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moron izzard
Nov 17, 2006

Grimey Drawer

Scaramouche posted:

I don't think it's entirely deceptive, just about every asian person I've known has a 'white person' name that they or their peers in school choose, and it's not just the snake oil salesmen from the mainland. This includes second and third generation north americans and not just immigrants. Some make sense phonetically like Xian -> Sean and others are just odd like Wen Ching -> Joanne. One guy I've known for decades just decided to call himself Patrick when he was 13; it had no relation to his chinese name. "I just like the sound of it" he said.

the chinese kid on my steam friends list calls himself Small Mango

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Loqieu
Feb 27, 2001

I know a woman named Chanel and another one named Ice.

Chinese beer sucks, but every place seems to carry Heineken anyway. Cheap baijiu, which might make you blind, is where it's at though.

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



Lucy Heartfilia posted:

happy new year!

ha ha ha new year in february these chineses are crazy

Tuxedo Gin
May 21, 2003

Classy.

A Yolo Wizard posted:

the chinese kid on my steam friends list calls himself Small Mango

Yeah, I like the ones who pick a literal translation of their Chinese name or Chinese nickname.

Lot of girls named "Flower", "Bear", "Fish"

Zipline
May 9, 2013

Blistex posted:

I had GLadder on by default

What is the legality of VPNs in China? It sounds like most major companies and every expat uses them, but are they doing so legally?

RonMexicosPitbull
Feb 28, 2012

by Ralp

Zipline posted:

What is the legality of VPNs in China? It sounds like most major companies and every expat uses them, but are they doing so legally?
If you are a reporter/political activist/pissed off some government official they'll murder you out but standard using one to look at porn you'll usually be okay. ITs a great way to criminalize the entire population so they can bring in whoever.

big time bisexual
Oct 16, 2002

Cool Party

Loqieu posted:

I know a woman named Chanel and another one named Ice.

Chinese beer sucks, but every place seems to carry Heineken anyway. Cheap baijiu, which might make you blind, is where it's at though.

jinjiu > baijiu

onemanlan
Oct 4, 2006

Lucy Heartfilia posted:

happy new year!

Are you wearing your adult diapers and traveling ATM? I am.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Loqieu posted:

I know a woman named Chanel and another one named Ice.

Chinese beer sucks, but every place seems to carry Heineken anyway. Cheap baijiu, which might make you blind, is where it's at though.

Iirc, there's a Heineken brewery in China which explains its prevalence.

Lucy Heartfilia
May 31, 2012


onemanlan posted:

Are you wearing your adult diapers and traveling ATM? I am.

uhhhh. no.

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


Tuxedo Gin posted:

Yeah, I like the ones who pick a literal translation of their Chinese name or Chinese nickname.

Lot of girls named "Flower", "Bear", "Fish"

'Sunny'

buttcrackmenace
Nov 14, 2007

see its right there in the manual where it says
Grimey Drawer

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f19_1266132766

a girl ingests a line of K

she dies shortly afterward.

oh BTW the line was approximately 20' long

:stonk:

DisgracelandUSA
Aug 11, 2011

Yeah, I gets down with the homies

buttcrackmenace posted:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f19_1266132766

a girl ingests a line of K

she dies shortly afterward.

oh BTW the line was approximately 20' long

:stonk:

Video not found. Probably not k. As k is extremely hard to accidentally overdose on.

Fake edit: wait, we talking inches or feet?

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

DisgracelandUSA posted:

k is extremely hard to accidentally overdose on.

Is it? poo poo, my 18 year old cousin is all about the K, mixing it with poo poo and drinking. I planned on crunching down on some super ironic and insightful cereal at her inevitable funeral that I'm going to have to shell out $$$ for a plane ticket to.

Fuck You And Diebold
Sep 15, 2004

by Athanatos
K is hard to overdose on, but usually if you are doing K in amounts where overdose would even be a worry you are probably doing other stuff with it, which will cause problems.

buttcrackmenace
Nov 14, 2007

see its right there in the manual where it says
Grimey Drawer

DisgracelandUSA posted:

Video not found. Probably not k. As k is extremely hard to accidentally overdose on.

Fake edit: wait, we talking inches or feet?

odd, the video works for me. Came from the VIce article linked earlier.

feet. not inches

Upon rewatching with a friend ware guessing maybe 30 feet

dafuq

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Loqieu posted:

Chinese beer sucks, but every place seems to carry Heineken anyway. Cheap baijiu, which might make you blind, is where it's at though.

