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chellovek
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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Irrational people who let little things get to them.
That and the TV in the lobby at the Seoul Museum of Art. The fact that the beer vendors at the Stadium look like they have Hite on Draft but its actually a backpack of cans. The fact that most used cars for sale are white. The Hotdogs at Family Mart have Sweet Potato on them. Lotteria's chicken tenders are only 2 piece and not 3. The fact that bologna is round and bread is square. Adults who wear sneakers to work. The fact that I can't find a decent conditioner. The over-abundance of polyester in affordable dress shirts. |
I can help you with the conditioner. It's a bit of a splurge for many, but Lush makes some awesome products.
http://www.lushusa.com/shop/products/haircare/conditioners/
There's also L'Occitane.
http://usa.loccitane.com/FO/conditioners.htm |
Hmm, not too big a fan of lush. Whenever I go in those shops I feel the urge to start eating the products. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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Two things irritating me as of today:
1. Moved out. Boss says old apartment "not clean enough" despite the fact that it's in the exact same condition it was when I moved in, and has only been deemed substandard because their standards have risen since I arrived. I have to either clean it myself or hire a cleaner by Wednesday.
2. I may have to buy a new TV for the place since the TV they provided broke down and I threw it out. Apparently had I kept the massive piece of junk lying around there wouldn't be a problem?!? My co-teacher, despite speaking excellent English, can't really explain what's going on there either. I paid money to have it removed: I did them a favor. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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Irrational people who let little things get to them.
That and the TV in the lobby at the Seoul Museum of Art. The fact that the beer vendors at the Stadium look like they have Hite on Draft but its actually a backpack of cans. The fact that most used cars for sale are white. The Hotdogs at Family Mart have Sweet Potato on them. Lotteria's chicken tenders are only 2 piece and not 3. The fact that bologna is round and bread is square. Adults who wear sneakers to work. The fact that I can't find a decent conditioner. The over-abundance of polyester in affordable dress shirts. |
I can help you with the conditioner. It's a bit of a splurge for many, but Lush makes some awesome products.
http://www.lushusa.com/shop/products/haircare/conditioners/
There's also L'Occitane.
http://usa.loccitane.com/FO/conditioners.htm |
Thanks for the heads up. I've been hearing lots of good things about Lush so I figure I'll give them a try.
It's weird that in a land where everything is supposedly designed for "Asian Hair" everything has just left my hair incredibly dry and limp no matter how much it says 'moisturizing or volumizing"' |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| chellovek wrote: |
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Irrational people who let little things get to them.
That and the TV in the lobby at the Seoul Museum of Art. The fact that the beer vendors at the Stadium look like they have Hite on Draft but its actually a backpack of cans. The fact that most used cars for sale are white. The Hotdogs at Family Mart have Sweet Potato on them. Lotteria's chicken tenders are only 2 piece and not 3. The fact that bologna is round and bread is square. Adults who wear sneakers to work. The fact that I can't find a decent conditioner. The over-abundance of polyester in affordable dress shirts. |
I can help you with the conditioner. It's a bit of a splurge for many, but Lush makes some awesome products.
http://www.lushusa.com/shop/products/haircare/conditioners/
There's also L'Occitane.
http://usa.loccitane.com/FO/conditioners.htm |
Hmm, not too big a fan of lush. Whenever I go in those shops I feel the urge to start eating the products. |
It is tempting. Some of them look like really good cheese. Still, it makes the bathing experience so much more relaxing. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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Dunno what your problems are really. Nothing grinds my groin.
I suppose that in itself is frustrating, but hey. |
No offense, but you don't seem to interact with people too much and sit around composing music.
Try going to a coffee shop overlooking the beach and the thing is packed with the atmosphere of a pub at 2am, or hiking with the feeling that you're getting chased and it's some kind of race. Annoying as hell.
