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[babtangee]

What are you, the guru of spin? You going into politics when you've finished your hagwon career?

Here's the sum total of the 2 (count 'em, two) comments I wrote in response to Homer:

[JongnoGuru]

[Homer]

Bab..its all good...no worries.

No one cares.

This all got started when you got your pantyhose in a twist after I said that coming to work hungover was not the end of the world but that it was sad. You responded to this with an insult so I started the keep on drinking comment in kind return....

Now, stop trying to act as if all you did was try to stop the exchange of bad words when really, you sort of started the whole little thing by insulting me. Scroll back and see.

At any rate, this exchange of ours is a waste of web space...

[Dan The Chainsawman]

You know I am starting to have a change of heart. I used to pride myself on professionalism, but now I pride myself for not drooling on my table when I am catching a few extra winks in class.

My job does not provide anything really interesting, nor do I give a rip about it anymore. Its a pointless trained monkey job that leaves me more depressed every week that goes by.

To combat this sense of chronic maliase I have cut all my classes classwork in half. We now focus on screwing around games and conversational work as much as possible.

I still can not bring myself to want to show up loaded, or drink at work, but anymore I really can't fault others who do it. Truly this wasteland of nothingness I live in drives me insane on a regular basis to the point last week I thought it would be amusing to pitch a 10 year old brat in front of a bus just to watch the show.

I did manage to control my impulse, but now I understand why I see so many wasted foreigners on the subway, and on work nights. For the most part their ain't jack all else to do for alot of us.

In short... drink up, and try not to vomit in your classroom garbage can getting rid of the smell is a real pain.

[babtangee]

[SPINOZA]

really funny post, Dan.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Since I brought this topic up, I think I'm entitled to alter it just a bit.

Please go in your teachers' lounge and check the refrigerator. I'm very curious to know how many contain alcohol (and what kind).

Ours has two bottles of soju and one large bottle of beer. I'm pretty sure there is a bottle of makolli there too, but the writing is too fancy for me to read.

For the progressive ones in the crowd, I'm interested in your take on this: since drinking is OK, would it be acceptable for me to sneak a couple of shots of the soju in the fridge? IOW, does petty (very petty) larceny mix with teaching?

[Homer]

[inkoreafornow]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[babtangee]

I haven't checked their fridge - I have my own - but there are stacks of beers on the shelves in my elementary school's teachers' lounge. My wife said they would most probably be "gifts" from parents.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

What I really like about staff room drinking is that almost all the K-teachers much prefer soju and I can have all the makju to myself. Constantly refilling those little paper cups can be a nusaince, though.

[SPINOZA]

I'm very sorry to say there isn't a drop of booze in our fridge. It's only a relatively small staffroom in a 1000 student+ middle school, but even so.

Shame - I really fancied getting a stiff one down my throat before my last class at 3pm!

[jg]

Having a drink with lunch is common... throwing terms like "most" around is a bit dubious though, as is "my coworkers all do it, why can't I?". More than one or two, that constitutes heading towards tipsy, depending on the persons weight, fitness etc. I wonder how many of those bragging about their drunkenness would try that with a job back home. Or better yet, have had a professional job back home and done it. I will guess very few, giving some credence to the "anything goes" reputation of ESL.

On the other hand, no need to be so prudeish and freak at those who have a glass of wine with their lunch occasionally. I agree with the Guru, if you taught my little Johnny smelling like Aldophus Coors that would be... not quite professional. I mean, really! Don't try to paint Americans as all prudes, do teachers in Britain or OZ show up tanked or hungover often and then act all brazen about it to boot?

[TheUrbanMyth]

No alcohol at my school either. Then again it's mostly female teachers so...