Flyberius 2 days ago • 100%
I can't get angry at this one.
Flyberius 2 days ago • 100%
I mean, I do rinse after washing ,and my dad who taught me did and I know my aunt and cousins and sister do. But then I do remember telling one housemate off for not doing it. It was a stoner house though, so even doing the dishes was a bit of a miracle.
Flyberius 2 days ago • 100%
It's perfectly named
Flyberius 2 days ago • 100%
I see that my constant nagging down the pub is slowly having an effect
Flyberius 4 days ago • 100%
That's one of the cute things about China. Everywhere you go you see people getting photoshoots in their traditional dress. Each place is different
Flyberius 4 days ago • 100%
Let them come.
Flyberius 4 days ago • 100%
It was great. Cost about 4 dollars I reckon. Also came with a cabbage broth. Extremely filling
Flyberius 4 days ago • 100%
It's me. I'm the white.
Flyberius 4 days ago • 100%
It always suggests me the same WhatsApp contacts I have never spoken too and a couple of group chats that are ancient. I seem to remember it working a long time ago
Flyberius 4 days ago • 100%
Indeed. I hear that noodles are free and that you are forced to only pay for toppings. On multiple occasions Chinese people from all over the country have told me that the people of Xinjiang are living in conditions described as "the most beautiful in China".
Truly I feel for them.
It's all a bit hectic, but it's fun just chatting with people, swapping food and smoking cigs on the platforms when the train stops every now and then. The idea of being on a train for two days is just so fricking cool My digs, my dinner and my desert: ::: spoiler CW Meat & Bleach Demon ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/c939e951-b5c5-4029-b9bc-52dbf55deddd.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/42f10182-e049-4c61-ae9c-6ab0b4d3e724.jpeg) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/675ac722-f528-4c54-a7dc-3e6ed7f967a2.jpeg) :::
Flyberius 5 days ago • 100%
Really good work. Rewards you for looking
Flyberius 5 days ago • 100%
I'd like to seize his means
Flyberius 5 days ago • 100%
They'll be so pleased to know that 50 years later we have in fact saved the Earth, and definitely not accelerated the destruction
Flyberius 5 days ago • 100%
Oh thank goodness. Crisis averted.
Flyberius 5 days ago • 100%
Gaisen
GAISEN
Something something, something something
Gaisen
It slaps
Flyberius 6 days ago • 100%
Before I packed up to go travelling China I resolved to give away all my books to charity (barring a very select few that went to friends for safe keeping).
Asides from it being absolute murder to move them, they acted as a really good history of how I've changed as a person. A lot of liberal bullshit books amongst what a gave away that I was genuinely upset to be giving to anyone. I should have burned them
Flyberius 6 days ago • 100%
Honestly that would be a great comeback if you saw this in the wild.
Or, "I notice you're not a patriot."
Edit: "You're gay AND you hate America!?"
Flyberius 6 days ago • 100%
Physical books are great. But moving them is an absolute nightmare.
Flyberius 6 days ago • 100%
I just find the thumbnails and titles so gross. Every other day it's "we levelled half the Amazon rainforest and turned the area into an LCD screen" with Linus or one of his minions soy facing. How many times can you rinse and repeat this formula?
It's all slop, and surprise surprise, the captain of the slop factory is a greedy criminal bastard.
Flyberius 6 days ago • 100%
I just find the thumbnails and titles so gross. Every other day it's "we levelled half the Amazon rainforest and turned the area into an LCD screen" with Linus or one of his minions soy facing. How many times can you rinse and repeat this formula?
It's all slop, and surprise surprise, the captain of the slop factory is a greedy criminal bastard.
Flyberius 7 days ago • 100%
You see, if they'd included Kalinka I'd agree
Flyberius 7 days ago • 85%
Call me when they start assassinating people within US borders with drones
Flyberius 7 days ago • 100%
I never claimed to be a smart person.
And yeah, July in central China was unlike anything I've ever experienced. I genuinely believe I've sweated more in the last two months than in the rest of my life combined.
Flyberius 7 days ago • 100%
I mean he had a fricking war train with everyone wearing Jodorowsky style red leather uniforms. Guy should get credit for enabling that at the very least
Flyberius 7 days ago • 100%
Oh I'm glad he's taken up boxing...
I mean, it could be good as an outlet, provided he ends up around the right people.
