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BigBlackEquus
Joined: 05 Jul 2005
Location: Lotte controls Asia with bad chocolate!
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 Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject: My neighbor started screaming at 4am last night |
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I am so tired today.
At exactly 4am, my neighbor came walking down the hallway of the apartment complex in a crying/screaming fit. In between the clicking of her high heels on the stone floor were some of the most desperately sickening whines I've ever heard. Neighbors opened their doors and one ajumma (next to my apt) grabbed her and pulled her inside to console her. It was a solid 10 minutes before she stopped screaming, and the sound was so loud in the dead of the night. She may have been a little drunk, but I have no idea. Something bad happened. I wonder if somebody died. |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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| She probably chipped a nail or something else equally horrific. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Her boyfriend gave her a designer purse. She gave him her virginity. She found out it was a knock off. |
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red dog
Joined: 31 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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That's pretty callous. Maybe somebody did die. Maybe she witnessed a serious accident or crime. Can you speak enough Korean to ask?
Edit: What a bad typo. I'm really having a terrible day.
Second edit: Found another one. Shit.
Last edited by red dog on Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:05 pm; edited 3 times in total |
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shakuhachi
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Sydney
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Stay out of it. Imagine you had gone to console her and Koreans found her wailing while you were with her. They would think you were trying to do something to her. |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Thunndarr wrote: |
| She probably chipped a nail or something else equally horrific. |
Ha ha ha.
I think we've all experienced shit in our lives, but I, for one, do not roam around my apt. complex at 4 am howling like a banshee to gain some sort of catharsis or sympathy of whatever the hell she was doing. Being drunk is no excuse- Christ, I wish these people would learn to cope instead of drowning themselves in a bottle of soju. |
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Hanson
Joined: 20 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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| I think we've all experienced *beep* in our lives, but I, for one, do not roam around my apt. complex at 4 am howling like a banshee to gain some sort of catharsis or sympathy of whatever the hell she was doing. |
Couldn't have said it better myself. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Hanson wrote: |
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| I think we've all experienced *beep* in our lives, but I, for one, do not roam around my apt. complex at 4 am howling like a banshee to gain some sort of catharsis or sympathy of whatever the hell she was doing. |
Couldn't have said it better myself. |
People like that are just reading from a cultural script. They're doing what they've been taught is right and proper. Best to let them finish, let them be. Or at least let Koreans take care of their own. We don't need to become cultural anthropologists or social workers here. We just need to buy a pair of earplugs, turn on some classical music at a low volume, and get back to sleep. |
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komtengi
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
Location: Slummin it up in Haebangchon
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| why is it that Koreans are so over the top, I mean when someone dies they collapse on the floor, have a hissy fit. I understand when horrible things happen, but it seems a bit over the top. |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| komtengi wrote: |
| why is it that Koreans are so over the top, I mean when someone dies they collapse on the floor, have a hissy fit. I understand when horrible things happen, but it seems a bit over the top. |
I agree. Social conditioning, a spoiled people used to getting whatever they want, when they want it. Or, a reliance on money or family connections to solve every problem. |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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she needs to read this
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| komtengi wrote: |
| why is it that Koreans are so over the top, I mean when someone dies they collapse on the floor, have a hissy fit. |
And it's also de rigueur to drop the telephone in mid-conversation when informed that a relative has died, even if it was a long illness and everyone expected it at any minute. I've seen it in countless movies & TV dramas and have personally witnessed it no less than three times. Not doing so would mean you didn't sufficiently care.
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| I understand when horrible things happen, but it seems a bit over the top. |
It's the underlying love of the melodramatic combined with the overarching need/pressure to conform. "We've all decided that this is the proper way to demonstrate piety (filial, spousal, sibling, clan). Who dares not get with the prescribed programme?" |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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I had a slightly similar experience a last year. It was the oddest thing that has happened to me in Korea.
The short version of the story is I came home late one night, my neighbor had been playing music loud for a few days. I knocked on their door and ask them to turn it down. A few minutes later she came over crying and was saying something in Korean.
She walked in my room (this was around midnight) and sat on my floor and started to watch tv (the TV was already on). A Korean friend of mine had called me right about that same time and I ask my friend to help me figure out what she was saying. The woman grabbed me and started hugging me and crying and when I tried to get her to talk to my friend she hung up on her.
In the end, I went and got the apartment manager who had me wait upstairs in his apartment. The manager and his son called the police. It turns out the woman claimed I had sex with her. When I told the police (through the son) that I didn't have sex with her and that I had only been home for 15 minutes and that during that talked to a friend on the phone. They told her that in Korean and she flipped out.
Anyway, the police carted her off and the next day the apartment manager told me she wasn't coming back. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
And it's also de rigueur to drop the telephone in mid-conversation when informed that a relative has died, even if it was a long illness and everyone expected it at any minute. I've seen it in countless movies & TV dramas and have personally witnessed it no less than three times. Not doing so would mean you didn't sufficiently care. |
One of the hardest sells any company had was the Gerber corporation trying to sell baby food. Generations of women associated the efforts they made cooking their baby's food with their love for their baby. Instant baby food implied the woman had no love for her baby. |
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captain kirk
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