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Idiotic Chinese Announcers and Football

Posted by wtdevflnt on December 30, 2011

I love American football, after all, it is the only true game of football. Unlike that other one where guys run around in little shorts complaining about a kick to the shins, NFL players are ‘ballas’ and real men.
The problem is that in China they dont show much football, well, because Chinese one child policy people don’t care. The reason is that their undescended testes have not formed enough testosterone to endow them with the build of anything resembling a man, and the molly coddlng of their ancient grandparents has left them without a spine.
So, I’m watching American football, aka the only real football and some idiotic Chinese (redundant) announcers are trying to figure out the game. Their chuckling and hem hawing as they foul up their explanation of the action and rules. The funny thing is that people in their age range, late 30′s early 40′s grew up at a time in China when schools were just re-opened- yes China closed down all schools from 1966 to 1976. So these guys, aside from getting the worst education possible, had little to no interaction with humans and the outside world, let alone playing sports.
So, the Chinese, in typical Chinese fashion, attempt to discuss things for which they are ill-equipped- others would be technology, love, respect. laws, morals, ethics, innovation etc. 

The announcers, however, do their best to memorize what the humans said, and then rebroadcast these thoughts in a true Chinese pirate fashion. The funny thing is that their timing is off, they misquote, they misinform and basically show how little they really know.
Perhaps China should stick to its knitting, do what it does best.
Casitgate her people while proclamiing undying love for some figurehead then hating what they and their country has become.
Oh yeah, the photo shows Chinese hygeine or civility. The twins photo’ed here are urinating and or defecating in front of a business office and bank.
This is not a park, but merely the front lawn of a place of business . To put this in context, it would be like opening your window in the morning to see two Chinese kids using your front lawn as a toilet as their decrepit mom, known as ‘old yeller’ by her  crinkled and less than useless spouse who hails from a village where water, is a thing that now contains more aresenic than a Chinese battery but less than Chinese air, hails from…
This is the real China, 4000 years old and beyond all hope.

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USA Still Worlds Leader in Manufacturing

Posted by wtdevflnt on October 6, 2011

From ft.com
“The US remained the world’s biggest manufacturing nation by output last year, but is poised to relinquish this slot in 2011 to China – thus ending a 110-year run as the number one country in factory production.”

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Nice Rant on Capitalism by The King

Posted by wtdevflnt on September 26, 2011

From the King:
“America may be a land of bitter poverty, and social programs controled socialism, like say a church group ie Knights of Columbus, Charitas, or even on Christian charities, like Muslims, and what not), work. People get paid, use donation money, and rebuild America. Freedom means a free market, while I agree it does help when the government assists, (just a think tank really of professionals who went to school and try to run the logistics of a country). But more effectively if things were in the people’s free market hands. Where artistan people (anyone with a brain and the will to make physical this visions conjuring up these “forces from the neitherworlds” as this boy states. For instance, there’s nothing wrong with making a profit it just means you are right it is working. Like Drug retreats in the Amazon, in Brazil and etc, where these facilities are there to help bring controlled wealth into the lives of the natives to upgrade them BUT so they can better define how to use
that
wealth to increase standard of living for their own people (rather than Guevara’s let’s blow up the natives because the natives who wanted peace blood thirsty way). It’s like this scene on Harrison Ford’s movie Mosquito Coast, where he establishes a village lodge and other eco modernization for an isolated village, only to have grunty ill mannered Ortega’s men (Daniel Ortega a child rapist), grunt it up and explode) Fuck you and your dirty Xiao Yue Yue’s unwashed “purple” underware.”

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Truth of Chinese Manufacturing Quality in Pictures

Posted by wtdevflnt on September 15, 2011

Welding is a process of joining metals by introducing a ‘filler metal’. This filler is electrically charged becomes molten and bonds the two pieces one wishes to join. Welding is an integral part of most manufacturing process and if you look at any building and or product containing metal, you will probably find welds. (riveting or bolting is also an option)
Welders in the USA are pretty well trained for much is riding on their ability. Build practically anything with metal and you need capable welders-cars trains, bridges, bikes, motorcycles, planes, buses, boats, machinery, etc.
In order to perform their jobs safely, welders typically need these things. (photo from Miller welding gear)

Not only does the welder need to protect himself as a tremendous amount of current is flowing through the welding rig, but he also needs to shield his eyes and skin from molten metal that sparks from the welds he is making. In addition, it is imperative to see the ‘bead’ or the line of molten metal that he is drawing to ensure a quality weld.

in the USA we have various agencies in charge of testing, qualifying and certifying welders and they typically do a pretty good job.

