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plus99



Joined: 30 Dec 2007

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:54 am    Post subject: Why You Are Lame Reply with quote

Basically too easy but we'll do this anyway.


Maybe you've noticed, this site is full of self-righteousness in the guise of "advice." I imagine youve noticed because it is you that is the problem. If you spend your time telling others how to behave, for no apparent reason, I am going to venture this guess: It is you that acts immorally in everyday life. You are the one who lies, cheats, steals at 3pm from someone who probably doesn't deserve it. You are the one who thought the Killers were better than _______. And its you that comes onto a website to find some illusion of self-redemption. I think there are a lot of obese people with comb overs on here. Male and female.


I know this is going on because you are living in South Korea. Everyone treats you badly here. You are looked at like you are a germ in the glorious Korean cell structure. I get it. I know what you're feeling. But dont forget your place and where you came from. Youre here for a reason and chances are your reason is lamer than mine.
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Kimchieluver



Joined: 02 Mar 2005

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:57 am    Post subject: Re: Why You Are Lame Reply with quote

plus99 wrote:
Basically too easy but we'll do this anyway.


Maybe you've noticed, this site is full of self-righteousness in the guise of "advice." I imagine youve noticed because it is you that is the problem. If you spend your time telling others how to behave, for no apparent reason, I am going to venture this guess: It is you that acts immorally in everyday life. You are the one who lies, cheats, steals at 3pm from someone who probably doesn't deserve it. You are the one who thought the Killers were the next great band. And its you that comes onto a website to find some illusion of self-redemption. I think there are a lot of obese people with comb overs on here. Male and female.


I know this is going on because you are living in South Korea. Everyone treats you badly here. You are looked at like you are a germ in the glorious Korean cell structure. I get it. I know what you're feeling. But dont forget your place and where you came from. Youre here for a reason and chances are your reason is lamer than mine.


Couldn't have said it better myself. Sweet dreams princess.
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plus99



Joined: 30 Dec 2007

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

not having an argument and pretending we do. can we be more typical.
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JongnoGuru



Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:01 am    Post subject: Re: Why You Are Lame Reply with quote

plus99 wrote:
Basically too easy but we'll do this anyway.


Maybe you've noticed, this site is full of self-righteousness in the guise of "advice." I imagine youve noticed because it is you that is the problem. If you spend your time telling others how to behave, for no apparent reason, I am going to venture this guess: It is you that acts immorally in everyday life. You are the one who lies, cheats, steals at 3pm from someone who probably doesn't deserve it. You are the one who thought the Killers were better than _______. And its you that comes onto a website to find some illusion of self-redemption. I think there are a lot of obese people with comb overs on here. Male and female.

The carriage turns into a pumpkin at midnight, but what's the deal with "3 pm"? What happens at 3 pm that makes us lie, cheat and steal?

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I know this is going on because you are living in South Korea. Everyone treats you badly here. You are looked at like you are a germ in the glorious Korean cell structure. I get it. I know what you're feeling. But dont forget your place and where you came from. Youre here for a reason and chances are your reason is lamer than mine.

Are you wackers?
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plus99



Joined: 30 Dec 2007

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

not having an argument and pretending we do. can we be more typical.
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jajdude



Joined: 18 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yikes forget your medication lately?
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plus99



Joined: 30 Dec 2007

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

if you dont respond, you dont make this so easy:



not having an argument and pretending we do. can we be more typical.
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KoreanAmbition



Joined: 03 Feb 2008

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Plus99,

I don't know if I agree entirely since I think there are some good people on this site.

Your comments are rather fierce, and might be correct for some of the population. However, I think that same 'group" of people exist in all cultures, both socially and geographically. The behaviour you are criticizing has no bounds.

I think it is good to have the helpful and the rude on here. Reality is that life is a gray area, and if you don't have both extremes you can't identify the middle which is the place we are living 99% of the time.

It is the duty of anyone reading this site to double-check information many times to ensure they have gotten the full scope of an issue and then it is their role to identify the facts/opinions/assumptions which they believe will serve them best in their own personal battles in the "gray" area that is their life.

While it is everyone's social responsibility to act properly at all times, it is also everyone's individual responsibility to maintain an internal locus of control and understand that at the end of the day, you are the one who chose the decisions you acted upon.

I don't disagree with your post, but I also think you are laying it on a little thick to many people that don't deserve it. As well, this is the internet, and you should understand that in this domain, obscurity and alter-egos comprise a large part of the existence here.
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ryouga013



Joined: 14 Sep 2007

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As long as Plus99 is agreeing that he's part of the problem as well it's not so bad.
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asylum seeker



Joined: 22 Jul 2007
Location: On your computer screen.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:54 am    Post subject: Re: Why You Are Lame Reply with quote

JongnoGuru wrote:
plus99 wrote:
Basically too easy but we'll do this anyway.


