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kimchi_pizza
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Location: "Get back on the bus! Here it comes!"
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| Billy Pilgrim wrote: |
| bejarano-korea wrote: |
Why are there a sigificant number of Kiwis who get hypersensitive about
their country coming under a bit of good natured abuse?
Granted there are a few who see it for what it is.
The rest of you grow up! If this hypersensitive nonsense were coming from posters of the North American persuasion everyone (included all New Zealanders which would include yourselves) would be in the queue to tell them to stop being so soft and 'arrogant'! |
Indeed, and I'm a Kiwi. The most narrow-minded racist rant in this thread so far has come from a New Zealander (nzerinkorea) and no way in hell I'm gonna back him up just because we were born on the same spot of land. I love my country, but that doesn't mean that I have to like the people who happen to live there. There are *beep* and morons in NZ same as you find anywhere else in the world.
This thread is funny. It's amusing to be psychoanalyzed because of the group you belong to by people who only know that group through a miniscule sampling of those they happen to meet in Korea or on the internet. If you feel that you are an expert about the psyche of an entire nation because of, say, the five people from that country you met in a bar on the other side of the world, then good for you. I'd say your wasting your time, however.
This is part of the reason that I tend to stick up for Koreans around here more often than not, because people here love to deduce grand patterns and theories through the keyhole of their own personal experiences. It's not a useful way to spend your time, and it produces a lot of ridiculous subjects discussed by ill-equipped people. It's like a book club where you are each assigned a page each, and you have to use that to judge the whole book; you have the people who happened to get crappy pages using each other to lend support to their theory that the whole book is crap, while ignoring anyone else who happened to like their page (and vice-versa). |
Worthy of a bump and few cool points.
It's gotta be the change of seasons...all the chest-thump'n, testosterone filled fingertips pounding on harmless little computer keys, sweat pour'n down soured faces, steaming up their computer screens. Only real harm being done is to their own expensive computers. Seems everyone's onna hair trigger or physically sick and can't chill for a change.
Where's my Duck Soup DVD? I need a good laugh and so do many others by the sound of things 'round these parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qyce8dQLPo
Little Duck Soup is good for the spirit.
Cheers! |
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:45 am Post subject: |
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| She worked in a girls' high school in what sounds like the most boring place in the world - Gisborne, North Island. |
The problem is that many people are being told that places like Gisborne are great. Gisborne has never been great. It is extremely isolated, more so than Plymouth. The people are quarks or a bit wierd.
Look when you mince a lovely city like Christchurch, or a larger Auckland with a rural part of NZ you are comparing London with a town on the Shetland Islands.
However, there are some averages of personality you can take away with a Kiwi. Some very easy-going unjudgemental and generous people there and who come from there.
But, that's not everyone, (maybe some of the NZ posters here are trying too hard to be egoists or the ex-pat existence has freaked their minds a bit) but a larger percantage than I've met among NA's who often seem more uptight or egotistical.
Sry, that's just the way it is, Bro. |
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nzerinkorea
Joined: 16 Jan 2007
Location: Yongin
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:05 am Post subject: |
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| Cheonmunka: Are you from New Zealand? Anyway whats wrong with Gisborne? I'll say this, alot of you kiwis on this board have very bad minds. This is a shame and I hope one day you will realise what Korea is all about! |
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:19 am Post subject: |
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| alot of you kiwis on this board have very bad minds. |
I certainly lost my innocence a long time ago ...
Korea for me is about my family. That's it. Oh, and a little extra in money that I could never earn quite enough of in NZ to put bread on the table as well as pay for a mortgage. Even as a post-grad.
I don't have my head in the sand. NZ is not all roses. I did grow up with no little dangers. There were a lot of bad bastards then and there.
Gisborne? It's the only city in NZ that I haven't been to. Why? It's so far away from the main trunk. I got as far as Murapara or the Rangiteikei.
I met a guy in the army from there. He was the only guy in our barracks to emphasize or show us all his c0ck at bed time. He would do a kind of striptease. he made us laugh.
Well, I guess Gisborne is alright. Sorry. |
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Billy Pilgrim
Joined: 08 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:54 am Post subject: |
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(a) Oh Billy Pilgrim, it must be wonderful for you being the Mother Teresa of New Zealand.
