my god the new nightwish album is perfect. there i said it.

You ought to check out dälek for some more noisy hip hop goodness.

Noted, thanks

Ki don't ever change your avatar. It perfectly captures what a whiny bitch you are.

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I wonder how much overlap there is in the customers for protein shake powder and penis enlargement pills.

Perfect.

Gonna learn Russian. Wish me good luck

удачи!

i wish russian was a useful language to learn so i could learn it and then vicariously enjoy their country/culture even more

but it seems pretty useless.

of course mandarin is useful but it's ****ing insane. i see so many chinese symbols on boxes and **** at work i thought maybe i could start learning what some of the symbols meant... not speak the language properly but just learn some of the symbols. i was dumbfounded at the complexity and gave up rather quickly as it wasn't something i was really looking to dedicate an excessive amount of time to. that language was designed specifically to make westerners feel dumb, i believe.

Are you sure you don't mean Cantonese? Mandarin and Cantonese are the two most prevalent languages in China, but Cantonese is the most used.

no im not sure, i always thought chinese was just called mandarin

i just called it chinese when i searched for it

Yup.

F*ck you. My avatar says.. "KUNG PAO!!!!"

http://chinese-cookbook.com/wp-conte...ao-chicken.jpg

You showed me.

I showed you KUNG PAO!!!!!!!!!!!

http://chinese-cookbook.com/wp-conte...ao-chicken.jpg

Good for you.

looking at this and at the wiki for mandarin, the symbols look the same to me lol

do they share the same alphabet/symbols?

also, i got stuck watching this for a good 20 mins despite the fact that it had nothing to do with what i was looking to learn :laughing:

Is this someone from the Republican party? I feel that it is.

That's Janet Reno.

Cantonese is not the most used, not even close. Mandarin is far more popular. Cantonese is the modern form of the language of the Yue region (named after the old kingdom in southern China), also sometimes called the Wu Yue region (which refers to much of the south/south east coastal provinces). After Mandarin became the "official" language of China, Cantonese has been limited mostly to the southern provinces, the city of Guangzhou in the Guangdong province in particular (and actually, that's where the name "Cantonese" comes from. "Canton" is a bastardization, and is what westerners used to call the "Guangdong" province.). It's also spoken throughout certain parts of south east Asia, like Vietnam, Thailand and Laos.

Cantonese is not the majority language of China, although there are many Cantonese speaking communities in the U.S. This is because Cantonese was widely spoken in Hong Kong, which was a British owned colony until the 1990s, and much more friendly to the western world than mainland China was. It was relatively easy for people from Hong Kong to move to the U.S., and there was actually a pretty big "exodus" of sorts when Hong Kong was being handed over to the Chinese government, as the people of Hong Kong wanted to live in a Capitalist country rather than a Communist state (although, in hind sight, Hong Kong was allowed to remain fairly independent and capitalistic in the end). There was also a great deal of animosity between the people of Hong Kong and the Chinese government, after the atrocities of the past. The Communist government arrested and killed many people, especially teachers and scientists who disagreed with the government, as apart of their "cultural revolution", and so many people fled to Hong Kong.

There's a graph here that shows over 70% of people in China predominantly use Mandarin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language

Eh, I probably shouldn't have written all that, but I'm bored and need something to talk about. Cheers if anyone bothered to read it, though.

If it had been anywhere but MB it would have been a great read. Instead...

So, by the standards that my school puts forth I'm technically not allowed to have cans, water bottles, apples, tin foil, my disco light, saxophones, clarinets, guitars, toy instruments, flutes, trumpets, drums, toilet paper or paper towel rolls, shampoo bottles, CO2 cartridges, spoons, knifes, forks, or boxes since I know a way for all of these to assist in ingesting drugs. Interesting.

You never could resist a good stag.

Quit it with the Kung Pao, or you'll face the wrath of Kung Lao.

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2..._Lao_(MK9).png

I'm cooking KP tomorrow and will be posting pics. You'd just wish to have a set of sticks at my table O-boy!

I warned ya'. Get him!



Anyway, Kung Pao chicken sounds so good right now... I might go run out and grab some.

OK. i

I love this place.