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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
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| Are you honestly trying to saythat there are no nutters in Germany doing nutty things? |
Haha yes, cheers to this.
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| The Darwin awards don't make any sense to me. If some girl has a baby before she drops out of high school at 15, 4 more by the time she is 28, is a granny for the second time at 32, and dies in the most insanely stupid way when she is 35....she is an evolutionary success. They should change the name. |
Haha also. Brilliant point.
Is there a link to this subway thing perchance? |
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Wishmaster
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, but it would be condemned in Germany. In Korea, it is considered acceptable. Whatevaaaaa.... |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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Are you honestly trying to saythat there are no nutters in Germany doing nutty things? |
Either you can't read, or more probably you have a tendency to deliberately twist the statements of others when rushing to Corea's defence.
Of course nutty people do nutty things in Germany. However they do different nutty things which reveal a different underlying cultural mindset as I said earlier.
You won't find germans exposing their y-fronts in the street in an effort to be taken seriously. Nor will you find a neo-nazi cutting off his finger in protest. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
Are you honestly trying to saythat there are no nutters in Germany doing nutty things? |
Either you can't read, or more probably you have a tendency to deliberately twist the statements of others when rushing to Corea's defence.
Of course nutty people do nutty things in Germany. However they do different nutty things which reveal a different underlying cultural mindset as I said earlier.
You won't find germans exposing their y-fronts in the street in an effort to be taken seriously. Nor will you find a neo-nazi cutting off his finger in protest. |
Nope their cultural mindset is revealed through the original-nazi's mindset.
But I believe that sentence I wrote above is utter garbage, just as your sentence is. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Wishmaster wrote: |
| Yeah, but it would be condemned in Germany. In Korea, it is considered acceptable. Whatevaaaaa.... |
Really? Mind showing me how the general public approves of such actions? How it's acceptable to most?
Junior, there are nutters who get naked in Germany too. |
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guava
Joined: 02 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 5:33 am Post subject: |
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| Junior wrote: |
Of course nutty people do nutty things in Germany. However they do different nutty things which reveal a different underlying cultural mindset as I said earlier. |
Nutty people doing nutty things in Germany...
Kiwis appal at beer fest [appall is misspelled]
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10679340
Drunken kiwis have shocked spectators at the world's biggest beer festival with a public booze session that involved drinking vomit and urine.
The behaviour happened during Oktoberfest in Munich, which finished this week.
A TV documentary also screened on German TV recently about New Zealanders and Australians getting hammered and behaving obnoxiously at the festival. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 6:17 am Post subject: |
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Drunken kiwis have shocked spectators at the world's biggest beer festival with a public booze session that involved drinking vomit and urine.
The behaviour happened during Oktoberfest in Munich, which finished this week. |
They're trying to prove their manhood by seeing who can stomach the most disgusting concoction. Korean guys do the same by downing large live octopus or chili..
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| A TV documentary also screened on German TV recently about New Zealanders and Australians getting hammered and behaving obnoxiously at the festival. |
The youth of every nationality, all over the planet, get hammered and behave obnoxiously. Hardly noteworthy is it?
None of the above, however, relates to the Korean mindset of protesting by taking your anger out on a defenseless animal. Crowds tearing a live pig apart by pulling ropes tied to each leg. Or demonstrating against Japan by beating a pheasant to death with a hammer.
Do you see the difference? |
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guava
Joined: 02 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 6:25 am Post subject: |
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I don't eat four legged animals, but pulled pork is a popular recipe.
I have eaten live nakji octopus, not bad. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 9:53 am Post subject: |
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None of the above, however, relates to the Korean mindset of protesting by taking your anger out on a defenseless animal. Crowds tearing a live pig apart by pulling ropes tied to each leg. Or demonstrating against Japan by beating a pheasant to death with a hammer.
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And I disagree. I don't see this as Korean mindset at all. It just sounds like generic protesting to me.
Millions of things happen in these wild protests. Pulling a pig apart isn't exactly something in say, Afghanistan would think of and go 'Urgh, no way, only Koreans do that, Let's find the nearest cow and beat it to death, and then throw it on the nearest tank after setting it on fire'.
Thinking about it, of all the times on this forum I've heard people go 'Koreans are so', 'Korea is so', 'Only in Korea' etc, I don't think there's been a single occasion I haven't thought 'This is the least culturally exclusive thing I've ever heard'.
