he throws his newborn son headfirst on to the ground to prove to his adviser that he can get a new son but not a new adviser How about the scene where a peasant has no meat and cooks his wife and serves her to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei and Cao Cao put aside their differences to both high five the peasant for putting service to his lord first. And yeah, even in Rot3K its easy to read between the lines and see that Liu Bei was probably a poo poo.
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Is hong kong gross like these other places? Or nah
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Butt Frosted Cake posted:ive only read the book/played the games how do they handle the scene where he throws his newborn son headfirst on to the ground to prove to his adviser that he can get a new son but not a new adviser Just about always it's a creepy, powerful manlove between him and Zhao Yun. That the bonds of sacrifice and loyalty that they have between each other trump even the father / son relationship. There's just about always tears, and two burly, virtuous men coming to their knees with deep gazes into each other's eyes in an embrace.
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ddiddles posted:Why does everything in China look like they've never seen one of these: Too much trouble, why bother. I also bet you most of the construction workers literally have not ever seen one of those. Edit: To be fair to the lazy rear end construction workers buildings aren't maintained in any way and are built as cheaply as possible, so they're all basically collapsing within a couple years of being built. So doing a good job is kind of a waste of time because the building is going to be gone in an absurdly short timeframe anyway. I think I read things here are built with an expectation of 20 years max before they'll be demolished? Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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That is surprisingly neat. Need some pics of HK island or Mongkok electrical wiring, it is amazingly hosed up at times. Google search only finds the tidy ones, the real masterpieces are elaborate 3-dimensional works of art that are difficult to photograph well. MrMoo fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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EATIN SHRIMP posted:Is hong kong gross like these other places? Or nah From what I gather, the niceness goes [ Taiwan > Hong Kong > Mainland ] and Hong Kong's not bad.
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lol, typical scrub lawmaker mistake. next time explicitly state in the law that the fire hydrant has to be accessible and operational in case of fire. it also should NOT emit Zyklon B, Zyklon A or gasoline at any time. but you'll get the hang of it eventually, don't worry.
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ddiddles posted:Why does everything in China look like they've never seen one of these: They use Linux, OP.
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ddiddles posted:Why does everything in China look like they've never seen one of these: Unfortunately, the drain in my room was clogged and I couldn't turn the water on more than a third without the water backing up and overflowing out into the room. In my friend's room the layout was exactly the same but the drain was in the far corner instead of between the stall and the toilet. The sloping was the same so there was basically no drainage at all - he had to wedge a towel in so that it wouldn't overflow into the room.
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Accretionist posted:From what I gather, the niceness goes [ Taiwan > Hong Kong > Mainland ] and Hong Kong's not bad. Taiwan > Hong Kong > Most of the Capital Cities in South America > Shanghai > Beijing > A Goblin Camp in Lord of the Rings > Actual Mainland China If you hate nature and love money and don't care about art then you might put HK over Taiwan.
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ddiddles posted:Why does everything in China look like they've never seen one of these: Can they grind it up to make their penis bigger? If not, why bother?
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what exactly is going on here
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Cursed Lumberjack posted:what exactly is going on here He's hacking the Gibson.
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Cursed Lumberjack posted:what exactly is going on here yer mam's booking service
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Lemon posted:yer mam's booking service very rude, reported for mom sass
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Mister Mind posted:Can they grind it up to make their penis bigger? If not, why bother? where do you think they all went
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Gaunab posted:where do you think they all went Goddammit it's not straightening out! I've been had!
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Bhodi posted:I was at a newish hotel in Guilin earlier this year which had been modeled after some Renaissance hotel. The rooms were nice looking on the surface but like everything in China, just a little bit broken. There was a lovely glass-walled bathroom separated into a toilet area and a stall area with a raised slate center and drainage rim around it. The rim and toilet area was slightly sloped so that the runoff water would feed into a drain set between the sink and the toilet. this is basically china.txt all those skyscrapers might look great all lit up at night and poo poo but that disguises the fact that most of them are made of paper
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Almost all HK taxi drivers run their own private service, the Android phone with the orange circle is one of the new apps like Uber and shows the taxi is unavailable.
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