Hehehe sxc boi ;D Post some up in the selfie thread and watch the ladies (and men) drop panties like it :P
Uhhh I think it all tastes the same :P But the quality is better I think, like the Burger King patties are huge - compared to NA, anyways lol. Chicken Juniors (or perhaps Junior Chickens) are the chicken patty item on value menus! They're come around $4 + tax for 3 of them, and that's about the best use of money you can use to buy chicken, spicy mayo and 1140 calories. Most likely fat.
LOL my avatar isn't me, it's my favourite singer. You can stalk me in the selfie thread :P I'm kind of in your position with my facial hair as it's mostly uneven mustache and a little beard. I have like one hair poking out from each corner of my jaw :( Right, "fair and lovely" XD apparently Indian girls dig that stuff XD
I think you've done a marvelous job of refraining from allowing media hype from affecting your perspective. I really criticize the media hype, but usually it's interpreted as me being a COMMIE YEAH - but no, I find that kind of labeling to be insulting and out of ignorance and fear. As you've demonstrated, it's fully possible to criticize without giving into the hype - so ignorant people probably label because they're insecure about how they're unable to do such a thing >>
It's amazing seeing China's development in person. I go back in 2 year intervals, and every time things change drastically. One year they'll build a gorgeous looking new train station, another year they'll set up high-speed rail, another year they've replaced the decrepit rotting apartments with fresh skyscrapers, so on and so forth. At least in the cities the people are living better lives, and that's something that makes me really happy.
Chinese politics is really messed up. Peasants always get the short stick of everything all the time. For example, the central government abolished taxes on peasants in rural areas. But that just deprived the local governments of funding, and so they found new revenue tools like creating new fees and expanding on old ones. This too eventually became abolished, and now local governments take to land appropriation raise funds (which is why it's in the news all the time nowadays). The problem with taking peasants off the land is that you're depriving them of their livelihood as well as a roof over their heads, so talk about insult to injury, eh? Obviously the local government is still expected to carry out services, development, and investment in certain cases. Next steps include reducing corruption as well as allowing local governments to gain and keep more of their money :P Preferably without disenfranchising the people they serve. And that's just one out of a million problems.
A good thing is that they're talking free-market reforms by 2020. Hopefully everything works out in that respect. Political reform, I'm not looking forwards to it. Mostly because I'm not predicting (or the experts aren't predicting, rather XD) that it to happen soon. Hopefully for 2018-2023 or beyond, fingers crossed.
Hnnnnngggggggg
LOL @ how topic changed to China in the D&D DCC without any guidance from me >:)