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Grand Fromage posted:There was a great doc where I lived in Korea, he went to med school in the US and spoke perfectly native fluent English so he was popular among the expats. He'd tell us about the differences and how he had to give Korean patients a bunch of placebos. For example, if you go to the doctor in Korea there's a 90% chance you're going to get a shot in the rear end. The shot is just some vitamins and saline there's no actual medicine in it, but Koreans expect a shot so they have to give one. lol
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Grand Fromage posted:Other fun thing is to ask a Korean child to do an impression of their dad. Cue room of ten year olds doing their best stumble around drunk and vomiting impression. lol
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I had a Korean professor in college for an elective and all I really remember is that he was a man virulently lacking in self assurance, in the most embarrassingly aggressive way.
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Sheep-Goats posted:I had a Korean professor in college for an elective and all I really remember is that he was a man virulently lacking in self assurance, in the most embarrassingly aggressive way. Sounds like a true Korean.
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Sheep-Goats posted:An anesthesiologist is seen as a Real Doctor's bitchboy in Korea, therefore no one wants to be one, therefore they are chronically short of them and the ones they do have often make double what the surgeon makes. Because you want to be a Strong Man Doctor, not someone who assists. There was a story posted here about a Korean man who made a fortune as a beef baron or something, but people still looked down on him because he didn't have a fancy office job or something. Sheep-Goats posted:I had a Korean professor in college for an elective and all I really remember is that he was a man virulently lacking in self assurance, in the most embarrassingly aggressive way. I had a Korean professor who had moved to the States about fifteen years ago (in his late twenties). He was Americanized as gently caress. It's even more amazing now that I've had some time to live outside of the USA and see how different East Asian attitudes tend to be.
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was it blistex who had the story about being in korea and they would constantly try to embarass him by saying "korea has more x than canada does" until they made the fatal mistake of trying to measure dicks via number of lakes in the country (canada has so many lakes that most of them have no names)
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I think the story went that when his associate asked him how many lakes Canada had, he yelled out "SIX" (or somesuch, I'm not a local), which was clearly the number of great lakes visible on a map. Thereby turning the game on its head and getting a good laugh in front of everyone watching. iirc.
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Fojar38 posted:was it blistex who had the story about being in korea and they would constantly try to embarass him by saying "korea has more x than canada does" until they made the fatal mistake of trying to measure dicks via number of lakes in the country There was also this with an english dude where the korean counterpart asked him if they had trains and he dryly said that they invented them.
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Serephina posted:I think the story went that when his associate asked him how many lakes Canada had, he yelled out "SIX" (or somesuch, I'm not a local), which was clearly the number of great lakes visible on a map. Thereby turning the game on its head and getting a good laugh in front of everyone watching. iirc. The way I remember it was, the co worker kept doing a numbers game about how korea had more X than canada. The whole office knew this game, and when they over heard this guy go "only six lakes" They knew canada had more they were waiting for him to finally lose. But the op just went with it and said "SIX KOREA WINS AGAIN" and the office lost it.