When loving Heineken and Pabst are considered superior beers instead of what you drink because it's cheap and easy to find you've got problems. And I loving love cheap lagers and once drank a lot of Budweiser because I was living overseas and felt homesick.

DisgracelandUSA
Aug 11, 2011

Yeah, I gets down with the homies

Professor Shark posted:

Is it? poo poo, my 18 year old cousin is all about the K, mixing it with poo poo and drinking. I planned on crunching down on some super ironic and insightful cereal at her inevitable funeral that I'm going to have to shell out $$$ for a plane ticket to.

The amount of K you would have to be doing like a sane drug user would put you in a k-hole / catatonic state before you could actually do enough to kill you. You'd have to literally be doing something like snorting a 30 foot line or purposefully trying to kill yourself. Casual googling puts the 50/50 lethal dose at 400mg/kg, or around 30-40 grams for an adult male that isn't a lardass.

It gets complicated when you start mixing other things with it, which can result not in an overdose, per se, but in shutdown / failing cardiac and respiratory functionality. Sort of like the reason that you shouldn't mix opiates and benzos. One depresses lung functionality, which is fine, and the other depresses cardiac functionality, which is fine. But together they're a combination for death. If you're going to drink or do any opiates / barbiturates / downers, please be careful and not stupid. Also, because the effective dosage is so low on ketamine, it's very easy to do 'too much'. Not enough to kill you, but enough to ruin your night.

Once upon a time, I worked on a cardiology research project. The doctors were giving ketamine to babies for anesthesia because it didn't significant negative affects on heart functionality, allowing them to run cardiac tests that were untainted by the anesthesia required to put the babies under. When I heard this at an investigators dinner, I nearly spat my food out before saying, "Ya'll give k to babies?"

buttcrackmenace posted:

odd, the video works for me. Came from the VIce article linked earlier.

feet. not inches

Upon rewatching with a friend ware guessing maybe 30 feet

dafuq

This makes more sense now.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
The city brewery in Harbin makes a pretty good light lager, which is not the best kind of beer, but of that kind of beer it's more than fair. This is because a bunch of Germans moved there in the 1800s and shock horror opened a brewery. It was also in this city that I was offered special northern cabbage, which we only eat here, not some other place in China, which was sauerkraut.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

DisgracelandUSA posted:

The amount of K you would have to be doing like a sane drug user would put you in a k-hole / catatonic state before you could actually do enough to kill you. You'd have to literally be doing something like snorting a 30 foot line or purposefully trying to kill yourself. Casual googling puts the 50/50 lethal dose at 400mg/kg, or around 30-40 grams for an adult male that isn't a lardass.

It gets complicated when you start mixing other things with it, which can result not in an overdose, per se, but in shutdown / failing cardiac and respiratory functionality. Sort of like the reason that you shouldn't mix opiates and benzos. One depresses lung functionality, which is fine, and the other depresses cardiac functionality, which is fine. But together they're a combination for death. If you're going to drink or do any opiates / barbiturates / downers, please be careful and not stupid. Also, because the effective dosage is so low on ketamine, it's very easy to do 'too much'. Not enough to kill you, but enough to ruin your night.

Once upon a time, I worked on a cardiology research project. The doctors were giving ketamine to babies for anesthesia because it didn't significant negative affects on heart functionality, allowing them to run cardiac tests that were untainted by the anesthesia required to put the babies under. When I heard this at an investigators dinner, I nearly spat my food out before saying, "Ya'll give k to babies?"


This makes more sense now.

It is legal to perscribe K to children under a certain age as they don't get any of the hallucinogenic effects.

The Twinkie Czar
Dec 31, 2004
I went for super stud.
Did she die from the 30' feet of ketamine or from the drywall powder that Chinese ketamine is probably cut with?

Deputy Dangerous
Mar 20, 2011

90% gravity

The Twinkie Czar posted:

Did she die from the 30' feet of ketamine or from the drywall powder that Chinese ketamine is probably cut with?

Depends on what the chinese drywall was cut with

Rudager
Apr 29, 2008

buttcrackmenace posted:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f19_1266132766

a girl ingests a line of K

she dies shortly afterward.

oh BTW the line was approximately 20' long

:stonk:

Holy loving poo poo.

