"they cut off his head, he did not survive that" so true king

@Dencrack89

26 күн бұрын

came her to post that.

@paulmichaelfreedman8334

26 күн бұрын

Well, not for long, that's for sure. Apparently you can remain conscious for up to 20 seconds depending on how fast the blood drains from your brain.

@perfectallycromulent

26 күн бұрын

some people just refuse to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, put their head back on their body, and get back to work. shameful.

@JamesHalfHorse

26 күн бұрын

I actually snorted.

@smoggert

26 күн бұрын

humor so dry I had to sip my water

"...cutting off his head. He did not survive that" XD

@yoursubconscious

23 күн бұрын

ya, 😂 thought the same

@conoba

22 күн бұрын

@@yoursubconscious I am surprised as you are.

@simbriant

22 күн бұрын

I am shocked. Shocked! 😂

@ChrisJackson-js8rd

21 күн бұрын

i remember reading somewhere when i was young that it takes as much as 15 seconds for your head to die once severed no clue how true that may be tho lol

@christopherconard2831

12 күн бұрын

Clarification on such details is important.

5:05 The monotone "bro had 10 wives and 27 children" caught me off guard. 💀

@fattestallenalive7148

7 күн бұрын

bro really said "bro had 10 wives and 27 children"

I lived in Macau with my parents. Back then, we didn't pay taxes because of the casino's profits. Since my father worked at the Macau electric company, we also didn't pay electricity. Good times.

@ArawnOfAnnwn

24 күн бұрын

What DID you pay lol?

@brunosirigado

24 күн бұрын

@@ArawnOfAnnwn Shopping at Hong Kong every weekends...

@fft2020

24 күн бұрын

devias ter la ficado, Portugal CONTINENTAL é para os Portugueses filhos de Portugueses e netos de Portugueses

@awesonimals1216

24 күн бұрын

@@fft2020hahahahaha portugal nao eh dono de nada amigao

@awesonimals1216

24 күн бұрын

@@fft2020a portugueses; nada nao é a toa que dizem quao nojentos voces sao 😂😂😂

I visited Macau during the last week of Portuguese rule. One thing that struck me about the city was how few people knew any Portuguese, despite the fact that all the signs were in Portuguese and the old city was a textbook example of Portuguese architecture. I understand that this was largely because most of the city's residents arrived from China in the 20th century, but it did confirm my suspicion that the Portuguese, for better or for worse, made very little effort to assimilate the people they ruled over. This video sheds a new light on that - they were not really in charge at all, they just did whatever the gangs told them to do.

Speaking as a former resident and student there: Their CE, Mr. Ho constantly iterates that diversification is important but there's barely anything done. They're still as a rock. It was especially evident when covid was over nothing changed. The money is flowing back in to casinos. Even with the thriving casinos, the local residents aren't benefiting. Theres many people who study to leave the city, so brain drain is a significant problem. Their infrastructure is focused on the casinos, where there's barely any investment for the Macanese people themselves. Since money laundering is such a problem and regulations are so tight there, E-commerce is nearly impossible. Many shops are still closing and reopening there. The job figures is misleading too, as a lot of jobs posted are potentially scams. A lot only want your personal data and/or money.

@Rubicola174

25 күн бұрын

"What we're doing is unsustainable and can not work forever, but I am baffled that it still works and terrified of changing anything that might break it."

@yensteel

25 күн бұрын

@@Rubicola174 Where is that quote from? It's so relatable and explainable! It applies to both Macau and a lot of draconian business practices. In one case study, a hotel company restricted their corporate network speed to 200kbs as they feared that employees would waste time on social media on the computers. Email attachments, ppt, and pdfs had to be sent on the hotel guest wifi network. It was anonymized with the name "Ravine"

@Rubicola174

25 күн бұрын

@@yensteel That case study is hilarious! Sadly the quote is made-up but kind of fits the attitude I have to any electronics project I touch.

@MeiinUK

25 күн бұрын

It's too late... It's probably already an extension of Singapore... So it can't compete.

