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| Have you posted on Dave's while under the influence? |
| Yes, and I feel bad about it. |
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| No, of course not! |
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| No.... of course not... WINK! |
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| Perhaps-- I can't remember. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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 Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:10 am Post subject: Re: Okay, who's guilty here? |
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I'm surprised by the lack of response to this thread, and I'm sure the OP is disappointed about that. I know I'd be. Bitterly. So let me pitch in, let me help out, let me make myself useful and irksome if I can.
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| Drunken posting: have you done it? |
Yes, I did that just last night. Just so I could respond to this thread. I'm selfless like that. I didn't say much -- a few meaningless words on the drug testing thread -- partly because it was hard to focus on the screen (I even had to close one eye to make all the words stand still) but mostly because there was a girl in bed waiting for me and my cock. And I'm selfless like that, too.
The evening began like any other, clear and level-headed.
oh no. Things are already starting to go blurry. These steps -- far easier coming down than going back up.
I have more "Photographing While Drunk" pics, but will upload them here later tonight/tomorrow morning, at which time I intend to post drunk.
Stay tuned.
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:26 am Post subject: Re: Okay, who's guilty here? |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| I'm surprised by the lack of response to this thread, and I'm sure the OP is disappointed about that. I know I'd be. Bitterly. So let me pitch in, let me help out, let me make myself useful and irksome if I can. |
thanks for contributing, JG.
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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Solar-powered lamps aren't bright enough for most uses, but they do make useful landing lights for late-returning drunkards.
 
Went to this place to meet a friend, eat some odd fusion food and drink some odd Japanese alcohol. Look at that big fan.
Then we had some Korean draft beer and left.
 
Took a bus headed south. Everything started getting wobbly, so we got off.
 
Marched into Platinum like we owned the place, just begging to be jumped by a band of local hoods.
There weren't any, so we drank the microbrews with the buffet and waited for another friend to join us.
Many lovely young women there that night. We sat next to a whole tableful of them. Bableful of them.
I offered the Devil my soul about once every two minutes. But he didn't take it, so we walked around the
backstreets of Gangnam instead.
 
Didn't find anything interesting, so we eventually got into that car and went to that bar.
 
Later I danced on someone's roof. And drank something. Then people got farked up and ghoulish, so I went home.
 
At least I thought it was home. Ever been so pixilated you told the driver to take you to where you used to live?
Done that twice. Mumbled something, fell asleep, woke up on the wrong side of town.
 
