When The Chinese Take Over, Where Will You Live?

[Cap'n Cat]

Riiiiight.

You'll be shot through the back of the head while beating off to a gay clip in a viewing booth at an adult bookstore in Billings.

Yeah...right.

Don't be giving me any "tone", buster.

[Grizo406]

I lived in Taiwan for five years. I learned the language fairly well, developed a taste for Asian food, the culture, and the women...I think I'm all set!

If they MAKE me move, (and that's just what they are going to have to do), I hope its somewhere a little closer to what's pictured below.

Being sixteen miles away is just a little too far for my tastes!

[Cap'n Cat]

I lived in Taiwan for five years. I learned the language fairly well, developed a taste for Asian food, the culture, and the women...I think I'm all set!

If they MAKE me move, (and that's just what they are going to have to do), I hope its somewhere a little closer to what's pictured below.

Being sixteen miles away is just a little too far for my tastes!

Grizo,
First congrats on 800 brilliant posts. Second, if they deem you more valuable to reeducation to be in Iowa, you'll be closer to this hallowed ground:

[Grizalltheway]

I lived in Taiwan for five years. I learned the language fairly well, developed a taste for Asian food, the culture, and the women...I think I'm all set!

If they MAKE me move, (and that's just what they are going to have to do), I hope its somewhere a little closer to what's pictured below.

Being sixteen miles away is just a little too far for my tastes!

Grizo,
First congrats on 800 brilliant posts. Second, if they deem you more valuable to reeducation to be in Iowa, you'll be closer to this hallowed ground:

Nice looking barn there Cap'n.

[dbackjon]

I changed my mind. I will live with either Wedgebuster, or T-man, whichever of those bears will take me in.

[Cap'n Cat]

I changed my mind. I will live with either Wedgebuster, or T-man, whichever of those bears will take me in.

I'm a bear and I'll take you in. No sex, though, OK? I'll buy you a mountain of gay porn, but.......

[dbackjon]

I changed my mind. I will live with either Wedgebuster, or T-man, whichever of those bears will take me in.

I'm a bear and I'll take you in. No sex, though, OK? I'll buy you a mountain fo gay porn, but.......

Hmmm. Will D1B be there?

[bobbythekidd]

It's clear that Statesboro is the only safe place from the Red Horde. Good luck to the rest of you.

[bobbythekidd]

Post of the Day!!!!

I was totally being serious. She is cute as hell. That whole lesbian thing is a little tough to get past, but I'm working on it.

[Cap'n Cat]

I'm a bear and I'll take you in. No sex, though, OK? I'll buy you a mountain fo gay porn, but.......

Hmmm. Will D1B be there?

He lives about four hours from me, J. If the Chinese allow him to stay in Janesville, you're outta luck. You'll hafta to settle for me and the gay porn.

[Grizo406]

Grizo,
First congrats on 800 brilliant posts. Second, if they deem you more valuable to reeducation to be in Iowa, you'll be closer to this hallowed ground:

I would have preferred if you would have used ICONic, or legendary when describing my posts, but thank you for noticing the number/brilliance of them!

After being left off the "Sharpest" list, I doubt the Chinese will deem me as valuable...those wacky little fucks look at shit like that...that's why I was so hurt!??! So, I'll have to settle for the "secondary" hallowed ground of Washington/Grizzly Stadium.

I can only dream about the magic of "The Dome", and living close to it...

[Cap'n Cat]

Grizo,
First congrats on 800 brilliant posts. Second, if they deem you more valuable to reeducation to be in Iowa, you'll be closer to this hallowed ground:

I would have preferred if you would have used ICONic, or legendary when describing my posts, but thank you for noticing the number/brilliance of them!

After being left off the "Sharpest" list, I doubt the Chinese will deem me as valuable...those wacky little fucks look at shit like that...that's why I was so hurt!??! So, I'll have to settle for the "secondary" hallowed ground of Washington/Grizzly Stadium.

I can only dream about the magic of "The Dome", and living close to it...

G,
You weren't on the list because you don't mix it up enough. You are a great spiritual leader here, however, and we all appreciate and love you. Take a few Conk swings (I'm assuming) and you'll get on there for the next round. You are in the Honorable Mention crowd, though!

[griz37]

I will be moving to Edmonton, Alberta, by far the coolest large city I have ever been to.

[JMU DJ]

Wherever the Wolverines are mounting the resistance.

[Pwns]

Statesboro....even the chinese have their limits in what living conditions they'll tolerate....

Great minds think a like

Yeah, it is kind of hot for weenies who've lived their whole life 3000 feet or more above sea level

[travelinman67]

I changed my mind. I will live with either Wedgebuster, or T-man, whichever of those bears will take me in.

Fine by me...like Cap'n though, no sex...

