[ot] Aglamians Assemble
Vigilante
DG
> Let's have a roll-call...sound off, people!
>
>
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Danny.
Vigilante
news:i5ein6$m2$1...@news.eternal-september.org...
> Op 29-8-2010 22:50, Vigilante schreef:
>> Let's have a roll-call...sound off, people!
>>
>>
> Here.
good work soldier
DG
>>> Let's have a roll-call...sound off, people!
>>>
>>>
>> Here.
>
> good work soldier
>
>
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Danny.
DG
>>> Let's have a roll-call...sound off, people!
>>>
>> Here.
>
>
> BARP!!!
>
Anything more specific is on need to know bases only.
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Danny.
DG
>>> Here is really too obscure? Where the hell is here?
>>>
>>> BARP!!!
>>>
>> Anything more specific is on need to know bases only.
>
>
> guessitsnotthateasyandidoesntactuallyneedstoknow
>
I didn't need to know that.
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Danny.
Rasmus Bøg Hansen
> Let's have a roll-call...sound off, people!
Hurg!
DG
>> Let's have a roll-call...sound off, people!
>
> Hurg!
Stop impersonating Pixel!!!
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Danny.
Daffy
> Let's have a roll-call...sound off, people!
>
>
DG
>>>>> BARP!!!
>>>>>
>>>> Anything more specific is on need to know bases only.
>>>
>>> arr!? arrrrr?? uhh...we needs to knoW!!
>>>
>>> guessitsnotthateasyandidoesntactuallyneedstoknow
>>>
>> I didn't need to know that.
>
>
> or are you so cold, so cold, are you so cold?
>
> *teleports his head into the Dune planet*
>
It *is* rather chilly here.
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Danny.
DG
>>> how can you deny teh knowledge of teh BARP??
>>>
>>> or are you so cold, so cold, are you so cold?
>>>
>>> *teleports his head into the Dune planet*
>>>
>> It *is* rather chilly here.
>
> there, I burst out in hysterical laughter!
>
> *bursts out in hysterical laughter*
Happy to oblige.
> what is it now, -5? but you're supposed to like it though. here in
> China they have the idea that foreigners like it cold at least
>
So the low temperatures there are a tourist trap? Attracting the frost loving
foreigners?
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Danny.
DG
>>> every time somebody from the Netherlands tells me it is rather chilly
>>> there, I burst out in hysterical laughter!
>>>
>>> *bursts out in hysterical laughter*
>>
>> Happy to oblige.
>
> that is completely unrelated. You know, I am watching television right
> now. Actually, my television is on 24h because I think doing so allows
> me to improve my listening skills as well as improve my knowledge of
> Chinese civilization. Anyway, right now there is a commercial (some
> sort of TelSell you can find on Dutch television at night) on the
> Hunan TV channel advertising copies of ancient scrolls of some emperor
> visiting some city, nice to hang on your wall. However, it is
> advertised by a woman in a Qipao accompanied by the Pirates of the
> Caribbean soundtrack. You know, from those quite enjoyable movies us
> Monkey Island fanatics ought to enjoy. Truth be told, the Pirates of
> the Caribbean soundtrack really is overused in China, just liked the
> Requiem for a Dream soundtrack was overused on YouTube before it
> become blocked. Anyway, blah!
Culture barbarians, that's what they are over there. Or more apt: culture
pirates! Taking state of the art American entertainment and reduce it to
background music for a cheongsam clad salesladhy pawning Chinese history
memorabilia instead of the much more valued Nascar commemorative plates. Some
great leader somewhere must be spinning in his grave at the poor state of the
revolution.
>>> what is it now, -5? but you're supposed to like it though. here in
>>> China they have the idea that foreigners like it cold at least
>>>
>> So the low temperatures there are a tourist trap? Attracting the frost loving
>> foreigners?
>
> Well, I think it is more of a personal thing that I actually enjoy
> temperatures that go way below -30 and even towards -40. But since I
> am one of the very few foreign people in the region, Chinese
> automatically assume that all foreigners are like me. Just like one
> day when I was on a 21-hour train trip from Beijing and was busy
> eating bread and drinking milk, when one Chinese guy just couldn't
> stop commenting how cute I looked eating bread and drinking milk and
> that surely all Western people would eat bread and drink milk all the
> time. It was almost as entertaining as all the women on the train who
> had seen me hug an ex-girlfriend on the station asking me about our
> sex life.
>
Maybe you should tell those ladies you only comment on your sex life to ladies
that are actually part of it. One needs to "join the club" first.
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Danny.
DG
>> Culture barbarians, that's what they are over there. Or more apt: culture
>> pirates! Taking state of the art American entertainment and reduce it to
>> background music for a cheongsam clad salesladhy pawning Chinese history
>> memorabilia instead of the much more valued Nascar commemorative plates. Some
>> great leader somewhere must be spinning in his grave at the poor state of the
>> revolution.
>
> ways to write the name of that Chinese dress! It's all Hànyǔ Pīnyīn
> these days, which has been an ISO standard for decades, so it is
> called qípáo! What you're doing is like talking in ISO 8859-1 when you
> can talk in UTF-8, or like how those Chinese write our prime minister's
> name as Mǎkè Lǚtè instead of Mark Rutte, or how some Dutch persist in
> writing Sjanghai rather than Shanghai! Meet the wrath of Chairman Mao!
We have a great leader called Mǎkè Lǚtè? How quaint. It must be the first time
we have someone of Chinese origins at the helm.
> Talking about Chairman Mao, it's quite entertaining to see farmers
> with nothing more than a sack of rice in their hands travel from their
> farmlands in the backwaters of China all the way to Beijing, get on
> the subway and go through security just to have a look at Mao's dead
> body. For some, it is the absolute highlight of their lives.
