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Q: What's up with this website now?
Is it just me or does it seem to be getting extremely political and mundane?
The site seemed to be more interactive on a personable level which made it interesting in my opinion. Now there seems to be a ton of political questions and such that is more international that just about China. Or if the questions are about China they seem like mundane questions that really doesn't matter if someone answers or not... more like opinion polls on current events.
Is anyone else getting kind of bored with that? Is this just one group of people or something?
Meh.
Well, we've got a moron spewing crap about westerners, then we had the missing plane thing, we had the Ukraine issue which drew lots of opinions and to top it off, we had CFTU coming in......rather eventful week here I'd say. Oh, and we had an Indian sharma! Things are getting livelier here it appears.
ironman510:
And on top of that the Dow Jones lost 239 on fears of China's slowdown gig.
I think all the weirdness is putting people off asking normal Qs. I'm certainly thinking twice... OK, I'll ask a sorta normal one: I'd certainly love to know if VPN would help me log in to my Dutch PayPal account safely (because logging in normally from China will invoke account restrictions and ID testing again). I hope nobody accuses me of being a wumao for asking this...
Scandinavian:
It would, but you need your VPN server to be in Holland, then it is just as good as being there, without easy access to Gouda
Make sure to get L2TP and not just PPTP
expatlife26:
right...just make sure to find one with a Dutch server, i don't know any offhand but i'm sure they exist if you look around. I use my USA one to get on all my regionally restricted websites.
viango:
You can ask some of your family or friends to turn on TeamViewer or LogMeOn. This software enables you to enter their computer, and surf the net like you are in Holland. A little slow on showing graphics but you can use it for your purpose.
don't worry to much, as it is just part of a cycle , things still to come is the witch burning and the return of Matty in a few weeks . ( yes you can set your watch by him/her/it)
you are not saying anything that people are not all ready thinking . however you are opening yourself up to attack from some factions as am i and the others for replying to this question .
I was pretty active on this site for a long time as were a couple of others , but now I just could not be bothered as much any more and I also find myself feeling more anti China the more I read some of the anti foreign things on here.
so now instead of spending to much time here and getting the shits , I use it to play world of tanks
(not really )
wonder if they will build a public square battle field 
I have the same thoughts mate however I care less because I am the captain of my ship.
It has been but I think it was just one group of bad accounts all posting stuff pushing the same agenda. The admin blocked a bunch of the offending accounts so hopefully it'll be back to normal.
Ya, that week with all those guys who are now blocked was rough. It was like they paid no attention to what was going on in the world and tried to 'shout' louder than anyone else to drown out the news about Kunming etc. It was kind of annoying actually.
Now it should be ok for a while. But as Phil says, they'll be back. I just wish they'd leave us alone. I don't think we're harming anyone??!!
Who is Matty?
philbravery:
Ahh that is a time honored question .
But I can guarantee if any of us ever got hold of it ,there would be a assault charge or a murder charge involved .
look up the dumbest posts ever printed on here and you will find Mattaya /silva 99 is the author
you will know when it returns, trust me
