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Hod
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| Good job you chose English then and not Maths. |
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grahamb
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| Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 12:22 pm Post subject: Figure it out |
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| The world's population is now more than 7 billion. Most people - your words, not mine - would therefore be something in excess of 3.5 billion people. I said "more than 3.5 billion people". Nothing wrong with my arithmetic. Try again. |
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Hod
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| Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 2:24 pm Post subject: Re: Figure it out |
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| grahamb wrote: |
| Try again. |
OK. How about cooking? Are you any good at that? |
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grahamb
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| Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 5:58 pm Post subject: Something's cooking |
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I'm a dab hand at heating a Co-op pizza and opening a bottle of red wine.
Getting back on thread, I wish I'd started TEFLing much earlier; there's a big world out there to see. In my middle age I'm content to be back home with my cat, who adopted me in Oman. |
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johnslat
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I'm a darn good cook. I got to be one the same way students learn English, the only way anyone gets good or better at anything: practice, practice, practice. 
Dear Hod,
I'd say you may need to run with a different crowd. I know a lot of non-mundane people, many of them I teach. But then, I suppose deciding whether someone is mundane is a very subjective judgment.
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John |
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Lack
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If the Western countries were still as crappy socially and economically as the present, then I'd definitely still get into it.
Unless I had an opportunity to get rich. Then I'd do that and then travel and live abroad for years. |
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Hod
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| Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| johnslat wrote: |
Dear Hod,
I'd say you may need to run with a different crowd. I know a lot of non-mundane people, many of them I teach. But then, I suppose deciding whether someone is mundane is a very subjective judgment.
Regards,
John |
Dear John
These mundane types are only colleagues, not real people. I work part-time with them and so am mundane too during these hours. They are nice people. They've spent 10, 20 or 30 years at the same desk doing the same job with cheese and pickle sandwiches for lunch at their desks from 1230 to 1300 Tuesday to Thursday. I don’t see them Mondays or Fridays alas, so I could be missing elaborate club sandwiches, barbeques and fugu fish lunches (until 1305) for all I know.
If you have a better adjective for these nice people, pray tell.
Overseas countries I lived in are Malaysia, Thailand, Morocco and Germany. Despite the last being only 500 miles away, the idea of sharing an office with a person who lived in Germany causes many to go for a lie down.
Which was the point of my post. TEFL gives you the opportunity to travel that the m******* of people don’t have. It was a positive post singing the praises of TEFLing, but if people still want to split hairs, I know a nice office for you. |
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grahamb
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| Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 10:31 pm Post subject: Get real |
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| These mundane types are only colleagues, not real people. |
So what's a "real" person? For all you know, those apparently mundane colleagues you look down upon might be leading contented lives. Furthermore, staying in the same job for more than 10, 20 or 30 years could just be a sign of job satisfaction. We all measure happiness differently. Surely you've gleaned that from your travels? |
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Hod
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I was wondering about nitpicker. He's been on my case since 2004 so I was getting worried.
"Real" people, that would be sarcasm, lowest form of whatever. If I saw any of these mundane people involved in an accident, I'd call 999. Don't think so much.
No. 30 years in one job eating the same sandwiches is called being institutionalised. |
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johnslat
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Dear Hod,
"If you have a better adjective for these nice people, pray tell."
Don't have to - you already did, in that sentence.
But beware: "
The fictional footage features Andrew Swant as the notorious Dahmer, who murdered and dismembered 17 people; he seems to be a bland, weird-but-harmless blank slate. As Dahmer is seen going about his business, buying a disconcerting amount of bleach or awkwardly transporting an oversized plastic drum on a city bus, it all seems mundane in the moment, ghastly in retrospect."
Regards,
John |
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