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[scot47]

Have you READ any of those posts over on the Korean Forum ? Like a script from a movie by Erving Goffman !

[tarte tatin]

The Korean forum is very different in character to the Turkish forum for all sorts of reasons. Also has many more regular posters, some helpful, some spiteful and some barking mad.

I still hang out there sometimes. Many teachers in Korea suffer from insommia so many post thoughout the night in various states of inebriation. It is quite entertaining although the same old topics tend to surface.

Perhaps the biggest achievement of the Korean posters is that they have stopped Ghost talking in the third person over there!

[justme]

How'd they do that? Does he still do those long, somewhat repetitive posts about diet and weight loss over there?

[tarte tatin]

They just kept registering their dislike of his third person style. Actually I haven't seen him post anything about diet there although it is a very lively forum so if I miss a few days, threads are already on about page 3.

I think his last post was about finding Koreans difficult to make plans with (true) and Korean girls being hard to chat up.

Not that I really want to join in Ghost bashing as he lends a certain something to Dave's (and he posts on just about all the forums at some point). The current obsession with diet is a bit overdone though.

[justme]

In my high school, there were a lot of anorexics for some reason. There were always a few of them who'd spend the summer in recovery, so at the start of each new school year, the dorm heads would call everyone together for a meeting and remind us to support the recovering anorexics in getting over their related neurotic behaviors. Things like, don't let them buy you food, don't let them engage you in conversations about weight loss and how many calories or fat various foods have...

Reminds me of that a little bit. Freaks me out.

[Vixter]

Yes the diet and exercise theme is getting a little dull. Especially the stuff about carbs. I happen to have been on a low carb zero sugar tonnes of water way of eating for 6 months now and am happily 13 kgs lighter, feelşg a very happy 60kgs now. Carbs make me feel sluggish, tired and a little windy. Cholesterol is down, energy up and all down to lovely Turkish veggies, meat, fish and good fats (olive oil, cream, butter - yes, really).

See, now I'M banging on about it, I'm annoying myself. Sadly, now working 65 hrs a week the power walking up hills in Bursa in this sweltering heat has had to take a back seat (side?).