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What Salary would be too low to make you go back home?
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edwardcatflap



Joined: 22 Mar 2009

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 5:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The only reason that guy started the poll in the first place was another excuse to brag about how much money he claims to be making. I wasn't surprised at all to see so many people trying to mess it up for him.

You've never lied to someone you're never going to see again? I think it's pretty standard behaviour.
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radcon



Joined: 23 May 2011

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 5:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lying to nosy annoying randoms is par for the course. Some idiot bothers me on the subway " Hey foreigner, how old are you?" (one of World Traveler's poll questions by the way) Why should I tell him my age? Another guy "Are you married?" (Amazingly another of World Travler's poll questions. I think there is a pattern here)
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edwardcatflap



Joined: 22 Mar 2009

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 5:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep
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World Traveler



Joined: 29 May 2009

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 6:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

radcon wrote:
Why should I tell him my age?

You're not telling me; you're simply responding in a poll (which incidentally doesn't record the names of which posters answered what). It's good for getting a general overview (and not invasive in the least). Not sure why you would be bothered by that.
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World Traveler



Joined: 29 May 2009

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 6:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

radcon wrote:
I think there is a pattern here

The pattern is: a poster told me I was full of sh*t when I said Canadians are disproportionately represented on Dave's. I proved him wrong. (Same deal with the marriage thing.) Don't worry conspiracy theorist dude radcon, the polls are optional. If learning new things is not something you enjoy, you don't have to click on the thread titles. No one is making you.
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radcon



Joined: 23 May 2011

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

World Traveler wrote:
radcon wrote:
I think there is a pattern here

The pattern is: a poster told me I was full of sh*t when I said Canadians are disproportionately represented on Dave's. I proved him wrong. (Same deal with the marriage thing.) Don't worry conspiracy theorist dude radcon, the polls are optional. If learning new things is not something you enjoy, you don't have to click on the thread titles. No one is making you.


You proved no one wrong since your polls are not scientifically sound, ridiculous, and by your own admission, tainted. I don't learn anything from your threads because I already know most Americans are brain washed dolts.
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Kuros



Joined: 27 Apr 2004

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 2:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fox wrote:
le-paul wrote:
public school look down on academies.


I work at a public school, but I don't look down on academy teachers. I've seen first hand how students who attend English hagwons tend to have higher English competency than their peers. Part of that no doubt comes down to motivation and study habits, but part of it also surely comes from the efforts of their teachers there, and I don't see any reason why we should disparage those efforts. Far too many people have bought into this capitalistic notion of merit, wherein the value one produces is determined not by how much one's actions improve the lives of others, but purely by how marketable and rare one's work skills are. If one cares about their students and sincerely tries to help them learn English (a valuable and important skill), I don't see why one deserves anything but praise.


Its been too long since I've been able to say this:

Spot-on post, Fox.
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World Traveler



Joined: 29 May 2009

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 3:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

radcon wrote:
You proved no one wrong since your polls are not scientifically sound, ridiculous, and by your own admission, tainted.

False. There is no reason to believe people are lying in large numbers about their country of origin or marital status. Why would they? People often lie due to insecurity (and to a lesser extent immaturity), but people aren't usually insecure or secretive about the country in which they were born. If I were to make a poll on Dave's asking about gender (which is something I had thought about doing), the majority results would obviously be male. (Probably 90%+)
radcon wrote:
I don't learn anything from your threads because I already know most Americans are brain washed dolts.

Dolts? Out of the top 200 universities in the world, look at how many are American:

