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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:53 am Post subject: Can't remember your Mom's teat you're too old to work in Kor |
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If you can't remember your mother's teat you are too old to work in Korea.
It's true. I was talking to my Kcoteacher today who said, 'Korean teachers want young foreign teachers'.
I'm sure Korean public school teachers want young foreign teachers. It's true. But Korean teachers can't have everything. They already have it pretty good. I mean they have a union.
Korean teachers are allowed to age, as well. It's not forbidden. Not only that the older and uglier they get the more money they make. Because they get yearly raises. Think of that! More pay for being older and uglier.
Foreign teachers must not be old and ugly, it's forbidden. They can't be too smart either, but that's usually not a problem. Koreans are superior in I.Q. to any foreigner, anyway, as long as the Korean keeps this fact in mind, like a kind of mantra or garlic necklace. It's traditional.
Also, the foreigner must like Korea. If the foreigner doesn't like Korea that's entirely unacceptable and they should start to think about going back to their home country. Which is going to happen anyway, thank god.
But for the moment the foreigner must like Korea. No question about it, it's mandatory. It's perfectly ok, though, for a foreigner to say, 'I like and I hate Korea' because there's like in there. The hate part is just their inferior I.Q. speaking, being unable to appreciate the finer things. Such as the knock your head down flat beauty of Korea.
Which most foreigners find unbearable, so they leave. No-one knows where they go, someplace foreign. The End. |
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Imrahil
Joined: 04 Feb 2008
Location: On the other side of the world.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:47 am Post subject: |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:00 am Post subject: |
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| Bad WEEK. Totally almost unbearable actually. But it's the weekend so that's ok. Just trying to laugh it off and say, 'shucks, Korea aint so bad, at least there are no shootings'. |
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Imrahil
Joined: 04 Feb 2008
Location: On the other side of the world.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:04 am Post subject: |
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Imrahil
Joined: 04 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:05 am Post subject: |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:16 am Post subject: |
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esetters21
Joined: 30 Apr 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:43 am Post subject: |
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The IQ thing is a good touch  . I saw a recent report that puts Koreans very close to the top as far as average IQ. It's too bad that their average is about 65 points less than mine.
I guess that they have me on the getting older, less attractive, and fat thing . |
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Join Me
Joined: 14 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:46 am Post subject: |
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| esetters21 wrote: |
The IQ thing is a good touch . I saw a recent report that puts Koreans very close to the top as far as average IQ. It's too bad that their average is about 65 points less than mine.
I guess that they have me on the getting older, less attractive, and fat thing . |
I would guess lowest when it comes to common sense. Crossing the street without looking...need I say more? |
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esetters21
Joined: 30 Apr 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:57 am Post subject: |
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| esetters21 wrote: |
The IQ thing is a good touch . I saw a recent report that puts Koreans very close to the top as far as average IQ. It's too bad that their average is about 65 points less than mine.
I guess that they have me on the getting older, less attractive, and fat thing . |
I would guess lowest when it comes to common sense. Crossing the street without looking...need I say more? |
There should be a "Common Sense for Dummies" edition of that series specifically for them. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:23 am Post subject: Re: Can't remember your Mom's teat you're too old to work in |
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| captain kirk wrote: |
| I was talking to my Kcoteacher today who said, 'Korean teachers want young foreign teachers'. |
It's really hard to say 'Koreans are full of shit' the more I get to know them. Certain Koreans I mean. For example my Kcoteacher is deeply swooningly maddenly involved with....
....coming into work on the weekend, sometimes both days, Sat and Sun. To sit in front of the computer and 'do work'. Presumably she's actually doing real work. Highly probable. But what about a life? What we Westerners refer to as a 'life'. She DOES NOT get paid for weekend overtime.
Life as in variety, fun things to do, hobbies, exotic weekend getaways and destinations, that kind of crap. Sure, it's crap, but it's fun! It's escapist and takes you away from 'the drudgery'.
