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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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 Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 6:04 pm Post subject: Debunking Popular Proverbs |
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I thought this might be fun since we're, or at least supposed to be, English teachers. Choose a proverb and prove it wrong. I'll start.
1) The Best Things In Life Are Free.
Not true. Your health is the best thing in life and maintaining good health costs money. Good food costs a lot of money and when your health goes bad, it costs a lot to get good medical attention.
2) You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks.
Phooey! The brain has something called neuro plasticity. Older people can learn new things if they want to. |
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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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Sex is the best thing in life and sex is free (as long as you're not a trick).
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DorkothyParker
Joined: 11 Apr 2009
Location: Jeju
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| Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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RMNC, disagree! Sex increases the amount of non-sex quality time my lover must spend with me.
Sex costs time.
Time = money.
Sex costs money.
To continue:
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
While this may be true for some (very mature and logical people I guess?), most long-distance relationships don't work out. We need physical closeness, we need smells and sounds and touching to create bonds with other people. |
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redaxe
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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RMNC, disagree! Sex increases the amount of non-sex quality time my lover must spend with me.
Sex costs time.
Time = money.
Sex costs money.
To continue:
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
While this may be true for some (very mature and logical people I guess?), most long-distance relationships don't work out. We need physical closeness, we need smells and sounds and touching to create bonds with other people. |
I think most long-distance relationships fail because when the couple are finally reunited, they have spent such a long time missing each other, idealizing each other, and not fighting (there is nothing to fight about when you never see each other) that they are completely disappointed by the reality of being together again.
I must admit I'm falling victim to this myself, I think my current long-distance girlfriend is basically perfect in every way and I can't imagine why I ever fought with her when we were together in one place before. When I see her again, it's going to be hard for the real her to live up to my idealized notion of her. |
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rumdiary
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 12:37 am Post subject: |
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A watched pot never boils
Yes, it does. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 4:00 am Post subject: |
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There is no such word as "maybe."
We should chuck all experiments, then,
because all experiments start with a hypothesis which may or may not be true.
When in Rome, do as Romans do.
You mean foreign English teachers should teach like Korean English teachers?
No way!
My country, right or wrong.
Tell that to anyone who remembers the Vietnam War.
Respect your elders.
Sexual predators thrive on this one.
Sugar and spice and everything nice,
That's what little girls are made of.
I bet everyone on this thread can name some exceptions.
Love is never having to say you're sorry.
What the heck does this slogan mean, anyway!
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 4:36 am Post subject: |
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Asian women never age..
Yeah they do. They go from cutesy 20-somethings with baby voices to aggressive curly-haired ajummas virtually overnight. Usually as soon as the wedding ceremony is over.
Treat them mean and keep them keen..
That only works with women who have zero self esteem.
Respect others and they will respect you.
Not always. Many people think that polite behaviour is a sign of weakness and they punish it by trying to take advantage.
All the world's a stage.
Actually most people can see through your facade and know when you're acting.
Korea is the Land of the morning calm
They must have coined this one before the country became inhabited by Koreans. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 4:39 am Post subject: |
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2) You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks.
Phooey! The brain has something called neuro plasticity. Older people can learn new things if they want to.
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Depends. If we're taking it as literally as your first one, then it's quite likely indeed old dogs cannot learn new tricks.
In the same way, the Chimps in Africa learn most of their tricks of the trade from parents and elders in their first... 8 years? after that, it has been shown to be impossible to teach a chimp how to, for example, bash a rock to open a nut. If it hasn't been learnt by then, you can forget it.
Another one...
When the cat's away, the mice will play.
Well, Mammals have evolved to have a certain timely advantage over reptiles, who, when not bathing to charge up their blood heat, they are getting cold and eating.
Mammals have their own central heating and although they need to eat a lot, they are generally much faster and have much more time to play around, instead of trying to warm their bodies.
This is generalizing but it's safe to say that mice, along with most other mammals will play with or without the cat around, providing they are not within reach.
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| A rolling stone gathers no moss. |
Even when glue is on it? Nobody ever says a bare naked rolling stone.
I'd like to put this to the test, anyway.
I do indeed wonder, if you roll a stone for a lengthy time, maybe only 6 months, maybe 3,000 years, will moss grow on it?
I would suppose if the stone rolled steadily as so only rolling across one circumference, the spinning rocks around could eventually accumulate some moss.
Or perhaps failing that, if we removed all rocks (stones, whatever), and replaced them all with entirely rolling rocks, and then left the earth a few million years, would there be a species of moss that could evolve much better suited for being rolled? Maybe one gets lucky by being better at clinging on than other weaker mosses.
Intriguing *rubs chin*
silence is golden
I dunno. Again we'd have to test. Silence is a sound, but sound is a wave. Perhaps if you can align the sonic wave spectrum parallel with a light wave spectrum, it may indeed align exactly with gold. But even so, sound waves aren't technically visible, unless you watch the vibrations of a speaker or something.
Great minds think alike
Kinda like how Einstein thought in the exact same way Newton did?
Or how Beethoven thought like Da Vinci! Same outcomes from same thought processes.
I believe the extension is 'as do lesser minds', but that's even more humanist. |
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vDroop
Joined: 25 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 5:49 am Post subject: |
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| Junior wrote: |
Asian women never age..
Yeah they do. They go from cutesy 20-somethings with baby voices to aggressive curly-haired ajummas virtually overnight. Usually as soon as the wedding ceremony is over. |
Seen it first hand! |
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robot
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 5:57 am Post subject: |
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Good things come in small packages.
The bigger, the better. |
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lawyertood
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul, Incheon and the World--working undercover for the MOJ
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| Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 6:27 am Post subject: |
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| Good things come in small packages. |
Probably why a female friend revised it to
Good things come in small packages from Tiffany's. |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 7:19 am Post subject: |
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| RMNC wrote: |
Sex is the best thing in life and sex is free (as long as you're not a trick).
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Wrong. You can't enjoy sex if you're seriously ill. |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 7:42 am Post subject: |
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There are no stupid questions.
Actually, there are many such as when yesterday my sister asked me "What are you cooking? when I full well know that she's a fussy eater and has no interest in trying any of my food.
I returned her question with a question, "Why are you asking me?" to which she replied "Just curious". 
Similar would be when someone asks you "Hey, What are you reading?" They ruin your train of thought with a useless question. Very often, they are not interested in what you're reading.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvs2g5Nj0NI
Some people think they're being friendly, but they're wasting your time with dumb questions instead of making a little effort to think of something intelligent to ask you. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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Keep an open mind.
Where shall I start, with the Nigerian spam message, the Amway distributor, or the Jehovah's Witnesses?
There's no place like home.
That's for sure. That's what I came here to get away from.
Too many chiefs, not enough Indians.
That certainly wasn't true in the Jonestown colony or the Heaven's Gate cult.
If you can't lick 'em, join 'em.
I'll remember that the next time I'm at a party where everyone else is taking illegal drugs. |
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Globutron
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Location: England/Anyang
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| Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 8:32 am Post subject: |
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