Open Thread #48

I missed last week’s Open Thread, so if you’ve had something bottled up for the last two weeks, now’s the time to get it off your chest.

PS: Thanks to Philip for the very nice write-up at London Korea Links.

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97 Comments

  1. Gravatar Benicio74 your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 2:17 pm | Permalink

    Can we have a candle light protest against Steve Schertzer?

  2. Gravatar Jing your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 2:46 pm | Permalink

    Just kind of curious, but is everyone else getting the same google ads? I’ve been seeing the same Korean International Dating advertisement for a while now and want to know if it is just me.

  3. Posted May 3, 2008 at 2:51 pm | Permalink

    I get the same dating ad.

  4. Gravatar dda your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 3:28 pm | Permalink

    Same here…

  5. Gravatar user-81 your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 3:37 pm | Permalink

    “Just kind of curious, but is everyone else getting the same google ads? I’ve been seeing the same Korean International Dating advertisement for a while now and want to know if it is just me.”

    That’s usually what I get too.

    But in the meltdown threads where people are calling each other “bitch”, I sometimes get the Gay Asians ad.

  6. Gravatar bumfromkorea your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 3:42 pm | Permalink

    @#5
    Lol really? Can we test that in this thread?

  7. Gravatar user-81 your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 3:47 pm | Permalink

    Yes, really. Go ahead and test, but I think certain personalities must be present.

  8. Gravatar seoulmilk your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 4:18 pm | Permalink

    How come every time I post a link, my comment never shows up?

  9. Gravatar seoulmilk your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 4:20 pm | Permalink

    Whew. Thank god for this guy. I thought i had a problem. My problem doesn’t look so bad now.

    msnbc.msn.com/id/24426097/

    Make sure to add http://www. in the front. I tried linking it with the full address but it won’t post (I’m assuming it’s going through spam filter).

  10. Posted May 3, 2008 at 4:41 pm | Permalink

    If you liked “stuff white people like” you might also enjoy the illustrated “stuff stick figure people like”

    http://stuffstickfigurepeoplelike.wordpress.com/

    made me laugh out loud.

  11. Gravatar John your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 6:09 pm | Permalink

    Let’s see now … two Korean dating ads, one gay ad, one study abroad ad in South Korea, one Korea Korean ad, and Oh Yes … the comments too!

  12. Gravatar bumfromkorea your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 6:50 pm | Permalink

    Rain vs. Colbert, Round 2. X-D

    http://www.comedycentral.com/c.....oId=166959

    I heard that the ‘dance-off’ is going to be held on May 6th.

  13. Gravatar bumfromkorea your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 6:52 pm | Permalink

    I have the same problem as seoulmilk.

  14. Gravatar globalvillageidiot your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 8:15 pm | Permalink

    “Can we have a candle light protest against Steve Schertzer?”

    That moron doesn’t deserve the attention. (Besides, he’s probably too busy lapping his employer’s nuts to notice.)

  15. Gravatar dokdoforever your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 10:02 pm | Permalink

    One of the ads that pops up when I view Marmot’s Hole is for a site that sells T-shirts targeted towards ex-pats, showing a guy with ‘ 외국인’written on his shirt, which has to be one of the lamest T-shirts ever - like why would even need to write it when everyone’s already staring at you. A couple of ideas for better T-shirts - definitely a “Fan Death” T shirt is needed - that would be cool. And for those who live in the district구 of 노원 (Nowon) in Seoul, how about a shirt that says “In Seoul, 노원 Cares About You.” Maybe Nowon district office should start a “Nowon Cares” campaign for its citizens, or at least a “I love Nowon” campaign. Someone should pitch the idea to the people there.

  16. Gravatar Benicio74 your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 10:08 pm | Permalink

    True!

    Raiders of the Lost Ark is on right now.
    Haven’t seen that one in years!

  17. Gravatar Benicio74 your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 10:23 pm | Permalink

    Authorities will not prosecute the one Chinese student they arrested for getting violent during the Olympic torch run

    http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/ww.....23548.html

    Because he showed “remorse”!

