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Speaking of decolonization

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  • bachophileB Offline
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    It’s safe for work!!!
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    Macau Portugal sometime in the 70s??

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      Mine is safe for work I don’t know why it says that

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      • bachophileB bachophile

        It’s safe for work!!!
        ******

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        Macau Portugal sometime in the 70s??

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        @bachophile you can edit what the spoiler alert is when you post.

        ***for you***

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        So there.

        Screenshot 2022-12-02 at 10.26.47 AM.png

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          @bachophile you can edit what the spoiler alert is when you post.

          ***for you***

          click to show

          So there.

          Screenshot 2022-12-02 at 10.26.47 AM.png

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          @George-K that’s not safe for work!!!!

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            Actually maybe mine isn’t safe for work. Maybe someone in the ******* government is reading this

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              Renauda got it - Macau was handed over from Portugal to China in 1999. IIRC, it was December 31st symbolically, ending 500 years of European colonization of Asia.

              I was there maybe 7 years later and found no one spoke any Portuguese. It’s a huge gambling Mecca and has a separate visa regime than China because of it.

              "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
              -Cormac McCarthy

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                Hey I did too but got the year wrong

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                  My real estate selling agent was born there. First time I ever met someone from there. My wife has visited several times.

                  Education is extremely important.

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                    Macau was an occasional (but long) night out when I would be in Hong Kong. Untold debauchery often ensued.

                    "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
                    -Cormac McCarthy

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                    • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                      Macau was an occasional (but long) night out when I would be in Hong Kong. Untold debauchery often ensued.

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                      @jon-nyc said in Speaking of decolonization:

                      Macau was an occasional (but long) night out when I would be in Hong Kong. Untold debauchery often ensued.

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                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                        It was pretty "seedy" when under Portugal. I think it really took off when China took over, which is kind of surprising.

                        (I once had a taxi drive me around the course that the Formual 1 (or maybe Formula 3) raced. Do they still have that race?

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                          It was pretty "seedy" when under Portugal. I think it really took off when China took over, which is kind of surprising.

                          (I once had a taxi drive me around the course that the Formual 1 (or maybe Formula 3) raced. Do they still have that race?

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                          @taiwan_girl said in Speaking of decolonization:

                          It was pretty "seedy" when under Portugal. I think it really took off when China took over, which is kind of surprising.

                          (I once had a taxi drive me around the course that the Formual 1 (or maybe Formula 3) raced. Do they still have that race?

                          It's F3 - and they still run it, although it's been cancelled of late due to Covid. Both Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher won the race before becoming big stars in F1.

                          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau_Grand_Prix

                          I was only joking

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