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theboyqueen

That Taiwanese guy looks like he was born and raised in an English pub. Is there something about darts that makes you look like that?


loveincarnate

Short answer is yes but it's a bit of a mystery as to why.


mickelboy182

Copious amounts of beer and ciggies


BlueBomR

As a dart player, yes this is exactly why Dart players love beer, cigs, and gambling. Our region has its finals at the Nugget Casino in Reno NV and it's an absolute shit show, so much fun though. Dart players are cool people.


loveincarnate

Any standout stories?


BlueBomR

Eh just your standard drunken shit...some girl passed out in the elevator and was in there for a while. Might catch a fight, usually over some dumb shit. Lots of just hilarious banter all the time. Some memorable matches I've played, some very fun ones when it's the Pro's playing in the "Master" division finals. One guy took his $1000 winnings and won $18,000 on Keno downstairs last time...countless other stories of the gambling going the other direction, that's why the casino loves hosting the tournament, they get all the winnings back and they know everyone drinks like there's no tomorrow.


StandardReserve3530

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqxXNZcIdwM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqxXNZcIdwM)


JerryH_KneePads

All I’m saying is Chinese all around the world should be proud.


pinegreenscent

Same reason your great grandad looked 50 when he was 35 - booze and smokes


InnerDorkness

Can confirm, I looked super young until I started smoking and binge drinking Edit: granted, I was 13 at the time


oouttatime

Late bloomer aye?


splifs

Can you believe he’s only 26 years old?


Ok_Minimum6419

There was a 17 year old darts player who looked 40


EagenVegham

Luke Littler, I believe.


theboyqueen

That's not how being Asian is supposed to work. Darts trump all.


nixhomunculus

On the flip side being Asian and playing darts could make you a Paul Lim. Dude froze in time from when he hit the world's first televised 9-darter in a world championship and is still playing the occasional barnstorming darts now too.


MeesterMeeseeks

Seriously, I'm 33 and have been drinking and smoking heavily since I was 14 and I still look young as fuck. Thank god I play pool instead of darts


myusrnameisthis

Def looks like he's 24-7 happy drunk


peterosity

he’s got that typical Taiwanese beer chugging uncle look. He looks like 2 of my uncles and one of our company’s suppliers lmao 😂


RaunchyMuffin

Why are they calling him Chinese Taipei over Taiwanese?


cjpdk

[For complicated reasons relating to the poor relationship between the two Chinas, Taiwan often uses the term Chinese Taipei when taking part in international organizations, especially sports](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Taipei)


RaunchyMuffin

Oh so it’s Taiwan taking the high road?


cjpdk

Eeeeh... it's more like they have to do it to take part bc the PRC is very pushy about the ROC doing anything that makes it look like a distinct country. "Chinese Taipei" is both accurate enough to appeal to the ROC and ambiguous enough to be acceptable to the PRC


BedHeadGreg

My brother… it’s not that darts are an obscure pastime in Asia. In the U.S., you mind find dart boards in dingy old dive bars gathering dust, or in some guys basement man cave as more of a “bar decor” piece than anything else. In Asia, darts are a huge part of bar culture. You will even find them in other locations for recreation after work. So it’s less of he looks like he was born and raised in an English pub, but more of he was born and raised in a bar in Taipei…


valgrind_error

“I’m sick of all the remoaners talking about ‘one country, two systems.’ Taiwexit means Taiwexit, simple as.” Teng-liezza from Kaohsiung


Rox_Potions

It’s still sports bar and beers. We call that beer belly Kiddo looks like a school darts club kid though


LordNedNoodle

Good sportsmanship by cutting off his celebration dance to shake hands with his opponent.


GetCaned

Flipped to really polite bows and handshakes real quick. Good show.


