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JamesFord
Joined: 14 Jun 2007
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 Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:08 am Post subject: Tired of Korean Pencils |
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| Yup, sick of 'em. Can Korea please invent a pencil that doesn't immediately break when the slightest of pressure is put on it? What a joke. Kids can go through 5 pencils in 3 minutes! I don't remember pencils snapping like this back home. |
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Tjames426
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:21 am Post subject: |
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You mean the mechanical pencils? I keep a cup of sharpened pencils and used erasers in the classroom.
If the students are dumb enough to try and refill the mechanical pencils with graphite during class, and thus not pay attention, I take the pencils away. |
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JamesFord
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:46 am Post subject: |
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| No, I mean basic #2 pencils. I've never seen such a crap product. Graphite snaps everytime you try to write something. Kids bring 7 pencils to class and still have to end up borrowing one from someone else. |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:49 am Post subject: |
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| You people really will complain about anything. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:03 am Post subject: |
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My favorite Pencil when I was in school was Faber Castell. I guess they stopped making regular wooden #2 pencils with the erasers on the tip.
I remember those pencils were always great to Pencil Fight with.
My 2nd favorite were Dixon Ticonderoga's.
Then I hit High School and used Bic Mechanical pencils exclusively. |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:10 am Post subject: |
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| Its because the kids haven't even been taught how to hold a pencil properly. Mumsie does everything for them. |
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JamesFord
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:12 am Post subject: |
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| I just can't believe I'm the only one to notice this. It's been bugging me for years. |
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nautilus
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:23 am Post subject: |
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| JamesFord wrote: |
| I just can't believe I'm the only one to notice this. It's been bugging me for years. |
its not only pencils. the marker pens stop working the moment you take the lid off.
Cheap Kr*p. |
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Socks
Joined: 15 May 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:48 am Post subject: |
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Most Korean products are crap...
try using an LG airconditioner for 4 years?
(after 2 years - water keeps dripping out of it - then after 3 years - it actually heats the room instead of cooling it)....
(service doesn't help either)...
try using an LG "Tromm" washing machine/dryer" for 4 years?
(after 3 years - it takes 4 hours to dry a few shirts - even though it has been serviced regularly and filter cleaned weakly)...
Korean wallpaper on apartment walls turns brown within 1 year....
Korean made clothes - shrink 2 sizes in the first wash...
(the list of korean products could go on - but I don't have the time).... |
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tfunk
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:49 am Post subject: Re: Tired of Korean Pencils |
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| JamesFord wrote: |
| Yup, sick of 'em. Can Korea please invent a pencil that doesn't immediately break when the slightest of pressure is put on it? What a joke. Kids can go through 5 pencils in 3 minutes! I don't remember pencils snapping like this back home. |
I'm with you 100% on this one. What I hate about them is the way the lead drops onto the floor and inevitably gets dragged under the kids' shoes. Even one small piece of lead can cause a great big world of trouble. And how do you clean it off? The cloth and detergent is lame, an eraser takes hours and you look like an idiot if anybody catches you doing it ("it's after hours and that fool of a waygook is using the floor as a whiteboard. Quick, let's invite him to drink soju with us, it's the only way we can appease his barbaric appetite" they said.) |
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Kikomom
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: them thar hills--Penna, USA--Zippy is my kid, the teacher in ROK. You can call me Kiko
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:59 am Post subject: Re: Tired of Korean Pencils |
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.. And how do you clean it off? The cloth and detergent is lame, an eraser takes hours... |
Give this a try tfunk... the amazing Greenie Weenie. Just a few rubs usually takes off scuff marks, might work with pencil marks too. You can even do it with your foot. |
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tfunk
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:32 am Post subject: Re: Tired of Korean Pencils |
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| Kikomom wrote: |
| tfunk wrote: |
.. And how do you clean it off? The cloth and detergent is lame, an eraser takes hours... |
Give this a try tfunk... the amazing Greenie Weenie. Just a few rubs usually takes off scuff marks, might work with pencil marks too. You can even do it with your foot. |
Where am I supposed to get a goat scrubber in Korea? |
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Pooty
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Location: Ela stin agalia mou
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:36 am Post subject: |
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| Socks wrote: |
Most Korean products are crap...
try using an LG airconditioner for 4 years?
(after 2 years - water keeps dripping out of it - then after 3 years - it actually heats the room instead of cooling it)....
(service doesn't help either)...
try using an LG "Tromm" washing machine/dryer" for 4 years?
(after 3 years - it takes 4 hours to dry a few shirts - even though it has been serviced regularly and filter cleaned weakly)...
Korean wallpaper on apartment walls turns brown within 1 year....
Korean made clothes - shrink 2 sizes in the first wash...
(the list of korean products could go on - but I don't have the time).... |
They're trying to change that, trust me.
For more info on this, read:
Core competency and capability - The case of Honda and Toyota - Harvard business review 2006. |
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Kikomom
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: them thar hills--Penna, USA--Zippy is my kid, the teacher in ROK. You can call me Kiko
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:37 am Post subject: |
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| tfunk wrote: |
Where am I supposed to get a goat scrubber in Korea? |
The janitor's closet?
Try a Dollar General/Family Dollar type store. They're about 50 cents each and most likely Made in China. |
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tfunk
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:49 am Post subject: |
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| Kikomom wrote: |
| tfunk wrote: |
Where am I supposed to get a goat scrubber in Korea? |
The janitor's closet?
Try a Dollar General/Family Dollar type store. They're about 50 cents each and most likely Made in China. |
I'll try a mom and pop store. There's no way I'm going into the janitors closet again, it's the girls toilet (all the teachers in my school are female and the boys have to go to a special toilet because they always pee on the walls, ceilings and legs, anywhere that isn't in a toilet). One time I came out and there was a Mom looking at me. I don't know if she thought I was a transgender or a paedophile. |
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