@ReyZar666

25 күн бұрын

the issue is that the mafia ( the casino owners) are part of the Gov, just like in another 3 world country, (trust me i live in one) they will talk about the issues, but there is no real way to deal with them after all you need to cut off a huge portion of the gdp, by cutting off ties with this people and thats not possible since this people have a lot of power so the gov act like a puppet unless there is a bigger country interested in dealing with the shit show, but for them there is a lot to loose and little to earn so they end up partnering with the mafia

The dry 'he dud not survive that' had me in a chuckle

Hum. There's a James Clavell novel The Noble House detailing one eventful week in Hong Kong in 1963. One of the character is Lando Mata, the Portugese-Chinese owner of the gambling monopoly which is partially based on Stanley Ho.

@crashwangdoodle

10 күн бұрын

Great movie with pierce brosnan!

Remembers years ago reading a statistic that gambling in Macau is five times more important to their economy than that of Las Vegas and thinks: “Alright, I’ll give it a shot.”

@aps125

22 күн бұрын

Macau gambling revenue last year was about 24 billions, three times larger than the strip

@Mongol_Invasion

21 күн бұрын

Casinos are a great way to launder money. It's not that they are dumb, it's corrupt officials who want to have a good time and wash their money.

as someone born in macau in the 2000s (and left since) this video resonated especially on the economy currently - it is a lack of diversity ever since covid it felt like a drastic change in the quality and way of life (and this is not accounting to the totaliterian-esque restrictions) as most casinos cannot capitalise on the vip guests. likewise, with or without diversification macau (to an extent hk) are both doomed to mainland as they export much cheaper labour and greater competition to the locals who would often lose out and the money spent onto macau's non-existent tourism (or what remains of it after little red book ruined everything) drives prices up. I currently live in the uk and sometimes i feel the prices here are the same back "home", even if every brit moans about cost of living but i digress. i do not mean to be xenophobic to the mainlanders (as that would be illegal under the national security law) but i do feel like both macau and hk have lost its soul, from when i was a child - a place which used to be a haven of sorts, removed to nothing but bureaucracy and oligarchs willing to sell out to the mainland government as the common people suffer under prices (and housing) with lowered income. rant over

@LambdaTheory

Күн бұрын

Good comment

Macau is of course also central in North Korea's efforts to get (foreign) money into the hands of the regime, evading sanctions

2:00 And then a Polish traveler came and they tried to get him drunk but they run out of alcohol so the traveler left.

@djackmanson

25 күн бұрын

The Finns have entered the chat

@HanSolo__

25 күн бұрын

@@djackmanson Love from Poland!

@betobsbf

24 күн бұрын

😂😂

I have been working my way very slowly through your very first videos over the last few months, and just made it up to the Macau history ones when this popped up. Coincidence or what? You have an excellent body of work here. It's great to see how your presentation has improved over time, the older stuff was patchy but the content is still 100% worthwhile. Thanks for doing you.

I subscribed for the history of SQL and now I'm getting the history of gambling in Macau, nice

Yup, I remember the "good ole' days" of VIP rooms. Some suites were quite luxurious. Even had separate food and booze (and concierges that would get you anything else you wanted, and I mean anything) menus. Quiet, clean didn't smell like, old beer, booze, angst and cigarette smoke like the regular Casinos.

@BlaBla-pf8mf

25 күн бұрын

VIP rooms are pretty normal in the gambling industry. Are they forbidden now in Macau?

@KeithZim

25 күн бұрын

@@BlaBla-pf8mf He is hinting at debauchery. The bad of the bad could be had by lad if he were bold enough to ask..

@ArawnOfAnnwn

24 күн бұрын

@@KeithZim What kind of debauchery pray? Details pls. ;)

@Winkle-Dinkle

24 күн бұрын

@@ArawnOfAnnwnsomething like Dubai porta potties I bet

it's interesting how a gambling industry seems to almost guarantee the ensconcement of an oligarchy whose primary interest consists only of making things easier for their casinos. perhaps monaco is an exception. by virtue of being too small to house the poor.

