Comments by "Link Knight" (@OffGridInvestor) on "China Observer" channel.

  1. More nervous than sheep in New Zealand
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  2. Long live Taiwan
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  3. But the DIFFERENCE is that these girls are OUTRIGHT LIARS whereas the girls of old went to work on REAL SKILLS that they could use AS A MOTHER and housewife. These girls aren't just manipulative and liars, they have no practical skills either.
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  4.  @kevenbrito1635  you think? 🙄
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  5. It's not unknown HERE in Australia that all the rural girls leave to go to the city, and there's PILES of country towns with no millennial women AT ALL. Like zero, not even married ones.
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  6. Same here in Australia! Farmer wants a wife. Then they sometimes get a gold digger who wants him to sell the farm and live with her while she spends all the proceeds.
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  7. I tend to think that it's a tactic that was one of the few options to get ahead in china. I worked at a place with one Chinese salesman and he always wanted special treatment over everyone else for his customers. Often asking for us in the warehouse to get things delivered without payment or the proper process for the warehouse. I was the warehouse supervisor and the warehouse manager used to block his stuff until it was approved by the office staff in sales. We would always check EVERY order for payment because a few times tens of thousands of dollars of stuff was delivered without payment. He would have stuff set to go for the next morning and would've answer his phone or email for us to find it wasn't paid for quite often. This happened once with another salesman and the client was worth millions and buying truckfulls and paid later that day but it was regular with the chinese salesman. It is like the efficiency of sticking to the process is ignored because they always want special treatment that makes a simple job complicated just because of impatience. You have to go and do all the paperwork and work it out with office staff later instead of everything being taken care of first.
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  8. What and you think there's NONE OF THAT in the west? It's TERRIBLE in LA. They hire lambos and some live an ACTUAL wealthy life. Inches away from bankruptcy every month.
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  9. In my experience they wear sweaters that are literally 30 years old. But I keep finding the occasional V8 BMW or the Mercedes-Benz that's hidden in the garage. But many drive more regular stuff and NEVER SAY and then you find out over time that they've got rental properties everywhere. One I know knows another one worth around 65 million. And as he's standing there with his scruffy joggers, he tells me that you'd never know this guy was worth 65 million but he just drops out occasional things about smaller apartment buildings he's bought recently. Another one was an 80 year old fairly motivated woman. Helping us with furniture in a retirement village of about 35+ residences. She had the little 1 series BMW. Not terribly expensive. Except that I was later told she owned literally half the entire complex. And she was worth absolutely millions and originally had about 40 rental properties and sold a few to back the retirement village project.
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  10. ​ @まるまる-l4m6d one here in Australia killed a pelican and was plucking it in the kitchen of shared accommodation. They got jailed immediately, fined, deported 2 weeks later and banned from ever entering Australia.
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  11. My parents saw it first hand in Australia. Cutting in front of people for photos and blocking others taking photos. Running around like crazy for 10 or 15 minutes. Just no regard for anyone, locals or tourists
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  12.  @marykim987  maybe in India. The western way is to shut up about wealth because the less that know, the better. Openly rich can become targets.
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  13. Dumbest thing is he could've put on of everything ON A PLATE and ate it.
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  14. I bought a solar powered calculator with a battery in the back and fake solar panel. I bought a solar watch for my uncle and the same thing happened. Paid $25, should've got the Japanese casio for $40.
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  15. I KNEW EVENTUALLY house prices in China would drop like hell. Happens after ALL housing bubbles. I bet there's no jobs there though
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  16. They have one standard for locals and a far better one for foreigner export. Your last sentence was proven true in an earthquake about 15 years ago. People's houses almost all survived, like over 95%. The government buildings ALL collapsed including the school. They were in the one child policy phase and ALL THE KIDS were killed when the school collapsed on them due to rubbish concrete. Pretty sad really because I think many were too old to have another child.
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  17. The Russians are used to heavy old soviet equipment that goes when it's 40 and 50 years old. It's crude but never dies.
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  18. Imagine if the building come down during peak viewing hours.
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  19. With panda bears painted to look like aliens
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  20. I have seen it in Australia. Paper plates, cups, napkins, all left there, FAR FAR more than the average person needs and they left and it started blowing all thru the park.