Hell, I'll teach you how to reload ammo and keep me firing, and also how to handle a .40 S&W with high capacity mag handgun for that last moment when they finally get close enough for face-to-face confrontation (barricade/double tap drills...really gratifying on top of being fun).

Twixt me and the 3 retired cops on my road (two of which own .50 cal. "long rifles"), we'll keep 'em busy for at least a few days.

[dbackjon]

I changed my mind. I will live with either Wedgebuster, or T-man, whichever of those bears will take me in.

Fine by me...like Cap'n though, no sex...

Hell, I'll teach you how to reload ammo and keep me firing, and also how to handle a .40 S&W with high capacity mag handgun for that last moment when they finally get close enough for face-to-face confrontation (barricade/double tap drills...really gratifying on top of being fun).

Twixt me and the 3 retired cops on my road (two of which own .50 cal. "long rifles"), we'll keep 'em busy for at least a few days.

As long as you still drink your coffee buck naked, no problem


As to the guns, why do you think I picked you or Wedgie?

[grizzaholic]

Fine by me...like Cap'n though, no sex...

Hell, I'll teach you how to reload ammo and keep me firing, and also how to handle a .40 S&W with high capacity mag handgun for that last moment when they finally get close enough for face-to-face confrontation (barricade/double tap drills...really gratifying on top of being fun).

Twixt me and the 3 retired cops on my road (two of which own .50 cal. "long rifles"), we'll keep 'em busy for at least a few days.

As long as you still drink your coffee buck naked, no problem


As to the guns, why do you think I picked you or Wedgie?

hummmm....

[Cap'n Cat]

I shot off D's shotgun last year and that's the first time I shot a gun in probably 20 years.

[travelinman67]

As long as you still drink your coffee buck naked, no problem

Can't...will be shooting a lot from the prone position (no jokes), very uncomfortable when buck naked. Plus, if I get a woodie while firing in standing position behind a barricade...I could give my position away.

[SunCoastBlueHen]

I shot off D's shotgun last year and that's the first time I shot a gun in probably 20 years.

I've got you beat...

I've never shot anything bigger than a BB gun my whole life.

[grizzaholic]

I shot off D's shotgun last year and that's the first time I shot a gun in probably 20 years.

I've got you beat...

I've never shot anything bigger than a BB gun my whole life.

[UNI88]

Maybe things won't be that different when the Chinese take over? Their greatest successes have come as a result of experimenting with capitalism.

China's rocket to modernity
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/colu ... 466.column

Since its inception, the Chinese government has carried out some gigantic economic experiments, most of them catastrophic. In the 1950s, Mao launched a crash program in industrialization that devastated the economy and caused some 15 million people to starve to death.

In the 1960s, he initiated the Cultural Revolution, which encouraged violent rampages by young ideological fanatics and banished anyone with an education, above-average skills or managerial experience into the countryside to shovel manure. Results: more economic destruction and millions more dead.

But in 1979, the government decided to try a different approach: creating special zones where normal markets would be permitted to operate. They called it "socialism with Chinese characteristics," but it looked an awful lot like capitalism. The one in Pudong was created in 1990. This time, disaster failed to ensue. On the contrary, the broad reversal succeeded beyond Ayn Rand's wildest dreams.

In the ensuing three decades, the Chinese economy has tripled in size -- and then tripled again. The World Bank says that in 1981, 65 percent of Chinese were poor. Today the figure is 4 percent.

In less than 30 years, China's economic miracle has raised half a billion people -- one out of every 10 people on the planet -- out of poverty.

This year, like every other country, China is feeling the effects of the global recession. So its economy will probably expand by only 6 or 7 percent, eye-popping growth almost anywhere else. Economic progress, of course, has side effects, and lately those have gotten China plenty of attention -- for producing clouds of greenhouse-gas emissions, putting pressure on oil supplies, exporting like mad and becoming the U.S. government's biggest creditor.

But next to mass chaos, poverty and famine, those problems look pretty manageable, if not mythical. And it would be the height of perversity to conclude that the rest of the world suffers because 1.3 billion Chinese are now free to make constructive use of their energy and talent.

[dbackjon]

There successes have come with cheap (almost slave) labor, a ruined environment, and brutal repression of the media/free thought. No thanks.

[UNI88]

There successes have come with cheap (almost slave) labor, a ruined environment, and brutal repression of the media/free thought. No thanks.

Jon, that's always been my perception as well but is it completely true from a labor perspective?

In the ensuing three decades, the Chinese economy has tripled in size -- and then tripled again. The World Bank says that in 1981, 65 percent of Chinese were poor. Today the figure is 4 percent.

In less than 30 years, China's economic miracle has raised half a billion people -- one out of every 10 people on the planet -- out of poverty.

If these statistics from the article are accurate than the Chinese people have benefited economically. Are the people of China better off than they would have been if they hadn't gone through this experiment?

The repression of media/free thought and the impact of China's rapid moderniation on the environment is another matter however.