Answers of the Day
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Jun 27,2013
"Never a dull moment.".
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Jun 26,2013
I dare you to find a picture from home of a moped with 4 pigs on the back. It's not about what the animals are used for, it is how they are treated while they are alive.
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Jun 25,2013
Marshamallows.
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Jun 24,2013
People love recording fun or interesting events. The Great Wall or Tiananmen square or the theme parks.
I would think a swimming pool is a kind of cool interesting event. Not so much for a regular but perhaps someone who's new to swimming pools or wants to show friends back home his cities pools.
What would weird me out is if a strange is specifically recording ME (...
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Jun 23,2013
@Shining Brow
“I really HATE when the 'if TCM worked, it wouldn't be called "traditional", it'd be called "medicine"' BS... It's a fake analogy! There are various types of medicine around the world, TCM is one of them. Western styles are another!! Herbal medicine is another. So let's just nip that crap in the bud!”
Nope. The things we now know...
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Jun 22,2013
Quackery, superstition and willful ignorance are the foundations of TCM. Unfortunately, some people want to believe in things.
All countries that still believe in traditional medicine have much shorter life expectancies than countries that rely on Western scientific medicine. Chinese people have no understanding of what science is – that is, that...
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Jun 21,2013
I am married to a Chinese man, so my perspective of Chinese people is quite different than that of an expat who resides independently in China. However, because family is so important to Chinese people (and also to me), the need for "acceptance" in my Chinese family was imperative to my happiness in my married life.
When it comes to my Chinese family (general...
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Jun 20,2013
I will have t take the cynical viewpoint here and say that Chinese people rarely make friendship from the perspective of friendship alone. I have some great Chinese friends that go back a long way but I have never met one yet who isn't quick to shout when they want something. It almost seems like a pre-requisite to the relationship. Sometimes it is a simple thing like just wanting a foreign...
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Jun 19,2013
Where are you based? There are plenty of foreign stores that sell beef and meat etc. In Beijing for example, we have Jenny Lou's, April Gourmet and City Supermarket.
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Jun 18,2013
It depends because I flick around for the best deals. Usually Qunar are the cheapest. Elong and Ctrip are rarely the cheapest. Sometimes I also use airline specific websites such as Shandong Airlines or China Eastern. I always use my BOC credit card to pay.
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Jun 17,2013
Singapore is like a sterile shopping center, it has a lot of good things, it's clean, safe etc, and it is easy to get to Malaysia.
Hong Kong has a lot more personality, history and a lot of China's craziness, but in a structured form.
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Jun 15,2013
Satellites are not very good for internet/phone. The latency is too high due to the physical distance and the speed of radio signals. It is excellent for an internet connection that is just streaming data one way, but it feels sluggish to surf on satellite based connections. Naturally if you have no connection, a sluggish connection would be better.
It is certainly...
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Jun 15,2013
My wife gave me some nuts, don’t know where or from who she got them, just last week. I have them stored under the coffee table. This inspirational post has given me an idea for just what I am supposed to do with them, and I thank you for that.
But I think I’ll just eat these, foreign to me, nuts, and leave the playing with nuts to somebody else.
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Jun 14,2013
I've actually done stuff like this on a motorcycle. I had a neighbor harrass me on the phone and call the cops for years and the noise was hardly ever me. One day I figured out who it was and gave him a warning, he didn't take it. His house went up for sale pretty fast later.
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Jun 13,2013
I once bought about 1 kilo of TCM and was told very specifically that if I dropped it on my toe, it would hurt. And wouldn't you know it, when I dropped it on my toe, it actually hurt! Now I am a firm believer in TCM.
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Jun 12,2013
For some reason the local dragon boat races, according to my dubious sources, where held last weekend, would like to see the dragon boat race festival event, I guess that must be next year.
Then I will also have time to fight my strong dislike for being outside on weekends and public holidays.
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737 . Show me the Money!Jun 11,2013
I would like to give you some hints and maybe you'd like to check them out yourself.
I always have a strong feeling mixed with anger, fear, desperation when I talk about China's problems. It's a big reason why I am not that active here as I used to be.
You mentioned exports and lower class. I don't know enough about economy and trades. But I think the lower...
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738 . A cultural wildernessJun 09,2013
Most of what you said above is right.Can we say Chinese culture is good at absorbing the good points of other cultures to adapt with new environments?Maybe that's one of the reasons why it is still existed after thousands of years....
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Jun 08,2013
I think that it is a good idea to learn a second language at school from childhood, it is a common practice in many countries. It would be better to offer more choices though, but I guess that it is easier to setup the infrastructure for only one language rather than offer other options. At least it is a first step
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Jun 07,2013
Here (coastal Zhejiang), the rain doesn't seem to ruin anyone's plans. The scooter and motorcycle riders will don a poncho or rigged up rain suit; might even have a custom attached umbrella to their ride! Pedestrian commuters soldier on with an umbrella. Car drivers might turn on their windshield wipers, while driving even more aggressively than usual...
