Thelonelykoopa
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I can't as well I didn't even learn to snap my fingers till last year where interestingly enough I figure out how to do it from watching Roy from Full Metal Alchemist and now I can snap better than most people I now.
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I can't as well I didn't even learn to snap my fingers till last year where interestingly enough I figure out how to do it from watching Roy from Full Metal Alchemist and now I can snap better than most people I now.
Just came home from Singapore and Philippines (Manila/Boracay).
Singapore is so cool and I can really see myself moving there if possible. Philippines on the other hand really pissed me off. Manila was horrible with all the traffic and the bureaucracy in the country is just laughable. The airport security checks are so redundant and useless. You have to buy and show tickets for everything (for a simple boatride we bought 1 ticket, which gave us 3 tickets, which we had to show like 6 people).
Wasn't a big fan of the food too. Singapore on the other hand was food heaven.
Can't really remember any big ghost stories my family told, maybe because we are catholic.
As if we need more silly asian characters in media.
I can't really whistle, too. Some sounds but not a nice melody :/
Singapore is so cool and I can really see myself moving there if possible. Philippines on the other hand really pissed me off. Manila was horrible with all the traffic and the bureaucracy in the country is just laughable. The airport security checks are so redundant and useless. You have to buy and show tickets for everything (for a simple boatride we bought 1 ticket, which gave us 3 tickets, which we had to show like 6 people).
Wasn't a big fan of the food too. Singapore on the other hand was food heaven.
Can't really remember any big ghost stories my family told, maybe because we are catholic.
As if we need more silly asian characters in media.
I can't really whistle, too. Some sounds but not a nice melody :/
Seductivpancakes
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There was this one time, i was walking home late at night. Something or someone yanked the back of my back pack hard enough to stop me from walking. I turned around and saw no one. It was a quiet night and there was no foot steps or anything.
I didn't stop running till I got home.
I didn't stop running till I got home.
spooky
You poor soul. Whistling is the best way to annoy people on Skype/Teamspeak.
Gully State
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Seductivpancakes
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There's this other time when my grandmother's cousin, who's never been to America before visited us in New York. She was a Feng Shui expert.
At the time, my cousin owned a dog and every evening when the sun sets he would look out the window. We always assumed he was just waiting for my cousin to get back home cause dogs are awesome like that.
One of the days my grandmother's cousin said he is looking at a girl at the corner of the block. Couple of years earlier, a little girl was killed in a car accident at the corner. Kind of creepy.
At the time, my cousin owned a dog and every evening when the sun sets he would look out the window. We always assumed he was just waiting for my cousin to get back home cause dogs are awesome like that.
One of the days my grandmother's cousin said he is looking at a girl at the corner of the block. Couple of years earlier, a little girl was killed in a car accident at the corner. Kind of creepy.
BLOODED_hands
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I've whistled at night plenty of times and by myself, nothing happened.
I've never witnessed anything supernatural per se but.... Back when I was little our basement got flooded. So my brother and I had to go down there to clean it up and when we opened the door a shadow person was standing down there and when we saw it, it disappeared after 5-7 seconds. We just stood there scared out of our minds lol.
Apparently, in my culture red corn is a defense for the supernatural. I've never seen it work and I don't plan on it. Also, sleep paralysis is super creepy no matter what anyone says.
Pao-Yeh-Pao-Lo-Mi!
Man that is no joke.... I've had it once and there was some crazy shit. I was in the living room sleeping and I see my dog's shadow coming up behind me, which was fine until I remembered we set him in the backyard that night. Then it became this shapeshifting humanoid thing and got up and sat next to me. Like it kept shifting between different people that I had never seen before, male and female. Anyway, I felt really lethargic and couldn't move anything except my eyes. I had heard about sleep paralysis before and thought, "Oh this isn't so bad." I willed myself awake and tilted my head around (or maybe I only thought I did) and decided I wanted to try and reach that state again because I am super curious about that kind of shit* so I went back to sleep. I do this with dreams all the time so I figured it might be the same here
Well it worked and the thing was still on the bean bag with me. Then it tried to seduce me or something which I thought was odd and I didn't freak out until it put its hand on my chest and there was suddenly a huge weight and a chill in the center of my chest. The next I don't know how many minutes was like this weird mental tug-of-war of me attempting to will the thing out of and off of my chest until I woke up since trying to push it away with my non-functional arms was getting zero results.