But the key fit, that hound there didn't bite me, and the coffeemaker & Aspirin were mercifully just where I'd left them.
This has been P'd U the I. Took several sweeps to clean out all the typos.
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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It's all going in the quotables. It must. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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Qinella and I were at Platinum last night. Why no say hello?
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Where the hell do you live Mr. Guru? It certainly does not look like any place I've ever seen in Korea! Are you the only person here with a garden? (I mean an English garden, not a row full of cabbage and red pepeprs.) |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| This has been P'd U the I. Took several sweeps to clean out all the typos. |
That's probably the classiest drunkposting I've ever seen on the internet. That's drunkposting in the style of James Bond or The Ultimate Hustler. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:43 am Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
Qinella and I were at Platinum last night. Why no say hello?
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I'll assume you're making a little joke here, Tibs, since other than the short fellow who works there and some lost-looking white dude who wondered in and then right out, there weren't any other foreigner types during the 6~9 o'clock dinner buffet. Yes, I was delightfully distracted most of the time, but we would have noticed other big-noses besides the two at our table. We're talking about the Gangnam Platinum, not the one in Yoido, right? (at least I think the microbrew pub there is called Platinum) If you were at Gangnam Platinum, might you have been downstairs? We were upstairs at the beer buffet and beauty pageant until 9.30ish. Let's make it easier: Did you see the girl in the stupid-looking cloth cap but with the fantastic body & dreamy face, and a sort of form-hugging woman's silk waistcoat thingy (so many girls were wearing that, at first I thought they were all waitresses ) who made you take a long, cynical look at the whole concept of monogamy... Or did you not? That's the best litmus test of whether we were at the same place or not.
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| Where the hell do you live Mr. Guru? It certainly does not look like any place I've ever seen in Korea! Are you the only person here with a garden? (I mean an English garden, not a row full of cabbage and red pepeprs.) |
I also have two small rows of vegetables & shelves of potted herbs on the other side of that house, and some fruit trees. So it's not all English garden. I'm a country-bumpkin-farmer-wannabe. In da city.
Yeah, it's in northern Seoul, Qin. There are areas here without many (and some places without any) apartment complexes or villas, but it's usually a mix. Walking about you'll see house, house, house, house, house, villa, house, house, empty lot, house, house, empty lot, villa, house, house, house, house...
The "house vs. apartment" debate comes up every now and again on Dave's, with most people preferring apartments & apartment living over what they see as the drudgery and staidness of house living. "Who wants a garden? Screw the garden! Give me chrome, elevators, extruded plastics, and management officials barking at me over the speaker system at strange hours!"
Apartments are modern, hip, trendy, fresh, flashy and swinging. Koreans like to think so, too, but it's funny hearing that line from some ex-pats living outside of Seoul whose lives revolve around weekend escapes from their "hip, cool, flashy, swinging" apartments as they cruise into Seoul. Simply put, there is nothing cool about apartment living unless you're along the north shore of Hangang or in Gangnam, and maybe one or two places in Busan. Anywhere else is just a highrise version of backward, dumpy Hicksville, Korea.
For many the choice is lifestyle- & location-related, to others there's an environmentally-conscious preference to "live light", others can't be bothered with the extra time & expense for upkeep that a house requires, some wouldn't know what to do with a garden if they had one. For me, it was an all-consuming desire to control the water pressure.
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| This has been P'd U the I. Took several sweeps to clean out all the typos. |
That's probably the classiest drunkposting I've ever seen on the internet. That's drunkposting in the style of James Bond or The Ultimate Hustler. |
Thank you, but it wasn't really a very good drunkpost, was it? I didn't call anyone's mother a hwore, didn't insinuate somebody was fat, didn't threaten anybody, didn't puke on my keyboard. But perhaps I still managed to be irksome in my own fiendish and petty way. Over the past two years I've been told by a few posters I've conversed with via PM that, to them, I seem to derive some small pleasure from every so gently kicking readers in the teeth by posting fancy-ass pics of my places, as though I get my little ya-yas by lording it over the younger members on Dave's who are just starting out in their careers. Good Lord, what kind of pathetic little man would do such a thing? ......  |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:56 am Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
Qinella and I were at Platinum last night. Why no say hello?
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I'll assume you're making a little joke here, Tibs, since other than the short fellow who works there and some lost-looking white dude who wondered in and then right out, there weren't any other foreigner types during the 6~9 o'clock dinner buffet. Yes, I was delightfully distracted most of the time, but we would have noticed other big-noses besides the two at our table. We're talking about the Gangnam Platinum, not the one in Yoido, right? (at least I think the microbrew pub there is called Platinum) If you were at Gangnam Platinum, might you have been downstairs? We were upstairs at the beer buffet and beauty pageant until 9.30ish. Let's make it easier: Did you see the girl in the stupid-looking cloth cap but with the fantastic body & dreamy face, and a sort of form-hugging woman's silk waistcoat thingy (so many girls were wearing that, at first I thought they were all waitresses ) who made you take a long, cynical look at the whole concept of monogamy... Or did you not? That's the best litmus test of whether we were at the same place or not. |
We were there at the same place, same time, it seems. You know the buffet line that runs perpendicular to the beer refill station? If you walk straight down that line and keep going to the window, that's where we were. I saw a few other tables of westerners there, but didn't really pay attention.
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| Qinella wrote: |
| Where the hell do you live Mr. Guru? It certainly does not look like any place I've ever seen in Korea! Are you the only person here with a garden? (I mean an English garden, not a row full of cabbage and red pepeprs.) |
I also have two small rows of vegetables & shelves of potted herbs on the other side of that house, and some fruit trees. So it's not all English garden. I'm a country-bumpkin-farmer-wannabe. In da city.
