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Monkey Fracas posted:Dammit I really want some of that weird red/yellow rice wine now http://m.wikihow.com/Make-Rice-Wine
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Drone_Fragger posted:we'd built a 2275 bar pressure vessel What the gently caress were you building
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Groda posted:What the gently caress were you building Sounds like fun time.
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Groda posted:What the gently caress were you building Groda posted:What the gently caress were you building Authentic 1880s steamboat, with authentic 1880s metallurgy and authentic 1880s boiler explosion.
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Remulak posted:Unlabelled clear bottles in the refrigerator of Chinese stores. Also, they sell yeast balls everywhere for a reason, you just need to let those sit in some watery glutinous rice for a week, then strain: just bought some of the yeast balls online, hell yeah
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Blistex posted:Re-visiting Chinese interests in the South China Sea... What a wonderful world we live in when the most effective means of territorial aggression is constructing landfill islands, and the most effective response is to wait for the next big typhoon. 
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If the number of Chinese users I have that change there names to Jeff, David, or Mark is any indication, we already won the culture war
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Klyith posted:What a wonderful world we live in when the most effective means of territorial aggression is constructing landfill islands, and the most effective response is to wait for the next big typhoon. It's like Anno 2070 in real life!
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Strudel Man posted:No one can resist the allure of low, low prices for a product that looks equivalent at first glance. Isn't that the truth. Two companies back we had a Chinese supplier for a gas distribution hub thing. This was aerospace so we had some pretty tight tolerances and requirements. One day I got a call from our assembly shop telling me that the hub they pulled for the engine in process had some burn marks on the edges of the holes in the piece. Then they pulled the next one and the next one, same thing. I brought the pictures they sent me to my supervisor to ask what he wanted to do. He ended up having to call the company's manufacturing agent in China about this. Apparently this wasn't anything new, every couple months the Chinese factory we used would go from pressing the holes to using a laser to cut the holes. Every one of those had to be rejected due to structural requirements on the holes. I was put on the task of getting them back on track (via teleconfrences) and then the next thing we knew the shop closed down and our tooling wasn't returned to us. A couple weeks later I got a call at work from another company that happened to be making the hubs and wondered if we wanted to buy some. Those were custom designs so if they had it they probably got it from our previous supplier or were owned by the same concern. ElGroucho posted:If the number of Chinese users I have that change there names to Jeff, David, or Mark is any indication, we already won the culture war That's apparently a think according to Poorly Made in China as a way to make the American customers feel a bit more at home and to make it easier to pronounce their name. One of the guys in the book called himself Kevin and said he was from LA. When pressed he admitted he had been there a few times, but loved it so drat much he felt he was from there.
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Same exact company, owners, factory, employees, and equipment. "Go out of business and re-open not long after with no changes except a new name and try to get all the old clients back" is a sound Chinese business strategy. Sometimes they relocate, sometimes not.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:Happy New Year! $75 in USD depicted.
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Hobohemian posted:You really don't get the nouveau riche do you? Not really, i'm not completely clear to why there's a whole society aspiring to be jabba the hut
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bling bling bilal posted:Not really, i'm not completely clear to why there's a whole society aspiring to be jabba the hut Everyone wants their very own personal Leia. The movie is really just a cautionary tale about chain management.
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5er posted:$75 in USD depicted. Well knowing Chinese propensity to cut corners its probably just $10 in that the top bill is the only real bill in the stack. It's all about the show.
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新年快乐 time to 干杯 every loving two seconds with old people who stopped caring a long time ago hows your new year
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It's like donetsk here, been setting off some serious explosives as per tradition. I feel sorry for pets in china during this time of the year hey
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Lazyfire posted:That's apparently a think according to Poorly Made in China as a way to make the American customers feel a bit more at home and to make it easier to pronounce their name. One of the guys in the book called himself Kevin and said he was from LA. When pressed he admitted he had been there a few times, but loved it so drat much he felt he was from there. 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.
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Hello, my name is Optimus Prime. When I leave the classroom I yell "AUTOBOTS ROLL OUT!"