So yeah, it's a really weird and creepy experience that is probably kinda traumatizing. I don't think you can truly understand it without firsthand experience either. My sister has had bouts of it and I didn't get it until that night. Would not recommend, but also if I could induce the state in myself I would until I had a truly horrifying experience.
*I'm not joking about the whistling ghost experiments
Hello, this the police. Ashes has disappeared. And his last post was in this thread so..
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So funny thing is, some thing did happen. And I am only reporting this because I was making fun of the superstition. So I suppose it serves me right.
My bedroom window is next to a tree. And when I whistled out, some creature fell off the branches. Which was all kinds of creepy.
Hard to see in the dark at first but I looked again, and it was the next door cat, all black fur with shiny green.. er cats eyes I suppose
So there you are. I can test it again. And this time I am sure nothing will happen.
Edit: now that I think about it, this is what is probably behind the story. There it is! I, the worst detective on gaf, have solved this mystery, that has plagued generations of Asians down the line!
ActStriker
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BLOODED_hands
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Well... Black cats are supposed to be bad luck so....
When I do get sleep paralysis, my willpower kicks immediately. It doesn't do much but I'd like to imagine that I'm some kind of mage okay? Let me have my fun stupid brain
When I do get sleep paralysis, my willpower kicks immediately. It doesn't do much but I'd like to imagine that I'm some kind of mage okay? Let me have my fun stupid brain
Thelonelykoopa
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Well... Black cats are supposed to be bad luck so....
When I do get sleep paralysis, my willpower kicks immediately. It doesn't do much but I'd like to imagine that I'm some kind of mage okay? Let me have my fun stupid brain
Its funny since the sweetest cats I now have black fur it's the calico ones that I think are planning to kill me.
Septimus Prime
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Also, cats and dogs are supposed to be able to see ghosts. So maybe the ghost showed up and scared the cat out of the tree.
So, youarealreadydead.jpg.
So, youarealreadydead.jpg.
BLOODED_hands
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When I'm out at a restaurant with my parents, my mother's interest will usually be piqued if anything there is spicy. If it serves western food, she will invariably ask me how spicy I think the dish is, to which I admittedly respond by pointing out that it's "American" spicy.
She usually orders it anyway, and then grumbles that it wasn't spicy. I've yet to be proven wrong.
She usually orders it anyway, and then grumbles that it wasn't spicy. I've yet to be proven wrong.
Sorry Cybit, I didn't know either!
But now I do. Thanks for educating me
lol; you were fine - you actually was like "wait a minute, this doesn't make sense". I was more commenting on the posters who went all-in on him from the beginning.
A) The curry thread is hysterical
B) Anyone have fun plans this weekend?
I'm born and raised in America and half-Chinese half-white, so I'm not by any means a spice fiend (usually order 3 stars out of 5, although I'm slowly venturing into spicier territory), but that wouldn't offend me
That's the thing though. An American 3/5 is basically a 0.5/5 on the Asian scale.
I know
I can use chopsticks quite well though! Thank goodness :lol
I grew up eating Asian food all the time, it's just that the Asian food I was eating typically wasn't spicy.
Gully State
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It's always hilarious when I go to a Chinese restaurant with my close friend who's half white/half Asian. The waiters always go out of their way to replace his chopsticks with a fork.
WesternHeretic
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Man as a child my uncle was like "you can't get girls eating like a bitch, eat spicy or no chicks for you" so my 10 year old mind was like "aiite man up and eat spicy."
.... Grow up to learn that was all horse shit. Oh well.. at least I can eat spicy now.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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I love how the one dude was like "WTF!?!?!?!?!?! IS THIS AN ONION ARTICLE????" and then still took everything at face value without questioning it... Like, seriously?