  18. Gravatar Sonagi your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 10:48 pm | Permalink

    @#15:

    Yes, I’m sure pressure from the Chinese government had nothing to do with the decision. The Korean government’s threat to hunt down and prosecute Chinese hooligans has made the mainstream media in China. A Chinese passport with the weight of the Chinese government behind it beats SOFA any day.

  19. Gravatar Benicio74 your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 11:36 pm | Permalink

    “and now for something completely different”

    Best laugh I’ve had in a while:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw

  20. Gravatar Ut videam your flag
    Posted May 3, 2008 at 11:44 pm | Permalink

    #15, 16 - I trust that tonight’s candlelight vigil at the Cheonggyecheon was to protest this gross injustice?

  21. Gravatar Benicio74 your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 12:27 am | Permalink

    And tomorrow night’s candle light vigil is for the most important issue of all:

    TITTIES & BEER!

  22. Gravatar pawikirogi your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 3:54 am | Permalink

    ‘Yes, I’m sure pressure from the Chinese government had nothing to do…’

    any proof? to me, this isn’t surprising but it’s got nothing to do with the chinese. you folks also whine koreans are too leninet to koreans for refusing to do justice the ‘western way’™.

  23. Gravatar stacked your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 4:08 am | Permalink

    How is punishment the western way?

    Pawi you are your retarded confucian thinkers need to die off already.

    You break the law you get punished. Otherwise whats the god damn point of having a legal system if all you need to do is apologize?

  24. Gravatar stacked your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 4:11 am | Permalink

    btw that second sentence should be

    Pawi you and your retarded confucian thinkers buddies need to die off already.

    Also I’d like to point out that I’m Korean.

    Fortunately for Korea you old fuckers will soon be gone.

  25. Gravatar user-81 your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 4:15 am | Permalink

    #16: “Yes, I’m sure pressure from the Chinese government had nothing to do with the decision. The Korean government’s threat to hunt down and prosecute Chinese hooligans has made the mainstream media in China. A Chinese passport with the weight of the Chinese government behind it beats SOFA any day.”

    Ten hours before Benicio74 put up the link, I already made the comment “repent and you shall be free.” Koreans and foreigners regularly receive leniency in Korean courts for admitting their crime and showing remorse.
    http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/.....ent-151652

    But this does not mean he’s off the hook. I think it only means he’s not in legal custody while he’s waiting for legal proceedings:

    The court said it decided against issuing the arrest warrant, as he was repentant over his misdeeds. In addition, his chances of fleeing the country or destroying evidence were slim as he lives in a campus dormitory.

    If he were off the hook, they wouldn’t be concerned about the possibility of him leaving the country or destroying evidence.

    Another thing, if he gets a slap on the wrist by the courts (which now sounds likely), is Immigration independently able to deport him?

  26. Gravatar stacked your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 4:21 am | Permalink

    A guy burns down a historic building, he gets probation?

    People steal and sell Korean technology worth billions (USD) to the Chinese and they let them go.

    What do you think will happen to this idiot when all he did was punch someone. I’m almost certain that guy warranted a beating anyways, although I’m in no way supporting the Chinese when I say that.

  27. Gravatar pawikirogi your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 4:27 am | Permalink

    yeah, and if we have it your way ie the american way, korea will have one of the largest prison populations on planet earth. perhaps korea and the states can compete with one another.

    the answer to korea’s lenient legal system isn’t to make it more like the states where you can get twenty years for a marijuana cigarrette. indeed, in some states, you can be senteneced to life for having just an ounce of marijuana. is that the kind of justice korea wants?

    korea would be less safe to have american style law since it produces so many hardened criminals by way of sending non violent offenders to the big house.

  28. Gravatar stacked your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 4:42 am | Permalink

    As oppose to letting criminals get away?

    I just read an article where a bunch of kids gang raped a girl and where some kids were systemically abusing younger kids. Whats the punishment? Nothing.

    Korea needs a fair but strict legal system but what we have now is a complete joke.

    If you want to commmit a crime you will have to pay the price. The only thing you are truly worried about is not being able to do whatever you want.

  29. Gravatar stacked your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 4:46 am | Permalink

    BTW Korea is already less safe because we have no real legal system.

    I’m almost certain you were raised on a farm in the middle of fucking nowhere. If you dont like the reality of freedom and capitalism then go somewhere else like Thailand.