Yes, Kcoteacher is apparently glued to work. Her dilligence, focus, and whatnot other valuable working qualities are not admirable to me. But I am not part of this 'Korean public school working culture'. I guess, at some point, a Kteacher goes over to the darkside.
And begins to think hanging out at work by themselves in front of a computer is cool. Like a politician kissing babies. Like being a secret superhero. Like designing a new weapons system. Except for kids!
And the way this skullfaced enduro-plodder said, 'Korean teachers want young foreign teachers' it was like, 'Koreans teachers want and deserve only the best'. Deserve to have their head examined, more like, the entire cult of dilligence worshipping. Comparing dilligence sizes and dilligence girths. And dilligence envy!
I ask her what she will do on the weekend. 'Work'. Yes, well, that's very interesting and no doubt makes you a great conversationalist having a rich variety of life experiences, visceral ones.
And, during the day, should I mention some 'conversation piece' type of fact her 'tunnel vision' looks, guages, she turns her head like the Terminator has just registed 'target unaquired'. Her interest just doesn't go where it's not supposed to. Korean interest goes to Korean interest targets, that's it. So, nothing much to talk about. But talk about work and hooboy, an erogenous zone. Sort of. Since the interest is brisk, functional, and time limited; get in and get out. Next mission.
So my Kcoteacher is a female Terminator. Is she gunning for Principal, Vice-Principal? Dunno. Why else would someone hold the fort on the weekend alone like that? Married, two kids. Gets pissed with the other teachers, mostly. Real group culture, public school. Lots of stuck together like glue, stuck to work, stuck to dillligence, duty, country, etc.
I like talking to elementary students. Then talk to the Kcoteacher and it's like 'stairway to agenda', 'agenda at the end of the universe', 'excuse me the agenda-phone is ringing I must answer it'. And so on. No complaints, just 'how can you live like that?!'. If I showed them a picture of Montana they'd want to staple it. If I showed them an Innuit soapstone sculpture that's 200 years old they'd consider it for two seconds, think 'gravel road castoff'.
Well, yah. Korean agenda. Ok, got it. Hip to it. Wanna be it. The all day all weekend at work experience. This week walking in the rain listening to Jimi Hendrix felt like a suitable active counterbalance. Jimi thrashing away slashing a path through the jungle with his axe. Go Jimi! Way to be NOT dilligent. Don't answer the phone Jimi or type that report! The End. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:28 am Post subject: |
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| I'm not sure who's better, Papa Roach or Creed. |
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PRagic
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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Don't know, but you may be misreading this, OP. By 'young', your Korean co-teacher probably doesn't mean 'good' or 'best'. By 'young', she means:
1. Pliable. They'll do what they're told because they don't know any better.
2. Young: As in 'younger than the Korean teachers' so they'll have to do what they're told.
3. New to Korea: They don't know there are much better deals out there, so they'll be less apt to complain about little things like vacation and having to sit in an empty school. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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| PRagic wrote: |
By 'young', your Korean co-teacher means:
1. Pliable. They'll do what they're told because they don't know any better.
2. Young: As in 'younger than the Korean teachers' so they'll have to do what they're told.
3. New to Korea: They don't know there are much better deals out there, so they'll be less apt to complain about little things like vacation and having to sit in an empty school. |
Thanks, I think you're right. I wish SHE was younger, instead of 35. She has a face like a hood ornament. Her face is like a grinning skull at the front of a Mack truck. Her body is that of a greased lightning paper pusher.
Lately she got a prescription for iron to tackle anemia. If she were lost in a blizzard she'd survive by sitting beside her computer and continuing to do paperwork and scheduling until Monday. Her own funeral arrangements would not even cross her mind. That would be personal and frowned upon.
2,000 years from now archaeologists will find a 3M Postit with her name on it. Assah! Immortal! |
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PRagic
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds like you've made it personal. Too bad. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Ah, the first detractor. Like flies on shit. As long as it's still professional it isn't personal. There are the kids/students to think of. And I always do my best for the students. So does she. So piss off. I'm just describing the oddness of her personality and Korean public school working cult, but you know that already, shitfly. |
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