(b) Thousands of bad "personal experiences" can't be wrong.
(c) Say what you like about me being a racist etc. but in my opinion Koreans are some of the most racist people on the planet.
(d)Good if it's been all sweetness and light in Korea for you, however thousands of other foreigners have not had it so lucky.
(e) Maybe after being assaulted by your boss, (f) or robbed of your pay, or (g) everyday having to listen to being called a monkey just because your skin is a darker shade-(h) just maybe then you may understand.
(i)In my opinion it is all too frequent in Korea after all this board in itself is a testimony. |
(a) I'm earning money here like everyone else.
(b) Neither can a thousand good ones.
(c) Fighting fire with fire, huh? Good luck with that.
(d) And yet thousands of others have been so lucky. We're back at square one, I guess.
(e) Yeah, I'll pass on that.
(f) That too.
(g) Everyday, huh? Given the extremes to which you go to in this thread, you expect me to take this literally?
(h) So, basically, what you are saying, if my experience had been completely the opposite to what it has been, I would agree with you? Good work on that thesis, genius.
(i) To what? That the internet has just increased my exposure to people with no ability to take on life and live it on their own terms, and who would rather spread racist shite across my bandwidth? You give up your right to be offended if you indulge in the same little games. Hypocrite. Look it up. |
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Billy Pilgrim
Joined: 08 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:57 am Post subject: |
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| nzerinkorea wrote: |
| Cheonmunka: I'll say this, alot of you kiwis on this board have very bad minds. |
And bad capitalization. And wording. And punctuation. |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:29 am Post subject: |
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I actually wanted to stay out of this thread. I love taking digs at Kiwis, no doubt, just as I love taking digs at Poms, and Canucks, and my own countrymen.
But those racist posts against Maoris, man, makes me wonder why the mods didn't delete this thread.
FYI I have met ceestgetdegrees, and the guy is a stand-up guy. Seriously not cool to diss a man like him, his race, or his culture. That just bummed me out about this thread; I like taking the piss and all, but what was said by some posters was fvcking nasty.
Not cool, and uncalled for. |
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Billy Pilgrim
Joined: 08 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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| wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote: |
I actually wanted to stay out of this thread. I love taking digs at Kiwis, no doubt, just as I love taking digs at Poms, and Canucks, and my own countrymen.
But those racist posts against Maoris, man, makes me wonder why the mods didn't delete this thread.
FYI I have met ceestgetdegrees, and the guy is a stand-up guy. Seriously not cool to diss a man like him, his race, or his culture. That just bummed me out about this thread; I like taking the piss and all, but what was said by some posters was fvcking nasty.
Not cool, and uncalled for. |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Is New Zealand in the North or South part of Australia? |
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nzerinkorea
Joined: 16 Jan 2007
Location: Yongin
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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Billy Pilgrim I think Korea is suited to you and your types.
It seems to attract a lot of wimps and sandal wearing geeks who sit behind computers all day and comment on people's punctuation thinking they know it all.
Koreans love you cause they can push you around easily.
You are the Korean dream- a foreigner who has no backbone and loves to ditch his own culture as soon as he swallows that first mouthful of kimchi.
I hope it keeps fine for you. Maybe if you got a taste of real Korean culture you would gain some understanding.
[b]You are welcome to Korea it deserves you. |
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Billy Pilgrim
Joined: 08 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| nzerinkorea wrote: |
Billy Pilgrim I think Korea is suited to you and your types.
It seems to attract a lot of wimps and sandal wearing geeks who sit behind computers all day and comment on people's punctuation thinking they know it all.
Koreans love you cause they can push you around easily.
You are the Korean dream- a foreigner who has no backbone and loves to ditch his own culture as soon as he swallows that first mouthful of kimchi.
I hope it keeps fine for you. Maybe if you got a taste of real Korean culture you would gain some understanding.
[b]You are welcome to Korea it deserves you. |
Golly, that's great. Just think how accurate you'd be in your diagnosis if you knew the first fucking thing about me, clown. |
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oldfatfarang
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: On the road to somewhere.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:22 am Post subject: |
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| Went to NZ once - but it was after 5pm and it was closed. Oops, that's not right - now I remember - that was Australia! |
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