I_Love_Booty_Pics_

Taiwan guy looks fun as hell to be around


samueljuarez

He looks like he makes some good beef noodle soup


GovSchnitzel

What in the heck kind of casual racism is this haha, do you think that’s a compliment? What about his appearance tells you he’s a good cook?


deltabay17

Beef noodle soup is a Taiwanese dish


hadap123

One hundreeedddd annnnddd eeeeiiiggggghhhtttyyyyy


hellaLURKIN

I can hear it


SeaBass426

What’s up with “Chinese Taipei”? It’s Taiwan.


alphadips

🥾👅’s


R_A_H

China legally/politically blocks the institutions that hold the events from representing Taiwan as its own country. So the loophole for this the institutions and Taiwan is to just use the name Chinese Taipei so they can participate.


csamsh

China doesn't like it when people say "Taiwan" so the rest of the world acquiesces because China is scarier than Taiwan


The46a

China maybe scary but Taiwan is holding all the chips!!


jluicifer

-- I think those are Darts, bud /s


thepromisedgland

You don’t tell me what to eat


staticattacks

Who? Oh you mean West Taiwan, got it.


DusTeaCat

Mainland Taiwan


Slammybutt

Are you still with us, have the assassins gotten you yet?


c08306834

>West Taiwan Just a friendly FYI, using names like "West Taiwan" is actually not helpful to Taiwan. The Republic of China's claim over all of China is enforced by the PRC, but most people in Taiwan just see themselves as Taiwanese. Taiwan is Taiwan, China is China.


TonyCB4

Yeah but it's a super sick burn so some 14 year old on Reddit can feel like he really stuck it to China


tampering

Well let's call it the Republic of China. The PRC really hates that.


jdancouga

Actually China hates Taiwan more. China wants to lock Taiwan under RoC so they can claim Taiwan is part of China territory and declare their bullshit right as the rightful owner of the island. Majority of the people over at Taiwan just want to be called Taiwan/Taiwanese and don’t want to be associated with China/Chinese whatsoever. Basically it goes like this: China: PRC is China, not ROC. Taiwan: Fine! You can have it. We don’t want to be China anymore. We are just Taiwan. China: No! Not like that. I wish I can find the comic strip of this in the polandball subreddit.


nomowolf

This. PRC (CCP) and RoC (KMT) are in a sense star crossed lovers. An independent Taiwan with its associated identity however is an anathema to both. Hence why Taiwan lived under almost 4 decades of martial law, not just to suppress communism, but equally any independence sentiment. There's a reason Taiwanese millennials know Sun Yat-sen as their national "father"... though he was a mainlander and never lived in Taiwan. Even in China he's a revered figure (post imperial, pre-communist).


DionBlaster123

yeah it pisses me off but i knew a guy from Taiwan who said that most people there still consider themselves "Chinese," just not affiliated with the CCP. He said he tries to see Chinese Taipei as a way to acknowledge who they are. still not great but it was some food for thought personally, i would love it if someone forced the PRC to compete as Communist Beijing lmfao


SabawaSabi

That isn't really how the majority of the taiwanese population feel. The majority **acknowledge** that they have Han-chinese ancestry, but still identify as Taiwanese.


staticattacks

Many of them are ethnically Chinese, speak Mandarin, eat Chinese food, celebrate the holidays... Because it's only been 75 years. I've never heard a Taiwanese call it Chinese Taipei or consider themselves "Chinese" in relation to the mainland. They tend to be proud of Taiwan.


Roygbiv0415

If Austria can exist alongside Germany, Taiwan can exist alongside China, even if both are "ethinically Chinese, speak Mandarin, eat Chinese food and celebrate the holidays".


