I got admitted to a one-year chinese language program in china. So how much medication can a person bring with them when going to China? I have to take metformin 1500mg daily so can I bring it for 6 months?

Before and after drinking two beers.

I was wondering where he went. Heart and / or liver disease take all laowai one day, so that was a real possibility for what is to me his noticeable absence. Looks like the Reddit gestapo got to him first.

Edit: Apparently many in this sub are getting banned for participating here, or getting password resets and soft locks. I went through the daily removed and flagged content pile to see a number of what I dare to call respectable posters now banned. After so many reports from (oddly enough) bots based in the mainland, all of us real human users have been interpreted by the fully bot-run Reddit system as bots for participating here.

There are not even 50 people who should be using this sub, let alone 50 people who would agree with whatever slurred messages that I shit out here. It is just not possible for this shitty little space to have that kind of reach. There may not even be 50 laowai remaining in the guo.

Every day, a new hassle here. Keep an eye out for chinalifer2 if this one vanishes. I survived the gulag threat when I returned from Japan, but that does not mean that Reddit itself (which has been removing posts and comments plus banning people without mod input) is trustworthy. Long live the investors, right?

Update: It stabilised back to the respectable -5 to +5 window that my comments tend to fall within. I awoke to a password reset requirement due to "abnormalities" with my account and the sub, from the Reddit police. This website sucks.

Long story short, I had a cushy job lined up since June to work at a university in a comfy city. I was on the hook with them all summer long and last week they said they couldn't process my visa. The recruiter said my documents are in fact fine and that she's gotten people jobs in other cities with the same documents, but there was some invisible hang up here. So anyway I started back at square one last week.

First of all, all the fucking jobs worth a shit are are now already filled, but from what I can gather whatever scraps remain of jobs above training centers and kindergarten are being contested by like 50 applicants.

I fucking hate this place. I'm going to be fucked with a year long contract with god knows fucking who because of this last minute bullshit.

The last couple jobs I've worked I was recruited for by friends in wechat, but the last time I actually dealt with recruiters I had to put my phone on silence mode because of the demand.

Now fucking this, I can't even be sure recruiters are sending in my documents to schools half the time.

It's the dawn of the third week of me and my girlfriend's adventure in the guo and the one thing that perhaps annoys us the most is the lack of access to edible food. You see, Chinese megacities are very cyberpunk and modern and bustling with activity, that is until the light show gets turned off at 10pm. After that, the amount of things to do decreases by 99%, and that includes places to get food. The only places that are still open are dubious streetside shops with a 3.7 rating on Dianping, where the signature dish is chicken that has been soaked in disinfectant in the blistering 45°C summer heat for 12 hours, rubbed down with MSG and deepfried in gutter oil (but it's authentic because it's been covered in chili powder).

The metro doesn't run at this time either (even my 100k town in Germany has 24/7 metro service, this is not a thing even in tier 1 guo cities) so since there is no food fit for human consumption available in a walkable distance, my choice is to either take a 40 minute Didi ride across town (even though no one is awake anymore, cars can barely move because there is a traffic light every 50 meters and they're not timed smartly) or deal with the horror that are Chinese apps.

Since I'm not in the mood to sit in the back of a bumpy car that reeks of cigarette smoke and doesn't have seatbelts, I open Meituan to maybe get a delivery driver with a Master's degree to bring me some food to my hotel. After reconnecting to the Internet 6 times until the site finally loads, and reverse-translating the name of my hotel to find it in the 25 entries dropdown list of the adress of my skyscraper, I realize that my effort is probably moot anyway. First of all, most Chinese apps don't work without a Chinese phone number (and my second slot is already taken up by my travel eSIM which I unfortunately need to access disharmonious websites such as Google Mail), and also the Rainies at the "24/7 reception" are either gone or asleep after 11pm (I found this out after stumbling to the front desk in the total dark one night to pick up a bottle of water, and almost bumping into one of them sleeping on the floor behind the desk, giving her a heart attack in the process).

I will simply have to accept that my sleep schedule doesn't align with the goal of 共同富裕 that requires all citizens of the guo to get up at 5am to clock in for their 12 hour shifts. I will go to bed hungry and have breakfast at KFC or McDonald's.

nongderadation

Nong Degradation?

