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What do they think is weird/disgusting about US?
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Cedar



Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: In front of my computer, again.

PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Using tampons, not pads.

(let me point out one time when i still taught public middle school, one hot day I had a class where the girls reeked of menstrual blood... you know how women will (spending a lot of time together) get their periods all at the same time? that class, that day, was HELL).
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crazylemongirl



Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...

PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cedar wrote:
[color=green]Using tampons, not pads.


Ick. Gotta disagree. Pads are far worse for that kind of stink, plus it's all out there. Far easier to plug a hole.
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margaret



Joined: 14 Oct 2003

PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jajdude wrote:
dogbert wrote:
I'd rather have someone be reading in the john, than smoking while taking a dump. THAT is a pervasive Korean hobby.


Why be bothered by either? Are you next to the dumper? Who cares what he does? Doesn't smoke smell better than crap?

I'm getting off track on my own thread, but I'd rather smell the worst crap in the world than cigarette smoke. I have asthma and have had to not use the toilet or try to hold my breath if it's not too bad because of smokers in toilets. I think at the very least toilets should have smoke alarms that go off if anyone lights up in them.
Margaret
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Barefootbelle



Joined: 18 Jun 2005
Location: Ohio

PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Left handedness is quite freakish to my students. You'd have thought I was writing with my feet the first couple of days.
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Cedar



Joined: 11 Mar 2003
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

crazylemongirl wrote:
Cedar wrote:
Using tampons, not pads.


Ick. Gotta disagree. Pads are far worse for that kind of stink, plus it's all out there. Far easier to plug a hole.


Of course I use tampons, pads are disgusting. That's what I was trying to say... pads STINK. But many Korean women have (over the years) asked me for a pad and been shocked that all I have is tampons.
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little mixed girl



Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Location: shin hyesung's bed~

PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

what?
pads are the bomb~
u change it and it's all fine. besides...i know of some ppl that have to use both... Confused
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OiGirl



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun

PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you get freakish reactions from Koreans when you explain you use tampons, it's nothing compared to the freakish reactions from all women when you tell them you use a cup! And I'll never use pads or tampons again!

Has anyone every shaved/maintained their body hair in a mokkyotang?
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periwinkle



Joined: 08 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OMG!!! Poor Cedar!!! I hope you opened all the windows and sent the girls on a long bathroom break. I would've gotten sick~ ewwww!

* People think it's weird that I take the stairs (I've seen people take the elevator up 1 floor, and I don't get that. If you have groceries or a small child or something, I can understand why you wouldn't take the stairs).

* I think people think it's weird that we walk up or down escalators.

* Koreans think it's weird when we nickel and dime stuff. My co-worker is really anal about our dept.'s monthly collection. It's maybe 7000 won/month, and he makes more than the Korean guys his age. He also doesn't have any kids to support, so he looks really bad to our co-workers when he complains about the monthly collection...

*We don't wash our feet when we come home from being out all day.

*We don't share our food (if I want to eat a snack at my desk in the afternoon, I better have enough cookies to pass around to everyone, or I'm stingy...)
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Mills



Joined: 07 Jan 2006
Location: Incheon

PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Barefootbelle wrote:
Left handedness is quite freakish to my students. You'd have thought I was writing with my feet the first couple of days.


I'm left-handed and a number of my students are too. This has never come up as something unusual, for me anyway.
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denverdeath



Joined: 21 May 2005
Location: Boo-sahn

PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mills wrote:
Barefootbelle wrote:
Left handedness is quite freakish to my students. You'd have thought I was writing with my feet the first couple of days.


I'm left-handed and a number of my students are too. This has never come up as something unusual, for me anyway.


Really? I just started at a new place recently and they're still doing it, although maybe not as much as in the past. Whenever I put my name up on the board, I almost always hear, "Oh, wren son ja bi" to which I reply, "Yes, I'm left-handed. How about you?"
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Qinella



Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib

PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cedar wrote:
Using tampons, not pads.

(let me point out one time when i still taught public middle school, one hot day I had a class where the girls reeked of menstrual blood... you know how women will (spending a lot of time together) get their periods all at the same time? that class, that day, was HELL).


So that's what that smell was. Thanks for the enlightenment. Neutral
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ChimpumCallao



Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: your mom

PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="little mixed girl"]what?
pads are the bomb~
quote]


i never thought i would see this sentence in my entire life. it would have been doubly awesome had you written 'padZ are the bomb.'....BUT, QUE VA! STILL FUNNY.
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