To be fair, there should be some McCarthy-style anti-commie-Americans that would
like to do the same, just to make sure he's dead. Can't picture them carrying
any produce though.
>> Maybe you should tell those ladies you only comment on your sex life to ladies
>> that are actually part of it. One needs to "join the club" first.
>
> You wouldn't be suggesting that if you'd knew what these ladies look
> like. They do not age well over here.
>
You should make them join Aglami. It all lady Aglamians seem to look quite a bit
younger than they should. Or they're very apt at photo shop.
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Danny.
DG
>>> You're one to talk about culture barbarians, using strange, antiquated
>>> ways to write the name of that Chinese dress! It's all Hànyǔ Pīnyīn
>>> these days, which has been an ISO standard for decades, so it is
>>> called qípáo! What you're doing is like talking in ISO 8859-1 when you
>>> can talk in UTF-8, or like how those Chinese write our prime minister's
>>> name as Mǎkè Lǚtè instead of Mark Rutte, or how some Dutch persist in
>>> writing Sjanghai rather than Shanghai! Meet the wrath of Chairman Mao!
>>
>> We have a great leader called Mǎkè Lǚtè? How quaint. It must be the first time
>> we have someone of Chinese origins at the helm.
>
> just like, well, Dennis Gerritszoon for one, for two, or for three.
I thought Dennis the Menace was a British and an American comic strip
character...
I think I'd fail my citizenship exam.
>> To be fair, there should be some McCarthy-style anti-commie-Americans that would
>> like to do the same, just to make sure he's dead. Can't picture them carrying
>> any produce though.
>
> Any produce apart from perfect steel bars would be fine. Have you ever
> heard of this story how communist local leaders used to fool the
> great, almighty and omnipotent Chinese dictator into believing the
> smitheries in the farm yards produced the same quality steel as
> British and Japanese industries, leaving the omnipotant swimming
> champion to wonder why them British needed these big ass factories to
> produce the same steel that a Chinese peasant could produce from
> confiscated watches, plows and other metal products?
Nope, but it fits perfectly in my perception of humanity. If there's a
system there's a flaw in it and a person that'll find and exploit it.
Here the system had incentive for local leaders to deceive and get
production quotas for steel. So some did just that. Do they now make
powdered milk in the same facilities?
>>> You wouldn't be suggesting that if you'd knew what these ladies look
>>> like. They do not age well over here.
>>>
>> You should make them join Aglami. It all lady Aglamians seem to look quite a bit
>> younger than they should. Or they're very apt at photo shop.
>
> Photoshop is that program that all Chinese here have on their
> computers. When somebody apt at actually using it needs to process
> photos of females in skanky clothing he has takes photos of in his
> basement in a desolate apartment complex, he will often times tell
> them to wait several days because he still needs to PS them photos.
>
So that's were you spend most your time in China then? Basements of
desolate apartment complexes?
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Danny.
DG
>>>> We have a great leader called Mǎkè Lǚtè? How quaint. It must be the first time
>>>> we have someone of Chinese origins at the helm.
>>>
>>> Don't you know Mǎkè Lǚtè is a quintessential Dutch name? Just like,
>>> just like, well, Dennis Gerritszoon for one, for two, or for three.
>>
>> I thought Dennis the Menace was a British and an American comic strip
>> character...
>>
>> I think I'd fail my citizenship exam.
>
> http://educatie.ntr.nl/nationaleinburgeringtest/online-test/
>
> And I got a score of 2,8. "Helaas, u bent niet 'ingeburgerd'." Now,
> officially I am registered as "geëmigreerd", since I haven't lived in
> the Netherlands for quite some years. I wonder what will happen when
> some political party decides to impose such a test upon returning
> citizens.
This is a very bad test. The questions are ambiguous and often the
answers don't make sense. For instance I don't have an 17 year old
daughter that's throwing a party nor am I buying a home. I only need to
know the answers to questions about that when I actually will have
those. Which will be never. This can't have anything to do with the real
inburgeringstest.
>> Nope, but it fits perfectly in my perception of humanity. If there's a
>> system there's a flaw in it and a person that'll find and exploit it.
>> Here the system had incentive for local leaders to deceive and get
>> production quotas for steel. So some did just that. Do they now make
>> powdered milk in the same facilities?
>
> Those facilities are just some brick houses with a bunch of farmers
> in them where they make pretty much anything. I've been told though
> not to be afraid of milk anymore. The real danger still is with those
> peasants with their hand carts selling meat.
Do they sometimes explode???
>>> Photoshop is that program that all Chinese here have on their
>>> computers. When somebody apt at actually using it needs to process
>>> photos of females in skanky clothing he has takes photos of in his
>>> basement in a desolate apartment complex, he will often times tell
>>> them to wait several days because he still needs to PS them photos.
>>>
>> So that's were you spend most your time in China then? Basements of
>> desolate apartment complexes?
>
> Hey, do I look like a Chinese male to you??
>
You look like someone with way too much interest in
inburgeringscursusen. Even Chinese ones.
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Danny.
Gusty
> Let's have a roll-call...sound off, people!
Sorry I'm a bit late. I've had a terible time…all sorts of things
cropping up at the last minute..
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D.
There is no manual for Earth marked 'Read Me First"
Rasmus Bøg Hansen
> On 2010-08-29 20:50:01 +0000, "Vigilante" <mi...@pyros.plus.com> said:
>
>> Let's have a roll-call...sound off, people!
>
> Sorry I'm a bit late. I've had a terible time…all sorts of things
> cropping up at the last minute..