Not related to the thread though. End |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| I've been wondering - perhaps he wasn't pissed that he missed the elevator so much as being pised that the woman ahead of him hit the button to close the door on him. |
The door was left open for a really long time before she pushed any buttons so it doesn't seem like she was in a huge rush. It's probable that she didn't even see him, being so busy concentrating on her own reflection.
Not that it really matters. |
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English Matt
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 11:39 am Post subject: |
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What about the guys cutting off their fingers?
Or the guys cutting off the heads of Japanese pheasants outside the Japanese embassy?
I have to say there is to me too something about the adjoishi temperment that says ' I will protest blindy against something I've chosen not to like even if the only outcome is that I hurt myself.'
For better or worse, I'm really not trying to judge and I guess I admire the spirit if in a genuine cause that one truly believes in. |
You take any country and once a month some nutball is going to do some nutball act. |
Sure, but the extremes of other countries show an entirely different mindset.
You don't get a German neo-nazi defiantly exposing his y-fronts to the world and thinking it'll force everyone to take him seriously.
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Are you honestly trying to saythat there are no nutters in Germany doing nutty things? |
A guy here in Berlin recently taught his dog to give a facist salute - that was pretty amusing. He was arrested by the cops. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| English Matt wrote: |
A guy here in Berlin recently taught his dog to give a facist salute - that was pretty amusing. He was arrested by the cops. |
I think that dog just confused sieg and sic. |
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ATM SPIDERTAO
Joined: 05 Jul 2009
Location: seoul, south korea
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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man that's honestly kinda sad... i didn't even laugh... i was shocked and horrified! my gf told me this story and i thought the glass had shattered and he went through
but this guy's a fucking IDIOT
those doors were NOT meant for a 300 pound piece of machine to smash at it... it held up valiantly but like come on... it looked like it was a doggy door haha with the hinge on the top and nothing on the bottom
this was basically suicide although the dude totally didn't mean to do it...
anyway the reason i didn't laugh wasn't cuz it was sad, but it was cuz i was expecting the glass to shatter and him realizing he was doomed and like wail or at least throw his hands up, instead he just went headfirst as if it wasn't the first time he's rode his motorized scooter into an elevator shaft
the dude literally had no reaction as he began his plummet |
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geldedgoat
Joined: 05 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Corea wrote: |
| I've been wondering - perhaps he wasn't pissed that he missed the elevator so much as being pised that the woman ahead of him hit the button to close the door on him. |
The close door buttons on subway elevators are never activated, presumably, to avoid situations like this.
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| How is a single guy pulling down his pants in a crowd of thousands representative of a culture's way of thinking and not say, a lone nutcase? |
The disturbed behavior of these 아저씨s 아주마s is less indicative of Korean culture at large than is the lack of open condemnation from those around them. Signs of change can be seen within the current wave teens to twenty-somethings who flock to forums and blogs to criticize this outdated and bastardized Confucianism, so hopefully in twenty years or so it'll be a rare occurence to see old men berate passersby and old women pushing and shoving their way into empty (or occupied) seats with impunity. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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The disturbed behavior of these 아저씨s 아주마s is less indicative of Korean culture at large than is the lack of open condemnation from those around them. Signs of change can be seen within the current wave teens to twenty-somethings who flock to forums and blogs to criticize this outdated and bastardized Confucianism, so hopefully in twenty years or so it'll be a rare occurence to see old men berate passersby and old women pushing and shoving their way into empty (or occupied) seats with impunity. |
In other words, when someone back home does some sort of nutball public stunt they are just a nutball. When a Korean does it it has everything to do with their culture.
Besides what were people supposed to do about it? It was free speech.
Girls in bikinis showed more skin than him and I'm sure we support that. I'm willing to bet many people there thought it was stupid and ridiculous, a few chuckled or something and most just shrugged and continued on their day.
Same as anywhere else.
What were the people supposed to organize a candlelight vigil against teh pants dropper?
If some guy named Michale Moore does the same thing and he's protesting the War in Iraq he's a hero to millions.
Someone throws a shoe at Bush and he's a hero and no one is screaming culture.
Good grief, can't a nutball just be a nutball these days? |
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