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Sheep-Goats posted:Taiwan > Hong Kong > Most of the Capital Cities in South America > Shanghai > Beijing > A Goblin Camp in Lord of the Rings > Actual Mainland China there's tonnes of nature in HK, brah.
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Fojar38 posted:this is basically china.txt The funniest thing was that they had hedgerows on all the streets in the countryside so that you couldn't see the million ghost cities from the road. Because out of sight, out of mind. Except that you could of course see the top 10 stories of the dozen empty shells of buildings as you drove past. Probably the saddest thing was the "build it and they will come" mentality. Guilin was completely built up with a brand new highway to a brand new rail line and a huge meticulously landscaped visitor's center which was 100% deserted, but several people assured me that they were going to be the next big hotspot because they were practically in <x big city's> backyard. That sentiment was repeated in several places but Guilin was the worst. Bhodi fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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Jan 17, 2015 03:56
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Sheep-Goats posted:Taiwan > Hong Kong > Most of the Capital Cities in South America > Shanghai > Beijing > A Goblin Camp in Lord of the Rings > Actual Mainland China has anyone been to the taiwanese national parks? i been checking their wikipedia and webpage and they look loving impressive. taroko natl park looks really primo in fact
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Jan 17, 2015 05:15
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The park in the middle of HK is pretty nice, but not exactly what I'd call "nature" I guess Highlights include a bigass outdoor bird menagerie and a little tower with a spiraling staircase that may kill some fatass americans
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Jan 17, 2015 05:20
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opus111 posted:there's tonnes of nature in HK, brah. HK has some parks and hills and beaches and poo poo, but I never really saw grass and trees just growin on tops of buildings.  Sorry I live in Taiwan so no dystopian urban hellscapes for you guys here.
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Jan 17, 2015 05:22
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Jan 17, 2015 05:24
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Frostwerks posted:has anyone been to the taiwanese national parks? i been checking their wikipedia and webpage and they look loving impressive. taroko natl park looks really primo in fact Yes. Definitely go to Taroko. The best deal is if you can rent a scooter and drive into it yourself. It's unbelievably gorgeous. If you can't do that, then see about renting a car or hiring a taxi. I recommend a scooter over a car though because, being a gorge, the roads are thin and twisty and scary, especially when tourist buses come barreling down at you from the other direction.
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Jan 17, 2015 05:25
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e: I can't read
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Jan 17, 2015 05:35
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but you can type. that must be rough
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Jan 17, 2015 05:37
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Rebuild Kowloon Walled City Failing that, please resurrect Kowloon Walled City
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Jan 17, 2015 05:38
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Horatius Bonar posted:HK has some parks and hills and beaches and poo poo, but I never really saw grass and trees just growin on tops of buildings. Satellite view of Hong Kong is pretty fuckin green:  40% of the territory is country parks and another 20% is reserved for rural villages because of dumb deals Englishmen made in the 19th century with local clans.    The urban areas of Hong Kong are so retardedly dense that you can step outside a 40-story skyscraper apartment building and in a couple of steps be in a literal jungle surrounded by monkeys, wild boars and buffalo.
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Jan 17, 2015 06:28
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More rural HK:    People think everything is Mong Kok, Kwun Tong or Central. But the corollary of density is that it leaves tons of space that has no people in it. And that space is beautiful and amazing and it's simultaneously disappointing and a very good thing that most visitors to Hong Kong never see it.
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Jan 17, 2015 06:32
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Bloodnose posted:Satellite view of Hong Kong is pretty fuckin green: thank you for making the post i was going to. lmao ofc goons who went to hk could barely haul their bulk outside of the city boundaries and see that the majority of hk is green.
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Jan 17, 2015 06:44
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Bloodnose posted:
high freaking five.
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Jan 17, 2015 06:46
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especially mainland visitors they'd gently caress it up with cigarette butts and louis vuitton stores
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Jan 17, 2015 06:48
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http://hongyitoys.en.alibaba.com/product/60163512087-219332086/Inflatable_girl_pony.html 
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Jan 17, 2015 07:28
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Jan 17, 2015 07:32
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Jan 17, 2015 07:33
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Bloodnose posted:The urban areas of Hong Kong are so retardedly dense that you can step outside a 40-story skyscraper apartment building and in a couple of steps be in a literal jungle surrounded by monkeys, wild boars and buffalo. So it's like the last SimCity game.