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  21.  @bamh1re318  yeah. The way it works is the hatred is SEEDED and then NOT blocked on social media. Like the BMW icecream incident
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  22. ​ @Luke-vl6xl it is when being tourists. Even here in Australia
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  23. I've seen a chinese woman pissing on the side of the road in full view of cars in a road off a freeway here in Australia. I ignored it but there was a fuel station with toilets only a few hundred meters back.
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  24. That's how to spread the rona!
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  25. YES. The high speed rails were built from day one for passengers only, can't handle the weight of shipping containers and freight or the axles would break or the rails buckle.
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  26. Nothing wrong with find husband camps. It's the manipulation and lying that's the worst.
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  27. ​ @summer031977 you're know they're doing well when their armoured vehicles can't even match civilian cars 😅
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  28. Quick tip, we speak AUSTRALIAN HERE, the western country with more inside knowledge and connections with china than the rest of the west. She does fumble the occasional word though
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  29. Feel like we should be helping it along but that would create unnecessary tension if it's gonna sink on its own ANYWAY. It's one of these problems that takes care of itself.
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  30. Gotta introduce them to moose 😮
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  31. My parents have seen it here in Australia and I have seen them leaving rubbish after eating to blow away in the wind
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  32. They've got a HANDFUL of little electric SUVs here in Australia. But Great Wall Motors has the market covered and LDV has a number of vans and one pickup. Great Wall Motors has been around for over 15 years so has a reputation. BYD may quickly destroy itself. MG are already becoming known as chinese junk.
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  33. And eating tofu for lunch. But no water, because that's not connected.
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  34.  @chriswhite3692  there like 36 or 37. 2 are profitable by a few percent (like single digit percentage), 1 is breaking even and all the rest are losing money. Trouble is they're ALL BUILT to only take passengers, the rails themselves and axles can't take freight weights coz they were never built for it. They do take a few tubs of small items, like 6 inch envelopes for people desperate for documents or computer parts but that's about all.
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  35. You're still used to that old heavy duty soviet stuff like old lathes and trucks. Brilliant steel quality, but crude. Works for decades though. I seen a bulldozer tractor from the 50s that is started with a 2 stroke motor on the side, but it still runs. Prefers sunny days though. A miracle it's still going though.
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  36. They've got GREAT steel but dated and rubbish products. But the old stuff is crude as hell but reliable. If you can get it started. Some of the worst emissions ratings in the world on soviet vehicles but in chechnya they ran them on hone distilled petrol during the war.
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  37. In Australia they caught some killing a pelican. The REAL kicker was they were plucking it in the kitchen at shared accommodation. The people running it called the cops and they were in a cell that night, fined, deported 2 weeks later. There's ones here in airports caught bringing in food, fined and then say they'll pay it later. Too dumb to realise you DON'T LEAVE CUSTOMS until it's paid. Their son come to pick them up and had to pay upfront.
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  38. Yes! Great to put on the wall to impress your mother in law
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  39. I found out a chinese girl I was talking to was cross eyed after MONTHS of talking. And then soon after I realized that most of the photos were exactly like the middle aged woman with the app giving her a thin face. Except she gave herself a WIDER face. Now I wonder if her family was as wealthy as she had insinuated.
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  40. This is why the west has a ton of certifications. But I CAN say that in electrical equipment, my country requires 12 for government safety testing. THOSE get handmade with everything up to or above standard. Then the ACTUAL PRODUCTION model is a heap of crap
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  41. Old British saying. Birds of a feather flock together.
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  42. There's one VERY IMPORTANT point you've MISSED here. Look into the big group that owns Lious Vitton. MOST IS MADE in china or romania, except the last few stitches as in the bag handles, or the shirt buttons or cuffs are sown on in Italy or France. THE ENTIRE REST is either Romanian or Chinese made, with them CUTTING the Romanian jobs to make more of it in china. And have you ACTUALLY OWNED GENUINE high end clothing. It is JUNK, BELOW target levels and often closer to Walmart levels. The AVERAGE cheap crap I could buy in the early 2000s lasts longer. The high end stuff, if worn regularly WON'T last ONE year.
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  43. Most of these properties are on land with 40 year leases, maybe 70 year. They had the idea that the money would keep coming if they keep building excess housing while the central government was trying to slow it up because they could see it becoming a bubble. They made it so each family could only own one house so people would divorce ON PAPER just to buy a second.
