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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Kermo I think you're missing the number 1 reason why koreans like to go to DVD bangs. Why do you think all the sofas are wipe clean and there's a roll of toilet paper in every room? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe Kermo didn't miss that reason, James, but simply concluded that even that wouldn't be enough of a draw to get someone out of the house in -37 degree Celsius weather. Not without food or booze, anyway.
BTW, about your description: ewww!
James, you seem to forget that many of our younger, newly arrived posters might still believe a 10th of the things that Koreans would have us believe about their superior, more conservative social attitudes, the great taboo regarding sex before marriage, the separating of boys from girls at age seven until marriage, etc.
So when you go around shattering myths like you've just done here vis-a-vis the DVD bangs and what sort of antics Korean children get up to in such places, might you do so with a bit more... I don't know... tact? 
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, so you're saying this kind of thing would not be acceptable:
HEY NEWBIES, THEY'RE AT IT LIKE MONKEYS! MONKEYS I TELL YOU!!!!
AND YOU KNOW THOSE DOUBLE SPINNING BARBERSHOP POLES YOU SEE ON EVERY STREET CORNER? THEY'RE BROTHELS!! BROTHELS I TELL YOU!!!!
I shall bear that in mind. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe it's the bellowing "I tell you!!", but I'm hearing Blind Willie's voice when I read that one, James. Which is cool. I'm personally working on my own Joseph Thankyou shtick, with all that third-person and the "schooling" and the "has spoken" bits... But I need to study his earlier works (those not yet pulled) before I go public with anything. I sometimes regret having registered in the post-JT era. |
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Reflections
Joined: 04 Jan 2005
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The very lax bar policy that ensures everyone has a right to alcohol, or [/i]moreof it, no matter what drunken state you are in. At home if you are even heard slurring your words, then you are out.
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poddubny
Joined: 03 Aug 2004
Location: i have NO avatar privileges!
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| Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject: Re: Korean things you wish would catch on back home but have |
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2. DVD and Playstation Bangs - Maybe these haven't caught on due to legality issues? But I don't see why not. It's just like you're renting the vidoe or game and the place is providing a means to view/play it.
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Shawner, I've got a theory about this. I'm from the West, where the average middle class family has a bungalow or a duplex which includes a nice dim basement rec room, or at least a spacious family room. In that culture, you can invite a pile of friends over, and sit around some distance away from the watchful gaze of Mom and Dad. They've probably got their own TV in another part of the house, and are arguing over whether to watch Ally McBeal or Psi Factor. In a Korean household, judging by the apartments I've seen, one has to barricade the bedroom door to get a little privacy, assuming one does not share a room with a sibling or parent or grandparent.
In Canada, at least in Winnipeg, the notion of a DVD/Playstation room is doomed from the start, because of the climate. When the temperature drops to -37 degrees Celcius (no, I'm not exaggerating), there are very few things that will lure the inhabitants out onto icy streets to face the bitter windchill and threat of frostbite. We occasionally emerge from hibernation for Food or Alcohol. The DVD/Playstation room has neither and thus ambitious geek-boys who open these joints around town soon find themselves in a world of hurt. |
not true at all. come to toronto and you'll see a pc-bang on almost every other block in the downtown core. lots of normal people playing games, doing research, whathaveyou. the whole pc-bang market is rather saturated now.
i know of a couple of playstation bangs in toronto, but they're both up in the smaller k-town in the north end of toronto. never been to either cuz, hey, i'm a downtowner.
dvd bangs? outside of bloor street koreatown, i have yet to see any. but me thinks it would be a pretty good idea... |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject: Re: Korean things you wish would catch on back home but have |
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2. DVD and Playstation Bangs - Maybe these haven't caught on due to legality issues? But I don't see why not. It's just like you're renting the vidoe or game and the place is providing a means to view/play it.
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Shawner, I've got a theory about this. I'm from the West, where the average middle class family has a bungalow or a duplex which includes a nice dim basement rec room, or at least a spacious family room. In that culture, you can invite a pile of friends over, and sit around some distance away from the watchful gaze of Mom and Dad. They've probably got their own TV in another part of the house, and are arguing over whether to watch Ally McBeal or Psi Factor. In a Korean household, judging by the apartments I've seen, one has to barricade the bedroom door to get a little privacy, assuming one does not share a room with a sibling or parent or grandparent.
In Canada, at least in Winnipeg, the notion of a DVD/Playstation room is doomed from the start, because of the climate. When the temperature drops to -37 degrees Celcius (no, I'm not exaggerating), there are very few things that will lure the inhabitants out onto icy streets to face the bitter windchill and threat of frostbite. We occasionally emerge from hibernation for Food or Alcohol. The DVD/Playstation room has neither and thus ambitious geek-boys who open these joints around town soon find themselves in a world of hurt. |
not true at all. come to toronto and you'll see a pc-bang on almost every other block in the downtown core. lots of normal people playing games, doing research, whathaveyou. the whole pc-bang market is rather saturated now.
i know of a couple of playstation bangs in toronto, but they're both up in the smaller k-town in the north end of toronto. never been to either cuz, hey, i'm a downtowner.
dvd bangs? outside of bloor street koreatown, i have yet to see any. but me thinks it would be a pretty good idea... |
Shawner asked about Playstation and DVD bangs, and I addressed those two specifically. I can see a healthy market for PC bangs in Canadian cities, though they're a headache to run, and without a majority of young men addicted to Starcraft and allowed to smoke, they're just not the same.
Re: alternate uses of DVD rooms... this may shock some of you, but the rec room at your parents' house works equally well. I'm not recommending it, but it least it's free.
Edit: addendum. It struck me a few hours later that I used a very inappropriate pronoun when I said "the rec room at your parents' house". What I should have said is that if one is a young person living with his/her parents, in Korea one may have to rent a room, but in Canada one usually has enough privacy to fool around for free. I'm sure many of you have left the familial nest, and if you have your own rec room/bedroom/kitchen table, for heaven's sake use it, and let your parents retire in peace.
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Kiddirts
Joined: 25 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| spitting in the streets and pushing people... |
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