The sign’s translation might be slightly more polite than the one given, but it’s still rather cute, at least in its context.
‘This Ain’t Free’
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How do you get from that to, “This shit ain’t free, Korean motherfuckers”?? This is worse than the electrical vaginal stimulator I saw translated as “electro-cunt stimulation device”
Couldn’t the reason that it’s in Korean be that a lot of the times the Koreans have side dish refill and stuff in a corner of a restaurant and that it’s free to refill and not because the Koreans steal or that the ajummas are difficult? Simple explanation that offends no-one. Don’t read too much into it.
I’d say if the obasan hasn’t said, “Yes, [Korean customers] are a little difficult, aren’t they?”, I’d say you had a point.
i think they are difficult, i agree with the obachans, but i guess they were answering a separate question?
ajummas are difficult but not difficult as in “stealing” food and not paying difficult, when they know they should, in this case, no?
Boooo. Stirring up shit needlessly.
For the record: I love ajummas.
Me too, Linkd. I love ‘em in the ass. Where do you love ‘em.
*QUESTION MARK!*
I love ‘em far away from me.
does this include your 와이프, Brendon?
Her number’s up the day she comes home with that tight ajumma perm and the MC Hammer pants. Alas, we already have a visor.
I was surprised when my GF took soap to the bath house. I asked why she was taking it when there is soap in there.
She said there’s no soap in the women’s side because the ajummas would just steal it. I asked “really?”
Ajummas are known as “frugal” creatures who are always on the lookout for something free. I guess they are also known for trying to get things free when they are not.
Not surprised at all by this sign!
My girl knows the minute she gets the high & tight perm is the minute she suddenly becomes single!
Out of curiosity, I Googled images of ‘ajumma’. The first three results are:
a cartoon
a hottie
and the real deal – could be Carr’s mother-in-law
I don’t remember the posting – perhaps someone with energy and savy can dig it up – but I remember that there was a problem in Tsushima with the Adjumas taking food without paying for it…….
of course it could be a case of tit-for-tat. Steal our island and we steal your food….
I suppose no-one has ever seen women-of-a-certain-age in the West stuff sugar sachets into their purses?
Not going to claim that – but I haven’t seen many stuff the sugar container in their purses.
I remember my first posting as a guest-blogger on “the Hole” – it was about a similar subject…..
http://www.rjkoehler.com/2004/11/12/frugalism-of-the-jet-set/
Cheap Japanese bastards. No 아쭈마 would make them pay for 반잔 in Korea…
Re:10 Brendan Carr made we laugh so hard I almost spit my coffee on the keyboard!
My mother and all of my aunts except for one are the opposite of the stereotypical ajumma. Although, my mother did wear those ajumma/MC Hammer pants with floral design at home on occasion. Otherwise, my mom was far too pretty for the group. My aunts are the same. They’re way too classy and debonaire.
It’s only until I started learning more about Korea and the legendary ajumma did I begin to appreciate my own family.
Ajumma + backpack + ziplock bags + wedding buffet = no food for the other guests
Just like my grandma (she’s American)- packing up the ziplock bags before everyone else is even finished eating!
You should see her kitchen drawers full of sauce packets and plastic utensils she has “liberated” from restaurants!
Instead of ordering lemonade, which she can easily afford, she once ordered water and several free lemon slices and made her own lemonade right in front of the waitress.
It was pretty embarassing!
I have no idea what an obasan is like, but an ajuma would kick her ass in no time flat.
red sparrow
My aunt did that! And at my wedding of all places. But don’t you mean black plastic bags?
At a small company picnic on base one day, we saw the ajummas who cut the grass off in the corner looking hungry. One of the Army civilians went over and invited the small group of 4 to come over and have some food since we had more than enough.
The ajummas practically wiped out the food on the picnic table. The burgers and dogs instantly disappeared and one of them even made off with an entire vegetable tray. They even grabbed the entire bags of plastic utensils. They took the paper plates out of the plastic bags to use the bags to haul off their booty. Unopened bags of chips, jars of pickles and condiments didn’t survive either. I might have seen a more blatant display of bad manners in my lifetime but I can’t recall it.
