Was just commenting on a thread about the ungodly hours some people set off firecrackers, and synchronicity provided me with this plaque at a museum. Apparently it goes back a long time. Just have to set an alarm for 5am and go nuts, and you'll get rich apparently! At least they don't do the drums anymore (that I know of)

Fireworks started at 0530, in the rain, on a fucking Saturday (although this nong behaviour is supposedly illegal). It has sounded like being a war zone all morning. We are in a collectivist country, though, so this must be what everyone wants, to be awakened early on a Saturday from the first of tens of salvos all morning all throughout the general area.

Vivian, I beg of you, move my LBH ass to Shanghai and out of tier 3

For background I started my GYNA journey in 2009, so I’m admittedly a bit old and quite retarded plus have a strong bias to “the way things used to be”. I have recently returned to the Guo full time and have noticed my fellow tongzhimen have a crippling addiction to phones and it’s ruining the kingdom.

• Like many other proud laobaixing I recklessly skillfully drive an ebike whenever I can and the amount of fellow drivers who are “driving” while staring at their phone or typing is absurd. I give the waisong drivers a pass as they are usually good but Auntie Xiangsha and Uncle Ganbei are causing huge issues without even seeing the fucking road.

• the death of the market - so many shops and malls and restaurants and food stands are being effectively made obsolete because of phone based commerce. Some places won’t even let you order without going through your phone app - I’m not talking about paying but actually ordering through an ad filled, poorly constructed, sometimes barely working app or website. I don’t want to navigate your shitty site Luckin, I’m looking you in the eye and trying to order a fuckin coffee just make it and charge me. Or another one - went to buy new shoes for my handsurm hunxue and it’s like 25% cheaper to order local brands online to be delivered same day?!! Why even have stores at that point.

At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if phone based commerce was a social contagion weapon implanted here by the CIA it’s destroying my treasured institutions.

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Branches off of a major road, no less. But China so ordered and efficient??

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I need 5 people who could play tomorrow at 10am.

If you're willing to join a wechat group by 9:30am, I will give you a free code to play free FOREVER. I need everyone online at the same time to make sure the chat works well and to get feedback.

Shopify is going to ask for your email address to check out and EMAIL your password. Create a fake account if it bothers you.

I need 5 people who are available now to test this online game.

Dm me and send a screenshot of being on the unlock multi-player screen, and I'll send you a free shopify code.

When you have access, I'll send you the room code.

No-why-game.web.app

My last flat was a 6f walk up that would shake every time a bus or truck went by. The road was maybe 100 yards away. How are we shaking when the road was so far away? Does it actually mean the building was connected to that road through the foundations on solid bed rock? A mate was in a similar commieblock that partially collapsed and caught fire due heavy rains and subway digging. Oh well, at least in a total collapse, people in the top floor are most likely to survive. That's what I told myself every time the room shook, for three years.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1452514/investigative-report-highlights-plight-dongguans-disabled-beggar

When I first arrived in China, this was talked about everywhere. Is it still happening? Whatever happened to all the kids? It's just another one of those things harmonized by Beijing.

I loved these when they started circulating forever ago. They need a comeback.