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Toussaint Louverture posted:Catholics are seen as Illuminati or something in my experience, if people care at all. It's weird, they act like it's some secret fraternity or something. In Korea or America? It's definitely like that in America at least. I'm in the Knights of Columbus (say what you want about some of the things the organization does, but we do a lot of good back in my local community.) They make a big deal out of it not being a secret organization or the masons when you sign up.
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Yeah but the Catholics are all slave to a Pope. That's also the main issue China has with Catholics, iirc.
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Jeoh posted:Yeah but the Catholics are all slave to a Pope. That's also the main issue China has with Catholics, iirc. Korean Catholics have positive thoughts about Pope Palpatine but don't see him as infallible, or at least the ones I've talked to don't. It probably invalidates them as Catholics but makes them more laid back. I'm pretty sure I've also seen stem cell research at Catholic university hospitals here.
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Catholics tend to be the more liberal ones in the US too, strangely.
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THE LUMMOX posted:What's up with your phone? I'm still waiting on the replacement, I hope they didn't ship it to the wrong address.
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It's official, I literally do not exist at my school. Today I gave my VP a gift from Cebu, and he had no idea I went. He thought I had been at school the past week. This means he never received my request off from my coteacher. The end result was that he just shrugged and said it wasn't a big deal, because I showed up when I supposed to for class. Later, my coteacher told me that the VP said that he as long as I'm there to do my work, he now doesn't feel the need to ever check up on me. I am truly invisible. Maxsmart fucked around with this message at 13:24 on Feb 6, 2013 |
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Maxsmart posted:It's official, I literally do not exist at my school. Today I gave my VP a gift from Cebu, and he had no idea I went. He thought I had been at school the past week. This means he never received my request off from my coteacher. The end result was that he just shrugged and said it wasn't a big deal, because I showed up when I supposed to for class. Set up a tape recorder with a cardboard cut-out of yourself in the classroom. Have it point the CCTV. You will earn bonus points for being dilligent and never sitting down.
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terivinix posted:Korean Catholics have positive thoughts about Pope Palpatine but don't see him as infallible, or at least the ones I've talked to don't. It probably invalidates them as Catholics but makes them more laid back. I'm pretty sure I've also seen stem cell research at Catholic university hospitals here. This isn't the religion thread but whatever, papal infallibility is something really misunderstood and more complex than "the Pope can do no wrong." It only counts on specific issues of tradition, scripture and... Something else, I dunno. I just know theres three things. I haven't even met a Catholic here (that I know of.) I've only met two Buddhists that I know of and that's because other people brought it up. I don't talk about religion if it's not already what people are talking about, so I only find out someone's religion when they randomly work in "I'm a Christian!" Catholics and Buddhists dont seem to give a gently caress here, but generic Korean Christians or whatever seem to find a way to work that in in the most random, off topic ways. Edit: I got a basic English drug abuse speech from the pharmacist at homeplus today, that was neat. He seemed satisfied when I told him I have bad allergies and my doctor in America gave me this, but I think he was just agreeing for the sake of it. It's like I'm the only person here who takes Benadryl for allergies at night and cant breath without it. They're loving pharmacists I don't get it. They when to pharmacy school they have to know that 50mg a day wont kill me. BrainDance fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Feb 6, 2013 |
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Feb 6, 2013 13:33
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BrainDance posted:They're loving pharmacists I don't get it. They when to pharmacy school they have to know that 50mg a day wont kill me. Pretty sure drug abusers don't follow label guidelines.
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Of course, but that's what I take and I got that speech because of the rate I buy it at. There's about 8 pills a box so it's not very hard math. Me taking one pill a day was enough to get a drug abuse speech. Edit: I guess more background. This wasn't just because I was buying diphenhydramine, but because I stop in to get a box every week or so. It is abusable in a limited "I'm in middle school this will gently caress me up" way but it's way under glue, huffing spraypaint and running into a wall head first. BrainDance fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Feb 6, 2013 |
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BrainDance posted:Of course, but that's what I take and I got that speech because of the rate I buy it at. Diphenhydramine is pretty habit forming if you need it to sleep. If you take it for a long time it can cause pretty bad stuff to happen to your central nervous system.
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Grand Fromage posted:Catholics tend to be the more liberal ones in the US too, strangely. Well it depends. More liberal than fundies definitely, but there are some sticking points. For example, the Catholic church has promoted the study and acceptance of evolution for decades, but I know otherwise liberal, borderline socialist Catholics who think condoms and birth control should be banned. It's almost like banning the cleregy from getting some has made them obsessive and ignorant on sex or something!
