Some Formosa escapees and myself had a meeting of the minds this weekend.
We’ve decided that the English on-line communities in the Big Lychee suck. Forumosa is far superior, which is why we still post here. Also, spending too much time in Taiwan has warped our fragile little minds and left a permanent mark on us. Clearly there is a part of us that is unable to move on. However, we also have some needs with regards to our new and decidedly inferior home. :help:
I think that we should add a HKG section for Forumosa. As time goes on, the number of escapees will only increase and I can tell you, it is an underserved market. It will also enhane the quality of your vacations to mouschwitz , I mean HKG Disneyland :mickey: and your visa runs.
[quote=“Elegua”]Some Formosa escapees and myself had a meeting of the minds this weekend.
We’ve decided that the English on-line communities in the Big Lychee suck. Forumosa is far superior, which is why we still post here. Also, spending too much time in Taiwan has warped our fragile little minds and left a permanent mark on us. Clearly there is a part of us that is unable to move on. However, we also have some needs with regards to our new and decidedly inferior home. :help:
I think that we should add a HKG section for Forumosa. As time goes on, the number of escapees will only increase and I can tell you, it is an underserved market. It will also enhane the quality of your vacations to mouschwitz , I mean HKG Disneyland :mickey: and your visa runs.
Think of it as succeeding where CKS failed.
How about it? [/quote]
Would you promise to hold a Forumosa Happy Hour and send us pictures?
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that I’m interested in such a move - I live in Shanghai. But we do have a process of creating new forums that involves “demonstrated interest” - ie. identifying 30 or more starter threads to move to the proposed forum, nominating a moderator for it. The other way to start a forum is to convince us (well, Maoman) that there is a need for this kind of section - like the Legal forums, which do not get as much new traffic or have as many postings as other forums.
I do think organzing happy hours would be a winner, though
Well, the inaugural HK Forumosa Happy Hour was held at very short notice on Friday night at 1/5th before rocking on down to the depths of Wanchai in the later hours. Fantastic time! Great to finally meet some far flung brethren. But pics? Not on your Nellie! You’ll just have to trust us on this Goose Egg.
Our next happy hour will be more broadly advertised, which will hopefully allow time for the central committee to organise some proper Pingtung betel nut so we can gallee gong with the requisite red spittle. Frankly those Hainan nuts you can pick up in Zhuhai just don’t cut the mustard.
Yes. The first inaugural happy hour was a smashing success.
I would hazard that arranging happy hours for the Forumosan diaspora would be a great pleasure, an honor even. However, moderating a forum would be another question. Pissing contest over why some posts got floundered are distinctly uninteresting. Any forum for Honkietown would need to follow the capitalist, free market, open city concept that this city espouses, but fails so miserably to implement.
At this juncture, there may not be enough for just a HKG only (though I may be wrong), but there is a growing diaspora with a need.
China is part of Formosa … and Taipei is the Capital of Formosa, so it’s the capital of China … therefore it’s time to implement the change and add Macau, HK Shanghai, Beijing to our threads …
Perhaps a forum title for issues related to life in HK, Macau or the mainland should be “Life in Communist Controlled Territories” or “Living in yet to be liberated regions.”
I’d like to create this forum today. It’ll be called “Greater Forumosa”, but we can always change the name later. Anyone interested in moderating this forum, please send me a PM. Thanks.
[quote=“Maoman”]I’d like to create this forum today. It’ll be called “Greater Forumosa”, but we can always change the name later. Anyone interested in moderating this forum, please send me a PM. Thanks.
Anthony[/quote]
I’d like to nominate that guy in the teaching forum that lives in South Korea. He has a well-balanced, informed approach, great interpersonal skills, a mature debating style, and would be able to strike a great balance between how great Taiwan is and the interests of the wider community.
Doesn’t that Goose Egg guy live outside Taiwan now? Maybe he could do it? His only other job is moderating the temp forum, and he needs more work.