Actually, too many annoying things to mention. It's the small things, they are only small things but there are just so many of them. |
On the contrary, I was out hiking and eating and going to bars in hongdae all and every weekend before it started raining every time I had free time. I still do a bit but not as much - although the rain in theory should stop round about now.
I think it's more a location thing. This area is quit peaceful and empty after 11pm. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| 11) People that stop in front of a door, escalator, or other narrow passage that I wish to enter. |
Now THIS really grinds my gears. My, what an exhausting ride down the escalator. Here would be good be a good place to pause, stretch, and look around. |
Much worse are the people who stop as they exit the escalator - leaving you no room to get off! |
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Hotwire
Joined: 29 Aug 2010
Location: Multiverse
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| Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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1. Living in the past.
I must try to get over the memory of an ex who lived here, who I dated in 2003. Was very in love with her. It's weird, I know it's over and don't really care but something inside hasn't realised this yet. Sometimes when I go to the town she lived in I imagine seeing her in groups in restaurants, with good looking guys in bars, in shadows and in stores in crowded streets etc. Even though it's been 6 years since I last saw her and she told me by email in 2005 that she left Korea... I think I will only ever finally vanquish all memories and obsessions of her when I leave this place and go somewhere new where we had no history and leave those fading, floating world ghosts of us - that still roam this peninsula holding hands, entrophied but never able to reach absolute zero - behind.
2. People.
A. Who get upset when you don't like the same things as them, people with narrow minds and fragile egos. Case in point
A few weekends ago I meet some new foriegners. This happens a lot and especially with women from the same country as me. It seems my not being enthusiastic for the country they miss so much comes as a personal affront to them, it really does. One got mad at me just because I said when I lived in ________ I found it uninspiring and depressing and I'd like to live in __________ and would move there and change citizenship in a second given the chance. Well she had lived in ________ too and was really upset over it and gave me evil stares all night.
Jebus Krist, why are people so unable to separate their egos from external things? Why can't I not like _________ and if someone does, they are able to see that I have different tastes and that my not liking it doesn't in anyway take anything from their liking it and make them insecure? Why? Why are people so DUMB? You know? You say you didn't enjoy a movie that they like and they get all pissy. Why can't they just do like I do and think 'oh okay, fair enough. You like cornflakes I like weatabix. I still love that movie and always will, so no big deal' Is this what goes through their heads - 'How dare he! now I feel upset and insulted and that movie is ruined boo hoo hooo I want my Mummy...' Have they never heard of special relativity and no fixed point of reference?
B. Foriegners in Korea and how hard it is for me as a long (ish) termer to make new friends.
Newb foreigners have a kind of casual and cliquey not give a *&%^ attitude (why should they, they are young, they are human and they have been comfortable, so 90% of their minds have never even been put to use,) and the women seeming to think I am some kind of outcast reptile loser for being here so long. Also most newbs live in a fantasy wonderland version of korea and have not much of a clue as to what's really happening around them in my experience. An example.
At a bar the other day. The Cass on tap had cleaning fluids in it which having run a hotel as a night porter, I could taste and recognize. It was vile and undrinkable. Was with some new foriegners and you can tell they thought I was a tommy tanker for pointing this out and getting the bar manager to change my drink. The bar manager tried to save face and saiid 'Oh you were drinking AMerican beer earlier. Korean beer is not same as American beer. He lost even more face when I told him in Korean that I have been in SK for 6 years and have been an alcoholic for the past year and have been drinking at least a pitcher of Cass daily. Plus I used to run a bar in a hotel at night.
Or me getting upset when a Korean is very obviously rude to us both in ours and their culture but the newbs don't realise it and think all Asians are wizened, magical elf like people who defecate in the aroma of roses. So Hotwire gets the flack and the real perp gets apologised to...
Oh and I could go on..... |
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balzor
Joined: 14 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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I think I will only ever finally vanquish all memories and obsessions of her when I leave this place and go somewhere new where we had no history and leave those fading, floating world ghosts of us - that still roam this peninsula holding hands, entrophied but never able to reach absolute zero - behind.
