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The 2014 Seoul Zombie Walk

 
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swashbuckler



Joined: 20 Nov 2010

PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 4:15 am    Post subject: The 2014 Seoul Zombie Walk Reply with quote

Is anyone on here going to that this Saturday? Has anyone gone in the past? What was the experience like? is it really as fun as everyone pretends it is?

It starts at 3pm in the afternoon, hmmm..
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Squire



Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do

PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 4:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like a lot of fun for elementary school kids
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Cave Dweller



Joined: 17 Aug 2014
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I see it everyday on the subway.

A whole bunch of fleshy body-shaped automatons moving from place to place with a rectangular object in their hands, roughly 1 foot from their face.
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Steelrails



Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System

PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cave Dweller wrote:
I see it everyday on the subway.

A whole bunch of fleshy body-shaped automatons moving from place to place with a rectangular object in their hands, roughly 1 foot from their face.


But you, you are so above them all.
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Cave Dweller



Joined: 17 Aug 2014
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 9:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do not walk around with a phone in my face. I do not bump into things and other people because I am not paying attention. You can decide if that makes me above anyone else or not.

Steelrails wrote:
Cave Dweller wrote:
I see it everyday on the subway.

A whole bunch of fleshy body-shaped automatons moving from place to place with a rectangular object in their hands, roughly 1 foot from their face.


But you, you are so above them all.
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wanderkind



Joined: 01 Jan 2012
Location: Japan

PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cave Dweller wrote:
I see it everyday on the subway.

A whole bunch of fleshy body-shaped automatons moving from place to place with a rectangular object in their hands, roughly 1 foot from their face.

Hehe, nice.
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KimchiNinja



Joined: 01 May 2012
Location: Gangnam

PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 11:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

wanderkind wrote:
Cave Dweller wrote:
I see it everyday on the subway.

A whole bunch of fleshy body-shaped automatons moving from place to place with a rectangular object in their hands, roughly 1 foot from their face.

Hehe, nice.


I'll give points here too, well played.
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Cave Dweller



Joined: 17 Aug 2014
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 5:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Everyone frame this one. A compliment from kimchininja.

KimchiNinja wrote:
wanderkind wrote:
Cave Dweller wrote:
I see it everyday on the subway.

A whole bunch of fleshy body-shaped automatons moving from place to place with a rectangular object in their hands, roughly 1 foot from their face.

Hehe, nice.


I'll give points here too, well played.
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Steelrails



Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System

PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cave Dweller wrote:
I do not walk around with a phone in my face.


So, no one ever bothers to communicate with you and rather than reading an ebook or getting online news about current events, you choose to stare numbingly ahead or ogle the girls in short skirts.

Again, what is it you're doing? Solving theorems in your head? Vigorously editing your manuscript?
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Savant



Joined: 25 May 2007

PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Steelrails wrote:
Cave Dweller wrote:
I do not walk around with a phone in my face.


So, no one ever bothers to communicate with you and rather than reading an ebook or getting online news about current events, you choose to stare numbingly ahead or ogle the girls in short skirts.


I sincerely doubt that the majority of Koreans walking around with phones glued to their eyes are reading news about current events. They play games or watch some TV/Movie and proceed to do this from the moment they leave their door, to the subway station, to their place of work, and screw anyone they inconvenience because they NEVER look where they are going.

You have something against ogling girls in short skirts?
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Steelrails



Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System

PostPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 1:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Savant wrote:

You have something against ogling girls in short skirts?


I dunno, do you have anything against Koreans staring at foreigners?

Anyways, the idea that some random English teacher here is somehow so far above the people here smacks more of a desperate cry for attention and validation than anything real.

"I'm not a zombie because I wear a faded band t-shirt and listen to different music while on my way to teach lesson 4 of GoGo Loves English." Get over yourself.
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Cave Dweller



Joined: 17 Aug 2014
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 5:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If I message someone, I do it when I am sitting or waiting somewhere, not while walking.

On the subway, most of the time I read a book.

Steelrails wrote:
Cave Dweller wrote:
I do not walk around with a phone in my face.


So, no one ever bothers to communicate with you and rather than reading an ebook or getting online news about current events, you choose to stare numbingly ahead or ogle the girls in short skirts.

Again, what is it you're doing? Solving theorems in your head? Vigorously editing your manuscript?
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Sister Ray



Joined: 25 Mar 2006
Location: Fukuoka

PostPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 5:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Steelrails wrote:


Anyways, the idea that some random English teacher here is somehow so far above the people here smacks more of a desperate cry for attention and validation than anything real.



Relax, man.

I don't think the Zombie walk cell phone joke implied in any way that he thought he was some superior being. It was just a moderately amusing quip, that's all.

Anyway, people who walk at a snail's pace transfixed to their phones are certainly annoying. I will state, for the record, I am a better pedestrian than them.
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Cave Dweller



Joined: 17 Aug 2014
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 8:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When it comes to being a better pedestrian than Koreans, there is nowhere to go but up.

But yes, thanks Sister Ray for getting the joke. I wrote my comment because, by coincidence, zombie is the very word I use to describe people who wander around hypnotized to their phone.

Sister Ray wrote:
Steelrails wrote:


Anyways, the idea that some random English teacher here is somehow so far above the people here smacks more of a desperate cry for attention and validation than anything real.



Relax, man.

I don't think the Zombie walk cell phone joke implied in any way that he thought he was some superior being. It was just a moderately amusing quip, that's all.

Anyway, people who walk at a snail's pace transfixed to their phones are certainly annoying. I will state, for the record, I am a better pedestrian than them.
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rainman3277



Joined: 13 Sep 2009

PostPosted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Savant wrote:

You have something against ogling girls in short skirts?

Steelrails on adults: "Sorry but adults drinking milk is akin to grown men wearing shorts to work, chewing bubble gum, drinking from a straw while at a table, sugary cereals, playing checkers or tic-tac-toe, bringing a mitt to a baseball game, sandals away from the beach, not wearing a belt, using a pencil instead of a pen for office work, chewing a pencil, drinking rum and cokes over whiskey (unlesd for concealment purposes), and popsicles (unless dunked in beer)."

Steelrails wrote:
[Anyways, the idea that some random English teacher here is somehow so far above the people here smacks more of a desperate cry for attention and validation than anything real. .


Lesson learned, don't act superior to a demographic, (unless it includes everyone over the age of 21.)
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