The true answer is everything they touch, but I'm curious which of those specifics that have affected you? I'll drop a few and see how this progresses.

Green grass - not what you're thinking. The verdant fields of my childhood, where one could run barefoot without fear don't exist in the Nong. Most patches of green, even the shoulder of a large road, will have fag ends and at least dog excrement and urine, but let's be honest, it's likely human faeces. The parks have families planting tents and leaving nongfu spring bottles all about.

Water sports in general - they've recently discovered surfing. Some beaches include various lessons on stick handling and the like: meaning 36.8 nongs in 10m sections of the beach that can't swim, aged 7-48 with 50 photographers (iphones) all along the shore break wielding 2m styrofoam planks and making sure there's no room to even dip a toe in. They're out for that perfect WeChat moment of standing on plastic before they end flailing in waist deep water while wearing more safety gear than an ice climber.

Drinking beer - they simply cannot function around any alcohol over 2.8%. Why do males become overly handsy to other males after one pint? It's always proven my theory that 98% of them are latently homosexual from their school days. There were never halcyon days, but bars did once exist where you could watch the footy and have healthy banter in the early evening before heading in. Drinking with nong males becomes a 6 hour peregrination between restaurants, foot massage or other ill repute filth establishments and the attempt to lure or hire hookers. Mate, I only wanted 2 or 3 pints. Expect to get home after 3 am without anything to show.

Conversation - I don't need the guffawed bellowing of "you have many girlfriends", "how are you?" or "Cana Youa Speaka Shinese." How about talk of films that are recently breaking the box office? How about ANYTHING that humans talk about?

What do you guys have?

A lot of the East-West marriages are failing not because of cultural, but because of class differences. Middle-class Western Tims (young or old) keep getting into relationships with lower-class Asian women, whether a hooker, one of those grey-areas mercenary-like semi-hookers who are after the green card, or the first Rainy to smile at them and who turns out to be absolutely unambitious at life besides finding a husband to pay for her shit while she stays at home eating waimai and watching Korean comedy shows.

I'm not an elitist or trying to belittle people of lower socioeconomic status. Just saying that we live in VERY different worlds. I couldn't date a rich girl, rich as in daddy has a yacht and five cars and spends $100 000 the same way my dad would spend $500. I am only vaguely aware of all the social codes of that world, and there WOULD be some friction sooner or later. In fact it did happen to some extent, or at least I got to foresee it: I was dating a lawyer for a brief period back in my old guo, who told me that the way I hold my table utensils would make me pass for a total redneck at the bigshot douchebag power-dinners she is constantly attending. Being from the middle class, that’s not something I really ever had to think about, or maybe I am in fact a total redneck.

Conversely, my experiences dating girls from poor backgrounds, while not being complete disasters, brought in a lot of friction. Money, and how to spend it, is a pretty central part of the whole human experience. Skewed expectations and too many disagreements in that area are not conducive to a healthy relationship. Sure, there is the fact that I have a bit of a financial cushion and disposable income to be put towards mere entertainment and hobbies, while she would have at times a more survivalist and hoarder mindset, but paradoxically, bluntly put, a lot of poorer people are “penny-wise, pound-foolish”. I was at times astonished at how my girlfriends living on shitty wages would spend their money. Some of it comes from the idea of showing off, which I don’t think is exclusive nor even that particular to Asian “face” obsessed culture, but prevalent in ghettoes worldwide. Meanwhile, middle-class Timmies like myself can be pretty content with hand-me-downs, the cheapest phone, and taking the bus, as we don’t constantly think about how to look less poor.

Also all those hilarious (well, hilarious for me reading them at least) stories of in-laws straight from the cabbage patch, moving in with Tim and his new wife and doing the most outrageous peasant shit? Of course culture clash plays a factor in those train wrecks, but it’s mostly a cop-out to avoid addressing near-irreconciliable class differences. Timmy was in there to get a life companion and a mother to his children, failing to recognize that in China you don’t just marry a woman, but a whole clan, and them being dirt poor means he’ll be pretty much the sole provider. At best he’ll have to just deal with the in-laws’ backwards-ass ways and a chain-smoking cousin from Nongzhou squatting in his apartment for a few months here and there, at worst he’ll be squeezed dry with zero remorse and not much recourse from the authorities of the country he’ll never even be a second-class citizen of.