@DctrBread

24 күн бұрын

civilized nations prefer to gamble at the stock exchange

@nothanks9503

21 күн бұрын

You gotta do what the US learned to do tie the casinos profits into social goods like the casino I worked at all their income went to the government to build stuff like roads hospitals and an auditorium for the high school then the government pays them back minus taxes

@ChrisJackson-js8rd

21 күн бұрын

@@nothanks9503 that certainly helps. the problem is that it's very difficult to calculate the harm done by gambling, whereas it's relatively easy to quantify the benefits. As the benefits are largely financial and the harms are generally not. like take someone who loses his house at the casino. thats an economic postive to the economy as a whole and yes you can offset the benefit received by the casino by taxation and then use those public goods like some sort of welfare housing for the man's family, but i dont see how this transaction will ever realistically be made into a net benefit. an extreme example i know, but that i have witnessed before nonetheless. but yes harm reduction and harm offset clearly helps versus funnelling the money into criminal organizations

i was assuming this was about casino buffets…

"they cut off his head, he did not survive that" Just a scratch wound

@patrickjordan2233

22 күн бұрын

It's easier (closer) to "..bite your leg off..."? Love the movie reference LOL

@DdTtYyNnMm

13 күн бұрын

Barely an inconvenience.

I like how everyone is getting eaten over time. Like the amount of video titles asianometry has stating whomever was ate you would think by just titles that they were dabbling in true crime.

@adamcordingley2572

26 күн бұрын

I about had a stroke trying to read that second sentence lmao

@LucificNight

25 күн бұрын

Reminds me of when headlines kept using "slammed" whenever anything even remotely critical was said.

@Tealice1

25 күн бұрын

"How the Dutch ate their prime minister" is a video I'm waiting for

@ArawnOfAnnwn

24 күн бұрын

Wait till you hear about How Seven ATE Nine!

We need Fallout: Macau as a spiritual successor to nvg

This is what vice does, it destroys your own house and your future.

@the_expidition427

25 күн бұрын

As any does

@kxkxkxkx

24 күн бұрын

Stanley Ho had a bunch of nice houses 😂

The way you find such disparate yet fascinating subjects is quite amazing. Enthralling!

I'm very happy with your content, one of the only few KZreadrs who I've supported monetarily.

Do a video on fentanyl and casino laundering in Vancouver. Chinese triads, big circle boys… Wilful blindness is a book on it.

“…cutting off his head. He did not survive that”.

You could do a video on the invention of the teapot and still make it sound fascinating. Absolutely love your work,

A guy with the last name Fok was the major investor in a company named STD-M? You can't make this up.

@vacamike

21 күн бұрын

Are you a child?

I live in the Western United States, so naturally I don't ever hear about anything that happens in Asia. Your channel is really interesting! Sometimes we get so caught up in our own lives that we forget there's an entire world going on at any moment! It's amazing!

this channel rules

Great video, again! Your videos are consistently informative and entertaining.

Honestly what an incredible video. Direct, insightful, concise.

Wake up babe Asianometry just dropped a new video

@greggbonti4952

26 күн бұрын

Call me whatever you want but I was already awake. Good looking out though.

@raygumm

26 күн бұрын

@@garettrobichaux correct. You catch on quick. Boosts dude's engagement, doncha kno?

@SianaGearz

26 күн бұрын

@@raygumm All hail the almighty algorithm!

@AmandaHuggenkiss

26 күн бұрын

“wake up babe” comments are cringe and played out

@brodriguez11000

26 күн бұрын

Landed on my foot. Ow! Ow! Ow!

"Babe wake up, Asianometry posted another socioeconomic vore vid."

Lou Kau is coincidentally my great grandfather. This was fun to watch.

Great vid. Gonna go rewatch the whole Macau series now.👋

I wrote the ticket printer driver for the Hong Kong Macau ferry - fun project

@prantikchakraborty8052

21 күн бұрын

Wow.

Wonder about the differences between Macau and other gambling cities like Atlantic City and Las Vegas.

@HaiLeQuang

26 күн бұрын

A LOT BIGGER

@gus473

26 күн бұрын

Brittany Spears has not had an entertainment residency in Macau. Oh, and no port facilities in Vegas. 🎲

@yensteel

26 күн бұрын

Each gambler spends more than in the other gambling cities at least. Source: Asianometry's last video.