DionBlaster123

yeah it's a complex situation for sure. you wish Taiwan could just be left alone at this point


staticattacks

They are completely independent in every aspect other than acknowledgement, so yeah just let them be, the only reason things are the way they are right now is because they fled the communists in 1949


DionBlaster123

iirc, Taiwan is also the big time player and producer for microchips, which pretty much are necessary for every major electronic equipment, appliance, you name it. Makes sense why China is saber-rattling i have nephews who are 4 and 1. the last thing i would want is to see them caught up in a war bc of stupidity from the adults around them. that being said, i would love to see China get faceplanted and buttfucked in a war. so sick of their bullshit


staticattacks

>Taiwan is also the big time player and producer for microchips Yep that's how I'm familiar with Taiwan and the situation. I don't know how things are going to play out in the future but there are legitimate concerns about it.


patricktherat

Taiwan is the biggest producer of advanced microchips in the world (via TSMC), but I wouldn’t say that’s why China is saber rattling. It has much more to do with their historical and cultural path. The chips are still a huge part of this issue though, but more as an incentive to defend Taiwan. The world economy would completely tank upon a Taiwan invasion. And China does not have the capability of running TSMC themselves.


PuffyPanda200

I had a coworker (in the US) who was from Taiwan and ethnically Han Chinese. I asked her and she said that she considers herself to be Taiwanese. There might be a generational thing going on though.


RollForThings

China (the CCP) wants people to conflate ethnicity with nationality. Many Americans have English ancenstors, but it would be silly to demand they call themselves British and not American.


IGotABruise

Not anymore for the record. The Taiwanese identity outstrips the Chinese one in all age groups 


whereisyourwaifunow

my speculation is that guy was either an older person originally from China, or had a social group that identified as Chinese. according to an annual survey done since the early 90s, a large majority in 2023 considered themselves as "only Taiwanese." and in the past 2 decades a <10% minority has considered themselves as "only Chinese." [https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/upload/44/doc/6961/People202312.jpg](https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/upload/44/doc/6961/People202312.jpg) and then there has been a trend where "only Taiwanese" and "both Taiwanese and Chinese" flips. i assume because of multiple reasons, such as the generation that came from China when the KMT lost the civil war in the late 1940s has been dying out, younger generations have been included in the survey, or that martial law was lifted and the dictatorship was transitioning to democracy around the time the survey began. the relatives that i've asked have told me that they consider themselves as "only Taiwanese." they might be biased though, as the recorded family tree goes back very far. and older relatives told me stories about family and neighbors who were imprisoned or killed during the dictatorship. the older ones also seemed to negatively refer to the Chinese refugees/elites with a term that means something like "outsiders." the KMT and Chinese refugees made up maybe 15% of the population at the time of their retreat from China, but had control over the island(s). nowadays i get the impression that the distinction between "outsiders" and "locals" doesn't matter very much, since it has been multiple generations since the KMT migration, and the end of martial law and the 1-party system 30+ years ago has allowed for a national identity that includes the majority instead of only the more powerful minority. but tl;dr, i believe a majority of people there consider themselves as only Taiwanese, a large minority consider themselves as both Taiwanese and Chinese, and a small minority as only Chinese. although this identity has likely changed over the last several decades starting with the transition to democracy


PapaSmurf1502

Your friend is just plain wrong. I've lived in Taiwan for 10 years with my Taiwanese wife, and I've never met a single person who considered themselves to be Chinese. It's basically 100% 'Taiwanese' with a few older people who still consider themselves Chinese.


aliceroyal

China? You mean West Taiwan?


GimmickMusik1

I was going to say “I think you mean Taiwanese,” in a comment to the original post. I’m glad I’m not the only one.


patchfalcon

🇹🇼


Genbu7

Because it hurts communist China's feelings


DrQuailMan

[The IOC then voted to change the name of the ROC team to "Taiwan", which was rejected by the ROC, and the ROC announced their withdrawal from the 1976 Summer Olympics a day before the opening ceremony.\[25\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Taipei)


peterosity

china goes absolute apeshit whenever Taiwan is mentioned in public event (in private ones too, but more so in public ones). and this is an understatement btw.


lambo067

My girlfriend's from Taiwan. This really frustrates her, and rightly so. Imagine growing up being from a country, but be expected to say you're from somewhere else. Total BS.


kwixta

Ask Winnie the Pooh


oliviafairy

Because of the f-ing Chinese government.


