#Business as a Foreigner
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glryb2gd · 3 months ago
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fuckyeahchinesefashion · 15 days ago
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OP: Check out. The fully-sexual charged cinematic movement design.
Cnetizens: How did the director come up with the idea to have him kneel on a playing card, adding so much aesthetic energy, is that some kind of genius?
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#china#cdramas#dramas#lmao#They are siblings and they're discussing serious matters#this scene is actually rather heavy because the younger brother is involved in drug trafficking#carrying more than 50 grams of heroin will result in a death sentence in china let alone being involved in drug trafficking#the older brother is a gangster king#but even he doesn't dare to get involved in the drug business because it will bring about the demise of his family#sorry for digression I mean how did the director make this scene which has absolutely nothing to do with sex#so sexually charged?#btw there're many posts with rich information about China's crackdown on drug crimes on xhs and douyin#especially about how the four major drug-trafficking families in Myanmar were wiped out overnight#they buried undercover Chinese counter-narcotics police alive and kidnapped and brutally excuted civilians#so if you're interested you can go with the key words 缅甸四大家族覆灭 on xhs and douyin#cnetizens' views on drugs are related to modern Chinese history#the first chapter of modern history in high school textbooks is the opium wars#There's a very dark joke on xhs about which country in the world would least like China to withdraw from the P5#and the answer is the UK#because it's in the first chapter of China's modern history#the Destruction of opium at Humen in 1839#no offence but Breaking Bad can't last for more than one episode if it happens in china because of the sewer detection technology#they can detect the tiniest amount of drugs in feces in a body of water the size of a lake for up to six months#which can be quickly locked down to neighbourhoods and portals#Once a foreigner was caught smuggling and selling 222.035 kg drugs in China and sentenced to death with two other Chinese associates#his country's prime minister asked for his extradition#cnetizens commented that there was an opium war and he still dare to come to China to sell drugs be like 找死court death#All the above information is to explain the gangster king's attitude towards his brother's drug business
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fake-married-my-dead-fiance · 8 months ago
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Me, when someone in a Kdrama speaks English, even if they do it with a perfect American/Canadian/English accent: What is this language and what in the world did they say? goes back immediately to re-listen if there aren't English subtitles
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fishyfishyfishtimes · 3 months ago
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Did the fungi of the land during the Ordovician period get excited when the first plants started colonising the beaches? Did they get excited about the prospect of having an all new trade partner? Did they immediately welcome their alien friends with water and nutrients? Did the plants make the first move in the relationship? Were the plants glad to find that there was already someone there, to greet them? How did they make it work?
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canisalbus · 10 months ago
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it wasn't quite a dream, but more a rambling thought as i was falling asleep, but, was a cardinal like Machete ever asked to officiate weddings? I dont even know if thats a thing cardinals would be asked to do, much less had the personal for that kind of thing, but imagine being asked by a major political hardcore catholic family to do so and only accepting because you know your secret boyfriend is also attending as a political figure and you get to almost secret pretend its your twos wedding
I'm actually not sure, I've never thought about it. He'd definitely have the full rights to officiate weddings, you don't lose the eligibility to perform sacraments when you get elevated from an ordinary priest to a bishop and then a cardinal. But I think once you get into these high positions you kind of grow out of the priestly role and spend less time doing ground-level work. I imagine that weddings of important nobles and royalty were likely presided over by bishops and cardinals.
The scenario is endearing so I choose to believe that it could've happened.
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thistransient · 8 months ago
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紅樹林站附近 // near Hongshulin Station
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theodysseyofhomer · 6 months ago
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pisses you off by reading lots of greek drama and loving medea the most in every translation
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clove-pinks · 4 months ago
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A First World War propaganda piece by Harry Payne, showing a ghostly array of soldiers surrounding a sleeping man with the caption, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO GUARD THE HOMES OF ENGLAND?"
It's not unusual to see war propaganda drawing on the military glory of past generations. What makes this weird is that the artist was well-known for illustrating historical military scenes, and yet he chose to depict so many Victorian era British soldiers from after the Napoleonic Wars.