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Feb 7, 2013 00:43
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I want to post something vaguely racist so that we can stop talking about Catholics.
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Feb 7, 2013 02:03
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Have you guys heard of this "Gangman Style"?
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Everyone post something that loving blew your mind when you first came here, that might be vaguely useful at least. 1. Coffee joints are clearly meant to be open from 11 AM to midnight. What's caffeine? 2. Asia is the home of good tea, right? Not this Asia. Sorry bub.
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Toussaint Louverture posted:Everyone post something that loving blew your mind when you first came here, that might be vaguely useful at least. Fine, even though I was being very generous to Catholicism. Using scissors to cut food (which is awesome) and having a roll of toilet paper at the table instead of napkins (which is not).
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Feb 7, 2013 03:31
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Feb 7, 2013 03:35
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1. Sidewalks also function as motorcycle lanes, open-air markets, tiny parking lots, product storage, really anything you can imagine. 2. 95% of fried chicken places and coffee shops are categorically identical. They all sell the exact same poo poo and everything tastes the exact same. The only difference is what celebrity promotion they have. Somehow, most stay in business and new ones are opening all the time. 3. Need to take a taxi across the entire city? You might be expected to pay as much 20,000 won.
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Feb 7, 2013 03:39
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Yeah the having 5,000 identical businesses all next door to each other that are constantly empty yet somehow still in business and doing well enough for even more to be opening constantly is really the thing that continues to blow my mind. It has to be some kind of government supported jobs program. There's nothing else that can explain it. Ulsan is creating a coffee street next to our cell phone street, which as it sounds is literally 100+ identical cell phone stores next to each other. Coffee street is up to like 20 coffee shops and still growing.
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This might just be a "city" thing, but its just an endless sea of shoe, clothes, and coffee shops. It is so loving boring in Seoul for someone who doesn't drink. Good thing I derive all my entertainment from my TV and internet connection anyways. This ties into the fact that 'we should go to some blah blah mall' when why would you ever bother? They're all exactly the same.
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A friend told me that small business loans are really, really easy to get in Korea and that "repayment" is a pretty nebulous concept. Someone with more info on the subject might be able to elaborate.Toussaint Louverture posted:2. Asia is the home of good tea, right? Not this Asia. Sorry bub. Surely you like the starchy taste of barley tea?? To contribute: 1) Have a school with 500+ kids? Why on earth would you need soap for people to use after they take a dump? 1a. Why on earth would you have a sick person stay at home to avoid further infection? 2) Cops? hahaha 3) My porn tubes  4) Kimchi is gross as gently caress. Kimchi is pretty bad. I'm getting used to kimchi. Hey, kimchi is growing on me. I can't live without kimchi. 5) Koreans play a weird form of basketball that involves zone defense only. Offense consists of driving, kicking it out, driving, kicking it out again, and then draining a bullshit 3 pointer. big boi fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Feb 7, 2013 |
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I have a theory that a lot of those pick up games have a secret agreement to limit the amount of cardio to be as low as possible via house rules. The three or four times I've been able to weasel into a pick up dodge-ball game have been life affirming. Seriously, try it. You will be a god of war. #x. Wanna leave your wallet on a table for a few hours unsupervised, full of money and credit cards? It'll be there when you get back, down to the last spec of dust. Wanna leave your phone, or hell even the charger, alone unsupervised for 20 seconds. Gone. #x+1. Kids are shockingly honest here. That's good and bad. It's like the vast majority haven't even discovered how to lie or steal. This also means: "Teacher fat?" or "Teacher pregnant?" #x+2. Think of any activity. Really, anything. Pick a verb. There's a "____ 방" for it in Seoul. Eifert Posting fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Feb 7, 2013 |
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joedevola posted:If you take it for a long time it can cause pretty bad stuff to happen to your central nervous system. It's cool, I just balance it out by chain smoking. There is good tea here, I'd even say amazing tea. I had it in Gyeongju during that culture whatever festival two summers ago (early fall?) I had a tea made from fresh lotus flowers that was incredible. I don't understand why that shits not everywhere. Gyeongju is incredible, it's like what people think Asia is like before they ever visit Asia.
