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MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000


Too much protective clothing for China.

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MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000


It makes me wonder what the sign says, "No admittance."

Pinch Me Im Meming
Jun 26, 2005

"Thishow" is such a nice portmanteau. How do you pronounce it though?

serious norman
Dec 13, 2007

im pickle rick!!!!
My dick is like a Cigaretet lighter.

Huge_Midget
Jun 6, 2002

I don't like the look of it...

What's that you say? A UK financial institution being bullish about glorious China's 5000 years of uninterrupted prosperity? Surely this train will never derail! We're riding this tiger all the way to the bank Jeeves!



Oh.

What's a dead cat bounce?



So what is really going on with the Chinese markets right now?

Ohhhhh right.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
this may or may not be a dead cat bounce but it's funny how many times that or some other graph gets posted and 6 months later after the sky didn't fall it's all the same thing again

max4me
Jun 15, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
can some one explain the idea behind circuit breakers in stock markets. Like why would you shut it down if the falls? Do they do the same thing if it goes up too fast?

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax
I updated the OP for the thread locals.

Anyone want to add to the important terms?

Also, today I just noticed that I someone gave me an avatar of that great cold shouting army guy. Thank you, kind goon sir. I've had avatars turned off for years and I was late to see this.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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i love the fact that chinese nationalists are so convinced of china's inherent superiority yet jizz themselves whenever a western country deigns to shine its holy countenance on a chinese thing

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



max4me posted:

can some one explain the idea behind circuit breakers in stock markets. Like why would you shut it down if the falls? Do they do the same thing if it goes up too fast?

Simple answer: stock traders are stupid herd animals and occasionally a loud noise will startle them causing a stampede. Circuit breakers exist to give them a chance to reevaluate their life before they jump out a window and realize "Hey, maybe that car backfiring wasn't the collapse of civilization." This is assuming, of course, that the frenzied selling wasn't actually a lot of people coming to their senses in which case they're just going to do it again the next day.

Cry Havoc
May 10, 2004

This cyberpunk cartoon avatar is pretty dang ol' good, I tell you what.

Fojar38 posted:

i love the fact that chinese nationalists are so convinced of china's inherent superiority yet jizz themselves whenever a western country deigns to shine its holy countenance on a chinese thing

that isn't contradictory though

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Cry Havoc posted:

that isn't contradictory though

a country that is secure in its supremacy doesnt give a gently caress if anyone else pays attention to them or not

see: the usa

Cry Havoc
May 10, 2004

This cyberpunk cartoon avatar is pretty dang ol' good, I tell you what.
p sure obamer would be crying if other countries didn't take us seriously

asian pivot because we're secure in our supremacy

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
When Americans feel insecure they just start a war PR two.

C.M. Kruger
Oct 28, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYcLcDVnM8E

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Cry Havoc posted:

asian pivot because we're secure in our supremacy

uhhh yeah basically

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Post the one in reference to the murder, where he mentions there is a limited supply of Chinese women.

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

Blistex posted:

Post the one in reference to the murder, where he mentions there is a limited supply of Chinese women.

Their demographics are pretty hosed up. They have a lot more men than women due to the whole one child thing and needing male farmhands.

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Falun Bong Refugee posted:

Their demographics are pretty hosed up. They have a lot more men than women due to the whole one child thing and needing male farmhands.

It's so bad in South Korea that it's illegal to tell expecting parents the sex of their unborn child.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
chinese virgin rage shall consume the earth

kindermord
Jun 5, 2003
ducks is chickens with swimmy toes

I assume this is an example of "lol plastic surgery". Are the Chinese as mad for it as the Koreans? What does the govt think of ppl wanting to look like whitey? Is it controversial at all among the average mainlander?

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

railroad graffiti

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Fojar38 posted:

i love the fact that chinese nationalists are so convinced of china's inherent superiority yet jizz themselves whenever a western country deigns to shine its holy countenance on a chinese thing

It's like the Tywin own zone moment from GoT, if you are the legit king you don't need to shout "I am the true king"

FlushablPet
Apr 27, 2002
AtKajAndAarAt
My favorite thread in GBS. Needs a title like "Nong means No why" or something though.

