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Mix1
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| cabeza wrote: |
No, of course other things will get brought up. Fine.
But the default setting of little bitches like you is to immediately go on the "Oh that happens everywhere! Oh my God why are we even talking about this? It happens everywhere!!!1" defense.
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Yup, it's one of the apologist defaults: the SAME-SAME argument.
"This happens everywhere." Right.
Maybe, but not exactly in the same way, or with the same frequency!
Example:
If in one country it's an accepted industry-wide practice and the default behavior, and in another country it's a set of random, scandalous incidents, then it is NOT the same thing!
It'd be like an American pointing to one random murder in Korea and trying to claim, "See, murder happens everywhere! SAME SAME! What's the big deal?" |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Are we really arguing about the sex lives of young celebrities and whether they are sordid or not? We're not exactly talking about Dame Maggie Smith here. |
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KimchiNinja
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Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 12:05 am Post subject: |
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I used to record bands. One time this guy (a bass player of course) offered his sister to me as payment. True story. 
Not sure what the point is, but the entertainment industry isn't a "normal" industry. |
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yodanole
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: La Florida
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| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 10:53 am Post subject: |
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What if you just love Korean prostitution?
On a side note, I wonder if Rosie O'Donnell and Kathy Bates slept their way to the top? |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| yodanole wrote: |
What if you just love Korean prostitution?
On a side note, I wonder if Rosie O'Donnell and Kathy Bates slept their way to the top? |
Some guys like them big. |
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thegadfly
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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| thegadfly wrote: |
I was using "sock" as a synonym for "troll" or "flame-baiter," though I do realize that they all connote different things -- a sock is more often a second account one uses in order to act as a troll without tarnishing one's reputation (a "sock puppet," and then later, simply a "sock").
I was expressing the idea that it was very clear to me (i.e. "transparent") that cmxc was trying to stir up strong reactions simply for the purpose of stirring up strong reactions ("trolling"). I wanted to pretend to be clever, so I wanted a less direct assertion, so I went with "the colors of socks I have seen."
It amused me at the time, and I'll stand by it.
Elaborate enough?  |
When an analogy takes that much explanation, is it really worth standing by? |
The analogy didn't require that much explanation -- the extended explanation was itself meta-sarcasm, and this takes it to the third Yomi layer, which brings it back to the first level of rock-paper-scissors...and I'm always rock.... |
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Waygeek
Joined: 27 Feb 2013
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| Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 5:28 am Post subject: Re: Korean prostitution vs love |
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'Virtually every'? Korea has only 30 female celebrities??
Sure there's 9 in Girl's Generation alone.
Man, wish I was rich enough to book Girl's Generation for a night  |
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radcon
Joined: 23 May 2011
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| Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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| jvalmer wrote: |
| yodanole wrote: |
What if you just love Korean prostitution?
On a side note, I wonder if Rosie O'Donnell and Kathy Bates slept their way to the top? |
Some guys like them big. |
You missed the point. |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 3:09 pm Post subject: Re: Korean prostitution vs love |
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| Waygeek wrote: |
| Man, wish I was rich enough to book Girl's Generation for a night |
On your pitiful ESL salary- no chance. And it's not like every female celebrity in Korea is for sale. Just some. Why would you want to waste money on prostitution anyways? There are much better ways to spend one's money. |
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Ribena
Joined: 07 Apr 2011
Location: UK
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| Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| jvalmer wrote: |
| yodanole wrote: |
What if you just love Korean prostitution?
On a side note, I wonder if Rosie O'Donnell and Kathy Bates slept their way to the top? |
Some guys like them big. |
I guess sleeping with some old dude would be a doubly odious for Rosie considering she is gay.
I have no idea if she did but she's always had the funny big girl thing going on so her career traded less on her being sexually attractive.
For me the difference would be that if you have a situation where some women use sleeping with old powerful men as a quick way to the top of the industry instead of putting in hard work compared to a situation where sleeping with these men is the default method to the top and is almost mandatory if you want to make it. |
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EZE
Joined: 05 May 2012
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| Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 5:25 am Post subject: |
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| I'm going to retire from the hagwon rat race and sleep my way to the top of the entertainment industry. |
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yodanole
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| Maybe she slept with some powerful old woman? It happens. |
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cat12345
Joined: 28 Jun 2013
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| Why is this surprising? Women's rights are nil there. There's a reason they have a negative birthrate....they're treated like crap and are starting to use men the way they have used them for millenia. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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| cat12345 wrote: |
| Why is this surprising? Women's rights are nil there. There's a reason they have a negative birthrate....they're treated like crap and are starting to use men the way they have used them for millenia. |
This of course explains the skyrocketing birthrates in Scandinavia, Western Europe and so on, and the plummeting birth rate in those bastions of feminism- Sub-saharan Africa and the Middle East. |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm going to retire from the hagwon rat race and sleep my way to the top of the entertainment industry. |
Sounds like as good a plan as any.
Cmon guys, looks at the big names in the music industry. Do you think they got there because of their talent? It's dilettantes, daddy's money, and slutery.  |
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