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asmith's blog is going to get me fired
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thoreau



Joined: 21 Jun 2009

PostPosted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:00 pm    Post subject: asmith's blog is going to get me fired Reply with quote

http://www.highfidelityrecords.blogspot.com/

i have to stop reading the damn thing at work. i'm laughing at loud and the koreans are wondering what's up. this might get ugly if they check out my browser history.....
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DaeguNL



Joined: 08 Sep 2009

PostPosted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This blog is pretty funny
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tenchu77491



Joined: 16 Mar 2009

PostPosted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I read it, don't really get what's so funny.
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AgDragon01



Joined: 13 Nov 2008

PostPosted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have to agree with the O.P. after a few lines I start cracking up badly. Then I go back to it at home and start ModEditing myself, cackling and cackling.



then I keep reading, and start getting depressed.
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poeticjustice



Joined: 28 Feb 2009

PostPosted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The quotes alone make me laugh so hard I can hardly breathe sometimes...
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tenchu77491



Joined: 16 Mar 2009

PostPosted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's about as funny as Michael Moore.
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Big Mac



Joined: 17 Sep 2005

PostPosted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just read a couple of the blogs and I don't really know why it's so funny.

To me, he comes off as an ass. I guess there are plenty of them in Korea who would enjoy what he has to say and how he chooses to say it.
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backhand



Joined: 17 Jul 2009

PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

tenchu77491 wrote:
It's about as funny as Michael Moore.


Michael Moore is a funny fat Westerner.
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lostintranslation100



Joined: 30 Aug 2009

PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 12:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, it's pretty good. I'm impressed. Very funny. I think this would give people back home a pretty good idea of life in Korea.
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asmith



Joined: 18 Jun 2009

PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you think my blog is good, then read it.

If you think my blog sucks, then don't read it.

I'm certainly not going to encourage people to take time out of their lives to read my trash.

It is what it is--a stupid on-line journal.
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Mr. Pink



Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China

PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Big Mac wrote:
I just read a couple of the blogs and I don't really know why it's so funny.

To me, he comes off as an ass. I guess there are plenty of them in Korea who would enjoy what he has to say and how he chooses to say it.


I didn't laugh once. I thought it was pretty racist and offensive. If asmith's wife is Korean I really have to wonder how long that relationship is going to last. An alcoholic husband who thinks some pretty disrespectful things about her people.
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poeticjustice



Joined: 28 Feb 2009

PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mr. Pink wrote:

I didn't laugh once. I thought it was pretty racist and offensive. If asmith's wife is Korean I really have to wonder how long that relationship is going to last. An alcoholic husband who thinks some pretty disrespectful things about her people.


I don't think its meant to be as serious as you're holding it up to be.
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asmith



Joined: 18 Jun 2009

PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 3:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mr. Pink wrote:
Big Mac wrote:
I just read a couple of the blogs and I don't really know why it's so funny.

To me, he comes off as an ass. I guess there are plenty of them in Korea who would enjoy what he has to say and how he chooses to say it.


I didn't laugh once. I thought it was pretty racist and offensive. If asmith's wife is Korean I really have to wonder how long that relationship is going to last. An alcoholic husband who thinks some pretty disrespectful things about her people.


I've been married over 10 years.

I have children. Wonderful boys.

We are together in life forever.

But, when I die, I'm asking for a divorce.


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tenchu77491



Joined: 16 Mar 2009

PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Has she read your blog?
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tfunk



Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland

PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 6:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I enjoyed reading honest accounts of daily life from an alcoholic with low self esteem, because it throws my concerns of responsibility to the wind for a while.

I don't like it when asmith keeps posting negative economic predictions on this site because I believe they are based less upon his knowledge of the world then they are YouTube videos/article snippets that resonate with his own personal experience of life...everything is going to get worse.

Maybe things are going to get worse, maybe they are going to get better. Did asmith predict the economic crisis or is he just stealing credibility from the fact that it did happen and he thinks its going to continue to get worse? He picks around the carcass and tries to rile people based upon speculation...no better or worse than a fortune teller or vulture. His opinion is worth as much as anybody else on this sites, but why does he keep reposting it?

Asmith, acknowledge that the world may recover. I believe you may be right in your analysis.

PM me if you want to meet up.
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