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barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Here's to 10,000 pages of harmonious posting!

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TAIWAN #1

e: Please add this to the op

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTqZ9xrxhHk

barbecue at the folks fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Jan 28, 2020

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barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Please spoiler tag the peanut brittle story, my stomach turned a bit just from moving my eyes over it as fast as I could

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


A cartoon in which Rene Chang is at the pearly gates and Saint Peter says "Welcome to paradise full of post-90s cuties, good lecher, the unnamed eternal damnation can only salivate."

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


A parody account of the Finnish public broadcaster (YLE) just made Finland famous in China:



barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Mainland China, Province of Taiwan #1 Republic of China

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


BrainDance posted:

They only gave me ibuprofen, even though it was bad enough that I needed surgery. But it cost me like nothing and there was nothing sketchy about it.

The American opioid epidemic is super scary poo poo and everyone outside the USA with a functioning health care system wants to keep anything similar from happening at any cost. Most European doctors will now only prescribe ibuprofen or something similar even after small to medium surgery, just what is needed to keep the wound pain and inflammation down. I had a pretty big hernia surgery done a few years back and only got a couple of strong ibuprofens with me when I was sent home. Opioids are now reserved for major poo poo and you will have a hard time getting a prescription for home use. Thanks, Big Pharma!

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Yeah, seems like a mighty efficient way to fast forward through the lovely tail end of a failed marriage. Your friend might actually have lucked out there, in a weird and horrible way.

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


A little piece of news that caught my eye: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/chinese-executive-who-called-xi-a-clown-over-coronavirus-response-is-missing

quote:

Chinese executive who called Xi a 'clown' over coronavirus response 'is missing'

Friends of the high-profile former property developer say they have been unable to contact him for three days

An influential former Chinese property executive who called president Xi Jinping a “clown” over a speech he made last month about the government’s efforts to battle the coronavirus has gone missing, according to his friends.

Ren Zhiqiang, a member of China’s ruling Communist party and a former top executive of state-controlled property developer Huayuan Real Estate Group, has not been contactable since 12 March, three of his friends told Reuters.

Who's the clown now :smuggo:

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Thre is literally a thread called The Musicals Thread: Cats is Insufficiently Socialist out there right now where you can go to vent your very own Marxist take on musical theatre, lol

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


This dude made me lol:

https://twitter.com/FRAS31965594/status/1243979209942470656

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Blistex posted:

Which is preposterous since no other nation other than China is that piss-baby insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z285W7-ciis

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Mozi posted:

new org WHO dis

:drat:

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Yah, is this some dumb bullshit like Deus Ex credit chits or what the hell? Doesn't everyone already pay by smartphone? What possible utility could this have, even for spying on people?

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


The White Dragon posted:

taiwan number one
china number 占点点点

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


I've been drinking for almost two decades now and I still haven't learned to make sure that there is some sort of electrolyte drink in my fridge before leaving for a night out. When the hangover has already hit you, it's way too late, the best you can do is limited damage control.

I'm now super interested in the possibility of getting a pocari transfusion on the bus on the way home, that's some Oriental Wisdom right there lol

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


There's a scandal going on in Finland too viz Chinese medical supplies. The government agency responsible for emergency supplies gave a Large Sum of Money to some shady 'entrepreneur' and his celebrity plastic surgeon friend, who promised to procure a plane full of medical face masks from China. The masks arrive from China, they begin causing allergic reactions to some of the users and after testing them they just banned their use outright. It turns out the sellers forged the certificates with MS Paint or something, like there were visible artifacts on them from editing them with the eraser brush or something, and now they're trying to find out if the government agency heads were in on the scam or just that goddamn stupid. The whole debacle has been a steady supply of lol's for the last couple of weeks.

edit: oh, and after intense media speculation the Finnish chapter of Hell's Angels, who apparently were good friends with the 'entrepreneur', were forced to give out a statement on their twitter that they had nothing to do with the whole thing and would not comment any further

barbecue at the folks fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Apr 24, 2020

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


I remember this from a prior incarnation of this thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLt5qSm9U80

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


The poop stories are some of my favourite China thread content, please keep them coming

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


I mean we can all go look at the originals, it's just a cool attempt to make past appear more vividly before our eyes. I feel that even the muddy colours and the interpolation really make it feel more alive.

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


sticksy posted:

This really should be the thread title, imo

Agreedo, lol

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


I guess I'll make sure I'll never have to visit China, then!

Hey, Xi! Guess what!

TAIWAN #1
HONG KONG ALSO #1

also you look like winnie pooh you big fat poor cumstain of a dictator

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Just your usual CSPAM posters declaring their support for genocide, nothing out of the ordinary, really

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


R.I.P. Hong Kong. 2020 is a motherfucker. Stay safe, oohboy!

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


WarpedNaba posted:

Is this 2020 or 1920?

It's The Onion.