Snorting that amount of anything would probably be fatal, but hey at least she got $20 or something I guess.

caberham
Mar 18, 2009

by Smythe
Grimey Drawer
That's why Hong Kong cops love raiding video arcades, Karaoke bars, dance clubs, or wherever they think people will "get rowdy"



The whole karaoke building got shut down. And the video system got cut off. We had to wait for the police to search/id/clear each room before we can start singing again. But Hong Kong cops are absolutely terrified of speaking English and dealing with white people :ohdear:

bling bling bilal
Sep 30, 2013

caberham posted:

That's why Hong Kong cops love raiding video arcades, Karaoke bars, dance clubs, or wherever they think people will "get rowdy"



The whole karaoke building got shut down. And the video system got cut off. We had to wait for the police to search/id/clear each room before we can start singing again. But Hong Kong cops are absolutely terrified of speaking English and dealing with white people :ohdear:

I remember once in Hong Kong at an arcade, I didn't have my passport on me and I told them I was Australian. They laughed at me and thought I was bluffing and wanted to take me in. Luckily I was with my mates who were undeniably guai lo. loving cheeky cunts.

Bhodi
Dec 9, 2007

Oh, it's just a cat.
Pillbug

caberham posted:

But Hong Kong cops are absolutely terrified of speaking English and dealing with white people :ohdear:
Why is this?

Tuxedo Gin
May 21, 2003

Classy.

Bhodi posted:

Why is this?

Because they usually
can't speak English and are intimidated.

When I lived in Taiwan, I never bothered to get a scooter license. I didn't live in Taipei so I almost never got stopped because I was white, they'd just wave me through checkpoints. When they did stop me, I'd pretend to only speak English and they've give up in short order.

In Taipei, where the cops do sometimes speak English, I'd just pretend to be a non-English speaking Frenchman and get the same free pass. My two years of high school French 15 years ago was good enough to fool them.

Zipline
May 9, 2013

Tuxedo Gin posted:

Because they usually
can't speak English and are intimidated.

When I lived in Taiwan, I never bothered to get a scooter license. I didn't live in Taipei so I almost never got stopped because I was white, they'd just wave me through checkpoints. When they did stop me, I'd pretend to only speak English and they've give up in short order.

In Taipei, where the cops do sometimes speak English, I'd just pretend to be a non-English speaking Frenchman and get the same free pass. My two years of high school French 15 years ago was good enough to fool them.

Why not just get a license?

Tuxedo Gin
May 21, 2003

Classy.

Zipline posted:

Why not just get a license?

Pain in the rear end and I only lived there a year.

I'll be moving back and will get one this time.

EDIT: Also I'm pretty sure my scooter was illegally registered. It was a hand me down from foreigner to foreigner. Passed on when one left the country.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Deputy Dangerous posted:

Depends on what the chinese drywall was cut with

lol

Tuxedo Gin
May 21, 2003

Classy.

lol indeed but it was kinda sad watching that girl kill herself i kind of wish i hadn't, and that she hadn't

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

I was just laughing at DD's funny joke, dude. I'm not laughing at someone stupiding themselves to death, that's what the Las Vegas Mom Shooting thread is for

Tuxedo Gin
May 21, 2003

Classy.

wasn't really intended as a comment towards you i lol'd at the drywall joke too

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Tuxedo Gin posted:

wasn't really intended as a comment towards you i lol'd at the drywall joke too

haha cool man keep on keeping on :hfive:

Deep State of Mind
Jul 30, 2006

"It was a busy day. I do not remember it all. In the morning, I thought I had lost my wallet. Then we went swimming and either overthrew a government or started a pro-American radio station. I can't really remember."
Fun Shoe

Bhodi posted:

Why is this?

Hong Kong police are, like police in most countries, largely uneducated dudes looking for a comfortable government salary (it's waaayy higher than anything they'd get in the private sector) with shitloads of benefits.

They are, however, considered Hong Kong civil servants and by virtue of that are required to speak English as well as Chinese, because it's still an official language in the SAR. I loved loving with cops by going up to them and asking for directions and poo poo in English, because they always get terrified and look at each other (they usually patrol in pairs) trying to decide who would have to deal with me. These guys will go into a gunfight before they'll speak English.

opus111
Jul 6, 2014

buttcrackmenace posted:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f19_1266132766

a girl ingests a line of K

she dies shortly afterward.

oh BTW the line was approximately 20' long

:stonk:

jfc.

opus111
Jul 6, 2014

she was 17.

ZergRushing
Oct 1, 2004

buttcrackmenace posted:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f19_1266132766

a girl ingests a line of K

she dies shortly afterward.

oh BTW the line was approximately 20' long

:stonk:

ahahahahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH WHAT THE gently caress

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

This happened 5 years ago. That teenager is now a skeleton :stare:

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opus111
Jul 6, 2014

Is it a girl being a dumbass or te result of literally zero drugs education (I have met asians who think that there is just 'drug ' lmao)

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