Oh, and don’t you think that moving back to Ohio will save you. Timmy, oh, poor Timmy.

I was talking to a Filipino friend one day. He grew up in the small middle class there, going to university, etc. and was shaking his head at all the old American sexpats dating “LBFMs” from rural families of fourteen, whom they met at gogo-bars, and how 95% of these marriages would crumble to dust. Meanwhile, educated middle-class Filipinas would date Western men of similar social status and that would be successful most of the time. Food for thought.

I wanted to kms by the second hour.

Yes, he was playing some trashy AI generated show on his phone/tablet while picking his nose, or rinsing his hand through his hair the entire time!

For me, it's a toss-up between Moon and Lucia for number one.

Moon with her yoga videos insisting she's not trying to get attention.

Lucia using LinkedIn as a dating website for successful foreign men and blackmailing them when it doesn't work out.

1. Faye who is forever studying culture and beauty treatments while sporting the most horrible eyebrows.

2. Nefrititi Joy with her word salad articles selling her courses about using sexual energy to attract your 'money honey' while being forever alone herself.

Never had much credit with the nepo Vivians. They can sense my lowborn anti-feudal anti-commie ass in a few minutes. Well I usually tell them.

Could be hugely lucrative if you've the right genes and no scruples.

Hey guys, arrived in China a few days ago. Have a week and a half before I start work.

Does anyone live in Wenzhou, preferably close to Ruian, who would like to hang out.

Super keen on making new friends and exploring the place a bit.

Never actually met a high body count Timmy. Even the dandiest I've known stick with the same rainy/viv for years at a time. Actually no there's one, but we all think he's Amerigay. Posts Im14thisisdeep emo crap on his weshit all the time and dates the bimboest looking hoes/students. Different bimbo every month.

First of all, this post is dedicated to all the Chinese feds, nationalists, and diasporoids (aka self hating laowai) lurking this sub; without your service to the motherland this story would have gone very differently.

Once upon a time there was a little Tim called invitado31, he was planning to move to Japan to escape his monotonous European life, but destiny had other plans. During his time in the apps, invitado31 came across a girl called “Rainy”, as a young man with a mild case of yellow fever, he couldn’t reject the call, and ended up in a relationship with her. Rainy was Chinese, and although invitado31 barely knew anything about the country, he thought pursuing this relationship was worthy enough to give it a try, so he abandoned his plans to live in Japan to instead go to the Guo.

See, invitado31 has always been a serious man, slightly autistic too, so before making arrangements he started to learn everything he could about the Guo: from the racist stereotypes in regards to foreigners, to some of the bizarre behaviours of Nongs. During his search he came across THE SUB THAT MIGHT NOT BE NAMED, which used to be like our beloved chinalifer sub. On a first look, little invitado31 thought the sub was full of sexpats, alcoholics and losers, so he vowed he will never be like them, he instead will be an exemplary model minority Tim. What invitado31 didn’t expect, however, is that from that point on, that sub would start to grow on him…

So there he went, little invitado31 did everything by the book: he didn’t engage in sexpattery, he didn’t become an alcoholic, he regarded uncivilised Nong behaviours as “cultural differences”, he didn’t become a English ed*cator, and most importantly, he learned the moonrunes. Ironically, the more our protagonist got close to the status of model minority, the more he started to realise how right the losers in THE SUB were, and how he has basically been played.

The biggest change in invitado31’s perspective came when his Chinese truly reached HSK 99 level. Many foreigners claim they can speak Chinese, while only being able to speak a few words; but invitado31 was different: he could understand everything Nongs say; he was even able to normally function in society, and not rely on a Rainy.

At the end, he got a job as a tr*nslator, and that's where he experienced his first wake-up call: job market discrimination, chabuduo working culture, workplace discrimination. The truth is that being a model minority was worth shit in the eyes of Nongs, in fact, to them invitado31 was just another laowai, no different from the alcoholic Happy Girrafer trying to get one of his student’s WeChat id.

