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It is designed to withstand them, any videos of the damper in the Taipei 101 during an earthquake will show that quite neatly, but it also helps that /most/ earthquakes in Taiwan happen in or around Hualien - over on the east coast, not a whole lot around, and a very well drilled population. I...

I don't feel like I live in a bubble, I certainly don't own a Rolex, and mostly try to avoid London. I have lived in both Taiwan and China though (note: one is not a part of the other), and those are some interesting takes on the situation.

Work at a university, so we closed at 1pm yesterday and reopen on the 3rd - nice not to have to take any holiday for it :D Though, I'm used to saving it up to use over Christmas and New Year, so now end up having too much leftover and taking half of January-March off too.

When it's hot. But then, I live in Yorkshire, so I'm walking around today in jeans and a leather jacket while everyone else is basically naked because it isn't raining (yet).

While I'm familiar with your views being a few decades out of date, how much clothing do you think is made in Taiwan these days?

I've had a nice weekend, so took time off from replying to this, but: Nobody in China ever asked my opinions of Taiwan, but I was also living there at a time before Xi Jinping, when there was a bit less stoking of the nationalist fervour as a distraction. This is written as if you were...

I don't need to Google it. I've largely avoided engaging in here, but my degree was Chinese studies and history of modern and pre-modern East Asian civilisation. I've spent a few years living and studying in China, and 7 years living in Taiwan. Your take on history is absurd, and rightly seen...

It's fun that you can Google parts of sentences like "United States maintains a robust unofficial relationship with the island", and the next line is identical to multiple other articles posted online.

My worst and best were probably a day apart at the same hotel. They moved us after we said we were there for our wedding, I didn't think that sort of thing actually worked :D

Is... Is this what happens when a wumao meets chatgpt? It's an impressively verbose rewriting of history.

Work at a university, so we technically closed on the 21st until the 3rd, though teaching ended the week before, so there have been no students to deal with anyway. Did used to enjoy working Christmas day in a pub though - get out of the house, short shift, good mood, free drink from every...

About a week. I was down doing a job in Cambridge when my phone decided it had had enough of being a phone and would prefer to be a shiny brick instead. Had to get the train back (tickets and timetable on my phone, sigh), then go to a gig in the evening at a venue I'd never been to before...

If anyone is interested, the BBC's Newsnight global on Taiwan on Tuesday night was very good, and I say that as someone who is generally critical about the way the BBC report on Taiwan. I don't think there was even a single repeat of the "China views Taiwan as a renegade province to be reunited...

I was briefly on a Taiwanese TV show, where they were wandering the streets looking for a foreigner to go up a mountain and watch the sunrise with them, and I was sat outside a bar. So everyone got to see/hear my poor apologising in mandarin that I had work the next morning and wouldn't be able...

Half of Yorkshire is currently in the dark. The half that had electricity in the first place, admittedly. A reason to at least have a tenner for when the card machine goes down in the pub

I once stayed in a hotel in India with my then partner where we found a hatchet on top of the wardrobe. Fortunately we were on good terms at the time.

Generally 13:30-13:50, could take as much as I want between 11am and 2pm, but would have to make it up at either end of the day. If I start about 8:30, that means only about 2h40 to do after lunch, which I can generally manage before getting sick of it all. If I took lunch at 12 and had to do...

:):mad::mad::mad::mad: :mad::mad::D:mad::mad: :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: :D:D:D:D:D Well that was lucky :p

I just had a long, upset message from a very close Belarusian friend, who I met when we were at uni in China. Our friends there were a mix of Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian - not so many Russians for me, who tended not to be so friendly with the Brits there (with exceptions), but those...

:D;):mad::mad:;) :D:D:D:D:D A pleasant change after some of the recent ones!