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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Man I never give money to beggars unless they're crippled or obviously mentally impaired. F that. Stories like the one above about them sitting around counting their stacks is the reason why. Korea has so many job available, they're importing workers. Not sure what makes these people think they're special. Maybe they're showing off their lack of dignity and self-respect? They get a golf clap, and nothing more. |
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inspector gadget
Joined: 11 Apr 2003
Location: jeollanam-do in the boonies
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| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 4:54 am Post subject: |
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I am not fond of the beggars.
For those that are disabeled like the guys that crawl around pushing the music boxes complete with rubber (inner tubes) covering there lower bodies (or whats left of them), I give them a few thousand won.
The others I don't have any respect for, I will wither ignore them altogether or find a 10 won coin and flip it toward them and watch them scramble for it like it was worth something.
Clean up, get a job like everyone else has to ya bum!!!!!!! |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 6:02 am Post subject: |
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When I was 16 years old I was in France with my mother on a trip. In the train station in Nice there was this woman who looked maybe 40. She was very well dressed in very expensice clothes, fancy hair style, etc. She looked like real high society. But, she was pacing up and down thru the lobby talking to herself like she was really mad about something. After a week in Nice, we went back to the train station to take a train to Paris. She was still there. Looked the same and was pacing back and forth talking to herself.
When I was 20 I went to college in France for my Junior year abroad. We went to Nice for Mardi Gras. After 4 years, she was still there. looked the same and pacing and talking to herself.
15 years later I am teaching French in a community college in Ohio. I tell my students about her. One of my students and her husband were going to France for a vacation. They traveled all over France by train. They brought me back a present. A VCR tape they made. She was still there, looked the same, etc.
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
Those guys never seem to go away.
The last month or two.. there has been an older Korean woman who aggressively grabs my arm and pulls it while managing to painfully say 'hungry' over and over.
She has a good shtick for being so relatively new on the Itaewon scene. |
Yep, she got to my heart for some food money more than ten times. She's a player for sure! |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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i saw that crazy guy down near all the clothing stores once.
and you know those annoying guys around that area who seem like they're paid to stand in pedestrians' way and look vaguely tough, like they're some kinda neuter-squad street gang?
they were all hissing at him like snakes. he was wailing about something, and the closer he got to them, the more the young wankers hissed.
maybe he drives away business.
"hey, you guys stand in the way, look tough and vacant, and when the pedestrians slow down, i'll run up to them and say 'tailor-made suit? cashmere coat?' and please keep the old crazy haraboji away. hiss at him like snakes! that'll work!"
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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| uberscheisse wrote: |
i saw that crazy guy down near all the clothing stores once.
and you know those annoying guys around that area who seem like they're paid to stand in pedestrians' way and look vaguely tough, like they're some kinda neuter-squad street gang?
they were all hissing at him like snakes. he was wailing about something, and the closer he got to them, the more the young *beep* hissed.
maybe he drives away business.
"hey, you guys stand in the way, look tough and vacant, and when the pedestrians slow down, i'll run up to them and say 'tailor-made suit? cashmere coat?' and please keep the old crazy haraboji away. hiss at him like snakes! that'll work!"
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Supercrap:
You are likely correct here. One can not help but make the same sort of educated guess when it comes to those hissing, overly aggressive guys.
That old guy: Do you think that he's overdoing it just a bit for financial reasons? He seemed lucid at least forty percent of the time I ran into him in the 'won. Go wonder, eh.
Okay, Supercrap, I gotta go back to the Sabres-Hurricanes game, eh.
Gee, I almost forgot to inform my Canadian cousins that both teams have more-than-solid Americans playing for them, eh. Indeed, one could argue that the American guys are the best players in this particular playoff series (e.g., Chris Drury, Connecticut, and Ryan Millar, Michigan, for the Sabres; Brett Hedican for Carolina).
Cheers, Uberscheisse, and take good care!
Cordially,
PH |
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discostar23
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
Location: getting the hell out of dodge
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| Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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That crazy woman in itaewon has a grappling hook for a hand...amn hard to get rid of her.
