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Goku
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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"ou would have to be mad to want to live any other time than now. The poorest ESLer lives 100 times better than the 5 richest Kings of Europe did even 100 years ago. It's just that there are people richer than us that makes people feel like they are poor."
I think you would have to define what constitutes a rich life. I'm leaving Korea to go be a farmer. I'm going to work as hard as I ever have in my life, but i think my life will be much richer. |
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ekul
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| I'd go back to the Napoleonic era just because I read one too many Sharpe novels as a teenager. |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Dinosaur rides!!!!! |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
a grade 5 student of mine wrote an essay on 'What other country would you like to visit' and choose China, saying he saw on t.v. a show about its history and he thinks he should have been an Emperor, that if he was living hundreds of years ago he would be the Emperor. He even stated then that he was sad that he isn't an Emperor, that he is only a boy in Korea  |
Tina, a former student of mine who was 10 at the time said about her future plans the first day of class during introductions:
"I want to be the president of South Korea (short pause) and Germany. |
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Rusty Shackleford
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| poet13 wrote: |
"ou would have to be mad to want to live any other time than now. The poorest ESLer lives 100 times better than the 5 richest Kings of Europe did even 100 years ago. It's just that there are people richer than us that makes people feel like they are poor."
I think you would have to define what constitutes a rich life. I'm leaving Korea to go be a farmer. I'm going to work as hard as I ever have in my life, but i think my life will be much richer. |
Good for you.  Please report back how you get on. I was a child labor farmer for 15 years before I escaped to university. I hated it at the time but kind of yearn for it now. I can definitely see the attraction, as you are creating and building something with your own hands.
It's not as if you will be throwing away your modern comforts (I'm guessing?). You will still have the benefits of the modern world.
My father built a 500 acre farm form the ground up. It was basically a swamp when his father bought it in the 40s. He's improved it to the point where it is actually worth something. I used to look down on him working 12 hour days, but after a few years as a worker bee with nothing to show for your labors, I really admire him. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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Civil War Era. I'm a civil war buff so I have to check it out.
I'd probably catch typhoid and dysentary and die. But it'd be an adventure. |
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phoneboothface
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
Civil War Era. I'm a civil war buff so I have to check it out.
I'd probably catch typhoid and dysentary and die. But it'd be an adventure. |
Yea it'd be cool to live in that time period. But I'd probably get pissed at my rifle because it / I didn't shoot that accurately.  |
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NightSky
Joined: 19 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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got a kick out of this: what would you have been had you lived in Tudor times?
http://www.whothetudorareyou.com/
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| ok, so you're not part of the nobility, but you're probably the highest ranking of the commoners. You own a bit of land, probably employ a few people, and are reasonably respected in the community. |
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Merchant, no surprise there... |
that was actually the second time. the first time I got beggar. I lied to make myself feel better. |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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| I would want to have been born in the late Victorian years in the US (maybe 1890-99?), and then hung out in Paris in the 1910-20's with the expat writers and artists. Think of a salon atmosphere a la Gertrude Stein for friends like Pound, Picasso, Joyce, Eliot, Hemingway, HD, Nin, etc. |
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alphakennyone
Joined: 01 Aug 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| MollyBloom wrote: |
| I would want to have been born in the late Victorian years in the US (maybe 1890-99?), and then hung out in Paris in the 1910-20's with the expat writers and artists. Think of a salon atmosphere a la Gertrude Stein for friends like Pound, Picasso, Joyce, Eliot, Hemingway, HD, Nin, etc. |
Agreed. But I'd rather be in Paris a few years later when Henry Miller was around. |
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
Joined: 28 May 2009
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Now.
I'm from a working class family and grew up on a council estate (a pretty nice one though to be fair) in England. I served 6 months in prison when I was 17 and before then was constantly in and outof magistrates court for petty crime / small drugs offenses.
My chances anytime before probably the 1960's of mobilizing upwards once I got out of prison, getting subsidised A levels, getting a degree, travelling the world, the sky being my limit etc would have been terribly low.
We've never had it so good lads, but sadly so many of us (my countrymen) either don't realise it, don't make the most of themselves or take advantage of all the opportunities open to them out of ignorance or laziness or sheer unwillingness to step aside from the herd. |
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
Joined: 28 May 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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| alphakennyone wrote: |
| MollyBloom wrote: |
| I would want to have been born in the late Victorian years in the US (maybe 1890-99?), and then hung out in Paris in the 1910-20's with the expat writers and artists. Think of a salon atmosphere a la Gertrude Stein for friends like Pound, Picasso, Joyce, Eliot, Hemingway, HD, Nin, etc. |
Agreed. But I'd rather be in Paris a few years later when Henry Miller was around. |
Seconded, or possibly also in the states during the beat years of the 50's with Buk, Karouac, burroughs... Seems from what I've read to be a time where you could get by on the charity of friends and living expenses and apartment costs were so low it was easy to get by with dribs and drabs of work whilst you got high and wrote..... Though those guys did beg a lot and fall on hard times too... But like the Paris years, definately an explosion of novelty, creativity and new directions in art and literature... Kind of like the 70's in NYC or UCLA for American cinema |
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phoneboothface
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Korea
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| DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP wrote: |
I served 6 months in prison when I was 17 and before then was constantly in and outof magistrates court for petty crime / small drugs offenses.
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So your criminal background check was alright since that happened when you were a minor...? |
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
Joined: 28 May 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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| phoneboothface wrote: |
| DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP wrote: |
I served 6 months in prison when I was 17 and before then was constantly in and outof magistrates court for petty crime / small drugs offenses.
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So your criminal background check was alright since that happened when you were a minor...? |
In the UK convictions are considered spent after 5 years minor or not, or maybe it's 7 years... not 100% sure which...
Anyway mine is way outside of both (I'm in my early 30's - yeah I know I don't act it on this forum, but hey ho) so it doesn't even show up on any cbc. |
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