Taiwan then and now

Taiwan Living in Taiwan
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You got your old avvie back, sweet :+1:

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Dutch? He canā€™t complain if heā€™s from a country famous for flooding the market with processed plastic textured cheese.

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If we go far enough back ā€¦ we get to the 80s

Where they ran dogs over for fun and only some international hotels had decent food and it took the whole day to go anywhere

And US soldiers still roamed the brothels

No idea what Iā€™m blabbing about but itā€™s sure fun anyway

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Yah. Never mind all the shite fucking paintā€¦

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Surprisingly, thatā€™s largely accurate.

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Good to know. This is bookedmarked for when the Flob gets that blog post up. Great info here.

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:-1:

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Except @Kavalanā€™s speculation about US soldiers roaming around Taiwan. They were gone in the late 1970s after Carter switched diplomatic recognition to Beijing.

Guy

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Close enough. You canā€™t expect someone with a rug like that to get all the dates right. :sunglasses:

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A couple of horn dogs hung around or came back for visits no?

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In the 1980s US soldiers would not have been carousing in Taiwan. They would have been doing their thing (such as it is) in Okinawa, South Korea, mainland Japan, Guam, the Philippines, etc etc etc.

If any forumosans are interested in learning more about this situation and the proliferation of US military bases around the world, check out the late Chalmers Johnsonā€™s extraordinary book The Sorrows of Empire. Itā€™s well worth reading.

Guy

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Who were the SOBs in Combat Zone in the 80s?

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I think youā€™re taking this thing way too literally. :grin:

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The 1980s were a crazy time in Taiwan. Thereā€™s no need to add fictional characters for extra effect!

Guy

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Well something fishy was going on alright

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There were only 758 US soldiers here in 1978 :sweat_smile:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/11/07/us-trims-military-forces-on-taiwan-by-half-in-a-year/48fe4a2e-abc5-4d23-9d25-3c6d167dd668/

Hey what can I say. Even geniuses like me make mistakes once in a while

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Thatā€™s enough to impregnate an entire population, male and female.

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Is Taiwanease still around? Their blog and forums seem to be down and they havenā€™t upated their facebook page since June. Just wondering if anyone knows for sure

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Illegal cable that was put up by some gangsters.

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And those were happier times. We met friends in public spaces. Homes were social areas. We looked around