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Do you hang out with your NES co-workers?
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Do you hang out with your NES co-workers?
Yes-all the time
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 31%  [ 5 ]
No--rarely
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 68%  [ 11 ]
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Radius



Joined: 20 Dec 2009

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:19 pm    Post subject: Do you hang out with your NES co-workers? Reply with quote

I rarely do. He's not the type of person I'd hang out with at home, so he's not the type of person I'd hang out with here.
Why, or why not?
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Ramen



Joined: 15 Apr 2008

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:37 pm    Post subject: Re: Do you hang out with your NES co-workers? Reply with quote

Radius wrote:
I rarely do. He's not the type of person I'd hang out with at home, so he's not the type of person I'd hang out with here.
Why, or why not?


ft's in my school district are mostly a weird bunch. they're either working thwir way up to be alchoholics or people with bipolor disorder.

i opt and enjoy hanging around with locals and k-teachers. Razz
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Underwaterbob



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A little bit, but our interests are so divergent about the only thing we can do together is eat and/or get drunk, which I am certainly not averse to. It's just not something I want to do every weekend.
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jdog2050



Joined: 17 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's been up and down for me. I'd say the most I ever hung out with co workers was the second year at my first school. We've all kept in touch and one of them I'm good friends with. That said, I've had horrible luck in terms of actually being at schools that even HAVE other foreigners, let alone younger people without kids.
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computermichael



Joined: 01 Jul 2010
Location: Anyang

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My relationship with one is such that we don't acknowledge each other if we cross paths outside of work.
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KimchiExplosion



Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Nowhere near Seoul

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mine seem to be pretty evenly divided between alcoholic partiers and douchey hipsters, so I try to avoid them as much as possible.

Not sure which one's worse...
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Triban



Joined: 14 Jul 2009
Location: Suwon Station

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The hipsters.

Always the hipsters...::shudder::
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NYC_Gal 2.0



Joined: 10 Dec 2010

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't have any others at my school, but I guess it would depend on what their idea of a good time was. I hang out with a small group of amazing people, but do have plenty of peripheral friends that I see on a fairly regular basis.
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Zackback



Joined: 05 Nov 2010
Location: Kyungbuk

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 10:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What's a "hipster"?
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CtotheB



Joined: 03 Sep 2010

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A hipster is an art school dropout who likes indie music, flannel, ironic mustaches and nerd glasses without any lenses. Often he is seen drinking cheap beer and talking about a band he wrote about on his blog, while riding a fixed gear bicycle and smoking a cigarette in Brooklyn. Men and women are very androgynous.
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ESL Milk "Everyday



Joined: 12 Sep 2007

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think that pretty much anyone under the age of 30 is at least one third hipster. Over 30-40 maybe a quarter.
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vDroop



Joined: 25 Aug 2010

PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

CtotheB wrote:
A hipster is an art school dropout who likes indie music, flannel, ironic mustaches and nerd glasses without any lenses. Often he is seen drinking cheap beer and talking about a band he wrote about on his blog, while riding a fixed gear bicycle and smoking a cigarette in Brooklyn. Men and women are very androgynous.


I think I've been in Korea too long. 8 years ago I don't remember this term. Am I a hipster?

I graduated with a business degree, but I hate school.
I like metal or hard rock music, sometimes it's indie stuff.
I don't have a blog but if I did, it would be about music or computer games.
I drink cheap beer.
I smoke.

Am I?
Crying or Very sad
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DorkothyParker



Joined: 11 Apr 2009
Location: Jeju

PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 4:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My coworker is super nice but we don't really hang out. I'm really socially awkward. She asks me to do stuff but she is always really vague and I am cannot initiate social contact like calling someone or suggesting a time and a place to actually do something.
I don't think we have much in common.

EDIT: I've been known to hang out with my NES (not coworker) on occasion.
Sometimes I have to bang it a bit or blow into it to make it work, but we get along well enough. :/
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Mr. Peabody



Joined: 24 Sep 2010
Location: here

PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 4:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

DorkothyParker wrote:

EDIT: I've been known to hang out with my NES (not coworker) on occasion.
Sometimes I have to bang it a bit or blow into it to make it work, but we get along well enough. :/

Dorky, you really are a nerd!
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Mr. Peabody



Joined: 24 Sep 2010
Location: here

PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 4:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where is the "I'd like to, she's hot, but I haven't got the cojones to ask!", option? Smile
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