I honestly feel in the next couple years chinese subcultures are going to start leaking out

like what

you mean like chinaboos?

its tough because literally nothing in china is creative or original or innovative

from fashion, to technology etc

i cant see a world where people outside of china would enjoy chinese television, movies, or music

because its all bad

Like the whole population without papers must be sizable and insane given they dont exist

I mean subcultures like underground stuff.

ah i see, yeah well most of those people live in the rural parts

Tho chinese historical docudramas are pretty neat if you takw it as largely fiction

so the no ID kids will stay with the grandparents in the country

and the parents go to the cities to work

Oh, thats just depressing, was expecting something more cyberpunk

nah china is pretty depressing

it isnt as "cyberpunk" as everyone thinks

neon lights + skyscrapers dont make cyberpunk

the government hates the rural parts so they never go there, not even police

so itd be pretty easy to hide in plain sight there

i heard stories of some people commiting crimes on purpose

cause to go to jail you have to have a chinese ID

so if you dont have one, they will give you one

so they will go to jail for a year or something and get an ID on the way out

also, the funeral plots in shanghai are insanely expensive, think like $10,000 just for the land to bury your grandpa

actually, it might be $100,000. i cant remember

but people are going outside the city in the rural spots and buying apartments

and then they leave their grandparents there

(the dead)

cause its cheaper

so sometimes youll see apartments and maybe like half are just full of dead bodies and the other half people live in

What?

Like festering corpses?

Or ashes

they dont like to cremate usually

but both

You'll have to provide source for that because that sounds amazing.

my wife told me it it was in chinese, let me see if i can find english source

I mean, its terrible that it happens and its probably a plauge waiting to explode but at the same time it has been a dream of mine to live in a crypt.

this isnt it, but just as crazy: https://www.upi.com/Illegal-trade-in-corpse-brides-surges-in-China/3211491397845/

i cant find it in english yet, just chinese. it might take a bit for english publication to run it

Its weord how chinese is almost impossible to google translate to english since apparently every character is a self contained word or idea. Unless I'm misunderstanding chinese again.

you can google translate it, it just comes out weird sometimes

Huh, must just be the camera mode of google them.

yeah that thing definitely sucks

Chinese must be unsually hard to get machines to learn given variances of handwriting and fonts.

Or the AI refuses to learn chinese.

its harder than the latin ones yes, but only because its more squiggly

not harder than other squiggly scriptures

Landed taipei

Taiwanese coastline is aesthetic

You say China isn't cyberpunk, but why actually? Given how cheap tech seems to be over there, could you pinpoint a reason why they haven't smart homed up every apartment in sight?

I'm walking to immigration now <:thvnk:332928260004642827>

...

So did you post any traps while in Thai?

yes

in siam

Fuck, then I missed it

@Sdeck37 because the wages get you rice amd cigarettes and smart homes are memes

@Sdeck37 because people just like smart phones. Most tvs I see are still CRT, VGA is still 90% of connections, and people are generally too poor to smart up their home

They think smart phones are enough, generally

(this is for the general public)

And people don't like to upgrade their homes

They think that's throwing money away

The price of the apartment will go up in price even if you do nothing

So trying to make it nice is seen as waste

Owning the car and apartment are more Important, not really the inside

People prefer location and expensive to interior and functionality

hope you're getting out soon, typhoon maria's predicted to make landfall tomorrow evening

That's... underwhelming

Really makes you think how they acquired that cyberpunk status over here..

the viability of cheap repair and availability of cheap components

nowhere else in the world can you buy a stack of dead iphone pcbs for a benjamin

^

Is it like Thailand where it's important to have a nice car as well

Landed in Paris

sigh

can't believe I have to go back to first world

it's fixed, I'll fly to Taiwan again in a few weeks

Nice

Balance is once again restored

KLM has €100 discount on tickets atm

I fly back to England in an hour and half

<:hms:311152554618912768>

and everyone is suddenly tall when I landed

sigh I wanna go back to asia

this must be what gettinh deported feels like

good thing I brought a few cans of Chang lager back from thailand

>chink beer
>good
I don't believe you

hes a chink himself

its the only way he can feel close to home

Just plant some bamboo around the apartment

Taiwan beer is pretty good

it's just beer but they put a little bit of rice into the brewing process

makes it slightly more bitter

@transience you go to a rug&tug?

Sighh guess where I am now

Tfw I'd rather go back to a third world country

then get a job in one

Manchester airport is the only airport in my journey that charges you for more than 30 min wifi

the chink airports didn't even make you authenticate via portal

good thing I can change MAC anyway

I will be sleepinf on the airport floor for the 3rd time in my travel

no train services back home at this time

so I might as well catch morning bus

wtf

no trains at night?

you ARE in a third woorld country

I'm not going to disagree

lol here in canada they're cutting off bus transport

literally third world lmao

tbh transport in UK is shit anywhere but london

and even in london it's shit

trains never on time, carriages filthier than literal third world country

Same in Germany, everyone's just using a car

i'm moving to Calgary soon and the transit isn't bad, they have a train running straight through the entire city

but it gets japan level packed

god forbid you get one of the old models with no AC in the summer

AC seems to be a meme for farangs in thailand

AC itself is okay but they crank it all the way up to make whiteys feel at home and it ends up being too cold if you're dressed for local climate

<:thvnk:332928260004642827>

Tfw I flown out of Taiwan just the day before typhoon

public transport is pretty decent in berlin tbh

idk about bumfuck nowhere germans

>walk into convenience store
>no one ni haos me
>no nice thai lady to sawatdee kha me

truly sad times

@porco @Tribit you know what I mean???

