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le-paul
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| on a side note, i read last week that (some) exposure to the sun not only increases vitamins but reduces the risk of heart problems by about 30% due to the chemicals released in the skin. |
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nicwr2002
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 4:01 am Post subject: |
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| My girl friend and I call them 'ninjas' and use them as sport by counting how many we see going up the mountain. I can understand they want to protect themselves from sunburn and what not, but those masks are just too much. I see people wearing them in the evening and people still holding their hand up on the side of their face acting like they are blocking the sunlight. |
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Squire
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Old women in Korea are the most ridiculously dressed demographic I've ever seen. I get used to seeing it, but then every now and then it just hits me how absurd they look. Take them out of Korea and drop them in any other country in the world and they will look mentally ill |
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Smithington
Joined: 14 Dec 2011
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Sometimes when they have the full gear on, the jump suit, the visor, the white gloves, the arm coverings, and the mask, I can't help but look at them in complete disbelief. Not necessarily to be rude, but trying to figure out why a member of my own species would wish to dress like than in public. I simply don't get it. Can our cultural attitudes to clothing (and the weather) really be that different? Is getting a bit of sun really that terrifying to them? How could it be worse than dressing up like a friggin alien every time they step outside. Do they get no enjoyment from the sun whatsoever? Why can't they even go for a simple stroll on a beautiful spring day without gearing up as Darth Vador first? Why can't they enjoy one of the simplest pleasures in life? Honestly, I have given up trying to understand Koreans. "It's a beautiful day, let's go for a walk." "Okay, but give me half an hour. I need to gear up first." |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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Some reasons as to why you have different thoughts regarding clothing in the sunshine-
First, you aren't a woman, so you don't care as much about your complexion and the quality of your skin. You'll likely change your tune if your wife does it and has the skin of a 35 year-old when she's 55.
Second, the idea of "prevention of malignant melanomas" I guess is meaningless to you. |
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Scorpion
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
Some reasons as to why you have different thoughts regarding clothing in the sunshine-
First, you aren't a woman, so you don't care as much about your complexion and the quality of your skin. You'll likely change your tune if your wife does it and has the skin of a 35 year-old when she's 55.
Second, the idea of "prevention of malignant melanomas" I guess is meaningless to you. |
Is there no absurd Korean behavior you won't defend? Defending ajumma fashion is taking it to the extreme, don't you think?
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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I've given up trying to understand Koreans, and Steel Rails. |
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optik404
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Why do you guys care what a bunch of middle aged women wear? |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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Some reasons as to why you have different thoughts regarding clothing in the sunshine-
First, you aren't a woman, so you don't care as much about your complexion and the quality of your skin. You'll likely change your tune if your wife does it and has the skin of a 35 year-old when she's 55.
Second, the idea of "prevention of malignant melanomas" I guess is meaningless to you. |
Is there no absurd Korean behavior you won't defend? Defending ajumma fashion is taking it to the extreme, don't you think? |
You asked, I answered.
Complexion matters to a woman- Things like facial blemishes and aged skin are not desired.
Second, exposure to UV rays is the prime cause of skin cancer. Now, unless you want to spend your hike looking like you've taken a money shot, you need some kind of screening device.
I mean, there's countless people who have had skin cancer on their face who if they had just worn that "stupid" ajumma visor, might not have had to blow 100 grand on anti-cancer treatment and reconstructive surgery and live for a year or two in fear of their life.
Now me personally, I don't soap myself in sunscreen and while I try to take care of my skin, I'm not obsessive over it, you know because I'm a man. But if because of my lack of sunscreen, one day I get skin cancer on my face, I won't be eating as big a slice of humble pie.
How's this- We'll call the ajummas with their silly face masks and flower shirts silly, if you agree that NET with some ill-fitting faded metal band T-Shirt, shorts, and sunglasses and headphones walking around with a scowl is an equally bemusing specimen to behold.
Not to mention, nothing says a classy real man like making fun of middle-aged Korean women for flower blouses and visors. I'll wait with bated breath for the thread that makes face of black men for certain fashion choices they make and the big talk there.
