http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/07/09/funny-photos/ Korea... in Blog Format Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:21:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/07/09/funny-photos/#comment-19904 jd Sun, 10 Jul 2005 07:17:38 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=1790#comment-19904 it's interesting how on the page with the actual pictures one of the comments is about the guys in the uniforms being fresh-out-of-school English teachers. i'm guessing that to mean fresh from university, not fresh from English class. my own experience is totally different. when i had just finished my undergrad degree, i was all about other people's cultures and being thoughtful. it was only after a few years of always hearing the phrase "cultural differences" just before bad new (we can fix your toilet, but not until next friday; do you really need a fridge?; don't worry, all laundry machines shoot water from the bottom; that student is older than you, that's why you're wrong) that i began to think things like, "hey, getting dressed up in another country's uniform like it's halloween IS funny." it’s interesting how on the page with the actual pictures one of the comments is about the guys in the uniforms being fresh-out-of-school English teachers. i’m guessing that to mean fresh from university, not fresh from English class. my own experience is totally different. when i had just finished my undergrad degree, i was all about other people’s cultures and being thoughtful. it was only after a few years of always hearing the phrase “cultural differences” just before bad new (we can fix your toilet, but not until next friday; do you really need a fridge?; don’t worry, all laundry machines shoot water from the bottom; that student is older than you, that’s why you’re wrong) that i began to think things like, “hey, getting dressed up in another country’s uniform like it’s halloween IS funny.”

]]> http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/07/09/funny-photos/#comment-19903 Jing Sat, 09 Jul 2005 22:54:11 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=1790#comment-19903 The uniforms are not PLA issue, those are tourists/teachers. The uniforms are not PLA issue, those are tourists/teachers.

]]> http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/07/09/funny-photos/#comment-19902 Luke Sat, 09 Jul 2005 13:53:00 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=1790#comment-19902 I get the first one, but what is going on in the second? I don't get what is funny. I get the first one, but what is going on in the second? I don’t get what is funny.

]]> http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/07/09/funny-photos/#comment-19901 R.elgin Sat, 09 Jul 2005 07:17:21 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=1790#comment-19901 The first one is so charming! I shook my head at that second one. It reminds me of those tourists in parts of China that can dress up in 1948-style PLA uniforms so as to take pictures, unless these are really caucasians serving in the PLA. The first one is so charming!
I shook my head at that second one. It reminds me of those tourists in parts of China that can dress up in 1948-style PLA uniforms so as to take pictures, unless these are really caucasians serving in the PLA.

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