<:thonkang:327933449597878312>

@transience yeah RIP

@transience https://youtu.be/wIoNpgIM38E

Why aren't there Tor exit nodes in China? China has so many people, so i was kinda surprised.

no english

firewall

Does anyone know where to find a list of confirmed voice phishing and spam phone numbers in Korea?

That's kinda specific

I'd say "in Korean on Naver"

There should be some kind of anti spam call apps

I'd assume at least

Is it just the Three and O2 networks or are mobile data speeds seriously slow in the UK compared to even Thailand?

That's another thing I'll miss about asia

asian ppl need these speeds to upload selfies 24/7

Internet in the UK is probably poo because it was screwed over by a monopoly

UK has always had shit internet

for decades I had below 1mbps

500kbps

these days the average is 10mbps (2mbps) in normal neighbourhoods

i live in rural ireland and have 3mps

the whole of ireland is rural

I lived in rural shithole and had 2Mb/s at home until 2015

not fucking kidding

lived in the suburb and had 500kbps till 2013 and now 10mbps (2mbps)

@transience I've hit 115 Mbps on EE

Just sitting at home as well

Well on the BT plus package which gives you top speed 4G and double the data of your package

Also have got 90Mbps outside at Wandsworth

I was thinking about switching to EE as well

been up and down the country, Three has just been okay at best compared to asia

I've had no issues with them tbh

damn i thought the us was bad

EE isnt great

from what I hear it's virgin and bt that owns all the infrastructure

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/4067807006

Imagine getting out 4G'd by AU

Sitting at home, worst carrier in country, shit suburb

here is my moms house results. she lives in a suburb an hour drive outside a city.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/7462743356

they dont offer gigabit internet here though, only in the city

http://www.speedtest.net/result/7462754713
gigabit is still to expensive for my use here

<:thinkjojo:333980344044879872>

xD

Good fucking gods. Just heard on the news that the cave wherein those fuck-stupid Thai boys were trapped is going to be turned into a museum.

<:futhink:326408752754458634>

monsoon season perfect for underwater tours

monsoon season perfect for underwater tours

now that i crossed almost dying off my bucket list already, i guess getting trapped in a cave sounds appealing

I don't see why they couldn't just wait the monsoon season out instead of killing that poor diver dude.

just wait for the kids to die

that's ez

oops this isn't off topic, sorry

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-44818617

fucking chinks reeeee

Vaping not even once

yeah my wife told me about this shit

fucking hilarious

I thought I couldnt get a tan as 20% southeast asian but wow

I have a strong tanline on the front of my forearms, just as dark as the locals in thailand now

and I used sunscreen

<:thonkang:327933449597878312>

you breathed in too many white genes in london

the part where i wore my watch is still very whitey, since no sun

>not dressing in a sexy bhurka to keep the thai boys guessing

Watch tan is patrician

Watch tan just means you are a commoner who goes outside and is poor with money

>people don't relax on hot sunny beaches or shit

You Indonesian or something?

>relaxing where its hot
You look a it through the window of your luxury hotel room

Ur just jelly of our watch tan

this is like me rn https://forums.macrumors.com/attachments/image-jpg.572714/

sans the hair

hope youre not that skinny hombre

i am sigh

live dox

>book flight to Taipei with chink slave
>seat selection
>no two seats next to each other left on the entire fucking plane

your arm is defective, you should send it in for RMA if its still under warranty

@transience moisturize that skin man and eat some carbs

carbs will make me like fatthew

@Matthew

@porco the air france flight from taipei to paris was pretty damn empty

carbs are good for you
t. knower

I had two seats next to me unoccupied

comfy

@porco also what airline?

this time of year towards asia seems pretty busy anyway

Thai

nice

trap flight attendents

airlines only pick the pretty ones too

I'm debating myself if I should just upgrade to business since I can do that for 450 / person for the over night flight

i just get drunk and sleep tbh

did that on all my long hual flights

this desu

they offered me upgrade for 50 quid but i didnt feel it was worth it when i could just satisfy my alcoholic tendencies for free

this tbh

you skinny manlets will never understand the struggle

>tfw fat and tall - everywhere and everyhing at all times is agony

Kaetaa wasn't a manlit? <:hmm:346343150052311050>

just put the fork down bro

Nah, his chink needs a big Buddha <:alismirk:230784726615588865>

im 3m tall 300kg all muscle bro

ill fuck u up

I believe the 300kg

tall means vertical, not horizontal

<:tipsfedora:383326576609329162>

>tall and fat
Why won't you become only tall?

How tall are you anyway?

@kaetaa

190cm

Fuck

Feel manlet now

tfw 177cm

would I stick above from the rest in Asia?

not really

that's like upper average

fuck

but if you're whitey, you'd stick out anyway

might even get you special farang treatment

offset by getting ripped off here and there

don't know I'd want that

ye

special treatment is mainly ripping off

184 is enough to feel tall in Asia, maybe 180 even