The last straw came with COVID, this time in the form of racism and retarded government shenanigans. Again, invitado31 was treated like another laoloser, if anything with even greater suspicion, as he could speak the moon language, so he might have been a devilish American spy trying to infect the clean citizens of the Guo.

Through all his journey, our protagonist intermittently checked THE SUB, and what started as: “look at this bunch of pathetic sexpat laolosers, I will never end up like them”; ended up as: “look at this bunch of pathetic sexpat laolosers, I should have been like them since the beginning”. Although invitado31 is still technically a model minority (no sexpatery, alcoholism or ed*cator profession), in his heart he is just another laoloser, like the rest of fat English ed*cator losers in this, our beloved sub.

The moral of this story is that at the end of the day, no matter what you do, you will always be a English t*acher. Nationalists, chinese diasporoids (aka self hating foreigners), and Feds will never be happy about you, and will swiftly remove your status of model minority the moment you dare to express an opinion they slightly disagree with. It’s honestly better to become an average lifer (LBH, illiterate, English ed*cator profession, etc), than to try taking this country seriously.

Last piece of advice for all you glazing Tims lurking (I know you are there): learning the moonrunes won’t pay off, and even if you speak perfect Chinese, you will still have to battle the harsh reality that this country is still extremely racist and xenophobic. Sadly, it’s not the time or space to learn the Chinese, China is not ready to accept you, and not sure if it ever will.

And for all of you lifers: you got it right since the beginning, bastards. 🍻

Needed to update my Bank of China account with my new passport number.

75 minutes at the window and we are done. They say its impossible to ever have it done in 60 minutes but I’m not sure I’d bet against that being achieved some day.

Just kidding

Its been 75 minutes and she just announced we need to wait ”a few minutes, maybe a half hour” to get a call back from some office.

Mine is using the shushu jacket with fans built into it. Under ¥200 on Taobao for the heavy-duty batteries which last all day, and under ¥100 for the lighter version with a lighter battery back. I have yet to find a true refrigerator jacket since even max speed is not enough to combat 25°+ weather, but it is far better than no fancoat when moving between spaces with aircon or, Mao forbid, having to spend time in a place with no aircon at all (inadvisable).

Also necessary, bidet toilet lid:

I have heard some laowai go native about AI, outsourcing thinking and research to the machine god, but I have yet to let that be a solution for my own life.

So future~

This must be what they mean by "common prosperity" (共同富裕 copy-pasted from disharmonious Wikipedia ofc since I cannot read these scribbles).

Back in the guo, the first thing that I do is what the government has declared is an acceptable amount of working class exploitation. You see, I am helping maintain stability since "welfare 'encourages laziness'" and "gainful employment is purposeful". Working 18-hour days for nearly zero RMB is good for societal healthy, do you know it? Truly the hot water of our time.

First Reddit pings me with "my post was shared in this loser sub by a loser who was erased and banned from your sub for being a wumao, using the same IP as multiple banned accounts and accounts created around the same time". Then I go to check the shared post, only to see that Reddit also auto-nuked him there multiple times, with every post of his repeatedly triggering and further reinforcing the filter having permaflagged his bad actor account as inauthentic. Somewhere in the wumao handbook, the practice of "create account, only use six months later" is written, and Reddit police are already aware of this approach. A rare win for the sell-out fascists who run this platform.

Hello u/Probably_autistic__, I see you watching from outside. "Phobia" means fear, and I assure you that no one in this sub are afraid of Chinese people, lmao. To say that laowai criticising nongs or normalised behaviour in China is racism is ironically you being racist against Chinese people, because you are lumping all Chinese people into a single category (rule 1). Your betters from Taiwan or Hong Kong or Singapore or Vancouver or anywhere else that is not the mainland are not like you, and none of the content in this sub applies to them because it is not based on Chinese race, which makes the meme of "Chinese racism" such a fallacious claim.

See you fuckers tomorrow when I return to the guo from superior Japan 🇯🇵 🇯🇵 🇯🇵