"especially how Asians go hard on the breaks"

Holy shit there's an Asian bus driver here who does exactly that

He's on time though because of how fast he goes so shrug

triggered

if Taiwan isn't China then why do they speak Chinese?

@porco southern China Sea, also mine

Scary bit of land grab going on in that area

With chinks hogging up islands, expanding them to house military bases

USA speaks English, doesn't mean they are from England.

that's what they think

You don't hear much Chinese on the streets in Taiwan, especially in the South and East @plasticsword

Min Nan still the preferred language outside of Taipei?

By far. My girlfriend's parents don't even speak proper Mandarin

But they live in the middle of nowhere so I don't know if that counts

That's a stretch

I've only met 1 or 2 families who still speak min nan from Taiwan.

almost everyone i know here knows how to speak taiwanese/minnan

it's generally considered a lot more casual

though it can just depend on whatever both parties feel like, i've heard it used in many different settings

certain politicians that want to appear more "taiwanese" will use taiwanese in speeches

as with @porco said, if you go south of taipei, taiwanese will be used more and more until it's just what people will assume you'll use by default

I wish there was a nice resource to learn min nan / Taiwanese from English

it's a beautiful language and I only know a handful of insults

ji bai

kan ni na

pua ma :D

only words I know

does someone have the big china steel greentext

this one?

aye, thanks

np

a friend mentioned intentions to work in the car industry in china

so i had to tell him

Oh my god

I hadn't read that before

Holy shit <:thinkjojo:333980344044879872>

I knew China was fucked but holy damn

i love that greentexrt

everytime i read that greentext its more relevant

It's true

Too much reckless abandon for short term individual gain

Likewise I've had Chinese bosses in the US who got out of the rat race in China, set up shop in the US

and continued their fraud practices

Usually talking up a good game, making one sample, then a solid second order

Third order is a container, in which they've cozied up, and they'll pay later via invoice

Get the goods, sold, never pay for the third order which was the container load, claiming the items were defective or etc

They got the money selling the otherwise functional items from retail, the producers in China were fucked, and likewise cycles down etc etc

Vice versa my current bosses are Chinese, and operated a shop in the US. Only inspected a few times, but had Chinese managers

Because the bosses no basis or background of running a business, they let the suave managers run the show without an accounting system

About $100,000 stolen later, they wise up and fire the Chinese managers and so on

Same thing with the Taiwanese here, but they have a penchant for lighting up their warehouses on fire to claim the insurance money if their business goes sour -- the majority of the insurance agencies which are Chinese speaking are Taiwanese run, so it's near automatic approval

Most of the people paying for the insurance are the Mainland Chinese clients, so there's little to lose, esp when the times are booming now

https://www.chinalawblog.com/2017/06/garlic-more-garlic-china-trade-and-fairness-an-update.html
This is one of my buddies company as well. His parents company owns the garlic market AFAIK of the entire west coast. They take state subsidized garlic and dump it in the US for way below market rates

Chinks out of my garlic reeeeeeeeeeee

Rest assured, it's a family run business and outside of the father, his children are absolutely fucking retards

spoiled beyond belief, the daughter is a coal burner, the guy is a sack of shit who got kicked out of running the business

Christ, I just want the guy out of US markets, not have his family be degenerates

If I'm reading right, he's just implying that the business will wind apart soon because there'll be nobody to inherit it.

Also because of litigation because the company secured a duty free agreement when other importers pay a 35% duty.

Does anyone know if I carry a zippo lighter on person will the security gates beep in MTR and ferry stations

Maybe but you can just show it to them as you walk through

Yeah, Anything metallic, just keep it in your coat pocket and run it through the x-ray if they have one.

Random question (not sure if this is the right channel or not) but has anyone been to any asian countries besides china?

ye

I'm looking to visit somewhere in asia with a few friends in the summer...was wondering what you guys would recommend

depends what you want to do with those friends?

Pickup the asian hunnies lol

Good food is also a plus

I was in hong kong last summer which was great but we're looking for someplace new

@꧁꧂ ネップネップ ꧁꧂ です 👑 Thailand or the Philippines then

@Tribit Explain

They've got good food

and you want to "pick up" asian hunnies

plenty of parties you can go to in either country

Ok cool, but I've read that Thailand is especially full of prostitutes....obviously I've never been to Thailand but was that a problem when you went there?

If you're worried about that then you don't go somewhere like Pattaya

you looking to just relax with friends and avoid that part of Thailand, you go to Chiang Mai, Hua Hin and/or Phuket

Is Pattaya part of bangkok?

no, it's a city in a different district

not that far removed from it though

couple hour drive

even if you were to go there you can still avoid that whole scene if you go to one of its nearby islands

Ah ok...when you went there did you live on one of those islands?

Like how much was rent?

I paid a crap ton to stay in hk last summer

Hotels are very affordable in TH

Cool

Might go with thailand

Thanks @Tribit

if you plan going to japnippon just rermember that there is 24/7 cafes what have sofas for sleeping

usualy even cheaper for whole night than tube-hotels

I can recommend Hanoi

The vets I work with do not recommend Hanoi

They do charge more for non-natives and uh, the food culture is still uh

mostly lacking

if you are like me, a permavirgin who is afraid to touch a woman and don't want to be approached by SEA whores, Japan is 👌

would stay away from Korea, maybe give it a week for the entire country and you'll be fine

there's a bunch of spas in japan and korea where you can just have a naked lady rub soap over you

soapland

full service is usually an option, but there's no discount -- it's full priced