bobepine, I’ve read the post already and I’ll add it to the Classic Posts page. Thank you for the recommendation
Look out for it in a few hours - I must prepare for my meeting with Maoman and still have a full schedule ahead today. Cheers, g.
bob
February 26, 2006, 10:26am
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Wow am I a freaking airhead! You and maoman are basically moderating the blog already. In honour of my lastest brain fart I recommend the following as a classic post.
forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopi … highlight=
It doesn’t really get rolling till about page two or so but when it does… well, even then it is kind of scattered, but I like it anywho.
Here’s one from bismark, other posters nominated the post and I agree.
forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.ph … &&start=30
While I’m here, this one is also a classic IMO(Actually three posts in this thread are classics but they could be linked together in the blog as they are in the same thread.)
[i]Sorry to put up a long personal story, but this time of year is a very special one because of how close I came to losing my life 12 years ago at the age of 14. I felt like finally sharing my experience with others after a long silence.
I’m not sure if it should have gone into health or temporary so I put it here to get sorted where others see it fit. It’s a little graphic, I guess, but bear with me.[/i]
This will be the first entry in a series of three parts of what happened to me 12 years…
And this one from trapjaw is without a doubt a classic.
WARNING: pretty pointless, very tonue-in-cheek post ahead.
What kinds of drivers/vehicles do you regularly notice on the streets of Taiwan? Here are a few I seem to see with regularity (in no particular order):
Average Taiwanese Scooter rider.
Boring, usually slightly dirty scooters, usually break a few traffic rules, do what everyone else in the currently moving pack does, never indicates or checks mirrors before executing manoeuver. Usually travels at the speed limit.
The Family Wagon
B…
bobepine
I second the nomination for bismarck’s post.
maoman
March 18, 2006, 3:14am
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Thanks, bobepine. I’ll try to archive them tonight or tomorrow!
I nominate this one from Tash:
You want cranky? (I’m premenstrual today. Watch out!)
I’m usually the last person on this forum to say “:roll: This subject has been discussed ad nauseam!” or “Do a search, newbie!”, because we were all new here once, for one, and also, we all need to let off steam every now and then.
But, now I really feel the need to say this: This story is getting so old, guys. What do you want to achieve by posting this way about Taiwanese girls? Are you really looking for advice or are you just ranting?
I…
:beatnik:
I nominate Miltownkid’s post from
Lockem’ All Up
(how do you link directly to a specific post if it’s no the first one?)
Thanks DB!
Click the small white page document to the left of the “Posted: date/time/ Post subject:”; that will refresh the page but at the same time change the address in your browser to contain the specific post link.
tash
April 13, 2006, 6:59am
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I nominate this post by jdsmith in the category of “the most romantic thing one poster has said to another without any ultirior motive or intention to shag” :
forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.ph … 46&start=0
jdsmith:
You can’t leave.
All the plants will die.
I’ve joined the elite.
All of a sudden the grey skys outside look a little bluer today.
In honor of the local media this post/thread has attracted, I nominate the same for Classic Post/thread designation.
Quirky has nominated 4nr’s post on Ray Cline, CIA and Taiwan History for classic status. I concur. It’s just the sort of thing I like to see posted in Culture and History and on Forumosa in general.
I nominate the Canadians thread and this post by Mod Lang in particular for the classics!
The thing is, Monster, is that every person from every country, feels exactly the same way as you do about your country. We are all proud of our culture, our home, our heritage. Even Luxembourgians feel proud of their country, silly as that may sound to everybody else in the world. The place I come from, the American South, is a totally fucked up place, full of ignorant rednecks and poverty and racism. But out of all that pain that is the Southern experience, a lot of people took something positive out of that pain and anger, and created some of the greatest music and literature the world has ever known, from Faulkner to Elvis, not to mention guys like MLK. It’s a place that is about as polar opposite as Canada as you could find in English-speaking North America. I’m proud of my roots, but I’d have to as ignorant as a pig rolling around in shit to ignore all the many negative aspects of the place where I hail from. As much as you hate being stereotyped and reviled for being Canadian, imagine what it must be like to be where I come from and having to endure all the “Deliverance” and “Beverly Hillbillies” and “KKK” shit. But you know what? That’s water off a duck’s back. Because I’m a white American, and I know that I’ve never had to endure 10% of the crap that my friends that are black have to endure daily, and not just in the racist fuckhole of mainstream Taiwanese society. My point is, let it go. Everybody “gets it”. As an American, I get it all the time from Euroracists. Who cares what bigots think of you? The South Africans get it worse than the Canadians, in Taiwan, from what I can see. People with black skin get it worse than anybody…count your blessings.
And if anyone starts talking shit about Canadians, the best response is to say, “I’m sorry, I don’t talk to bigots,” and walk away. That’s more effective and mature than giving in to temptation and smashing your fist in their face.
Read bob’s post on page 1 of this thread: forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.ph … c&&start=0
Why? Go read it for yourself. You have to read Monster’s posts as well to be in context. If you ask me both Monster and bob wrote classics in that thread.
I would like for bob’s post especially to be classicisticated because it was his idea, this Classic Posts thing and because he writes a lot of classics as far as my personal preferences go.
Cheers!
bobepine
Flashed by avatars - #60 by Ironman nominate this post by Ironman for Classic Post status.
:bravo:
I’d love to see this thread reach classic status:
forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.ph … c&&start=0
Joesox
July 2, 2006, 6:08am
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I nominate this one by Citizen K, on the topic of “Letting Go”.
forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopi … 060#573060