1st world problems and all that but I need to get this off my chest

&$#@% the bankers/wall street sods that are screwing with the economy.
I don't claim to have much of an understanding, nor do I really want one... but when my monthly salary (in China being paid in RMB), which is pretty damn close to minimum wage back home as it is drops $200/month in less that a fortnight.... I get... annoyed... and it looks like it will only get worse if/when the US decides to implement QE4...

#$%^#$ it all to hell... at least living here is reasonably cheap... ><

(monthly salary of 10000RMB = $1660 AUD less than a fortnight ago... down to $1480 and will probably continue to plummet... I won't be able to afford to leave here... ><)

edit 2 - actually about 25% less than min wage back home... le sigh... no one said you'd get rich in the ESL industry though ><

Fucking Germany and its internet restrictions! It’s like living in China! If you want to find porn, oh, that’s no problem. That’s everywhere! But if you just want to stream a tv show for 30 mins or watch something on YouTube, forget it!

It's mostly the few huge media publishers we have, who don't want to accept, that their former business models don't fit into nowadays Internet very well. They're completely unimaginative and struggle by enforcing restrictions. Same goes for the GEMA. Except of inactivity, the government isn't too much to blame (unlike China).

And worst case scenario, they will want some kind of compensation...
Yeah, when I was living in Germany, I would rage often while browsing Youtube because 2 out of 5 fucking videos are not allowed to be seen in Germany. There is a solution though... The solution is to subscribe to a VPN provider.

"Your payment Method has been declined" WHAT!? Got an email from paypal. "You account has been locked down due to suspicious activity...And also, just logged in to steam to find out someone logged in from CHINA!? What the fuck is going on!?

Shit. I presume you hadn't activated Steam Guard where Steam requires you to enter a key sent to you via email for each browser or device? If so, is your email account registered to a Google Mail account? Because if you were using Steam Guard and someone managed to actually log in there's a good chance that your whole email account is compromised (which in my experience is more likely in case of Gmail than other email providers).

well shit.

Changed all my passwords but one. Looked into my outlook activities 10 minutes ago. Succesfull Log-ins from:

Germany (me)

China

China

USA

China

China

Germany (me)

Due to Wifi, I can say hi to all fellow goggers even though I'm camping, but my oh my, typing on a 7" tablet is way more awkward than on the big Transformer Pad I left at home!

Beware, passwords changed from that mail-account could be compromised too if changed before the fraudulent log-ins! Maybe get all paswotrd change confirmations to an adress that was never compromised?


Plus: the mail-provide'rs customdr support might advice?

That's why there was so much hysteria over the H1N1.
Pretty much any infectious diseases professional is waiting for the other shoe to drop. And one of the reasons why they're so afraid is that there's a very good chance that the new variant flu will come out of China or Asia, where they're not known for their medical resources. Also, a country that's reliant on tourism for much of its income tends to hide things that will make tourists avoid them, like say, an epidemic.
And of course, people as a herd are stupid. We don't listen. We escalate matters. We hide sick family members. We try and escape while infected.
And of course there's also that 50% who won't believe, won't take precautions and go on to keep on spreading an infection.
It's not a matter of if there'll be a new killer flu, it's when.

Have a read of The Viral Storm by Nathan Wolfe for a few sleepless, but edifying nights.

Yeah, I`d heard that before, quite apt lol.

Well, at least it wasn`t Yodel...

https://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/46foou/yodel_courier_broke_into_someones_house_with_my/

http://www.yodelhell.co.uk/

I`m awaiting a package via DPD, who have been good most of the time, except once.
I had a tracking number, watched it go from Newcastle-Under-Lyme to Manchester, through York (where I was) via train, up to Newcastle. Couple of days later back at Manchester & back to N-U-Lyme.

Was not amused :$

Hope to hell this one arrives properly, as it came from China lol

Atm it looks like the deliverer didn't find my name/bell on the board twice and they need my phone number to help him find it, what the actual fu**?

No? It's the woman living together with our Prime Minister (they are not even married, due to ideology and atheism), in a recent, official visit to China... Even though the government attempted to cheat and rip-off a big chinese company (Cosco) investing in our place, through the agreement on paper being changed in secret, after being signed (your typical, left wing vermin, thief, cheat, swindler, then accusing bad capitalism even though he was at fault)... The chinese PM even gifted the stupid husband of hers with a BICYCLE (he probably understood he was a child-brained idiot). The rest of the team was dressed even worse (that's why the photo isn't showing more people), those leftist nutters apparently know nothing of etiquette, protocol or formal political visits to other countries. They ridicule both themselves and the people being forced to be ruled by them. Damn, man, i always knew that left wing was composed of trash, but this is simply too much!

My ex was a bit ugly, but totally not something like *that*, damn!

So you found where I lived, updated your passport, bought a round-trip plane ticket, flew to my home state, got a cab/Uber out to my house, stole my motion detector light, then returned to the airport, boarded a return flight and went back to Australia? All that for a made-in-China motion detector light?

You deserve it, sir. I hope that light serves to brighten your path in life.