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[Stan Rogers]

[quote="edsel"][quote]Yeah, I'm an epic pisshead but I feel guilt and shame rather than being pleased about the whole thing.
There's no heroism in opening your mouth and swilling alcohol. Anyone can do it.

[toby99]

[quote="Stan Rogers"][quote="edsel"]

[asdfghjkl]

I don't know too many people who have gone on epic benders, even some of the fat, pathetic, smelly drunks I have worked with. They've usually just done annoying, destructive things until they got fired. Most of them were too fat and sloppy to get laid and didn't have any friends, so they mostly just wallowed in their filth alone at home, where the party really does never stop.

I think a lot of people drink more than usual here because they were boring in their home countries to begin with and then find themselves in a new place without hobbies or anyone they have anything in common with. The dudes in town near where I live only ever want to drink. They're mostly a bunch of boring 30-somethings, and their idea of having a rich variegated life is talking the bar owner into letting them order pizza or going to Mudfest or the city to drink around larger groups of foreigners.

[carpetdope]

[quote="toby99"][quote="Stan Rogers"]

[J Rock]

Ok I have a buddy who works in Korea and has been here roughly the same amount of time I have, around 5 years. To keep this anonymous let's use a fake name for him, we'll call him Smichael.

He once randomly found a payphone laying in the street with the 2 foot metal wrapped cord still attached to it, who knows where it came from (or what it was used for after it was ripped off the phone booth.)

Evertime he started drinking and I mean everytime, he would pull this huge plastic payphone out in public and pretend to talk to people on it. That was his thing I guess, he got strange looks and a lot of laughs from just about everyone that saw him. He eventually got bored with just the phone prop and added a white construction hard hat to his routine.

I know it sounds stupid, and it was, but seeing a skinny white guy walking around the center of town with a white construction hat and a huge plastic pay phone with wires dangling down from it was pretty funny.

Maybe he was an an aspiring prop comic or just a raging alcoholic, either way it was pretty funny.

I think I have a picture of him somewhere with his phone in public, maybe I'll email Smichael and ask him if i can post it.

[toby99]

[J Rock]

[Trip]

Go to Family Mart/CU in HBC any Saturday or Sunday morning between 8-11am and you'll witness a bender in action on the porch.

[joelove]

[Netz]

Last weekend?

whut?

[Privateer]

[big_fella1]

I won't say I had a drinking problem, as I was earning enough

Not long after my arrival on the peninsula many years ago, there was a Wednesday holiday. I went out drinking at 11pm, and somehow joined up with a Canadian and 2 Irish people. The next day at 7.30pm I called it quits as I'd argued successfully that it would have been irresponsible to go to bed earlier as we would have woken up too early the next day.

Confession: I cheated and slept for about 30 minutes in the noribang at 9 a.m.
Finally for the apologists who argue I was a disgrace to English teachers I was awarded the Cass Tae Guk for my efforts and arrived at work the next day having had 12 hours sleep and not smelling of alcohol.

[toby99]

[TDC troll]

You know , I really want to post my own bender story .
No one will believe it though , and everyone will think
I'm bragging .

If you guys ask nice enough , I'll give ya one heck of a story
circa Itaewon 2001.

It's one to tell your sons and grandsons about .

[toby99]