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sadguy
Joined: 13 Feb 2011
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 Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:08 pm Post subject: things that drive you crazy AFTER living in korea |
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the hawking a loogie/spitting sound that korean dudes make. this sound used to never bother me, hell, i occasionally hawk up a nice loogie. but now, after living in asia for a few years, it drives me crazy every time i hear it.
it's like the dudes here are trying their hardest to make it sound as dramatic as possible |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Gum smacking. It used to drive me mad on the rare occasions that I heard it back home, but here it's everywhere. I don't complain or tsk tsk them, but it's on par with scratching nails on a chalkboard to me. |
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Kaypea
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| that hissing through the teeth sound when people are annoyed or perplexed. I hate it because... I'm starting to do it! I'm trying to cut down. |
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kenglish
Joined: 10 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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| lol you guys should complain. korea is a like a piece of zen garden compared to their obnoxious nonsensical neighbor china. ugh, the stuff they do here almost got me running to the loony bin. only 3 more days now... |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Kaypea wrote: |
| that hissing through the teeth sound when people are annoyed or perplexed. I hate it because... I'm starting to do it! I'm trying to cut down. |
When the person's annoyed or perplexed and making that sound, it doesn't bother me a bit. It's when the person makes that sound and then commences to lie to me, that's when I start imagining a bus running over them. |
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sadguy
Joined: 13 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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| kenglish wrote: |
| lol you guys should complain. korea is a like a piece of zen garden compared to their obnoxious nonsensical neighbor china. ugh, the stuff they do here almost got me running to the loony bin. only 3 more days now... |
i lived in china. the spitting in china is what started to irritate me and it sort of spilled over into korea. |
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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Kaypea wrote: |
| that hissing through the teeth sound when people are annoyed or perplexed. I hate it because... I'm starting to do it! I'm trying to cut down. |
GU JUN PYOOOOO!!!
JAN DIIII!!!
AIIISSHHHHH!!!! |
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kenglish
Joined: 10 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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hawking in china is sort of a biological necessity since there's so much frikin dust here.... whenever i'm visiting seoul i always go through about 3 days of epic phlegming to which afterwards my throat clears up considerably. korea is going to be my detox from china.
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dharma bum
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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| When people are smoking on the sidewalk, either while standing or walking past/in front of me, and blow smoke in my face or waft it back toward me. I never even noticed it before, and probably would have thought someone complaining about it was being way too sensitive, but it really gets to me these days. |
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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| dharma bum wrote: |
| When people are smoking on the sidewalk, either while standing or walking past/in front of me, and blow smoke in my face or waft it back toward me. I never even noticed it before, and probably would have thought someone complaining about it was being way too sensitive, but it really gets to me these days. |
Spit and then mean mug them while walking away, they'll get it. |
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Caffeinated
Joined: 11 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:41 am Post subject: |
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| It's a rare morning when there's no shiny new spit in the elevator. |
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ZIFA
Joined: 23 Feb 2011
Location: Dici che il fiume..Trova la via al mare
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| Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:04 am Post subject: Re: things that drive you crazy AFTER living in korea |
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| sadguy wrote: |
| the hawking a loogie/spitting sound that korean dudes make. |
Most of the stuff that makes me retch involves the behaviour of Korean men. The women are generally taught not to do it.
*Taking off shoes and unveiling smelly feet on public transport.
*Sucking teeth and a variety of other idle, disgusting mouth noises.
*Burping and slurping while eating.
*Shouting instead of talking.
*Talking with mouth full of food.
* The variety of loud animal-type grunts, howls and yells that echo down the street the moment it gets dark.
*The miserable attitude and passive aggression of some K-men towards foreign guys. |
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erasmus
Joined: 11 Sep 2010
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It's only because I lived in Korea that I visit this forum and it's only on this forum that I see the 'lol' thing so, yeah, that's what drives me crazy.
I'm in China now and I think today I'm going to count the number of times I see and/or hear somebody spit... it's going to tax my math skills but it will be interesting to have a number to work with. |
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walter235
Joined: 07 Apr 2011
Location: korea
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| Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Idiot drivers, idiots who drive scooters on crowded sidewalks or narrow paths. The self important, self absorbed men and women here, it shows in everything they do like park their cars where people have to walk. Spoiled, rude kids growing up today. The crappy mediocre media and culture Koreans love............God, I need a vacation from this place! |
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Swampfox10mm
Joined: 24 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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Are you guys really in China? Seems like we only get reports about how horrible China is recently.
You sure you're not some Korean recruiter trying to slow the flow of teachers from Korea to China? *laugh* |
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