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Beej
Joined: 05 Mar 2005
Location: Eungam Loop
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| Chicken, watermelon, grape soda, and cheetos. |
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Free World
Joined: 01 Apr 2005
Location: Drake Hotel
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:03 am Post subject: Re: Dave Chapelle and Waygookin Self-consciousness |
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| Qinella wrote: |
So I was walking into a restaurant in Mississippi and I walked up to the counter to order. "Yeah, I'd like ... " and before I could even finish the sentence, the guy yells, "The chicken!" I was like, what the f*ck? This man was absolutely right! How did he know I was gonna order some chicken? So I asked him, "How'd you know I was gonna get some chicken?" He says to me, "Come on, buddy. Come ooooon, buddy. Everybody in here knew soon as you walked through the goddamn door that you was gonna order you some chicken. It's no secret down here that blacks and chickens are quite fond of one another."
And that just made me so upset. I wasn't ready to hear that. Here I'd always thought that I liked chicken because it's delicious, but it turns out I'm genetically predisposed to liking chicken! So now every time I go out now I'm afraid to order it. I don't want some people to see me and be like, "Lllooook at him - he loves it! It's just like the encyclopedia says!" |
Hilarious! That man makes me laugh harder than anyone else.
The tool who works at my local ��Family Mard-uh�� made sure to report to the other foreign teacher at my hagwon that I was consuming a lot of ice cream. I used to buy it from there to take to school where I shared it with the Korean teachers and my director. Since it bothered him so much I now go out of my way to buy it from ��GS�� instead. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:39 am Post subject: Re: Dave Chapelle and Waygookin Self-consciousness |
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| Free World wrote: |
| Hilarious! That man makes me laugh harder than anyone else. |
You should check out his standup CD. I've listened to it probably thirty times by now, and it really doesn't stop being funny. His bit about a baby in a ghetto still makes my stomach hurt with laughter. You can d/l the album online, for sure. |
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Free World
Joined: 01 Apr 2005
Location: Drake Hotel
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:44 am Post subject: |
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| Does he still have a show? I remember watching the first season on dvd back in Canada. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:57 am Post subject: |
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| Does he still have a show? I remember watching the first season on dvd back in Canada. |
Yeah.. I really don't know. I think he's in the third season now, but I didn't get Comedy Central in the US and I don't get it here, either. You can watch skits online, though, at comedycentral.com. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Free World
Joined: 01 Apr 2005
Location: Drake Hotel
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks, I didn't know that. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:01 am Post subject: |
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Is there any foreigner in Korea, or most of Asia for that matter, who isn't self-conscious at least sometimes? Well, if you are like many of us, those in the 'one in a thousand' crowd, how can you not be sometimes? Sometimes I cannot handle being in public. Sometimes I do not go into places. Try to explain this to locals. Most will wonder what you're talking about.
"You mean you get stared at, and hear stupid crap daily? That's hard to believe." "Really? But it's nothing, right?" Well when it is every day or just about, of course it grinds on one's mentality.
To understand the psychology of this, they'd need to go somewhere strange, like maybe a 99% black people place quite unused to Asians, in Africa, for at least a year, perhaps?
Most of the time I'm OK. But as a bit of a sociophobic to begin with, sometimes this crap grinds me down. |
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buddy bradley
Joined: 24 Aug 2003
Location: The Beyond
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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| You know, the watermelon in Korea is mighty fine too, not to mention cheap this time of year. |
gold, man. just gold. |
Thank you. Some one, and I mean some one, had to say it. |
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buddy bradley
Joined: 24 Aug 2003
Location: The Beyond
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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Didn't Chappelle run off to Sif Ufrica during his third season?
Anyone have the scoop behind that? |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| buddy bradley wrote: |
Didn't Chappelle run off to Sif Ufrica during his third season?
Anyone have the scoop behind that? |
Clicking on the links I posted was just too much for you? |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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I was just looking for an old post and found this thread, decided to give it another spin, and this post from Eamo reminded me of something.
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Once, just once, I felt a twinge of cultural guilt when in line at a McDonalds. Like the OP says, all those Koreans looking at the whitey and seeing their assumptions realised.
"See! They do all eat hamburgers!!!" |
Yeah I was 'caught' in Lotteria once a couple of months ago. Really, I eat fast food about once a month still. Usually a hamburger from Lotteria or chicken burger from Popeye's. So on one of these occasions, I was standing there waiting for my 'fast' food that takes 30 minutes to come out, and two of my students walk in (brothers). About a month later in class, one of other students asked, in all earnesty, if Americans only eat hamburgers every day. I smiled and said that, although some people are really unhealthy and do eat a lot of fast food, most Americans do not eat hamburgers all that often.
Well, guess who was in the class? That's right, the boy that saw me in Lotteria. So he was not fooled by my chicanery! He raised his hand and pointed out to the class that he had seen me in Lotteria once. Well, that's all it took! Knowing smiles all around..
Oh, the shame. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| jajdude wrote: |
Is there any foreigner in Korea, or most of Asia for that matter, who isn't self-conscious at least sometimes? Well, if you are like many of us, those in the 'one in a thousand' crowd, how can you not be sometimes? Sometimes I cannot handle being in public. Sometimes I do not go into places. Try to explain this to locals. Most will wonder what you're talking about.
"You mean you get stared at, and hear stupid crap daily? That's hard to believe." "Really? But it's nothing, right?" Well when it is every day or just about, of course it grinds on one's mentality.
To understand the psychology of this, they'd need to go somewhere strange, like maybe a 99% black people place quite unused to Asians, in Africa, for at least a year, perhaps?
Most of the time I'm OK. But as a bit of a sociophobic to begin with, sometimes this crap grinds me down. |
I am never self conscious about being in public here. Maybe you only get stared at if you're self conscious. People leave me alone, aside from the occasional "Where are from?" Back in Edmonton, it wasn't rare for a gang of suburb kids to randomly jump someone for whatever's in their pockets, so I'd always be looking over my shoulder.
And I don't get the whole fried chicken and watermelon stereotype. I don't think it ever made it up to Canada; our black people don't have any particular eating habits. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| I think part of it is that, you know, Koreans eat a pretty monotonous diet. It's pretty much exactly the same menu, day in and day out. From their perspective it's not unreasonable to think other cultures do the same. |
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rothkowitz
Joined: 27 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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I wonder what people think when I'm in a taejigogi jip and I'm ordering my second or third bottle of soj' with a Korean and I'm puffing away like a train to boot.
"정력...?" 
The big end-of-year party last year,I was drinking like a fish,exchanging drinks with all and sundry.I kept telling them,yes,I can drink it,no,I don't get hangovers.They would just stare at me in disbelief.
I didn't become loud or start stumbling.The Vice-Principal though was utterly legless at 2-cha and turned into a big baby,hugging people to stay upright.
I got home before losing motor control.The illusion remains intact. |
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