Mike Oxlong wrote:
I still remember the day the news broke Bon Scott had died, one of my mates' kid brother wore a black arm band to school and refused to take it off, he was about 13.
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Mike Oxlong wrote:
legion wrote:Mike Oxlong wrote:
I still remember the day the news broke Bon Scott had died, one of my mates' kid brother wore a black arm band to school and refused to take it off, he was about 13.
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:
(Incidentally, I believe Bon is the bogan word for God)
A Life-Size Replica Of The Titanic Is Under Construction In China's Countryside
NPR | January 8, 2018
This year, The Titanic II will finally set its sail. The Titanic II will almost be an exact replica of the original - and people are already jumping at the chance for a ticket.
The mayor of Venice has voiced outrage over the €1,100 (£970; $1,347) bill that four Japanese tourists say they had to pay for four steaks, a plate of fried fish, water and service.
The four students complained to police after getting the eye-watering bill at a restaurant near St Mark's Square.
Three women with them chose another restaurant - but even they ended up paying €350 for three plates of seafood pasta, Italian media report.
Italian media did not name the restaurant, but said it was owned by a Chinese woman and run by an Egyptian.
According to Mr Gasparinetti, only 1.1% of restaurants in that part of Venice are owned by locals, and the figure is 50% in the historic centre as a whole.
Takechanpoo wrote:The mayor of Venice has voiced outrage over the €1,100 (£970; $1,347) bill that four[youtube][/youtube] Japanese tourists say they had to pay for four steaks, a plate of fried fish, water and service.
The four students complained to police after getting the eye-watering bill at a restaurant near St Mark's Square.
Three women with them chose another restaurant - but even they ended up paying €350 for three plates of seafood pasta, Italian media report.
Italian media did not name the restaurant, but said it was owned by a Chinese woman and run by an Egyptian.
According to Mr Gasparinetti, only 1.1% of restaurants in that part of Venice are owned by locals, and the figure is 50% in the historic centre as a whole.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42 ... e=facebook
Taro Toporific wrote:Shenanigans, Chinanigans...
A Chinese developer building an exact replica of the Titanic in the Sichuan countryside, a thousand miles from the sea...A Life-Size Replica Of The Titanic Is Under Construction In China's Countryside
NPR | January 8, 2018
wuchan wrote:The owner must have studied in Kabukicho.
A Chinese media posted an article noting that Japan's assistance to China from 1979 to 2010,
saying, "Japan had been providing huge support to China for more than 30 years, We did not know it at all. "
According to MOFA, Until 2013, Japan provided about 3.31 trillion yen for grant aid (ODA loan), 157.2 billion yen for grant aid,
181.7 billion yen for technical cooperation, about 3 trillion yen or more for total development assistance to China (ODA) that has been provided
The article pointed out that most of Chinese do not know Japan's "large-scale support" to China, and China Pudong Airport located in Shanghai and the capital city international airport in Beijing were both constructed under the aid from Japan.
In addition to that, airports such as Lanzhou, Wuhan, Xi'an also said that they received assistance from Japan as well.
The death toll from the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre was at least 10,000 people, killed by a Chinese army unit whose troops were likened to “primitives”, a secret British diplomatic cable alleged.
The newly declassified document, written little more than 24 hours after the massacre, gives a much higher death toll than the most commonly used estimates which only go up to about 3,000.
It also provides horrific detail of the massacre, alleging that wounded female students were bayoneted as they begged for their lives, human remains were “hosed down the drains”, and a mother was shot as she tried to go to the aid of her injured three-year-old daughter.
Written on 5 June 1989 by Sir Alan Donald, the then-British ambassador to China, the hitherto secret cable has now been placed in the UK National Archives at Kew, where it was found by the news website HK01.
....The final sentence of Sir Alan’s cable reads: “Minimum estimate of civilian dead 10,000.”
According to Chinese scholars in Shanghai, in which a “comfort station” was established in the Japanese concession already in 1932, the real number of “comfort women” may have been as high as 360,000 to 400,000.
Grumpy Gramps wrote:Back in the 1960ies, we would also "reserve" a parking space like that
Nice people, these yanks, to give up on that place under these circumstance.
Grumpy Gramps wrote:Back in the 1960ies, we would also "reserve" a parking space like that
Nice people, these yanks, to give up on that place under these circumstance.
Ah, true, these modern cars don't have the bumpers of the olden days, where you could just drive the ladies out of that space. I always tend to forget, how flimsy modern cars are. Crumple zonesmatsuki wrote:Teamwork fail. They had two people, one to push that cunt out of the way while the other pulled into the space.
A proposed name for a Palo Alto middle school has stirred up controversy for its evocation of Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese commander-in-chief who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor and remains reviled by many from China, Korea andsoutheast Asia
Fred Yamamoto, who was not related to the admiral, was a Palo Alto High School graduate who was held in Japanese internment camps during World War II. He later enlisted in the military and died in combat.
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“A week ago I did not know that Yamamoto was a loaded name for Chinese and Korean residents. Now I am hearing from many people that Yamamoto is close to Hitler for some communities,” petitioner Sabra Chartrand wrote. “You could name the schools Zuckerberg, and in 50 years he may be despised for destroying privacy. Please choose a place or nature name.”.
AIPEI (Taiwan News) -- A British man was savagely beaten by nearly a dozen Chinese men in a small city in Cambodia when they discovered he had "Taiwan" tattooed on his forehead and he refused to recognize their claim that the country is part of China.
While on vacation in Cambodia, a British ex-pat who has lived in Taiwan for 14 years and goes by the name "Paul," at around 11 p.m. on Saturday evening (May 27) took a seat at a bar in Sihanoukville Square in the coastal Cambodian city of Sihanoukville. When he ordered a drink and took off his hat, a large group of Chinese men sitting nearby, who he believed to be overseas workers, noticed that the traditional Chinese characters for "Taiwan" (臺灣) were tattooed on his forehead.
One of the Chinese men then shouted in Mandarin "Taiwan, China! In response, Paul retorted "Taiwan, Taiwan!" Paul says that they then "went insane, grabbed poles and started attacking me."
Takechanpoo wrote:AIPEI (Taiwan News) -- A British man was savagely beaten by nearly a dozen Chinese men in a small city in Cambodia when they discovered he had "Taiwan" tattooed on his forehead and he refused to recognize their claim that the country is part of China.
While on vacation in Cambodia, a British ex-pat who has lived in Taiwan for 14 years and goes by the name "Paul," at around 11 p.m. on Saturday evening (May 27) took a seat at a bar in Sihanoukville Square in the coastal Cambodian city of Sihanoukville. When he ordered a drink and took off his hat, a large group of Chinese men sitting nearby, who he believed to be overseas workers, noticed that the traditional Chinese characters for "Taiwan" (臺灣) were tattooed on his forehead.
One of the Chinese men then shouted in Mandarin "Taiwan, China! In response, Paul retorted "Taiwan, Taiwan!" Paul says that they then "went insane, grabbed poles and started attacking me."
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3441614
In 2015, the expat firebombed a corner shop with a Molotov cocktail following a row with workers over a hamburger.
jingai wrote:That guy is the ultimate FG (apologies to our Mr. Ultimate). When not getting beaten by Chinese nationalists he...In 2015, the expat firebombed a corner shop with a Molotov cocktail following a row with workers over a hamburger.
https://metro.co.uk/2017/10/24/british- ... g-7023094/
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