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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| bejarano-korea wrote: |
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| SeoulShakin wrote: |
Actually dressed quite well. Likely coming from work.
Nice slacks, button down shirt, dockers, etc. The comic book was the only thing that looked out of place.
That and the finger up the nose. |
What about his hair? short hair is always a good indicator of someone of the British persuasion. |
is true, every englishman i meet in korea has a shaved head (including myself some of the time) whats with that? |
No idea, I shave my head every so often and most blokes I know do the same. You don't see many Englishmen with long flowing locks! |
Of course not. Are they not all racist skinheads? At least that is what my Russian friends in the white power club tell me... |
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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My son went through a phase of eating his own snot. It was yuck. I asked him once, "Is it yummy?" he nodded his head, "응."
He really liked the taste of it.
Wierd eh? |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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| No idea, I shave my head every so often and most blokes I know do the same. You don't see many Englishmen with long flowing locks! |
So that's why I'm always being stared at. I'm a tad taller than everyone else (or is it just British folk are a tad short sometimes?) and have more hair. Shorter hair looks better anyway on most guys in England. It doesn't look good when it's long. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Masta_Don wrote: |
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Bad teeth is also a good indicator of unhealthy eating habits - who has the most obese population in the world? Thats right Einstein,does that mean all these fat people will have beautiful teeth? 
Seriously, your stereotype is 300 years out of date!  |
Hey I saw it in Shanghai Knights, that's right Sherlock that's not much more than 100 years out of date.
Anyway it was me picking my nose, I got a red bean stuck up there earlier. Give us a break. |
You have obviously been watching too much Austin Powers Einstein,
British people generally have nice teeth.
The British = bad teeth myth came from when ships from the UK docked statside during the colonial years and because of the lack of vitamin C all the British sailors would have rotten teeth and scurvy.
We ate lime (where the term 'limeys' come from) and it cured our scurvy and rotten teeth.
300 years out of date my simple American friend
It is obvious that Americans who have a majority obese population have bad teeth because a lot of junk food has sugar - sugar rots teeth - so Americans in general have worse teeth than the Brits! Q.E.D my simple septic friend! |
Actually it's from living on an island. When you have such a small population that can't spread out, you bring out deleterious genes, since the likelihood of two people with a double recessive 'bad' gene have a higher chance to meet. Notice what countries are known for having bad teeth. Those that are on islands. |
Totally invalid given Britain is one the most ethnically heterogenous countries in Europe. In terms of ethnic stock, it's a melting pot nation, like the US.
Bad teeth are to do with poor oral hygiene and absolutely nothing to do with genetics.
Besides, 47% of Americans don't have any kind of health insurance whatsoever and over 110 million Americans are without dental insurance. Brits and Americans get along like a house on fire generally, but any kind of advice on health, the Brits might be better consulting a different country, with all due respect. But not France. Don't listen to all that rubbish about the French moderate approach to drinking. France has one of the highest rates of alcohol-induced liver disease in Europe, so there's another bogus item taken down!  |
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SeoulShakin
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| What does the quality of your teeth have to do with nasal mining? |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| What does the quality of your teeth have to do with nasal mining? |
You'll have to ask those daft buggers who started talking about teeth! |
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Besides, 47% of Americans don't have any kind of health insurance whatsoever and over 110 million Americans are without dental insurance. |
yeah, but NHS dentists are few and far between. compare the English I know to the Americans I know and the Americans have much, much better teeth. |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| What does the quality of your teeth have to do with nasal mining? |
Well a good sized bogey will work well as a temporary filling.
Also the accusation of stereotypes by someone who assumed with out cause that I'm an American doesn't stand since no claims of nationality were attached to those pictures. They simply assumed the bad teeth were British. The comparison to Einstein is flattering but I know little about physics. |
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Masta_Don
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Hyehwa-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| SPINOZA wrote: |
| Masta_Don wrote: |
| bejarano-korea wrote: |
| ED209 wrote: |
| bejarano-korea wrote: |
Bad teeth is also a good indicator of unhealthy eating habits - who has the most obese population in the world? Thats right Einstein,does that mean all these fat people will have beautiful teeth?
Seriously, your stereotype is 300 years out of date! |
Hey I saw it in Shanghai Knights, that's right Sherlock that's not much more than 100 years out of date.
Anyway it was me picking my nose, I got a red bean stuck up there earlier. Give us a break. |
You have obviously been watching too much Austin Powers Einstein,
British people generally have nice teeth.
The British = bad teeth myth came from when ships from the UK docked statside during the colonial years and because of the lack of vitamin C all the British sailors would have rotten teeth and scurvy.
We ate lime (where the term 'limeys' come from) and it cured our scurvy and rotten teeth.
300 years out of date my simple American friend
It is obvious that Americans who have a majority obese population have bad teeth because a lot of junk food has sugar - sugar rots teeth - so Americans in general have worse teeth than the Brits! Q.E.D my simple septic friend! |
Actually it's from living on an island. When you have such a small population that can't spread out, you bring out deleterious genes, since the likelihood of two people with a double recessive 'bad' gene have a higher chance to meet. Notice what countries are known for having bad teeth. Those that are on islands. |
Totally invalid given Britain is one the most ethnically heterogenous countries in Europe. In terms of ethnic stock, it's a melting pot nation, like the US.
Bad teeth are to do with poor oral hygiene and absolutely nothing to do with genetics.
Besides, 47% of Americans don't have any kind of health insurance whatsoever and over 110 million Americans are without dental insurance. Brits and Americans get along like a house on fire generally, but any kind of advice on health, the Brits might be better consulting a different country, with all due respect. But not France. Don't listen to all that rubbish about the French moderate approach to drinking. France has one of the highest rates of alcohol-induced liver disease in Europe, so there's another bogus item taken down! |
Right, so that's why we have the saying 'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth'? Teeth are a great way to determine genetic stock. Inbreeding decreases genetic viability. Not only that but 90% of Britain, in 2003, still carry genes, the British pedigree, from the 14th century [1]. So as much as it may seem that there's been a large ebb and flow of people, you have to realize it's not that big of a country, and thus the ebb and flows have been small, on a genetic scale.
Now I never said that British people have bad teeth these days. In fact, I haven't noticed. Although I did come across someone who said that the health care system there doesn't cover dentists. Is that true? |
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