    When people are free to do whatever and think whatever they want you need a legal system. This is what really scares you doesn’t it. Knowing that one day if this happens you become nothing and you lose your artifically inflated sense of importance because of Confucius.

  30. Gravatar pawikirogi your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 4:51 am | Permalink

    but china’s occupation of tibet is the real issue for the west, ain’t it?

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05.....ref=slogin

    favorite line:

    ‘we don’t target civilians. we regret the loss of innocent life.’

    well then, that makes it ok. you fire a precision rocket into a crowded neighborhood but you don’t mean to hit the innocents, right?

    we’ve just created yet more jihadis but damn those koreans for not sufficiently expressing the sentiments of western outrage about tibet!

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05.....ref=slogin

  31. Gravatar seoulmilk your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 5:31 am | Permalink

    The Korean justice system is lenient. Even the Korean people don’t respect the system. While Korea may have low violent crimes, illegal activities are widespread (sorry for stating the obvious). Anyway, showing no balls will only have a ripple affect of people 무시ing the justice system further. Don’t get me wrong, Korea is a great country, but the authorities? Not so great.

  32. Gravatar Sonagi your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 5:39 am | Permalink

    Fortunately for Korea you old fuckers will soon be gone.

    Dang, stacked, tell us how you really feel.

  33. Gravatar pawikirogi your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 6:00 am | Permalink

    stacked,

    goodbye.

  34. Gravatar stacked your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 6:21 am | Permalink

    Actually you are going, pawi.

  35. Gravatar stacked your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 6:27 am | Permalink

    @28, the authorities are uneducated rejects from farms.

    These confucius loving retards have all gravitated towards politcs because you really dont need to be educated or skilled at anything other than manipulation.

    So how is this country supposed to move forward when its government is composed of rejects that love this lifestyle given where they are?

    Frankly we need a very violent revolution or something. Democracy doesn’t work when all you have to choose from are idiots.

  36. Gravatar Maddlew your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 6:53 am | Permalink

    Wabbit season! Duck season! Entertaining as always.
    Speaking of entertainment, went and saw Ironman. Solid movie, really. Unlike a lot of critics I wasn’t bored with the non-action parts. Robert Downey can really deliver a line. I liked him a lot in Zodiac, too. He has cleaned up well and in fact looks pretty yoked. I think we’ll see more from him in the near future. And Jeff Bridges plays a great a-hole.

  37. Gravatar SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 8:30 am | Permalink

    Pawi and Stacked are each other’s evil twin.

  38. Posted May 4, 2008 at 9:31 am | Permalink

    “If you dont like the reality of freedom and capitalism then go somewhere else like Thailand.”

    What did the Thais do that makes you hate them so much? ;)

    Nobody deserves Pawi, do they?

  39. Gravatar dokdoforever your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 9:44 am | Permalink

    Stacked, beginning in the 1980s the US has created by far, the world’s worst prison system - more prisoners than China, about 1% of the entire US population, and no effect on the crime rate. And US prisons are a whole lot more dangerous, too, in terms of prisoner on prisoner assault, than in other countries, such as Korea. The US prison system is a model of what to avoid.

  40. Gravatar stacked your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 10:04 am | Permalink

    Who’s modelling it after the US system? It’s like I’m talking to retards.

    PUNISH CRIMINALS.

    Its that simple. Do legal systems outside the US not punish criminals? What the hell does the US have to do with this?

    According to a study I read the only thing that deters people from committing crimes is prison and its condition. If it’s likely you will die in prison or get seriously injured people do not commit crimes.

    That being said, being lenient doesn’t do shit for society. If someone rapes your daughter you want him free?

    You have no argument.

  41. Gravatar arthjm your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 10:05 am | Permalink

    Hey Sonagi, regarding your health comment from the other thread, does that mean you eat rice and beans raw?

  42. Gravatar Sonagi your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 10:11 am | Permalink

    No, that would be unsafe. Raw grains and beans have antinutrients that, as their name suggests, interfere with the absorbtion of vitamins and minerals. I understand that large amounts of raw grains or beans could even be toxic. I soak them for 12-24 hours to destroy some of the antinutrient properties, cook them thoroughly, which further destroys antinutrients, and then chill in the refrigerator to form resistant starch.

