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n3ptne
Joined: 14 Sep 2005
Location: Poh*A*ng City
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 Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:40 am Post subject: K-Pop Tops |
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or... Soda as some of you less fortunate and ethnically dirty white people call it (haha)...
Anyway, whats the deal. EVERY SINGLE TIME I BUY A BOTTLE OF COKE, SOJU, ETC, ETC, ETC... EVERY SINGLE TIME... I go to twist the cap off thinking it will twist right off like a normal bottle from back home... but wait, oh no... the little bastard stays attached to the pressure ring thing at the bottom (the piece of metal/plastic attached to the top that lets you know it hasn't been opened)... which results in having to manually pry it off.
Whats the deal? I dont want to be racist, and thus far I'm liking everything I see here... but cant the Korean government hire someone who can teach them how to make a proper twist-off?
And can SOMEONE please explain to me why I pay as much for a cup of coffee as I do a pack of cigarettes. Not that I mind, 2$-2.50$/pack is a helluva a deal, but theres something unholy about that equation. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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My friend, you have only touched the tip of the iceberg. You have just been scalded by a fire that will consume your entire experience here.
First it's coffee prices and bottle caps. Next thing you know it will be ajummas pushing you on the bus and spitting on the street. It will grow, and swallow you like a Flytrap. You will burn with rage at Korean men, Korean food and the heirarchical Confucian structure. You will complain about shirt sizes at Dongdaemun, and the "foreigner price markups". You will dodge puke on the street while going to work, complain about people marveling at your chopstick skills and the fact that you eat kimchi after a few months.
Korea will become a desolate cold country, a monotonous hilly wasteland tinted gray with pollution and dull gray buildings. You will be cheated, abandoned, and left to your own whims, with the only advice comnig from other jaded English drones on ESL websites. You will be relieved to go home, but a short time later you'll come back. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I think djsmnc has pretty well diagnosed this one. Culture shock on-set. |
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Zenpickle
Joined: 06 Jan 2004
Location: Anyang -- Bisan
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:55 am Post subject: |
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| djsmnc wrote: |
My friend, you have only touched the tip of the iceberg. You have just been scalded by a fire that will consume your entire experience here.
First it's coffee prices and bottle caps. Next thing you know it will be ajummas pushing you on the bus and spitting on the street. It will grow, and swallow you like a Flytrap. You will burn with rage at Korean men, Korean food and the heirarchical Confucian structure. You will complain about shirt sizes at Dongdaemun, and the "foreigner price markups". You will dodge puke on the street while going to work, complain about people marveling at your chopstick skills and the fact that you eat kimchi after a few months.
Korea will become a desolate cold country, a monotonous hilly wasteland tinted gray with pollution and dull gray buildings. You will be cheated, abandoned, and left to your own whims, with the only advice comnig from other jaded English drones on ESL websites. You will be relieved to go home, but a short time later you'll come back. |
And after all that, the uncircumsized soju tops will become one of the quaint little things you'll adore about the place. |
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n3ptne
Joined: 14 Sep 2005
Location: Poh*A*ng City
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:23 am Post subject: |
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its not culture shock at all... just bemusement... i just dont get it.
i mean... its a pop top
everything else i can deal with, but what the *beep*... its a pop top! |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| I read this at first as "korean pop tarts". Damn, I was disappointed. Anyone notice the Japanese Pringles they have for sale at Carrefour? |
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SarcasmKills
Joined: 07 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| I read this at first as "korean pop tarts". Damn, I was disappointed. Anyone notice the Japanese Pringles they have for sale at Carrefour? |
The pepper/shrimp ones are HORRIBLE! |
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