Obsessed with Taiwan’s “down-to-earth” Halloween party, where you ONLY dress up as normal people in everyday situations. This is “the woman looking for a seat at food court”:
“the Starbucks employee forced to smile through an exhausting Halloween”
“the guy waiting for his girlfriend by the shopping mall restroom”
this gal
“the newly single in Japanese drama getting over a relationship”
“the makeup beginner”
“The man under infrared camera”
A driver’s license
When you’re loading
“the one who’s still playing Animal Crossing”
“the surprised man, who got vasectomy last year”
“the one who left the bag open”
“the guy who had to work during vacation”
“the woman who got head injury in soap operas”
“the woman who’s having her bang cut but the hairdresser is nowhere to be found”
This idea is originally from Japan “地味ハロウィン “. Here are more looks of you’re interested. h/t @krishraghav
I have nothing to promote, but people in Taiwan only get to have this much fun because the country has reported 200 days with ZERO new coronavirus cases. WEAR A MASK, and VOTE! washingtonpost.com/world/2020/10/…
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A man in China was caught by police for using VPN to browse Wikipedia. While using VPN has been deemed illegal in China, this is a rare case for the gov to specifically disclose what the VPN is used for: reading wikipedia for research
For a long time, using VPN to get around the Chinese firewall is a gray area. It's widely used by expats, intl students an intl companies. But recently there's a surge of cases of individuals who are punished for using VPN.
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- The court froze L’s 2m USD asset based on T’s story
- L said they never worked with T. Turns out 3 hustlers forged L’s chop and cut the deal...
- 3 conmen used fake chop to get T to promote hot sauce in online game. They sold the game coupon came w/ fake laoganma campaign for profit
- Rumor: Tencent employee fell for the the phishing site thru Baidu search engine
- Baidu: we have nothing to do w/ it...
So Laoganma woke up one day realizing its bank account has been frozen & it’s selling hot sauce in Tencent video game for a year with no apparent reason cuz Ocean’s 3 pulled the weirdest con for online game coupons
China suspended a local cartoon after someone wrote the gov a letter reporting the characters have "inappropriate hair colors" and "misleading values". Prior to this, bright hair colors have been largely banned on Chinese TV, but it's pretty much a first for cartoons. 1/
Response from Hunan Radio & TV Bureau: the hair colors are designed to differentiate characters, & the program aims to promote "positive energy". "It's not intended to promote hair dying, but we didn't take the subtle impacts on kids into account." 2/ gbdsj.hunan.gov.cn/gbdsj/gsdat/if…
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