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That's deep. |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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Korean TV
I hate- detest- when watching a comedy program (or any other) and for some reason the director thinks its a good idea to repeat the same sequence from different angles. Usually its some banal act which "surprises" the immediate audience, giving a three-hundred and sixty degree view of how stupid their faces are. That and the OOOOOOO sound to something so F'in simple or lame
think of a Mr Pizza guy twirling a pizza on his finger.. OOOOOO
or a Turkish ice cream salesman holding the ice cream blob on a stick OOOOO
Foreigner speaking Korean.. OOOOOOOOOO
make it SHORTER PLEASE! a simple Wow or Aah would suffice! |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 3:52 am Post subject: |
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Korean TV
I hate- detest- when watching a comedy program (or any other) and for some reason the director thinks its a good idea to repeat the same sequence from different angles. Usually its some banal act which "surprises" the immediate audience, giving a three-hundred and sixty degree view of how stupid their faces are. That and the OOOOOOO sound to something so F'in simple or lame
think of a Mr Pizza guy twirling a pizza on his finger.. OOOOOO
or a Turkish ice cream salesman holding the ice cream blob on a stick OOOOO
Foreigner speaking Korean.. OOOOOOOOOO
make it SHORTER PLEASE! a simple Wow or Aah would suffice! |
Why are Korean movies so awesome yet Korean TV is so lame?!?!?
I mean dramas are alright, but the reality shows make me long for the gulag. |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 4:11 am Post subject: |
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Why are Korean movies so awesome yet Korean TV is so lame?!?!?
I mean dramas are alright, but the reality shows make me long for the gulag. |
This guy knows what I'm talking about!! 
Also, that song "Good Girl Bad Girl" the words shut up become shut off  Ridiculous
Edit: that video is only good when the sound is turned off |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 4:46 am Post subject: |
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| and for some reason the director thinks its a good idea to repeat the same sequence from different angles. |
This amuses me in Ong-Bak, a Thai action movie featuring Tony Jaa, now a practicing monk, but a Muay Thai artist within the film industry, even though he supposedly has no history of learning it.
Every single action in the film is repeated 3 times, no more, no less. The same shot, just played again with a BOOM to make sure you realise how cool it was.
Speaking of which, the second and third films are out, I never knew until just now. *goes to check out* |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 4:50 am Post subject: |
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Weird, my Hard Drive is chock full of Korean Movies (100+) yet not one K-TV show on it and my TV is sitting in my closet. Meanwhile my HD is full of American, Canadian (okay one, Trailer Park Boys), and British (okay, two- Poirot and Blackadder, though some Cracker and Rumpole of the Bailey would be great additions when I get my 1TB USB) TV shows.
If Korean reality TV makes its way on to my HD, shoot me and I won't charge 12 bucks. |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| and for some reason the director thinks its a good idea to repeat the same sequence from different angles. |
This amuses me in Ong-Bak, a Thai action movie featuring Tony Jaa, now a practicing monk, but a Muay Thai artist within the film industry, even though he supposedly has no history of learning it.
Every single action in the film is repeated 3 times, no more, no less. The same shot, just played again with a BOOM to make sure you realise how cool it was.
Speaking of which, the second and third films are out, I never knew until just now. *goes to check out* |
Tony Jaa is so f-ing badass. I love him. He's my new hero. You'll love Ong-Bak 2 if you liked the first one. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:30 am Post subject: |
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You know what really grinds my gears?
Today I'm pir...err...downloading mp3s and the files are all in lower case and have underscores separating the words in the names.
You know who does that? People who are still lashing out at having to learn punctuation and capitalization from back in elementary school. The same people who still whine about mom telling them to take a bath.
A lot of these people are computer geeks who lash out in wack ways like that. These are the same people who think you're a retard for not having a computer that doesn't have a bajillion megs of ram and can run their favorite MMORPG at insane resolution.
Rant over. |
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