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[meishijia]

Preserving this one

@QuaSaShao

@The_Ghost

Brilliant. It’s like chimps are running it.

Apparently you’ve never worked for a Taiwanese company.

[meishijia]

Preserving this one:

@banana_smoothie

I find myself lusting after them with such regularity that, by now, the images that flash through my mind would make a Rocco Sifredi video look like ‘softcore’.

[bdog]

I feel a little like Degrassi High - New Generation here, because I’m not familiar with a lot of the posters mentioned upthread. Anyway for as long as this newbie has been around, below are some completely off the cuff suggestions.

The following two posts had me in tears. @MalcolmReynolds post when he visited the hospital that time, and @KINGKONGDONK’s Street Fighter II car stage post about the tough guys that trashed that guy’s car recently.

@Brianjones probably needs to be represented here too, I’ll have to ponder on it.

There was @Fuzzy_Barbecue’s thread about citizenship too, crazy read!

I’ll try search them up tomorrow (on the clock).

[FenjaJie]

Shameless self-plug:

MoI changed the ID Number format

I had the displeasure of updating my ARC number at Taishin Bank in Taichung. Upon telling the clerk what I wanted to do I was met with a blank expression and almost visible questionmarks over her head. She then went on to hold a council with her co-workers to establish what she needed to do. I handed her my bank-book, ARC, passport and bank card. She then went on to compare the information in her PC with the documents handed to her. “Your ARC number in our PC is different from the on your ARC…

and

MoI changed the ID Number format

The second part of the tragedy: After my faustian pact did not come to pass, I thought I could use the time to apply for an U.S. Greencard, move to Washington, rent a place, work there for a bit, get a U.S. TIN and come back with the necessary information to get things going over here. According to my calculations, there was even enough time for a trip to the east coast. “No!”, I said to myself, “They would count that as a win. You’re a German. We’ve basically invented bureaucracy, know almost…

[meishijia]

@bdog

I’ll try search them up tomorrow (on the clock).

Looking forward to reading after you quote

[meishijia]

It’s weird how these old users were posting multiple times a day and then suddenly just dropped off the face of the earth. Seems there are hundreds of them. I wonder how many of them stopped posting because they died.

I bet many of them lost their account and had to make a new one. Hope I’m not breaking the rules by saying this but there is an old account I created in 2015 which I lost the password and email account to. That’s why I made meishijia when I came back to Taiwan in 2020.

[jimipresley]

@meishijia

It’s weird how these old users were posting multiple times a day and then suddenly just dropped off the face of the earth.

Well, it used to be a community. We all used to meet up; knew each other irl. We’d have drinks together. Go to each other’s homes for dinner. Now it’s just Taiwan Twitter.

[the_bear]

@meishijia

. I wonder how many of them stopped posting because they died.

Jesus.

In truth very very few. People stop posting because they find something better to do. I’d guess quite a few cop a ban or get into a big flame up and can’t be bothered coming back.

[meishijia]

@jimipresley

Can’t you just be like a normal person and eat your snot and fingernails?

[meishijia]

@superking

@therainmaker

the school principal told me to learn the culture since I’m in the ROC.

The correct response is, “Taiwan has culture?” Then look him in the eye and spit binlang juice on his shoes.

[KHHville]

@the_bear

@meishijia

. I wonder how many of them stopped posting because they died.

Jesus.

In truth very very few. People stop posting because they find something better to do. I’d guess quite a few cop a ban or get into a big flame up and can’t be bothered coming back.

or they start that other unnamed site that has since been taken off the web

[meishijia]

@KHHville

or they start that other unnamed site that has since been taken off the web

what site was that?

[superking]

@meishijia

I wonder how many of them stopped posting because they died.

Another opportunity to leave a comment about our good friend Alan Parkes (Shiadoa). Wherever he is in the universe now there will be a fast car, plenty of champers and good times being had by all. Miss you, buddy.

Quite a few older posters are now on Facebook, still acting like patronising arseholes, in certain cases.

[the_bear]

Ah Fred Smith

[the_bear]

Or even that other other parody site

[superking]

@the_bear

Ah Fred Smith

Truly the Bacchanalians Bacchanalian.

[meishijia]

@llary

‘Mei ban fa’. Fair enough, f*** you all and your f***ing ban fa. I need a stiff drink.

[meishijia]

Wholesome content

@tom1807

I got turned down with the reason: Only foreigner who speak fluent chinese are allowed to open a second account. WTF.

[meishijia]

Sad but should be preserved

@loser

After I asked the beautiful girl I met in the coffee shop to marry me, she had a heart attack — 3 months before we got married.

Another in a church in Taipei.

She’d ironically gone into pray about the first heart attack,

While she lay on her back in the church pew I told her “I love you no matter what” and “I will take you to America and get you good doctors”.

I did.

At this point,

Some readers might say I should stop asking girls to marry me.

Other readers might say the solution is to not go back to that church …. and I should join their (dues paying) congregation

My wife has an inherited condition. The heart specialist has done everything they can. Daughter doesn’t have the condition. I wanted another baby but my wife was not enthusiastic about expecting lightning to strike twice. My wife has an internal defibrillator.

Whether I want to or not I will need to look for a wife again