Buddy, I don't think the guy from the Anglo-Afghan War is guarding the homes of England, or the guy who put down the Indian Rebellion in 1857. The Crimean War guy is not guarding anyone's home, the guy from the Third Anglo-Burmese War is not helping you etc etc.
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rotteneldritchhorror · 3 months ago
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Barry knows Italian and Spanish and finds learning languages fascinating, especially learning true slang
Rafe I think would rather die than listen to someone try to teach him more than a couple words cause he finds it so boring and pointless.
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augmentedpolls · 4 months ago
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mintcarus · 6 months ago
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Revalink Week Day 3: Foreign
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veerbles · 8 months ago
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always fascinated by people's different takes on the language barrier between kaz and the ghafas.
I think my personal opinion is that kerch, being the language of the center of commerce and an overall neutral party in the war, is kind of like english - in that it's an internationally spoken language, but certainly not by everyone. considering jesper spoke it well enough to go to university in ketterdam, even though he was a farm boy, it must be pretty widespread. matthias didn't speak it until hellsgate, but he also grew up very sheltered.
inej didn't speak kerch when she was taken, so it's reasonable to assume her parents didn't either. but maybe they spoke a little of it, like in some countryside places in europe? or maybe they learnt in their efforts to find her? or perhaps they focused their efforts inside ravka, and never learnt a word of it.
it's always suspicious to me that kaz never bothered picking up ravkan, being the strategic businessman that he is. I think he wouldn't hide that ability during the ice court/van eck mission if he had it, so either he can speak very little, or not at all; if not at all, it supports the assumption that kerch is the international business language, which is why he never bothered picking up a second language.
so would the ghafas learn enough kerch to communicate? I don't doubt that using inej as a translator would frustrate kaz to no end; words are his strongest weapon, so he'd definitely put effort into being able to communicate with them. but would he learn suli? or ravkan? suli would be a more personal gesture, which he'd see as a leverage to get the ghafas to like him. ravkan would be more useful in other ways, and we know how much kaz likes having more than one reason to do something.
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clotpolesonly · 1 year ago
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i wonder what kind of money laundering scheme the Lynches had set up, cuz ain't nobody nowhere believed that that cattle farm would make them multi millions of dollars
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bingobongobonko · 25 days ago
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just saw something so infuriating i felt a vessel burst in my skull. i hate white people so much. please lord can you have any compassion for anyone outside of your race or from a different country? thank you thank you thank you?
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jenna-louise-jamie · 8 months ago
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it's extremely funny to think about when ben met alex again after brecon beacons. like 'oh hey it's that kid again. i'm gonna follow him around and see what he's up to. oh the kid is trying to spy on me now. i'm gonna threaten him with a gun. sike! lol got you cub.'
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godblooded · 2 months ago
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the little kid i work with escaped the ukraine two years ago. my family immigrated in the 50s/60s to escape the turkish occupation in my papou’s village in greece. and it is both immensely heartbreaking and also insanely healing to help someone the way my grandparents weren’t helped when they got to this country.
#ooc. o kaptain.#[my grandfather didn’t go to school. ever. because he spoke no English. he couldn’t read it. and the enl services were… definitely not about#to help a Greek man who only spoke Greek in the age without the internet at all. my yiayia was a brilliant woman. she could’ve easily owned#a business. she was a phenomenal seamstress with such an insane talent for practicality and logic. she was so left brained. my papou was#such a creative with a tendency for logic. he was practical but always the one who was sillier. they eventually spoke very good English#actually. my papou always sort of had an accent (Greek accents feel like home to me) and my yiayia always did. they were incredible people.#and every single day i think about how much MORE opportunity they would’ve both had had they been born under the permitting circumstances.#my yiayia only had a 5th grade education and that incensed my grandfather. getting to take care of and help a kid who otherwise wouldn’t#have someone care THIS MUCH. especially a kid who’s foreign. i look up words in Russian and she tells me how she says them. i teach her#words in Greek because she likes the way they sound. i just wish my grandparents had been given the same opportunity. just the ability to#have someone in front of either of them and was like ‘hey i know it’s tough and scary but im here and i get it’. I’m not working#this week because i have so much to take care of. but just thinking out loud. i love my job. but more than anything this particular#opportunity has been everything to me.]
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