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edwardcatflap
Joined: 22 Mar 2009
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 5:05 am Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 5:20 am Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 5:31 am Post subject: |
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Yep |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 6:36 am Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 6:44 am Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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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%+)
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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
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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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
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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
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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Obama's a smart guy. You think he's not? |
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guavashake
Joined: 09 Nov 2013
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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World Traveler wrote: |
Dolts? Out of the top 200 universities in the world, look at how many are American:
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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
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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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
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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World Traveler wrote: |
Dolts? Out of the top 200 universities in the world, look at how many are American:
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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
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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young_clinton wrote: |
World Traveler wrote: |
Dolts? Out of the top 200 universities in the world, look at how many are American:
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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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