I went the week after school started there

So nothing was packed

And not many Chinese tourists

Good weather too

Would highly recommend Taiwan. It's like Japan and China combined but not many of the bad of both

Ye Taiwan is really nice, would recommend too

@Droidbot depends on what you like

Hank Hill is from a fake city that was based on the city I lived in before I came to China.

He's a true American

wat

He's from Arlen. That's not a real city, but the creator based it on the city he grew up in called Richardson

I lived there before I left USA

the more you know (tm)

It's just a suburb of Dallas, nothing special

We in Malaysia now

is that like a diaper or something

No it's like crisps

But there is a lot of languages on it and a baby

Hecka confusing

This pleases me

Looks like the logo for FAG bearings, basically

>sandals

Cargo shorts and sandals are ultimate vacation garb for comfort and convience

https://vertical.snd.no/images/ad3569fc-d5b9-4969-b409-9c135b904956?fit=crop&q=80&w=1440 and one of these bad boys

Cargo shorts yes. Cargo shorts are the comfiest thing you can have for a vacation

Don't italians wear sandals?

Oh shit Italians hate this shit

<:thenk:329322130804047872>

that's already a few centuries ago

https://www.google.ch/search?safe=off&client=ubuntu&hs=3V2&channel=fs&dcr=0&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=UvRZWo_6C9HGkwX8_p7oCg&q=roman+sandals&oq=roman+sandals&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0j0i30k1l9.14143.15446.0.15553.13.11.0.2.2.0.129.980.9j2.11.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.13.989...0i67k1j0i10k1.0.xV6Z827JUQI

autistic question but would airport shops take gbp cash or would I need to get it exchanged?

reason I ask is that all the banks I have an account with charge a loading fee for non-sterling transactions

probably depends on the shop, but most airports I've been to (not those many anyway), the shops accept most of the bigger currencies like EUR, USD or GBP

I'll probably be going through abu dhabi <:alithink:327930371796893698>

theyll take it there, for sure

their conversion rates might fuck you over a bit tho

@transience which airport are we talking about? Big international airports like Dubai take (almost) every currency

AUH

Zürich takes every major currency but will give you change in CHF

Ah, let me check

GBP should be fine

Don't you have cards just in case?

I have cards but my bank charges a fee for international transactions

so I'm going to carry some cash, then get the rest of my money from the ATM

Paying in foreign currencies will almost always be more expensive than international transaction fees

They always put a charge if you pay in foreign cash. Those charges can be very high

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Can't you get a travel card or something like that? There are certain prepaid credit cards which are especially designed for travel

https://www.swissbankers.ch/de/mastercard-prepaid-kreditkarte/travel-cash.aspx

In Switzerland we have that one, it's great for travel. I bet there's something like that in the UK

It's much cheaper than using a regular credit card, and if it gets stolen abroad, there is no big loss since it was prepaid and you're not going to put a lot on it

monzo does the first £200 of foreign transactions without a fee, then it's 3% after

I believe there are similar cards like that so I'll need to have a look

For the record, 3% is likely much less than paying with foreign cash

cash > everything else

uh Uhh uh use bitcoinc ash!

I have a card that doesn't have foreign transaction fees. Comes in handy

Yes but such things just exist in the US

Exists here too on my shitty little island

28degrees

It's kinda shitty that if I want to be a tightarse here you need amex/0fee mc

>amex

pretty much useless around here

Amex has special offers like $100 off $400 at large big box stores

many places don't accept them

It's fucking worth

it's visa or mastercard

And as a backup I'd have MasterCard

not sure if you'd be able to get a decent reward credit card like that right off the bat though

It's to all amex members

you usually need an established credit history for that

Literally

Just go and sign up

And they come up in the offers panel

It's a meme

so even their most basic card with the worst interest rates gets you access to that?

yep

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I get an Amex here with 1 star alliance mile for every dollar spent

But no one accepts amex

Like

the deals you get here with Ayymex

are great

$50 off first purchase on UberEats

amex is like receiving a white elephant

10% off Amazon

Spend $15 at Maccas get $5 back

Spend $100 on booze get $20 back

etc

etc

offers are literally the shit

Are they single use

depends, mostly you can use them all the time, like my miles amex just has the "must use at least once a month" condition or the miles will expire

@transience some are

>use at least once a month

that's a challenge in its own right

Nobody accepts it so once a month I just order something online

I've got a Chase Sapphire reserve card that offers a fuck ton of great benefits

But I suppose that's us only as well

Also >amex

Is that more popular in Australia?

wat

This isn't /biz/, keep it <#248100475054850050>

https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/7qdugb/cjayride_apologizes_and_retires_from_streaming/

Taiwan not numba wan

literally who

white devil streamer

tldr taiwanese streamers got scared and started doing witch hunts, calling their local media to write diss articles about him.

the taiwanese twitch moderators didnt do shit

and he has been banned twice by them without a reason

his Chinese is great though

But I saw some Taiwanese news article about him right now, he basically asked for it quite a few times

Yeah the taiwanese article written by taiwanese journalists that don't understand English and don't know context?

They got mad at another streamer that said "ez" in an ironic way when he finally scored a taiwanese chick.

