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sobriquet



Joined: 16 Feb 2007
Location: Nakatomi Plaza

PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:35 pm    Post subject: It's winter Reply with quote

A quick burst of rant is needed.

Older 55 year old teacher sitting there in her red sub zero temparature North Face puffa jacket thing. Heating on full. Has just opened up three windows. It's farking freezing.

I've just said to her to please close them again, it's too draughty, I've got the cold and don't feel like sitting here freezing. Maybe if she is too hot she should take off her jacket.

Oh no she says. It's winter, I need to wear my jacket it's cold

So now I need to put my outdoor clothing on inside to keep warm with the heaters going full belt. Just what I want to do, sit here in my hat and scarf because the stupid bitch wants to sit directly under the heater, in her farking sub zero duck down insulating bloody coat and keep bloody warm with the sodding window open.

I'm all for fresh air in the office, I actively encourage it, but three windows worth of fresh air is too much for me.


FFS you stupid old bag.
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DrOctagon



Joined: 11 Jun 2008
Location: Chicago

PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's actually been pretty warm the past few days. Stop complaining. Korea is not that cold!
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Missihippi



Joined: 22 Oct 2007
Location: Gwangmyeong

PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The windows might as well be up in my office. The heater is worthless and my toes are borderline frost bitten, and it's only 9:45am. It's a new building, i don't fully understand why the heater is so terrible? It's blowing hot air, but the room stays frigid. Must be bad insulation..
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DrOctagon



Joined: 11 Jun 2008
Location: Chicago

PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's 12 degrees outside (53 degrees F)! How are you people cold? Back home people would start breaking out the shorts and t-shirts already.
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sobriquet



Joined: 16 Feb 2007
Location: Nakatomi Plaza

PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DrOctagon wrote:
It's 12 degrees outside (53 degrees F)! How are you people cold? Back home people would start breaking out the shorts and t-shirts already.


Phallus alert, phallus alert.

Calling DrOctagon.
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Missihippi



Joined: 22 Oct 2007
Location: Gwangmyeong

PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DrOctagon wrote:
It's 12 degrees outside (53 degrees F)! How are you people cold? Back home people would start breaking out the shorts and t-shirts already.


Not sure where you're at, but here in Seoul the temperature is around 37 degrees F.
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DrOctagon



Joined: 11 Jun 2008
Location: Chicago

PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Missihippi wrote:
DrOctagon wrote:
It's 12 degrees outside (53 degrees F)! How are you people cold? Back home people would start breaking out the shorts and t-shirts already.


Not sure where you're at, but here in Seoul the temperature is around 37 degrees F.

Jeju, the Hawaii of Korea. Rolling Eyes
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!

PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

it's +11 C here by the south coast

it felt like winter for about 5 days this January, even then, mostly after dark

a milder winter than usual
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Xuanzang



Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Sadang

PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's mild today but my classroom is still cold as this Hauzen heater doesnt seem to heat this classroom at all.
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sarbonn



Joined: 14 Oct 2008
Location: Michigan

PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is a common complaint here. With my school, the kids leave their jackets on, and then they argue with each other over whether or not a window should be opened because it's too hot. Common complaint here.
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Underwaterbob



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito

PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kids today! When I was your ages I had to teach English naked in a sub-zero meat locker!
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Chet Wautlands



Joined: 11 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Underwaterbob wrote:
Kids today! When I was your ages I had to teach English naked in a sub-zero meat locker!


I'm sorry, but this really bothers me. None of us HAVE to teach English, we are choosing to. This really, really upsets me. I hate when people on the Internet are wrong.
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MrRogers



Joined: 29 Jun 2008

PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sobriquet wrote:
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So now I need to put my outdoor clothing on inside to keep warm with the heaters going full belt. Just what I want to do, sit here in my hat and scarf because the stupid bitch wants to sit directly under the heater, in her farking sub zero duck down insulating bloody coat and keep bloody warm with the sodding window open.
Rolling Eyes Laughing

yes, my experience, too!
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simpleminds



Joined: 04 May 2006

PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a universal law isn't it. Stupid people mold the world around their stupidity, while everyone else pays the price.
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Rusty Shackleford



Joined: 08 May 2008

PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm sort of used to it now. It's better than getting brain damage from the kerosene heater I sit next to all day. Wakes you up a little too. One thing that I can never understand is come 3.30, heater goes off and all the doors are opened. Why not try to keep some of the heat in for 30 mins or so? Rolling Eyes

Down south the weather is good for me. The lack of Antarctic winds is very nice.
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