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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| jdog2050 wrote: |
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| Ahh, come on. If everyone believed the same things life would be boring. Language and food are destined to be the only things of 'culture' left in the world... sad. |
except when there are real deaths involved. This isn't just cultural...it's like clitorectomies: an idiotic, unnecessary (not mentioned in the Quran) tribal practice that leads to death, infertility, and at the very least the complete loss of sexual pleasure.
Again, I really wish fan death was this stupid thing like how your mother tells you that cold weather will give you a cold, but there are some sad aspects under the surface. |
Cultural relativity is not relativity applied to the study of culture.
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~omar/relativism.html |
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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| I just go back home and my air conditioner was on. |
Darn, I think I left my hot water heater on. |
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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| In the past many people were "overcome by vertigo" when standing near windows, on roofs, or on balconies. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| jdog2050 wrote: |
| except when there are real deaths involved. This isn't just cultural...it's like clitorectomies: an idiotic, unnecessary (not mentioned in the Quran) tribal practice that leads to death, infertility, and at the very least the complete loss of sexual pleasure. |
Nor is it mentioned in the Bible. Let's not forget that Christians in those areas also practice that ridiculous rite. |
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koon_taung_daeng
Joined: 28 Jan 2007
Location: south korea
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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| i also heard Koreans say that if you masturbate to much you'll go blind |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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That's the same show I posted a translation of a few pages back... |
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Bingo
Joined: 22 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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See this fukkin fan death nonsense....My friggin fan turns off automatically every hour (because of fears of fan death). So every friggin night I have to get up at least five or six times to rurn it on again.  No wonder I never feel rested in this figgin country. |
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Yesterday
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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| koon_taung_daeng wrote: |
| i also heard Koreans say that if you *beep* to much you'll go blind |
Of course!! thats why most of my middle/high school korean students all have glasses...........
Finally - I know why so many males here have glasses...
Good-job sherlock.... |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:07 am Post subject: |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
That's the same show I posted a translation of a few pages back... |
Ooops, that was a different thread. Anyway here's my translation:
http://koreabeat.com/?p=184 |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:55 am Post subject: |
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http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-08/081707hoagland.html#i10
Randi's man in Korea 
From the Koreabeat site:
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| <interview> Lee Yun-seong (professor of medical law at Seoul National University) : �In most situations the person died of some other cause and people just happen to come across a switched-on fan. The autopsy can�t find the real cause of death, and the fan seems like maybe it could be the reason so it�s mistaken as the real cause.� |
I'm disturbed by that last sentence. Now, I've always assumed that fan death was a media creation. The person pronouncing the cause of death isn't the medical examiner but a cop or a family member. But Xenu help Korea if their forensic examiners really believe in fan death.
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| With only the power of my desperation I turned off the fan and I could finally take nice, deep breaths. I felt like I had pulled myself back from the gates of Hell itself. |
A heroic struggle! Everything but a white whale. Goodness. |
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bangbayed
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
| Hater Depot wrote: |
That's the same show I posted a translation of a few pages back... |
Ooops, that was a different thread. Anyway here's my translation:
http://koreabeat.com/?p=184 |
Thanks for that! Missed the other thread. Can't have too many Fan Death threads, I always say...after waking up one morning with the fan turned on... |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:52 am Post subject: |
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| maaaaybe.. if the fan was blowing toward their faces, CO2 might get blown back into their nose lol.. and cause CO2 poisoning |
Absolutely not. If anything, the fan would blow away the CO2 and cycle in fresh air for the sleeper to breathe. I think the KBS article proved this. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
I keep trying to think of the North American equivalent of Fan Death. Something widely held. Believed by intelligent people, even members of the medical community, but lacks biological plausibility.
Best I can come up with is power lines (and sadly a growing number of parents who think vaccinations are behind a range of illnesses). Despite excellent research showing power lines are safe, people to this day still believe they are dangerous and refuse to buy homes near them.
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/emf.html |
My mom is visiting, and she told me one of her friends believes it's dangerous to use a cell phone in an elevator because of electromagnetism. And of course there's the belief that cell phones cause brain cancer.
As to what could be an equivalent belief to fan death, here are my two suggestions:
1) Going swimming less than 30 minutes after eating gives you a stomach ache.
2) Sitting too close to the TV makes you blind.
Honestly either of these could be true as far as I know, but we all pretty well take them for granted. Maybe a Korean would be weirded out if they encountered either of these. |
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