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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| I cover myself in dripping wet, red paint everyday. They don't even brush up against me anymore. |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 5:26 am Post subject: |
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another thought...
people were talking about acting crazy on the subway. i used to do that on the skytrain in vancouver all the time. i worked with schizophrenics and one day on my way home on a crowded, stinky skytrain i decided to start feigning various syndromes, shaking various parts of my body, talking to myself, and people cleared the _____ out of my 5' square vibe zone.
i would think that, in a country that seems a hell of a lot more conservative than canada, if you pulled that on the subway you'd get your own car. i have yet to try it, but let's hear it for jungshin byungja. |
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The Man known as The Man
Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:48 am Post subject: |
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the sense that i get from this thread is that...
when in rome... it's good old cultural relativism. just get into it, it can be fun.
and the ajumas sticking their elbows out, i'm 6 feet tall and 190, i refuse to play dodge-uma with a xenophobe. |
I agree totally. I am 6 feet tall and weigh 265. Most people get out of the way or they would go down if they ran into me. |
Either you're a supermuscular freak or its time to put the beer down and hit the gym. |
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Danielos
Joined: 25 Oct 2003
Location: Gumi
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 2:39 am Post subject: |
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The Man Known as the Man worte:
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Danielos wrote:
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the sense that i get from this thread is that...
when in rome... it's good old cultural relativism. just get into it, it can be fun.
and the ajumas sticking their elbows out, i'm 6 feet tall and 190, i refuse to play dodge-uma with a xenophobe. |
I agree totally. I am 6 feet tall and weigh 265. Most people get out of the way or they would go down if they ran into me.
Either you're a supermuscular freak or its time to put the beer down and hit the gym. |
Yeah, actually I am doing really good losing weight. My top weight ever was 305. I do carry quite a bit of muscle on me though. I used to work out at a gym and the personal trainers thought that getting down to 225 to 230 area would be good for me. Only 35-40 pounds to go!! |
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 3:14 am Post subject: Re: getting pushed around |
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If your walking on a sidewalk anywhere in this country and experience being pushed or hit try something new. Your hockey coach will tell you it's not a good idea to put your head down but in korea I suggest you do keep your head down and keep a direct path. It's amazing when a sidewalk is empty but koreans still want to walk right into you even though they have a choice. I don't know about you but I'm sick of it so now I keep my path on a sidewalk and when I see a korean deciding to play chicken with me I put my head down and usually send them flying. It's one of my favorite activities here I'm thinking of teaching this  technique to anyone interested. |
That is hardly unique to Korea it happens in Canada all the time. On a daily basis during the week, I go through a set of double doors with one being opne all the time. When I am approaching it and its on my right, people coming from the other way inevitably are going through it-I usually have my dufflebag and I put it in front of me, but I _never_ am looking down like that-one time I went through 4 dudes-the first got out of the way the rest I just pushed through. |
It certainly isn't unique to Korea but the scale is so vastly different that a comparison to Canada is laughable. The only place I've felt close to that is in Vancouver's Chinatown. |
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kiwiboy_nz_99
Joined: 05 Jul 2003
Location: ...Enlightenment...
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Not only do Koreans just not care about the common curtesies of being in pubic, they actually have a decreased capacity for spatial awareness. Have you ever noticed how many times this particular event happens?
You see someone who is heading straight towards you, you alter your path so that you'll miss them, but they don't pick up your change of direction fast enough, so they change too, so you change back, but they are to slow to notice so they change back too, etc. It's very awkward. Well, this happens in the west, but I've noticed it about 10 times more here. Westerners are just a whole lot better at timing and spatial relations.
And that's the ones that DO care about getting out of your way. Yes, it is one of the most infuriating aspects of living here. I was standing on a subway train holding one of the handles, and a guy was coming right towards me, there was not enough room for him to go round. I was quite happy to move, but I saw coming right at me with no effort to make any move himself. I just stiffened up, put my head down, and stood still. He got a hell of a shock trying to brush me aside, basically tried to walk right through me, but ended up bouncing off and having to squeeze round. Not at all pleased he was, but I enjoyed it very much. Thinking back I should have dropped a shoulder. |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| Foreigners in Korea area special breed. Once you figure out how to suck it up a bit, your life will improve ten fold. Consider it! |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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exactly
suck it up, stop being a bedwetting crybaby and korea can be fun. |
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