Yeah, it's in northern Seoul, Qin. There are areas here without many (and some places without any) apartment complexes or villas, but it's usually a mix. Walking about you'll see house, house, house, house, house, villa, house, house, empty lot, house, house, empty lot, villa, house, house, house, house...
The "house vs. apartment" debate comes up every now and again on Dave's, with most people preferring apartments & apartment living over what they see as the drudgery and staidness of house living. "Who wants a garden? Screw the garden! Give me chrome, elevators, extruded plastics, and management officials barking at me over the speaker system at strange hours!"
Apartments are modern, hip, trendy, fresh, flashy and swinging. Koreans like to think so, too, but it's funny hearing that line from some ex-pats living outside of Seoul whose lives revolve around weekend escapes from their "hip, cool, flashy, swinging" apartments as they cruise into Seoul. Simply put, there is nothing cool about apartment living unless you're along the north shore of Hangang or in Gangnam, and maybe one or two places in Busan. Anywhere else is just a highrise version of backward, dumpy Hicksville, Korea.
For many the choice is lifestyle- & location-related, to others there's an environmentally-conscious preference to "live light", others can't be bothered with the extra time & expense for upkeep that a house requires, some wouldn't know what to do with a garden if they had one. For me, it was an all-consuming desire to control the water pressure. |
Well it looks like a great place from what I've seen. Certainly not fit for the short-timer, though, I'm afraid. I would be unwilling to make investments into the property if I were only staying for a couple of years. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:48 am Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| We were there at the same place, same time, it seems. You know the buffet line that runs perpendicular to the beer refill station? If you walk straight down that line and keep going to the window, that's where we were. I saw a few other tables of westerners there, but didn't really pay attention. |
Yes, I know the buffet table that runs perpendicular to the beer refill station. If you look at the photo I posted, to the left of that pic are the windows, to the right is that section of the buffet we're talking about, and dead ahead beyond stripey-shirt girl are the stairs leading to the ground floor. I didn't like the weird tacos.
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| Well it looks like a great place from what I've seen. Certainly not fit for the short-timer, though, I'm afraid. I would be unwilling to make investments into the property if I were only staying for a couple of years. |
That's right, it isn't sensible or realistic for most ex-pats, who are in Korea for only a few years. Apartments are bought & sold like commodities, but houses with gardens will sometimes sit on the market for years waiting for a buyer. The commonest problem foreigners run into when buying a house here is they have to leave the country sooner and more urgently than they ever expected when they first got into the market.
You always warn people not to even consider buying in Korea unless they can see themselves living here at least five years down the road. Oh, they're sure they will be, no doubt about it, they're in total control of their career & future... And sure as clockwork, along comes one of life's banana skins and "OOPS!! SHIT! Gotta go! Gotta go NOW!!" So what should've, would've, could've been a smart investment decision winds up reaming them, because they're having to sell by remote from overseas, and it's Welcome to a whole new world of regulatory confusion, official incompetence, and smooth-talking, plush-officed, certificates-on-the-wall Korean trickery and banditry. That can happen even when one spouse is Korean and has relatives on the ground to watch over things. In cases where the owners/sellers are both non-Koreans and all they have is the realtor on their side? "Yoo one bery pucked waegook!  "
Multinationals and embassies lease residences for their foreign staff, and many after the IMF crisis have started buying those properties. Most ex-pats living in big houses with gardens aren't owners, they're tenants. |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:35 am Post subject: |
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If I was drunkposting right now I'd post this.
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:53 am Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| Qinella wrote: |
| We were there at the same place, same time, it seems. You know the buffet line that runs perpendicular to the beer refill station? If you walk straight down that line and keep going to the window, that's where we were. I saw a few other tables of westerners there, but didn't really pay attention. |
Yes, I know the buffet table that runs perpendicular to the beer refill station. If you look at the photo I posted, to the left of that pic are the windows, to the right is that section of the buffet we're talking about, and dead ahead beyond stripey-shirt girl are the stairs leading to the ground floor. I didn't like the weird tacos. |
We're talking about Saturday night, right? There were lots of foreigners. You must have been a little inebriated, Mr. Guru. I liked the pizza.
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:25 am Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
We're talking about Saturday night, right? There were lots of foreigners. You must have been a little inebriated, Mr. Guru. I liked the pizza.
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Nope, you two are talking about Saturday night, I've been talking about Friday night. I saw where you wrote "last night" and decided to ignore that, I guess. It's still fairly coincidental that we went to the same place within a day of each other. Especially considering how infrequently I travel south of the river. Is Platinum one of _the_ places to be in Gangnam? Those little pizza squares? I had a few of the vegetarian-looking ones. Maybe they were better on Saturday. Weeknights draw more of an expense account & office rady crowd, I think. On weekends I hear they pull in the squirrel hunters from as far as Mokdong & Bundang.  Seriously though, Gangnam is like Yoido to me -- I generally only get down there when it's business related and my hepatitis shots are up to date.
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:33 am Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
We're talking about Saturday night, right? There were lots of foreigners. You must have been a little inebriated, Mr. Guru. I liked the pizza.
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Nope, you two are talking about Saturday night, I've been talking about Friday night. |
Mea culpa.
Wait, did you call me a squirrel hunter? I'ma cyber-bully yo ass into the middle ages, belee dat.
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periwinkle
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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Yes. I'm sipping crap absinthe tonight.
I wonder if that's the reason i decided to post in a poll thread? |
Ah- that's why you chose that avatar then...  |
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