Bro Dad posted:

canoshiz posted:

Seriously, I've literally never seen it ever. It's uncommon enough here that my friend felt the need to take a vid and post it on the internet, at least

Narciss posted:

That is a pretty common thing in the U.S.

canoshiz posted:

Seriously, I've literally never seen it ever. It's uncommon enough here that my friend felt the need to take a vid and post it on the internet, at least

Grand Fromage posted:

Child leashes are super white yuppie.

This is Chinese leash game:

PINING 4 PORKINS posted:

it's not common at all in the US but you'll see it like once a year in an airport or something

Grand Fromage posted:

Child leashes are super white yuppie.

This is Chinese leash game:

Grand Fromage posted:

Child leashes are super white yuppie.

This is Chinese leash game:

angel opportunity posted:

this is perfect for how fast chinese people walk

Tuxedo Gin posted:

Well, it is get possible to get laces/pantlegs caught in the escalator which could be a bad day. Taiwan has signs all over the escalators now warning people with rubber/croc shoes to keep away from the edges of the step and don't put your toes against the step in front.

Reverse Centaur posted:

Richmond night market, Vancouver. I thought it was gonna be ok until 30 minutes after opening, then it just became "shove people to move" time.

canoshiz posted:

Seriously, I've literally never seen it ever. It's uncommon enough here that my friend felt the need to take a vid and post it on the internet, at least

canoshiz posted:

Seriously, I've literally never seen it ever. It's uncommon enough here that my friend felt the need to take a vid and post it on the internet, at least

angel opportunity posted:

Looks more like common sense to me:

René Chang posted:

Kidney transplants are not always worth the risk
René Chang

You report how "two transplant patients were given kidneys from a donor with a rare and aggressive form of cancer" (Patients given kidneys from donor with cancer, 22 March). And, your article states: "One senior official at the NHS Blood and Transplant Service (NHSBT) warned: 'We can minimise risk but we can't abolish it.'"

Though it's difficult to comment without full details of the cases, I am not surprised that this has happened – especially with the recent increase in the number of inappropriate offers of kidneys. Prior to my retirement as director of a transplant unit, I was offered kidneys for my patients that came from donors known to have Hodgkin's disease (a form of lymphoma), leukaemia and sepsis, all of which I refused.

Donor families should not be placed in the invidious position where their generous offer to donate kidneys is turned down. In many units, the decisions to accept or reject kidney offers are made by trainees with fewer years of experience than a consultant.

I agree with lawyer John Kitchingman, who says: "Kidney transplantation isn't urgent like liver or heart transplant." There is the alternative of dialysis. The vast majority of kidney transplants take place to improve the quality of life – as such there must be a low tolerance of failure. While the public harbour the erroneous belief that it is all-important to have the chance of a kidney transplant, the goal surely is not just to have had a transplant, but also to survive the operation with a working kidney graft.

Robert Law, one of the recipients, had a living donor "who had been tested and gone through all the procedures" and yet was offered the cadaver kidney, when a kidney from a living donor offers the best possible results. Kidney transplants, like much surgery, are a question of balancing risk against potential benefit. In the case of living donor transplants the risk is to both the potential donor and recipient, while the benefit is mainly to the recipient (any benefit to the donor is usually psychological). A decision has often to be made by clinicians in the face of uncertainty. Was the right balance struck in this case?

The recent aim to increase the number of kidney donations by 50% by 2013 is a process target and, crucially, not an outcome target. It costs Ł150,000 to keep a kidney failure patient alive for five years on dialysis. The figure for a successful transplant is Ł43,000 – Ł23,000 for the first year and Ł5,000 for each of the subsequent four years (the cost of the immuno-suppressive drugs and outpatient monitoring).

Following this logic, the cheapest option would be to give the patient a transplant, followed by death after the operation! A cynic might at least be tempted to suggest that the policy decision by the bean-counters in hospital management to increase kidney donation is connected to the fact that kidney failure patients, although making up only 0.8% of the NHS patient population, consume 4-5% of the total NHS resource. Thank goodness it's doctors not bean counters who look after our patients.