    Are you aware of the benefits of GABA sprouted brown rice? I don’t have one of those fancy pants rice cookers and haven’t had much success trying to sprout brown rice using very low heat.

  43. Gravatar stacked your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 10:24 am | Permalink

    Didn’t know Americans ate rice.

  44. Gravatar Sonagi your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 10:40 am | Permalink

    @Stacked:

    We don’t export all of what we grow. Rice is actually a staple in southern cooking.

    BTW, right now I’m squeezing little key limes to make a key lime mousse. Now when was the last time you folks in Korea saw a real key lime?

  45. Gravatar dokdoforever your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 10:42 am | Permalink

    The argument you are making is one about deterring crime through harsh prison sentences and conditions - which is exactly the approach adopted by the US (alone) during the last 25 years. And it’s led to: a surging prison population, little effect on crime, and dangerous conditions inside the prison. And the taxpayer pays to keep millions in jail, and out of the economy where they could be contributing labor. But this is the perverse approach you want the rest of the world to adopt - proven many times over to be a complete failure.

  46. Gravatar tbonetylr your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 2:56 pm | Permalink

    Another demonstration as S. Korea begins to import biotech corn for the 1st time since 2001. An adult student recently told me that the popcorn I was eating contained GMO’s. My local ‘Buy the Way’ sells it for 1.000 Won per big bag and it’s pretty damn good! I bet the student didn’t realize that “about 70 percent of S. Koreas soybean imports are genetically modified.” Those against it, say it’s “Monster Food”

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....otech_corn

  47. Gravatar aaronm your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 2:57 pm | Permalink

    If Stacked is indeed Korean he has now replaced I Hyo Ree’s minge, arse and titties as my favorite thing about that country.

  48. Gravatar Someguykorea your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 3:54 pm | Permalink

    #46,

    It’s food that needs fewer pesticides and fertilizer…Mmm, yeah, it’s evil if your country is a net exporter of these things.

  49. Gravatar pawikirogi your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 6:51 pm | Permalink

    ‘If Stacked is indeed Korean he has now replaced I Hyo Ree’s minge, arse and titties as my favorite thing about that country.’

    by ‘if’, do you mean you’re suspicious? the guy ain’t no korean.

    ‘Knowing that one day if this happens you become nothing and you lose your artifically inflated sense of importance because of Confucius.’ korean guy

    yeah, he’s korean. donald trump is korean too. and i don’t even know when confucius lived and don’t give no damn about him. ok?

  50. Gravatar dda your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 7:29 pm | Permalink

    Now when was the last time you folks in Korea saw a real key lime?

    Never saw any, either in Korea, or outside.

  51. Gravatar pawikirogi your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 8:22 pm | Permalink

    yet another recall on contaminated meat:

    http://ap.google.com/article/A.....AD90EJKH00

    ‘but the koreans this, the koreans that, this scare, that shit tossing, blah, blah, blah…’ the expat in unison

    ‘the point is, how can the richest country on earth see so many food scares?’ pawi

  52. Gravatar John from Daejeon your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 10:12 pm | Permalink

    High waves kill nine in S.Korea.

    http://afp.google.com/article/.....0JAvRZyUew

  53. Gravatar John from Daejeon your flag
    Posted May 4, 2008 at 10:13 pm | Permalink

    High waves kill nine in S.Korea according to the Associate Press.

    Can’t post a link as the comment then keeps getting zapped into oblivion.

  54. Gravatar stacked your flag
    Posted May 5, 2008 at 12:17 am | Permalink

    @49, hardly anyone in Korea knows regardless its irrelevant. I am Korean btw. Yes you do give a damn about Confucian mr. Pawi because without him you are nothing. Without him you are a reject unneeded by Korea.

    @45, first you need to put them in prison. WHen they aren’t even punished its a moot point to cry about harsh punishment.

    My god I dont even know what to say. Its a fucking retardfest.

  55. Gravatar baduk your flag
    Posted May 5, 2008 at 12:24 am | Permalink

    Fortunately for Korea you old fuckers will soon be gone.