These, however, are welders in China 

Yes this man who seems to be snoozing rather than joining two hunks of metal upon which the lives of many will depend, but then again this is China.

Aside from their weld positions, other concerns come to mind

            

Do they look safe? Can we assume that a man who is

          

hanging on for dear life has a sufficient level of concentration to make  a weld with enough structural integrity upon which we  may trust our lives?

What will his work product be like?

       

And even if we ignore the big picture, how about his equipment. What does a professional Chinese welder don before undertaking his tasks? lets see, Chinese are nice so I will befriend him and learn about his secrets.

Here he comes. His protective shield and goggles seem odd, but maybe I am being ethnocentric or a snob.

  

Here he comes, a real Chinese professional ….And now lets meet my new friend

Hmm that is odd, he does not look much like a  professional welder. So I decided to go investigate and found out that

………………………….

his weld ‘hood’ was a piece of cardboard and his ‘goggles’ were nothing more than sunglasses. But rest assured because the boss man was on the scene to ensure a quality product

        

This photo series if nothing else should serve to warn people about the realities of China. The people are great but communism, greed and corruption have left their work product to be a thing of scorn. While it is politically correct to not call them ‘reds’ chicoms and the like, it should not be politically correct to ignore obvious signs of malfeasance. This photo spread shows the reality of China and should not be ignored.

The Chinese made the statue of Martin Luther King, they have manufactured a bridge for us in San francisco and many other things and we, like idiotic sheep continue to trust big business both in China and the states as they proclaim the Chinese miracle.

Who could not build hundreds of thousands of apartments with this of quality and workmanship. The problem is that business does not want us to know about this stuff for if we did we’d shit in our collective pants and demand change. So its much easier to disqualify such pics as an outlier. My response to that would be, this is China.

Believe what you will, but next time someone tells you about the China miracle and quality please feel free to send them this link or download the pics and send them around. The more we know the better off we are. Maybe these photos show why a typical Chinese building lasts 30 years while ours last 90.

Just remember both of these guys are paid what they are worth. The question is to whom shall you give your money?

  who do you trust ?   

photos from millerwelds-com nasdonline-org thefabricator-com
also posted here

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Comment on China and Weapons

Posted by wtdevflnt on September 9, 2011

Good comment from Simonbarsinister…..

“The state arms makers have orders from the PRC to act as creative loose cannons. This means inferring “what would the PRC do?” and then doing that. Plausible deniability, no actual orders need be given, And of course orders not to snitch on the PRC’s passive scheme to control state-run companies automatically. Snitch and families disappear in the middle of the night.

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Comment from Brewskie on China

Posted by wtdevflnt on September 4, 2011

Oh shit! BYD’s hot rods with hamster wheel generators don’t put out as advertised. One less ivory back scratcher for ‘ol Buffy…

Oh darn. Another big shot US billionaire gets fleeced by a Chinese scam; Jon Paulson’s fund got doped $750 million by Sino-Forest, and is down almost 40% for the year.

Speaking of fraudulent Chinese companies, here’s a good post by WC. (The site he writes at, Top Secret Writers, is a dubiously-titled site of the kind I’d normally avoid, but this guy does his homework with piles of links. I sent you a prior post on China’s infrastructure, which was by far one of the best works I’ve seen done.)

http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2011/08/chinese-company-corruption-in-the-us-stock-market/

I don’t have the link, but I read way back that China has 170-some car companies – 17 which are considered “major” – and during the ’08 meltdown, not one of them went bankrupt. Hmmm….

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My U$ 500,000 Mansion in China

Posted by wtdevflnt on August 30, 2011

My place or the place I rest my hirsute form is worth about 500 000 civilized US dollars. But before you go kow towing to me and thinking me a well-heeled man of position, let me explain housing China style.

The gulag I inhabit has the dimensions  of the orifice of a hippo or other large mammal. although its rated at 100 meters squared, that includes some about ten extra feet which by virtue of Chinese monkey math  resides outside my front door and is less than useless to me. That is right folks. For theprivilege of living in China you too can own a 100 square meter mansion in lovely smog encrusted downtown Beijing. , no shit.

