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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
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| Return Jones wrote: |
| I emailed Mythbusters about Fan Death last year. Yet to seem them do it on the air...... |
Well let's see... |
Oh wouldn't it be great to see them come to Korea and interview countless people. They could advertise it, build a hut in central Seoul, and Jamie and Adam could sleep there all day with the fans on with everyone coming by to watch in amazment. I think it would create spin-offs with others coming here to take the piss out of Koreans. |
Never happen!! Koreans will claim that they have a "different body chemistry" than "white" people!! They'll have to find a Korean who's willing to submit to being in a closed room with a fan on!! |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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| ajuma wrote: |
Never happen!! Koreans will claim that they have a "different body chemistry" than "white" people!! They'll have to find a Korean who's willing to submit to being in a closed room with a fan on!! |
That's exactly what they claim, isn't it? They should take a Korean adoptee and try it. Same pure, delicate Korean genetics. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| ajuma wrote: |
Never happen!! Koreans will claim that they have a "different body chemistry" than "white" people!! They'll have to find a Korean who's willing to submit to being in a closed room with a fan on!! |
That's exactly what they claim, isn't it? They should take a Korean adoptee and try it. Same pure, delicate Korean genetics. |
Nope, the adoptee would have been contaminated by a fur'ner diet instead of being raised on white rice & kimchi, thus invalidating any such test. Or he might have had sexual relations with a white woman which, as we have come to learn, will also fark up your system and render you impervious to Mysterious Fan Death.  |
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Ecumenist
Joined: 04 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Nope, the adoptee would have been contaminated by a fur'ner diet instead of being raised on white rice & kimchi, thus invalidating any such test. Or he might have had sexual relations with a white woman which, as we have come to learn, will also fark up your system and render you impervious to Mysterious Fan Death. |
Nono. In the end, it would be the lack of fingertip mineral deposits from using metal chopsticks that would confer immunity to the twinkie guinea pig, I'm afraid.
Minerals react to the rapidly circulating gases in the air, you see... |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Last summer I kept the fan on all through the heatwave and my wife didn't die. She's now horrified she used to believe in fan death. |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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The article says that they went to three different hotels. Initially they tried to kill themselves by leaving the fan on but one of them turned it off so the attempt failed. After that they went to Pohang and got a room but were scared when they heard police sirens in the neighborhood. Finally they went to Yeongdeok and discussed other ways of killing themselves like jumping from a cliff or hanging themselves. It was then that one of them got scared and called the police. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| ajuma wrote: |
| Koreans will claim that they have a "different body chemistry" than "white" people!! |
Actually, it's not that at all. While kimchi is the cure all from bird flu to SARS to AIDS, it unfortunately leaves one susceptible to such things as fan death. If only they would stop eating it, they would be fine. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:23 am Post subject: |
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| ... he might have had sexual relations with a white woman which, as we have come to learn, will also fark up your system and render you impervious to Mysterious Fan Death. |
Careful, that might be interpreted as meaning riding a white horse will either give you superpowers or make you immortal  |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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I thought in Randi's previous SWIFT he was being sarcastic. But apparently he really believes Koreans are a rational people. Oish. I'm glad someone set him straight. Although, compared to a lot of Chinese people I know, they're not the most superstitious people in Asia. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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I wonder if this Randi guy is more interested in exposing individuals as charlatans rather than embarrassing a whole population about a commonly held belief.
Maybe he knows that if he came here and did a full undermining of fan-death then it would open such a can of worms. Think how many doctors and coroners would have to back-track and squirm if fan-death was catagorically debunked on Korean media.
How many death inquiries would have to be re-opened? Hundreds perhaps. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
I thought in Randi's previous SWIFT he was being sarcastic. But apparently he really believes Koreans are a rational people. Oish. I'm glad someone set him straight. Although, compared to a lot of Chinese people I know, they're not the most superstitious people in Asia. |
I really thought he was being sarcastic too. However, I like the way he put it--"Koreans are too rational to believe in something as silly as fan death." It would make a good straw-man argument.
| eamo wrote: |
I wonder if this Randi guy is more interested in exposing individuals as charlatans rather than embarrassing a whole population about a commonly held belief.
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That's what I'm thinking. Personally I don't like the way a lot of foreigners use fan death to insult Koreans. It's a silly belief, sure, but the way to fix it is not by embarrassing them.
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Maybe he knows that if he came here and did a full undermining of fan-death then it would open such a can of worms. Think how many doctors and coroners would have to back-track and squirm if fan-death was catagorically debunked on Korean media.
How many death inquiries would have to be re-opened? Hundreds perhaps. |
It needs to be done. |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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What if you are all wrong!
It's nothing to do with Korean body chemistry but Korean brands of fan. My Korean TV almost killed me the other day and that washing machine is just aching to rip one of my arms off. And don't mention that rice cooker come nail bomb I use. Whilst my fridge uses white noise sleep deprivation techniques every night to war me down. Then there's the wall socket in my shower! And why didn't anyone tell me that car brakes in this country are considered an optional extra.
People! The fans are simply the first wave of a Korean technological robot revolution, beware! This revolution will be built on a consumer genocide. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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What if you are all wrong!
It's nothing to do with Korean body chemistry but Korean brands of fan. My Korean TV almost killed me the other day and that washing machine is just aching to rip one of my arms off. And don't mention that rice cooker come nail bomb I use. Whilst my fridge uses white noise sleep deprivation techniques every night to war me down. Then there's the wall socket in my shower! And why didn't anyone tell me that car brakes in this country are considered an optional extra.
People! The fans are simply the first wave of a Korean technological robot revolution, beware! This revolution will be built on a consumer genocide. |
I've long contended Korean appliance and electronic makers have two production lines. There's the production line where they export to nations that understand the concept of "durable" goods. And then there's the production line for domestic consumption where the market
a) will slavishly buy your products because they're Korean
b) doesn't need it to be durable as the fashions will change two years hence and your fancy fridge will be rolled out to a school yard in the middle of night and left there... where kids will turn it into a rocket ship, assuming there's plenty of air in there with the door closed... |
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