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oldtrafford
Joined: 12 Jan 2011
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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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Just my opinion. Do you have a link to a source that says they don't?
So you don't have a link!! To answer YOUR question:
Do I have LINK to say otherwise. No, I don't! Do I have LINKS to say they DON'T, YES I do!!!
This link is for the viewing figures for Eastenders on December the 25th 2010.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s2/eastenders/news/a294814/eastenders-tops-christmas-day-ratings.html
The link shows that 11.4 million viewers watched Eastenders. Bear in mind folks that this is a national holiday in blighty called Christmas day. People were not out and about because nothing is open. Perhaps people were busy playing PASS the salami!!
Here is another link for March 2011. The viewing figures for this particular night were 8.3 million. People MUST have been busy playing PASS the SALAMI again.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/news/a307162/soaps-ratings-roundup-march-3.html
The following link shows the approx. figure of the population in the U.K. which is 61.8 million.
Your OPINION that MOST people eat their STODGE on their laps whilst watching EASENDERS doesn't seem to add up.
I kindly suggest that you think before giving an opinion. Opinions can be very misleading!! |
Can't you tell when people are speaking figuratively, jeez 
I meant tv in general. Eastenders is probably on after a lot of people have their evening meal and most people in the Uk probably watch cable nowadays anyway (I'll leave it to you to come up with stats on that)
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| Opinions can be very misleading!! |
So can 'viewing figures. Do you know how they actually work them out? |
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DaHu
Joined: 09 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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| I also wish people had better table manners, regardless from where they came. |
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oldtrafford
Joined: 12 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| You asked for links to show otherwise, I did that. It's obvious Most people don't watch Eastenders whilst eating their stodge on their knees, jeez!! |
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koreandefence
Joined: 05 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 4:18 pm Post subject: Re: I wish my colleagues had better table manners. |
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The lunches at my school are pretty good. But when lunch time arrives I get this mixed feeling of anticipation (because I'm hungry) and mild anxiety. The anxiety comes from having to eat with the other teachers. In short, their table manners are atrocious. Really, really, really bad. It's not just the slurping and smacking, talking with food in their mouths, displaying the contents of their mouth, vigorous throat clearing at the table ect. It's the coughing and hacking over other people's food - including my food. Who in their right mind coughs over other people's food? Some of them even have that phlemy cough that hardcore smokers have. And if I'm sitting directly across from them it's very unpleasant indeed. And the vigorous conversations carried on with their mouth bulging with food. Can they not see the food particles flying out of their mouths. Those particles gotta land somewhere.  |
Well it seems to happen all over Korea (my University also), so maybe learn to deal with it! Or should an entire culture change their way to suit your world view. 'Oh in the west we do it like ...". You can always get your food and go and sit outside.
Just understand that's how it is done, you can remove yourself from the situation |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:17 pm Post subject: Re: I wish my colleagues had better table manners. |
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| MacLean wrote: |
| The lunches at my school are pretty good. But when lunch time arrives I get this mixed feeling of anticipation (because I'm hungry) and mild anxiety. The anxiety comes from having to eat with the other teachers. In short, their table manners are atrocious. Really, really, really bad. It's not just the slurping and smacking, talking with food in their mouths, displaying the contents of their mouth, vigorous throat clearing at the table ect. It's the coughing and hacking over other people's food - including my food. Who in their right mind coughs over other people's food? Some of them even have that phlemy cough that hardcore smokers have. And if I'm sitting directly across from them it's very unpleasant indeed. And the vigorous conversations carried on with their mouth bulging with food. Can they not see the food particles flying out of their mouths. Those particles gotta land somewhere. |
Yeah I noticed that long ago. I ended up sitting with the healthy students when the teachers are sick. That way I avoid all that while giving students extra English practice. You have to try to stay healthy as Korean employers could fire someone for taking a sick day (this has happened to my friends in the past). |
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MacLean
Joined: 14 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:41 pm Post subject: Re: I wish my colleagues had better table manners. |
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Well it seems to happen all over Korea (my University also), so maybe learn to deal with it! Or should an entire culture change their way to suit your world view. |
In this case, yes it should. This nasty aspect of Korean culture needs to change. I can't emphasize this enough. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:46 pm Post subject: Re: I wish my colleagues had better table manners. |
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| MacLean wrote: |
| koreandefence wrote: |
Well it seems to happen all over Korea (my University also), so maybe learn to deal with it! Or should an entire culture change their way to suit your world view. |
In this case, yes it should. This nasty aspect of Korean culture needs to change. I can't emphasize this enough. |
And how exactly? Come up with a plan of action or be quiet Cobb. Otherwise you're just being boring. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:50 pm Post subject: Re: I wish my colleagues had better table manners. |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| MacLean wrote: |
| koreandefence wrote: |
Well it seems to happen all over Korea (my University also), so maybe learn to deal with it! Or should an entire culture change their way to suit your world view. |
In this case, yes it should. This nasty aspect of Korean culture needs to change. I can't emphasize this enough. |
And how exactly? Come up with a plan of action or be quiet Cobb. Otherwise you're just being boring. |
Plan of action: don't cough your spittle in my face or on my plate or I'll do it tenfold right back to you. It's not part of the culture. It's the lack thereof (in this one respect). |
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UseAsDirected
Joined: 12 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:36 am Post subject: |
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Steelrails, I have read your responses up and down this thread and in wholesale agree with you. I do not have to enlarge upon it, as you already have or will. I appreciate people like you pointing out the absurdity of some posters comments. Ah, the cultural compara'cists out to judge, compare, rejudge, re-compare, ad nauseum. But, they would be taken aback if anyone did it to theirs.
