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iiicalypso
Joined: 13 Aug 2003
Location: is everything
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 Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:53 pm Post subject: A Modest Proposal for Dokdo |
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I have come up with an answer to the ongoing dispute between Japan and Korea over Dokdo in which everyone wins.
1. Give Dokdo to the Japanese with two provisos-- the name be kept as Dokdo, and only two structures be built.
2. The two structures will be (1) a Korean Consulate and (2) a shopping mall.
3. To preserve the environment, only foreign teachers on visa runs will be permitted to visit.
So, Japan gets the island, Korea gets the cash and the name, and us teachers get a relaxing fery ride to a consulate with only one window-- for processing E2 visas!
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| yeah, who gets the fishing rights and 30 years worth of natural gas deposits under the seabed? |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| me! |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| well then I think it's all sorted |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject: Re: A Modest Proposal for Dokdo |
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| iiicalypso wrote: |
... So, Japan gets the island, Korea gets the cash and the name, and us teachers get a relaxing fery ride to a consulate with only one window-- for processing E2 visas!
Any comments? |
Yeah, I've got one.
Do you have any idea how many foreigners have died on those "relaxing ferry rides" in the East (of Korea) Sea? The Royal Asiatic Society does. You might give 'em a call. |
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iiicalypso
Joined: 13 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Do you have any idea how many foreigners have died on those "relaxing ferry rides" in the East (of Korea) Sea? The Royal Asiatic Society does. You might give 'em a call. |
But they look so nice on the news! Okay, I amend the plan to include a helicopter ride for those who get queasy at sea.
Jeez, just trying to do my part to ease international tensions! 
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Jensen
Joined: 30 Mar 2003
Location: hippie hell
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 10:51 pm Post subject: Re: A Modest Proposal for Dokdo |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| ...The Royal Asiatic Society does. You might give 'em a call. |
bummer, somebody lifted that card out of my rollodex...please explain this foreigners dying-thing. All the sordid details you can recall, please. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:27 am Post subject: Re: A Modest Proposal for Dokdo |
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| Jensen wrote: |
| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| ...The Royal Asiatic Society does. You might give 'em a call. |
bummer, somebody lifted that card out of my rollodex...please explain this foreigners dying-thing. All the sordid details you can recall, please. |
Jensen, can I just say the waves out there can be EXTREMELY rough, and you'll trust me and leave it at that? Bad things have happened to people out there, and I don't mean just seasickness. Really quite bad things. This isn't a joke. There have been deaths.
There was an RAS ferry trip to Ullungdo -- of course, a shorter journey than Dokdo -- where some .... (*deep breath... painful....pausing..... wondering whether to finish this.... damn.... okay*) where some foreign passengers ... they came undone. Yes. They came _un done_. If that's not clear -- if you don't know quite what that means, then that's probably best. I'm not going into it any further. I just can't. I personally don't like talking about it, as I just told someone who PMed me. Please, don't PM me about this again.
There may be some older RAS people still around and alive who heard about these things, and maybe they'd be willing to talk. I kind of doubt it though.
Sorry for mucking with your thread, iiicalypso. I couldn't just read what you wrote and do or say nothing. It made me feel.... disrespectful?... to remain silent. Again, my apologies.
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EDIT: 
However, I'm totally serious about foreigners becoming undone on those ferry boats. And it was fatal. In once instance. That's no joke. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:25 am Post subject: |
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What?? Do we have to be in some sort of a club to figure out what the hell you're posting about?
Argh!
Undone... as in clothing undone and raped?
Undone... as in crapping their pants? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:00 am Post subject: |
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| Derrek wrote: |
What?? Do we have to be in some sort of a club to figure out what the hell you're posting about?
Argh!
Undone... as in clothing undone and raped?
Undone... as in crapping their pants? |
This is really sad. You seem to be joking. Okay, Derrek, if I tell you it was much worse than those things you've guessed -- how can we compare death with anything less? -- would you understand? Or at least understand that this isn't something we should joke about. As people lost their lives on those ferry rides.
I can only say it again. They came _un done_.
Physically.
If you want me to be more graphic than that, I refuse. I can't. |
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