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Monday night: Boss invites me for celebratory dinner at her house because her daughter finished her exams (middle school) and her Spring Festival vacation begins. I arrive a little late and she asks me to finish everything on the table (a LOT of food, and about 9 different dishes and two kinds of rice plus fried rice). I comply. I eat it all and then can barely move from the couch while her daughter watches a Harry Potter movie that boss downloaded. It was pretty good. I don't understand why Gandalf and Golem were in it, but Order the Phoenix was enjoyable despite not know poo poo about HP. Tuesday (all day): Continuously and unexpectedly shart my pants throughout the day, whether sitting or standing. Hot squeekers threaten my every step, and it's hell. I don't get much work done and it doesn't matter to me at that point. Some neurotic woman that lives on my street has been pestering me to meet her and so I say yes, come to my room tonight. I thought she'd come at 10pm. She shows up at almost 1am, and I just want to sleep. She's been talking a big game about wanting to XYZ and I told her no, just a meet and greet. She's saying she's going to come over soon, and I'm in my bathroom with the incense going and feeling the burn. She comes over and she's like "You can't look at me with the lights on, I am too shy." I sit next to her on my sofa and she actually jumps to the other side of it and crushes my bulk bag of biscuits that I bring to work. I go sit on my bed and she gets up and walks to my bed, does a spin, and goes back to the couch. I have a feeling something is going to go wrong tonight. Eventually she goes to my bed and wants to hug, and I'm already falling asleep and I want her to go home. She says she wants to kiss me, so I lean in and she two-handed shoved my head backwards. I stare at her like she's retarded. I try again and this time she covers my eyes for a moment, and then shoves my head again. I roll over and feel my stomach going again, so I pretend to be angry and go to my bathroom and try to silently relieve myself. I come out and she said again she wants to kiss me. She again shoves my face and says "NO," while trying to roll in circles and slapping my hands away. I have no idea what is going on, but I feel like I am being trolled. When she slaps my hands, I push her hands away and roll over with my back to her. She immediately jumps up in the dark and, not knowing my room layout, smacks her shin and toe on my dresser. She's now hopping around on one foot crying (!!) and grabbing her stuff like I've just insulted her so deeply. She runs out of apartment at full-speed in her flip-flops, clomping down the hall at nearly 2am, probably walking some people up. I quietly close my door and let out the loudest, reverberest fart of the day and immediately being laughing and laughing, and happy that I didn't poop in my underwear. She messaged me 10 minutes later saying all she wanted to do was kiss me and I was so rude to her and couldn't let that happen. She had to be trolling me, or insane, or both, so I Chinese'd it and told her she hurt my feelings so deeply and I am sooooo upset and can't bear to ever meet her again. She was shocked. I fell asleep.
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Haier posted:Tuesday (all day): Continuously and unexpectedly shart my pants throughout the day, whether sitting or standing. Have you seen a doctor? Serious question. This is not normal. I've eaten Chinese almost exclusively for two and a half years and this has happened (stomach boiling but without the pants sharting) twice at most but you seem to have it really frequently.
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Haier probably has Crohn's but I enjoy him complaining about his shits. The only time I got really sick eating in Asia was going for the pig intestine in a restaurant because I wanted to feel adventurous. And eating too many wings to drown my sorrows after the Trump win.
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Maybe it's because of all that oily poo poo he ate on monday?
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Why do these girls always come over so late? Is that a PUA strategy Chinese women like to use?
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nickmeister posted:Why do these girls always come over so late? Is that a PUA strategy Chinese women like to use?
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Waiting for their parents to fall asleep?
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nickmeister posted:There was a story posted here about a Korean man who made a fortune as a beef baron or something, but people still looked down on him because he didn't have a fancy office job or something. I love that story. Dude was a butcher that ended up buying a crap ton of land and making a ton of money for his family but his parents in law still looked down on him since they couldn't brag about his job. (And had to eat face when they had to ask the beef baron to borrow money).
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Atlas Hugged posted:Waiting for their parents to fall asleep? Making sure their kid is asleep
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I can't even parse that last one. So she wanted to kiss but had no idea how it was done? Or was physically incapable of doing so?
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Outrail posted:I can't even parse that last one. So she wanted to kiss but had no idea how it was done? Or was physically incapable of doing so? Playing hard to get but not sure how.