Maybe you've noticed, this site is full of self-righteousness in the guise of "advice." I imagine youve noticed because it is you that is the problem. If you spend your time telling others how to behave, for no apparent reason, I am going to venture this guess: It is you that acts immorally in everyday life. You are the one who lies, cheats, steals at 3pm from someone who probably doesn't deserve it. You are the one who thought the Killers were better than _______. And its you that comes onto a website to find some illusion of self-redemption. I think there are a lot of obese people with comb overs on here. Male and female.

The carriage turns into a pumpkin at midnight, but what's the deal with "3 pm"? What happens at 3 pm that makes us lie, cheat and steal?

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I know this is going on because you are living in South Korea. Everyone treats you badly here. You are looked at like you are a germ in the glorious Korean cell structure. I get it. I know what you're feeling. But dont forget your place and where you came from. Youre here for a reason and chances are your reason is lamer than mine.

Are you wackers?


I also am wondering about the significance of 3pm. Is this a lyric from some emo song or something? Confused
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in_seoul_2003



Joined: 24 Nov 2003

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:57 am    Post subject: Re: Why You Are Lame Reply with quote

plus99 wrote:


I know this is going on because you are living in South Korea. Everyone treats you badly here. You are looked at like you are a germ in the glorious Korean cell structure.


Ohhh, what a profound post. The level of, like, pointing out the existential crisis, is, you know, like, depthless.

I'm going to venture a guess and say that 90% of people on this board have not been treated badly in S. Korea. Which is not to say that it doesn't annoy them.

And, of course, you've missed one of the more obvious fundamentals: teaching esl in Korea can be equivalent to a substantial income back 'home'. So, who's using who?

Of course the point that most smells of self-treachery in your post is your conviction that alot of "obese people with comb overs come here". If that were in fact the case, why would the Korean EFL industry have accepted them, given their penchant for palatable looking people? And if they did accept them, might that not imply that Koreans are living in a world of illusory self-redemption by bringing over the ugliest in order to make themselves better looking?

Afterall, it wasn't too long ago when the lowest GI was higher than the highest Korean (I'm taking this straight out of a book written by a Korean on the history of the US military in Korea, by the way).
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Gwangjuboy



Joined: 08 Jul 2003
Location: England

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:27 am    Post subject: Re: Why You Are Lame Reply with quote

in_seoul_2003 wrote:


Afterall, it wasn't too long ago when the lowest GI was higher than the highest Korean (I'm taking this straight out of a book written by a Korean on the history of the US military in Korea, by the way).


There was a time when the commander of the US forces in Korea could freely come and go to the Blue House on a whim without making an appointment - and the president had better have been home.
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peppermint



Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:34 pm    Post subject: Re: Why You Are Lame Reply with quote

asylum seeker wrote:

I also am wondering about the significance of 3pm. Is this a lyric from some emo song or something? Confused


I dunno, don't emo types prefer to pretend they don't see daylight, ever?
The only thing that came immediately to my mind about 3 pm is that that's when school finishes for the day, at least in North America.

Perhaps the OP assumes that the hours are similar in Korea, and when teachers aren't busy corrupting Korea's youth er,working, they're busy lying, cheating and stealing.
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blaseblasphemener



Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:56 pm    Post subject: Re: Why You Are Lame Reply with quote

plus99 wrote:


I know this is going on because you are living in South Korea. Everyone treats you badly here. You are looked at like you are a germ in the glorious Korean cell structure. I get it. I know what you're feeling. But dont forget your place and where you came from. Youre here for a reason and chances are your reason is lamer than mine.


Sorry you got one of the crap jobs. Lots of people like you don't know any better. Remember, it's your first job out of uni, so if you were back home, you'd be a pee-on just like you are here. If you suck it up, learn some Korean, and learn how to act in this culture, you will have much better opportunities. There is a whole stratosphere of living here that you may not be aware of, but trust me, it's reason enough to not miss home, most of the time.
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moosehead



Joined: 05 May 2007

PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 4:15 pm    Post subject: Re: Why You Are Lame Reply with quote

plus99 wrote:
Maybe you've noticed, this site is full of self-righteousness in the guise of "advice." I imagine youve noticed because it is you that is the problem. If you spend your time telling others



uh, this is a forum for people to ask questions and obtain answers, so am not sure why you have a problem with that?

this is a really strange post btw, really strange. have you and Danny Kim been drinking soju together or something? Laughing Laughing
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