René Chang was founding director of transplantation (1994-2009) St George's Hospital, Tooting, London

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

Looks like René Chang gets around.

Tuxedo Gin posted:

That can't be the same guy. Not even one mention of China in that entire article.

sincx posted:

What's worse? A small number of individuals of an underprivileged minority shot/killed for little or no reason by racist members of the majority, or a larger number of individuals in a racially homogeneous society imprisoned/tortured for speaking against those in power?

Not a rhetorical question by the way.

bad day posted:

Uh if you're not aware of how the USA kidnaps foreign nationals and throws them into secret prisons where they are tortured for years on end, murders civilians with robot airplanes flown by video gamers thousands of miles away, spies on literally every single person on earth, etc. then you're just misinformed. You can't claim any sort of moral disparity between the US and China because both countries are structurally corrupt and citizens have absolutely no rights whatsoever if the government says so. Yeah it loving sucks but that's the world we live in, hand-wringing on the internet and bitching about "human rights" isn't going to fix anything. Might as well just get on with your life and stop judging everything like you're the ultimate moral arbiter of the universe.

bad day posted:

Uh if you're not aware of how the USA kidnaps foreign nationals and throws them into secret prisons where they are tortured for years on end, murders civilians with robot airplanes flown by video gamers thousands of miles away, spies on literally every single person on earth, etc. then you're just misinformed. You can't claim any sort of moral disparity between the US and China because both countries are structurally corrupt and citizens have absolutely no rights whatsoever if the government says so. Yeah it loving sucks but that's the world we live in, hand-wringing on the internet and bitching about "human rights" isn't going to fix anything. Might as well just get on with your life and stop judging everything like you're the ultimate moral arbiter of the universe.

bad day posted:

Uh if you're not aware of how the USA kidnaps foreign nationals and throws them into secret prisons where they are tortured for years on end, murders civilians with robot airplanes flown by video gamers thousands of miles away, spies on literally every single person on earth, etc. then you're just misinformed. You can't claim any sort of moral disparity between the US and China because both countries are structurally corrupt and citizens have absolutely no rights whatsoever if the government says so. Yeah it loving sucks but that's the world we live in, hand-wringing on the internet and bitching about "human rights" isn't going to fix anything. Might as well just get on with your life and stop judging everything like you're the ultimate moral arbiter of the universe.

angel opportunity posted:

seems like after retirement he just decided to get crazy about china lol

bad day posted:

Might as well just get on with your life and stop judging everything like you're the ultimate moral arbiter of the universe.

saucerman posted:

Then why are you not doing that?

sincx posted:

If you have a Bank of America account in the States, using a China Construction Bank ATM will save you the $5 fee.

Otherwise a Bank of China ATM inside the lobby (not on the street) is probably a safe-ish choice.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

gently caress that poo poo. im taking the stairs

Samuel posted:

I always take the stairs, it has all the benefits of turning you from goon to swoon AND you won't get brutally mutilated in 3rd world accidents.

Tourist dies in horrible stair collapsing accident.
Rebar does not adhere to feng shui principles local communist party says.

simplefish posted:

The CCP doesn't do feng shui. Did away with their 5000 year old culture during the cultural revolution.

The Bank of China Building in HK is about as anti-feng shui as you can architecturally get. Angles bloch qi flow - the whole thing is made of triangles. And qi flows from mountains to water. So naturally the Bank of China places a gigantic angular building between the tallest mountain on the island halfeay to the harbour when they build a headquarters in Hong Kong. Like a gigantic middle finger to Hong Kong's culture

Also when China financed a huge Buddha statue on top of a mountain in HK they made it face North towards the mainland and not south towards the sunrise, despite religion being banned in the mainland.

Insert your own jpg. I'm on a phone and these are famous landmarks

Haier posted:

A fun look at the trends/styles and people of China in 1997 to 1998

http://photomichaelwolf.com/#portraits-made-in-china-1997-1998/1