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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Korean womens' clothing is horrid, cutesy and childlike or built for ajumas- nothing in between. All I want are shirts without ruffles bows, or large patterns, and pants hemmed to the propper length. By the way, I get complimented on my clothes all the time, by foreigners and Koreans |
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PEIGUY
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Omokgyo
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Butterfly wrote: |
I've seen better dressed people going into the British Legion in Lewisham on 'Grab a Grannie' night. |
should I bother asking what Grab a Grannie night means? or do i want to know?  |
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Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: Kuwait
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| PEIGUY wrote: |
| Butterfly wrote: |
I've seen better dressed people going into the British Legion in Lewisham on 'Grab a Grannie' night. |
should I bother asking what Grab a Grannie night means? or do i want to know? |
I think you can guess...it's not pleasant. |
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Butterfly wrote: |
I've seen better dressed people going into the British Legion in Lewisham on 'Grab a Grannie' night. |
You get dressed up when you go to Lewisham?
Why man? WHY?  |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Toby wrote: |
You get dressed up when you go to Lewisham?
Why man? WHY? |
Some of those widows look alright after a few pints alright? |
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Swiss James wrote: |
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You get dressed up when you go to Lewisham?
Why man? WHY? |
Some of those widows look alright after a few pints alright? |
But Lewisham? LEWISHAM? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND? Yates Wine Lodge? WHAT A SHIIT HOLE!!! Mind you, the only surrounding areas are Catford - mmmm, not today thanks, don't want to get shot, Deptford - no thanks, I want to drive home in MY car tonight thanks, Blackheath - getting better and Greenwich which isn't bad at all. But LEWISHAM? And DRESSED UP?  |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| I know nothing about London except that Beefeaters and chimney sweeps live there, was just trying to play along. |
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Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: Kuwait
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Lewisham is not very nice, a bit pikey, somewhat dangerous, and full of dirty Saff-East London MONKERS* in Lycra. Nobody really dresses well there, particularly the patrons of the Royal British Legion. But some of the foreigners in Korea make these same very patrons look like GQ centrespreads in Allessandrini couture.
*Imprudent young women with the morals of an alley cat. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| The U.K. and the U.S. -- two nations separated by a common language. |
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
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| Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
| The U.K. and the U.S. -- two nations separated by a common language. |
Well it's not our fault that Americans can't speak English!!!  |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:44 am Post subject: Re: visited seoul in march and am utterly disappointed |
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 first, i was disappointed that seoul was still so dirty everywhere i went and i stayed in kangnam mostly. i don't know the name of the road but it's the one going south from teheran-ro when you get out of sun-reung(?spelling) subway station, near jin-sun middle school, man, was is littered all over and vomits everywhere. and street vendors were selling things that ought to give one food poisoning right there next to all that crazy traffic. i had imagined seoul to be cleaner than when i visited five years ago as media only shows cleaner areas through k-dramas and such.
secondly, i didn't see any good looking man or woman. you guys said people dress nice and put on a ton of make-up, but as a woman myself, i thought the women's attires were tacky if not gaudy at best. almost half the women had some signs of cosmetic surgery gone wrong with their eyelids or their noses. in fact all the people i saw in the subway car
were not what you would call attractive even a slightest bit.
thirdly, there is absolutely nothing to buy. there are two types of goods for sale in korea. either they are made in korea, cheap baubles with no practical use, or they are foreign imports that are priced four times what they sell for here at Target in the States. and also what kills me is that the majority of the stores were selling the same "goods", e.g. cell phone gadgets. even in insadong, there was nothing i thought was worth my $.
how do you guys survive there?????? |
You speak the truth. And i don't know how we survive. Don't listen to all the aapologists/defenders on here- they always play devils advocate. Seoul sucks...the reason we stay are many and varied- and nothing to do with the fantastic shopping. |
Maybe to avoid flipping burgers, rapier? |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| To survive, I usually buy a ship container and bring everything I need for an entire year. That includes beautiful women, cars, technological gadgets, books, clothes, etc. That way, I never have to leave my little bubble and do anything in KOREA. |
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dodgybarnet
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Location: Directly above the centre of the earth. On a kickboard.
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Please don't mention Lewisham! I was born in Beckenham and would rather lick a public toilet than visit that part of S.London again.
Anyway back to the thread: Seoul seems pretty grand to me - it's cleaner than most Asian cities especially if you include anywhere in China. The street food is excellent, people don't stare at you, getting mugged is very unlikely unless you're stupid.
If you think Seoul is bad try living in any of China, or Lewisham for that matter. |
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Zed
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street
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| Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 3:32 am Post subject: |
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| Give me Phnom Penh any day. Dirty, dodgy, more dangerous, and EXCITING!!! |
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
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| Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 4:31 am Post subject: |
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| dodgybarnet wrote: |
| Please don't mention Lewisham! . |
LEWISHAM, BECKENHAM, LEWISHAM, BECKENHAM, LEWISHAM, BECKENHAN, LEWISHAM, BECKENHAM, LEWISHAM. |
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