this is backward...
should that say Dope....
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this is backward...
should that say Dope....
Shenzhen public urinal users face fine for poor aim :lol8:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23766837
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Originally Posted by chinabiker
The entrepreneurial Chinese
http://www.globaltimes.cn/Portals/0/...de4f01710.jpeg
10 rmb each, your choice of color, to avoid the 100 rmb fine. Great deal.
Have you guys actually tried to stop and give way to pedestrians waiting to cross a street/road? Im not talking about some big crossings where a lot of ppl wait cos then they will force you to stop but some small ones, one or two people.....I tried few times and its pointless. They are so shocked that they cant move and most of them wont trust you so they will walk around you or simply wait until you move again and pass them. My most extreme case was in some small village where i stopped for a lady carrying a huge sack of I dunno what and she had a 4-5 year old kid next to her. When i stopped and showed her that she might cross the road safely she grabed the kid and run the opposite direction......ehhhhh i just wanted to be kind
now I dont stop anymore hah
yeah stopping at a crossing is risking getting hit from behind or at least getting your eardrums abused by the horns behind you
So I bought a new motorbike in Huizhou last week (even got it plated).... and stripping it down for modification I found a serious "only in China" feature :)
Okay so the bike is "Guo III" with all the fancy emission control crap.... let's take a look at that system for a second:
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Everything looks legit, it has that S.A.I crap all hooked up.. evaporation control system... lots of hoses and little tubes, boxes and such....
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Since I'm going to replace the engine with a 250 anyway, I decided to strip out the crap and have a play with the engine... so when removing the first hose I was rather surprised :)
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I literally facepalmed... then checked out the rest, yes... just empty outer casings, nothing inside....
Score one for the 5RMB savings they made on the manufacture of this bike hehe... and score one for people like me who don't like all that extra environment saving crap either. Score nil for common sense and Guo III inspectors :)
That is fucking priceless. So they don't actually test the emissions that come out of the pipe when awarding the C3 badge. They just take a quick glace and say "yeah, that looks grand".
Was this a branded bike?
This is hilarious, but also quite distressing - where else are they cutting corners? :eekers::eekers::eekers:
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Venting.
China. You won't ever meet a more stubborn moron.
Bread isn't sweet? F**k you arrogant laowei. Just because you come from country that has bread as a part of it's staple diet you think you can arrogantly come in here and tell us the difference between cake and bread and that mayo isn't butter?
You should look before pulling out of an interection? F**k you arrogant laowei. Just because you come from country that has adopted international driving standards you can arrogantly come in here and tell us the what right of what means and how to use our f**king eyes the good lord gave us?
Children should wear safety belts in cars? F**k you arrogant laowei. Just because you come from country that know about safety research and what happens in a crash when your baby flies through a car windscreen at 200 k/mh like it's been catapulted you can arrogantly come in here and tell us how to be safe just because it was proven by research institutes and universities in other countries?
Young children shouldn't eat nuts? F**k you arrogant laowei. Just because your governments have done research and found that young children and babies can choke on nuts you think you can arrogantly come in here and try to prevent unnecessary chocking related deaths of small children?
So let me guess the story behind this: You went out to buy bread, then had to brake for a nut eating baby flying out of the intersection :icon10:?Quote:
Originally Posted by ZMC888
I have a real TIC story to tell you... I wanted to kill someone... luckily for him he wasn't there...
Let me explain...
My CB400 has always had a crappy damaged (modified) engine cover, so I finally decided to sort it out, got myself some body putty and sandpaper and high temperature paint and got to work (this is my first attempt at body work and since I'm going to be doing it a lot on my project bikes, I thought it would be good practice)....
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You can see my lack of experience shining through... in fact it took me around 6 hours of sanding, re-applying waiting to dry, sanding/shaping, re-applying... you get the idea....
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anyway finally I masked off the rest of the engine with masking tape and newspaper and gave it a good spray.... not perfect, but I was really happy with my first attempt (even sanded down the honda logo so it looked all nice and polished)....
