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Scorpion
Joined: 15 Apr 2012
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 Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:38 pm Post subject: Koreans are feeling cold...already??? |
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How can they be walking around saying 'choa, choa' already? It's not friggin cold. The weather is lovely, and it's still rather warm in the schools themselves. How can they be cold, putting on cardigans and rubbing their arms to stay warm? It's nuts. How can two branches of humanity have such different reactions to this weather.
It ain't cold. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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As a Canadian, I find that I play down the cold. A cool breeze is "refreshing" instead of cool/cold. Even when it does get colder here, it's never as cold as Canada... so it doesn't seem all that bad to me.
I think it's sort of the same with how Koreans look at their spicy food. You can see them sweating, faces turning red, yet they'll often exclaim that it's not so hot. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I find the mornings chilly, but once it's around 10, it's pretty comfortable. And I'm from Alberta where winter weather starts on August 31. However, I still haven't decided to bring out the windbreaker, because it would just be carried in a ball while I do my evening tasks. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe they don't have layers of fat insulating themselves. Or the same reason tehy are able to walk around in 28 degree weather without being drenched in sweat and moaning about the heat.
Why is your standard the normal one and theirs the weird one? |
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chrisinkorea2011
Joined: 16 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
Maybe they don't have layers of fat insulating themselves. Or the same reason tehy are able to walk around in 28 degree weather without being drenched in sweat and moaning about the heat.
Why is your standard the normal one and theirs the weird one? |
haha so youre implying that all foreigners are fat or that we all sweat to the point of being drenched? haha i love the cold dude, BUT my gf was at my place last night and constantly stating it was cold when the thermometer stated 27 at my place. so yeah...  |
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transmogrifier
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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My Korean wife has exceptionally thin skin (not figuratively; you can see her veins clearly and she bruises like a banana) and she feels BOTH the hot and the cold way more than me. She seems to have a very narrow range of comfort, whereas my body tends to be able to maintain a more stable inner temperature.
Yet I still sweat like a maniac even when I don't feel all that hot, and she'll be all hot and flustered and barely sweat at all. Life's unfair. |
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IPayInCash
Joined: 27 Jul 2013
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Last week it was "uhhhh duwuh!!!" this week its now "oooo chuah!!!!" *korean rubs arms to overplay the breeze as if it isnt cooler than San Diego* Youd think theres only two words in these peoples vocabulary, since thats all I seem to hear outside. |
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Lucas
Joined: 11 Sep 2012
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Last week it was "uhhhh duwuh!!!" this week its now "oooo chuah!!!!" *korean rubs arms to overplay the breeze as if it isnt cooler than San Diego* Youd think theres only two words in these peoples vocabulary, since thats all I seem to hear outside. |
Every time I read one of your posts, it cheers me up.
It reminds me that someone else has always got it worse. You are like a
little sunbeam in my day. X |
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Mr. BlackCat
Joined: 30 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
Maybe they don't have layers of fat insulating themselves. Or the same reason tehy are able to walk around in 28 degree weather without being drenched in sweat and moaning about the heat.
Why is your standard the normal one and theirs the weird one? |
Once again, NOPE.
It is an objective fact that 35c heat along with 95% humidity (which is pretty normal in Korea in the summer) is uncomfortable for human beings. All human beings. In my experience, Koreans complain a lot more about the heat than foreigners.
Secondly, it was 28c in Seoul two days ago. 26 yesterday and currently 24. Foreigners aren't here complaining about the heat. They're saying it's pleasant.
Finding 28c 'cold' to the point where you're rubbing your arms together, screaming CHUWHA! 18 times in a row and wearing a jacket is a sign of being unhealthy, either physically or mentally. That is not opinion, it is fact. 28c should be more than comfortable for any sort of human being.
We're not talking about some people liking cold or finding 15c "pleasant" or "chilly". 35c is hot, 28c is not cold. Those are objective truths. So yes, if you disagree with those truths then you are wrong. Furthermore, we're not really talking about the temperature. It was the same temperature on Monday this week that it was on Thursday and Friday last week. Yet most of the teachers at my school along with many students went from shorts and t-shirts and begging for AC to pants and sweaters and refusing to have the fan on. The only thing that changed was the month's name. This is a phenomenon in Korea that anyone who has been here several years can attest to (if they're honest). |
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Steelrails
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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| screaming CHUWHA! 18 times in a row and wearing a jacket is a sign of being unhealthy, either physically or mentally. That is not opinion, it is fact. 28c should be more than comfortable for any sort of human being. |
Actually the physiological responses such as perspiration and shivering are much more objective signs of comfort when it comes to temperature.
I'd sweat if I wore a jacket in 28 degree weather. They don't. That must mean that they are feeling cold to a degree.
Seriously, I bet you'd get a similar response from most people in South America, Africa, and Southern Asia.