This place is crazy and smells like a bubble. After the Olympics houses sprouted like dishonestchicoms and every swinging little member was in line to buy one, housing prices went through the roof. The impact is that Chiness houses are crazy expensive, never mind crazy poor quality. My dump for instance is six but leaks, is crooked and smells like must chinaman shit. When my neighbors shower or flush I get a smattering of their waste on my floor which is actually a relief as my toilet usually does not work. The facade is crumbling and to my reckoning she’s got about ten good years left in her.

But in China where they make their own reality, this dump is valued at 500 000 U$. It is surely the sign of a bubble. All throughout this mess of a land they have buildings going up but no one can buy. And now the places that are filled have out of this world price tags. I cannot say I will feel sorry for them when the bottom falls out, it’s not as if they’ve not been warned.

As for me, when I think of the things I could do with half a mil, buying a Chinese house does not even register. Although Ienjoy the place and love to bitch about it, I respect my cash a little too much to ever buy something so substantial here.

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Funny Rant on China Faking Her Imports

Posted by wtdevflnt on August 30, 2011

Here is a funny rant by Gowron aka the King about China selling made in China goods as imports….

rant:

 

So THAT’S why all my trendy house furniture I bought. Like those funny shaped chairs, that said Made in USA, or Ikea, or ABC anywhere but China. and my “Japanese” Sony alarm clock, which keeps on breaking down (I’m on my 4th clock, and it always breaks down when I need to rely on it the most, (ie a job interview, going to work for my FIRST shift, especially when I worked at Esso as a Gas monkey in the early twlight of a Canadian wintery morning), and this is why I paranoidly check to see if all is well with my alarmclock every It’s not, so then I clip out get a new “Japanese” radio clock. And here I though God was playing a sick game with me. and all the while it’s made in China. Fuck you China! not only did you stink me up with Jenkim (you know what that is right? Really smelly fumes, chemical biological, (ie BO is known to give you a brain numbing high that’s why teenagers are so wacky, but in the cases of extreme poverty some people actually take a lump of poop, garbage, in a bottle under the sun, and delibratly frement to get high off the fumes named after Genkem a brand of magic marker in Africa). So not only did I unwillingly get stoned off the JEnkim here from the rotten garbage like clothes strew about (NICE CLOTHES TOO, oddly enough business whites, shoes, strange not stolen), disolving steel metal from rusting bikes discarded by ABCs who bailed on China with thier illgotten gains, live animals being slaughtered their feces, childrens feces, spit goo, rotten food, “mud” feces feces feces on mall floors, dirty Chinee grimy shoes, rotten vegetation (ie piles of wood, weeds, stale goo water), or poverty not being able to wash properly in shower. yup yup Jenkem. As you can tell from my deminishing quality of writing. Im a unwilling huffer lol.

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China Observations

Posted by wtdevflnt on August 26, 2011

Is it just me:
- or do Chinese men pull their pants up to their man-tits looking like mommy dressed them
- do all Chinese yap on their cell phones while taking a shit?
- when they walk does it look like they are marching?
- do all the women hobble along in high heels as if they’d just gotten their feet unbound?
- do they stuff their cigs into their mouths while sprinting to the ‘smoking area’
- smoke in elevators?
- emotionally mature at a rate 1/10th to the remainder of humanity?
- do all of the ‘new apartments’ leak?

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China Moves to Corner Worldwide Poison Market

Posted by wtdevflnt on August 17, 2011

Some Chinese company called Bright Foods is looking to buy a company in Australia. This company sells, among other things, milk. Yeah, let me say that again. A freaking Chinese company that sells milk.

Chinese and food prep and or companies are like Chinese and high speed things or petrochemicals or nukes, they only spell disaster. It’s been reported that one of the leading causes of death in China is stomach cancer, its a result of all the crap they shove in the food here. So I guess China has gotten sick of poisoning only her people but want to spread the love and kill others as well.

In my vision of hell we are forced to watch chinese movies while slugging down chinese milk from chinese glasses and wear pendants from Guangzhou and then when its all over we need to take the chinese high speed rail to a chinese hospitality center all the while lorded over by the chinese party.

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