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[Summer Wine]

Venting on Daves is a useful tool for those living in Korea.

It provides an outlet for those who face incidents of complete stupidity while being forced to hold thier tounge. This is something that some of those who criticise peoples venting seem to fail to understand.

When forced to stand in class listening to your co-teacher tell your students to open the windows and then turn on the aircon, knowing that you cant criticise her lack of understanding on how aircon actually works.

Also knowing that you cant discuss the issue with other teachers at your school without being questioned as to 'if you don't like how things are done in Korea, then why are you here?'

Using Daves as a way of venting is a useful tool. Those on Daves who then come up with all the excuses for the Korean teachers action fail to understand one immutable fact, if I wanted to be criticised for disliking stupid actions simply because they were done by a 'korean' co-teacher, I would vent to my co-teachers.

Venting on Daves allows you to not hold in all those issues, that come from having to deal, view or put up with stupidity while holding your tounge simply because you are a foriegner in Korea.

Daves provides an opportunity to let it out and then get past the issue, thats why venting on Daves is useful to long term stability in Korea. Holding ones tounge for 1+ years is a sure fire way of going insane.

For those who don't regularly meet close friends or find that venting to aquaintances in Bars can cause arguments when all you want to do is let out how stupid you found an action. Venting on Daves (VOD) has its place.

[Seoulio]

I don't think there are that many of us who do not understand venting's place in the grand scheme of things. God knows I need to vent over some of the stupid things that go on here, in Canada, or in politics etc.

Yes venting is good.

What ISN'T good is the veiled racism, or the sweepingly general negative comments about Korea or its people.

Many of our comments come down to cultural differences ( which does not make us right and the Koreans wrong) or the stupidity of INDIVIDUALS who do not want to be wrong and or lose face.

Like right now, I am dealing with an incredibly stupid situation, my bosses don't see it and it is frustrating, but it comes down to a disagreement among VP's on educational policy and the one VP doesnt want to bend his position ( sticking to his guns) and the other VP doesnt want to piss him off. I have vented like crazy about this to my wife an a couple other buddies but in the end nothng will change, sure its frustrating.

My comments do not denegrate to "stupid idiot Koreans don't know how to............" thats where people like me draw the line, now you are not venting you are bashing an entire race of people for cultural idiosyncrasies we don't understand.

Also a lot of people who will "vent" are completely stuck up eltitist jerks who will do nothing for the school, assume that they will break the contarct on everything, and must be paid for everything.IN general everything annoys them, and they need to vent about pretty much everything, after a while many of us lose interest in this continued tirade.

Then of coure there are those who are getting royally screwed, like bent over a table and gang raped kind of screwed, and they have good cause to vent. MOst of these people get the sympathy and the helpful ear they need.

So I agree with you, but there is a line between venting and other abhorant comments.

[schwa]

[eamo]

[Summer Wine]

[NYC_Gal]

My dad can back this one up. I was yelled at enough times when I was younger for leaving the door open for more than 5 seconds when the air was on

He'd get a nosebleed (brain leaking from nose) from the "different way aircon works" here.

[8 years down]

I think venting threads are good because I like to read them.

[cj1976]

The teachers at your school must be exceptionally stupid because I've never witnessed this aircon on/windows open phenomena where I work. They open the windows when they put on the fans, but that's understandable because that [Mod Edit] will kill you.

[8 years down]

[nautilus]

[Forward Observer]

[T-J]

[PatrickGHBusan]

Indeed TJ....how did you do it man?

[metalhead]

What DOES one do without the Internet? Go out and socialize? Better oneself through self-study and exercise?

The horror, the horror...

[NYC_Gal]