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"He's not deranged," they explained, "he's just a heavy drinker.

EATIN SHRIMP posted:

Is hong kong gross like these other places? Or nah

Frog Act posted:

i saw this awhile ago, apparently this is the japanese term for factory fascination or something: 工場萌え

if you google that you can find hella cool pics

Blistex posted:

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Imapanda posted:

I forgot to save the pics from the last thread.

Blistex posted:

"Perhaps the most eye-catching accounts in Li's book have to do with Mao's sex life. Despite his infertility, Mao indulged in young women--sometimes more than one at the same time--and engaged in Taoist sexual practice to prolong his life. Mao even had a special bed made for his sexual activity, with the edge of one side raised about four inches higher than the rest of the bed, which he took every place he traveled, even to Moscow. His hygiene was even more eccentric; according to Li, Mao's "genitals were never cleaned." Instead, Mao said, "I wash myself inside the bodies of my women." He never brushed his teeth, either; instead, he simply used tea to rinse out his mouth when he woke, eating the leaves after drinking the water, as many peasants in southern China did."

Hobohemian posted:

Is there a pizza under that or something? I'm not even sure what I'm looking at here.

Horatius Bonar posted:

No joke check Craigslist for being white in China jobs.

The amount of "NEEDED 30 - 60 white man with beard" ads is above zero.

ded posted:

You know what really blows my mind about China? The fact that a family can decide to hold back information about a possible terminal illness (cancer) from the patient.

For example my girlfriends dad may have stomach cancer. For some reason they think it would be OK to not tell him this and just let him die from it. Starvation from not being able to eat, before the cancer can actually do it.

Mr.Pibbleton posted:

It's an Asian thing in general I think, the plot to the Japanese movie "Ikiru" was based around this.

THE PENETRATOR posted:

actually, while places may hold different morals, morals are not relative

Obama 2012 posted:

opus111 posted:

the world has been scrapping over africa for like a gazillion years bro. it has the potentail to be the richest landmass in the world.

Modest Mao posted:

That's not true also this just happened an hour ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fWhYJNZt08

Blistex posted:

We did a lot of conventional learning as well, but I had a surprising amount of freedom when if came to establishing the English curriculum. The most ballsy thing I did was telling the principal that I was taking the entire 1st grade (grade 9) on a field trip to a hiking trail behind the school, but instead we went on the roof of the school dormitory and had a 6 hour nap this one sunny day. Everyone grabbed a blanket and pillow from their dorm rooms and just zonked out for the afternoon. One girl told me she didn't remember the last time she slept that long. The day I left I was given a box with ~300 notes that student wrote me with the sweetest and most heartbreaking stuff. After the going-away ceremony both of my shoulders were pretty much soaked from students giving me tearful farewells.

Analytic Engine posted:

This concept is explored in the book Disciplined Minds
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0742516857/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/179-8642693-2779548

His position is these stressful systems 1. select for candidates capable and willing to devote a lot of time and energy to Institutions' arbitrary tasks, and 2. generate shared experiences and a sense of accomplishment in those who get through which continues the cycle (like you said with Doctors).

The book also covers "cooling out" systems for letting misfits down without them going postal, usually by internalizing their "failure against fair standards" and providing stuff to ease the transition into other careers. Seems like these schools pretend it's impossible and let those kids fail out of society to save institutional face.