BCR
Jan 23, 2011

FlushablPet posted:

My favorite thread in GBS. Needs a title like "Nong means No why" or something though.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE_pZBsdpZ4

Context

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
this thread 5000 pages of history do no mock

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

Are they afraid of disease or something? They're running like he had a bomb.

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax

Cry Havoc
May 10, 2004

This cyberpunk cartoon avatar is pretty dang ol' good, I tell you what.

Fojar38 posted:

uhhh yeah basically

nah there are so many criticisms soundly levied on chinar, there's no need to resort to dubious reasoning, that's what a nong would do :eng101:

Cry Havoc
May 10, 2004

This cyberpunk cartoon avatar is pretty dang ol' good, I tell you what.

you shan the shui or the shui shans you

Merdifex
May 13, 2015

by Shine
Which idiot goldmined it. Now to repeat stinky butt story.

Merdifex
May 13, 2015

by Shine

Falun Bong Refugee posted:

Are they afraid of disease or something? They're running like he had a bomb.

A Chinese would have fainted everyone would have stared at them for the rest of the trip. But well known that foreigner explode in spores upon fainting. All Chinese know this, please respect our culture.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
---------------------------->

Cry Havoc posted:

nah there are so many criticisms soundly levied on chinar, there's no need to resort to dubious reasoning, that's what a nong would do :eng101:

"if the usa is so confident and secure in its power why the strong military presence abroad?" sounds more dubious imo

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

5000 years of fraud and not giving a poo poo

Fojar38 posted:

"if the usa is so confident and secure in its power why the strong military presence abroad?" sounds more dubious imo

Because actual legit strong superpowers have things like a blue water navy

ranbo das
Oct 16, 2013


Haier posted:

I updated the OP for the thread locals.

Anyone want to add to the important terms?

Also, today I just noticed that I someone gave me an avatar of that great cold shouting army guy. Thank you, kind goon sir. I've had avatars turned off for years and I was late to see this.

I don't see the great lecher Rene Chang on that OP, although I'm not an economist so I can't comment.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

quote:

The use of the pancreas, liver, kidney, gall bladder, lung and even bronchus of various farm animals together with herbs in Chinese medicine have strong empirical theories and studies are being conducted to try to understand their nature in modern scientific terms. However, there are other strange offal usages in folk practice. Taoist and rural folk beliefs have their influence. The idea of essences and energy, heat and cold, are key. Snake wine with a live snake gallbladder is thought to promote stamina due to the "essences of energy and heat", which is derived from a snake's attributes, such as aggressive behavior (fiery) and venom (energy). When bears were more common in the Chinese northeast, bears claw and dried bear offal were used as medicines, seen as a source of vitality. Dry deer antlers are still a common medicine, thought to provide "yang energy" to complement the male sex and the tail, "yin energy" for the female sex. Extractions of animal penises and testes are still believed to contribute to better male performance and those of the embryo and uterus to the eternal youth of the female. However, these are being marginalized as synthetic hormones get more popular and affordable.

The Cantonese consumed monkey brains, but this is now rare to non-existent, and primarily offered to rich, Western tourists.[citation needed]

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

I would write something about Haier's Wechat guide but realized I'm not a butterfly so I can not comment.

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax

Merdifex posted:

Which idiot goldmined it. Now to repeat stinky butt story.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=375953
A Starwars Buttmax closed all the mega-threads he doesn't read or post in or started, and kept the ones he does post in and read or started.

ranbo das posted:

I don't see the great lecher Rene Chang on that OP, although I'm not an economist so I can't comment.

He's there under "Lecher" in terminology.

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Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth
Don't you talk bad about starwar betamax. He's 10x the mod any of the last several chucklefucks were.

The old mods would have gassed this thread without comment by now or beaten you to OP and commandeered it. betamax just closed it as a joke because it was low on jpg when jpg was advertised and then did nothing at all to contest the opening of a functionally identical thread. What a tyrant.

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