Flyberius 7 days ago • 100%
I'm sadly nowhere near my laptop but we need an emoji of this NOW!!!
Flyberius 7 days ago • 100%
When did I miss jeans?
Flyberius 7 days ago • 66%
Ants did 9/11?!
Flyberius 1 week ago • 100%
I've been out here two and a half months now and it really do be like that. Prosperity everywhere.
Next week it's Xinjiang baby! Every Chinese person I've mentioned it too gets really excited. They consider it the most beautiful part of China and the food there is meant to be e excellent. They are quite upset about the western narrative about the "genocide" and very pleased to hear that I don't buy it at all. That has won me a lot of free drinks and cigarettes.
Flyberius 1 week ago • 100%
Every year it would either be part of the first class to cover your new textbooks in something, or out would be part of the homework assignment
Flyberius 1 week ago • 96%
Proceeds to not cry at the US levelling whole towns in Afghanistan.
I fucking hate this slop
Flyberius 1 week ago • 100%
It says some funny shit on their site asking the lines that they can't give it accreditations but that they are seeking alternative ways of getting their courses recognised by businesses.
Flyberius 1 week ago • 100%
Maybe it involves using countermeasures and jamming or something. I don't know. Either way it sounded like it was just made up
Flyberius 1 week ago • 100%
Back when I payed Eve I liked how different sectors of space had different hues. I had some good times in that game, even though I was a very small fish.
Flyberius 1 week ago • 100%
Shit band, shit music. They are like the Coldplay of the US
Flyberius 1 week ago • 95%
I'm pretty sure the effects of inbreeding have always been well known.
Sorry to ackshully, the joke was funny
Flyberius 1 week ago • 100%
Right
Flyberius 1 week ago • 100%
Right about what exactly?
Flyberius 1 week ago • 66%
I'm all for taking the piss out of it, casually.
There's the odd things that, with the best will in the world, I'm having a trouble buying on the Chinese high street. What Chinese app (Amazon like) do I need to use to get something delivered to a hotel in China?
They have to be stopped
It comes in an sorts of varieties, from sweet, to fairly bland, but it's so much better than what I'm used to in the UK. Normally I'd never drink the stuff straight, but here it is a different thing altogether, and I'm actually picking it over beer some of the time. It goes great with youtiao (油条), which is a sort of light fried batter stick that you dunk in a bowl of soy milk, sweetened to your taste. Anyway, just thought I'd enlighten anyone who didn't already know. ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/ca3efdef-2b57-4a55-baab-0df7e4369c00.jpeg)
There was some sort of anime themed dance off in the mall and the participants were all drawing on this massive fabric wall. Was very happy to see this. The Chinese youth are alright.
I apparently have £400 of Google ad credits. What would be a fun advert to run? Edit: beanis?
Anyone else have the issue when using jerboa that when they try to change input language (by holding the space button) the selection menu just flashes up and then disappears? Somewhat annoying.
It was all over the place in Chongqing, but then I entered a Bei Bing Yang desert and was without for weeks. I'm now in Xingyi and I've finally found it again. Very refreshing, fizzy orange drink with orange bits in. Lovely.
This has allowed me to create some truly incredible ad-lib songs that I sing to my girlfriend on a daily basis, and in no way has her questioning my sanity or her taste in men. I would share them with you but I feel it is an exercise for the reader to make their own.
Regardless, I waltzed into a China mobile shop and not only did they just give me sim card, they even let me pick my phone number. Sadly there were none with 1701 in, which would have been awesome. The lies I've heard about this country are just stacked one atop another. Next step is to open a Chinese bank account because apparently I'm not allowed to do that either.
Throughout my travels I've been taking pictures of my friends sleeping and editing them using the WhatsApp pencil to create a comic strip. This has worked really well, and I even made a stylus out a pen, a cue tip and some foil. However I feel I've reached the limit of what the WhatsApp pencil can offer me. Can anyone recommend a simple doodling app that will let me import a photo and then draw over it. Ideally I'd want the ability to have layers and and to cut and paste. Obviously an assortment of brushes would be fun too. I have the app sketchbook, but it's a little too advanced for my needs and frustratingly also lacks some very simple features (such as deleting/copying selections). Thank you comrades.
