Great Ogre Dictator
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I thought it was Goliath who looked like Keanu Reaves... Does that mean that Eomer secretly writes long walls of text?You look like Keanu Reaves?
Small Story - Yet Enraging (graffiti in egypt)
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Big Phoenix
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Last time I was down in Luxor I went to the Valley of the Queens and some dumbass local woman actually reached out and rubbed 2 of her fingers down one of the brighter painted walls and then did the rubbing-those-fingers-with-her-thumb thing to see if any of the colour had come off on her fingers.... Un-bleeping-believable!
(Fortunately nothing had come off, but who knows if skin oil will do something down the road. )
Eomer
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Maybe it just has special significance to me because my first night in Japan a few years back we went to some bizarre little bar in Nagano where the bartender was dressed up as Jack Sparrow, and the first thing out of his mouth when we walked in was to point at my friend and say "KEANU REEVES?" That was about the extent of his English. I just about fucking died laughing, no one else (including the bartender) could understand what was so goddamn funny.
AladainAF
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Not a chance. Society today, across the world, is all about them. Everything is about "them". So who cares about some 3,500 year old sculpture? Afterall, it's all about "them", so they should have every right to do it right?
I'm sure this 15 year old kid, honestly, still has no remorse for what he did.
On a side note, the idea with the western names is that unlike our expectations where we try to coddle non-english speakers and make it acceptable for them to speak spanish or whatnot all day and be successful here (which you generally wont be), the Chinese recognize that in order to be successful they have to integrate. That's why they are very eager to learn English, and pick a name that is easier by western standards. Usually, this name is picked as early as their start of college. My wife picked hers her first year of college. They don't waste time and sit on their asses waiting for "us" to meet their standards. They meet ours. And generally, they are successful.
Also, most girls in China are fucking crazy with their demands. My wife is nothing like that though. That's more of a standard of what they call the "90s generation".
TrollfaceDeux
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Hong Kong landers also bitch about mainland Chinese who are coming over to get free shit and act all uncivilized.
Alex
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I don't think this is unique to kids today. You just sound like an old person.
Szlia
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I always assumed that the main motivator was to have a name that would not be constantly mispronounced and/or forgotten by western interlocutors. I guess that motivation falls into the 'trying to integrate' category though, but with a 'let's not even hope that these retards will ever learn' vibe rather than a 'I shall conform to the norms for great success' vibe.
AladainAF
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Not to worry, I doubt it was on your itinerary. It wasn't a tourist destination or anything. It was a single, unexcavated mound in a field.
Gavinmad
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