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So this is what gets you blocked

The post I wrote a couple days ago, Block you! You motherblocker!, has gotten a fair amount of comments, and all of it seemed dandy until Zhong Guo Ren tuned in. Here is a recreation of their comment, as I had to sift through the database and manually... ...full story at Lost Laowai

from Lost Laowai on Mon, Jul 02 2007

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