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


The junk collector posted:

Everyone knows that it's now called, The Virus that formerly originated in China

The Virus that Originated in Norwegian Salmon and Was Unfairly Transplanted to Wuhan to Make China Look Bad

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Around here Coke Zero was from the get go marketed as the "real man's" alternative to diet coke, they had a really greasy marketing campaign which did all but tell you "THIS SWEET WATER MAKES YOUR DICK HUGE AND HARD". They dialed down on it eventually but it was there for a while.

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


So is this thread about different types of corrosive sugar water now because I feel obligated to remind everyone to care for their teeth, chugging that stuff down in the quantities you seem to be doing can't be good for you. Mineral water is a healthy alternative!

Does China do mineral water? I would think they have some weird local brand with a unique taste, kinda like Estonians have Värska and Georgians have Borjomi.

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


screamin and creamin posted:

Not France, but the British still absolutely are to this day. In a big part of the British press and media, all Germans, no matter when they were born, no matter if they're Jewish or not, or anything else that makes it unlikely or impossible, are 100% Nazis.

The Brits (well, the English, tbf) never got over losing their empire and consequently never tried to become a modern European nation. They are currently enjoying the many consequences of having such a mindset. I'd point and laugh if I wasn't painfully aware of the suffering visited upon many of my friends and family members there rn :smith:

The parallels to the situations of many other contemporary nations overrun by nationalism fueled by historical ressentiment, for example say, China, are pretty obvious.

e: typos and missing words

barbecue at the folks fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Sep 28, 2020

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


If I hadn't just yesterday powered through the latest SA forums drama, "At the moment, the CN hololive fanbase is basically a turmoil of raging clans." would probably be the dumbest internet thing I have read this week.

edit: I think I'll just pencil that in, it seems like there's some good stuff incoming: "Worse still, China is having a 8-day holiday starting this Thursday to commemorate the establishment of current governing entity, so the nationalist will be more active in the comming week."

barbecue at the folks fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Sep 29, 2020

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Yeah, I meant the drama with KM, I took an extended posting vacation from the forums when the Lowtax stuff flared up and didn't get to reading about it until now. Some of the funniest poo poo I have ever read on the forums.

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Baronjutter posted:

I know this isn't the best thread to ask about forums drama but as someone who doesn't even know who KM is what's like the tl;dr of her deal? I have a vague memory of her being accused of scamming people or trying to "fund-raise" for things with dubious accounting, and then was exposed for having a sock puppet following her around all the time?

There's a link to the previous PYF Sagas thread upthread which contains the answers to all your questions and so, so much more, lol

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Shadowrun Hong Kong is legit one of the best computer RPGs of the last decade, period. Everyone should check it out.

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Xi is soul-crushingly inhuman and ineffective bureaucracy personified. For a lot of people of a technocratic Marxist bent this just makes him more inherently attractive. He's such an empty shell of a human being he must be the ideal rational prince only out to look for the common good of mankind!!!

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


What's with Italians just mostly not liking the Chinese no matter what?

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Kevin DuBrow posted:

There is a strong sentiment in Italy that their economy was hurt by trade liberalization, with industries like furniture, textiles and fashion being undercut by cheaper Chinese production. Also just as a personal anecdote the Italians I've met have been more racist than other Europeans, dont @ me.

Actually, now that I remember, wasn't there a problem already in the 1990s with Chinese traders coming to Italy and setting up sweatshops with slave labour imported from the Mainland, which then proceeded to drive out local textile etc. factories etc. out of business? I remember reading something about that.

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


IDEA: A more assertive China refuses to bow down to diplomatic pressure from the imperialist Swedes!

https://twitter.com/Peterinexile/status/1313089744545427456

REALITY: this is killing

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Imperialist Dog posted:

Every year on the 10th a group of people goes to the Red House, Sun Yat-sen's hideout where the Revive China Society worked to overthrow the Qing. Flag raising, anthem singing etc. This year they got stopped by cops and thrown out by Private Security™ before they even got near.

Well, it's their fault for spreading the lie that China hasn't always been ruled by the Communist Party. Do you know?

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


xposting from the AliExpress thread:

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Meanwhile in Mongol Khanate News: Guardian: China insists Genghis Khan exhibit not use words 'Genghis Khan'

quote:

The spat comes as the Chinese government has hardened its discrimination against ethnic Mongols, many of whom live in the northern province of Inner Mongolia.

The exhibit was planned in collaboration with the Inner Mongolia Museum in Hohhot, China. But tensions arose, the Nantes museum said, when the Chinese Bureau of Cultural Heritage pressured the museum for changes to the original plan, “including notably elements of biased rewriting of Mongol culture in favour of a new national narrative”.

The museum branded it “censorship” and said it underlined a “hardening … of the position of the Chinese government against the Mongolian minority”.

One would think that China had learned its lesson about pissing off the Mongols.

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barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


China just got in a huff when Finland of all places followed every other EU country in cancelling our Hong Kong extradition treaty. Somehow that is 'interfering in China's internal affairs" and deserves a loud public outburst which only manages to make them look even worse. They're really making sure that they have absolutely no friends left among first world countries.

McGavin posted:

The Tankie Who Cried Imperialism

:piss:

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