Ajummas don’t play around when it comes to food. They are like velociraptors with bad hair, visors and flower pants. Scary!
Sounds like a real hit and run!
아쭈마 = 아줌마
If you’re trying to impress us with token Korean, it ain’t working.
I really don’t get all this ajumma bashing. Oooh, they have perms. They have weird clothes. Haven’t you ever seen middle-aged women back home?
Thereby showing you know nothing about an obasan. At best, the adjumma would force a draw. The deadliest force on earth is the neighbourhood obasan trash Nazi. Word.
I resisted commenting when I saw it, but since Sonagi opened fire, let me add a salvo: 반찬, not 반잔…
Oh, and it’s Brendon, not Brendan…
Well, well, well, since back home is Bordeaux, well, yeah, I’ve never seen anything equivalent to the sun-visor, MC Hammer pants, tight perm 아줌마…
Re: 아쭈마 = 아줌마 If you’re trying to impress us with token Korean, it ain’t working.
Oh ya, it was “mercilous” or “mercyless” or whatever spelling error I made in some other comment in a different post that puckered up one of the great literary sphincters who visit this blog and value form over function. So don’t take too much offense, I post in token Englishi too.
As if my spelling detracts from the point that I’m making… the stuff they are selling looks like 반찬, which in Korea is free.
What I want to know is, what thought processes led Linkd from babotaengi’s question to googling for images? What was he curious about?
Jeez, I never even thought of that. Good catch. I’ve been desperately short of sleep for weeks.
Kim Wonhee the funny actress/show hostess did an ajumma fashion show last week on “family outing” – 패밀리가 떴다 – when she took the two guys shopping for “comfortable clothes” in a rural clothes shop. It was hilarious. She chose Pebaji’s (MCHammer pants) with the most 현란한 무늬 and wore them herself and made two well-built guys wear them.
Damn. I can’t believe I let that one slip.
Must be the coffee he spit on his keyboard. I blame Japan™!
Kim Won Hee… hottest 36 yr old ever…
She is the definition of the need for an intermediate term… not agashi and not ajumma.
Although men don’t get an alternative term… it’s either hakseng or ajushi.
Although my little cousin made up an intermediate title for me. I told her to call me samchun instead of oppah and she (9 yrs old) thought about it for a second and on a suger high from the Pinkberry yogurt I bought her she blurted out, “You are not a samchun, you are an Oh-Sam!”
She combined oppah and samchun to come up with that. Kids say the darndest things.
What’s up with all the ajumma hating. Some of the nicest and warmest people I know are ajummas.
Also, ajummas usually take leftover foods…
@Wangkon:
Kim Won-hee is one of the prettiest women in entertainment, but I can’t look at her visage without wondering if those cheekbones are real. She was woefully miscast as the neglected queen in the mid-90s version of Jang Hee-bin. Not even the thickest soju goggles could make a man choose Jung Sun-gyung’s horse face and shrill voice over a beauty like Kim Won-hee.
Sonagi,
I think you are seeing silicone where it might not be there. Picture of Kim Won-hee in 1992-94.
http://image.mt.co.kr/indexlink_image.php?no=2008091713355067886_2.jpg&index=6
@ Kimchi2000,
Yeah, It’s a cultural misunderstanding. Koreans give a lot of stuff free (the infamous “suh-bis”) and ajummas take as much as they can get their grubby little hands on. Plus, the idea of unlimited banchan is a foreign concept for the Japanese. The most you’ll get is a side of pickled radishes. Japanese don’t like giving things away for free. Furthermore, Korea markets like to give free samples away and Japanese stores don’t. In those cases Koreans like to “graze” in Japanese supermarkets since the later does not like to give out free samples.
Once I went to a house party hosted by Japanese foreign students. I brought a case of beer, ate and drank away. To my amazement, the host hit all the guests up (including me) for $10! That was culture shock… cuz that’s not how house parties roll in the States.