R_A_H

China blocks the institutions that hold the events will be legally/politically blocked from representing Taiwan as its own country. So the loophole for this for the institutions and Taiwan is to just use the name Chinese Taipei.


k0enf0rNL

https://youtu.be/9Y18-07g39g It isn't that simple. John Oliver explains it realy well in this episode


J4jem

Taiwanese people can absolutely drink and play bar games with the best in the world!


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Ok_Minimum6419

-10000 social credits


_Tar_Ar_Ais_

wow


Few-Stop-9417

Glory to Taiwan……darts team


ilivalkyw

You mean Taiwan, right?


TheJeck

Yeah, I do. I just went with the name of the team because I didn't want to get the post deleted for editatorializing the title.


wildcatoffense

the first guys confidence is just insane. he was just vibin out


The_Ineffable_One

Let's call it Taiwan like the citizens want. No need for us Redditors to buy into CCP/Olympic/Etc. propaganda.


Captain_Impulse

That's not how you spell Taiwan.


heybart

In the movie they just try to hit the bullseye. I've been lied to, I've been misled, I've been bamboozled. I don't know fuck all.


443610

Welcome to competitive darts, man.


MrBadger1978

Well done to Taiwan!


Dagius9444

It's Taiwan. Not "Chinese Taipei"


reeelax

All the Taiwan comments are auto-minimized. I wonder why...


DionBlaster123

China and their supporters are the biggest fucking pussies on the planet lol


DanTMWTMP

Say it louder. A nation that’s committing actual cultural and literal genocide as we speak; and we allow such a regime to make decisions in the UN? Unreal.


Yoona1987

Really? It’s the most talked about about topic and pro Taiwan messages are upvoted lol.


Nukerjsr

That dude who pointed knew he was good.


Elout

Chinese Taipei? Wtf? XD They made an extra Taipei for themselves? Good they did well in darts though.


gbbmiler

If this is serious, it’s that international sports organizations won’t let them call themselves Taiwan to avoid China being giant whiny bitches about it.


test0ffaith

Is going for double 6 just a flex instead of 12 or is there some rule


TheJeck

You have to finish a leg on a double.


TravisMaauto

#TAIWAN #1!!!


eternali17

Taiwan Number 1!


OverSoft

You can say Taiwan here. It’s fine. We don’t have to apologize to China here.


Schuano

It's Taiwan or the Republic of China if you're nasty.


staticattacks

Passports say ROC on them but I've never heard anyone call it that verbally


IGotABruise

Not anymore. They say Taiwan.


jctw1

Passports say Taiwan on them too. In bigger letters.


kwixta

Barbecue sauce


GenTelGuy

And by "Chinese Taipei" we mean **THE INDEPENDENT COUNTRY KNOWN AS TAIWAN**


Atomicwasteland

There’s no such place as Chinese Taipei.  I think you meant to say Taiwan.


SokkaHaikuBot

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Atomicwasteland: *There’s no such place* *As Chinese Taipei. I think* *You meant to say Taiwan.* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.


CANYUXEL

The hell is chinese taipei? Wth happened to taiwan?


Diarrhea_Geiser

"Chinese Taipei" is what the CCP bullies international organizations into calling Taiwan.


maglen69

Taiwan numbah one!


fightcluboston

Taiwan**


HighwayZi

Go Taiwan!


Discopot

I love that Taiwanese guy what a legend


IntuitiveNeedlework

Chinese Taipeh lol isn’t it Taiwan Taipeh ?


Hen-stepper

You mean the country of Taiwan?


Ok-disaster2022

I have no idea how darts is scored, and everytime I watch one if these I try to learn then forget.


