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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 5:37 am Post subject: Kiwis brought something home from Korea... |
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22555556-13762,00.html
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PEER pressure is taking on new meaning in Auckland schools as the fad to wearing slippers to school gains momentum, reports a leading newspaper.
According to the New Zealand Herald the latest fad among Auckland schoolboys is wearing household slippers to school.
The paper reports the boys are shrugging off the risk of punishment by not wearing regulation shoes.
The boys are using excuses, including having left their shoes in the car, or that they broke, when trying to justify the odd choice of footwear.
How the trend began is uncertain, but it may have started by rapper Snoop Dogg, who has been photographed in public wearing the slippers and wore them to a magazine interview last year.
One teacher said banning the slippers was impractical because so many students were choosing to wear them.
"Snoop's done it, and now everyone wants to, and we can't end up sending 20 kids home each day," she told the paper. |
It wasn't Snoop Dogg, it was those Kiwis coming back from Korea. |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 5:39 am Post subject: Re: Kiwis brought something home from Korea... |
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| Bibbitybop wrote: |
It wasn't Snoop Dogg, it was those Kiwis coming back from Korea. |
Good for them for finally deciding to complete high school after teaching in Korea. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 6:10 am Post subject: Re: Kiwis brought something home from Korea... |
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| wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote: |
| Bibbitybop wrote: |
It wasn't Snoop Dogg, it was those Kiwis coming back from Korea. |
Good for them for finally deciding to complete high school after teaching in Korea. |
Now that is funny  |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| man when I went to school in NZ all my samoain, raro and islander mates all wore slippers! S H I T they from the islands! nothing new really.. |
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excitinghead
Joined: 18 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:56 am Post subject: |
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First day at school in Auckland after my family emigrated there from England when I was 11, my father suggested I wear socks with my school uniform sandals (like people do in Korea now). Virutally the whole of Papatoetoe Intermediate School, including the teachers, laughed at me mercilessly. It haunts me to this day.
The members of the class of Room 13, Form 1 1987, have some serious stalking and harassment to look forward to when I go back to New Zealand to live permanently. |
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