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[FDNY]

The fares are clearly marked, so there is no discount by swiping your card when you alight the bus.

I don't get it.

Also, why don't koreans remove the protective plastic wrap from stainless steel fixings? Can you imaging the Eifel Tower covered in ugly plastic shipping wrap?

Moreover, why do K-people leave on the blue foam door protectors on new cars? And those energy efficiency stickers. What is with that?

And one more thing. Why don't Koreans touch bottles with their mouths? They open their gobs, tilt their heads back, and pour it in.

[r122925]

[Zyzyfer]

Man, some hard-hitting questions you've got there. The world may never know the answers!

[goreality]

The Eiffel Tower was originally sealed in plastic wrap, it has mostly fallen off in the last 120 years.
The blue foam door protectors are nice when you are in a tight parking lot and you can't open your door without risking hitting the car or wall beside you.
Energy efficient stickers look cool and who really wants to scrape them off?
If you put the bottle to your mouth, bacteria will be transferred, it's more sanitary.

[wishfullthinkng]

[FDNY]

[jvalmer]

[CentralCali]

Those little foam "ding preventers" only work if the door happens to hit at that point. The simple fact is that the doors have far more opportunity to inflict damage than just in those spots so enhanced.

The plastic covers here annoy me, too; however, they're a far, far cry better than the doily and plastic bag encasement addiction in the Philippines. The worst example I've seen of that is a sofa in a well-to-do person's living room: sofa came with what I can only describe as doily flaps, each cushion was covered in a clear plastic bag, there was yet another doily placed on top of that, and to top it all off, a great big plastic bag to go around the sofa but with the cushions as I described them placed on top of that. I'm still surprised that the cushions were actually outside of the giant bag.

[thegadfly]

FDNY,

Your reasoning for your refutations is that "we don't do that in the West?" Really? Ethnocentric much?

Yeah, the bottle thing is to prevent spreading disease -- and rubbing the mouth of the bottle after wrapping your gob around it doesn't really do much to help more than the aesthetics of it -- you see, there are these things commonly called germs -- actually, bacteria and other micro-organisms -- and simply wiping the mouth of a bottle does NOT get rid of them. Not making contact with the surface in the first place? Yeah, that is much more effective.

The plastic cover protects the metal -- simple fact, and the reason WHY the plastic is put on in the first place. Again, for aesthetic reasons, folks in the West tend to remove the plastic once they take possession of the object in question...but the surfaces get scratched up as a result of it. We may accept that as part of the natural wear on an object, whereas Koreans seem to prefer the wear on the plastic cover first...and I suppose, once the cover is scratched and torn enough, they simply peel it off, and voila`, they have a new-looking object again, far longer after purchase than Westerners can manage....

Blue car foam is available for purchase in many places -- and it IS available in the US as well -- have seen it there on cars, and have seen it for sale in the automotive aisle of a freakin' Walgreens drugstore, so it ain't THAT rare.

Asking the questions was fine, but really, if you are going to snidely attempt to refute someone, please get your facts straight.

[wishfullthinkng]

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[CentralCali]

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[CentralCali]

You would likely get less argument if you were to simply read what was posted instead of making up others' posts. Your so-called translation of my post has little resemblance to what I actually posted.

[wishfullthinkng]