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Q: Strangest expat you've met?
Time for another crazy foreigner story? So I've got two good ones.
-Guy in his late 50's early 60's. Only person to be fired from a university job. He sexted random students with pictures of himself wearing a towel. Claimed to be a millionaire, ex Canadian special forces medic. Oddly didn't have enough money to buy cigs, and borrowed from other teachers...Also when asked any military questions, like where did you do basic would only say "it was a secret." Claimed to have played D&D but only level 40 characters. In 2nd edition. Which doesn't exist.
-I also worked with a girl who slept with four different dudes in a week. That was pretty impressive. I wasn't one of the dudes, but even I suggested it was a little excessive. Her response. "Yeah, I wouldn't want to do this every week. People might think I'm kind of a slut." Really, you think?
-So, met any crazy folks lately?
About the girl... So, what would you call a guy who slept with 4 different girls in a week ? She have a wild private life, is she enjoys it and it's between willing adults, why the hell not.
Strangest expats I met, back in 2011 : a couple of Texans in their 60's. We were in a sleeping train and they felt like talking. 5 minutes after we started our conversation, they were telling me Obama was the Antechrist, and he was an undercover muslim because "Obama Bin Laden". I was pinching myself to be sure I wasn't dreaming.
expatlife26:
ugh yeah I meet those too with the crazy political beliefs. I would agree those are the strangest expats. The nutjobs.
You'd think that at least they'd understand their beliefs are a little radical and for the sake of not causing discomfort to others tone them down a bit. Even if you do believe obama is the antichrist every stranger is not going to agree with you and it creates awkward situations.
I get how they can fool themselves though. They get news only from the far-right and assume else does too but is too stupid to understand. Same reason I get on Icnif, reads one radical viewpoint and takes it as gospel.
DrMonkey:
Yeah, they were a rare breed of nutjobs, competition level. I didn't try to debate with them, I was kinda expecting they would try to burn me down during my sleep while shouting WITCH, WITCH, WITCH !
silverbutton1:
"So, what would you call a guy who slept with 4 different girls in a week ?" A womanizer
expatlife26:
Yeah people with that little self awareness aren't worth debating. They're set on their opinion and just want to hear themselves talk about it to feel validated.
I don't know any other expats, so I guess I am the strangest one that I know.
I don't know any other expats, so I guess I am the strangest one that I know.
About the girl... So, what would you call a guy who slept with 4 different girls in a week ? She have a wild private life, is she enjoys it and it's between willing adults, why the hell not.
Strangest expats I met, back in 2011 : a couple of Texans in their 60's. We were in a sleeping train and they felt like talking. 5 minutes after we started our conversation, they were telling me Obama was the Antechrist, and he was an undercover muslim because "Obama Bin Laden". I was pinching myself to be sure I wasn't dreaming.
expatlife26:
ugh yeah I meet those too with the crazy political beliefs. I would agree those are the strangest expats. The nutjobs.
You'd think that at least they'd understand their beliefs are a little radical and for the sake of not causing discomfort to others tone them down a bit. Even if you do believe obama is the antichrist every stranger is not going to agree with you and it creates awkward situations.
I get how they can fool themselves though. They get news only from the far-right and assume else does too but is too stupid to understand. Same reason I get on Icnif, reads one radical viewpoint and takes it as gospel.
DrMonkey:
Yeah, they were a rare breed of nutjobs, competition level. I didn't try to debate with them, I was kinda expecting they would try to burn me down during my sleep while shouting WITCH, WITCH, WITCH !
silverbutton1:
"So, what would you call a guy who slept with 4 different girls in a week ?" A womanizer
expatlife26:
Yeah people with that little self awareness aren't worth debating. They're set on their opinion and just want to hear themselves talk about it to feel validated.
Nothing too fancy, a couple of wrecks in a bar and that's it I think...
Guy who worked at the university was a real screwball.
- Every night you could here him rearranging the furniture in his dorm. When asked about it he said that he was looking for bugs. Not the creepy crawly kind but listening devices as in he was being bugged by somebody.
- Wrote a book about how Greek mythology explains Jesus being betrayed at the last supper. Said the Vatican had made him an offer to buy the book but only because they didn't want the 13th chapter to get published.
- Had an idea for bicycles which you could take apart and place in a suitcase. He thought that expats could ride these bikes from town to town teaching English.
xunliang:
Wow.....sounds like I've been quite lucky with who I've met.