26 күн бұрын

7 times bigger than Vegas

@sebastienhardinger4149

26 күн бұрын

Gambling is much more culturally big in China than the US (or at least until recently, who knows with all the sports betting). Vegas has sought over the past couple decade to get as many Chinese and other East Asian high rollers into Vegas because they spend so much. And part of the reason AC has struggled so much is that they can't really access the Chinese high roller market The widespread legalization of gambling in the US also differs massively from China, where it remains illegal on the mainland. While in the US most cities have multiple casinos nearby, the only place you can gamble in China is Macau and HK (and other SE Asian countries). For example, I live in Philadelphia - 20 years ago the only place near me I could gamble at would be AC, but today I can walk to a casino

How convenient, I’m currently reading the book “Blood Brothers” by Bertil Lintner more specifically the chaper on Macau, and he pretty much recounts the same thing in that book.

Another excellent upload, thanks! Can't wait to see a similar one about Cambodia~

Love Macau, always go there, next time I'm gonna eat at Taipa village for a change, last time I was there, got food poisoning from raw beef tartare, stayed at old man Stanley's Versace hotel at Lisboa Palace, nice place! I do notice that Macau's number of gamblers have slowly declined over the years, but the walk-in and leisure tourists have exponentially increased especially among the youth, they don't gamble but they do social media posting, most eat and shop at low to medium end establishments but not really on the high end luxury shops and dinning, that is mostly reserved for the rich Chinese tourists from Southeast Asia.

"He did not survive that." 😂 that's great!

Thank you for your work!

680k population is basically useless figure, so do the apparent density because there’re MORE tourists than the citizens in Macau everyday. And thanks to the distance to mainland is literally nothing, more than half of them go back at night. Moreover, there’re ~100k “foreign” worker(mainly from china) working in Macau. Also need to mention only ~50% of land in Macau is civilised/developed, but local people love to stay in the Macau Pennisula(half again). So all in all there’re usually ~100k person/km2(in town area) in day time and

@yensteel

25 күн бұрын

7-11 is in Macau, a lot of supermarkets aren't open 24/7. These include San Miu and Parknshop.

@TestChannel-gt5yi

25 күн бұрын

@@yensteel In Hong Kong 7-Elevens are almost in every single block, many of them only

@MeiinUK

25 күн бұрын

Wow... So it's like it's an actual commuters' entertainment city then ?....

@TestChannel-gt5yi

25 күн бұрын

@@MeiinUK Well, what a good description! It's very similar to the way people love Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong, high density and clean. But compare to them, Macanese is more merciful(unlike Tokyo it's on the face and unlike Hong Kong they discriminate each other) and simple or even naive, the city landscape is a bit dilapidated, closer to Kuala Lumpur.

@yensteel

25 күн бұрын

@TestChannel-gt5yi Oh, I’m more experienced with Taipa side. Cheers.

Macau is a beautiful place, and a very sad, sad story.

@yensteel

26 күн бұрын

I agree. Macau is laid back and relaxing compared to HK. Their Hac Sa beach is always worth visiting and relaxing in. They have a surprising amount of Michelin star restaurants. However, their whole economy is dependent on gambling, and they didn't diversify even after covid, which hit them incredibly hard.

3:41 "Dragging him off his horse and cutting off his head... He did not survive that."

5:05 bro is brain rotting

3:43 - 3:46 *Supprised Pikachu face*

The screenplay for Martin Scorsese movie writes itself...

I'd never heard of the 12-3 Incident but the Wiki article has enlightened me. I never realised the PRC government was basically in charge from 1966 but let the Portuguese pretend to rule Macau until 1999. Wiki suggests that this was because Beijing didn't want to make people in Hong Kong worry.

@MeiinUK

25 күн бұрын

You're kind of misunderstanding it based on this individual perception. Prc was newly formed. China does not equate to prc. Prc has more parts that is now generalised and classified as china. But some of these people who support the communists don't know that. But why the fights happen here in Macau and in HK is because these people are indeed the last or few remaining Chinese. That is why they fight for their rights. It's like Catalonia... In Spain.. or the Vatican... In Rome... But hearing in mind that nobody said that the two cannot coexists. It can. It has. They won't fight if they aren't some kind of imperial elite. Think about it. Even in Vietnam, there was a dynasty too... Mr Lai... Now it is part of that. So... What is happening with art. 23 is not good. It makes the whole UN notion a mediocrity. Cos you are killing off the remaining empire of another state. Imagine if somebody targetted the royal families.... Even everybody knows that Madonna is part of the royal family tree to the old Queen.... Similar to Mr Lai.

