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SeoulNate
Joined: 04 Jun 2010
Location: Hyehwa
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| actually im pretty certain that the user 'sweetrevenge' is trying to win this beer prize... those questions... |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 9:32 am Post subject: |
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| SeoulNate wrote: |
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| I remember people posting years back asking how they could make big money in Korea teaching in a very short time. |
Is there a question in there? |
Yes, I'll rephrase it the way I read it years ago: how can I make big money in Korea teaching English in a really, really short time?
I know some might say it's not a stupid question but I remember the flames that this post soon attracted. |
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joelove
Joined: 12 May 2011
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 11:17 am Post subject: |
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| What do you guys think of my new shirt? |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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| joelove wrote: |
| What do you guys think of my new shirt? |
For God's sakes, put some clothes on. 
When they are playing the national anthem, instead of putting rght hand over heart, would it alright to do the quenelle? |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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Where are the peanut butter cups?
What is it with people and peanut butter cups? First off, they aren't even that good. It's not a peanut butter cup. It's peanut flavored mash filler surrounded by 4th rate industrial chocolate. If you are going to carry on about candy, at least carry on about something good. Second, buck up. I dunno, something about hearing someone wail about peanut butter cups is just so...ugh
If you're going to rant about hard to find items, at least rant about worthwhile ones like cigars and scotch or whatnot. It's almost as bad as the people who go on and on about Doritos, all the while not realizing Doritos are just filth in a bag. |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Hey guys, some people asked to be my friend on a social media website, what should I do? |
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le-paul
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Zyzyfer wrote: |
| Hey guys, some people asked to be my friend on a social media website, what should I do? |
haha
Actually, if you check the date on that one, I think its marked March 2001 |
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le-paul
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| A woman in tourist information the other day, asked if I could understand Korean place names when they are spoken in Korean |
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The Cosmic Hum
Joined: 09 May 2003
Location: Sonic Space
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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| le-paul wrote: |
| A woman in tourist information the other day, asked if I could understand Korean place names when they are spoken in Korean |
Was that sentence intended to be a grammar puzzle? |
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le-paul
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
Location: dans la chambre
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| The Cosmic Hum wrote: |
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| A woman in tourist information the other day, asked if I could understand Korean place names when they are spoken in Korean |
Was that sentence intended to be a grammar puzzle? |
A woman in tourist information (employee - person who works there, the subject),
the other day (general time phrase, past tense, sticking to the rules of the thread),
asked (verb - past tense, regular)
The last bit may have been the confusing part, the question I was asked.
Something to this effect;
'Do you understand Korean place names when they are spoken? If not, I will write them down in English so that when you hear them, you will understand them better'. I explained 'Place names in Korea will sound the same in English or Korean, 'Gungnam' is 'Gungnam', so no thank you'.
(in case youre wondering if she thought I couldnt read Korean perhaps, we'd already cleared that up and as the map I was reading, was written in Hangeul).
Its a bit more long winded (boring) like that and has just wasted 5 minutes of my time.
I hope that helps anyway, if it does, it was worth it. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
Where are the peanut butter cups?
What is it with people and peanut butter cups? First off, they aren't even that good. It's not a peanut butter cup. It's peanut flavored mash filler surrounded by 4th rate industrial chocolate. |
And yet, they're delicious. I think I'd actually like them less if they had real peanut butter inside. Sometimes an ostensibly low quality product can be strangely good. There's also one particular type of Hamburger Helper which I really like, and the old style McDonald's chicken nuggets which were all dark meat and gristle (and who knows what else?) were quite good, although I can't say I really like anything else they serve there. |
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SeoulNate
Joined: 04 Jun 2010
Location: Hyehwa
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:00 am Post subject: |
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This is cheating since a student (35+ year old grad student) asked me today:
"What is my password for gmail?"
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No_hite_pls
Joined: 05 Mar 2007
Location: Don't hate me because I'm right
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"So i'm confused. Is the severance pay the same as pension (meaning they are both the same but just different saying?) I'm finishing up on a one year contract and will be looking for another position soon. I am planning to leave Korea but will return a couple days later to look for another position.
So does it mean we get pay the Severance from our employer (public school) and also another pay "pension" from the government?
So, we receive two payment or just one? Sound like the severance is also the pension? Confused" |
You would think that information like this would be important to know before you took your contract...or... Maybe this person is just crazy rich, and few thousand dollars isn't important to them..... but, I think not. |
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frankhenry
Joined: 13 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Will I be fined, or possibly arrested, detained, and deported by immigration if I don't use one of my vacation days to go to the annual Hakwon Assocoiation meeting? |
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wanderkind
Joined: 01 Jan 2012
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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Not on the board, so cheating, but...
This was actually my father, when he visited Korea, to one of the red-clad tourist-helpers in Insa-dong...
"How do I get a taxi?"
the person thought for a moment, then said
'Like this.' while leaning forward slightly, looking to the left, and waving their right arm out in front of them.
In fairness to my father, in the context of the discussion "...to go to the airport." was kind of implied. In fairness to the Korean tourism woman, he really should have been more specific. |
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