It's kotaku, but hmm https://kotaku.com/american-twitch-streamer-causes-commotion-by-littering-1795974167/amp

Taiwanese media says (badly translated from me) that he was frequently doing videos showing how easy Taiwanese girls are

Lmao

They fell for the ez meme

Let me find a vid that explains it better

I am just reading the Taiwanese articles. So apparently another Taiwanese guy started to move people to find him

To the point that he had to leave Taiwan fearing for his life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqo1NtRUQKk

Disclaimer : this info was not actually news but Taiwanese social media

I watched that video now

I understand how this might be unfortunate

Then you have the problem that white guys coming to Taiwan are always lowest tier males who let themselves get provoked by literally everything

Except for me*

kek

But wait, left me find you an example

https://youtu.be/cYYVATuLwCA

That's a classic one

The white dude could have just... Not answered. I've been to Taiwan many times and local guys will sometimes give you the looks, ram you, spit on the ground or stuff like that

Then you just have to be secure of yourself and ignore it

Not engage into this kind of argument

And from what I see, those two guys on twitch are doing a similar mistake, blowing it up

I mean thats kinda a part of their job

They stream their own lives and theres no avoiding that discussion

And not answering at all sounds super beta

You must really keep the circumstances in mind

Sometimes it looks like the average Taiwanese man is unable to understand the concept of a white man loving a Taiwanese woman

If they see a white man with a Taiwanese woman, they assume he's either yellow fever or a loser who can't find a white one

They also assume she only dates him for his race and/or western wealth

The fact, that two people from different races might simply unconditionally love each other is not taken into account at all

So since you can't argue with someone who holds such a strong and biased opinion since he's not going to just listen to you anyway

Why would you discuss it at all?

emotions and immediate defensive stance when you're attacked? some just can't control themselves

They just think they can change the world

ooh i'm gonna have lots of fun when i finally have the time and finances to go to kr

It's like people discussing politics in the off topic sessions on tech BBs in the early 2000s

Everyone's going to hate each other and nothing is going to change

That stuff was 90's, we had IRC in the early 2000s

BBs weren't 90s lol, BBs started popping up when PHP started becoming mainstream

Anyway

That's not the point

bulletin boards, not BBS

phpBB, vBulletin etc

Yes bulletin boards

BBs

good times fam

Also woltlab burning board wbb

I used to work for woltlab kek

and myBB

wbb was the most hackable one imho while vbulletin was "premium"

phpBB was baby's first bb

haha, most bbs in polan were stuck with phpBB modded

either "modified by przemo" or manually installed mods

Back to topic, doesn't matter how much we discuss race issues in Taiwan, Taiwanese men will still consider every woman in the country to be their personal, claimable resource

While we in Europe have the same issue

The mere existence of /pol/ is proof

i think it's like that everywhere

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No I'm not saying that the streamers can change anything by discussing it

I'm not, I occasionally offered Taiwanese men to help them to find an Italian gf if it makes them feel happier

Im just saying that theres no use in avoiding the discussion

Like, bring back balance to the world or something

Especially when interacting with ur viewers

So who do you think was wrong in this issue? The white streamer or the Taiwanese?

There are retards like that wherever you go and you simply make it worse by trying to engage them like the guy in the video then

~~his gf~~

I mean the streamer did some stupid shit but he doesn't deserve the negative attention he's getting

Like death threats

And his job was streaming

@transience if you ever want an Italian gf, as I said, I'm going to wingman the shit out of it until we find you a real qt one ok?

😖

@Julian did you see all the littering?

eh, hitmans' job is to kill, yet not many people agree with that

And he was getting constantly banned because of taiwanese idiots

I saw it a couple of times

I was mainly browsing Taiwanese news site and one had a video collage of him throwing stuff on the ground on 5+ occasions

Jesus christ, the comment section

I haven't thrown something on the ground 5 times in my life yet

it's like taiwanese /pol/

@transience of which one?

the one you posted

The mrt video?

yea

Yes that's a classic

But the dude's Chinese is amazing

>East Asian men, not just Taiwanese men, need to speak out against this racism from white guys who go to your country and take your women. If you don't, it only grows and grows and they become more confident. This Taiwanese guy is right in speaking his mind, something the more liberalized white western world always does - speak their mind like the racists they are. Fight fire with fire.

I'm a chink myself and I think this is fucking retarded

sounds like an incel who can't get laid

Both guys in the videos are no prize either hough

normies don't care yeah

weren't they american

The video I posted

An English and a Taiwanese

still a decent country to marry into

England or Taiwan ?

The taiwanese guy looked super insecure

UK

Both did tbh

The white guy wasn't the most alpha male either

anywhere west of polan is ok

Ye

But his gf is qt

Still I have the qtier Taiwanese

~~when i grow up i will also have a qt gf~~

I mean my natural reaction would be to smirk and laugh because that's how I react to most things

I'd say my Taiwanese > every other Taiwanese

@Julian exactly what I'm trying to say

I would have never started talking to that guy

I like baiting people irl though

To see their worst

I would have offered him my Line contact so that I can help him find an Italian gf

But that would have been a difficult one

Are italian geeeaaafffs super sought for there?

There?

I think "being alpha" is way beyond the point here

they're clearly trying to get a reaction

Italian girls are just the easiest beings on earth. Everyone can have an Italian gf by simply asking a random Italian girl on the street to be his gf

That's what Italian girls are there for

O

Lol

All Italian girls are whores except for my sister and my mother

nice

bet it won't work for slavs tho

Just give it a try

i will if i ever be in italy

in english?

Yeah that's the catch

Most slav chicks are super pretentious if they're from a bigger city

>sex tourism in europe <:hyperthonk:327934332545007617>

But country girls are ez

i don't know any slav girls tho