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snowball
Joined: 25 Jan 2011
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OP should grow some nads.
Sounds like a women complaining before he's even here.
Grow a pair!
Keep your ear to the grindstone! |
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BoholDiver
Joined: 03 Oct 2009
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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I think the OP is going to meet some incredibly ignorant Koreans who think 넥타이 is a pure Korean word, and gripe about them too.
Koreans are not obligated to care about us. Just like Americans living and staying in America are not obligated to care about the Korean peninsula. |
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pyeongtaekcody2
Joined: 26 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| snowball wrote: |
OP should grow some nads.
Sounds like a women complaining before he's even here.
Grow a pair!
Keep your ear to the grindstone! |
This sounds like extremely helpful advice, Mr. Snowball! It reminds me of a story.
A buddy whom I worked with at Bob's Dairyland, in Roane Mountain, Tennessee was diagnoses with testicular cancer in the winter of 2009. We'll call him Snowball. It really got to him, sort of changed him as a person, and resurrected some sort of evil from within. One day while working night shift, a customer came in and requested that his french fries be cooked to where they were extra crispy. When he served the customer his fries, they were not to his specifications and and so he started giving Snowball a hard time and demanding he fix the problem. They exchanged a couple of choice words for some time, and during this time he told Snowball to "Grow a Pair." He completely lost it. He ended up beating the man into a bloody pulp, giving him a concussion from hitting his head on the ground numerous times, and also also caused the loss of two teeth. It was utter insanity, I thought the guy was dead. Of course, nobody stopped him. Any and everyone who has ever worked in a restaurant knows that its everyones dream to administer an ass beating to a complaining customer. Anyways, the guy learned his lesson for telling somebody to "Grow a Pair." Snowball explained his situation to the authorities, and I think they went easier on him.
Anyways, if you're ever in North East Tennessee..check the place out, its pretty famous. Here's a link.
http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/Bobs.Dairyland.423-772-3641
I suggest the mini-corn dogs. Dipped in honey mustard, not ketchup. The fries are better when extra crispy, but I wouldn't ask for them that way. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| EDIT- Good summer fun is posting in front of the local GS25 and sipping from the brown bag and watch some businessmen try to make it home...the car is just down the block, but they come out of one bar, go into the next one, and then staggering, try to go home, only to get dragged into the 3rd... |
Brown bag?  |
Okay okay, black plastic bag.
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| The post wasn't about American ignorance. It was about the ignorance of all people in the world regarding Korea. As I mentioned, nobody in the world could give two shits about Korea, and that's why Americans are just as equally as guilty as French or Germans in not knowing anything about Korea. Americans probably less-so than Germans, since there are sizable Korean immigrant communities in America. Everybody in LA will at least have tried Korean food compared to a Berliner. Some people might even have an uncle who had his kneecaps shot off by the Chinese while fighting for the current generation of Koreans. |
I would submit that 70% of people around the world are incredibly ignorant about this kind of thing.
It's like Flanders and Wallonia, unless you're a news junkie you'll never hear about this or meet anyone who has a clue. |
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pyeongtaekcody2
Joined: 26 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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Tennessee is actually quite nice, Mr. Snowball. Its home to The Great Smokey Mountains National Park, America's most visited National Park!
Unfortunately, I no longer live in a trailer. Uncle Willy caught it on fire a couple months ago while trying to deep fry 3 turkeys at the same time in a fifty gallon drum for Thanksgiving. I've been roughing it ever since. I'm actually typing this from the out house, which was all that was left from the infamous "Thanksgiving Day Turkey Blaze." The only thought that gets me through the nights is that I get to go to Dollywood on Friday! |
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tottenhamtaipeinick
Joined: 05 Sep 2010
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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OP,
Just because you take interest in SK doesn't mean the older generation will. You realise your Parents and Boss being a generation above you don't watch youtube and did not study through school and or university with the internet at their every need. They probably also rely of one news source for news which tells them whats going on in their neck of the woods. They also didn't have job opportunities like you have today going to SK to teach.
