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    shit you hate

    in supertrash

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    I know megauploads been gone for a while but all this anti-piracy has made finding old tv shows/music a nightmare and i hate it

    Fuck, especially music. It's horrible.

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    china :: shanghai :: general

    in superjetset

    Posted · Edited by LiberationFrequency

    Hope you'll still be reading this

    Bring something that'll help your digestion. My stomach got fucked by years of Bourbon and shit food and all sorts of crazy pharmaceuticals (most of them legal and prescribed - I have an anti-seizure med that causes seizures, ffs) Seriously, people will take you out to dinner. In fact, I've been here 5 days on this trip, 4 dinners, 3 lunches, my fridge is full of leftovers, and it is just absolutely crazy. I'm on a regular regimen of Pepto-Bismal and Folic Acid and also since I have weak lungs from being in an accident, coma, and ventilator for 2 weeks, I also have to Cipro the fuck out of my lungs and once a week I have to go in to breath pure oxygen or I just simply can't handle the air here, but that's kind of a unique case.

    I'm here 3 months out of the year, mostly for real estate and investments (I'm a Masters/Doctorate student in London in the fall and I otherwise split my time in San Diego, Boston, and Los Angeles) and I spent my time in the states losing weight so I can have some room to maneuver in in China.

    The thing about Shanghai or even Suzhou (where I live, own apartments, and do my evil underhanded shady dealings and whatnot) is that there are so many fucking dialects spoken all over - I'm fluent in Mandarin, Shanghainese, Suzhounese, Changshunese, Chinese Pidgin Shanghainese (sorta, it's dead, but that was my thesis topic), and I still get stumped. You throw in English in the mix, and a bit of Quebecois/French on my side, and it's a potpurri of fucked up languages. Beijing, you can get by with Mandarin and English. Shanghai, you can get by, obviously, but you'll be missing out on a lot if you don't learn some of the "dialects" - they're further apart from each other than Danish/Norwegian/Swedish or even Frisian/English in some cases. Fluency in a few years? Forget it. I took 4 serious years and really, a good part of my life (at least 7 or 8 years if you add it up) to learn three related dialects and now I can only do it with a heavy accent and can't handle some of the weirder jokes they do, and I took 2 years to research the pidgin, not even to speak it or anything. In contrast, I got the gist of Quebecois and can converse in French without much trouble except for my Quebecois accent in 4.5 years.

    My friends in the states all want t-shirts and the largest ones here fit my friend who's 6'3" and 190 barely. Good luck.

    Apologies for the year old reply, not sure if you'll still be reading this.

    In Beijing now, haven't really attempted any clothes shopping though I went to check out APC briefly after my current pair's crotch blew out. Ended up getting it fixed for next to nothing and they did a decent job too.

    Any Beijing sufuers out there interested in a meet?

    (sorry to hijack the Shanghai thread briefly)

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    Superawkward

    in supertrash

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    In an elevator in an office in Beijing, trying to drop my iphone down through my shirt so I don't have the wire flailing everywhere when I walk. It's packed, silent and i'm the only white guy in the lift so i'm already getting a couple of stares. Start up Palace - A$AP Rocky and as the phone drops the headphones disconnect. "UH...GODDAMN...HOW REAL IS THIS? I KNOW THEM HARLEM NIGGAS GON' BE FEELIN' THIS!" fills the elevator at full volume before I scramble to press pause and turn it off.

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