Kim Won-hee has always had prominent cheekbones, but her facial contours look different in recent photos. While watching the drama, I thought that she was rather pretty in spite of a squarish face and prominent mandibles, which are no longer apparent. On a TV show, she denied having gotten her jawbones whittled down. Kim is just a few years younger than me, and no matter how much one avoids the sun, eats right, etc., one’s skin naturally loses suppleness and elasticity. Those cheeks are too taut to be natural on a woman in her mid to late thirties. The best cosmetic treatment is minor and does not significantly alter one’s appearance. No one would guess that Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, Halle Berry, and Beyonce Knowles have probably had a rhinoplasty without lining up before and after photos. Most actors over the age of 35 have had some anti-aging treatments to counter the magnifying effect of the camera on every line and flaw.
Being a white middle class secretly racist 23 year old virgin on the internet, I am terrified of frugal old ladies with bad fashion sense.
gb2/b/ Nix
“I am terrified of frugal old ladies with bad fashion sense.”
They exist everywhere… in every culture.
http://www.coastams.co.uk/Files/MatureTimes/img/mat-may06-grumpyoldwomen.jpg
Kim Won Hee looks 42 not 36. She looks different because of the teeth. That and the eyelid and nose surgery.
Lee Hyori is about 32 or 31 years old. She’s pretty much borderline agasshi and ajumma.
Anyway, there are plenty of hot, pretty ajummas. I shall call them ALFs (ajummas (I’d) like (to) fuck!), and here are a few:
Lee Young Ae, aka Jang Geum, 37 yo:
http://www.koreanblog.com/attach/1823/1112594267403.jpg
Natural beauty, Byeon Jeong Su, 34 yo:
http://kpopvideo.com/sarang/stars-Byun_Jung_Soo
Kim Wan Sun, 40 yo:
http://tvpot.daum.net/clip/ClipView.do?clipid=6241043&q=%B1%E8%BF%CF%BC%B1
^ She looks the pretty much the same today (maturer) as she did in the 80s. She was Korea’s Madonna/Tiffany.
And as far as hot 80s/90s stars go, Ha Su Bin looks great in this 1992 video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR-xj-yRSg0&feature=related
ALF!
Plenty more ALF where that came from!
Here’s the thing I don’t get. You would expect the relatively laid back environment of a country like the U.S. to provide a less stress filled life for average middle aged women than the ajummas trying to survive in a hyper competitive culture like Korea. This is true, right? Then you compare the nastiness of the day time soaps here, and the nastiness of the 일일드라마 over there, and I can’t say with certainty that the nastiness of the latter is worse.
I really think this demands an explanation.
Or perhaps I haven’t seen enough daytime soaps to be able to measure their true worth.
If 오연수 had a little more volume, I’d consider her ALF too.
Yeah, a little androgynous, no?
http://c.ask.nate.com/imgs/qrsi.tsp/8183083/10737699/0/1/A/%EC%98%A4%EC%97%B0%EC%88%98%EB%B9%84%ED%82%A4%EB%8B%88.jpg
It somewhat appears Miss Oh has a pelvic tattoo in the second picture. May just be a shadow.
Anyway, I’d hit it. Her butt is not so hot, but spread eagle on the bed she’d be as feminine as can be. One can only dare imagine all the great sexing going on with that ALF.
Miss Oh? Are you fantasizing Mr.abcdefg? The woman is happily married to 손지창. Please mind your manners.
The very point of talking about ALFs, you prude, is to fantasize, although I’m doing it out of character and tongue-in-cheek….And I wouldn’t mind that with Miss Oh too, ie my tongue in her cheeks. Her husband can watch.
JW,
abcdefg doesn’t care. He’s an atheist and not bound by archaic social conventions.
I hope abcdefg, you get shot naked, while caught fucking your friend’s wife.
Look what I’ve done…lord have mercy, they know not what they do.
Atheist or not, who would want to be bound by archaic social conventions?
Anyway, I don’t get it. The kyopo Christian backlash…
I was just having fun with the topic of this thread — ajummas and the cognitive dissonance of speaking sexy about them I thought would be at least somewhat funny.
This guy would agree:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/alf/MistaCoffee/alf.jpg
I would not want to have sexual relations with a wife, unless it was OK with the wife and husband. That’s how abcdefg rolls.
#26
Very good school-marmish beatdown there, Sonagi.