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Great, time to go and get a beer to celebrate a job well done... (btw I was doing this downstairs outside the door of my apartment building)
I came back about 10 mins later to survey my work and what did I see??
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Some Pikey twat had kicked the engine (you know how they always like to put their hands and fingers all over everything... he was probably saying something to a friend and kicked the engine to show how big the engine was or something).... either way as the putty hadn't hardened yet and the paint was still wet he completely ruined my 6 hours of work :eek2:
I had more than one beer and said... screw it, this is China, a plague on your offspring you bloody pikey... I was going to re-do it anyway when I rebuild the bike... but at least let me enjoy it for 10 bloody minutes!!!!!
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Originally Posted by Serpentza
Serpentza, yes this is the well documented 'shiny phenomenon'. 7 or 8 years ago or so me and my mate were the first people to have disk brakes on our mountain bikes. This seemed to attract Chinese people quicker than zombies for a gunshot on the walking dead. Look! Shiny thing! Must touch.............. Except human fingers have oil on them and they are bad for disk brakes, especially on bicycles. So one day I decided to put an extra one in my backpack every time we'd get a 'fingerer' I'd pull the old rotor out. Lookie one here...but they seemed less interested in that one, they had to touch the one on the bike, more shiny we think was why... not sure. :icon10:
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Shiny...is your first thought to wipe your filthy stinkin' paws over it? Then chances are you're Chinese peasant farmer. :icon10:
Methinks one has had a gutsfull of this "special" country and it's "special" people..
I only get that way with my wife as, being Chinese she married me. Nobody forced her. Yet she has this idea that only Chinese people have any right of opinion in this country. I got into a bit of fix once about surfing here in Zhejiang when the Zhoushan Head of Foreign Affairs told me that "OUR CHINESE SURF IS DIFFERENT TO YOUR FOREIGN SURF" and he then told me I was welcome to come and surf at the beach when there were no waves.
He told me this in front of a big crowd and I told him, in Chinese, in front of all the crowd that he was a fucking idiot and should try to think first before opening his mouth as what was coming out was the same stuff as from his asshole. There was a very very very uneasy silence and so I told him I was going to go surfing now and if he tried to stop me I'd beat the living shit out of him.
After 18 years here I avoid these people. I avoid the cities and I have no problem saying to anyone , big nose or small that "you are an ignorant tosser, so if you don't know what your'e talking about, keep your mouth shut."
That people find me base, vile, rude, aggressive, vulgar etc is their problem.
So I hear what you're saying .. The thing to be is to stop being King Kanut.. The tide is coming in.. I like where this country is going and I like where the people are going. They'll get to a better place than us. And for many of us, that is OUR PROBLEM..
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Originally Posted by 998S
JonSIms.
That one is a classic, go surfing with no waves !!! I windsurf, I had a similar thing happen during one of the typhoons last year when the police told me I couldn't go on the water as it was windy.
I had a TIC finger poking moment this week. A couple of days a week I go to a local park and try to drive a RC car that I bought last year. Every time I go there the local Muppet who seems to be a security guard comes over and can't resist fingering my car. I thought I stop you in you tracks. so when taking a rest I put my finger close the the motor which was really hot,. Right on cue the Muppet put his finger on the motor. There was a horrible smell of burnt flesh :-). I just looked at him and mentioned that the motor gets really hot so best not touch it again. Let's hope he has learned his lesson !
Unfortunately, today, this is Shanghai (TIS).
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OK, all this air quality information used to all be a state secret, so it's good the government is being more transparent (probably the wrong word today) about the severity of the problem. But when Beijing hit AQI 500 last January, the city (and state) kind of just shrugged it off. I hope Shanghai shows a bit more backbone, and jumps ahead of the national government to lead the way in making the necessary changes.
