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Op 23-4-2011 19:45, ervaqre schreef:
>>> 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.
>
> 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.

>> 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?

-- 
Danny.