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[djsmnc]

I made it too, and I rarely post! I feel like I've gone back 10 years, smoking in the high school bathroom after reading all this...

[Monty_]

[lush72]

In as well !

Tsgarp made a valid point a few pages back though, why not give clothes? I personally have (no kidding) given a few 2-year-old "Gap" sweatshirts to the guy under the stairs by the Samsung building. I have no idea what he did with them but this was in the beginning of November last year. He is there every single day, sitting on a chunk of discarded cardboard. I have attempted to speak with him, but he didn�t want to and I respected that. Around 3 weeks ago there was a woman with an infant at the bottom of those stairs! I handed her folded cash every time I saw her. It was freezing out!

My friends @ work were like �Why are you paying a woman to abuse her baby� to which I countered �What if she has no one to look after the baby�? My friends (Korean and foreign) think I am too soft. ARRGH. Now I just don�t tell anyone because I don�t feel like taking crap over helping those less fortunate then myself. Anyway, that�s my 20 won.

Oh, and to the OP- dropping foreign coins is childish. Why not go to the airport and toss them in the fountain? All that money is collected for the Korean Red Cross.

[komtengi]

[tsgarp]

[Monty_]

[tokki]

You just have to love how people who obviously never exercised in their lives go around slamming those that do.

As for Monty. Your pal there started with the sex crap and my wife. Now, Im not one to get pissed off at losers on the net spouting crap. Remember, Ive seen cutter, and hes no threat to me. My wife would laugh in his face, she doesnt go for pudgy dwarves.

[VanIslander]

After more than a year on this island, and numerous trips elsewhere in the southern provinces, including trips to Busan, I saw my first disabled person on the street and it was a doosy.

A man without legs was pushing himself belly-down along the ground on a small wheeled dolley only a few centimeters off the sidewalk. Attached to the front was a box with an old portable stereo playing beautiful Korean songs and above that another clear-top box with about a dozen 1000 won bills in it. The whole spectacle didn't come up to my knee on that busy downtown sidewalk and the man's face was so pale and yet determined to move along at his snail pace that I was moved to act.

I dropped seven 10,000 won bills into the box without giving it a second thought as I had three times that in my pocket at the time.

At dinner I had to defend what the Korean staff of my school think was an outrageously high donation. Yet they admit that people living with disabilities are shunned and treated rather poorly by even their government. I was told that disabled people used to often be visible on the streets of Korean cities years ago, until a police crackdown pushed the majority of them underground and off most of the streets.

I told them that in Canada the majority of people believe in a strong social safety net for the disadvantaged, whether it be medical care, welfare, disability, children allowance or public pension. I said it's part of the reason why some ultra-right Americans refer to those Northern Commies who speak Canuckistani.

I also told them that, because of the public provisions for people living with disabilities, many Canadians don't feel the need to donate to individuals with hardships: a recommendation to go to local charities like the Lions Club is sufficient some think.

But, I added, I sympathized with his plight and bled my liberal heart into his collection box. I won't worry that he'll spend it all on cigarettes and booze, given the low prices of such in Korea. Prostitution perhaps, but I don't usually donate based on moral projections anyhow.

I hope I made his day and that he feels empowered to do something unusual with the windfall.

[tsgarp]

Just watched contenders Hahahaha. Cutter you're calling people out? Buhahahaaaaa. The two girls on the show were bigger than you dorks.

[komtengi]

[tokki]

I wanna touch on the issue of my avatar. Cutter, I dont find it in the least bit erotic. The fact that you do, well that speaks volumes about you.

[Butterfly]

[tokki]

Im shaking

[just because]

Why hasn't this been deleted (Or edited yet???)

[Chaz_Bangalang]