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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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 Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:40 pm Post subject: YIPPITY YAPPITY BIPPITY BOPPITY!!!! |
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In other words, the neighbourhood ajummas are shrieking in tongues again. 
New place. Second time I've heard them, I guess because I had to come home during lunch today to get something. This is the third place I've lived in Korea where I was within earshot of these frantic tongue-speakers. Starts out with the happy-clappy singing, and before you know it, it's all nutty-sounding and "help! I'm possessed!" horrorshow time. All excited, the volume rises to a cresendo, then falls, then back up... and on it goes.
I'm not a Buddhist, but whenever I can hear the monks over at the temple start to chant, I turn off the stereo and just let them provide the soundtrack to my life for a while. Goes well with the cicadas on a lazy summer afternoon. But when these ajummas (and it's always only ajummas) get revved up with their funky, bypassing-the-mind babbling, I turn up the volume. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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hahahaha...we live near a uni. needless to say....at the beginning and ending of the semester, my wife and I get saranaided (too lazy to look up the sp. sorry  ) by the Korean male students.
They love to drink Soju and sing until 3am. Thank God we learned how to say:
E----Tak-----Ja!..... SHUT THE MOUTH! |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 7:58 pm Post subject: Re: YIPPITY YAPPITY BIPPITY BOPPITY!!!! |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
In other words, the neighbourhood ajummas are shrieking in tongues again.
New place. Second time I've heard them, I guess because I had to come home during lunch today to get something. This is the third place I've lived in Korea where I was within earshot of these frantic tongue-speakers. Starts out with the happy-clappy singing, and before you know it, it's all nutty-sounding and "help! I'm possessed!" horrorshow time. All excited, the volume rises to a cresendo, then falls, then back up... and on it goes.
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Been there, done that, got a post about it somewheres around here. My solution was Infectious Grooves first album with the volume and the bass cranked up to 11.
Why are cults so loud? Where are all the whispering, 'speak no evil and quiet as a mouse' cults anyway? |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:58 am Post subject: Re: YIPPITY YAPPITY BIPPITY BOPPITY!!!! |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
Why are cults so loud? Where are all the whispering, 'speak no evil and quiet as a mouse' cults anyway? |
If only the Quakers hadn't had that rule against sex. They died out, by and large, but they were nice quiet folk. |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 6:04 am Post subject: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
hahahaha...we live near a uni. needless to say....at the beginning and ending of the semester, my wife and I get saranaided (too lazy to look up the sp. sorry ) by the Korean male students.
They love to drink Soju and sing until 3am. Thank God we learned how to say:
E----Tak-----Ja!..... SHUT THE MOUTH! |
What is E Tak ja?????? - in korean that means "this table"....are they looking at you strange???
I think you mean IP DAK CHU |
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Callipear
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
Location: Seoul Mapo-gu Seogyo-dong
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:06 am Post subject: Re: YIPPITY YAPPITY BIPPITY BOPPITY!!!! |
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If only the Quakers hadn't had that rule against sex. They died out, by and large, but they were nice quiet folk.[/quote]
Uhh, the Quakers haven't died out, but they are pretty silent (at least while they worship). They weren't the ones who banned intimacy between men and women. You're thinking of the Shakers...
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:39 pm Post subject: Re: YIPPITY YAPPITY BIPPITY BOPPITY!!!! |
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| Callipear wrote: |
| kermo wrote: |
| If only the Quakers hadn't had that rule against sex. They died out, by and large, but they were nice quiet folk. |
Uhh, the Quakers haven't died out, but they are pretty silent (at least while they worship). They weren't the ones who banned intimacy between men and women. You're thinking of the Shakers...
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Whoops. Thanks for setting me straight. I should have known better, given that my great-grandmother was a Quaker-type.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~quakers/shakers.htm |
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