Sales of US beef have begun, with one beef distributor in Siheung-dong selling his entire 200kg supply of poison US death meat unfit for even animal consumption in just six hours.
Most of it was purchased by ordinary consumers, although the biggest buyer was some church in Sinchon, which bought 35kg of killer meat for a church outing. Terrible, I know — they’d be safer sending missionaries to Afghanistan.
Prime Minister Han Seung-soo also bought 12kg of the stuff. No doubt to send in threatening packages to opposition head Sohn Hak-kyu. Or to turn over to Korea’s weapon development program.
The distributor president said US beef would be popular with Korean consumers, and that while there were some distributors hesitating to restart sales due to the candlelight protests, he decided to start right away. He said that while he’s gotten some protest phone calls (including threats to break his windows), he’s gotten many more calls from interested consumers looking to buy.
One wonders whether entertainer Kim Min-seon ordered any. The actress, who famously declared on her homepage that she’d rather take cyanide than eat American beef, was apparently undaunted when she woofed down a double burger set an LA “In-N-Out” in a cable program in March. Netizens, who have posted the scene, are getting on her case, although an official from her management company said the scene was shot in early January, and that Kim might have begun worrying about US beef after watching the April 29 episode of “PD Notebook.” In another story, her agency said she feels put upon because the incident took place before she made her cyanide statement.
(HT to reader. About the Kim Min-seon part, anyway)
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Now where can us humble Marmot readers pick up some suicide steaks? Ummmm, death meat…[slobbers, passes out]
Just as so many of us predicted. “I told you so” is such a perverse pleasure.
Guys, stop being so emotional about this. You’re starting to be just as pathetic as the candle-light vigilantees.
We definitely need some good US Beef for the Saturday [July 4] holiday.
Wedge,
I’d holding out for the stuff that hasn’t been in a refrigerator warehouse in Incheon so long that it’s 2 months away from going bad. I’m waiting for a fresh”-ish” boat load to come in, then it’s kalbi time. (I just hope it doesn’t get banned again in the interim.)
I am surprised anyone gives a shit about some hare-brained, hypocrite actress.
Hi Larious! Can’t wait for more of these pics to come out.
Where can I get the meat? Need meat.
I second Anton: 김민선 is ugly, and she is hardly more than a nonentity in the industry.
@3 Yeah…coming from a person with the tag Canadian Mad Cow…LOL ~^^
No, she is not ugly - she is, however, an idiot.
Many Koreans are realizing now that they were duped by leftist-dominated MBC and all the radical political groups that took this opportunity to spread misinformation and instigate anti-LMB/GNP protests/riots.
KBS is no exception - it is currently run by one of Roh’s crooks, and its reports on the riots were extremely biased.
Isn’t that the same beef that was in the warehouse BEFORE the protests started??? Nothing has changed with the meat, unless the fans in the meat closet sucked the mad cow diseased parts into a vortex and into interdimentional space…perhaps a variation on fan death???
As #1 and #8 ask, where’s the beef?
Where can we buy some? Info, please…
need us beef need us beef need us beef…
What’s happened to American English? An eater does not “woof down” a burger — she wolfs it down. A wolf, you might note, eats rather greedily.
It’s so hard to go on… Why can’t anybody spell anymore?
Awe, she feels “put upon” for getting busted eating an American hamburger.
Maybe she will think twice before making totally moronic public statements!!!
Not for these guys I suppose… Beef protests find peace in religion
I hear that beef makes a great humble pie.
Looks like Brenden is right. through google “wolf it down” returns 18,400 while “woof it down” only returns 1,840… I would have said “wuff it down” (2 results).
I tend to look at it like this: English has gone through many stages, Old English, Middle English etc… obviously there was a force changing it. This force was no commitie that oversaw it but rather popular ussage winning over less popular ussages, in other words a democracy. When you look at it this way, I ( and I suppose you coudl inclide Robert here) am not really spelling anything incorrectly, but just voting for third parties…..
who gives a rats ass
go enjoy a big juicy steak
If you want to see whether you’re likely to incur Brendon’s displeasure while posting on the Hole, you might like to take the BBC’s English test (from 2005) which has suddenly become viral again. I think it is American-proof, but let me know if it isn’t.
BBCtest
Result: 19/20 ‘Taciturn’ did me in.
I suppose that’s a good score - heck, in sports, that would be great. On the other hand, in brain surgery, that might be kind of bad. But still, I wonder if it’s really a fair estimator of ability. I mean, I’m from Seattle, and surprisingly, ‘taciturn’ is not really getting a lot of milage there.
Is ‘taciturn’ a word that Brits (and all their vassals) use with any regularity? You know, like
“Oh, hi! How are you?”
