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beercanman
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"Actually, in Korea we say we have evolved further as we have no hair on our bodies. Western people are closer to monkeys as they are hairy"
Wow. I have no reply. Maybe he was insinuating that Koreans are idiots. I know it isn't true but given such a statement, holy crap. |
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BoholDiver
Joined: 03 Oct 2009
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I have heard this one too. I ask them if it's not because a higher level of estrogen.
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"Actually, in Korea we say we have evolved further as we have no hair on our bodies. Western people are closer to monkeys as they are hairy"
Wow. I have no reply. Maybe he was insinuating that Koreans are idiots. I know it isn't true but given such a statement, holy crap. |
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Forever
Joined: 12 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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As far the Korean boy bands looking like girls. Well some of them definitely do. As do members from N Synch and Backstreet Boys and other crap like that.
Boy Bands in general are girly and Korea in general has a hell of a lot of boy bands. Although I might add Japanese boy bands take the cake for their female qualities. |
Thats true! I was shown a picture of "Super Juniors" yesterday and I thought 2 of them were definately girls.
Turns out they are all boys (13 men).
Look at the one almost-front-left (with the long hair) and the one in front of him in the white shirt.. I really thought they were girls. http://api.ning.com/files/jVlN9TERPBgRNcf7ht1E8zsaKlp7scE-tlSMjdGjcrc_/SJ0705.jpg |
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redaxe
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Forever wrote: |
| endo wrote: |
As far the Korean boy bands looking like girls. Well some of them definitely do. As do members from N Synch and Backstreet Boys and other crap like that.
Boy Bands in general are girly and Korea in general has a hell of a lot of boy bands. Although I might add Japanese boy bands take the cake for their female qualities. |
Thats true! I was shown a picture of "Super Juniors" yesterday and I thought 2 of them were definately girls.
Turns out they are all boys (13 men).
Look at the one almost-front-left (with the long hair) and the one in front of him in the white shirt.. I really thought they were girls. http://api.ning.com/files/jVlN9TERPBgRNcf7ht1E8zsaKlp7scE-tlSMjdGjcrc_/SJ0705.jpg |
i like how there's a fat one |
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Michael_75
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| redaxe wrote: |
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| endo wrote: |
As far the Korean boy bands looking like girls. Well some of them definitely do. As do members from N Synch and Backstreet Boys and other crap like that.
Boy Bands in general are girly and Korea in general has a hell of a lot of boy bands. Although I might add Japanese boy bands take the cake for their female qualities. |
Thats true! I was shown a picture of "Super Juniors" yesterday and I thought 2 of them were definately girls.
Turns out they are all boys (13 men).
Look at the one almost-front-left (with the long hair) and the one in front of him in the white shirt.. I really thought they were girls. http://api.ning.com/files/jVlN9TERPBgRNcf7ht1E8zsaKlp7scE-tlSMjdGjcrc_/SJ0705.jpg |
i like how there's a fat one |
I was thinking the same thing! Maybe he just sneaked in on the photo. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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Nice to see the High School jock mindset is still alive and well amongst us. If we want to laugh at other people's silly examples of pride (and the Ks are chock full of em') It'd be good not to use our own silly examples of pride. |
Oh, come on man. My comment was in jest. Hard to perceive over the internet I know, but I was just kidding.
Basically if a person is going to use body features as a means to pronunce their evolutionary dominance, than I think other body features are fair game as well.
As far the Korean boy bands looking like girls. Well some of them definitely do. As do members from N Synch and Backstreet Boys and other crap like that.
Boy Bands in general are girly and Korea in general has a hell of a lot of boy bands. Although I might add Japanese boy bands take the cake for their female qualities. |
Don't worry I wasn't being too serious with mine. I mean some of the K-pride stuff that brought on the comments was absolutely ludicrous (i.e. the 'hairy' thing)...just throwing out how the K stuff is silly but the macho stuff and size obsession we get back home is in the same vein.
I once heard an Asian person bragging about the competitive eating "advantage" Asians supposedly have and I just slapped my head. Or the Korean person who told me that Koreans invented baseball. Or the Korean person who told me Korea was the best country in the world because it was better than Japan. I think or hald of em that's all that matters is being +1 on Japan. |
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redaxe
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| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Or the Korean person who told me Korea was the best country in the world because it was better than Japan. |
Korea is the best country in the world... for Koreans. I wonder why any of them ever leave... |
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Cerberus
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| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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I have heard this one too. I ask them if it's not because a higher level of estrogen.
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"Actually, in Korea we say we have evolved further as we have no hair on our bodies. Western people are closer to monkeys as they are hairy"
Wow. I have no reply. Maybe he was insinuating that Koreans are idiots. I know it isn't true but given such a statement, holy crap. |
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KILLER answer! I'm going to remember that one.
too much estrogen!
bwa-hahahahahahahahah
I'm hairy but they've never said anything that ridiculous. The students like stroking my arm hair and one female teacher remarked that my bodyhair looked like a "forest", which I didn't find insulting and just laughed. |
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Gibberish
Joined: 29 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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| redaxe wrote: |
| Forever wrote: |
| endo wrote: |
As far the Korean boy bands looking like girls. Well some of them definitely do. As do members from N Synch and Backstreet Boys and other crap like that.
Boy Bands in general are girly and Korea in general has a hell of a lot of boy bands. Although I might add Japanese boy bands take the cake for their female qualities. |
Thats true! I was shown a picture of "Super Juniors" yesterday and I thought 2 of them were definately girls.
Turns out they are all boys (13 men).
