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PRagic
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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 Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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Next week the OP will suck face with a college boy in the middle of a subway during rush hour, then again an hour later in order to compare public reaction. Some K girls will find it a turn on, so it won't be gay.
Rebel, rebel. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Trinitarian wrote: |
I'm (running around shirtless at) 38 years old |
Mid-life crisis! Quick, go buy a Ford Mustang and drive around blasting Pink Floyd like you're still "with it". |
Mid-life crises ought to be motorized. With furry dice.
I don't understand why the OP can't keep his shirt on. Is he Bigfoot? |
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hugekebab
Joined: 05 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject: Re: My final run (?) in Korea |
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| Trinitarian wrote: |
When I run I try to go very early like 4 or 5am to avoid the morons who throw a hissy because I run shirtless. However I woke up later today (about 7am). I knew this run would most likely be my last run in Korea for the rest of my life.
I ran to the ocean and on my way there I saw a police car about 50 meters ahead going veryl slowly (my direction). I made it a point to let myself be seen and to see what would happen. They went by and didn't even care. Got to the half way point and stopped to walk around some to view the ocean and the mountains. Now when I was here about two weeks ago some hag (about 45 years old?) who works nearby was looking at me rather surprised. I can't tell when Koreans do that if they are just curious or they simply want to kill me. Well she was there again today and while I was just about to start back to finish my run she gets on me about not wearing a shirt. Here I am all sweaty and breathing heavy and this broad is copping an attitude. Another guy was sitting next to her (about 50 years old) and they were both motioning for me to put my shirt on. I was like, "Aw man that's beat"! Well I just stood there and said "No"!, flipped them off and cursed them out. I continued standing there and really started to verbally degrade the woman (who cares if she didn't understand). Finally I decided it was time to go. Told the hag "Agarai dukcha" and then hit the ground running. Wanted to get out of there before more dudes came by.
Just about to finish my run and I had to stop at a crosswalk. I was waiting for the light and this car drove by me and inside the car I saw this woman (about 30?) waiving to me. I looked up and smiled and waived back. She smiled back. When she smiled I noticed she was wearing thick and very bright red lipstick. I thought to myself "dukchil"! The lipstick looked awesome - I totally dig chicks like her!
Two blocks away from my home there was a cop directing traffic because they are building a whole new set of apartments near where I live. I ran by him and he said, "Hey" and waived so I smiled and waived. I guess I didn't say it loud enough so he waived and smiled and said "Hey"! even louder so I smiled and said "Good morning".
A dichotomy of reactions from the very same activity. |
You're a dynamic go-getter, always one step ahead of the game. Rules are nothing to you, you make the rules. Running isn't sport, it's life.
Nike; run without a t-shirt, it makes you look rebellious and may mean you get some form of sexual adoration off women, or at the very least, a man with a handbag on his forearm.
*sigh* Can I be just like you? |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
You all are acting like the guy is doing something dreadful, I don't get it. Maybe you all come from deep in the bible belt yourselves? Or maybe you've been in Korea too long? To me, a guy running shirtless is nothing.
Geez. The conservatism of this place is one thing that might drive me into doing a runner one day....... |
I come from the Bible Belt and you can't buy hookers, wine, whiskey, vodka, etc in my county. We desperately need to import some of Korea's "conservative" values. |
Bet people are more productive in your "country", though. Unless they're spending all their free time at church. |
No, I'm from a dry county and it's one of the poorest in Tennessee. Knoxville is the closest town with hookers and alcohol and it is productive with plenty of commerce. When I was there at the University of Tennessee in the mid-1990s, it was ranked as the #1 party college in America...an oasis in so many ways. |
Canada has a Bible Belt too, believe it or not. Moncton, New Brunswick. I lived there for a year and a half. It's the worst city in Canada in my opinion. It had no culture, the "river" than ran downtown was just an ooze of mud with shopping carts stuck in it but it did have plenty of bars and hookers--in fact, the only identifiable Bible Belt characteristic was that the city--on a street by street basis--went: church, bar, Tim Hortons, church, strip club, bar, a church with a bar in it, bar, church, bar, Tim Hortons, hooker, bar, two hookers outside a bar, two hookers outside a church, Tim Hortons, a church with hookers in the confessionary, Tim Hortons, et cetera... |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| bovinerebel wrote: |
Are you serious ?
