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TheresaTheresa
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| eamo wrote: |
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| Grow some balls fairy boy. |
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| BTW, you sound like a douche. |
I'm afraid, Mark, that a lot of our anti-intellectual North American friends are roaming loose in the ROK.......but don't despair....Brits make up the third-largest group, I think, and you should be able to find someone to recite Monty Python sketches with.......indeed, even some of the N.A. hordes can be entertaining company.
My 10 years working with people from all the 7 English-speaking countries has confirmed that there are roughly an equal amount of knobs from each one of them. |
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TheresaTheresa
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 9:35 am Post subject: |
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| This is a great thread! |
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ESL Milk "Everyday
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I don't know about anyone else, but when I travel all the way around the world to live in a foreign land, the only thing I care about is whether or not the people I spend my time with are exactly the same as me.
Seriously, where else in the world can you get that kind of experience??
(Is that ironic/sarcastic enough for you?) |
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Sprite06
Joined: 20 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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I'm from Scotland and my mates here are from all over. I really dont understand the mentality of people who come here and only want to kick around with those from your home country. Retarded.
I give you 6 months if you are indeed as much of a tit as your post sounds. |
Agreed, I'm from America and pretty excited about making friends from UK, South Africa, Korea, etc.
If OP just wants friends from his hometown, why not just stay home? |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| This is one of the worst trolling attempts in a while. I mean, if you're going to stereotype North Americans, you've got to come up with better stuff than baseball, hats, hockey and maple syrup. Does anyone find these stereotypes offensive or amusing? |
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ESL Milk "Everyday
Joined: 12 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| This is one of the worst trolling attempts in a while. I mean, if you're going to stereotype North Americans, you've got to come up with better stuff than baseball, hats, hockey and maple syrup. Does anyone find these stereotypes offensive or amusing? |
More like just really really ignorant.
But then, any form of stereotyping is at least borderline offensive. |
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edwardcatflap
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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Agreed, I'm from America and pretty excited about making friends from UK, South Africa, Korea, etc.
If OP just wants friends from his hometown, why not just stay home? |
People tend to feel this way when they first start living away from home in a foreign country and get all excited about the global village experience and all that. After a while most people start wanting to hang out with people they have things in common with and a shared cultural experience is a huge part of this. Like the OP said most of the time you want to talk about sport or tv or things happening back in your home country and make cultural references you don't have to spend a long time explaining to your mates before they can understand the joke. Hence people naturally flock to their own kind. It's just human nature and maybe the OP is just skipping the first time abroad period and cutting to the chase. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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Agreed, I'm from America and pretty excited about making friends from UK, South Africa, Korea, etc.
If OP just wants friends from his hometown, why not just stay home? |
People tend to feel this way when they first start living away from home in a foreign country and get all excited about the global village experience and all that. After a while most people start wanting to hang out with people they have things in common with and a shared cultural experience is a huge part of this. Like the OP said most of the time you want to talk about sport or tv or things happening back in your home country and make cultural references you don't have to spend a long time explaining to your mates before they can understand the joke. Hence people naturally flock to their own kind. It's just human nature and maybe the OP is just skipping the first time abroad period and cutting to the chase. |
Or maybe he's a douche. Look at the writing style! urrrgh.
And I'm British, I should be sticking up for him. |
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ESL Milk "Everyday
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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Or maybe he's a douche. Look at the writing style! urrrgh.
And I'm British, I should be sticking up for him. |
You've never struck me as a douche, though.
I can understand the craving for familiarity and such but if you're leaving so much behind that you can't do without then maybe travel just isn't your thing.
People with universal interests and open minds always do better/make lesser idiots of themselves than those who have neither-- and this guy couldn't be more closed.
On the other hand, coming to Korea is no longer even about traveling-- it's just about making money and then suffering through all the horrible inconveniences that come with not being back home... so yeah, I'm sure he'll be able to find people who are exactly like him. |
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edwardcatflap
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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| All these accusations of 'douche' may be going over this guy's head by the way as being British myself I'd never heard of the word before I came to Korea. |
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Greenman
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| Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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I find people with this attitude have never been out of their own country for very long. OP probably hasnt had much, if any, contact with North Americans or people from 'the colonies' apart from tv.
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oldtrafford
Joined: 12 Jan 2011
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I'm afraid, Mark, that a lot of our anti-intellectual North American friends are roaming loose in the ROK.......but don't despair....Brits make up the third-largest group, I think, and you should be able to find someone to recite Monty Python sketches with.......indeed, even some of the N.A. hordes can be entertaining company.
My 10 years working with people from all the 7 English-speaking countries has confirmed that there are roughly an equal amount of knobs from each one of them.
I couldn't agree more. |
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sesyeux
Joined: 20 Jul 2009
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| Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 3:11 am Post subject: |
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| ITT: trolls trolling trolls |
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DorkothyParker
Joined: 11 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:06 am Post subject: |
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You could probably find people more like you by inquiring about similar interests rather than geographical origin. I mean, I'm going to assume you weren't friends with every bloke or lass within a 15 km radius of your flat. In fact, I'll wager you may even have disliked or even hated someone.
Just, be sensible. Oi! |
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le-paul
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre
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| Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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its probably the first and last time youve referred to yourself as a brit?
Blood traitor! |
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