Look at the one almost-front-left (with the long hair) and the one in front of him in the white shirt.. I really thought they were girls. http://api.ning.com/files/jVlN9TERPBgRNcf7ht1E8zsaKlp7scE-tlSMjdGjcrc_/SJ0705.jpg |
i like how there's a fat one |
funny enough he's actually like the most popular one too (probably because all the other ones look like little boys/girls) |
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SeoulMan99
Joined: 02 Aug 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:38 am Post subject: |
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I have to say I've never understood the pride with which some of my older students say, "But Korea has four seasons." And... other countries don't?
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I've always assumed that to mean four seasons, climatologically distinct from one another, of equal length. Which when you think about it, Korea does sort of have moreso than a lot of other places. Just my own amateur observations, but I've noticed a consistency to the weather patterns here that I didn't really see back home. Alberta is notorious for being cold, but it's really hard to predict whether when exactly the cold weather is going to come and go. Some years, you can have a snowfall in April, and other years you won't. Korea doesn't seem to have quite that degree of unpredictability.
But yeah. Korea is almost certainly not the ONLY place with that kind of consistency to the weather, contrary to the nationalist brag. |
Actually, Korea's climate is quite comparable with the northern portion of the South in the USA. In fact, in terms of terrain, vegation, and weather, Korea is very similar to Kentucky and Tennessee. |
You need to go north a few hundred miles. The weather of Seoul is similar to that of Chicago. It is cold in the winter and in the summer it can be very hot and humid. There are four distinct seasons. Kentucky and Tennessee are mild compared to Seoul. Possibly Busan is more similar to St.Louis or Louisville, but I think Nashville is warmer. I was interested in the actual numbers, so here is a good representation:
January April July October
Location High Low High Low High Low High Low
Chicago 32 18 59 42 84 66 64 46
Seoul (Korea) 33 17 62 42 84 70 67 47 [/img] |
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Mr. BlackCat
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| Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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I asked my co-teacher whether it was easy to understand the Australian accent when she was in Australia and she said, "I don't know, we didn't talk to any Australians. We were on a us with other Koreans and ate at Korean restaurants mostly."
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I ask at the same question of the NETs who eat fried chicken and pizza 5 times a week, only hang out with other NETs and keep it on the English stations on the TV.
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As pointed out about 239 times today alone, there's a difference between enjoying some comforts from home while living overseas and not leaving anything behind when you go on a 2 week trip. Anyway, I have lived here 4.5 years now and have yet to encounter these people you and others speak of, the NSETs who only eat Western food and socialize with other foreigners. Maybe because it's virtually impossible to live and work in Korea without having some level of interaction with the local environment unlike most Western countries with their ethnic enclaves. I'm not saying they don't exist, but you can't compare a few dozen of them to the 98% of Koreans who travel abroad and never venture outside the Korean restaurants, hotels and tours. And, sure, there are tons of Western tourists who do the same, but I would think they would constitute perhaps 50% at most. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| As pointed out about 239 times today alone, there's a difference between enjoying some comforts from home while living overseas and not leaving anything behind when you go on a 2 week trip |
I enjoy stopping by BK and Tomatillo as much as the next guy when I'm up in Seoul, but there's a difference between enjoying some comforts of home, and walling yourself off from the country you're living in.
Koreans do that wherever they move to so they are probably the most guilty of it.
But it's still a valid point for the NETs here who do that, and yes we ALL know that guy/girl. They are maybe only 10-20%, but they are just as ridiculous as the Ks wit the crate of Shin Ramyun stuffed in the overheard of their fishbowl tour bus.
How someone can eat pizza and fried chicken once a week is baffling. How someone can eat it more than once in a week is outright nauseating. |
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Old Gil
Joined: 26 Sep 2009
Location: Got out! olleh!
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| Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| As pointed out about 239 times today alone, there's a difference between enjoying some comforts from home while living overseas and not leaving anything behind when you go on a 2 week trip |
I enjoy stopping by BK and Tomatillo as much as the next guy when I'm up in Seoul, but there's a difference between enjoying some comforts of home, and walling yourself off from the country you're living in.
Koreans do that wherever they move to so they are probably the most guilty of it.
But it's still a valid point for the NETs here who do that, and yes we ALL know that guy/girl. They are maybe only 10-20%, but they are just as ridiculous as the Ks wit the crate of Shin Ramyun stuffed in the overheard of their fishbowl tour bus.
How someone can eat pizza and fried chicken once a week is baffling. How someone can eat it more than once in a week is outright nauseating. |
No we don't ALL know these people. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| As pointed out about 239 times today alone, there's a difference between enjoying some comforts from home while living overseas and not leaving anything behind when you go on a 2 week trip |
I enjoy stopping by BK and Tomatillo as much as the next guy when I'm up in Seoul, but there's a difference between enjoying some comforts of home, and walling yourself off from the country you're living in.
Koreans do that wherever they move to so they are probably the most guilty of it.
But it's still a valid point for the NETs here who do that, and yes we ALL know that guy/girl. They are maybe only 10-20%, but they are just as ridiculous as the Ks wit the crate of Shin Ramyun stuffed in the overheard of their fishbowl tour bus.
How someone can eat pizza and fried chicken once a week is baffling. How someone can eat it more than once in a week is outright nauseating. |
No we don't ALL know these people. |
If we all know 'that ajosshi' who comes up to you in the bar and tries to talk to you just cause you're foreign, then we all know that NET who eats Fried Chicken and Pizza like they're dietary staples and tries to have as little to do with the locals as possible. |
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Old Gil
Joined: 26 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Again, no. To both. |
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