- Pollution
- Chou Dofu
- Garbage truck songs
- The me-first, fuck-you attitude
- The general lack of common sense
- Cha bu duo, ma fan
- the pollution
- the noise
- the bewildering, complicated mess that garbage disposal has become - and that includes the annoying music the trucks play
a. A lazy approach to hygiene and sanitation , especially with regards to food preparation.
b. Faulty driving habits.
c. A lack of individualistic initiative when faced with new or unknown situations.
a. Obliviousness
b. Cheap & ugly cityscape
c. the ‘food’
- A politician whose former professor visited and then disparaged.
- Cold weather in winter.
- Slow internet at home.
- Politicians and other dishonest people who think crying on TV is enough to receive absolution for their crimes/sins
- Local TV, especially the news channels
- Local engineers, especially the ones who don’t know a scooter needs OIL as well as PETROL
- Litterbugs
- Bad drivers (including scooter drivers who think they have the right of way on sidewalks)
- Waishengren/Benshengren rivalry
- The shitpaper in the bin next to the toilet
- Shoeprints on the toilet seat
- Female colleagues who get a day off because they are “uncomfortable”
Three things I dislike about Taiwan:
- Ugly rural towns
- Ugly urban centres
- It 's ability to make foreigners crazy enough to publish dislike lists
- Hubris and/or glorification of ignorance
- Obliviousness to others
- Stinginess and dirtiness (tie-in)
This applies to Panchiao, because I know there are places where these conditions don’t exist or are at acceptable levels:
- There’s a little too much pollution for me.
- There’s a little too much noise for me.
- It’s a little too crowded for me.
Still, I’ve benefited from living in Panchiao.
Well I have more then 3 , but ok just 3 for now
- Earthquakes
- Its cold in winter in north taiwan cuz homes are not heated
- Noise pollution
- The Confucian silliness about respecting old men
- The lack of bins in public places
- Garbage truck music
[quote=“Charlie Jack”]This applies to Panchiao (Banqiao), because I know there are places where these conditions don’t exist or are at acceptable levels:
- There’s a little too much pollution for me.
- There’s a little too much noise for me.
- It’s a little too crowded for me.
Still, I’ve benefited from living in Panchiao (Banqiao).[/quote]
I agree with you wholeheartedly, Taiwan has places that these don’t apply to although it is very hard to find a place near work and not expensive that doesn’t have all these three issues. It’s okay for a few years but gets tired after a while.
My random 3 for the sake of it
- Decreasing salaries and opportunities for Taiwanese and foreigners
- Lack of ability to hold social conversations (not only Taiwanese of course)
- Crap English being spoken to me just because of my white face
[quote=“Anubis”]1. The shitpaper in the bin next to the toilet
2. Shoeprints on the toilet seat
3. Female colleagues who get a day off because they are “uncomfortable”[/quote]
you must contemplate your bathroom trips for much of the day.
1-(tie) obliviousness, and “I am the center of the universe hence I will whatever the hell I want when I want be it in a car, on foot, on a bike or a scooter or just the way I look at you.”
2-(tie) obliviousness, and “I have great difficulty walking in a straight line hence I will walk directly into you no matter how big the hallway or sidewalk, same goes with when I drive a car, I pay no attention to the lines on the road.”
3- The Taiwanese language. Take your galigongs and your gam gams and jam them up your non-adogah ass.
sorry to those of you sympathetic to the cause but hearing that language just grates my nerves.
- Pollution
- Me-ism (and it’s manifestation in things like traffic)
- Language Vampires
- treatment of animals
- the idea that being a brainless xiaojie is somehow endearing or is something you want to show the world
- face
Im surprised at all the garbage truck music hate. Whenever I hear it a small part of my brain says ‘ICE CREAM MAN! ICE CREAM MAN!’. Back home the ice cream trucks use that same poxy music to advertise their wares.
- Traffic - This includes ‘Me-ism’ in general but it becomes more terrifying when it’s controlling a couple tonne of steel and glass
- Earthquakes - I still have nightmares about being buried under a huge mountain of rubble and crap. I don’t sleep well in skyscrapers like the one I’m living in now…
- Being immediately associated with the huge pack of 20-something, horny, irresponsible douchebags that flock here each year just because im a ‘big nose’.
(I’m a 30-something, horny, irresponsible douchebag thank you very much)
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The fact that the place steals the best years of your life and leaves you a burnt-out alcoholic wreck (or is that ESL? ).
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The local nipples aren’t up to western standard.
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Canadians.