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Jan 17, 2015 07:36
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the trick to enjoying china is to be an bratty little punkass expat high schooler and get shitfaced in crappy bars for next to nothing every weekend while your friends back home are struggling to buy beer
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Jan 17, 2015 07:39
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Chomp8645 posted:So it's like the last SimCity game. Yes I made some posts in the Sim City thread with pictures of my neighborhood showing how their dumbass game actually happened in one unlikely real life situation.
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Jan 17, 2015 07:47
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Fonzarelli posted:the trick to enjoying china is to be an bratty little punkass expat high schooler and get shitfaced in crappy bars for next to nothing every weekend while your friends back home are struggling to buy beer when i was over there every drat chinese dude i met wanted me to goto a ktv bar with them
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Jan 17, 2015 08:11
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ded posted:when i was over there every drat chinese dude i met wanted me to goto a ktv bar with them There are actually small sections of beijing that are pretty much crawling with 15-19 year old foreigners getting shitfaced every weekend, little expat enclaves or lovely clubs and bars.
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Jan 17, 2015 08:14
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anyone else read this book about pre-Communist takeover China? http://amzn.com/B0006QY4WS warning: it is incredibly racist.
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Jan 17, 2015 08:18
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Bloodnose posted:More rural HK: this is true of taiwan except the island is bigger. also of singapore. ive found the secret to making chinese people awesome; unlike englishmen, put them on a loving island. poo poo will work itself out.
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Jan 17, 2015 08:32
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i dont mean that singapore is bigger thank hk, just that its an island
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Jan 17, 2015 08:35
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None of the pictures I shared were from any of Hong Kong's islands.
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Jan 17, 2015 09:43
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Frostwerks posted:has anyone been to the taiwanese national parks? i been checking their wikipedia and webpage and they look loving impressive. taroko natl park looks really primo in fact The 7-Eleven at Alishan is nice. 
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Jan 17, 2015 16:27
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opus111 posted:there's tonnes of nature in HK, brah. Yet if you're the sort of person who hates nature you may rank Hong Kong ahead of Taiwan, this weird but true fact that
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Jan 17, 2015 16:33
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where the gently caress do these trees come from i always wonder.  
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Jan 17, 2015 16:45
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let me introduce you to this concept called nature
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Jan 17, 2015 16:46
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more like gayture
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Sheep-Goats posted:Yet if you're the sort of person who hates nature you may rank Hong Kong ahead of Taiwan, this weird but true fact that I rank Hong Kong ahead of Taiwan because I like common law, a currency pegged to the dollar, and conducting official business in my native language edit: also no dividend, estate or property taxes and a top income tax rate of 17%
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Bloodnose posted:more like gayture I got your gayture right here. 
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Jan 17, 2015 16:55
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haha gently caress you gator you think you can bite me with duct tape on your snout? gently caress off bitch
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Horatius Bonar posted:where the gently caress do these trees come from i always wonder. Those trees have a will to live that cannot be denied by Man.
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i've never seen half an alligator before. and that doesn't even look like those long-nosed chinese alligators either where the gently caress did they get it from
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Speaking of trees China just LOVES planting the things. They plant them to try and halt erosion or to undo the damage industrialization caused and when I was in Tibet, they planted a million trees along the river just outside of Lhasa: It doesn't show very well in this picture but all the trees are identical and are planted in super neat orderly rows and in a grid pattern. It looks really horrible and fake. I took a few pictures trying to capture how dumb it looked but none of them turned out very well. It basically looks like this:  Just hundreds and hundreds of square KM of that.
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Looks dumb but is it environmentally bad?
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Well, you have terraforming unintended consequences and a complete lack of biodiversity because it's just a single type of fast-growing non-native tree. Basically known reforestation concerns that were identified and mitigated decades ago by responsible forestry departments but in the normal Chinese spirit they're just going to plow ahead with the plan even though the results are uncertain. I can tell you that a quarter of the trees I saw in Lhasa were dead or dying because they're using it to try and make the river more consistent but the drat thing expands and contracts like the nile. All the trees in that pic were in a grid, the empty spaces are where the trees have been washed away. The first article talks about their reclamation efforts elsewhere which don't seem to be doing too well, either: quote:In contrast to successful attempts elsewhere to halt deforestation or replace recently felled trees, most of China’s planting is on long-barren land. Much is of non-native pines and poplars, which are easy to grow and produce wood that can quickly be sold as paper pulp or planks. The result is an “ecological mismatch”, says Jiang Hong of the University of Hawaii. tl;dr: Yep. And doesn't work. And they've been trying the same thing for 60 years. Bhodi fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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