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Dicky mouse posted:The way I remember it was, the co worker kept doing a numbers game about how korea had more X than canada. Pretty close. He was doing that exact number game for about a month, and once day before I was finished my class he was looking at an atlas and picked some really, really general map of North and South America and they only bothered to draw in the 5 great lakes. The muttered to himself, "only 5 lakes" and the rest of the office just about lost it, but everyone kept quiet and waited for me to return and announce that Canada has many, many more lakes than Korea. When I came back the teacher asked me how many lakes Canada had and is blurted out, "five, Korea wins again" and the office lost it. nickmeister posted:There was a story posted here about a Korean man who made a fortune as a beef baron or something, but people still looked down on him because he didn't have a fancy office job or something. Originally he became a butcher and opened up a shop then moved to one of the few jobs lower on the totem pole, a farmer. Here is the original post with all of the pictures. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3693893&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=447#post453671225
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Grand Fromage posted:Have you seen a doctor? Serious question. This is not normal. I've eaten Chinese almost exclusively for two and a half years and this has happened (stomach boiling but without the pants sharting) twice at most but you seem to have it really frequently. I know especially after he's eating all those loving 黑木耳 every day absorbing all the heavy metals and poo poo
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Haier posted:I roll over and feel my stomach going again, so I pretend to be angry and go to my bathroom and try to silently relieve myself. lol at this though, never change haier
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Haier posted:She runs out of apartment at full-speed in her flip-flops, clomping down the hall at nearly 2am, probably walking some people up. I quietly close my door and let out the loudest, reverberest fart of the day and immediately being laughing and laughing, and happy that I didn't poop in my underwear. I wonder what kind of stories your neighbors tell about the laowai next door who has different girls flying out of his apartment every night followed by a visibly noxious stinkcloud
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I think I figured it out. China is totally normal, but Haier is some kind of idiot savant magnet of bug gently caress crazy women and it's only via economy of scale and China's massive population that he hasn't Haier if you lived in Andorra or New Zealand you'd have gone through the weirdos in a few days and be happily married with a normal girl by now.
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WUHAN, CHINA:  CHONGQING, CHINA: 
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Accretionist posted:WUHAN, CHINA: nice i love shadowrun
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Jeoh posted:nice i love shadowrun China and Russia are really challenging Japan for 'Most Cyberpunk Cities.' Serious face-loss for USA that can't step up!
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Invisible Handjob posted:I wonder what kind of stories your neighbors tell about the laowai next door who has different girls flying out of his apartment every night followed by a visibly noxious stinkcloud Nah, they're just wondering why the girls leave and then immediately afterwards there's this sound like somebody's drilling a hole in the wall and everything shakes for a second.
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Wuhan is great. I love the highway from the suburbs that is blockaded on both sides by massive walls and elevation as you drive through crippling poverty slums before being spay out near the gorgeous river front development they built. Also rou gan mien is so loving delicious and the fact its not in the rest of China is proof that China can never be a super power.
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JaucheCharly posted:There was also this with an english dude where the korean counterpart asked him if they had trains and he dryly said that they invented them. hahaha, is it really like this in Korea? I mean I hear this sort of stuff a lot from Chinese people. In Korea they say they invented everything, no matter where it came from, but especially if it's from China. I don't know many Koreans and have never visited Korea so I always assumed they were stereotyping but drat does this sort of story get brought up a lot, especially from Chinese friends
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Invisible Handjob posted:hahaha, is it really like this in Korea? 100% yes, plus they are adamant about being the only country with four seasons Mameluke posted:As part of the Sinosphere, Korea has its own fiveheads this is what happens when you hold in your thoughts
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/\ I've literally never seen women with foreheads like that in 2+ years in Korea and 1+ year in China. I guess they stick mainly to social media.JaucheCharly posted:There was also this with an english dude where the korean counterpart asked him if they had trains and he dryly said that they invented them. That was my English lawyer friend who has the father in law who was a butcher/farmer. He showed up to the high school 6 months after I was already there. A few of the male Korean teachers were really insecure around him because he was an actual lawyer, had already been in Korea for a year and a half, and the kids liked him. So there were 3 or 4 teachers who were always trying to snipe at him any way.  "I have a car, what do you drive?" (thinking he didn't have a vehicle at all)  "I have a new SsangYong Musso SUV" (korean face loss at having a older and cheaper car) "What kind of apartment do you live in?" (thinking he lived in a school-assigned 1 bedroom apartment) "I have a 2 bedroom unit in this new building" (more face loss at living in an older and smaller apartment)I think this was one of the reasons why the teacher in charge of foreign teachers was so adamant about finding out what university he was going to teach at after his contract was over and band-mouth him before he arrived.
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Blistex posted:/\ I've literally never seen women with foreheads like that in 2+ years in Korea and 1+ year in China. I guess they stick mainly to social media. ...or they wear hats.
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Blistex posted:/\ I've literally never seen women with foreheads like that in 2+ years in Korea and 1+ year in China. I guess they stick mainly to social media.
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