Korean Job Discussion Forums

[mack4289]

I'm writing this because mine comes from just last week, when I was in Fukoka, Japan. We're talking to these hot Japanese women who turn out to be very gullible. It's just two of us talking to them but then my other friend walks over, who's a really big guy (could pass for an American football player) and bald. One of the Japanese girls makes a comment about how big he is and I tell her he's in the Special Forces. She doesn't understand so I tell her his job is like Jack Bauer's job on 24. But she gets the idea that my friend actually is Jack Bauer/Kiefer Sutherland, even though my friend is about 100 pounds heavier, bald and 15 years younger. So she points at him and says, "Jack Bauer?" and I just shrug and say, "Yea." So her and her two friends get pictures one by one with him, which attracts some random Japanese guy asking for a picture who probably just figured it was someone famous and went with it.

I figured that was all harmless enough until the girls come back with a permanent magic marker and their (probably very expensive) wallets for my friend to sign. So he signs them as "Kiefer Sutherland" and they walk away very happy. I kind of wish I could see their reaction when someone breaks it to them that it wasn't Kiefer Sutherland but just some random foreigner who ruined their designer wallets.

[everydavid]

I remember reading a few months back on Daves about the Japanese buying lambs who they thought were actually small dogs!(poodles)
It seems like the Japanese are more gullible that they should be!

[huffdaddy]

[tigerbluekitty]

Back in the days when I only weighed 90 lbs, I constantly lied about my weight being 110-120 lbs. Some guys actually believed it, maybe because of the baggy clothes I wore once in awhile. Women weren't as easily fooled though.

[oskinny1]

The other week a Korean asked me why I was teaching here. I told her I was a moonshiner who was on the run from the law and that I was from Hazard County Georgia.

I am cpar at lying, but she believed every word.

[RACETRAITOR]

First let me start with the worst lie I ever bought. In grade 4 I was looking for this kid to beat up (forget why but he deserved it). He told me "No, that's my twin brother. He went that way." I stepped through the door and he locked it behind me. Man was I dumb.

The biggest lie I ever pulled off was from grades 8 to 9. One of my friends who was a little slow and a little full of himself went through a series of personality complexes, believing himself to be Captain Kirk, a few assorted WWF wrestlers, and the longest lived, Darth Vader. He expected me to kayfabe, if you will. One night at my Ukrainian grandmother's home I got her to tell me a Ukrainian insult, "Tih durnay" (you stupid). Anyway, I told my friend it meant "Hail the lord (meaning Lord Vader)" and he believed it for about a year. I had most of the grade in on it.

[BigBuds]

I convinced a class of students that if they go to Sydney they can see kangaroos hopping down the streets.

[jajdude]

Felt really down once, yes only once. Convinced a few people over the next few days that it was because a friend of mine had killed himself. I also started believing it.

[sillywilly]

I'm a tall blonde with extrememly fair skin and I used to regularly convince people that I was half-japanese. Dont know why I did that. Just for giggles I guess. usually told them the truth once they believed it.

[canuckistan]

While on a driving adventure with a friend, that the Holstein cows we saw in a field were "Dalmatian" cows....you know, like the breed of dog

She went home and told this, in all seriousness, to her significant other.....who of course burst out laughing.

The jig was up

[Boreal]

One of my friends is convinced that I singlehandedly ruined John McCain's presidential campaign before it got started.

[Qinella]

Right before I moved to Korea I was working at a bank, and had a part-time job at the local coffee shop for kicks. This was in North Carolina. These two sample conservative specimens came in to the coffee shop one evening after church when business was dead. We got to chatting, they about their vainglorious deeds. God this, blah blah.

The older of the two asked me why I was going to Korea.

"Well, there's a lot of money in the illegal sex trade in Asia, and even more if you can get underage children involved. I'm great with kids, so I'm gonna try to see if I can get into that some.. "

My co-worker knew what I was doing and just kinda went along with it. "Are you serious!?" demanded they. "Well, come on now, it's gonna happen anyway. I might as well get in and make what I can while I can from it. Don't be so judgmental." Those two fellas were stunned, I tell ya! They did not know what to do or say, and just stood there like the tottering tw[a]ts they are.

[ThePoet]

I once had an American convinced that in Canada it got so cold and snowy that a) we were required by law to own dogsled teams for winter driving to pull us out of snow drifts or get help in case our vehicle broke down, and b) we all owned big ugly monster truck 4x4's to drive in the summer because there were only 2 miles of paved road in Canada, and alas, that was in Toronto. The rest of the roads were either dirt, or bog, so the 4x4's were the only way to get around.

She believed me right up until she got off the airplaine to visit me....in the middle of summer, in a full parka.

Poet

[ursus_rex]

My 13 month old baby plays starcraft and is quite good at it... prefers the Terrans and wins about 60% of his online games.

Mind you, these were elementary school, grade 3 and 4 students.

[reactionary]

I regularly convince people here (children and adults alike) that King Arthur is to English as King Sejong is to Korean.

Try it sometime...