Back in the 1990s, Jiang Zemin decreed that cars and carmaking would become a "pillar industry" of the economy. Environmentalists sounded an alarm back then, but the state had its way. Better leadership is definitely needed today.
Alas, here's a story showing Shanghai's response: They are lowering the standard so there will be fewer bad air alerts. How this is a "tacit acknowledgment of the city's poor air quality" is a mystery to me. More like sticking their heads in the sand.
euphonius
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Shanghai lowers air quality benchmark to reduce alertsBy Zhou Wenting (China Daily) 08:37, December 06, 2013
The Shanghai environmental authority announced on Thursday that it has adjusted its air pollution standards to reduce the number of alerts, adding that they will still be frequent in winter.
Experts say the move was a reluctant tacit acknowledgment of the city's poor air quality.
The municipality's Environmental Protection Bureau will now lift air pollution alerts when the concentration of PM2.5 — particulate matter smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter that can penetrate deep into human lungs — falls below 115 micrograms per cubic meter.
Previously, the bureau lifted alerts after the concentration of PM2.5 dropped below 75 micrograms per cubic meter.
The bureau issued an orange alert — the second-highest in its four-level warning system — at 5 pm on Thursday when the concentration of PM2.5 stood at nearly 280 micrograms per cubic meter. The severe pollution will last until Friday.
The bureau said it believes the original standard is too strict, given that haze is common in the Yangtze River Delta region in winter.
"The warm air in higher altitudes blocks the cold air in winter, so it's hard for pollutants to be diffused," said Qian Hua, director of the research institute of atmospheric environment under the Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences.
"The absence of cold air blowing in from the north makes diffusion even harder," Qian said.
Also, the extra energy consumption in winter contributes to the city's poor air quality, Qian said.
"It takes longer to boil water in winter because of the low temperatures, and it takes a lot more energy to use air conditioning to warm the air than it does to cool it," he said.
Experts said the city likely will revert to the original standard to lift severe-pollution warnings in summer, when air quality is better, experts said. The air quality on more than 90 percent of the days in July and August this year was regarded as good, data from the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center showed.
Experts suggested families with pregnant women, infants, and people with heart or lung diseases take appropriate protective measures when the concentration of PM2.5 reached 100 micrograms per cubic meter, which is regarded as mild pollution. Some recommended face masks with efficient filter materials and air purifiers.
The meteorological department forecast that the pollutants could be blown away when a wave of cold air from the north arrives on Sunday night.
Are those the same Experts which explained in the past that the best shelter during a nuclear blast is under a table with a newspaper on the head?Quote:
Experts suggested families with pregnant women, infants, and people with heart or lung diseases take appropriate protective measures when the concentration of PM2.5 reached 100 micrograms per cubic meter, which is regarded as mild pollution. Some recommended face masks with efficient filter materials and air purifiers.
Absolutely incredible. Health & Safety standards, with Chinese characteristics.Quote:
Originally Posted by euphonius
Another thing that is sad is that the "officials" believe that the general population is dumb enough to swallow ("breathe"?) this garbage policy. Yet, at the same time, the "officials" are partying all night long because Shanghai students scored the highest on the recent standardized international exams. I can almost hear the drunken conversations at the banquets/KTVs ... yeah, the population is smart, but it isn't THAT smart! We're still the smartest.
The kids all cheat rampantly, so how can Shanghai or anywhere else in China say they have done well in exams?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lao Jia Hou
It is probably about the results of the 2012 PISA - Program for International Student Assessment http://www.oecd.org/pisa/Quote:
Originally Posted by ZMC888The kids all cheat rampantly, so how can Shanghai or anywhere else in China say they have done well in exams?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lao Jia Hou
Now, here are my two coins:
Chinese students are always among the top performers, obviously because their teaching and learning methods are wholly based on memorizing (unfortunately not on understanding), which has a positive effect on the PISA evaluation methods.
