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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:25 pm Post subject: Do you sometimes tease your children? |
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A while ago Wired coined the term "time porn":
Time Porn: Popular entertainment, such as TV shows like Cheers, Seinfeld, and Mad About You, where people never seem to have anything to do except hang out. They tease us with the forbidden leisure time we all covet but can't have.
Anyway, sometimes my time starved kids, I like to tell them what my nephew's life is like back in Canada. No school on Saturday. Finishes school at 3 pm. Goes home. Plays Playstation 2 from 3:30 until 10 pm. Goes to bed.
The poor dears can't believe their ears. |
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sarahsarah
Joined: 05 Aug 2004
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Did that just today as a matter of fact. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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'I am very envy Canada student'.
I don't know how many times I've got that out of my high school students. Then I tell them how much time students their age in England spend in the classroom while doing A-levels. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| sarahsarah wrote: |
| Did that just today as a matter of fact. |
It's the part about no school on Saturday that really gets them. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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| I have a vertically challenged student. When I give out candy to winning teams, I hold his really high and make him jump. Sometimes he manages to reach the candy. Sometimes he can't. C'est la vie. |
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Paji eh Wong
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Does the Pope crap in the woods? |
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Snowmeow
Joined: 03 Oct 2005
Location: pc room
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:06 am Post subject: |
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| Just showing them pictures of your *house* and your *yard* and maybe even your outdoor "*swimming pool* is sufficient I think. They may be kids of wealthy parents but they still live in crowded apartments. |
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Freezer Burn
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:47 am Post subject: |
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I live in Brisbane, we have a pool, and a yard and a dog thats not on the menu, no school on saturdays 22 degree winters....
Plus 'monkey boy' is a keeper. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Snowmeow wrote: |
| Just showing them pictures of your *house* and your *yard* and maybe even your outdoor "*swimming pool* is sufficient I think. They may be kids of wealthy parents but they still live in crowded apartments. |
A friend teaching kids in Bundang had to do that. Bundang is home to your upper middle classed urban professional types. This one kid gets his freak on about how "his" apartment is better than her apartment. She's like "well, its your parents apartment. Now let me tell you about my house on the ocean back in Oregon..." |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:12 am Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Now let me tell you about my house on the ocean back in Oregon..." |
Yeah, I've told my students about my mom's house by the sea. Just so it sank in how an apartment will never compete, I tell them about how she could probably have lobster everyday of the year for the rest of her life and not pay one cent (I teach older students). What happens is that tons of lobster will wash ashore during storms in the winter. The lobster freeze to death, so picking them isn't considered poaching. Last time it happened, they had to bring in a truck to clean the beach. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Now let me tell you about my house on the ocean back in Oregon..." |
Yeah, I've told my students about my mom's house by the sea. Just so it sank in how an apartment will never compete, I tell them about how she could probably have lobster everyday of the year for the rest of her life and not pay one cent (I teach older students). What happens is that tons of lobster will wash ashore during storms in the winter. The lobster freeze to death, so picking them isn't considered poaching. Last time it happened, they had to bring in a truck to clean the beach. |
Oh yay, frozen crustaceans on the shore, an elderly couple or two to share them with and probably a 10-minute drive to the nearest store. Give me a 12-pyung apartment in Cheongdamdong any day.
Each to their own of course, but the feeling I get when I imagine living there is about as far from envy as it can get.  |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Now let me tell you about my house on the ocean back in Oregon..." |
Yeah, I've told my students about my mom's house by the sea. Just so it sank in how an apartment will never compete, I tell them about how she could probably have lobster everyday of the year for the rest of her life and not pay one cent (I teach older students). What happens is that tons of lobster will wash ashore during storms in the winter. The lobster freeze to death, so picking them isn't considered poaching. Last time it happened, they had to bring in a truck to clean the beach. |
Oh yay, frozen crustaceans on the shore, an elderly couple or two to share them with and probably a 10-minute drive to the nearest store. Give me a 12-pyung apartment in Cheongdamdong any day.
Each to their own of course, but the feeling I get when I imagine living there is about as far from envy as it can get. |
I dunno, free frozen lobster for life or dodging spit and vomit on my way to the subway. Hrm. At this age, I sure do like urban life. But I think if I was young, you can't beat an ocean for your backyard. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Now let me tell you about my house on the ocean back in Oregon..." |
Yeah, I've told my students about my mom's house by the sea. Just so it sank in how an apartment will never compete, I tell them about how she could probably have lobster everyday of the year for the rest of her life and not pay one cent (I teach older students). What happens is that tons of lobster will wash ashore during storms in the winter. The lobster freeze to death, so picking them isn't considered poaching. Last time it happened, they had to bring in a truck to clean the beach. |
Oh yay, frozen crustaceans on the shore, an elderly couple or two to share them with and probably a 10-minute drive to the nearest store. Give me a 12-pyung apartment in Cheongdamdong any day.
Each to their own of course, but the feeling I get when I imagine living there is about as far from envy as it can get. |
10 minutes drive is nothing when you aren't doing it in Korea. I really don't see any advantage in living near a Korean grocery store, which are little more than aisle upon aisle of the same old boring stuff: kimchi, ramen, chapchea noodles, seaweed, etc. |
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TJ
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:53 pm Post subject: The good life |
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I taught in SK for 4 years, the last year being in Bundang. I loved telling my students about my home in Australia .......
Small by Aussie standards but still equal to (about) 60 pyung.
Only two people living in it - my wife and myself.
3.3 acres of land.
Fruit trees and veges in my garden.
Nearest neighbour 150 meters away.
Next neighbour 250 meters away.
Bush (forest to you Americans) on 3 sides.
Nearest town 1.5 kilometers away.
Town population 700
Shire (Dong) population 2000.
Only 2 supermarkets in town.
I don't think they really believed me until I showed them photos. Then they all said "teacher must be rich". Couldn't really convince them that I was poor by Australian standards. |
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Red
Joined: 05 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 2:33 am Post subject: |
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| Teasing them is the only thing that keeps me sane |
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