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Smithington
Joined: 14 Dec 2011
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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| You'll likely change your tune if your wife does it and has the skin of a 35 year-old when she's 55. |
LOL.
Any woman of mine that walked around like that would soon find herself divorced. Even if, by chance, she did end up looking 35 when she's fifty five she'd have spent her entire adult life looking like a retard. Why would I want to endure decades of walking alongside a freakshow so that she can avoid a few wrinkles at middle age? And I've yet to see a 55 year old ajumma look thirty five. Anyone who has been here a week knows they age terribly. Ever sat on a bus? Ever taken the subway? Ever just sat on a bench and looked around you. Ain't no fifty five year old ajummas looking 35. Maybe that's why they try to cover up, but Christ there has to be a better way than the 'ajumma way'.
Freaky stuff. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Any woman of mine that walked around like that would soon find herself divorced. |
Nothing says true love like "Till death or visor do you part"
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| Why would I want to endure decades of walking alongside a freakshow so that she can avoid a few wrinkles at middle age? |
Worried about people pointing at you and laughing? Your hypothetical wife seems to be able to handle it and not give a flying crap. Why not you?
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| Even if, by chance, she did end up looking 35 when she's fifty five she'd have spent her entire adult life looking like a retard |
They don't wear them 24-7.
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| Ain't no fifty five year old ajummas looking 35 |
Not all ajummas wear the ajumma costume 24-7. Plus a lot of those ajummas are pushing 70.
I know multiple Korean women who by looking at their face you'd think there were ~35. Only when you look at their hands can you start to guess their age. Guess what? They didn't get to looking that way by having a cavalier attitude towards their skin.
Still this threads a fail because its a bunch of men arguing over women's skin care. Something I'm pretty sure all of us know little about. |
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cabeza
Joined: 29 Sep 2012
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OK, I think we can all agree that sun protection is important and I myself had a nasty looking mole removed from my back.
But to what end? Going round wearing full body protection, head to toe, is effective sure. And maybe their skin does look good (to be honest I don't agree with that, but anyway). But again to what end?
Isn't there a point in life where you stop and think, I've got to age 60(plus) now I can relax a bit. My child bearing days are over I don't need to find a man. My husband doesn't look at me anyway. I think I'll take all this silly gear off.
Like so many things in Korea it just seems to be for the sake of it.
Like the kids who study 16 hours a day, to get a job where they work 16 hours a day. Living in an ugly, polluted, cultural wasteland. No one stops and thinks "well we've worked hard, we have achieved a lot. Lets slow down and enjoy it". No. It's ever onward. Just because. |
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optik404
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OK, I think we can all agree that sun protection is important and I myself had a nasty looking mole removed from my back.
But to what end? Going round wearing full body protection, head to toe, is effective sure. And maybe their skin does look good (to be honest I don't agree with that, but anyway). But again to what end?
Isn't there a point in life where you stop and think, I've got to age 60(plus) now I can relax a bit. My child bearing days are over I don't need to find a man. My husband doesn't look at me anyway. I think I'll take all this silly gear off.
Like so many things in Korea it just seems to be for the sake of it.
Like the kids who study 16 hours a day, to get a job where they work 16 hours a day. Living in an ugly, polluted, cultural wasteland. No one stops and thinks "well we've worked hard, we have achieved a lot. Lets slow down and enjoy it". No. It's ever onward. Just because. |
I like how you call Korea an ugly, polluted, cultural wasteland, yet you choose to live here. |
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cabeza
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| Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 12:47 am Post subject: |
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| I'm glad you like it. |
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hellofaniceguy
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| Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 1:50 am Post subject: |
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The mask is the least of it...you ever see these women with the mask off!?!?
The majority are ugly! Freaking scary looking!
So the mask helps! Even thought it is childish!
Have you ever seen a classy, sophisticated, well educated lady good looking woman wearing these dumb looking masks?
NEVER!
Most of you korean women need to get a life and act like women..not childish kids!
You ain't living longer than any other country because of wearing these masks to block the sun! You all ain't living longer because of eating kimchee! Korean hospitals are full of sick people like the rest of the world...so eating kimchee and wearing the masks are obviously not working! |
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