If I play a youtube video with a shirtless man , the girls in my classes shriek. If there's kissing their cover their eyes. They are 17. Nudity on television is blurred out for F-sakes. Not conservative ?
If Korea is not conservative to you , then I hate to think of what protected little glass bubble you've come from. I like that about Korea....not every society needs a constant display of fake inflated *beep* to get through the day. |
I'm quite serious.
A shirtless guy results in a shriek, but Lee Hyori with her cleavage spilling out on the side of a bus isn't even noticed.
They'll cover their eyes if they see someone kissing, but a love motel next to a church gets a shrug.
Nudity is blurred out, but if you close your eyes and throw a stone you have a good chance of hitting a brothel of some kind. Even if you happen to be near a school.
Yeah, real conservative... how long have you been here? I used to think Korea was conservative too, because that's what people told me. It wasn't until I started questioning that and looking around that I realized they were just trying to protect their image. |
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bovinerebel
Joined: 27 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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Are you serious ?
If I play a youtube video with a shirtless man , the girls in my classes shriek. If there's kissing their cover their eyes. They are 17. Nudity on television is blurred out for F-sakes. Not conservative ?
If Korea is not conservative to you , then I hate to think of what protected little glass bubble you've come from. I like that about Korea....not every society needs a constant display of fake inflated *beep* to get through the day. |
I'm quite serious.
A shirtless guy results in a shriek, but Lee Hyori with her cleavage spilling out on the side of a bus isn't even noticed.
They'll cover their eyes if they see someone kissing, but a love motel next to a church gets a shrug.
Nudity is blurred out, but if you close your eyes and throw a stone you have a good chance of hitting a brothel of some kind. Even if you happen to be near a school.
Yeah, real conservative... how long have you been here? I used to think Korea was conservative too, because that's what people told me. It wasn't until I started questioning that and looking around that I realized they were just trying to protect their image. |
A year. And if there's any seedyness to be found , I've been looking for it.
Compared to just about anywhere on the whole planet Korea is hyper conservative. There is nothing about a girl on the bus with a low top , or prostitution that shocks me in the slightest. The prostitution exists because men can't simply go out and get their rocks off ....it's too conservative ! So sex has to be fomulised and financially compensated for. There's very little demand for prostitutes in the western world unless you have some serious fetish , or are old and repulsive because it's relatively easily on offer. Korea is very conservative in every way to the exreme of what the word describes. |
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bovinerebel
Joined: 27 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Stevie_B wrote: |
| Trinitarian wrote: |
Only let the chicks wear the shirts and carry the signs!
I'm 38 years old and was just told by a 19 year old chick (20 Korean age) who saw me after exercising that she liked me. 
Half my age!! Yes!! |
You're 38 but still you strut around town trying to wind up Koreans like you're some sort of hormonal teenager. What will it be next? An outrageous haircut? A pierced ear? Let's see how the squares deal with THAT!! |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Trinitarian wrote: |
Only let the chicks wear the shirts and carry the signs!
I'm 38 years old and was just told by a 19 year old chick (20 Korean age) who saw me after exercising that she liked me.
Half my age!! Yes!! |
Aren't you married? And yet you go on about about Korean women and what they mean when they smile. Why would you care what they mean...you're taken. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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| bovinerebel wrote: |
| A year. And if there's any seedyness to be found , I've been looking for it. |
Well you apparently haven't been looking very hard.
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| Compared to just about anywhere on the whole planet Korea is hyper conservative. There is nothing about a girl on the bus with a low top , or prostitution that shocks me in the slightest. |
They don't shock me either. The point is that they aren't found in truly conservative countries.
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| The prostitution exists because men can't simply go out and get their rocks off ....it's too conservative ! So sex has to be fomulised and financially compensated for. There's very little demand for prostitutes in the western world unless you have some serious fetish , or are old and repulsive because it's relatively easily on offer. Korea is very conservative in every way to the exreme of what the word describes. |
A truly conservative country wouldn't have lots of one night stands or prostitutes. Korea has lots of prostitutes, and among young people lots of one night stands too- hang around Hongdae or Gangnam late at night and you'll see it too).