I meet this type of person once or twice a year, not just a single person by one name, but by many. You've met them too.. The strange ones are the ones who come here, work here, live here but hate hate Asia, they hate the people here because they do different things and can only release the stress by sitting down with you start to talking about all the things he or she hates here, than they leave Asia after 6 months or after contract.. In the end they were "Home Culture Sick" as I call it. They are the strange ones in my eyes. Thats why I avoid you guys in public, thats why I worry about making friends with my fellow Americans, yes yes, I do meet a few good guys like Rob, Scotts and Mike and some others who are on the level, but its very rare to meet people like this.. And other guys tell me the same, they try not to talk to me and you because we might be the strange ones, the ones who come here with the idea that they are king because they left their 7-11 job and they these guys start to learn the real life, realistic hardship facts that make them feel that in someways they are better than you or me and everyone else. I think that proves my point.
The wanna be Kings are the strange guys. I try to avoid the happy stupid Kings in China..
ironman510:
oh one other, a guy he wouldn't use the subway, he bus, ATMs or Cell Phones nor computers. He walked to work and cooked rice with a pot & fire.. Ok not that strange, but a little strange.
Perpetual English teacher who worked for over a dozen English Language Training Centres thinking that being a white baby sitter made him a teacher. Other than that ~ ridiculously promiscuous, alcoholic, so used to his Ayi he couldn't clean by himself ~ couldn't cook at all, never saved a penny, always making new friends, never keeping any, no property or assets, partying like a 20 something, constantly talking about his past, Mummy fixations, unresolved family issues & religious obsessions like some medieval illiterate peasant.
Told everyone including his wife he was 28. Until he got married and had to produce his passport. He was 42. Looked more like 28 though.
Showed me a picture of a red Audi R8. His of course. Then less than a month later shows me his black R8. When i bring up his red one it was explained to me that he liked the car so much he bought two. Eventually bought a Chevy Sail for maybe 80K.
Inventor of the smart lighbulb.
Went to the wedding only to find out that I am the best man !?!? My wife is still repaying that debt. Wedding night. At.a club, caught groping a bridesmaids ass. 2 hands. Classy.
I have met quite a few strange expats and those are the ones I tend to avoid but there is one that sticks out in my head. I have briefly met this random expat at house parties and I don’t really know who she is but I think people think she is slightly mad. Normally you’d bring alcohol to a house party or dinner party, well she brings like her own unwanted household goods, for example a few months ago at a friend’s house she turned up with a case of Belgian beer and a oil radiator, then one time a toaster and a scooter ha ha. Apparently she gets bored of things and starts giving them away to random people and if there is a party she turns up with stuff nobody would bring.
The types of expat that I have the least respect for are the ones who talk like they're political refugees from the tyranny of our western democracies.
You meet a guy at the bar saying he just couldn't live in the US anymore because obama is too much of a socialist, or that the NSA is spying on everything now the old snowden thing.
And my response is always "well what do you think THIS place is about?"
Should the NSA be breaking the constitution to spy on us? hell no. But I can't stand the guy bitching about USA becoming a police state and not thinking twice about going and registering their address with the local police.
Or having your SIM card tied to your passport. Or having to use bullshit TOM Skype so they can monitor it unless you download from a VPN. Or needing a VPN just to use the internet at all really. I'm not pro surveillance at all, i'm just saying that if you're basing your life decisions on fleeing from US surveillance and you come here to live free than you're doing it wrong.
Can't stand socialist america...so they move to communist china. Fucking idiots.
RiriRiri:
One way to make this case work is saying I feel more safe being observed by a bunch of lazy state workers following their guidelines without hardly ever looking beyond than by the power of a state from where originates 99% of computer systems in the world with an impressive track record of efficiency.
But yeah, I doubt those guys you're talking about would ever think of that one.
expatlife26:
I guess that lazyness in enforcement is a freedom in a way.
I share my VPN with a friend back home sometimes if they want to download some torrents cause they worry about getting a huge lawsuit by the MPAA or some bullshit agency that sues common folk into the ground for downloading TV shows.
I am admittedly "strange" even weird.....but so are the rest of you expats in China.
who the hell, in their right minds would live in this backwards country.
I like it here a lot... progress,
ScotsAlan:
I'm not sure who is the strangest... Me, bhgal or hot water. We all score high on the strangeness scale :-)
yongge:
Mmm... you got it right there, all expats here are a bit strange. Who wants to meet normal people anyway, they are so boring anyway and can be found anywhere in waiguo.
I concur with Mr ScotsAlan and Mr Hotwater, you do indeed need to be mad to live here but it must be said, if expats think you are strange then you must be off the scale back home.
