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Hoaxes and BS that you've fallen for. Come clean.
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Hanson



Joined: 20 Oct 2004

PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

X-ray vision sunglasses to see through people's clothes - ordered from the back of a comicbook.

Very disappointing.

While traveling in Canada, my wife asked me why they called it "Niagara Falls". I told her it was because in American Indian, "Niagara" means "Great Water".
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JongnoGuru



Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep

PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hanson wrote:
While traveling in Canada, my wife asked me why they called it "Niagara Falls". I told her it was because in American Indian, "Niagara" means "Great Water".

What's so funny or clever about that? I would have told her it means "orgasm" in whatever the Native American language is/was there.
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hameltoe



Joined: 10 Oct 2005
Location: Right here

PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:19 pm    Post subject: Re: BS story Reply with quote

teachingld2004 wrote:
This person is not "hot".

This is just a person who said they have been here a while and could not get a job. I felt sorry for this person,and could not understand why this person could not get a job.

I knew of 2 jobs in my area, and I told this person that they could stay with me awhile. Hey, I am nice. (stupid, but nice)

But I did not know this person was very picky about jobs. I did not know this person only wanted to live and work in Buson. I did not know this person wanted to work there so this person could get a seasonal pass to Disney Land in Tokyo and go there once a month. I never would have invited this person to stay with me for 5 minutes if I had known that.

I did not know this person only wanted a Univ. job, and would not take 1.9
Some Univ, pay 1.9 Some pay 1.8 Some have hours that are low. But if u do not have a job, you take what you can get. Each month this person does not work is zero salary.

Forgive me, I am just disgusted with myself at the moment.

Hey, this person came over here, and had no money and no job. So I figured I could help another human out. We have all needed help at times, haven't we?

I let myself be used. I am sure other people beside me believe sob stories. But enough is enough. When this person told me they did not want to be woken up if some one called about a job, then it was time to throw that person out.

I may be soft, but I was sick of being a door mat.



Man just tell us who it is already, you obviously want to
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hameltoe



Joined: 10 Oct 2005
Location: Right here

PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I worked in a lot of bars over the years and we used to get the new people through various ways. We'd often send them to other competing bars to obtain items that "we were out of." Some that come to mind at the moment are...

A bucket of steam for the dishwasher
soda bubbler
laser fluid
ice mix- always made sure to infom that this would burn if it cam into contact with their skin
glass hammer

We'd also get people to spend hours getting all the limes out of the Corona bottles. Good fun for all, it's amazing how people won't question anything when they are eager to please.

Of course I never fell for any of this when I was new. Confused
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safeblad



Joined: 17 Jul 2006

PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

all the best hoaxes involve midgets. Its kind of sick but i wish this was true.

http://www.newturfers.com/mwf/attach/38/355838/BBCNEWSWorldLionMutilates42MidgetsinCambodianRing-Fight.htm

i first saw it without the heading at the top, looked like a genuine BBC page.
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hairy sue



Joined: 18 May 2006
Location: weewee heaven

PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's what I look like when I look at my phone.

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Hanson



Joined: 20 Oct 2004

PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JongnoGuru wrote:
Hanson wrote:
While traveling in Canada, my wife asked me why they called it "Niagara Falls". I told her it was because in American Indian, "Niagara" means "Great Water".

What's so funny or clever about that? I would have told her it means "orgasm" in whatever the Native American language is/was there.


Never said it was clever or funny; just an example of where my wife was fooled. I have no idea where 'Niagara' came from. I just made it up and my wife fell for it.

My mom thought it was funny when I told her, but then again, she's old.
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khyber



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction

PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

at my construction job, (water and sewer installation) we used to mess with the newbies a bunch....happenned to me too.
Somethings we told them to get:

1) The plutonium ("it's in the wheelbarrow"..."there is one already openned") for the leveller

2) the checkered spray paint

3) the double bladed shovel (and then someone would SCREAM at them for bringing a normal shovel).

4) If we'd have to dig up a pipe, one of the pipe layers would yell "go get the reverse shovel". THAT was my favorite.

in the end, turned out the joke was on them for working a shitty job for the rest of their life....
but...
now it turns out the joke is BACK on me cause they're making hand over fist cash.
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JMO



Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu

PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

safeblad wrote:
all the best hoaxes involve midgets. Its kind of sick but i wish this was true.

http://www.newturfers.com/mwf/attach/38/355838/BBCNEWSWorldLionMutilates42MidgetsinCambodianRing-Fight.htm

i first saw it without the heading at the top, looked like a genuine BBC page.


the ricky gervais podcast where they talk about that is a classic. I think its in season one.
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Rapacious Mr. Batstove



Joined: 26 Jan 2007
Location: Central Areola

PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The construction site noob jokes always crack me up the most. Was recently working as a roofing sub contractor and we had a school drop-out come work for us as a labourer. He was sent to the plumbers on-site to ask for a 'long weight'. The plumbers said they didn't have one but told him to ask the chippies who sent him to the sparkies and then to the painters. Brilliant



khyber wrote:
at my construction job, (water and sewer installation) we used to mess with the newbies a bunch....happenned to me too.
Somethings we told them to get:

1) The plutonium ("it's in the wheelbarrow"..."there is one already openned") for the leveller

2) the checkered spray paint

3) the double bladed shovel (and then someone would SCREAM at them for bringing a normal shovel).

4) If we'd have to dig up a pipe, one of the pipe layers would yell "go get the reverse shovel". THAT was my favorite.

in the end, turned out the joke was on them for working a *beep* job for the rest of their life....
but...
now it turns out the joke is BACK on me cause they're making hand over fist cash.
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blaseblasphemener



Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be

PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used to think the capital city of Saskatchewan was named after a part of a woman's anatomy. Embarassed
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh, I thought of one. Mega doses of Vitamin C will cure a common cold. Tried it a few times back in high school. First time it seemed to work wonders. But never after. Placebo effect. Most vitamins are water soluble. Beyond the RDA (about 60 mg in the case of vitamin C), your body doesn't use it. Doesn't store it. It just pisses it away. People who take mega vitamins only end up having the most expensive urine in the world.
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ChopChaeJoe



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mindmetoo wrote:
People who take mega vitamins only end up having the most expensive urine in the world.


Actually that would be Keith Richards.
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mole



Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Act III

PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

More army silliness.
Fresh out of boot camp, I was told it's routine maintenance to tap around on your tank
with a ball peen hammer.. checking for soft spots in the armor.


OFF topic: But since I'm reminiscing..
My first time driving my new tank, I was totally lost. The onboard intercom wasn't so good, either.
I thought my TC (tank commander) was cursing me. I kept hearing, "*beep*!"
Turns out he was telling me to, "SHIFT!"
I thought the thing had an automatic transmission, and almost blew it up!
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lepid gecko



Joined: 28 May 2004

PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

some years back, it had just hit midnight, and i was dozing off listening to radio. The DJ said there was a news flash, a huge asteroid was flying toward earth and was going to cause chaos and destruction.
that woke me up Shocked

i believed it for a while until i realised it was april 1. Embarassed
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