I liked the guy who use to sing the religious songs in front of burger king with the sign on his back...some of those tunes were pretty catchy |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:09 am Post subject: |
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| Roch wrote: |
| uberscheisse wrote: |
i saw that crazy guy down near all the clothing stores once.
and you know those annoying guys around that area who seem like they're paid to stand in pedestrians' way and look vaguely tough, like they're some kinda neuter-squad street gang?
they were all hissing at him like snakes. he was wailing about something, and the closer he got to them, the more the young *beep* hissed.
maybe he drives away business.
"hey, you guys stand in the way, look tough and vacant, and when the pedestrians slow down, i'll run up to them and say 'tailor-made suit? cashmere coat?' and please keep the old crazy haraboji away. hiss at him like snakes! that'll work!"
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Supercrap:
You are likely correct here. One can not help but make the same sort of educated guess when it comes to those hissing, overly aggressive guys.
That old guy: Do you think that he's overdoing it just a bit for financial reasons? He seemed lucid at least forty percent of the time I ran into him in the 'won. Go wonder, eh.
Okay, Supercrap, I gotta go back to the Sabres-Hurricanes game, eh.
Gee, I almost forgot to inform my Canadian cousins that both teams have more-than-solid Americans playing for them, eh. Indeed, one could argue that the American guys are the best players in this particular playoff series (e.g., Chris Drury, Connecticut, and Ryan Millar, Michigan, for the Sabres; Brett Hedican for Carolina).
Cheers, Uberscheisse, and take good care!
Cordially,
PH |
the only real reason that i could see you turning a thread talking about a mentally ill guy into a thread talking about hockey is the fact that liking hockey is a sign of being mentally ill. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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How about this guy?!
I snapped him at the Cheonggye-cheon near Dongdaemun just yesterday. He was walking along trying to get everyone to chant, "Daehanminguk!".
I actually thought he was pretty cool. Dare to be different!! |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
How about this guy?!
I snapped him at the Cheonggye-cheon near Dongdaemun just yesterday. He was walking along trying to get everyone to chant, "Daehanminguk!".
I actually thought he was pretty cool. Dare to be different!! |
I dunno, but that Korean Ed Grimley behind him looks even nuttier! |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
How about this guy?!
I snapped him at the Cheonggye-cheon near Dongdaemun just yesterday. He was walking along trying to get everyone to chant, "Daehanminguk!".
I actually thought he was pretty cool. Dare to be different!! |
I dunno, but that Korean Ed Grimley behind him looks even nuttier! |
But what about the guy in front of him who is pointing to the water and saying, "Hey, look, that water looks wet." |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| But what about the guy in front of him who is pointing to the water and saying, "Hey, look, that water looks wet." |
I think he may be pointing out what looked like human toilet waste. Strange clumps of brown stuff was floating on the waters' surface that day.
Yeah. They guy behind is really strange looking. |
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animalbirdfish
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
Those guys never seem to go away.
The last month or two.. there has been an older Korean woman who aggressively grabs my arm and pulls it while managing to painfully say 'hungry' over and over.
She has a good shtick for being so relatively new on the Itaewon scene. |
Ah, you've met her, too? Forget six degrees of separation. I bet we could all trace a connection to one another through that woman.
Has anyone ever met the girl who lives a bit off the main drag, who takes your arm and says, "hey, I know you?" Nice girl, that one. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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Last month when I was back in Seoul, I noticed two guys who always hangout and sometimes sleep around that corner, the one from Itaeon Station going around the corner towards Haebangcheon.
Everytime I walked by them, they wanted change. |
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| I was on a subway car sitting down with just a few people on it and a blind guy came through, head sort of down eyes low. Suddenly the train kind of lurched, like hit the brake and on again. The blind guy, his eyes flicked open and you know, for a short time he looked - I was watching just his eyes right at that moment, and I am sure he focussed, he looked left like right out the window as though checking, and then kind of like when you do a booboo fart and want to check it didn't get the attention of anyone, looked a little out at the carriage then put his eyes down again, with a little smile at the same time. He got a little shock is all. Same as any of us our instinct when we get a little fright is to check what's up in our immediate surrounds. He certainly seemed to look. Lasted just three seconds all up. But, I'd bet 200000 won he wasn't blind. |
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