Remember to also tell your family or boss you are grateful for your upbringing being from a very developed part of the world. Don't run out on people saying to them you hate this place or they are idiots, because remember you are very likely to return. |
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Lastrova
Joined: 30 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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| pyeongtaekcody2 wrote: |
Tennessee is actually quite nice, Mr. Snowball. Its home to The Great Smokey Mountains National Park, America's most visited National Park!
Unfortunately, I no longer live in a trailer. Uncle Willy caught it on fire a couple months ago while trying to deep fry 3 turkeys at the same time in a fifty gallon drum for Thanksgiving. I've been roughing it ever since. I'm actually typing this from the out house, which was all that was left from the infamous "Thanksgiving Day Turkey Blaze." The only thought that gets me through the nights is that I get to go to Dollywood on Friday! |
 You troll! Hey, but you're stringing a few people on here quite nicely. Personally speaking, I'm deskwarming, so I've got time to kill. |
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pyeongtaekcody2
Joined: 26 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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Tennessee is actually quite nice, Mr. Snowball. Its home to The Great Smokey Mountains National Park, America's most visited National Park!
Unfortunately, I no longer live in a trailer. Uncle Willy caught it on fire a couple months ago while trying to deep fry 3 turkeys at the same time in a fifty gallon drum for Thanksgiving. I've been roughing it ever since. I'm actually typing this from the out house, which was all that was left from the infamous "Thanksgiving Day Turkey Blaze." The only thought that gets me through the nights is that I get to go to Dollywood on Friday! |
You troll! Hey, but you're stringing a few people on here quite nicely. Personally speaking, I'm deskwarming, so I've got time to kill. |
I've belonged to a couple of different discussion boards online. You find out some people really can't say a positive word about anything, and they try to be the hot rods of the internet board. They always have been people like that, always will be. I try to have fun with it. Just my 2 cents though. The post about Bob's Dailyland, that really did happened.
Anyways, I'm just a redneck from Tennessee, so what do I know. |
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pyeongtaekcody2
Joined: 26 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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White flags up dude, you win. I admit utter defeat. How can I top a second insult involving male genitals? You've busted out the heavy artillery, and I am throwing in the towel.
Sit back and congratulate yourself, you're more awesome now. |
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methdxman
Joined: 14 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| pyeongtaekcody2 wrote: |
| Lastrova wrote: |
| pyeongtaekcody2 wrote: |
Tennessee is actually quite nice, Mr. Snowball. Its home to The Great Smokey Mountains National Park, America's most visited National Park!
Unfortunately, I no longer live in a trailer. Uncle Willy caught it on fire a couple months ago while trying to deep fry 3 turkeys at the same time in a fifty gallon drum for Thanksgiving. I've been roughing it ever since. I'm actually typing this from the out house, which was all that was left from the infamous "Thanksgiving Day Turkey Blaze." The only thought that gets me through the nights is that I get to go to Dollywood on Friday! |
You troll! Hey, but you're stringing a few people on here quite nicely. Personally speaking, I'm deskwarming, so I've got time to kill. |
I've belonged to a couple of different discussion boards online. You find out some people really can't say a positive word about anything, and they try to be the hot rods of the internet board. They always have been people like that, always will be. I try to have fun with it. Just my 2 cents though. The post about Bob's Dailyland, that really did happened.
Anyways, I'm just a redneck from Tennessee, so what do I know. |
Most people in general are dumb. While Europeans are pretty knowledgeable about all things international, most of them still didn't know that they would pretty much never meet a North Korean in their lifetimes. (Oh you're Korean? North or South?) I'm guessing in Tennessee people in general are a lot dumber than a big-city American (although probably a lot much nicer) judging by quality of education and median household income.
You seem like an OK guy, just come to Korea with a very open mind about everything. I mean even stuff you take for granted like breathing. Be ready to re-evaluate everything that you think is normal.
You should be fine, then. |
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Hindsight
Joined: 02 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:03 am Post subject: |
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Nothing funnier than foreigners generalizing about American states. Ever actually been to Tennessee? Knoxville? Nashville? Jackson? Memphis? Ever even heard of them? Fine cities. This is not dumbass hillbilly country.
