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another category to add to the list of terrible westerners you meet traveling in asia

lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link

Oh man I have a story about that from a friend that I shouldn't post online

, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link

you can post it, just change your friend's name to "Dan Y."

Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link

Roberto S.!

, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link

Anyway the story is my friend (who is white) was sitting at an airport in China one day waiting for his flight

This other white guy sits next to him and strikes up a conversation

Within 5 minutes the other white guy is telling my friend how he's a professor at [x] university in [y big city] in China

And that he's had sex with a number of his grad students in exchange for approving their topics, being their advisor, etc. etc.

Like putting aside the awfulness of it, it just made me think how terrible westerners in Asia feel like they have nobody to brag about their 'conquests' to and will literally tell the first white person they see at an airport

, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link

vom

Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link

certainly a novel form of sex tourism

lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link

In conclusion if you're an old white guy traveling in Asia wearing a loose button down and socks with sandals I'm gonna give you a severe side eye

, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link

feel like if youre wearing a safari vest tho that makes u respectable prob just there to look at birds and/or ruins

lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link

Those dudes might just be in disguise. Check their bag to see if they brought a pair of binoculars

, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link

Dude with binoculars you're free to go. But guy with just the Go Pro is pretty sus and I won't be sitting next to him

, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link

they have so many pockets tho will take all day

lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link

holy shit that story

goole, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link

i figure anyone rocking the "80s cohost of the victory garden" look is deeply suspect no matter the continent

goole, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link

Probably appropriate that I am sharing this story on the same day that Gary Glitter appeared in court

, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link

andrew from yo is this racist joked on one episode of his podcast that maybe there really is such a thing as "white mans burden" in that being white means you have to deal with other white people automatically assuming it's cool to say gross racist shit around you all the time

✓ out this insane nakh yall (gr8080), Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:27 (nine years ago) link

Ah, he’s been to one of my families parties then?

Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 13 November 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2gCH08CMAIsI4r.jpg

lag∞n, Sunday, 16 November 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link

bcoin > google

lag∞n, Sunday, 16 November 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link

from dis tweet

Rose Broome ‏@rosical Nov 15
What is this Bitcoin thing anyway? @balajis from @a16z tells us. #ThielSummit

lag∞n, Sunday, 16 November 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link

firm highly invested in bitcoin economy tells u why bitcoin is so good

lag∞n, Sunday, 16 November 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link

Mayor Mike Duggan detailed Monday how Detroit has been victimized by cyber crimes, including how a city database was frozen in April and held for ransom.

Duggan said the city database was held hostage for a ransom of 2,000 bitcoins, an encrypted digital currency. A bitcoin is currently worth $401.75, making that ransom worth $803,500. Duggan said the ransom was not paid and the database wasn’t used or needed by the city.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2014/11/17/north-american-international-cyber-summit/19162001/

anonanon, Tuesday, 18 November 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link

lol but sad

pplains, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link

http://gawker.com/magical-thinking-bitcoin-gathers-at-disney-1644521971

, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link

A hyperactive child stomped down the aisle as the cake crowd dwindled, shouting "I'M SATOSHI NAKAMOTO! I INVENTED BITCOIN!" over and over, to the delight of every guest.

Lorde 2Pac Beck Mashup (crüt), Monday, 1 December 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link

That article made me feel cringeley depressed

Gumbercules? I love that guy! (Trayce), Monday, 1 December 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link

there really is almost no difference between bitcoin and a fully blown cult now is there

Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 15:06 (nine years ago) link

https://vine.co/v/OrweWXlApWb

mookieproof, Monday, 8 December 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Bitstamp got "hacked" for 17k (or $5 million worth), Vault of Satoshi shuts down, seems like someone anticipated this and dumped a bunch of coins onto the market over the weekend, dropping the price to sub-270 levels. If Bitstamp runs like Gox it could drop it even further. And the BFL liquidation/subsequent panic selling hasn't even happened yet. Good time to sell short.

Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link

http://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitstamp/USD

what is happening here

Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 13:00 (nine years ago) link

the bitcoin chart for the last two years is starting to look almost exactly like that chart of the phases of a speculative asset

walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link

wait waht

Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

I've also been added to a bitcoin Twitter list

man these guys are WAY more fun than the GamerGate crowd

DJP, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link

oh my god

goole, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link

ftr this is the second time that dude has given me bitcoin for no reason; I didn't cash in the first time but now I'm tempted to just for lols

DJP, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link

to do so would mean learning more about bitcoin, too high a bar for me tbh

goole, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://i.imgur.com/5kF9r13.png

, Monday, 30 March 2015 17:02 (nine years ago) link

lol guys cmon http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/nyregion/silk-road-case-federal-agents-charges.html

lag∞n, Monday, 30 March 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link

Somebody is still out there drawing Snuffy Smith.

pplains, Monday, 30 March 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link

Left-handed cartoonists shouldn't weird me out like that, but they do.

pplains, Monday, 30 March 2015 20:25 (nine years ago) link

disregarding how amazing every single thing about the Silk Road/DPR trial is now, I just wanna point out how incredible the name "Carl Mark Force IV"

Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Monday, 30 March 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link

seriously though just when you think bitcoin couldn't possibly bring more laughs something like this happens, some Burn After Reading level shit happening here but as they say, truth really is stranger than fiction

Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Tuesday, 31 March 2015 12:49 (nine years ago) link

snuffy smith >>>>>> barney google

am0n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link

u wld think these federal agents wld know better than to try to steal the bitcoins considering they were working on a case involving ppl who thought they cld get away with crimes because of bitcoin but instead they were all i can take these bitcoins no problem

lag∞n, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link

You know who really hates the Feds?

pplains, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link

Snuffy Smith.

pplains, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link

He was selling moonshine all over the world through Silk Road, faster than he could brew it.

pplains, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link


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