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strange_brew
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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 Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:16 pm Post subject: Fan Death |
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A brilliant ploy by the gas,heat, and air conditioning companies to get people to ALWAYS leave the windows open, thus making more demand for their products.
It's like talking to a wall to try and explain the impossibility of fan death. |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:32 pm Post subject: Re: Fan Death |
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| strange_brew wrote: |
A brilliant ploy by the gas,heat, and air conditioning companies to get people to ALWAYS leave the windows open, thus making more demand for their products.
It's like talking to a wall to try and explain the impossibility of fan death. |
I think someone's jacking with you.
I got:
"I guess if you don't sleep with covers on and you sweat a lot at night, it might be uncomfortable." (Co-teacher)
"Fan death? Yeah, that comes around every summer, it's fun to talk about." (Co-teacher)
"Death? From a fan?? I think you are using it wrong." (My boss, he's an engineer)
"How do you say it.. old woman? Old wife story? [Old Wives Tale] Oh yes, ha ha...that ...Old wives tale.. is very famous in Korea!!" (My friend) |
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Mix1
Joined: 08 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:08 pm Post subject: Re: Fan Death |
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| Straphanger wrote: |
| strange_brew wrote: |
A brilliant ploy by the gas,heat, and air conditioning companies to get people to ALWAYS leave the windows open, thus making more demand for their products.
It's like talking to a wall to try and explain the impossibility of fan death. |
I think someone's jacking with you.
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Probably not. There are plenty who believe the wives tale and repeat it as fact. And fan death is just one example of the nonsense repeated ad-nauseam.
Count yourself lucky to have such astute co-teachers who are able to see though the myth. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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Fan Death is a summer topic here on Dave's, along with how Koreans leave windows/doors open with the air con on. Winter topics are about taking showers and using the facilities in unheated bathrooms and riding on hot buses.
Please keep topics to the proper season. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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Even as last as last summer, Korean media outlets do cite fan death as a cause of death.
Whether they really believe it or not, it does save face for the family. They don't have to say "Mr. Kim died of dehydration and alcohol poisoning after a long night of drinking and cheating on his wife with dabang girls." |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:20 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
Fan Death is a summer topic here on Dave's, along with how Koreans leave windows/doors open with the air con on. Winter topics are about taking showers and using the facilities in unheated bathrooms and riding on hot buses.
Please keep topics to the proper season. |
Yeah, no talking about Fan Death until at the earliest April. |
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KOREAN_MAN
Joined: 01 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:39 am Post subject: |
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| I'm more surprised lately to see so many Koreans believing in the existence of aliens. But I guess that's a whole another can of worms... |
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MikeGrey
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:50 am Post subject: |
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Yeah. One of my co-teachers insisted that this was true.
Nevermind that I told her it was scientifically impossible.
"No! But I know someone!"
Christ. |
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strange_brew
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:05 am Post subject: Re: Fan Death |
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| Straphanger wrote: |
| strange_brew wrote: |
A brilliant ploy by the gas,heat, and air conditioning companies to get people to ALWAYS leave the windows open, thus making more demand for their products.
It's like talking to a wall to try and explain the impossibility of fan death. |
I think someone's jacking with you.
I got:
"I guess if you don't sleep with covers on and you sweat a lot at night, it might be uncomfortable." (Co-teacher)
"Fan death? Yeah, that comes around every summer, it's fun to talk about." (Co-teacher)
"Death? From a fan?? I think you are using it wrong." (My boss, he's an engineer)
"How do you say it.. old woman? Old wife story? [Old Wives Tale] Oh yes, ha ha...that ...Old wives tale.. is very famous in Korea!!" (My friend) |
Wow, you must work with some of the most enlightened people in Korea. Out of interest, I have asked quite a few Koreans, and they almost universally think that fan death is true. So I ask, "why is Korea the only country in the world that seems to have fan death?" Some have replied, "we must be more supceptible to it since we are Korean." Wow. |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:37 am Post subject: Re: Fan Death |
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| strange_brew wrote: |
| Wow, you must work with some of the most enlightened people in Korea. Out of interest, I have asked quite a few Koreans, and they almost universally think that fan death is true. |
My boss is quite particular about who he hires.
When I mentioned it last summer, they actually started talking about how people could be killed with fans in an enclosed room. One started with the motor burning out and causing a fire. One of them insisted it was plausible that if you sweat buckets at night and the fan is blowing right on you, it could drop your body temperature and make your "uhhh... can't fight infection... [immune system?] ...hold on... <dictionary> YES! Immune system would not work, and if you're already sick...you might die... But it would take many days."
Boss started just taking the piss... "I think you are using it wrong. You should not take the cover off the fan. You should not take the cover off, and then put the fan in your face or put it where it can fall on you." |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:51 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
Fan Death is a summer topic here on Dave's, along with how Koreans leave windows/doors open with the air con on. Winter topics are about taking showers and using the facilities in unheated bathrooms and riding on hot buses.
Please keep topics to the proper season. |
Dave's has four distinct topics?  |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:06 am Post subject: |
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| Dave's has four distinct topics? |
Dave's ESL Cafe is the only forum in the world with four distinct topics. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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| T-J wrote: |
| Dave's has four distinct topics? |
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jay-shi
Joined: 09 May 2004
Location: On tour
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| T-J wrote: |
| Dave's has four distinct topics? |
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Korean lovers, bad bosses, feeling sad and lonely in a strange land and FAN DEATH!! |
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I_Am_The_Kiwi
Joined: 10 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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| KOREAN_MAN wrote: |
| I'm more surprised lately to see so many Koreans believing in the existence of aliens. |
im surprised you dont. |
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