“Taciturn, actually. Thanks for asking.”
or
“Good evening, sir. Are you ready to order?”
“No, not just yet. I’m feeling a bit taciturn right now. Could you give me five minutes?”
That sort of thing. Is that getting a lot of usage in the Commonwealth of Nations these days?
19/20
Taciturn’s a word you would see in print all the time, though — usually to describe accountants, bond lawyers, and FBI agents.
If you really want to stay on my good side, spelling’s not enough. Learn to use HTML and close those tags!
Me too 19/20, ‘accommodation’ gets me every time, the rest of them were pretty damn easy.
It’s hilarious how quickly that US beef went. ‘Koreans Crazy about American Beef’ is a headline we might be seeing soon!
#24. Today’s word is “taciturn”. Yesterday’s word for the day was “Panopticon”
http://www.rjkoehler.com/2008/.....oligarchy/
The Marmot should be mandatory course material for all Korean ESL students!
Accountants, bond lawyers, and FBI agents: this is a group that doesn’t generate a whole lot of conversation in others, either. So I guess we’re all a bit taciturn.
Still, I can sort of understand why they’d be interested in in a word like ‘taciturn’. After all, it’s 60 percent longer than ‘quiet’, so it helps stretch out reports and any kind of billable work. Also, it sounds powerful and virtuous, like being quiet is really some sort of noble choice. “Tom? No, he’s not quiet, he’s taciturn. Whole different thing.”
How in the hell did I miss that hyphen? 19/20
“Sales of US beef have begun, with one beef distributor in Siheung-dong selling his entire 200kg supply of poison US death meat unfit for even animal consumption in just six hours.”
Is that right? Then how come MBC Newsdesk is reporting that US beef isn’t selling at all and that they’re going begging in vendor displays and in warehouses?
I’ve got some beef for 김민선…..
#29 Is that right? Then how come MBC Newsdesk is reporting that US beef isn’t selling at all and that they’re going begging in vendor displays and in warehouses?” Bastions of the truth, them….
If 29 is correct, I have no idea what to believe anymore.
What a lame excuse of hypocrite Kim Min-seon! Korea banned imports of U.S. beef years ago — although the Korean kow kerfluffle picked up following the false PD Diary report, as a Korean citizen, Miss Kim was already on notice that U.S. beef was “dangerous”. That cow must think everyone is as stupid as she is if she thinks we’ll buy that load of bull.
All that remains is for KMS to swallow her bottle of shyaniader, now that she has had her miguk beeper, live on MBC’s PD Diary.
Told you so.
Now suicide protesters have another tool at their disposal.
I hope none of you 19/20 crowd are English teachers.
95% isn’t that great if it’s the number of interceptions per pass attempts (which goes into calculating the passer rating). 95% puts you squarely in the Sage Rosenfels camp, not as bad as Gus Frerotte, 92.8%, but nowhere near Tom Brady, 98.6%.
Needless to say I got 20/20
Anyone for brain surgery? You might need it if you eat too much beef.
18/20 Dammit!!! I got my similes and metaphors confused…. guess I am a terrible teacher! I haven’t had to address those terms in about 20 years. Or maybe it’s all the booze and lack of intellectual stimulation that has addled my mind, at least until I found the Marmot’s hole.(…doesn’t that somehow sound perverse?, or at the very least,very, very sad?)
“Koreans in U.S. not scared of beef”:
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/
Brendon wrote:
Because teaching spelling, multiplication tables, or anything else that involves memorization is highly discouraged in US public schools.
@Eujin,
Thanks for the BBC English test link. I got 19/20, but that’s because one question isn’t American English-proof: the phrase “long lost” is not joined with a hyphen in the US.
Hey… I think I’ve been to that In-N-Out…
Is it just off the 5 freeway in La Mirada?
@#40
WangKon, we all know that you live in Southern California. No need to make a big deal out of it.
I’m not! I’m genuinely curious because I took some Korean tourists there because they saw it from off the freeway in their tour bus.
Well, but I’m not much for American football. You know what they say: ten seconds of action followed by two minutes of waiting. I never really could get into it.
I was thinking more of field-goal and free-throw shooting percentages in basketball, and on-base and slugging percentages in baseball. These stats are common to everyone on the field, not just one player on a team.
By the way, congrats on that surgical treatment for vCJD. I wasn’t aware that one existed.
@36 Someone getting 15/20 would probably be plenty sufficient to actually be an effective English teacher in most places here. The level isn’t too high here, Doc.
British English is much more elegant than the nasal American English accent. I’m not British, either. Just an admirer. 20/20.
hmmm i got 16/20
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