some people are on a mission. they are puritans/zealots even if they dont see it. they would turn a thread about heamaroid cream into an arbuement for vegetarianism. now where's that pile of veggies?

btw is you are an laowai and you sign up to the 'all expats are losers back home' philosohy. well if the cap fits you wear it mate, but i ain't

casual choice? no. those who are too casual in life and can't gtet a job at home are too casual to get off thier asses to go overseas. i think the majority are here by active choice. i also think the majority are not bar flies, there are teachers here who are involved with some kind of career developmment and no everyone here is a teacher. many in kunming are long termers.

like i said 'sounds like'. if he is a laowai then wtf is his problem

@blue sounds like a miserable local. someone else peddling the same old sterortypes, as someone put it. the trap is that in life in both cultures we cannot express schaden freude, so we do it online where we are less accountabl efor what we say, espeicially when using aliases. especially when they use malapropisms.