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mehmeh
Joined: 23 May 2007
Location: South, South Korea
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hmmmm...touch�.
As your completely nonsensical video rebuttal has made clear, I am naive. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 1:05 am Post subject: |
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| mehmeh wrote: |
hmmmm...touch�.
As your completely nonsensical video rebuttal has made clear, I am naive. |
whatever your first language is, it ain't English
one has a clear sense of these sorts of things
so what are ya? Korean or mainland euro? wha? |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| I agree this country is corrupt as Christ, but in its defence has anyone here ever had to actually bribe a cop? |
Sort of.... |
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agentX
Joined: 12 Oct 2007
Location: Jeolla province
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 12:28 am Post subject: |
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I've been following the TI for the past few years. I've noticed that once again, the US is lower than it was the year before.
If we got rid of Bush, AT&T, the New England Patriots, and Mississippi we would be up to #4. Overnight. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 12:39 am Post subject: |
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| Koreans bribed the people making the poll. |
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mehmeh
Joined: 23 May 2007
Location: South, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:11 am Post subject: |
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| agentX wrote: |
I've been following the TI for the past few years. I've noticed that once again, the US is lower than it was the year before.
If we got rid of Bush, AT&T, the New England Patriots, and Mississippi we would be up to #4. Overnight. |
Ha!
What about the computer that ranks college football teams...there must be some dirt in there too. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:26 am Post subject: |
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| mehmeh wrote: |
| agentX wrote: |
I've been following the TI for the past few years. I've noticed that once again, the US is lower than it was the year before.
If we got rid of Bush, AT&T, the New England Patriots, and Mississippi we would be up to #4. Overnight. |
Ha!
What about the computer that ranks college football teams...there must be some dirt in there too. |
Hahahahahaha |
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diver
Joined: 16 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know anything about this 'corruption ranking' thing, but here is an article from last week's Toronto Star.
A Society Awash in Scandal |
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mehmeh
Joined: 23 May 2007
Location: South, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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| diver wrote: |
I don't know anything about this 'corruption ranking' thing, but here is an article from last week's Toronto Star.
A Society Awash in Scandal |
I read that article before starting this thread. The TI findings seem to contradict the Toronto Star Article (as well as my own general impressions of Korea) so I wanted to know what people thought about it.
...instead it's just become a flame war over a dumba$$ joke and whether or not I really am a sixth generation american. |
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venus
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Location: Near Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| mehmeh wrote: |
hmmmm...touch�.
As your completely nonsensical video rebuttal has made clear, I am naive. |
whatever your first language is, it ain't English
one has a clear sense of these sorts of things
so what are ya? Korean or mainland euro? wha? |
Just me or is VI acting like a complete d*ck in this thread...?
Neither funny nor clever but acting although he is... wierd.... |
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Major Kong
Joined: 29 Oct 2007
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:13 am Post subject: |
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Diver, obviously you dig the deeper meaning.
"What if God was one of us?", Joan. Thank you for
saving my life. Scuba..., what is the device above
28,000 feet...HEART. |
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Masta_Don
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Hyehwa-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:34 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| I agree this country is corrupt as Christ, but in its defence has anyone here ever had to actually bribe a cop? |
My boss did it once. To not be harassed. It was either the school could be left alone or they'd come in, drag me out of class and put me thru the ringer. The kicker? He ended up just being a con man. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:01 am Post subject: |
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| I know of at least three people off the top of my head who bought their way out of traffic tickets or DWI charges |
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ernie
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
Location: asdfghjk
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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| i think the problem is that koreans don't consider something 'cheating' unless they get caught... 'cunning' (somehow konglishized into verb form) is considered an acceptable form of competition, and i doubt that koreans would consider 'cunning' to be corrupt, although i'm sure 90% of the rest of the people in the world would... |
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mehmeh
Joined: 23 May 2007
Location: South, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| I know of at least three people off the top of my head who bought their way out of traffic tickets or DWI charges |
In America? By paying a lawyer to amend the charges or actually paying the police officer?
I can see how paying a lawyer to change a "Speeding" ticket to "Illegal Parking" seems like a bribe but it's actually done out of judicial efficacy...processing and monitoring all of the citations would put too much stress on the system. In the case of a DWI, when you pay a lawyer for help you hardly get off the hook. You still have your license suspended and take points on your license... |
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