And don’t forget the Mormons holding up traffic at red lights trying to get new recruits.
I just found this. Thanks dude. 
You made me smile. I am probably making reparations to Taiwan for some pretty constant bashing which I gave it while I was there. Upon reflection I understand now that I was never going to actually do anything about the things I saw around me which I personally felt were wrong and which by turn annoyed me because I couldn’t/wouldn’t do anything about them. Now I am back in the UK I can honestly say that although I do notice the odd weird thing (like the over abundance of Big Issue sellers or how you can’t walk down the highstreet without someone trying to con you into giving a charity a standing order) they don’t really bother me, and that if you do bring them up people generally look at you like what’s up your arse buddy, there is still footy and beer and women in the world isn’t there? Maybe there is just no need to notice irregularities or sources of annoyance for too long because they don’t actually have any impact upon me. Or maybe it is that nobody really likes to get into a conversation with a whiner unless they too are one. Maybe it’s just about being some place that isn’t exactly what you are used to. My Italian flatmate came home ranting about, “Fcking England this and Fcking England that,” because the price of spectacles was exorbitantly high in the shop he went in to. I took him down spec savers and he got 2 pairs for half the price, but for a moment there the issue for him was “F*cking England,” and not Gah, I don’t know something simple like how to find cheap glasses. A whole nation had to take responsibility for his lack of knowledge. I dunno, it’s obviously not a clear cut issue, but still, it’s probably more to do with the individual not being able to operate to their own satisfaction within the environment than something being fundamentally wrong with the environment itself. Even the education system in Taiwan, as flipped as it seems, is probably proportionally as flipped as the UK education system is. Apparently we are now paying bad pupils to stay away during inspections. D’oh.
Equally I suspect that whilst I was in Taiwan if someone had taken the time to point out to me: Hey you have no real reason to be noticing these things and doing so serves you no positive purpose, I probably would have ignored them too.
As we were.
Illegal or asshats that complain about the greener grass on the other side.
Ah, the good old Mormons. How can we forget them? They impress the locals with their odd amount of Chinese bible knowledge. I couldn’t imagine reading anything more painful than the bible in Chinese, 阿門
Yep. I’ve tried, and it’s weird. Somehow, it just doesn’t feel “right”.
Think of yourself as a Chinese peasant and God as your emporer & teacher. Now you should have the correct mix of fear, blind obedience and adulation to get through the book.
Things people do in Taiwan because of a lack of law enforcement.
- Straws
- Vape and vape stores
- Fake products like airpods and designer bags
- Prostitution
- removing wall from apartment without consulting structural engineer
Seriously?
Speeding, dangerous driving in general, not using their seat belts on a bus, urinating in the street, not following employment laws in general, racist and generally xenophobic behaviour, not stopping for pedestrians on crosswalks.
Plastic straws are supposedly banned in Taiwan.
Burger King uses paper straws.
Throw toxic stuff into the street gutter
Paper straw has plastic in it too.
No, they are not. They are quasi regulated. At best. It would be great if stupid shit was banned, but it ain’t
I made a joke with some Taiwanese that rules are optional here because of all the people on the road who don’t stop at red lights, or who can’t even stop at the stop line. Cars driving into the scooter box etc. They didn’t get it at all… tough crowd.