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Scott in Incheon
Joined: 30 Aug 2004
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| I just had to love it when you called out "Floating" as a sock when you yourself are a sock. You admit it, while Floating keeps his silence on the subject, but that doesn't make you any better or any less of a hypocrite. |
First on topic
My breakfast has not changed. Mostly I don' t have one and when I do...on the weekends eggs and bacon with toast or sometimes eggo waffles....weekdays cereal.
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I think someone needs to look up the definition of a sock. Socks don't admit who they are....that is why they are called socks.
If you admit that you are or have been another poster, then you can't be a sock. You might have been a sock until you were discovered and/or you admitted to being someone else...but afterwards you are no longer a sock. |
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vjung001
Joined: 28 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 12:01 am Post subject: |
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| Still eating cereal every morning. And I probably will for the rest of my life! |
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soomin
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 12:08 am Post subject: |
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| Modernist wrote: |
Ah, a Korean wannabe, then. Trying to be more Korean than the Koreans, are you? Using a Korean name, eating the worst of their food, using emoticons like a Korean 15-year-old girl: yes, it's starting to make sense now. Is the engagement to the Korean dude a result or the cause of this kimchi fever, I wonder? Is this like those people who idolize Japan so much they're willing to work for peanuts in the middle of nowhere just to live there? If you're going to tell me I don't understand, you are right about that.
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Ah, yes~ since you "don't understand" how someone could be comfortable in, or interested in another culture, *I* must be the one who's weird and different~ I'm glad that you can't understand how someone would like different food than you, as well. I guess if I ate poptarts then I'd be more 'merican~~
And yes, because I am in a mixed race relationship, I must have "kimchi fever" (aka, "yellow fever")~ Thank you for showing me how backwards and bigoted you are ^.^ I appreciate knowing how I should act if I want to be a real American one day ^.^ |
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J Rock
Joined: 17 Jan 2009
Location: The center of the Earth, Suji
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:36 am Post subject: |
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| Not really, I mix it up between frosted flakes and a breakfast burrito every morning. Unless I had a couple cocktails the night before, I will then usually hit McDonalds and get a sandwich. But those days are slowly fading away. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| I just had to love it when you called out "Floating" as a sock when you yourself are a sock. You admit it, while Floating keeps his silence on the subject, but that doesn't make you any better or any less of a hypocrite. |
Slight differences:
1- I never hid the fact I was using another account.
2- I certainly did not post in a thread on another site bragging I had been banned numerous times and would return to spam the boards.
So basically you need to revise the definition of hypocrite I think.
As for the rest of your rant and drool post I do not give two shits what you think of me so knock yourself out, let out...it is not good to keep all that anger bottled in. Heck why don't you start a usergroup here for all your little friends and have a good ole insult fest at my expense there, I am sure this will help you cope. 
Have a good day/evening. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 4:35 am Post subject: |
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I never thought that Soomin was Asian. I just stated that the posting style is immature. I'm likely a decade older, though, so seeing them every other line does annoy me a little bit. It probably annoys me about as much as it does when I see phlegm all over the street. It's not enough to ruin my day, but it is an eyesore. Does it really matter? Of course not.
I wasn't the first to call her out. I was just agreeing. I actually gave some helpful advice, which she was more than free to ignore (as she has done.) As long as she doesn't write like that in professional emails, I suppose she'll be alright. I'll just give her posts as much credit as I'd give credit to an esthetician with acne.
Also, not all Americans eat Pop Tarts and sugary cereal, dearie. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 4:47 am Post subject: |
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As for breakfast itself (back on topic):
When I lived in Korea it broke down in two periods.
Before meeting my wife and moving in with her and after.
Before I was mostly eating oatmeal, cereal, toast, yogurt.
After I gradually adopted a hybrid version of the Korean breakfast, meaning the Korean BK made up of soup, side dishes and whatever was eaten last night + a fair portion of fresh fruit we bought at the nearby market.
The only constant: homemade coffee!
Now living in Canada things are interesting. Our son who lived longer in Korean than his younger sister prefers the Korean breakfast but his sister is keen on the North American breakfast! That makes mornings interesting!! |
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Plume D'ella Plumeria
Joined: 10 Jan 2005
Location: The Lost Horizon
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 5:37 am Post subject: |
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Jr, no balls on me (Plume, by the way, as opposed to Plum). I'm female through and through. Thanks for the compliment though.
Homer, a remedial reading comprehension course might be in your best interest, as you seem a bit lacking in that department. And drool ... really? You might want to drool yourself over to a more apologist friendly place. I do seem to recall you flouncing off this board in a temper tantrum over the terrible terrible things people were saying about your beloved Korea some years back. You couldn't stand it, filled the board's ears with your outrage and left in a huff. Unfortunately, not for good. I don't give two poops what you think of me either. - and you might want to clean up your language a bit, Mr. Ex-Mod. Just saying ... And you yourself have a good day and good evening, Homer.
Modernist, I agree with you about this and about so many other things.