I love really spicy food but due to stomach issues and acid reflux, I'm not able to eat it anymore or I'm in severe pain for the rest of the day. I really miss being able to eat spicy food.
Lone_Prodigy
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I can handle very mild spices. Anything stronger and it just overpowers the rest of the food and I start sweating like crazy.
Food time?
Thai food > *, give me some spicy stuff all day
Been learning how to cook Thai food like my mom, dunno how she manages the flavor each time, I always feel like I'm doing things a bit off. I'm not living with her or anything though, so I have to make do with a nearby restaurant. At least they're pretty amazing.
But yeah, hella spicy please and Thai food >
Meanwhile my boyfriend tears up with just a small amount of spicyness, is hilarious
Thai food > *, give me some spicy stuff all day
Been learning how to cook Thai food like my mom, dunno how she manages the flavor each time, I always feel like I'm doing things a bit off. I'm not living with her or anything though, so I have to make do with a nearby restaurant. At least they're pretty amazing.
But yeah, hella spicy please and Thai food >
Meanwhile my boyfriend tears up with just a small amount of spicyness, is hilarious
Well spicyness should always compliment the dish, spicyness for spicyness' sake isn't something interesting imo
Fun to tell people you can eat whatever super spicy thing though I spose
Septimus Prime
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I cannot handle spicy at all. I've gotten a little better in the last few years, but I can't even take on "mild" at most places.
Gully State
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My thoughts exactly. I've never got that rush of endorphins from eating super spicy food. If it's just pure spice with no flavor, I don't want to bother with it.
Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
I'm just going to assume that there are people in here that know about this, stereo types be damned, but here we go:
I went to a noodle house a few weeks ago and they gave us plastic chopsticks, and I found it much harder to pick things up with them than the cheap wooden ones. Am I just not coordinated enough for them, or am I right that they're slippery and they suck?
I went to a noodle house a few weeks ago and they gave us plastic chopsticks, and I found it much harder to pick things up with them than the cheap wooden ones. Am I just not coordinated enough for them, or am I right that they're slippery and they suck?
BLOODED_hands
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*drools* My friends and family, we all say the same things too when it comes to spicy food in America
"Is it spicy?", "Nah, only for Meeka people lololol"Also, I might be the only Asian that prefers to use a fork over chopsticks lol.
I wouldn't know lol. I'm not that good with them either, I'm subpar with any chopsticks
Do not try and use the plastic chopsticks. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
There are no plastic chopsticks.
Yeah plastic sucks
Septimus Prime
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Metal chopsticks aren't so great for noodles, either. The wooden/bamboo ones made for noodles (that aren't the cheap disposable ones) usually have grooves cut into them, which help by biting into the noodles.
WesternHeretic
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Pretty much the standard one I see in every household now are these including mine.
Septimus Prime
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I think those are Japanese style chopsticks. I know I certainly didn't have those, growing up, but I have those and Korean style metal chopsticks at home now. I actually don't have the big, fat, round (and sometimes made of ivory) Chinese chopsticks I used as a child.
WesternHeretic
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Growing I had the ones at the top right under the ruler.
Now I pretty much use the one you posted.
Septimus Prime
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Yup, me too. That brand exactly, actually!Growing I had the ones at the top right under the ruler.
Now I pretty much use the one you posted.
Those chopsticks bring back memories. I like the new pointy style of the wooden chopsticks but I also miss the length of the bigger ones my parents had. They actually had their own personalized chopsticks that were super worn out and custom lengths.
Yo brunch for me tomorrow too with some friends, hope it's good
Don't usually do brunch since there's always a huge crowd
Also, brunch is for jerks
WesternHeretic
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Ay you north side bitch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6xRCu3kYVY
Haha j/k. I think the "Seattle Freeze" is a little exaggerated but everything else I feel pretty spot on. Crazy how I knew them before they went to Cali too. Now all Youtube famous and shit.