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I'm familiar with the drinking culture in Asia having lived in Japan and the Philippines back in the '70s..I guess I would not last today.. I stopped drinking in January 2003.

Originally Posted by bd popeye

I'm familiar with the drinking culture in Asia having lived in Japan and the Philippines back in the '70s..I guess I would not last today.. I stopped drinking in January 2003.

Good choice. It is bad for your liver and kidneys.

Originally Posted by bd popeye

I'm familiar with the drinking culture in Asia having lived in Japan and the Philippines back in the '70s..I guess I would not last today.. I stopped drinking in January 2003.

Good choice. It is bad for your liver and kidneys.

Originally Posted by siegecrossbow

Good choice. It is bad for your liver and kidneys.

That's right..plus it interferes with my medications for high blood pressure.

This picture is for your friend and mine equation..gotta luv that LA Lakers jersey!

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SHANGHAI, CHINA - AUGUST 29: (CHINA OUT) American basketball player Dwight Howard of Los Angeles Lakers attends Adidas commercial event at Luwan Gymnasium on August 29, 2012 in Shanghai, China

Photo taken on Aug. 29, 2012 shows the wreckage of "Yuejiangchengyu" No. 91105 on Jeju island of South Korea. Eighteen Chinese fishermen have been rescued, eight are confirmed dead and seven are still unaccounted for after a powerful typhoon sank their fishing boats in South Korean waters early Tuesday morning. (Xinhua/Yao Qilin)

People try to lift a taxi from a 3-meter-deep pit in a road in Handan, north China's Hebei Province. The road collapsed suddenly this morning and swallowed the passing car. The taxi driver and a passenger have been sent to a hospital for examination while an investigation is going on to find the cause of the cave-in. [Photo/Xinhua]

Originally Posted by bd popeye

That's right..plus it interferes with my medications for high blood pressure.

This picture is for your friend and mine equation..gotta luv that LA Lakers jersey!

LOL...damn you..gotta rub it in didn't ya?

Originally Posted by bd popeye

Man hate to see such a nice fishing boat get stranded like that...oh well at least the crew were saved.

Those are some mighty big pot holes.

Are those sink holes caused by nature?

Originally Posted by bd popeye

This is disgusting. We rarely hear this from Western countries, but it happens all the time in China. It is a direct reflection of the country's corruption and lack of supervision of its government. Everyone involved or even not involved in the road projects are skimming off it. By the time the money reach the contractors, there's not much left. Sometimes even the contractors themselves skim off the project. Hence there's no money for materials and labour hours to build these things according to blue print. It is also the same reason why so many innocent children died in the Wenchuan Earthquake. Almost none of the government buildings collapsed, because government officials made sure themselves are safe in the office they sit-in everyday. But it's different for kids, they died by direct cause of government officials' corruption of construction funds.

This is saddening and what's even more disgusting is people in China are becoming accustomed to this phenomenon, thinking corruption is a norm.

Originally Posted by Vini_Vidi_Vici

This is disgusting. We rarely hear this from Western countries, but it happens all the time in China. It is a direct reflection of the country's corruption and lack of supervision of its government. Everyone involved or even not involved in the road projects are skimming off it. By the time the money reach the contractors, there's not much left. Sometimes even the contractors themselves skim off the project. Hence there's no money for materials and labour hours to build these things according to blue print. It is also the same reason why so many innocent children died in the Wenchuan Earthquake. Almost none of the government buildings collapsed, because government officials made sure themselves are safe in the office they sit-in everyday. But it's different for kids, they died by direct cause of government officials' corruption of construction funds.

This is saddening and what's even more disgusting is people in China are becoming accustomed to this phenomenon, thinking corruption is a norm.

You don't hear about it in western countries because most are censored unless they are too big to be covered up like Katrina and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
What's saddening and what's even more disgusting is most corruptions are legalized in the west so westerners don't even know that they are robbed blind and brainwashed to think their rulers are clean.

What's saddening and what's even more disgusting is most corruptions are legalized in the west so westerners don't even know that they are robbed blind and brainwashed to think their rulers are clean.

Didn't know I was brainwashed.. jeez..