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big boi posted:4) Kimchi is gross as gently caress. Kimchi is pretty bad. I'm getting used to kimchi. Hey, kimchi is growing on me. I can't live without kimchi. This exact thing happened to me. After that I realized how koreans go batshit insane over their addiction to Kimchi. I was first exposed at the age of 19, I can't imagine how the hunger grows if it was the first thing put into your mouth as a baby. 1) Oh, I can smoke inside this bar/restaurant/pcbang/stairwell? I have truely come to the promised land. 2) This pcbang has an instant messanger to the front desk. When I type Mountain Dew in there they bring it to me and put it on my tab. Guess Imma stay in this chair for the next 30 hours. 3) Those walnut cream filled pastry thingies that come out of the 1930's crispy cream conveyerbelt is in god's gift to my mouth. 4) HAHAHAHA, Koreans think they like spicy things. But they really don't. 5) (When I first arrived in Gunsan, Jeollabukdo) Holy poo poo all these high rises and neon filled skyscapes are amazing. This bus took me to the set of Bladerunner. (1 year later) Gunsan is middle of nowhere podunk country where the country goes to gently caress their sheep in a rice paddy. (Going back to the states) WHAT THE HELL I CAN SEE THE HORIZON
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KirbyKhan posted:
Switch Gunsan with Gumi and yup.
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Onion Knight posted:3. Need to take a taxi across the entire city? You might be expected to pay as much 20,000 won. That would be very low in most North American cities. I'm restricting myself to when I was fresh off the plane here, living in Jangan-gu, northern Suwon. The architecture up there was soul-draining, nothing but endless highrise apartments in all directions. It bothered me how thin they were, and back then the milk-crate-shaped roof was much more prominent.
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Toussaint Louverture posted:Everyone post something that loving blew your mind when you first came here, that might be vaguely useful at least. ATM machines are turned off at night. Why the gently caress do they do that? You can pay your bills at ATM machines. Why the gently caress don't we do that in America?
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Toussaint Louverture posted:Kids are shockingly honest here. That's good and bad. It's like the vast majority haven't even discovered how to lie or steal. No, they can steal. I can't even remember all the times someone got into a classroom during lunch and picked all the locks on the lockers and stole poo poo. They just really suck at getting away with it.
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I'm deskwarming and bored. Can somebody invite me back to the Kakao chat? LindseyF
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The noraebang competition that completely killed it at winter camp is bombing horribly today, and I don't have anything else to fall back on. Great way to go out on a high note!
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big boi posted:The noraebang competition that completely killed it at winter camp is bombing horribly today, and I don't have anything else to fall back on. Great way to go out on a high note! I just ran through a minimally modified version of the Apples to Apples powerpoint game that was recently posted on Waygook all week. Kids loved it.
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terivinix posted:That would be very low in most North American cities. Haha, brother believe me I know. $20 in Chicago might get you to the next neighborhood over. Maybe. The architecture was another mindblowing thing for me too. It doesn't seem like there are many building codes? First off, towns go straight up. Endless miles of rice fields then, BANG, a town of 100,000+ all within a few square km. Got a few stories on that building? Toss in some apartments, maybe a PC bang or two, definitely a few bars and restaurants, maybe a dental clinic and probably a norebang in the basement. Also the pretty bland, endlessly-repeated styles really serve to show off when an architect tries something new and interesting. Seoul has some really incredible buildings but the best is when you're like twenty kilometers outside Asan or something and there's this insane technofuture arcology lookin thing sitting in the middle of a small developing commercial district.
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http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/108903789288146/ Some guys in Gwangju have been collecting electronics donations, fixing them up, and are auctioning them off for a good cause.
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erobadapazzi posted:http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/108903789288146/ I know one of those guys. Weird.
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big boi posted:I know one of those guys. Weird. That was my exact reaction too. And I've never been to Gwangju, and he never comes to Seoul.
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Aaroneous, http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2013/02/06/2013020601054.html It's a follow-up to your subway grope story. Right now, Chosun Ilbo seems to be the only outlet caring about it and it's totally the soft news story of the week. I am a bit peeved that they refer to the US commander by just his normal name, not his rank though.
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Someone told me I should try cross posting here. I'm trying to get more kpop cds, the physical versions rather than downloads. Since some of your are in Korea, i would only have to really pay a bit extra for your trouble + shipping instead of super online premium and premium shipping. If anyone would be able to do this, hit me up here, or pm, or e-mail ohnoesitsmeh@hotmail.com I'd be more than appreciative. All shipping would be to USA, 44035.
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The only weird thing to me that still irks me is getting samgyupsal or chicken or any meat with bones still in it. Why would I pay for bones? Give me some tenders, ya mooks. I'll gladly pay another 500 won to cover the cost of some adjumma taking the bones out of my slop.
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1) I had thought of Koreans as Vulcans for the longest time. I was mistaken. A) I also heard a lot about well behaved, reserved, quiet, respectful students. 2) All the videos of housing on YouTube talked about strict recycling laws, I was excited for this and quickly disabused of that idea. 3) I still don't understand butchering here. It seems way less efficient /more wasteful than the French style. Shocking for a country with a history of famine.
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