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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« Last post by star seed 7 on Today at 03:40:24 AM »
All hail glorious leader! I visited tiananmen square today. I'm not sure the reason but security on the subway was vastly increased today. Usually you have to go through a metal detector and bag scanner at any entrance, but today added id checks and facial recognition scans at all entrances and exits. The security at the square is pretty extra too. You have to have a timed appointment and go through a full patdown, they make you lift your clothes, I assume in an attempt to stop people from revealing a second t-shirt with a political message or something.



The square itself is pretty boring. I didn't have any interest in any of the museums there, but my cousin told me you can shuffle by mao's tomb and he's actually visible laying there behind glass which is very wtf imo.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« Last post by star seed 7 on Today at 03:32:21 AM »
I of course can't forget to mention the authentic whopper I had for lunch at the great wall burger king!

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« Last post by star seed 7 on Today at 03:29:07 AM »
Great wall was yesterday. My knees are absolutely rough ridin' garbage now so I didn't go very far outside the areas directly near the cable cars. One of you active tdaver/mocat types would love it though. The last tower of one section is an 81 degree incline.







Plenty of signs saying not to feed the cats. Spoiler alert, everyone feeds the cats.



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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« Last post by star seed 7 on Today at 03:21:04 AM »
I went to the Forbidden city on a Sunday, which is apparently the day lots of women (mostly young 20's, but all ages really) rent a traditional dress, get the full hair and makeup treatment, then go take social media pictures outside the imperial palace. They are ev-er-y-where. I didn't take any close pictures of them because I'm not not a creep, but here is one of them lining along the moat taking pictures. Apparently the most popular Chinese TV dramas are period pieces and many are cosplaying their favorite characters.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: travel thread
« Last post by star seed 7 on Today at 03:13:55 AM »
Ni Hao glorious goEMAW members, I have been in Beijing for a few days and leave for Xi'an tomorrow.

20,000 steps during my tour of the Forbidden city and the last stop was a park on a hill above it. I seriously didn't know if I was going to be able to reach the top.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Last post by Spracne on Today at 12:33:58 AM »
Dax over here like, well if the US gets to do it, it’s only fair we let Russia do it. And I’m like, no. I challenge the premise. I challenge the premise to the question. I think you sound more than a little unAmerican. In my house, at my table, we don’t afford conniving commies equal deference to our boys in blue. And you can take that to the bank!


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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Mildly interesting things about you
« Last post by KITNfury on Today at 12:22:57 AM »
I wonder if it's possible to add a few more recipes and have maybe a 2 week cycle
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Let's talk about Elon Musk
« Last post by catastrophe on April 01, 2025, 11:33:25 PM »
Just fuel for the “we can’t have midterms until this obvious election fraud is cleared up” fire.
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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: Stan Van Gundy/Dwight Howard awkward video (now master awesome NBA video thread)
« Last post by MakeItRain on April 01, 2025, 11:07:45 PM »
Damn
https://x.com/big_business_/status/1907235570952114581
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Possible WW3 thread
« Last post by sonofdaxjones on April 01, 2025, 11:05:05 PM »
3 years and 390 pages of denial that the US sought to “bleed Russia” (Lloyd ICU Austin)


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