Scratch Monkey posted:

Gorilla Salad posted:

Why do doctors make interns work 100 hour weeks in hospitals even though it puts patents' lives at risk? Because if I did it, they have to, too. Made me the man I am today. *spit*

oohhboy posted:

I approve of hurt Chinese feelings.

Zzulu posted:

What's all this about milk powder?? WHat have i missed

JaucheCharly posted:

Thx. I've always wanted to have my casket launched into an open sewage canal. Or is it cremation in a trash bin?


You can check out the lenghts that chinese go to produce counterfeit drugs. The pharma industry would surely buy you a new adidas tracksuit and some sneakers if you come up with way to make counterfeiting and tempering impossible.

spankmeister posted:

So is it the year of the goat or year of the sheep I'm confused.

Tuxedo Gin posted:

Taiwan is definitely not lacking in the "no compasion or responsibility" realm.

Last time I was there, I was in a cab. The taxi driver made a pretty sharp right turn into an alleyway, right in front of a 4~5 year old little girl with an umbrella running to catch up with her mom. It was loving horrifying and there was no more than a single second difference between her smashing into the passenger door at a run and being under the front tire. Luckily it was only the former that happened. I think the taxi driver would have immediately taken off had I not jumped out to check on the kid.

MeatwadIsGod posted:

My girlfriend's mom was born in Shanghai in the early 1950s. When she was a kid, she had a pet bunny. Like, explicitly a pet and not just some wild rabbit that hung around. One day, during the famine, she came home to find her pet inside - cooked and on the dinner table.

goldboilermark posted:

LOL

in all seriousness, i hear this all the time. "i want to attend ___(fill in name)___ because i can study there and i want to learn at ___(fill in name)__ university." so i told one of the kids "ok, you can't just say that. would you tell a girl you want her to be your girlfriend because she is a girl, and you want a girl for a girlfriend?" and he goes "...why not?"

the best ever response to a question like this, though, was this kid i was working with who is in the US HS system now, no idea how he's doing, but we were doing interview practice and i asked him "if you could go anywhere in the world, where would you want to travel and what makes that place special?" and he literally told me "i would go to a place i want to go to, because this place is a place i would like to travel there, so if i could go to that place, then i would go there because i want to go there" and i actually did this

Zo posted:

dog meat buffet or a night with hui ruoqi???

goldboilermark posted:

JaucheCharly posted:

How many chinese tourists are pecked to death by birds each year?

quote:

There was no panic, as London was renowned for its fog. In the weeks that ensued, however, statistics compiled by medical services found that the fog had killed 4,000 people

goldboilermark posted:

i had no idea swans were so dangerous

simplefish posted:

I lived in a town with a massive swan population and never got attacked. Then went to a university with a lake, and while some of the geese were belligerent bell ends, I never had issues with the swans.

How the hell is there this much swan hate?

BattleCattle posted:

Swans terrify me because they are large relentless velociraptors that can fly.

Bhodi posted:

waitwhatnoyou'lldie

Accretionist posted:

caberham posted:

Oh here we go, someone is dissing manufacturing, I gotta step in

I'm in Chinese manufacturing and part of the US supply chain. We actually laser etch our products "MADE IN THE USA"

Digital Fingers posted:

If a persons drowning and is near anywhere near your own body weight and you don't have a life jacket or some sort of floaty to help you then trying to save them is probably going to kill your rear end as well.

Like, even personally- with my superior western ethics- i'd try to save a kid or maybe a small lady or maybe get my rear end killed for one of my brothers but if you're a bigger dude and a stranger i'm not going near you.

Lucy Heartfilia posted:

if you want to save a drowning person that is flailing around in a panic, just wait until they have exhausted themselves. when they start to sink you can grab them. stay away from panicking people! hit them if necessary!

Koramei posted:

Knock them out. Drowning people panic and panicking people are much harder to rescue, to the point it might put both your lives at risk.

Grand Fromage posted:

imagine you were white and born and raised in China and are entirely Chinese but literally everyone all the time calls you foreigner and speaks English at you, a language you have no knowledge of because you're from Chongqing and have never traveled abroad and didn't give a poo poo about learning it in school because your parents were from uh, Finland so it's not like you spoke English at home either

RocknRollaAyatollah posted:

"I love the black people because you express yourselves through dance. Can you break dance?"

WarpedNaba posted:

[Insert ethnicity here] is innately superior, whitey just caught us by surprise, that's all!

Morkies posted:

The history of the world tells a tale of the continual displacement of populations, each by a worthier successor, and humanity gains thereby. We ourselves are no descendents of the aborigines of Britain, and our colonists were invaders of the regions they now occupy as their lawful home. But the countries into which the Anglo-Saxon race can be transfused are restricted to those where the climate is temperate. The Tropics are not for us, to inhabit permanently; the greater part of Africa is the heritage of people differently constituted to ourselves. On that continent, as elsewhere, one population continually drives out another. Consider its history as it extends over successive centuries. We note how Arab, Tuarick, Fellatah, Negroes of uncounted varieties, Cadre, Hottentot surge and reel to and fro in the struggle for existence. It is into this free flight among all present that I wish to see a new competitor introduced-namely, the Chinaman. The gain would be immense to the whole civilized world if we were to out-breed and finally displace the negro, as completely as the latter has displaced the aborigines of the West Indies. The magnitude of the gain may be partly estimated by making the converse supposition –namely, the loss that would ensue if China were somehow to be depopulated and restocked by negroes.

The pressure of population in China is enormous, and its outflow is great and increasing. There is no lack of material for a suitable immigration into Africa. I do not say that it would be possible at any moment to persuade communities of men and women from Southern China to establish themselves in Africa; but I am assured, by excellent authorities, that occasions of political disturbances frequently arise when it would be practicable to do so by the promise of a free, or nearly free, grant of land. The Chinese have a land hunger, as well as a love for petty traffic, and they would find a field in which to gratify both of these tastes on the East African Coast. There are many Chinese capitalists resident in foreign parts who might speculate in such a system and warmly encourage it. If once successfully started, it ought to maintain itself. The colonist could not starve; and when they began to succeed they would send money to their relatives to enable them to follow, just as they now do from the many other parts of the world where they are located. For these reasons it is probable that the streams of emigration from China have sufficient "head" to enable them to reach and overflow the coasts of Eastern Africa if they were watched and judiciously diverted in that direction.

I have finally to speak of the political effort necessary to secure a free right of occupancy and of settlement at suitable points on the coast. No very serious obstacle seems to stand in the way; certainly none was met with when Liberia was founded. It is probable that as the success of such an enterprise would be of equally great value to all nations commercially interested in those parts, no national jealousy would be excited by its promotion, and the necessary territory could be obtained with little difficulty and at a small cost, to be advanced in the first instance as a charge on the land and hereafter to be redeemed.