    I think they will remain as breeders. With “real Koreans” (is there a such thing? Koreans=Chinese+Mongolians) disappearing quickly due to low birth rate, new blood will replace old Chosun blood.

    And, if old fuckers are gone, remaining stale fuckers will start a war. The Chinese and the Japanese (even Russians) love to see a war in the peninsula.

    And, I have been writing since 7 years ago, there is a war coming. The new Chino-Japan war. Korea and Koreans will get sucked into this conflict and forever disappear from the face of the earth.

    A people without homeland.

  56. Gravatar baduk your flag
    Posted May 5, 2008 at 12:37 am | Permalink

    I have heard that there are four times more more Irish living in America than in Ireland.

    This is the only future for Koreans. Massive exodus.

    Yes, Koreans should move to the US as the Irish have done.

    And, it will help America as well. New blood that is hard-working, Christian, and smart. Some are good-looking to boot.

    KoreanAmericans are the future for dying and sick world.

    KoreanAmericans for Obama!!!!

  57. Gravatar stacked your flag
    Posted May 5, 2008 at 12:42 am | Permalink

    good one, project your issues somewhere else. Or better yet right a book about it.

  58. Gravatar stacked your flag
    Posted May 5, 2008 at 12:48 am | Permalink

    Btw I’m not an American citizen nor a Korean-American. So feel free to snap back into reality once you realize its a Korean saying all this.

    IMO, most of the old fuckers i’m talking about never reproduced in the first place.

  59. Gravatar stacked your flag
    Posted May 5, 2008 at 12:59 am | Permalink

    Its funny how rejects no matter what race stick together.

    I read that somewhere around 40% of men will never reproduce, I’m guessing you and pawi fall in that category.

  60. Gravatar dogbert your flag
    Posted May 5, 2008 at 1:47 am | Permalink

    If that’s the future of the world, better to let it sicken and die.

  61. Gravatar dogbert your flag
    Posted May 5, 2008 at 1:48 am | Permalink

    Didn’t know Americans ate rice.

    Pawi, that is something that could only come out of a Korean’s mouth. You know it.

  62. Gravatar arthjm your flag
    Posted May 5, 2008 at 4:16 pm | Permalink

    #42, Yeah, but I too haven’t picked up one of those pricey rice cookers yet, and haven’t been to keen about putting effort into something whose benefits I might not notice (ie. multivitamins, omega 3’s from fish heads and shellfish…ugh).

    Anyway, this resistant starch was new to me, thanks for the info. I can’t recall your opinion on this but…cow milk, good or no?

  63. Gravatar Sonagi your flag
    Posted May 5, 2008 at 6:52 pm | Permalink

    @arthjm:

    I’m not a fan of supplements. I stick to a daily multivitamin and a tablespoon of cod liver in the winter for vitamin D. I don’t think shellfish has much omega 3 content, which is mainly found in cold-water fish like salmon and sardines. It keeps their blood from freezing. Warm water fish don’t need it.

    I quit drinking milk three years ago and quit eating milk’s best friend, cold cereal, most of which is junk food jacked up with vitamins. Milk is hyperinsulimic, meaning that it causes your body to produce higher than expected levels of insulin at the meal consumed and the following meal. This is unhealthy for people at risk of type II diabetes, which runs in my father’s side of the family. Milk’s vitamin D is not natural like that of cod liver oil, but an added synthetic. Vitamin D naturally produced in the body with the aid of sunlight is far, far superior. As I mentioned, I supplement with cod liver for vitamin D in the winter when there are few or no UVB rays to stimulate vitamin D production.

    The other reason why I skip milk and juice is that caloric drinks don’t trigger a sense of satiety like foods, so people who get a lot of calories from drinks tend to eat more. I get my calories from nutritious, filling food and drink water, tea, and the occasional cup of coffee.

  64. Gravatar Sonagi your flag
    Posted May 5, 2008 at 7:24 pm | Permalink

    BTW, arthjm, if you’re interested in science, you might check out Science Daily. It’s the best comprehensive science news website and a daily staple for me. I learn something new every day through reading the stories there.

