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Say nice things about China

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    #32
    Pretzill
    Registered Users Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    jaxxx wrote: »
    Pandas

    I'll second Pandas and manners, they're very mannerly (not all pandas...)


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    #33
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,295 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Great food


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    #34
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    branie2 wrote: »
    Great food
    Especially that Bat soup


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    #35
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,124 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Great work ethic.
    Won't stop till world domination is complete.
    Can print their own money.
    They don't watch Coronation Street.


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    #36
    All that fandango
    Registered Users Posts: 329 ✭✭All that fandango


    Cheers for the spice bags


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    #37
    Mariomaker
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭Mariomaker


    Thanks for Ice Cream

    Coming from the country the murdered 60 million of its population more then Stalin last century & is currently cleansing and has consentration camps in Xinjiang.


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    #38
    Corona20
    Closed Accounts Posts: 91 ✭✭Corona20


    Got my first big lob the gob to a Chinese song.
    Tpau China in your hand.
    China wasnt all I had in my hand that night wha?


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    #39
    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,441 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    The prawns from the river in Shanghai are fcucking delicious.
    Also some very very attractive women


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    #40
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,808 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    They're not fussy eaters.


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    #41
    Zebra3
    Registered Users Posts: 13,854 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Their high speed rail is incredible.

    Was on it a few years ago from Shanghai to Beijing.

    Less than five hours and that's about the same distance as NYC to Chicago.

    See how long that takes on a train.


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    #42
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,614 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Their high speed rail is incredible.

    Was on it a few years ago from Shanghai to Beijing.

    Less than five hours and that's about the same distance as NYC to Chicago.

    See how long that takes on a train.

    I was on the Maglev in Shanghai last July. 20 miles in 7 minutes.

    Imagine... Dublin to Galway in 56 minutes.


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    #43
    gammygils
    Registered Users Posts: 17,241 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    Wheeler Dealers is just not the same without Ed
    :p


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    #44
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    great for drinking tea from


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    #45
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    They limit people giving birth.
    Thank fcuk.


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    #46
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    They have slightly relaxed their one child policy that have caused so much grief.


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    #47
    mikhail
    Registered Users Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭mikhail


    biko wrote: »
    They have slightly relaxed their one child policy that have caused so much grief.
    Yeah, they upped it to 2 for everyone a few years ago. By the end, there were loads of exemptions to it anyway. The one child policy has left them with similar demographics problems to us - what gets referred to as the "pensions time bomb" here.


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    #48
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,295 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    They're a great bunch of lads


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    #49
    kowloonkev
    Registered Users Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭kowloonkev


    jaxxx wrote: »
    Pandas

    Red Pandas too


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    #50
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,500 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    S03E01-0vSRuB7j.jpg


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    #51
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,811 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    They gave us Charlie Chan and Cato.
    Wasn't Cato one of the guys who assassinated Julius Caesar ?


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    #52
    Podge201
    Closed Accounts Posts: 173 ✭✭Podge201


    They don't eat Chinese takeaways.


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    #53
    Popeleo
    Registered Users Posts: 422 ✭✭Popeleo


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I was on the Maglev in Shanghai last July. 20 miles in 7 minutes.

    Imagine... Dublin to Galway in 56 minutes.

    I love that maglev - been on it quite a few times.

    Most of the time is spent accelerating up to the top speed of 432 kmph and then slowing down. Only at max speed for a couple of minutes.

    So you could theoretically do Dublin-Galway in 30 minutes.


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    #54
    [Deleted User]
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    Podge201 wrote: »
    They don't eat Chinese takeaways.

    Yet they eat bats in a bowl of water........
    Not a good ad for having a 3in1


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    #55
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    They eat rats. Good for pest control.


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    #56
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    I suppose their blocking Twitter is a good thing about China.

    Of course their ban on Twitter doesn’t extend to government officials using it to spread propaganga outside of China.


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    #57
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    They haven't eaten the people of Tibet yet.


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    #58
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    They haven’t invaded the Republic of China (i.e. Taiwan) yet, despite all their threats to do so.


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    #59
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    Popeleo wrote: »
    I love that maglev - been on it quite a few times.

    Most of the time is spent accelerating up to the top speed of 432 kmph and then slowing down. Only at max speed for a couple of minutes.

    So you could theoretically do Dublin-Galway in 30 minutes.

    That was actually built by Siemens.

    They’ve never been able to make a business base for it to any European rail operator. They’re all happy with 300-350km/h long distance high speed.

    Irish Rail is happy with about 160km/h on a good day ...


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    #60
    Popeleo
    Registered Users Posts: 422 ✭✭Popeleo


    Xertz wrote: »
    That was actually built by Siemens.

    They’ve never been able to make a business base for it to any European rail operator. They’re all happy with 300-350km/h long distance high speed.

    Irish Rail is happy with about 160km/h on a good day ...

    Yes, a Siemens and ThyssenKrupp consortium. Even in China, it is a one-off. They have built thousands of km of traditional high speed rail in the last decade, running at either 350kmph or 250kmph.

    It's a pity that the Shanghai-Hangzhou line never went ahead, as that could have helped spread maglev rail. The one to the airport doesn't even make it into the centre of Shanghai, but it was a nice project for the 2010 Expo.

    I'm really looking forward to the Chuo Shinkansen, Japan's first maglev bullet train. Top speed over 500kmph, with the first phase opening in 2027.


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    #61
    Xertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,069 ✭✭✭Xertz


    The TGV actually hit 574km/h on a test run using conventional rails.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE4A0nPjyqQ


    At present (well when they're no coronavirus) you've Bordeaux-Paris 20X per day in 2h14 mins at normal high speeds - 584km

    Cork to Belfast is only 419km!

    It'll be a LONG time before we see anything like that hurtling across the Curragh.


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