The older generation has less of the latter, so yes, they do have to pay for it. I wouldn't call that an example of conservatism though as it's still promiscuous sex. |
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bovinerebel
Joined: 27 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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| cdninkorea wrote: |
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| A year. And if there's any seedyness to be found , I've been looking for it. |
Well you apparently haven't been looking very hard.
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| Compared to just about anywhere on the whole planet Korea is hyper conservative. There is nothing about a girl on the bus with a low top , or prostitution that shocks me in the slightest. |
They don't shock me either. The point is that they aren't found in truly conservative countries.
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| The prostitution exists because men can't simply go out and get their rocks off ....it's too conservative ! So sex has to be fomulised and financially compensated for. There's very little demand for prostitutes in the western world unless you have some serious fetish , or are old and repulsive because it's relatively easily on offer. Korea is very conservative in every way to the exreme of what the word describes. |
A truly conservative country wouldn't have lots of one night stands or prostitutes. Korea has lots of prostitutes, and among young people lots of one night stands too- hang around Hongdae or Gangnam late at night and you'll see it too).
The older generation has less of the latter, so yes, they do have to pay for it. I wouldn't call that an example of conservatism though as it's still promiscuous sex. |
I lived in Bangkok most of my adult life. Itaweon to me in comparisson is like the land of candy floss bushes , candy cane trees and rainbow rivers where the care bears frolic.
Korea has neither lots of prostitutes of one night stands compared to anywhere else in Asia. It may be on the increase (one night stands) while prostitution is on the decrease, but for the most parts let's not judge the whole culture by two notorious nightspots. The amount koreans have to drink to overcome their social repression it's astounding there's not far , far more one night stands.
Again I propose the sex industry here is an indication of how conservative Korea is. You're projecting western values onto it , when to me it's more a symptom of a culture repressed by it's conservatism.
Maybe we are arguing semantics. When I say conservative I mean " Not willing to move away from the status quo" or maybe "To want to conserve the state of society and protect it from change , and to strongly berate individuals who don't conform to it's rigid rules".......they don't have to be conserving the values of 1950's America to be "conservative" ..... |
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Trinitarian
Joined: 15 May 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for all the support but for all you morons and sisies wake up! Is it illegal? No. Then deal with it. I wrote that I try running at 4 or 5am to avoid people. If people happen to be there then tough. You people are moronic.
I only gripe about it because people just won't leave me alone. Yeah I suppose if I went out all night and got drunk that would be "normal". Get real!
Try running with me..time and distance - you won't last. So before going on about "Ooh put your shirt on. It's gross" try doing what I do and see what it's like. You'd be sucking....wind
Tootles |
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Stevie_B
Joined: 14 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:04 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for all the support but for all you morons and sisies wake up! Is it illegal? No. Then deal with it. I wrote that I try running at 4 or 5am to avoid people. If people happen to be there then tough. You people are moronic.
I only gripe about it because people just won't leave me alone. Yeah I suppose if I went out all night and got drunk that would be "normal". Get real!
Try running with me..time and distance - you won't last. So before going on about "Ooh put your shirt on. It's gross" try doing what I do and see what it's like. You'd be sucking....wind
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Are you really this much of an arsehole? |
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Trinitarian
Joined: 15 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:09 am Post subject: |
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oooh you're a tough sissy aren't you.
Tell us about the pink underwear you are wearing...
BYE BYE  |
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Stevie_B
Joined: 14 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:08 am Post subject: |
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| Trinitarian wrote: |
oooh you're a tough sissy aren't you.
Tell us about the pink underwear you are wearing...
BYE BYE |
Gah!! Zinged! And so effectively!
(By the way, the next time I see a shirtless man jogging, I shall be reporting directly to the nearest coffee shop to get a steaming hot mug of joe to toss at him. That should hopefully demonstrate the error of his ways.) |
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Stormy
Joined: 10 Jan 2008
Location: Here & there
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:37 am Post subject: |
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| Trinitarian wrote: |
Only let the chicks wear the shirts and carry the signs!
I'm 38 years old and was just told by a 19 year old chick (20 Korean age) who saw me after exercising that she liked me.
Half my age!! Yes!! |
You don't actually take what everyone says to you here at face value do you? Every time someone tells you you're handsome does it make you feel like a stud?
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