  65. Gravatar user-81 your flag
    Posted May 6, 2008 at 3:05 am | Permalink

    “Wall of Jews” versus the Great Wall:

    A wide-ranging group of U.S. Jewish leaders plans to release a statement Wednesday (April 30) urging Jews worldwide to boycott the Summer Olympics in Beijing, citing China’s troubling record on human rights and Tibet.

    The statement also notes China’s close relationships with Iran, Syria and the militant group Hamas.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/s.....amp;page=1

  66. Gravatar baduk your flag
    Posted May 6, 2008 at 9:36 am | Permalink

    user-81,

    The Bible says the Chinese and the Russians will attack the Jews at Armagedon and the Jews will win.

    That is near the end time when my Lord,Jesus, will return. I believe the Bible.

    Those who have ears to hear, let them hear.

  67. Gravatar JK your flag
    Posted May 6, 2008 at 11:49 am | Permalink

    “BTW, arthjm, if you’re interested in science, you might check out Science Daily. It’s the best comprehensive science news website and a daily staple for me. I learn something new every day through reading the stories there.”

    Yeah, Songai, but you’re the person who so easily attributes acupuncture and its effects totally to a placebo, so I don’t know how much credibility you have in terms of what is happening in our physical world. I’ll be sure to tell my (white) American colleague that her cat, who once was successfully treated with acupuncture, didn’t really get healed but really had it all in its head.

  68. Gravatar JK your flag
    Posted May 6, 2008 at 11:51 am | Permalink

    “BTW, arthjm, if you’re interested in science, you might check out Science Daily. It’s the best comprehensive science news website and a daily staple for me. I learn something new every day through reading the stories there.”

    Yeah, Songai, but you’re the person who so easily attributes acupuncture and its effects totally to a placebo, so I don’t know how much credibility you have in terms of what is happening in our physical world. I’ll be sure to tell my (white) American colleague that her cat, who once was successfully treated with acupuncture, didn’t really get healed but really had it all in its head.

  69. Gravatar dogbert your flag
    Posted May 6, 2008 at 12:14 pm | Permalink

    LOL … now I’ve heard everything.

    You really take the cake, JK.

  70. Gravatar user-81 your flag
    Posted May 6, 2008 at 1:14 pm | Permalink

    Apparent Islamic symbols in Flight 93 memorial are getting some people angry:

    http://www.iht.com/articles/20.....shrine.php

  71. Gravatar JK your flag
    Posted May 6, 2008 at 1:43 pm | Permalink

    And the racist (in 69 and 61) speaks up again….making all white expats in Korea look bad.

  72. Posted May 6, 2008 at 1:44 pm | Permalink

    “They told me nothing
    Nothing but lies!
    Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
    Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
    Fuck me! Fuck me!
    Fuck you! Fuck you!
    Fuck everyone! Fuck the church!
    Fuck Jesus! Fuck Mary!
    Fuck the Jews! Fuck the Bhuddists!
    Fuck the Hindus! Fuck George Bush!
    Fuck his ugly wife! Fuck Tipper Gore!
    Fuck everyone! Fuck Gorbachev!
    Fuck Noriega! Fuck all these assholes!
    Fuck you! Fuck me! Fuck all of you!
    Stigmata! Stigmata! Stigmata! Stigmata!
    They told me nothing but lies!
    Lies! Lies! Lies! Lies!”

    Little 1990 flashback there set off by…well…things.

  73. Gravatar dogbert your flag
    Posted May 7, 2008 at 6:21 am | Permalink

    @71: I’m neither a racist nor expat, dillhole.

    Now, tell us more about these mystical TCM veterinarians and the subtleties of the feline qi meridian.

  74. Gravatar Sonagi your flag
    Posted May 7, 2008 at 8:09 am | Permalink

    Yeah, Songai, but you’re the person who so easily attributes acupuncture and its effects totally to a placebo, so I don’t know how much credibility you have in terms of what is happening in our physical world

    ??? I don’t recall posting about acupuncture on this blog or dismissing the effects of acupuncture as a placebo anywhere on the internet. Please refresh my memory with a link, thanks.

  75. Gravatar pawikirogi your flag
    Posted May 7, 2008 at 5:15 pm | Permalink

    wangkon, this ain’t your blog; you got no business deleting my posts, ok? i think marm alrady talked about that.

    if marmot starts allowing his guest bloggers to delete posts, then, he loses his editorial control.

    this not your blog, wangkon.