Perhaps you’d like to write to the Koreans that also type 아쭈마, 아쭘마 and 아즘마 and tell them how unimpressive they are.
You might be surprised at some of the non-standard spellings used in Korean these days. (Not to say that Vince typed that knowingly or ironically, but if he picked up his Korean on the internet, or practiced it by chatting, who knows what spellings he might have learned. 걍 글케 될수두 이찌?
Me too.
On HD digital video.
I think Sonagi probably has a face the size of a dinner plate and looks like a bear. This is the only logical explanation for the incessant need to downplay other girls’ hotness.
Getting shot on film while fucking Miss Oh would not be an entirely bad way to leave the planet. Although, if I’m going to be shot dead, I’d much rather prefer to be with 40 yo ALF, Byung Jeong Su:
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/1801/byunjungsoo5181.jpg
Rebelicious.
kim wonhee’s hotness is greatly enhanced by her 나대지 않고 센스있는 humour & 정의의 여자 style.
pretty + funny = hot
I dunno, byun kinda looks like a man. I think you might be a byuntae and you just don’t know it. Although, I won’t rule out that possibility for myself either.
Some of you guys need to leave Korea. This place often rears its ugly head in a Dave’s ESL Cafe sort of way.
Every ajumma is somebody’s mom. The internet truly brings out the worst in us it seems, myself included. I am no longer in Korea and I miss ajummas. They are the reason most of you tools can earn 40 bucks an hour doing mostly nothing while eating free kimbab. Thank your lucky stars that these ajummas fund your whoring in Thailand.
on the show, 패떴, where she came on as a guest, she kept being introduced as “여사 kimwonhee”, “주부 kimwonhee”, to make fun of the fact she is now a married ajumma. 여사, usually refers to an high class and old ajumma married to a man important enough who provides her with a car and a chauffeur at her service.
주부 – just a housewife.
the term 미시족 (missy-ites) exists for the women who are married but still keep their looks but it might have acquired a negative connotation, as they can be seen as those get dressed up and take their fashionable toddlers with tails in their hair to hang out with other missyjoks (like victoria beckham)
Might be a byuntae?
This kid could be me:
http://tfile.nate.com/download.asp?FileID=33462449
If, however, you mean byuntae in the sense of “fag,” then no, you are incorrect. I am straight, sir, as straight as the arrow on a compass pointing true north, sir.
—
Anyway, this thread just got really boring. I’m audi.
While we’re on the subject of hot ajumma:
http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/02/17/i-guess-40-really-is-the-new-20/
@ 59 – I don’t think so. Sonagi often compliments girls’ curvy figures. She doesn’t like the stick thin ones though, and she has a low regard for plastic surgery that crowbars occidental features on oriental faces. And since she eats well I don’t think she’s got a cottage cheese butt.
Post photos, please.
아감마 or 아굼마
#63 You sad troll; if you were paying attention you would have noticed that many posters here have already left korea; indeed with some it can be questioned if they were ever in korea; in normal usage at least not every Ajumma is a mother; where can I get free gimbap; and what is Dave’s ESL Cafe anyway let alone its relevance to this blog – do they do a good breakfast – pray tell? I can fully understand you’re missing Ajummas if they were paying for your whoring in Thailand, although I’m not sure why you’re tarring us with the same brush. Having said that by all means, for those interested, please let us in on the secret – how did you get them to pay; and as for the worst in us, I think such conversations were pretty normal long before the internet prude troll came upon us.
#63 PS Please also note we already have by acclamation an official Wendy on this blog who lets us know when we’ve crossed the line, albeit it does seem to be spelling and grammar that most get Sonagi’s ire.
I was going to say that the first person to post a link to ajumma porn should be banned. Linkd slyly ducked out of it by claiming “tiredness”. I vote that Robert should be banned.
Did someone say cottage cheese butt??
…click at your own risk…
Oh gawd, my eyes!
damn my eyes!
@#72:
It would appear that when god made that woman, he made a 2nd anus. That anus was internal, and whenever that lady shit, some of that shit seeped out one hole, and the rest of that shit spilled through her 2nd hole and straight into her legs and buttocks.
Bon apetit, lovers!
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