Soomin, if you are not of part Asian ethnicity, so be it. I'll take you at your word. But your pictorial posts are still a bit hard to digest. |
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isitts
Joined: 25 Dec 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| I never went for Lucky Charms. It was always Mini-Wheats, like I said. |
...for the kid in you.  ....I mean, ^o~
*^o^* |
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jfromtheway
Joined: 20 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:30 am Post subject: |
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| Screw it, everyone on here should start doing the... hold on, let me glance around my keyboard... {*_*} ^_^... stuff. Honestly, I have no clue what any of it means. Regarding Homer, he sent me some crazy ass PMs a number of months ago. I'm not trying to make too much of an attack on the guy but he just doesn't seem too bright, if you know what I mean. I feel like I'm reading some 1950s wormhole version of the internet when I read his posts sometimes. Anyway, I'm all about bagels. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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Whew. Halfway through this paper.
I'm heading to New York this summer, and bringing back half a suitcase full of pumpernickel bagels. |
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metalhead
Joined: 18 May 2010
Location: Toilet
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you for showing me how backwards and bigoted you are ^.^ |
No need to pull the bigot card out, pretty sure you and your white-man hating gals on Tumblr do enough of that already - in fact, seeing as how a person gets called a racist and a bigot these days for saying pretty much anything, from now on I'm going to tell people upfront that I am a racist and a bigot, it would most certainly spare everyone involved the effort of scrutinising every single thing that I say.
As for your other comments, it seems that you are incapable of trying to better yourself, that is, of trying to at least seem smarter, so I won't be bothering with those because it appears that a lot of things just go over your head, especially logic and reason.
Tertiary education at the university level, I'm afraid, has become an utter joke. Truly this is the epoch of the degree-wielding non-thinker. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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| No need to pull the bigot card out |
I think the bigotry card she is pulling out is the idea that it is somehow "wrong" for a person of European descent to try to adopt East Asian culture, but if an East Asian were to try to adopt European practices, then that would be fine. Underneath it all is the assumption that East Asians are not as much of human beings as European-descendants.
As for soomin, again as long as we're just talking breakfast preferences, no one should care if emoticons are used and it is actually appropriate considering how casual the topic is, and how much the topic is based on opinion. What's wrong with her emoticons, but these-     are perfectly fine?
Now soomin, some advice, once things turn to debate its best to drop the emoticons. In debating something, one needs credibility and authority, and Dave's being the place it is, we're apt not to give to much of either to posts filled with emoticons.
And again, anyone who is judging her as immature and chooses to reach for crap breakfast choices loaded with sugar or cholesterol, really is in no place to judge. Seriously, how can someone say Korean breakfast is in bad taste and then point to Pop Tarts, Frosted or Sugared Cereal that would explode the heart of a bumblebee or hummingbird, or Triple Bypass full breakfast as the proper thing to eat. The bagel/muesli/porridge/fruit bowl crowd at least seems to care about what goes inside them, not just how it tastes and in some cases seems to care way more than Koreans do (and tastes better).
I for one, although I prefer sensible breakfasts, do enjoy my occasional gut-buster greasefest or nostalgic bowl of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs. It's the same way I listen to guilty pleasure KPop from time to time or kill an hour playing video games. |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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I'm friends with plenty of Korean women. One tilde or an emoticon per email is the norm. That is not visual pollution. She litters them all over her posts. She's allowed to do what she likes, but she should know how foolish she seems. The fact that she chooses Asian symbols instead of western ones has nothing to do with it. If someone added LOL and  all over their posts (again, not just once) I'd think that they were lacking in emotional development as well.
I had Raisin Bran today. |
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Modernist
Joined: 23 Mar 2011
Location: The 90s
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| the idea that it is somehow "wrong" for a person of European descent to try to adopt East Asian culture, but if an East Asian were to try to adopt European practices, then that would be fine. Underneath it all is the assumption that East Asians are not as much of human beings as European-descendants. |
Now, Steelrails, I was going to let this go in the first sentence, but you got me with the second. Really, now? Asians are not as much human as Europeans? That's what I meant? And here I thought I was just a bigoted racist.
Anyway, the key point here about someone like soomin is this. Let's say she marries the Korean, buys matching underwear with him, adopts a Korean name, has kids raised Korean, learns fluent Korean, eats and cooks Korean food, adapts fully to Korean cultural norms, buys a Hyundai car and a Samsung smartphone and an LG refrigerator and an apartment in a Pruggio concrete block/slab tower. All in for a typical Korean middle-class lifestyle, in other words. She even keeps up with new emoticon developments lest she seem out of it to her arm-holding, clothes-matching Korean girl-pack.
All this said, do you think she will or would EVER be considered a Korean person by ethnic Koreans who don't know her? No. Because this is a society based ultimately on blood. If you don't have it, you aren't Korean, no matter what you do or how much you might wish to be. This in comparison to, say, America, where anyone regardless of color, creed, religion, gender identity or emoticon use, can be considered an American if they want to be one. Yes, we have racists and bigots and those who claim only white Christian people are Americans, but those are a small fringe of all of us. On the other hand, just about every Korean in the world would openly agree that Korean blood is or should be a precondition for Korean nationality. In this way, yes, America and places like it are demonstrably superior to places like here.
If soomin and her ilk would devote themselves to a place that will always in ways small and large reject them, despite their best efforts to integrate, that is their choice. I find it rather sad, personally.
All this derision for Pop Tarts is baffling. Did you know they are the top-selling Kellogg brand? More than any cereal. They're not a daily thing, or they shouldn't be. Sometimes you just want them, though. I tried this Post Korean cereal today, some kind of cranberry nut almond thing. It's actually not too bad. It holds its crunch pretty well in milk, which is often a problem with cereals here. |
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