  76. Gravatar dogbert your flag
    Posted May 7, 2008 at 10:41 pm | Permalink

    Take away the “g” and you’ve got “Wank on”!”

  77. Gravatar Sonagi your flag
    Posted May 8, 2008 at 7:23 am | Permalink

    Hey, JK, still waiting for that link.

  78. Posted May 8, 2008 at 7:25 am | Permalink

    # 75,

    Calm down… What the heck are you talking about? I didn’t delete any of your posts.

  79. Posted May 8, 2008 at 9:30 am | Permalink

    Interesting…

    Did anyone else realize that certain Koreans are transalating our posts and comments and putting it up online?

    Examples:

    http://board.pullbbang.com/lis.....amp;page=1

    http://gall.dcinside.com/list......mp;page=10

    http://enjoyjapan.naver.com/tb.....ge=3520875

  80. Gravatar Zonath your flag
    Posted May 8, 2008 at 9:41 am | Permalink

    #79 - Yep. I’ve also seen certain threads translated and posted into both Chinese and Japanese on a couple of different forums. Nice to know that someone cares. ;)

  81. Gravatar user-81 your flag
    Posted May 8, 2008 at 9:58 am | Permalink

    “Did anyone else realize that certain Koreans are transalating our posts and comments and putting it up online?”

    The way they arrange the threads, it’s much easier to follow. :)

  82. Gravatar Railwaycharm your flag
    Posted May 8, 2008 at 2:20 pm | Permalink

    #27 if you don’t like the U.S. laws, get the fuck out you wanker.

  83. Gravatar Soo-Young Chin your flag
    Posted May 8, 2008 at 10:17 pm | Permalink

    Hi,

    I am doing a bit of corporate research in Korea between May 11 and May 15 with a team from England and I’m looking for an single American expat, age 25-35, who watches TV (cable or whatever). We would like to come to your home, preferably on Sunday the 11th, and interview you for 2-3 hours. There is a small $250 honorarium for this. Please contact me at sychin@verizon.net. Thanks you for for response.

  84. Gravatar sychin your flag
    Posted May 9, 2008 at 12:23 am | Permalink

    So, I’m new to this blog and hope I can post here for assistance. I’m doing research in Seoul from May 11-May 15 with associates from London and am looking for a single American expat (25-35) to interview in-home about TV viewing habits. Any takers? There is a small $250 honorarium involved. Please email me at sychin@verizon.net.

    Much thanks.

  85. Posted May 9, 2008 at 8:31 am | Permalink

    The Korea Herald makes baseless links between English teachers and the 21 American Pedophiles turned away at Korean Immigration on Thursday.

    Why are they bringing English teachers into this? Garbage. Just friggin garbage.

    I’m pissed.

    http://roboseyo.blogspot.com/2.....bring.html

  86. Gravatar swlee your flag
    Posted May 10, 2008 at 3:09 am | Permalink

    Hi,

    I am also doing a bit of corporate research in Korea between May 24 and May 35 with a team from England and I’m looking for an single American expat, age 25-35, who watches TV (cable or whatever), uses the internet, has little social interactivity with the local community, prefers to dress in outdated cultural costume, retains most cultural predudices from indegenous culture, and prefers to copulate with broad faced, broad hipped females with small bust lines. We would like to cum on your home, on the 1ist, but preferably on you and your wife for 2-3 hours.
    Our company practices safe sexual practices, our researchers use propylaptics and are tested for all known STDs monthly. Our corporate culture abides by our belief that love is a beustiful thing, some thing to be share amongst all ages, as long as the little girl is enroled in school.
    We aim to endeavor to ensure that no more
    dissocciated white male expats living post-colonial white monkey roles in post-colonial foreign cultured nations should have to miss out of the lastest episodes of CSI 9 Vegas, Discovery Crab Hunting Off The North-Western Coasts Series 6, or state subsidised productions of BBC drama productions marketed overseas for global cultural imperialist purposes.
    There is a small $25 honorarium for this. Please contact me at sukmykunt@verizon.net. Thanks you for for response.
    Our company is really good, and don’t just send shit out to any old prick on the Internet. Our complex research methods ensure we get good results from our random internet survey efforts. Our share holders know what a good job we do making up the shit we feed them. I’m still paid.