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Saw a guy working at a petrol station in Australia who had dubbed himself "Cornelius Wang"
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So wait, why isn't Something Awful blocked in China? These images are not kind to the Celestial Kingdom.
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Zipline posted:So wait, why isn't Something Awful blocked in China? These images are not kind to the Celestial Kingdom. People in China know what China looks like. They should probably ban pictures of Canada or something though. Only allow pics of other filthy smog-filled shitholes.
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Zipline posted:So wait, why isn't Something Awful blocked in China? These images are not kind to the Celestial Kingdom. The only feelings we hurt are our own.
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Bro Dad posted:heres a 44 dollar pbr: I already knew about this but it's still the funniest goddamn poo poo. Then again considering how pisswater flavorless Chinese beers are this might be almost understandable.
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Zipline posted:So wait, why isn't Something Awful blocked in China? These images are not kind to the Celestial Kingdom.
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What kind of drugs do chinese people do? weed? heroin? coke? meth? crazy other drugs that i might like to try?
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Ketamine and meth
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Lazyfire posted:Isn't that the truth. Did your company do business with them again?
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Hong Kong Established by the Hong Kong Narcotics Division of the Security Bureau, the Central Registry of Drug Abuse (CRDA) maintains a database of all the illicit drug users who have come into contact with law enforcement, treatment, health care, and social organizations. The compiled data are confidential under the The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance of Hong Kong, and statistics are made freely available online on a quarterly basis. Statistics from the CRDA show that the number of ketamine users (all ages) in Hong Kong has increased from 1605 (9.8% of total drug users) in 2000 to 5212 (37.6%) in 2009. Increasing trends of ketamine use among illicit drug users under the age of 21 were also reported, rising from 36.9% of young drug users in 2000 to 84.3% in 2009. Taiwan A survey conducted among school-attending Taiwanese adolescents reported prevalence rates of 0.15% in 2004, 0.18% in 2005, and 0.15% in 2006 in middle-school (grades 7 and 9) students; in Taiwanese high-school (grades 10 and 12) students, prevalence was 1.13% in 2004, 0.66% in 2005, and 0.44% in 2006. From the same survey, a large portion (42.8%) of those who reported ecstasy use also reported ketamine use. Ketamine was the second most used illicit drug (behind ecstasy) in absconding Taiwanese adolescents as reported by a multi-city street outreach survey. In a study comparing the reporting rates between web questionnaires and paper-and-pencil questionnaires, ketamine use was reported a higher rate in the web version. Urine sampling at a club in Taipei, Taiwan showed high rates of ketamine use at 47.0%; this prevalence was compared with that of detainees suspected of drug abuse in the general public, of which 2.0% of the samples tested positive for ketamine use.
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BONGHITZ posted:What kind of drugs do chinese people do? the air around them
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BONGHITZ posted:What kind of drugs do chinese people do? Shitloads of Special K: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-great-k-hole-of-china
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JaucheCharly posted:Did your company do business with them again? I believe they sourced the part in China again because it was on the cost reduction list for the engine. To be honest my job was the kind where I only got involved if something really hosed happened so it must have been smoofh sailing with the new supplier.
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I love this thread, reading it is hilarious and I will never stop laughing at Chinese drivers and fake islands.
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Zipline posted:So wait, why isn't Something Awful blocked in China? These images are not kind to the Celestial Kingdom. I had GLadder on by default because I'd get annoyed by GIS only showing the first few results, or not being able to access wikipedia. I forgot why, but I turned it off and SA was still accessible. Here is a handy website that will tell you if a site is blocked in China. http://www.blockedinchina.net
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Zipline posted:So wait, why isn't Something Awful blocked in China? These images are not kind to the Celestial Kingdom. About 2/3 photos and links on SA is blocked, the almighty firewall doesn't seem discriminate based on content as much as the fidelity of the image hosting website.
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:I already knew about this but it's still the funniest goddamn poo poo. Chinese people value clarity and lightness in beer. They also drink it at room temperature.
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I thought Snow brand beer in China was pretty good, and I can't find it in the US. It was served cold though.
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Code Jockey posted:the air around them Breathing the air is probably a lot like doing whippets, same amount of oxygen
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