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iain77
Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Location: here, now
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 2:24 am Post subject: |
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Shaking it right now. Oh yeah. |
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Corporal

Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 3:07 am Post subject: |
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canukteacher wrote: |
Let me get this straight........It is bad to shake your leg, but it is not BAD TO.......
vomit in public
urinate in public (at least if you are a man or child)
spit in public
pick your nose in public
beat up you wife or girlfriend in public
You know I am all for cultural sensitivity.......but where does it end.
Keep shaking your leg.
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Yeah, that's what it looks like. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 4:18 am Post subject: |
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Next time you get criticised for shaking your leg, say it's good for your health. They're was a study that was done with Native Americans (in New Mexico if I remember correctly) on the effects of moving while siting. In that particular nation, there was a high incidence of obesity because their bodies were adapted to storing energy because they lived in a region where there are long periods of drought. The researchers found that the subjects who moved more while sitting were considerably less obese than the ones who didn't.
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Tiberious aka Sparkles

Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 6:01 am Post subject: |
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As an aside:
When my brother Jermaine and I were both in elementary skool -- this being around the time when the Nintendo Entertainment System was blowing up the spot and every young boy's dream was completing Zelda or Super Mario Bros. -- and we'd play video games together, Jermaine would always do the spazz leg. I'd ask him, "Jermaine, do you have to go to the bathroom?" because I was worried that he was so wrapped up in our game of Ice Hockey that he'd pee all over our living room floor. "No. Why?" he always asked. I eventually found out that, while it wasn't his initial intention, the epileptic-appendage technique was his way of trying to psyche me out during marathon gaming sessions. It rarely worked.
It can make people nervous, I suppose. Nervous that the person with the jerky leg will
a) wet him/herself
b) hit their opponent over the head with his/her gamepad
And it's annoying as hell. Anyone who tries that ish while engaged in a game of Mortal Kombat with me gets a big-ass eye jammie.
Word.
Sparkles*_* |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:38 am Post subject: |
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It has a way of making a person appear to be a human vibrator in a 'me so horny' manner. How could that be bad luck? People keep giving you baek wons afraid you will stop. |
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ryleeys

Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD
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Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:43 am Post subject: |
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I shake one or two legs every single time I sit down. Even when I try to stop, I can't.
I was told that people that shake their legs don't have any money. I'm a teacher, so I figured it's true enough. |
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intergalactic

Joined: 19 May 2003 Location: Brisbane
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Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:23 am Post subject: |
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I hate it because it gives people the sense you are not comfortable around them.
Also it reminds me of a dog with fleas. |
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yangtheman

Joined: 16 Jul 2004
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Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:55 am Post subject: |
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canukteacher wrote: |
Let me get this straight........It is bad to shake your leg, but it is not BAD TO.......
vomit in public
urinate in public (at least if you are a man or child)
spit in public
pick your nose in public
beat up you wife or girlfriend in public
You know I am all for cultural sensitivity.......but where does it end.
Keep shaking your leg.
CT |
Whooa! Wait there for a second. It's a superstition that shaking a leg brings bad luck, and being a superstition, it's been around for a LONG time. The stuff you listed is certainly bad, and I don't think Koreans, especially educated, newer generations, condone it either. Certainly not everyone does it....... I hope not!
-Yang |
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Swiss James

Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Location: Shanghai
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Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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Did anyone else read this only realise they shake their leg a lot whilst reading this thread? |
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Zed

Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street
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Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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Because it's annoying as hell to sit there and have some person shaking their leg, you see it as this pathetic rhythmic thing that catches your attention, and if you're sitting on the same object (like on the subway seats) you feel it and it's even more annoying. It's only second to these idiots who snap their gum while chewing like a cow |
So your average Korean is distracted by the minor movements of my leg yet a library full of koreans or any East Asians was a thing that I would avoid like the plague during university because of.......
the pen flippers. Oh my God!!!! Talk about distractions! |
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hojucandy

Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Location: In a better place
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Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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the chewing gum snappers!!!
sometimes i feel i am surrounded by them!!!
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inexhile
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
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Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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I, too am a shaker. i was told that it is not so much Bad luck, but, good luck cannot rest on you if you're shakin |
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nev

Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Location: ch7t
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Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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canukteacher wrote: |
Let me get this straight........It is bad to shake your leg, but it is not BAD TO.......
vomit in public
urinate in public (at least if you are a man or child)
spit in public
pick your nose in public
beat up you wife or girlfriend in public
You know I am all for cultural sensitivity.......but where does it end.
Keep shaking your leg.
CT |
It ends, CT, with returning home one evening after a hard day of work, to find your wife dead, your family dead, your dog dead, and your home desecrated.
Yes, CT, that's where it ends. That's where it ends in this Nation of Filth, where the values we know to be true are turned upside down by a nation of wife-beating soiling savages. |
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Swiss James

Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Location: Shanghai
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Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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nev wrote: |
It ends, CT, with returning home one evening after a hard day of work, to find your wife dead, your family dead, your dog dead, and your home desecrated.
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That stuff happens on almost a daily basis, I read about it on this website called Seoul Searching... |
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