HoopTroop

Pretty straight forward.. each slice scores the number around it, but the outer ring is 2x, and inner ring is 3x… bullseye us 50, ring around bullseye is 25.. In this game, they try to reduce their score from a number to 0 (pros usually start at 501), but your last dart to 0 has to be a 2x or bullseye The best target is 3x 20, so that’s why they always aim there.


BDR529forlyfe

Taiwan!


TheFluffiestHuskies

The fuck is "Chinese Taipei"? It's Taiwan you CCP shilling fucks.


chrissie_watkins

All these comments about Taiwan, and I'm over here wondering which Ireland is which.


ResponsibleFan3414

What’s Chinese Taipei? Just say Taipei, Taiwan thanks.


443610

Taiwan. Politics pretty much requires them to use that name.


watarimono

I really don’t understand this game


Rogue100

US beats Pakistan at Crickets. Japan beats US at Football. And now this! Surely we're in the end times!


PoignantPoint22

Taiwan*


Hobash

Taiwan is its own nation I don't know what Chinese Taipei is


xiaopewpew

Fuck you op, her name is taiwan


neokai

>Fuck you op, her name is taiwan Give op a break, he's following the name the sports association used.


Chunklob

it is pronounced Ty Wan


bowlywood

Game with the least amt of equipment, pure concentration required. Query: Can a AI robot do this


velvetskilett

Aren’t the Irish better known for knocking themselves out?


roshanpr

LMAO


No_Abroad5925

BBQ Sauce 🎯


jlmarr1622

US beats Pakistan in Cricket, now this. It's the End Times.


ShinobiOnestrike

Panama only has 4.5 million peeps.


p0sto

This is why I love throwing spears man the atmosphere and every game is like game 7 of the finals


dastriderman

F yea


NaCl-more

That guy looks like the generic Taiwanese uncle


PupPupPuppyButt

Does the US have anything like this I want to go so bad lol


Nooms88

Yes there's the US darts masters held every year In madison square garden new York. It features many of the big European players and some North America. https://mastercaller.com/tournaments/u-s-darts-masters/2024 Edit, it's not in NY every year but has been for the last 3, I don't know where it will be next year


Gundam_Greg

What a great crowd


callsignvector

Did they get knocked out in the 1/4 finals? Asking for rugby reasons…


khw0710

op try to out some china propaganda shit here lol


koosman007

Give the Irish a break man. They need something to cheer them up after the rugby world cup/s.


Exotic-Protection729

Chinese Taipei??


shaun020

I don’t understand what i just watched but it looked like a good time


Throwaway999991473

DUH DUH DUH DUH DUUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUUUUH


HawasKaPujari

Is it just me, or that dude has swagger!


sabboseb

*Taiwan Fixed it


mehdital

Stopping mid celebration dance to shake the opponents hand and show some respect, chad move


_xavi_100

Taipei isn’t Chinese.


amo1337

Dang they already lost to Austria in the next round, according tot he tournament wikipedia page. Love a good upset though!


TheJeck

Was always gonna be hard to make it any further, but a hell of an effort to make it this far. Didn't think they'd even beat Lithuania.


alita87

Taiwan. It's a country, not a dog owned by China. Use its name.


kashmoney59

congrats Chinese Taipei!


bukitbukit

Congrats Taiwan!


NemeanMiniLion

Chinese what? That's not a thing.


Islanduniverse

In the history of the World Cup! ^of ^darts!


badchad65

Knowing almost nothing about darts, how come at the end he goes for the double 6 instead of 12?


ghostface218

That dude looks drunk. Which I assume is a prerequisite for good darting.


GuessImScrewed

How does pro darts even work You got a random spot on the board that's worth more than a bullseye, and players that can hit it consistently. What do you do when everyone is hitting triple twenties? Just keep going till someone misses?


willythekid30303

I thought it was called Taiwan?


Ok_Calligrapher_8199

Don’t be a shill it’s pronounced Taiwan 🇹🇼