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| What is your least favorite, common response on Dave's? |
| "If you don't like it, why don't you just leave?" |
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25% |
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| "Troll" |
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6% |
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| rolling eye emoticon |
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13% |
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| the starting of a reactionary, opposite thread. |
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5% |
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| "Oh yeah, well (English speaking country) has its problems too!" |
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10% |
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| "You're asking way too much for that." (buy and sell forum) |
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6% |
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| any attack suggesting the attacked poster is just out of uni/unable to get a job back home/unable to get a girl back home/etc. |
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23% |
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| other |
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8% |
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man
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what about 'this problem is clearly the OP's fault'
(homer homer homer homer homer) |
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Natalia wrote: |
| peppermint wrote: |
| "but white/Western women are so. . (insert insult here) It never fails to rile the new girls, cause the rest of us to yawn and roll our eyes, and make the guy saying it look stupid and whiny. |
My answer exactly. |
Stop (a) feeling threatened by this viewpoint, (b) assuming the new girls share your insecurities. Many women do not.
I don't know what my least fave Daves response is. Anything written by a Christian, Right Wing, drunk redneck tends to annoy me. Why on Earth there are so many raving conservatives working in hagwons, Heaven only knows! You are precisely the kinds of folks who should yearn for socialist revolution and overthrow of the system that keeps you not quite at the bottom of the pile but certainly not a million miles from it. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Justin Hale wrote: |
I don't know what my least fave Daves response is. Anything written by a Christian, Right Wing, drunk redneck tends to annoy me. Why on Earth there are so many raving conservatives working in hagwons, Heaven only knows! You are precisely the kinds of folks who should yearn for socialist revolution and overthrow of the system that keeps you not quite at the bottom of the pile but certainly not a million miles from it. |
You're missing the point. You hate a response that refelcts a worldview you don't like. How big of you. The options I included do not reflect worldviews. You seem to be most bothered by people who don't agree with you. Great. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Justin Hale wrote: |
| Natalia wrote: |
| peppermint wrote: |
| "but white/Western women are so. . (insert insult here) It never fails to rile the new girls, cause the rest of us to yawn and roll our eyes, and make the guy saying it look stupid and whiny. |
My answer exactly. |
Stop (a) feeling threatened by this viewpoint, (b) assuming the new girls share your insecurities. Many women do not.
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 (hmm, there's nothing resembling a yawn on this site) |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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It all depends on which section of the forum you're in.
In the CE forum it's got to be "answer the question". |
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| Justin Hale wrote: |
| Natalia wrote: |
| peppermint wrote: |
| "but white/Western women are so. . (insert insult here) It never fails to rile the new girls, cause the rest of us to yawn and roll our eyes, and make the guy saying it look stupid and whiny. |
My answer exactly. |
Stop (a) feeling threatened by this viewpoint, (b) assuming the new girls share your insecurities. Many women do not.
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(hmm, there's nothing resembling a yawn on this site) |
Thanks for reminding me what my least fave response is! The 'respond but don't respond' response!  |
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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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"if you don't like it, leave"
Who are these losers? You're gonna get far in life if you quit everything you don't like. God forbid someone honour their contract and fight through difficulties. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
| endofthewor1d wrote: |
*scours previous post for any spelling or grammatical error*
'and you call yourself an english teacher!'
translation: 'i don't have a real argument to offer.' |
I was originally going to include that option too. |
Oh indeed. The variation of that retort which I particularly dislike is "I hope to God you're not an English teacher!  " (only ever said when the insulter knows full well that the insultee is in fact an English teacher). |
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Billy Pilgrim
Joined: 08 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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Following any remotely positive post related to Korea, Koreans, teaching etc:
"Yeah, but they were probably......" followed by lazy conjecture about inner motives of strangers that conveniently confirm the posters inner biases.
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| Today the street food guy outside my school gave me free chicken on a stick. |
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| Yeah, but it was probably two days old, and he just wanted to get rid of it. Street food in this country is disgusting. He probably dropped on the ground and decided to give it away to a whitey as a joke. Disgusting. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:41 am Post subject: |
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"if you don't like it, leave"
Who are these losers? You're gonna get far in life if you quit everything you don't like. God forbid someone honour their contract and fight through difficulties. |
Yes indeed. People should stay in a country they detest and keep on signing contracts year after year. How dare people suggest that maybe they'd be happier elsewhere? I mean...HOW DARE THEY? |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:03 am Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| Newbie wrote: |
"if you don't like it, leave"
Who are these losers? You're gonna get far in life if you quit everything you don't like. God forbid someone honour their contract and fight through difficulties. |
Yes indeed. People should stay in a country they detest and keep on signing contracts year after year. How dare people suggest that maybe they'd be happier elsewhere? I mean...HOW DARE THEY? |
If you're on an E-2 visa, I have bad news for you.
There is no money to be made doing privates.
Privates are illegal. |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:14 am Post subject: |
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| I haven't read the whole thread, but... |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:39 am Post subject: |
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| bejarano-korea wrote: |
| Anything by Spliff! |
That's what I was thinking when I looked at the poll - that the OP forgot to mention Spliff!!!!! |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: the end of the wor1d.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:00 am Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| flakfizer wrote: |
| endofthewor1d wrote: |
*scours previous post for any spelling or grammatical error*
'and you call yourself an english teacher!'
translation: 'i don't have a real argument to offer.' |
I was originally going to include that option too. |
Oh indeed. The variation of that retort which I particularly dislike is "I hope to God you're not an English teacher! " (only ever said when the insulter knows full well that the insultee is in fact an English teacher). |
there's an exception to the rule though. when someone attacks someone's spelling or grammar, and in the process makes a spelling or grammatical error themselves, and a third party jumps on them for that, then it's pure gold. |
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