I lived in Europe for eight-months and hardly a day went buy, in the beginning, that I was not judged by European students (at the time I was studying abroad in England) for being a f*ck*ng Yankee American and the psychological baggage, anti-intellect, and ``ugliness'' it entails . The absurdities they spouted were unbelievable. I felt really small. Thankfully, 99 percent had a really positive impression of me after the first meeting, but would defer the criticisms onto my government, as though I was a spokesman for my country.)
It was absurdities galore, and we disliked it. Now I read it on these boards, albeit reversed. Helps...no one. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:39 am Post subject: Re: I wish my colleagues had better table manners. |
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| NYC_Gal 2.0 wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
| MacLean wrote: |
| koreandefence wrote: |
Well it seems to happen all over Korea (my University also), so maybe learn to deal with it! Or should an entire culture change their way to suit your world view. |
In this case, yes it should. This nasty aspect of Korean culture needs to change. I can't emphasize this enough. |
And how exactly? Come up with a plan of action or be quiet Cobb. Otherwise you're just being boring. |
Plan of action: don't cough your spittle in my face or on my plate or I'll do it tenfold right back to you. It's not part of the culture. It's the lack thereof (in this one respect). |
But how do we change it at a systemic level?
I can change it on a personal level and have- Don't touch my inner thigh K-Dudes, but what about at a systemic level? Or can we only change it on a personal level and hope for a cumulative effect? |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| I don't know. I'm just joking around. I haven't had that problem. As for the slurping and chomping, it doesn't bother me unless it's gum. Then it's like nails on a chalkboard. |
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Sinnerman
Joined: 19 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| i don't wash my hands after i pee and i don't wash my hands if there is no soap. all you do is spread germs around that way. and i don't wash after i pee because i don't touch any genitalia. i don't even touch any skin, so why bother? it's just when other people are in the bathroom and i feel they are judging, that's when i was my hands. |
A man from Oxford and another from Cambridge are in the loo, when the man from Oxford says, "At Oxford, they teach us to wash our hands after we relieve ourselves!" To which he received the reply, "At Cambridge, they teach us not to relieve ourselves on our hands." |
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UseAsDirected
Joined: 12 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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A man from Oxford and another from Cambridge are in the loo, when the man from Oxford says, "At Oxford, they teach us to wash our hands after we relieve ourselves!" To which he received the reply, "At Cambridge, they teach us not to relieve ourselves on our hands." |
Haha, that is a good one! |
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andersondm4
Joined: 01 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Korea is, in my opinion, Third World. Economically no, but we're not talking about economics here. We're talking about culture. And culturally speaking, it is still a third world country. |
One of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. Culturally Third World? What? This is some designation you just made up. I'm curious to know who else is culturally Third World. You think other countries are aspiring to Western Culture? You can't make up your own new definition for "Third World" and then make a statement about another country. Maybe you're not talking about economics, but that's the way you designate whether or not a country is third world along with some social factors. Things like:
Per Cap Income, GDP, Literacy, Life expectancy, Infant mortality, etc...
That's like saying yea England is a Third World Country. what's that? England doesn't fit the definition of a Third World Country, well jokes on you I'm not talking about the actual definition of Third World I'm referring to the definition I just made up. |
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