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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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The thread is supposed to be about YOUR country. Is it possible for you to get through one fucking post on this site without taking a swipe at the US?
Your fixation is getting really tiresome. Everyone knows how you feel about the US. Great. Move on. And so sorry for the 'sensitivity', but your redundancy is wasting bandwidth. |
Ooooooooh! |
Just pointing out the obvious, guy. You spend a whole lotta time bitching. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Dome Vans wrote: |
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The thread is supposed to be about YOUR country. Is it possible for you to get through one fucking post on this site without taking a swipe at the US?
Your fixation is getting really tiresome. Everyone knows how you feel about the US. Great. Move on. And so sorry for the 'sensitivity', but your redundancy is wasting bandwidth. |
Ooooooooh! |
Just pointing out the obvious, guy. You spend a whole lotta time bitching. |
Er pot and kettle... Actually, I find DV to be rather a cheerful fellow.
BTW, DV, I love that picture. Takes me back to Friday evenings in the 90s... |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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| caniff wrote: |
| Dome Vans wrote: |
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The thread is supposed to be about YOUR country. Is it possible for you to get through one fucking post on this site without taking a swipe at the US?
Your fixation is getting really tiresome. Everyone knows how you feel about the US. Great. Move on. And so sorry for the 'sensitivity', but your redundancy is wasting bandwidth. |
Ooooooooh! |
Just pointing out the obvious, guy. You spend a whole lotta time bitching. |
I probably spend more time helping than b*tching. But point taken. I'll try and do it less. My point still stands at it was relevant to the OP, as a thing I learned about my own country. That I'm not constantly bombarded with celebrity rubbish and media based paranoia and............it's so nice.
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| BTW, DV, I love that picture. Takes me back to Friday evenings in the 90s... |
Ca'am thi' pashuns luv. I want raised ont' darn train. I were downt' mine ont Fridays. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Ca'am thi' pashuns luv. I want raised ont' darn train. I were downt' mine ont Fridays. |
Ee yer bugger, tha just made uz laff aht lowud in' bloody lahbrary...  |
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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 Jun 05, 2008 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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I've begun to understand why so many want to enter my country-legally or otherwise.
I've also learned that while many Americans don't know a lot about the outside world, the outside world doesn't know nearly as much about America as they think. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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Panhandlers usually work on their routines more in my country. In Korea they usually just kneel down on the subway steps with their head on the ground and a box or hat in front of them.
I'm not sure which style in better.  |
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Css
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: South of the river
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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Nothing really...I realised what a cr@phole my home country was when i first travelled abroad as an adult.
Korea has just strengthened that view. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:39 am Post subject: |
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I probably spend more time helping than b*tching. But point taken. I'll try and do it less. My point still stands at it was relevant to the OP, as a thing I learned about my own country. That I'm not constantly bombarded with celebrity rubbish and media based paranoia and............it's so nice.
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No problem. I usually am pretty thick-skinned/don't care about stuff like that. I just thought it was out of place in this discussion (plus it was really late/early and I was cranky).
Viva la difference! (or however it's spelled). |
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beachbumNC
Joined: 30 May 2007
Location: Gumi
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| Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:20 am Post subject: |
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people in my hometown (under 30,000 population) don't stare and point at foreign people.
and employers don't threaten to make you work your last month for free.
people treat each other like human beings instead of wrenches or screwdrivers.
GOD BLESS AMERICA. July 2nd will be the happiest day of my life. |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:40 am Post subject: |
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However, I've also realized that straight men in my city are irrationally afraid of intimacy (in the emotional, non-sexual sense) with other men.
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men are only "emotionally intimate" with women they've just had a great orgasm with (hence the employment of attractive female spies to get information, post coitus)
and they are only emotionally intimate with other men, who are their closest friend (s) (which by definition means the number is quite limited).
you haven't figured this out yet? 
beachbum they may not stare and point at strangers/foreigners in your home town,but I suspect some racist invective would come out if some Mexicans all of a sudden appeared in Ricky Bobby's and Billy Joe Jim Bob's town.
I do like the diversity found in America's big cities.
I don't care for the 50 week a year, 40 hour plus work mentality. I may never be able to do that again (not that I ever did, actually)
also despise the car culture. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:31 am Post subject: |
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I've begun to understand why so many want to enter my country-legally or otherwise.
I've also learned that while many Americans don't know a lot about the outside world, the outside world doesn't know nearly as much about America as they think. |
The world knows a lot more about American than Americans know about any other country. This is not to say Americans are bad and Germans are good. It's purely an issue of economics. |
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Captain Marlow
Joined: 23 Apr 2008
Location: darkness
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| Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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things I've learned about Atlanta:
The sewer is everywhere, apparently; you just can't smell it.
The snappy, cliche comebacks that seem to be part of the meta-narrative seem even more absurd now that I've heard the same crap from Koreans.
I understand why it takes so long for immigrants to assimilate, and why they try to sit on both sides of the cultural fence.
Apparently, we really ARE a gay mecca. I haven't seen a single rainbow-colored flag in Suwon (or Seoul, but I don't live there so it's not fair).
The Olive Garden is not the worst thing to happen to Italian food. In fact, except for Americans' habit of adding extra meat to traditional dishes, our butchering of international cuisine is fairly minimal.
However, I've also realized that straight men in my city are irrationally afraid of intimacy (in the emotional, non-sexual sense) with other men.
I've learned that the parameters for pricing apartments in Atlanta (i.e. older is better, less efficient is better) are ridiculous.
Yes, it is physically possible to go out and get drunk on a weeknight. Don't be afraid!
Atlantans seem cold and rigid to me now, like Germans. It's a clean, polite place, but it doesn't have the messy, vibrant, "lived-in" feel of Korea.
must be from buckhead... |
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Suwon23
Joined: 24 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 2:58 am Post subject: |
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must be from buckhead... |
Haha, yeah, I guess nothing looks more "messy and lived in" than Cabbagetown. I forgot about the "other Atlanta." Still, even in the dirtiest parts of West End or the Old Fourth Ward, you hardly ever smell the sewers, even on a hot day! Only now do I realize what an accomplishment that is.
EDIT: Buckhead people seemed cold and rigid even before I left, thanks to all the Botox. |
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Suwon23
Joined: 24 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:25 am Post subject: |
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men are only "emotionally intimate" with women they've just had a great orgasm with (hence the employment of attractive female spies to get information, post coitus)
and they are only emotionally intimate with other men, who are their closest friend (s) (which by definition means the number is quite limited).
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I guess what I was trying to say is that American men spend about 30% of their waking lives trying to fend off hypothetical accusations that they might like it up the bum. Will drinking this brand of cola make me look gay? Does having a birthday ending in 4 make me look gay? If I stand next to this type of tree will it make me look gay? It's incredibly irritating and tiresome, and Korean men don't seem to care so much. As long as you don't enjoy sex with people of the same gender, you're not gay, pink tie or no pink tie. Makes pretty good sense to me.
Being terrified of any interaction with other men besides fisticuffs is just one symptom of that overall problem, I guess. |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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I must've been incredibly lucky to have grown up with plenty of pets and animals around. At one stage I had a pet monkey, was nursing 2 sick birds back to health, a tortoise, 2 cats and their kittens, a dog, fish, and a cobra.
I get the impression Koreans think animals are either a joke, a deadly threat, a mortal enemy, stupid, or dirty. The ignorance of a life spent in an appartment block....  |
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