You know, watching stuff like this on a Saturday probably explains why I'm so weird.

The 12-3 incident, coupled with Carnation Revolution, did paralysed Portugese ability to continuing rule Macau. But I will also add, Portugal did want to surrender Macau back to China as early as possible. But the politburo rather have HK first as the latter has more things to deal with. Hence why Macau only back to China 450 years later. It starts and end with Macau...

I saw Casino Estoril in Cascais just recently. Gorgeous place.

I was a professor of Portuguese in Macau between 1989/1997 and never seen the crime-riddled Territory as you say in the beggining of this "peace". With or without Stanley Ho influence. And Gambling in Macau under the Portuguese Rule was always legal, afterall Macau was under Portuguese Law until 1999. PS: what Stanley Ho achived,legally or illegally is just Astonishing. Macau is just 6 times bigger than Las Vegas in Gambling Revenue. Not bad at all for a small old colonial Territory .

@emilcost8613

22 күн бұрын

I was in Macau in 2018. I said to my friend that Macau makes Las Vegas into a place where you go slumming. I've never seen such hotels and casinos as those in Macau.

Excellent video. A few more comparisons with Vegas would have helped with context. Will you be doing a similar feature on Caesar's Palace in Laos?

5:15 which company? Can anyone tell the name?

That picture of Ho with the governor of Macau looks like the photos you always see in Mafia documentaries

Your account is like opium for curious people. Thank you for making me addicted 😛.

I thought this was about the dining experience of the rich…

The picture showing "Casino Estoril" is the one in Porto, Portugal not in Macau.

@joaopedrovalerio9673

25 күн бұрын

It's in Estoril near the racetrack ,not Porto...

@scottchiang7616

25 күн бұрын

@@joaopedrovalerio9673 thx for the clarification

Damn that secret base in Macao with all those ronins!

6:07: Ouch!

Stanley Ho STDM Henry Fok This video has wildest characters

In Portugal everbody called Macau "the patacas tree". Just a place to get rich with business and corruption fast.

ironic that the thumbnail says "how the rich are macau" but the titile is "how the gamblers ate macau" since gamblers usually are the opposite of rich. maybe saying how the casinos ate macau would be better

@sixty4776

26 күн бұрын

Seems you're forgetting to consider the wealthy socialites who owned, operated, and set up rackets based around the casinos.

@SianaGearz

26 күн бұрын

I knew exactly what the video was going to be about the moment i saw it in my feed. Unless somoene else didn't, or particularly nearly skipped the video due to thumbnail/title, i don't feel a clarification or improvement is necessary.

@johnathanclayton2887

26 күн бұрын

The rich also own the casino

@dewiz9596

26 күн бұрын

. . . waiting to see something about Panama. . .

@freemanol

26 күн бұрын

There are rich people who can afford to lose millions yet remain rich

Gotta admit, slightly embarrassed only "knowing" about this place from that James Bond movie

my uncle was running one of the casinos in macau after the handover. the chinese continually cracked down on the gambling and he always complained about them

@ShubhamMishrabro

25 күн бұрын

Is he stanley ho

Thanks for “non-tech” history videos like this too! Asian history is practically nonexistent in european schools… (and this kind of spicy history is also “forbidden”)

@MeiinUK

25 күн бұрын

This is not true. Actually. But this kind of history are news in the eyes of the West. Each country teaches their own history of the country. To teach these relationships.. you need to learn it as a separate subject as history.

Thats why they emphasize woo yao, the poor familiar children and wives.

bobba fett would love macau

Gambling, murders, brothels, drinking? So, just asking for a friend, is that still a thing?