Photo taken on Aug. 30, 2012 shows the Three Gorges Hotel (L) and the passenger terminal of Chongqing Port (R) being toppled in explosions in Chongqing, southwest China. The 32-storeyed landmark passenger terminal and the hotel, which face the city's Chaotianmen Square, were demolished by directional blasting on Thursday. A new building with complex functions of transportation hub, tourism, trade and business will be built as an improving project of Chaotianmen area. (Xinhua/Li Jian)

Working staff check the collapsed dike on the Yellow River in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu province, Aug. 30, 2012. A 100-meter section of a dike on the Yellow River collapsed Wednesday evening, severing water pipes and affecting the availability of tap water. No casualties have been reported. Repair work on the pipes is under way. (Xinhua/Zhang Meng)

A local fireman helps rescue trapped residents after a rain-triggered flood in Hongxing Village of Xiangfang District in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 29, 2012. About 100 residents in Hongxing Village had been trapped by flood caused by downpours on Wednesday. Local firemen have transferred all the trapped residents to safe places by Wednesday night. (Xinhua/Xiao Jinbiao)

Rescuers carry an injured miner to an ambulance after a coal mine explosion in Xiaojiawan Coal Mine in Panzhihua City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 30, 2012. The death toll in a gas explosion that occurred Wednesday afternoon at the coal mine has climbed to 19 and 28 others remain missing. A total of 154 miners were working underground at the Xiaojiawan Coal Mine when the blast occurred. (Xinhua)

Rescuers are on standby at the entrance to Xiaojiawan Coal Mine in Panzhihua City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 30, 2012. The death toll in the gas explosion that occurred Wednesday afternoon at the coal mine has climbed to 19 and 28 others remain missing. A total of 154 miners were working underground at the Xiaojiawan Coal Mine when the blast occurred. (Xinhua)

A crane lifts a taxi from a 3-meter-deep pit in a road in Handan, north China's Hebei Province. The road collapsed suddenly this morning and swallowed the passing car. The taxi driver and a passenger have been sent to a hospital for examination while an investigation is going on to find the cause of the cave-in. [Photo/Xinhua]

30 August 2012, China Zun Zhongguo building: tallest skyscraper to be built in Beijing is to be built in Beijing's CBD area. [Photo/People.com]

Singer Jolin Tsai promotes new song with actress Ariel Lin, who stars in the MV of Tsai's new song, in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, Aug. 29, 2012.

A child cries from a stomachache at the Weinan City Maternal and Child Health Hospital in Shaanxi province on Tuesday night. Children in a local kindergarten suffered vomiting and stomachaches after eating lunch on Tuesday. Zhao Lei / for China Daily

Paramilitary policemen jump up above their fellow policemen's arms as they take part in a psychological training in Tongling, Anhui province August 28, 2012. REUTERS/China Daily

Originally Posted by Vini_Vidi_Vici

This is disgusting. We rarely hear this from Western countries, but it happens all the time in China. It is a direct reflection of the country's corruption and lack of supervision of its government. Everyone involved or even not involved in the road projects are skimming off it. By the time the money reach the contractors, there's not much left. Sometimes even the contractors themselves skim off the project. Hence there's no money for materials and labour hours to build these things according to blue print. It is also the same reason why so many innocent children died in the Wenchuan Earthquake. Almost none of the government buildings collapsed, because government officials made sure themselves are safe in the office they sit-in everyday. But it's different for kids, they died by direct cause of government officials' corruption of construction funds.

This is saddening and what's even more disgusting is people in China are becoming accustomed to this phenomenon, thinking corruption is a norm.

LOL...that giant pot hole you see there is due to the lowering of the underground water level. When the cavity space between the surface of the water and the soil increase it causes the collapse of the top soil. So the engineers and construction workers were working on that road project most likely didn't realize the severity of the underground water level until the heavy rain came and reveal the weaknesses of the soil to support the concentrated load of the concrete road.

All society practices brainwashing, in fact nationalism is a form of a pimped up Stockholm syndrome, patriotism itself is nothing but pimped up bigotry. In order to achieve this, extensive media PR or (Public Relations/Propaganda) have to be used.

Difference is that one society that does not realize this and often criticize the other society for this, while they themselves is undergoing the same process.

Ok guys I understand all of your points of view..however they are way off topic and political. So let's move on.

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