  87. Gravatar dogbert your flag
    Posted May 10, 2008 at 3:14 am | Permalink

    You are one toxic kyopo.

  88. Gravatar swlee your flag
    Posted May 10, 2008 at 3:45 am | Permalink

    Was that aimed at myself Dogbert?
    I studied in Germany for 3 year and do not identify as kyopo. Im not sure if you are being critical or supportive. I just believe the post deserved a satirical re-take.

  89. Gravatar dogbert your flag
    Posted May 10, 2008 at 3:55 am | Permalink

    Very supportive.

    Why only 3 years?

  90. Gravatar Sonagi your flag
    Posted May 10, 2008 at 6:00 am | Permalink

    and prefers to copulate with broad faced, broad hipped females with small bust lines.

    Sounds like a biracial woman who got the worst genes from both sides.

  91. Gravatar Netizen Kim your flag
    Posted May 10, 2008 at 6:08 am | Permalink

    We aim to endeavor to ensure that no more
    dissocciated white male expats living post-colonial white monkey roles in post-colonial foreign cultured nations should have to miss out of the lastest episodes of CSI 9 Vegas, Discovery Crab Hunting Off The North-Western Coasts Series 6, or state subsidised productions of BBC drama productions marketed overseas for global cultural imperialist purposes.

    You left out Survivorman, Man vs Wild, and the Military Channel.

  92. Gravatar Maddlew your flag
    Posted May 10, 2008 at 6:29 am | Permalink

    Roboseyo, perhaps you should try to repost that on the new open thread. I think this is something that the Marmot might want to pick up on.
    I mean it sounds like a joke, doesn’t it. So, 21 American pedophiles were walking through customs at Incheon Airpost when…
    Sorry, the link didn’t really link me to it. I’m not a subscriber. It begs alot of questions, however. How did they know they were all pedophiles? Were they all carrying DVD’s with their accomplishments documented? Doesn’t someone have to go to trial and become convicted before the label is put in place? Don’t these trials take awhile, close to a year, to even get going? It also would bring up again, the question of slander and defamation of character which isn’t really a law here unless it interferes with a persons ability to do business. Then, of course, it has nothing to do with veracity at all apparently. I’d like to know more about this, personally.

  93. Gravatar stacked your flag
    Posted May 10, 2008 at 6:31 am | Permalink

    dogbert is racist.

  94. Gravatar Maddlew your flag
    Posted May 10, 2008 at 7:03 am | Permalink

    Okay, I get it now, sort of. I read what you posted further down. It does sound as if the whole group was busted coming in together as a group. Some kind of Association of Men Who Enjoy Sex with Children tour group. Or, as with the beef, there were 600 boxes of potential teachers coming in but in the first box alone they found over twenty pedophiles and so decided to turn back all 600 boxes.

  95. Gravatar user-81 your flag
    Posted May 10, 2008 at 7:14 am | Permalink

    “It does sound as if the whole group was busted coming in together as a group. Some kind of Association of Men Who Enjoy Sex with Children tour group.”

    No, it sounds like the MOJ took a list of convicted pedophiles now in the U.S. and put them into a computer so that when and if they ever land at Incheon or some other port they won’t be allowed in.

    The KH article is unclearly written and easily misunderstood, just like the one on the Chinese protester whose arrest warrant was turned down. That didn’t mean he wasn’t going before the court later on, just that he wouldn’t be in custody until the hearings.

    Korea Thursday banned the entry of over 20 Americans convicted of sex crimes against minors as part of global efforts to crack down on pedophiles, the Ministry of Justice was quoted as saying by Yonhap News Agency.

  96. Gravatar dogbert your flag
    Posted May 10, 2008 at 7:34 am | Permalink

    @93: I guess the things I say frighten some kyopos.

    Jesus cries when kyopos embrace identity politics.

  97. Gravatar Maddlew your flag
    Posted May 10, 2008 at 8:00 am | Permalink

    No, it actually sounds like they were all busted coming in on Thursday. I’m not ragging on the policy I’m ragging on the reporting.

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