Go by sweat, shivering and goosebumps. Facts, not "facts". |
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Seoulman69
Joined: 14 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Is it girls saying it's cold. Girls always complain about stuff like that. My woman's always either boiling hot or freezing cold. |
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Mr. BlackCat
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
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| screaming CHUWHA! 18 times in a row and wearing a jacket is a sign of being unhealthy, either physically or mentally. That is not opinion, it is fact. 28c should be more than comfortable for any sort of human being. |
Actually the physiological responses such as perspiration and shivering are much more objective signs of comfort when it comes to temperature.
I'd sweat if I wore a jacket in 28 degree weather. They don't. That must mean that they are feeling cold to a degree.
Seriously, I bet you'd get a similar response from most people in South America, Africa, and Southern Asia.
Go by sweat, shivering and goosebumps. Facts, not "facts". |
So wait. If a foreigner finds 35c hot then they're fat and unhealthy. If a Korean finds 28c cold then it is fine and they are right? More reverse bias hiding as relativism from SR.
Fact remains, yes FACT. If you are cold at 28c then there is something wrong with you. If you're not sweating and actually shivering then that's a symptom of the problem, not proof of it's non-existence.
But whatever, I'm not getting into this. You would say a foreigner on fire trying to put it out is just fat while a Korean with a dangerous fever shivering at 40c heat would be the pinnacle of health. I was going to post some facts about healthy room temperatures, but what's the point? You'll argue 10 pages about the definition of "is" while insulting foreigners and claiming everyone else is biased. |
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3DR
Joined: 24 May 2009
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Mr. BlackCat wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
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| screaming CHUWHA! 18 times in a row and wearing a jacket is a sign of being unhealthy, either physically or mentally. That is not opinion, it is fact. 28c should be more than comfortable for any sort of human being. |
Actually the physiological responses such as perspiration and shivering are much more objective signs of comfort when it comes to temperature.
I'd sweat if I wore a jacket in 28 degree weather. They don't. That must mean that they are feeling cold to a degree.
Seriously, I bet you'd get a similar response from most people in South America, Africa, and Southern Asia.
Go by sweat, shivering and goosebumps. Facts, not "facts". |
So wait. If a foreigner finds 35c hot then they're fat and unhealthy. If a Korean finds 28c cold then it is fine and they are right? More reverse bias hiding as relativism from SR.
Fact remains, yes FACT. If you are cold at 28c then there is something wrong with you. If you're not sweating and actually shivering then that's a symptom of the problem, not proof of it's non-existence.
But whatever, I'm not getting into this. You would say a foreigner on fire trying to put it out is just fat while a Korean with a dangerous fever shivering at 40c heat would be the pinnacle of health. I was going to post some facts about healthy room temperatures, but what's the point? You'll argue 10 pages about the definition of "is" while insulting foreigners and claiming everyone else is biased. |
I wish you people would shut up. I've heard no Koreans talk about the weather being cold and I'd bet my life savings that as usual, some bitter foreigners heard a few Koreans say "It's cold!" and apply it to everyone.
Probably not realizing that yes, it does happen in their home countries as well, but they chose to ignore it because they are in a country where no one looks like them and they feel an incessant need to complain about everything in their miserable lives. How sad and miserable must you be to let little things like this bother you? Losers. |
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IPayInCash
Joined: 27 Jul 2013
Location: Away from all my board stalkers :)
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Last week it was "uhhhh duwuh!!!" this week its now "oooo chuah!!!!" *korean rubs arms to overplay the breeze as if it isnt cooler than San Diego* Youd think theres only two words in these peoples vocabulary, since thats all I seem to hear outside. |
Every time I read one of your posts, it cheers me up.
It reminds me that someone else has always got it worse. You are like a
little sunbeam in my day. X |
Dont have it bad at all. Have a smoking hot girlfriend, a job that pays more than everyone else and I work less hours than uni teachers. Leaves lots of free time for my numerous other activities and groups Im apart of here in Seoul. Damn... I have it real bad here. |
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greene
Joined: 11 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| IPayInCash wrote: |
| Lucas wrote: |
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| Last week it was "uhhhh duwuh!!!" this week its now "oooo chuah!!!!" *korean rubs arms to overplay the breeze as if it isnt cooler than San Diego* Youd think theres only two words in these peoples vocabulary, since thats all I seem to hear outside. |
Every time I read one of your posts, it cheers me up.
It reminds me that someone else has always got it worse. You are like a
little sunbeam in my day. X |
Dont have it bad at all. Have a smoking hot girlfriend, a job that pays more than everyone else and I work less hours than uni teachers. Leaves lots of free time for my numerous other activities and groups Im apart of here in Seoul. Damn... I have it real bad here. |
i guess the only negative in your life is your deplorable and crippling bragging problem |
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