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  44. They are EXPERTS at fakeness.
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  45. ​ @aidanc9396 samoan guy I worked with was getting a little shellfish which has no restrictions. Chinese were STEALING ABALONE which is a serious crime that locals here have been JAILED for. I think the limit is like 5 a year. This Chinese guy stealing abalone told the samoan guy that was he was taking is illegal and the cops would arrest him. He asked me and I said it's fine but abalone REALLY isn't. The chinese guy hid the bag behind a rock, the chinese guy went to talk to his friends so the samoan guy grabbed it. Took it home and cooked them. The chinese guy later asked him if he had seen a bag and he played dumb and said no.
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  46. Exactly. They're completely ignoring the fact indian guys try to turn EVERY website into a dating site.
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  47.  @henryreyes9326  all these overpriced apartments are often just on a 40 year lease. The government STILL owns the land.
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  48. I HIGHLY DOUBT that. A lot of their basic stuff is just soviet era stuff. They still make vans from 1968 NEW. They are cheap to buy and no shortage of parts. But they are terribly basic.
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  49. Oh yeah. I KNOW ABOUT these ckasses because I went to one of my countries few "tech schools" before they were phased out and sewing and "home economics" which was basically cooking were ACTUAL CLASSES the MAINLY MALE school done. On the other side of the giant hallway from the sewing room? Lathes and panbrakes (sheetmetal bending machine).
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  50. There was a guy who was buying apartments for like $400 EACH. He bought like 5 or more at once
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  51. They actually CAN and I've seen some unbelievable things first hand. Like an entire cauliflower growing from a 1 inch square piece of potting mix to full size, ready to harvest. Bonsai does it but they're deliberately kept small by lack of nutrition. However if there's enough fertiliser put on it, it will grow big and the soil will be a solid mass of roots but it will be pretty much level with a natural plant. It's common here in Australia to have miniature fruit trees that grow fruit IN A POT on your deck. It's got a lot to do with fertiliser rates and types and of course they'd need some fabric to stop the dirt washing away with those trees on concrete. The other problem is water pooling up in certain areas of the concrete causing root rot and eventual death. This isn't a problem for trees that grow near rivers or in swamps.
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  52. ​ @CODEXAMBROSIUS their weapons are INCREDIBLY reliable, about the best in the world. But their consumer products are trash.
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  53. This is just another building bubble. As many wealthy countries in the world have had at some point
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  54. Russian steel quality is actually REALLY GOOD. But their products are seriously dated, crudely built and often junk. But that steel is brilliant.
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  55. "Going full Zimbabwe money printer will save China" Yeah sure. Just like it save Mugabe and boosted Zimbabwes economy so well.
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  56. The chinese with party connections HERE IN AUSTRALIA try this same thing of repeating themselves and yelling louder to try to pretend they won the argument. Especially when it comes to ripping down anti ccp posters some students put up. They even try it with OUR COPS. If I done it as a white person, I might end up in handcuffs.
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  57. My parents were outside some coal mining area and they had 3 rail lines together which were almost constantly running with coal trains. They said it was mind blowing how many tons were being moved out and how long the trains were.
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  58. I did too. I laughed because it's so pathetic. I can understand second hand high value watches. But not pantyhose.
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  59. Don't expect them to know about that here on this city dweller expert channel. Don't expect them to know that the trees on concrete just become like pot plants. And that in Australia they sell orange trees and lemon trees in pots all the time at major hardware chains and they live for YEARS as my aunty has one many years old.
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  60. You must be a PRETTY LOUSY one. I worked amongst seed developers and all and have seen cauliflower growing to full size from a 1 inch square piece of potting mix. To harvesting size. If you know what I know, you'd know exactly the tricks to make this work. As most horticulturists can have trees up to 40 years old STILL growing in pots. It's common here in Australia to buy fruit trees THAT GIVE FRUIT in pots. I see them being sold all the time and know the truck behind it. But I have commercially levels of cacti at my place along with a few hothouses and that's more my expertise.
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  61. They're so clueless they'll start defacing BYD VEHICLES which HAVE COPIED the BMW logo.
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  62. Go back to being like the rest of Asia. Just like it was in the 1800s in something I heard: "the poor ripping off the poor".
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  63. I've heard this. That's why you don't see many birds there.
