Why do English-challenged, betel-chewing, brandy-swilling Taiwanese buisnessmen in their 50’s or 60’s think they have their fingers on the pulse of Western youth culture to the point they can design products, packaging or marketing campaigns to appeal to those consumers?
Any why, when those campaigns and products fail miserably, are they so surprised?
Yes, and yes. It just doesn’t deliver much in the way of job satisfaction. Anyone remember job satisfaction? About the only time I get any of that is teaching people to fly.
I’ve found, well heard that Taiwanese women prefer to buy their laces, leathers, cruchlesses :shock: via the shopping channel, rather than buying in person on a busy road.
[quote=“amos”]I’ve found, well heard that Taiwanese women prefer to buy their laces, leathers, cruchlesses :shock: via the shopping channel, rather than buying in person on a busy road.
Why too so many Taiwanese men smoke?[/quote]
Smoking is not as denigrated in this society as it is in others. Also there is a Japanese influence over this society and Japanese men love smoking. Cigarettes are cheap and if you get some sort of serious lung ailment, health care is cheap and if you need some new lungs, the Communist Chinese will sell sell you the lungs of the one of the prisoners that they killed today or they will kill one especially for you. All of this organ trade opened up after WTO.
WHY is Taiwanese television news such a load of garbage. Here in the Middle Kingdom (Zhongguo) the news is dead boring, but obviously the media is strictly controlled by teh government. I don’t think Taiwan’s TV news is boring, but most if it is not really news. A collection of stories on petty crimes and some footage of half naked women does not make news in most countries.
Because people like to watch that shit and nothing can put Taiwanese off their food.
Here’s my question.
Why, oh why, don’t gas stations have compressed air so I can pump up my tires?
Thanks Jeff,
I know scooter stores do it for free, but I would much rather do stuff like that myself.
Us Kiwis pride ourselves on DIY know-how, and that frontier independence is especially strong in my family. My parents, 62, are actually in two-thirds through building a house.
The blokes here are pathetic - can’t change a flat tire or do anything practical. Back home I used to brew beer - now that’s DIY that I really miss. Actually, Taiwan Draft Beer tastes a lot like the Coopers lager I used to brew.
Uh…this came across as kind of a Moderator threat.
It’s not. Just a nudge to keep this thread from being a redundant Pet Peeves thing.
Trust me; I’m the ‘good cop’ here.
But if you cross me, I’ll set JeffG loose on ya.
Easy there Muffin! The topics that’ve been covered in this thread have nothing to do with pet peeves. Do you think suicide on tv is one of our pet peeves? The two topics are so completely not related.