I remember one case when I was still in the P R of C, when one of my sub-ordinates surprised me with the following:
We had to mark a perfect 90 degree angle on a huge concrete surface. A perfect example to apply the Pythagorean theorem along with its magic numbers (3,4,5 and its multiples). I got all the stuff ready (measuring tapes, nylon lines, marking spray, ...) and started my measurements and markings. When I was done one of the Chinese engineers asked me what I was doing. I explained it and when he saw the formula, they remembered about the Pt, but could not image how I could find the way to apply it in real life.
But that wasn't all. A Chinese colleague explained that they were told at school that foreigners don't learn about the Pt - wtf ...
So memorizing is how people learn in the middle kingdom and I believe it is because of the written language - no other way than memorizing all those characters.
Yup, that's the one! Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by chinabiker
I read somewhere that China requested that the PISA test scores for other Chinese cities not be published. Hmmmm ... Interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZMC888
So true, so true. And as you mentioned about getting them to apply their memories (e.g., Pt), not a chance. First time I taught Financial Math in China, the initial 10 weeks were spent going over all the various formulae. I found the classes painfully boring, but the students loved it. I'd give a quiz every second week, and I was shocked at how well they could remember all the formulae. On their final exam, I gave problem scenarios, asking students to apply the formulae I had wrongly assumed they had learned (they had to figure out which formula would be appropriate in each scenario, and apply it). More than 90% of the student failed the final exam, miserably. The remainder just barely passed, perhaps by sheer luck. They knew each individual formula, but could only apply it to the exact same scenario we used during the lectures. They couldn't make the jump from the scenario they had memorized, to a different scenario.Quote:
Originally Posted by chinabiker
Btw, that first semester was in Shanghai, but it was a long time ago. Perhaps things have changed.
Suck it up guys :icon10: ....
5 min ago at the other side of the straight, living the sunday morning ride as usual.
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Sunshine and breathable air! Are you sure this is China?
After a week of "blue sky days", while Shanghai was choking, things are back to normal in Beijing
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0900 Sunday morning (AQI was 487 last night). I would sigh, but I can't get enough air in my lungs.
LJH, interestingly the hundreds of blue sky days that are so frequent here in this part of the middle kingdoOm, have given way to uncharacteristic bad air pollution. Haze like I haven't seen since living in Shanghai nearly a decade ago. I thought I'd escaped that cr@p...
The numbers have been up in the 400's according to my wifes AQI app, so she and son have not been out of the house for several days. Yours truly on the other hand, have donned my RESPRO Mask with 'city' impregnated charcoal filter and kept on riding. Spent the whole day out riding Hengxi and DognQian Lake mountain ranges. Rode SiMing Shan Friday afternoon. Guess I'll have buy some more supplies of the filter elements.
I see today's AQI has improved somewhat and is now a more modest 'very unhealthy' level at 279µg/m3 in Ningbo city, meanwhile it's a more respectable 256µg/m3 here some 30km away from the city.
I was lucky enough to have a flight out on Friday morning, seeing this incredible curtain stretched till almost Xiamen.
It really starts me wondering (again) if there is any sensible reason to stay in this country.
If you think about it, it seems they made a full turn in China.
They had these exact same problems in the eighties when everything started, and simply lost the chance to solve it in the last 30 years while they made the bucks.
Yes, things improved, but there is hardly anything sustainable, and many things are detoriating by the day.
Now, with an economic bubble growing every day, with exports dwindling, with an internal market only existing in their dreams, and with so many other problems not taken care of, I doubt it will ever be solved.
It at least makes me close to pull the trigger, and leave for good.
Chinese food? Enjoying 5,000 years of history? :lol8: :lol8: :lol8:Quote:
Originally Posted by 998S
I hear ya. My commitment is until 2014, then it is time to become a B.A.S.T.A.R.D. (Beijing And Shanghai Trans-Asian Riders' Departure) and head for Europe, and beyond.Quote:
Originally Posted by 998S
Had to think of this thread when seeing this, so here you go:
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http://distractify.com/fun/fails/tes...-still-genius/