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  64. Walmart has ALREADY done this for DECADES. The Walmart version would be crappier than the regular one, damaging their reputation and the price cuts were required to be SO SEVERE to maintain being stocked by Walmart that it BANKRUPTED MANY companies including family owned GENERATIONS OLD businesses.
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  65. You mean if you DON'T NEED A JOB these places are best to go. My sisters town has VERY cheap housing. Like 1/20th the national average cost. But the place is LOADED with single moms living on welfare. Very few jobs though. She works online and her husband works for a week or 2 in another city with accommodation provided (government job).
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  66. Only when people ACTUALLY die are they willing to do anything
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  67. To be fair, they use the wrong pesticide and WAY too much, throw the bottle in the water when done, and kill all the aquatic life. Just PURE NEGLECT and laziness often. If they controlled the chemical use, that SHOULD be enough and GREATLY increasing their yields and stop them poisoning everything. Otherwise these government know it alls should just piss off
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  68. INDIANS ALREADY think every website is a potential dating site. There's MEMES on it. I had a Vietnamese guy I worked with interested in white women. I told him don't bother. I think he thought I didn't want him dating white women but I was trying to tell him me and the other main guy there were 15+ years oldsr than him, BOTH white and BOTH single for A REASON. Because the standards of Australian girls are LAUGHABLY high. I'm 6'2 millionaire that is fairly good looking and they don't even try TO TALK to me.
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  69. Then there's the shadow banking industry in china, 3 times the size of KNOWN debt in LEGIT banks
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  70. Yeah, THAT'S a VERY stupid Reagan era saying. Which ACTUALLY means if the US were to default on their debt, NO RETIREMENT FOR ANYONE, coz your pension just disappeared. Honestly it's the most financially retarded soccer mom view of economics.
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  71. You don't understand FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING or this GIANT shadow banking system they have which likely has TRIPLE the debt that legitimate banks have. NEVER MIND that all the housing backing these debts is crumbling and some rotten tail projects literally blown to the ground, others blown over in the wind.
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  72.  @charliepearce8767  people like that SLEEP FINE. Because the BANK is wearing it if he goes bankrupt.
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  73. A bit of maths says THAT'S 500% INTEREST!!! Here in Australia anything for ANY SERVICE over 36% I think is illegal although places that rent home appliances have been caught doing up to 48%.
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  74. They don't KNOW they're locked on by someone else. That's concept is PURELY Hollywood.
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  75. That's the dumbest thing I've heard all week. Have you SEEN the leftover women? I seen a ONE LEGGED girl knock back a guys attempt at her. And divorced chinese women? You ever TALKED to one. Coz I have and they're SAVAGE, just seething angry to the point that if they're in the west, someone would have a psychological test/Baker Act done on them. Most women don't get that men are BETTER OFF single than with someone else's reject. They divorced for a REASON. They're a leftover women for A REASON. Men have NOTHING to gain by marrying, ESPECIALLY in the west and women don't understand that we just DON'T DROP for something lower because it will FINISH us.
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  76. So the GFC had houses raise 120 years in value in like 8 years. So then a crash near3 times as bad as the GFC? Because the GFC houses STILL REMAIN but chinese ones collapse far too often.
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  77. Because Muslims won't allow women to marry non muslim men FOR STARTERS
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  78. One rouge soldier can fix that. Look how Reagan almost died.
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  79. Not surprised. Mainland chinese seem to lie REGULARLY as a part of DAILY life. I've worked for 2 different millionaires. Both corrupt with anything money related including paying people. BOTH times I got my first pay 4 weeks late and had to ask them. Spent several months talking to a chinese girl for a while until I took a CLOSE look at her photos. Meitu..... ALL EDITED. She had a crossed eye.
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  80. Close all BMW, Mercedes-Benz and VW car factories there. There'll be tens of thousands out of work. Then block chinese car imports worldwide. THEN watch them cry.
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  81. I seen videos about thin girls eating hazardously large amounts with the mukbang thing. If I was in china I could easily do it. 1 or 2 HUGE meals a day. I'm not fat but can eat fairly massive amounts then the next day I eat not much at all.
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  82. South Korea is apparently the worst and Japan not far behind.