I'm seeing some real time, grade-A consent manufacturing regarding this massive crowdstrike outage. Every article I see blames Microsoft. I have no love for Microsoft, but they were not to blame. The people who are too blame are crowdstrike, the software company who deployed the broken update that caused the outage. \* Puts on immaculately thought out tinfoil hat * Crowdstrike is more a piece of US surveillance tech than it is an actual security suite. In essence it can take any data from a device it is installed on and can execute any command on those devices (due to the way the software very tightly integrated with the windows operating system, bypassing security on the OS). A powerful tool when you consider that the US government can subpoena any us corporation to hand over the information they hold. Now, crowdstrike had a huge market share, but you can bet that after this event people are going to be less willing to use it, and this will result in the US losing a huge part of its surveillance network. People don't care what security suite they use, so long as it works, so people are going to switch. Cue the absolute deluge of articles I've been seeing blaming this on Microsoft. An operating system so ingrained into the business world that no-one is going to switch to an alternative, no matter how much they fuck up. They can take the heat and mitigate the damage to crowdstrike. Thus preserving the US state surveillance appetatus. \* Tin foil hat removed and placed back into its extremely well thought out box * What do people think?
Based on the Chinese nursery rhyme Two Tigers. Sung to the tune of Frére Jacque. 两位总统。 两位总统。 非常老。 非常老。 一位没有耳朵。 一位没有好脑。 很奇怪。 很奇怪。
Specifically I'm unable to change my keyboard input language when in the app, emojis don't always work, and there is no way to use hexbear emojis in app. If there is an app or there that solves these issues I'm all for it
I love her so much. I have to give her back on Sunday. Pls no. 😭
You might call it a poonis.
The weather has been even shitter than usual in the UK this spring. Normally we'd have had a few decent days by now, but it's just been cold, windy and overcast after our unsettlingly mild winter. Anyway, it's amazing how much a bit of sun picks up my mood. The sun is out today and the world seems slightly less shit. The birds are singing and I'm seeing insects flitting about. The sun is good for mental health.
Friend just made me aware of this ongoing shittery in the UK. Ongoing demonstration in London at the moment. I said I would spread the word. Pretty sure this is straight up illegal. ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/edc9c76d-11d6-41b7-9e90-c902db2c739e.png) ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/8c829ddb-baa9-4c01-8292-bb0c5bfe3ed9.png)
Feel free to whip this one out if you get any of that "Winnie the pooh is banned" nonsense from a propagandised westerner. Also remind them that it is racist. I've got another one somewhere if a giant Winnie the Pooh stuffed toy in a tea house, but I'll be damned if I can find it right now
Doris is the dog. Mr Fitz is the cat. Mr Fitz is nearly 18 and shows no sign of slowing down. Sadly Doris has some sort of liver failure and is on steroids to give her some pain-free months of life before my sister has to let her go. For Doris this means lots of cheese rinds and other treats.
A friend of mine is compiling a list of Islamophobic dog-whistles that the company she works for needs to keep an eye out for on their socials. I said I would throw the net out and see what I can find out. A bit of a weird request I know, but I would like to think it will do some good.
When browsing on the web I am routinely subjected to the badly cut out hexbear logo on the community bar. It is vile, it is offensive, and I have had enough. ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/e1f9b021-a66f-4095-a35e-3fbb7da78252.png) I have decided to fix it. Whoever has the power, can they please replace that dirty image with this slightly trimmed version. ![](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/cc2f4b3d-20f1-40dc-a428-52e1ac0f43de.png) Good day. Edit: it does actually have a few other scaling issues so I might make a newer one at some point
To be used sincerely or ironically. When something is just incredibly fascinating... and modern. First deployed in this thread. https://hexbear.net/post/281121
I'm leaning towards yes, because despite their inclusivity and the general feel-good vibes of the stories, the characters themselves flirt with police brutality quite a bit, and who knows exactly what they get up to in their lives outside the novels. Any more nuanced views from my fellow hexbearians (and lemmings)? I'm slightly less articulate than Detritus on a hot day, and I wonder how much the politics and views of Terry Pratchett comes up in leftist discourse.
Hi all, I've been learning Mandarin for just over 6 months but I am having trouble with my listening comprehension. Does anyone have any good resources for listening practice? I am looking for HSK 1/2 level stuff. I basically just need to immerse myself in as much content as I possibly can until all this vocab and grammar starts to cement itself in my brain. I already use Hello Chinese and a few other apps. Ideally I would just be looking for quick fire phrases and conversations that I can listen along to. Youtube has some stuff but the quality is always a bit up and down. Thanks