Wack Things in Taiwan 2026

You speak Indonesian?

There are two mid twenties blokes in the one near me, they are pretty fluent in English, Mandarin and I would suspect Indonesian. They get a bit confused when I ask for things like lentils that they use a different word for.

Struggling to understand what exactly the issue is here.

-The staff are locals, Indonesians or ???.

-“They pointed at the price”, did you ask what the price was when it was clearly labelled and they pointed to it or ???

-“We are both foriegners(sic)”, seemingly from different countries with different native languages, what is the point you’re trying to make?

-“Chances are I have been here longer than her!”, completely lost on this point.

-“I gave her a very unimpressed stare
I will consider saying something !”, like what? Why didn’t you say something this time?

The point was another foriegner(an indonesian) was trying to mog me as if they can speak chinese and I cannot understand it, even though I’d wager ive been here longer.

I was joking. She meant no harm.

But still it does happen sometimes, its usually vietnamese that do it though.

Some people not putting their weights back at the gym? Okay, just ban all “foreign workers” after 6pm instead of just warning or banning the people not putting their weights back. They deleted their post and then said that while not all foreign workers break the rules, most do. But it’s okay, they can still come before 6pm!

I see people leaving their weights all over all the time at the gym I go to and probably 99% of the people there are locals
I think it’s just a common gym problem everywhere in the world
just let people know and if people keep leaving stuff everywhere just warn them or kick them out


I saw this elsewhere on the internet but “Formosa News” decided to add some South East Asian flags to the post, so if you’re a worker from Cambodia your fine.

I’ve seen east Asian maids at the gym like a couple times.. hardly worth complaining about compared to all the other annoying stuff I see in the gym which makes me want to fire bomb a family mart.

How do you know she speaks Chinese? :thinking:

Learn Indonesian, go back and show her you are not to be trifled with

Bahasa is one of the world’s easiest languages to learn, boss.

How did i know she could speak chinese? Because she was speaking chinese.

Crazy stuff i know.

Good enough! I didn’t get that on the first read, sounded like she was just avoiding speaking, as people often do that when they understand a bit but not enough to feel comfortable vocalizing.

Wack in a good way. I moved to new house almost one year ago. The mailman I knew at my old place forwarded to me an important letter from Social Security office (the letter to verify I am still alive). Originally he said they forwarded letters for six months
which I thought was very good
but for him to help forward a letter a year later is good wack. Well, my wife and I did give him a fruit gift when we left
we had a good relationship with him.

Meanwhile, is wack how difficult to update my address with Social Security. I cannot access my online account so have been trying to call and write to Social Security. Can’t get anyone at Social Security to answer the phone and emails and post mail seems to not have any effect on my address change attempt.

Walked passed a pretty grim sight earlier. Chopped off cow head in a bucket. Blood spilling all over the pavement. Had to walk through it. The rest of its body, innards and what not were also placed on the pavement in other buckets and such.

My gf said I was rude after loudly yelling out ‘f**king hell’ after seeing it.

I find your girlfriend’s response amusing.

I was once hitch-hiking in another country and a pickup stopped, I quickly ran and hopped in the back and was very surprised to find it was full of cow heads! :exploding_head:

I think the correct response there would be to take some selfies with the cow heads and send them to your mate, @RickRooney !

Guy

Haha, that was many years ago, before cell phones existed, and my only concern at the time was where to place my feet to avoid getting my shoes all bloody! :sweat_smile:

What is the deal with kids riding bikes, skateboards etc inside public places? At my apartment complex there is a girl who rides her skateboard with a steering handles into the lift and rides in the lobby. She appears to be at least 16 years old. Recently I saw a father take a bicycle out of his car and lead his child into the elevator and upstairs where he took the bike out and let her start riding in the department store. Was at the Taoyuan airport this week and saw father helping his son use a piece of luggage that also served as a skateboard. Each time the son reached the moving walkway the father would help him get the skateboard on the walkway.

As a sidenote, when boarding a plane heading back to Taiwan this week a child was yelling at his father who was sitting right across the aisle from him
in other words, very close. My wife talked to the child saying something like “Please do not speak so loudly.” The father got pissed off and said “Only I will instruct my child.” While waiting for the luggage we saw how the father could not control his son who was running and around. He asked the son to stop and was ignored. My wife also heard the kid tell his older brother to “xiuli” another kid he was playing with.