https://sites.google.com/site/koread10visa/D10outsidekorea/topschoolslist

1 California Institute of Technology

2 Harvard University

4 Stanford University

5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

6 Princeton University

8 University of California, Berkeley

9 University of Chicago

11 Yale University

12 University of California, Los Angeles

13 Columbia University

15 Johns Hopkins University

16 University of Pennsylvania

17 Duke University

18 University of Michigan

19 Cornell University

22 Northwestern University

24 Carnegie Mellon University

25 University of Washington

27 University of Texas at Austin

28 Georgia Institute of Technology

29 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

30 University of Wisconsin-Madison

33 University of California, Santa Barbara

40 New York University

40 University of California, San Diego

42 Washington University in St Louis

46 University of Minnesota

47 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

49 Pennsylvania State University

50 Boston University

52 Brown University

52 University of California, Davis

59 Ohio State University

62 Purdue University

65 Rice University

70 University of Southern California

78 University of Pittsburgh

80 Emory University

80 Tufts University

83 Michigan State University

88 Case Western Reserve University

88 Vanderbilt University

90 University of Notre Dame

93 University of California, Irvine

95 University of Rochester

97 University of Colorado Boulder

103 University of Arizona

103 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

108 University of Maryland, College Park

112 University of Virginia

126 Dartmouth College

128 University of Florida

132 Indiana University

132 University of Massachusetts

135 Boston College

136 University of California, Santa Cruz

139 Colorado School of Mines

143 University of Utah

146 Arizona State University

148 University of California, Riverside

159 Texas A&M University

160 Georgetown University

161 University of Iowa

164 Brandeis University

172 Yeshiva University

174 University of Delaware

176 University at Buffalo

178 Stony Brook University

180 Wake Forest University

181 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

183 Iowa State University

184 Northeastern University

185 University of Miami

188 The University of Texas at Dallas

191 University of Illinois at Chicago

194 George Washington University

197 Florida Institute of Technology
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guavashake



Joined: 09 Nov 2013

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 3:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

World Traveler wrote:
radcon wrote:
You proved no one wrong since your polls are not scientifically sound, ridiculous, and by your own admission, tainted.

False. There is no reason to believe people are lying in large numbers about their country of origin or marital status. Why would they? People often lie due to insecurity (and to a lesser extent immaturity), but people aren't usually insecure or secretive about the country in which they were born. If I were to make a poll on Dave's asking about gender (which is something I had thought about doing), the majority results would obviously be male. (Probably 90%+)
radcon wrote:
I don't learn anything from your threads because I already know most Americans are brain washed dolts.

Dolts? Out of the top 200 universities in the world, look at how many are American:

https://sites.google.com/site/koread10visa/D10outsidekorea/topschoolslist

1 California Institute of Technology

2 Harvard University

4 Stanford University

5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

6 Princeton University

8 University of California, Berkeley

9 University of Chicago

11 Yale University


In 1968, George Bush graduated from Yale.
Bush also received his M.B.A. from Harvard in 1975.

In late 1988, Obama entered Harvard Law School.
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World Traveler



Joined: 29 May 2009

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 4:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Obama's a smart guy. You think he's not?
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guavashake



Joined: 09 Nov 2013

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 4:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

World Traveler wrote:
Obama's a smart guy. You think he's not?


Correct.

dolt
"A mental retard who is clueless about current events. "Dolt" may be the most sophisticated insult in the English language."

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dolt

Obama was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace by dolts.
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radcon



Joined: 23 May 2011

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

World Traveler wrote:
Dolts? Out of the top 200 universities in the world, look at how many are American:




The Ivy League schools have about 100,000 students total of which 12% are foreign students. The US has a population of around 320 million people. US universities do rank high (whatever that means) but only about 30% of Americans have university degrees from any school. The fact that you equate university rankings with the general intelligence of a nation proves my point.
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

guavashake wrote:
In 1968, George Bush graduated from Yale.
Bush also received his M.B.A. from Harvard in 1975.


The SAME GW Bush who prided himself in having a "C" average when giving the commencement speech to the 300th graduating class at Yale?
G.W.Bush wrote:
"To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States." *


Oh, what great heights we aspire to.

The same G.W. Bush who managed to bankrupt 7 companies before his government crashed the economy in 2007/8?

Glad my almae matres (alma maters for those who can only speak American) are further down the list.

*President George W. Bush to the Yale University graduates on Monday, May 21 2001.

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young_clinton



Joined: 09 Sep 2009

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

World Traveler wrote:

Dolts? Out of the top 200 universities in the world, look at how many are American:



They seem to have left out Cambridge and Oxford. I'm American, but reason dictates that is not representative of the top universities in the world
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radcon



Joined: 23 May 2011

PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2014 9:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

young_clinton wrote:
World Traveler wrote:

Dolts? Out of the top 200 universities in the world, look at how many are American:



They seem to have left out Cambridge and Oxford. I'm American, but reason dictates that is not representative of the top universities in the world


Oxford tied for 2nd and Cambridge 7. World Traveler left those out.
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