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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% |
[ 4 ] |
| rolling eye emoticon |
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13% |
[ 8 ] |
| the starting of a reactionary, opposite thread. |
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5% |
[ 3 ] |
| "Oh yeah, well (English speaking country) has its problems too!" |
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10% |
[ 6 ] |
| "You're asking way too much for that." (buy and sell forum) |
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6% |
[ 4 ] |
| 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% |
[ 14 ] |
| other |
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8% |
[ 5 ] |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: the end of the wor1d.
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| crusher_of_heads wrote: |
| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
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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? |
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. |
dude, i know you love saying that, and you think it's extremely clever and witty, but this time it didn't even relevant to the quote you were responding to. |
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BreakfastInBed
Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Location: Gyeonggi do
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:14 am Post subject: |
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"try the search function"
I can't quibble with the sentiment, but man I get tired of reading that. I do like it when people post the links, that seems helpful. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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| BreakfastInBed wrote: |
"try the search function"
I can't quibble with the sentiment, but man I get tired of reading that. I do like it when people post the links, that seems helpful. |
A variation of that which I've grown very tired of is "The search feature/Google/etc. is your friend." |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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| I chose the 5th one, as its a Komerican specialty. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:04 pm 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? |
They response is valid if the OP is always complaining and venting and deriding Korea and Koreans and thrwoing insults around about everything in daily life. Super. You hate the place and the people. Then get the *beep* out.
However, I hate this response when one is usually a level-headed poster/person and happens to have a bad day. We have one bad day or one bad experience and want to talk/complain/vent about it and then end up told to go home? That's just being an ass.
I don't like everything about my home country, either. If "I don't like it" there, where am I supposed to go then? |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Young FRANKenstein wrote: |
| 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? |
They response is valid if the OP is always complaining and venting and deriding Korea and Koreans and thrwoing insults around about everything in daily life. Super. You hate the place and the people. Then get the *beep* out.
However, I hate this response when one is usually a level-headed poster/person and happens to have a bad day. We have one bad day or one bad experience and want to talk/complain/vent about it and then end up told to go home? That's just being an ass.
I don't like everything about my home country, either. If "I don't like it" there, where am I supposed to go then? |
I hear you YF. There's a reason that option is the first one on the list. It's just a dumb thing to say for so many reasons. It presumes that the complaining poster never thought of that "solution." "Oh yeah! I could just leave. I never thought of that!"
It's also rather ironic because the people who usually use the "just leave" line, complain about all the "whining" on Dave's. They tell others to "just leave" Korea if they don't like it, but they don't "just leave" Dave's when they don't like it but go on compaining about the posters here. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
| It's also rather ironic because the people who usually use the "just leave" line, complain about all the "whining" on Dave's. They tell others to "just leave" Korea if they don't like it, but they don't "just leave" Dave's when they don't like it but go on compaining about the posters here. |
Actually, I suspect a lot of them do. You'd be surprised, perhaps. Just about everyone teaching in this country knows about this site, but as busy as it is, not everyone posts. When I ask people why they read occasionally but seldom or never post, I usually get the same answer: the constant negativity, the endless compaining (usually about trivialities) and the incessant arguments that go on for weeks to never any good purpose.
However, the ones I can't figure are people who have been here over a couple of years, third contract, dig - not only STILL complaining about the same stuff, but haven't even learned the local alphabet well enough yet to read a menu ... and yes, there IS a connection between those two things, I feel quite sure.
But, you're right, complaining about complaining is still complaining, and I've been guilty in the past, and I'm likely doing so now. Point well taken.
I voted the last option. It's no wonder Koreans have developed the impression of the teachers that we are womanizing alcoholic bums who come here because they can't find work back home - it's a ridiculously common insult here, and it happens so often that I often suspect the person throwing it out is externalizing their own insecurities ...
Theory: The opinions of others about us will improve sometime after our own opinions about ourselves do. |
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ceesgetdegrees
Joined: 12 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 1:38 am Post subject: |
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| Any and everything from crusher of heads. |
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trubadour
Joined: 03 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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Lady, you're owned. 
| ceesgetdegrees wrote: |
| Any and everything from crusher of heads. |
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