PROBLEM: "Posting again. Please does anyone have a laptop I can borrow for 48 hours?"
SOLUTION: Probably none. Who's going to lend a stranger a laptop for 48 hours?
PROBLEM: "Offer 650 an hour and your post will be approved. Else offer housing"
SOLUTION: What?
PROBLEM: "Hello everyone, where can I buy a mosquito net for the baby. Thanks."
SOLUTION: Uh... go outside? It's not like this is a difficult item to find in Taiwan. Any store with a baby section would have one of those mosquito nets which unfold over a crib. Lacking that, most variety stores sell a similar net used for covering food left on a table.
PROBLEM: "What is it about hot dogs and Taiwan?"
SOLUTION: I don't know dude. Maybe people just like hot dogs?
PROBLEM: "政府說可以鬆綁不用戴口罩可是我認為應該繼續戴口罩 , 我會繼續戴下去的" ["The government says we can relax and that we don't need to wear masks but I think we should keep wearing masks. I will continue doing it."]
SOLUTION: This from 麟洛吃喝玩樂 [Linluo Food, Drink and Recreation]. The post refers to the removal of the outdoor mask mandate. This post has received no likes and no comments. Some people are never going to let COVID go.
PROBLEM: "Can someone please explain why in Taiwan the local population adhere to rules of the Ghost Month and restrict their movements accordingly but then follow and celebrate the Celtic Pagan festival of Halloween (All Hallow's Eve) ?"
SOLUTION: This guy posts in the "Kaohsiung Q&A" group A LOT.
Do Taiwanese people "follow" Halloween? Are they making sacrifices to pagan deities? Are they dancing naked in the moonlight? Or are they just engaged in Halloween art projects and trick-or-treating? I have the feeling this guy is very religious, and that this "question" was posed for the sake of generating some kind of religious discussion.
PROBLEM: "Hello, I'm looking for single room from 1 December. I hope I get the answer soon!"
SOLUTION: This was in "Kaohsiung Apartment Rental." The problem here is WHERE in Kaohsiung? Kaohsiung City is huge, and there's a big difference between getting a room in Luzhu, getting a room in Linyuan, and getting a room in Taoyuan.
PROBLEM: "I'm looking to find any sort of aftershave. Any ideas??"
SOLUTION: There's aftershave in every supermarket. How is this person not finding it? I get that the labels are in Chinese, but it's still pretty obvious where the aftershave is located.
PROBLEM: "As a black man what place in Taiwan is not safe for me to visit?"
SOLUTION: This one was posted on the r/taiwan subreddit. There aren't nearly as many dumb Taiwan-related questions on Reddit as there are on Facebook, but sometimes someone surprises you.
It makes me sad when someone expands the racial politics of wherever they live to include the rest of the world. Does this person have any reason to think parts of Taiwan would be unsafe for a black person? Maybe they've confused Taiwan with China (there are plenty of "racially charged" videos of China on Reddit), but as far as I know there are no especially dangerous areas for black people in Taiwan. In fact some areas might be safer for black people, given many Taiwanese people's fear of speaking English to obvious foreigners of any color.
PROBLEM: "Recommended me 'Italian Restaurant' that near MRT pleaseeeeeeee."
SOLUTION: By "Italian Restaurant" do we mean "any restaurant that serves spaghetti?" If so there are literally dozens (if not hundreds) of places in Kaohsiung that serve spaghetti, and typing "Italian restaurants" in either English or Chinese in Google Maps will show you which ones are located near MRT stops.
PROBLEM: "今天是平日呀 ! 怎麼人那麼多 !" [Today is a weekday! Why are there so many people?]
SOLUTION: This was posted in the 釣魚人 ("Fishermen") FB group under a picture of traffic, without any indication of where the picture was taken. It was posted several days ago, so I can only hope the traffic has abated... wherever that person was.
PROBLEM: "請問誰有 螃蟹" [Excuse me who has crabs]
SOLUTION: This question was asked in the 滿州鄉民服務平台 [Manzhou Township Residential Service Platform]. There was only one response: "What kind of crabs?," to which the person responded "Mountain crabs." So they're looking for freshwater crabs I guess, not the kind of crabs you were probably thinking of.
The sad thing about this post is that most of Manzhou is part of Kenting National Park, and thus a protected area. Aside from a few areas people there shouldn't be catching crabs, and they shouldn't be talking about doing so on Facebook.
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NOTE: I avoided including questions asked on Forumosa. In my opinion that fruit is hanging LOW.
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