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  83. And when you're bankrupted there they freeze ALL your money that isn't cash in your wallet. And then tell you that you STILL owe them when your repossessed house sells for less than you bought it
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  84. I would like to point out LEFTOVER WOMEN, an official CCP sanctioned phrase, ARE NOT CHOOSING to be single. Chinese tell me they're leftover FOR A REASON and you'll understand when you see them
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  85. New Zealand started sending PRODUCE like apples to Australia marked as product of New Zealand. You can tell because they taste like cardboard. I don't buy any canned food from china anymore because some of the fruit is in syrup that burns your throat.
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  86. They've ALREADY stopped paying bus drivers and garbage men for MORE than a YEAR, some places 18 months!!! This is in the local governments facing bankruptcy
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  87. Honestly they were scamming each other in the 1800s. Nothing new
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  88. Imagine thinking you have a military good enough to take on other superpowers and YOUR GEAR IS FALLING TO BITS WHEN NEW. 2 missiles dropped DIRECTLY on the cracks with laser guidance and IT'S SUNK
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  89. Gold and silver. BULLION ONLY not those tin foil fake silver eagles the chinese sell into the market
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  90. There's a place ran by jews I believe here in Australia that's like that. They have the expiry date on the big price tag on the shelf. Some is just cancelled orders and stuff that doesn't sell and some isn't cheaper than most. Other stuff is REALLY cheap. Plenty of rubbish brands and plenty of WELL known brands. It's called Not Quite Right or NQR.
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  91. Guess what restaurants in AUSTRALIA where busted selling cat meat in the 90s? And even in the 70s they were buying beef tripe, as in beef stomach and selling it in chicken stirfrys AS CHICKEN. my mother was in beef processing and was shown how it was done by someone
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  92. ​ @auggieeast she does. And she's typical for girls who have zero interest in doing their job properly. I heard FAR MORE mistakes than the average Aussie would make. We ALL know what Bangladesh is, and she's calling it blang-ladesh.
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  93. ​ @sqlexp NO. DON'T maoe excuses because it's NOT her accent. I have thr same accent and NONE of us pronounce Bangladesh as "blang-ladesh" and frigate as free gate. She simply can't read properly and is typical of girls here who don't put any effort into their job. This isn't lisp, it isn't the accent, she's just hopeless. 70% of Australians could do it better. Honestly she'd be fired for even reading childrens books in Australia.
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  94. ​ @EzraMerr she's ABSOLUTELY not china Australian. She's white Australian. I guarantee you she doesn't know a word of chinese. I'm Australian and have worked with chinese migrants, chinese born here and whites born here because I am one. There isn't a single bit of chinese in her and 70% of Australians could do better than this. You'd get fired in Australia if you had to record an audio book and you were like this.
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  95. I BET the Japanese done this so they could be sure they could get food that wasn't FAKE or contaminated.
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  96. Yeah. But china's is FAR FAR worse because it happened moreso in the last 10 TO 15!!! And it's FAR bigger than they know with the shadow banking system that is off the books
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  97. Concrete pipes are something SOUTH AFRICA done for THE HOMELESS. I considered one at my first property for sleeping because of possible tree collapse. A camper would've had me crushed whereas a heavy duty drainage pipe would've been good. Except they wanted THOUSANDS for one new pipe.
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  98. Proof of 14 grand assets. You don't know how hard I'm laughing right now!!! I know quite a few guys worth a couple million. Some relatives. There's guys with watches worth 14 grand on youtube.
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  99. Give it 6 months
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  100. They CAN grow and I have seen some real tricks done included a 1 inch square piece of potting mix, NOT in hydroponics grow a cauliflower to harvest size. Drill holes in the concrete for drainage, water often during hot times, fertilise it pretty heavily and it'll grow fine bit the soil will be packed solid with roots. It will work however and if the concept is rubbish, after 7+ years the roots will break right thru. I had a property with trees growing directly on soft rock, but the grass was hopeless there. It's common here in Australia to have orange and lemon trees in pots, see them being sold all the time.
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  101. As someone who worked in the biggest vegetable nursery in Australia, they CAN technically survive but they're in effect pot plants. Relying on fertiliser and watering and with the chance one side gets flooded and root rot kills that side. It works but they get root bound and stunted after several years. Unless the rubbish concrete breaks up which it might after 10 years.
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  102. Great troll comment 🤣
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  103. That's kind of how most neutral people BECOME political. They have a first hand incident with some nutjob.
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