That was brilliant.

fan tan: not "divided by four" but the remainder, modulo four... The Wikipedia on the matter also got modulo wrong, stating that players bet on 1..4--that is not the case, it's 0..3. People really should get their maths vocabulary up to passing levels...

love this video thank you

Does anyone know a channel as good that only talks about economic and finance subjects…..god bless

@James-un8io

22 күн бұрын

Patrick Boyle

Coloane is just Ko-low-Aan, the e is kinda silent.

@fitzt70

23 күн бұрын

Yeah. The narrator’s pronunciation was irritating.

Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita was the Macanese officer who lead the attack on Chinese winning against great odds. He went crazy because he did not receive the accolades he expected and killed his wife before throwing himself down a well. I lived on the street in Taipa named for him.

Awesome.....cheers.

It’s pretty much the same today

I remember going to Macau regularly as a kid in the 80s and was suprised by the rampant poverty and beggars on every street. It was always seedy, but had portugese charm. Now it's lost it's unique culture and has become a vile souless Chinese version of Las Vegas.

18:53 Stanley Ho died in 2020, not 2018

“He did not survive that.” Hahahahah

I love these type videos, better than how many lines the new machine etch on the head of an angle.

Was hoping you to talk about the downfall of SunCity Group and the related socio-events. can you make a vidoe about that?

3:42 "he did not survive that", you didn't put a spoiler alert!

What in the Ozark

Would like to visit and party in Macau.

Wow... i never knew that about Macau and Portugal's dereliction of duty to its citizenry in those final years... Thats truly awful.

Literally the same as Las Vegas

what is your opinion of Polymatter's video about Macau?

Цікаве та пізнавальне відео. Дякую ❤️

talk about Chinese cars manufacturers international expansion

Even though I don’t gamble, I love Macau. It’s a place of great contrasts. Hyper modern casino’s against a backdrop of classic colonial architecture.

@yensteel

25 күн бұрын

I wish Old Taipa would never change!

Half the size of Manhattan? Is that big or small? Manhattan's in USA right?

tek tiles you say ? :D NICE the naughty 90s not so nice :( entropy bubbles up to the surface..

3:38 He didn't?!!

Ho freaking ran macau at least we until 1999 handover

enjoying the dry humour

So it's the Asian Las Vegas?

@MeiinUK

25 күн бұрын

It's not really gambling.. cos in Chinese history, learning to play strategy games is a form of moral civilian etiquette. So a lot of Chinese do play that for enjoyment. The issue is how western eyes see the Chinese situation and then the Chinese see their reputation dampen deliberately... Hence it would kick off. So because Macau was a shipping port along with HK as well. They tried to collect the customs fee. This kind of fee in the UK at least, ends up being public money. I.e. for the community or for the people. So in a way, what you lose in the game, you will see it back in your child's schooling. Since there wasn't an actual government structure at that time in Macau. So.... And Mr Ho being half Dutch and from Europe.... His forefathers have seen a lot of warfare before. Hence this son.. tried his best to avoid bloodshed. At the height of the Dutch Empire.... Their population was in the millions. Maybe around 100 millions ?... Of course due to war, they lost a lot of people. Many Dutch are also Eurasians too now. Many Canadians or Americans are half Dutch. Many so called Chinese or Asians have Dutch lineages.... But they don't know this in their history. If the video maker says that this was the history of Macau.. then does that mean he himself is the son or the descent of such harsh conditions ?... This is why the Dutch have a very very liberal mindset... In order to survive, they would rather be liberal.... Many people don't support them these days though. Despite the video tells you about how these people rose into prominence...

@MeiinUK

25 күн бұрын

Noticed that he calls them "triads" and never actually "imperial scholars" or "nearby Chinese landlords"... (Or King, or gentry).... You wouldn't have this kind of disrespect in the UK. Everybody belongs to somebody...

@ZeZeBatata69

25 күн бұрын

Las Vegas is the Desert Macau.

@gont183

24 күн бұрын

​@@ZeZeBatata69desert Macau is Marrakesh

@Zelielz1

6 күн бұрын

It’s the chinese Las Vegas but with Portuguese legacy. It’s awesome as a tourist.

The most powerful woman in Macau is named Pansy Ho’?

Immaculate as always