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English is one of the official languages of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and you can easily live your entire life there without speaking a word of Chinese. If you were going to learn Chinese to fit in there you would want to learn Cantonese, not Mandarin. Getting work on the mainland ...

Isn't Switzerland the country where getting citizenship/residency requires literally the entire town/county you settled in to unanimously vote to let you have it?

Hong Kong permanent residency is supposed to be automatic after seven years if you can find work there. Alternatively, the mainland still needs ESL teachers.

I ended up chatting with an old Chinese woman who was picking her granddaughter up after school yesterday. She commented that I look like I'm an Uyghur and mimed cowering in fear.

They actually had a zombie apocalypse episode of My Little Pony.

And in totally unrelated news, the Baton Rouge police just murdered a black guy.

Facebook's trending stories sidebar was weaving a fucking narrative yesterday morning.

Did you know that you can be charged with flag desecration in Louisiana for burning a Confederate flag?

I have now read Craig Schaefer's entire catalog. Kindle Unlimited is a wonderful thing. In some ways I think I actually like his straight fantasy series more than his two urban fantasy series. I really should have tried it sooner.

And in more important news, the crazy woman elected in Taiwan province has doubled down on her lunatic policy of separatism and provocation by not admitting that Taiwan is an inseparable part of China. The government has cut off all communication with her illegal regime as a result. When she was fir...

The English oppressed my ancestors so I'm glad that they're going to collectively suffer as their economy slides into the toilet as a result of this. As a bonus, it means that Scotland and possibly even Bad Ireland will get their independence from the UK after all. Which is also good. Kind of sucks ...

It's now a hate crime for black people to kill cops in Lousiana.

It's good that they closed that loophole.

I started watching Sfdebris's reviews of Deep Space Nine. They're pretty good. I should have gotten into the habit of watching him sooner.

Am I remembering right that he's a member of/started from SD.net?

I finally found a complete season 5 sound track!

How To Search A Hotel Room For Clues I pretended I owned the place, asked for extra towels, and gave the nice lady a sizable tip— oh, and I ordered plentiful room service— all charged to Room 2417. High-end crab, shoestring fries, and a couple cervezas. It took the edge off. …I spent most of the ti...

I think Obama is going to spoil the ending to Game of Thrones.

Oh god fucking damn it. Manatees are no longer endangered in the United States.

God I fucking hate environmentalist traitors. One more bunch of big stupid mammals we were so close to ridding the earth of.

I feel like my penis is smaller now.

Oh hey. Finally a really good Trixie episode.

I'm slowly but surely making progress on Chuck Norris: Ace Reporter

I visited my relatives in Texas this weekend. My cousin's ten year old told me her friends tease her for watching My Little Pony "because it's for little babies."

I guess some problems are universal.

Crazedwraith wrote:I wouldn't say the superman was faithful either. I just cant remember Linkara's nickname for him...

Superman had his problems, but I enjoyed it because it was still recognizably Superman vs Deranged Murderous Frank Miller Batman

Yes. All-Star Batman and Robin

Finally, a live-action Crazy Steve vs Superman movie.

F.J. Prefect, Esq wrote:I got it and like, it looks good, it plays well, the concept is half decent and executed well, but after an hour and a half I'm bored out of my skull.

I wish I'd bought Disgaea 5 instead.

Man, that series is still ongoing?

On the stand, Hogan claimed his sexual boasts and inconvenient public statements fell under the umbrella of his “artistic liberty” as an actor. He can be untruthful when in character, he admitted cheerfully, and he is in character whenever he leaves his home. That split personality was revealed at ...

My father is an oil rig supervisor and he's been worried a lot about his job lately. Though he says he's more likely to take a heavy pay cut than get fired.