And don't underestimate hillbillies. Alvin York was a real hillbilly. And a real hero who devoted his later life to improving educational opportunities in northeastern Tennessee:
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| In the 1920s, York formed the Alvin C. York Foundation with the mission of increasing education opportunities in his region of Tennessee. Board members included the area's congressman, Cordell Hull, who later became Secretary of State under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo, and Tennessee Governor Albert Roberts. Plans called for a non-sectarian institution providing vocational training to be called the York Agricultural Institute. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_York
No, I've never lived in Tennessee. But I've visited several times, and 48 other states, and most of the provinces of Canada. Every state in America is different. But for people who've never been there to stereotype people is pretty funny.
Yes, there are sometimes some general characteristics of people from different regions in America, though they do not apply to everyone, of course. There are smart people and dumb people in every state. And people move from state to state, so there's even less consistency.
But overall there are, sadly, a lot of really dumb, dumb, dumb people in the U.S. If there weren't, there wouldn't be so many politicians appealing to the lowest level of the electorate, each competing to appear to be more uneducated than the next. They don't get any stupider than Michele Bachmann, and she's from Minnesota.
And Al Gore is from Tennessee. Ever hear of him? |
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JeffersonDarcy2010
Joined: 05 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:35 am Post subject: Re: Stupid People, Everywhere. |
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| Are people this big of idiots in other countries? I'm not sure if it can get any worse. I believe this is American Ethnocentrism at its finest, or maybe just stupidity. Either way, I can't wait to get to Korea. |
Most Koreans I've met have shown any interest in the world outside of Korea. It feels like an island. It's a peninsula with a closed gate at the north end. It's basically an island. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| urghh.. Uh.. wh..what? What's going on? Where am I? |
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Hindsight
Joined: 02 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:30 am Post subject: |
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Speaking of dumb and dumber:
methdxman wrote:
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| While Europeans are pretty knowledgeable about all things international, most of them still didn't know that they would pretty much never meet a North Korean in their lifetimes. (Oh you're Korean? North or South?) |
I've met several Koreans traveling in other parts of Asia who , after confirming they were from Korea, helpfully explained that they were from SOUTH Korea.
To which I replied, yes, of course. If you were from North Korea, they wouldn't let you out. (I don't think they got it.)
Most of these Koreans still don't know that they would pretty much never meet a North Korean outside of Korea in their lifetimes, except perhaps in Russia or Cuba or China or Tibet, or some other former Soviet republic or communist state.
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Speaking of ultra-dumb, why is it that when Koreans travel they make a point of telling you that they can always spot another Korean walking down the street, just from their facial features?
Sorry, Korea, you are not a race.
If someone tries this on you, ask them to prove it. Get them to stand on the street and point out the Koreans walking by. (No, dummy, this doesn't count in Korea.)
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(I'm from Connecticut. I can always tell a fellow Nutmegger walking down the street.)
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methdxman
Joined: 14 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:33 am Post subject: |
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| Hindsight wrote: |
Speaking of dumb and dumber:
methdxman wrote:
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| While Europeans are pretty knowledgeable about all things international, most of them still didn't know that they would pretty much never meet a North Korean in their lifetimes. (Oh you're Korean? North or South?) |
I've met several Koreans traveling in other parts of Asia who , after confirming they were from Korea, helpfully explained that they were from SOUTH Korea.
To which I replied, yes, of course. If you were from North Korea, they wouldn't let you out. (I don't think they got it.)
Most of these Koreans still don't know that they would pretty much never meet a North Korean outside of Korea in their lifetimes, except perhaps in Russia or Cuba or China or Tibet, or some other former Soviet republic or communist state.
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Speaking of ultra-dumb, why is it that when Koreans travel they make a point of telling you that they can always spot another Korean walking down the street, just from their facial features?
Sorry, Korea, you are not a race.
If someone tries this on you, ask them to prove it. Get them to stand on the street and point out the Koreans walking by. (No, dummy, this doesn't count in Korea.) |
Uhh I'm Korean, I rarely ever got confused in the U.S. When someone is Korean, I know it immediately. I knew it in other countries as well. I probably have a 98%+ success rate.
Just because you can't understand something doesn't mean it's not true. |
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