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[IncognitoHFX]

I'm kinda agitated that every foreigner I meet here is over 27 years old. I don't mind associating with people older than me, but I came here expecting everyone to be 22/23 and not expecting to be the youngest in every peer group. Age is such a big deal here, and not just with the Koreans--the foreigners too. Which they probably get from the Koreans after being here so long.

Its really putting a hamper on my foreigner-befriending-quest. Especially when older foreigners aren't as receptive about being friendly to younger folk as I am to them. There is a wall. Not always, but occasionally.

So, here is a poll. Just how close to retirement are all you geezers?

[the_beaver]

You'll need another notch on that poll for me to vote.

[Treefarmer]

[IncognitoHFX]

[Treefarmer]

[IncognitoHFX]

[beachbumNC]

for some reason, there was no vote button when i clicked here.

anyway, i'll be 25 next month, and i feel like i'm the youngest person around. the other teachers are late 20s-early 30s and most of my students are 30-40.

[the_beaver]

[bejarano-korea]

I'm 35, 36 in March and I don't ask for much. Give me a nice apartment, decent boss and workstaff, wages on time and cable and a decent gym and I'll be happier than bloody Larry!

If we can also stick in a request for a nice Korean lady then that would be a bonus but if I leave here after a year without having romance, sex or intimate relations I'm not going to be too bothered.

As for befriending folk. I'm not bothered about that either. If someone is worth knowing, then they are worth knowing wherever they are 18 or 58, western or Korean. I'm not going to think 'That person is 23 - what a child!' Seek as you find, that's what I always say.

As for turning 30, all I can say is that the older you get the more comfortable you get in your own skin. It is a fantastic sense of liberation. Peer pressure? doesn't apply to me anymore. If you don't like me when I get to Daegu then piss off and leave me alone as I'm sure there will be summat good on the telly when I get home!

[swetepete]

Why, you, no-good mush-faced billious little heap of pre-foetal bluejay droppings, how ignint and arrogantical you are to not include a septugenarian column on that thar pole, not to mention a lack of octo, nano and nonogenarians to boot; I can't even befathom the incongriability of such a senseless swaddling of our internal and eternal withoms and blartiness without losing my elevenses and filling my depends with a brown watery gruel my dear dad would've been happy to call his lunch, and please sir can I have some more he would've said, because they were TOUGH back then. They could out pile-drive a dozen John Henries and a gross of darkie laborers, because they were so tough. Only pets they had was fleas and the occasional snowman if they were lucky enough to afford them, and you goddamn wretched little punks, you think you run the world? Well you don't!

My generation is the greatest generation ever, we licked Hitler's ass in the big double ya double ya tooo and we got through the Great Depression without any of your consarnded Prozax or Vee-agras and such like pharmaceutical nonsensitries, nosireejimbo; all we needed was elbows, grease, and a can-do attitude, like we used when we flabbernaggled the Turks at Gallipoli back in the Day or when we was bashing the Irish, them no-goodnik vomit-trodden little maggotybulbs, no better than gypsies or coloreds or pygmy Orie-untal starch-launderers.

What would your grandmother say if she were here to hear this here hairbrainetry you got the audaciness to call an intelligableable queriosity? She'd spin, boy, spin in her grave she would, like one of your new-fangaggled pop-and-roll-stars on one of their thrice damned and irrelevantile greased-up Albino firkins. Fie! and bosh! and a sugar-hogshead of flimflamerty!

Spare the rod, spoil the child we said, but your folks (my grandchildren) really dropped the pigskin there, they let you all walk about like you were robots from another galaxy with no sense of decorumhoodness nor of speed-limits, and yet like you got the mysterious devilspawn ability to transmogricate into giant lawnmowers or some such taberfoolery. Why, back in my day, all we got for Christmas was two wall-nuts and a severity of diaper rash, and we were pleased as punch to get it.

The only reason we let you runts live is sos we can cannibalize you for parts, later. Those ain't your kidneys, punks; I'm just letting you borrow 'em a while.

[ca12bon]

28 turning 29 soon. I still look like I'm 21 though, which grants me freedom to do things most 28 year olds wouldn't.

[Harpeau]

I feel like I'm 24.

[Zyzyfer]

Bah I was 21 when I first came here back in 2001. You're hanging out in the wrong bars. Each foreigner bar has their own scene going on, even outside of Seoul.

Edit: You're in Anyang. Been to Rockssin?

[HighTreason]

I'm 29 but will be 30 in less than 2 months (sept.9). I certainly try to retain my youthful open-mind though while taking advantage of the wisdom of age. Though I do occasionally find myself muttering "Kids these days..."

[Treefarmer]

i've started muttering 'kids today' and 'i don't envy you're lot' and i'm not even 30 yet