Close enough! I’d get a few GeoGuessr points at least (if you don’t know of GeoGuessr I apologise for the impending addiction). I was in the vicinity not that long ago: bsky.app/profile/weix...

Guangxi?

Hard to debate that any people are more metal than Mongols.

It’s a little staid but I appreciate how cerebral it is here in comparison. Better a slightly uptight dinner soirée than a house party where the quiet conversations I’m trying to have in a corner are drowned out by feces-flinging morons shrieking about crypto as they swing from the chandeliers.

Others, though, I just find kind of baffling. In which exact situation do you use this one, for instance?

Great thread! Fingers crossed for more of this sort of thing on Bluesky. Are Langfang Glory a phoenix club or do they just so happen to play at the same venue as Hebei Fortune did?

Would have involved cajoling reluctant taxi drivers with hundred rmb bills they would inevitably not have any change for.

Almost had a heart attack when I flew back into China via Hangzhou last year and thought I’d lost my local SIM card (fortunately I found it deep at the bottom of my backpack) and was contemplating how exactly I’d get home to Shanghai without mobile access - mission semi-impossible!

I only use it now to reply to Chinese football updates and take potshots at the lamentable state of The Shanghai Daily but I don’t think I can justify even that minimal a level of engagement any more.

Football/soccer. Plenty of billionaire owners but teams being relocated is almost unheard of.