A thread for pointless Friday ramblings.

Bojack Horseman, Season 5, now up on Netflix.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS I never remember release dates for shows, so when I opened up Netflix yesterday and saw that big Bojack................. inflatable? I WAS SO EXCITED.

Every time I get on the crowded bus after work, I am forced to watch broadcasts on the television affixed just behind the driver's seat. Those broadcasts are not thoughtful discussions about Korean history, or even reports about important contemporary issues that citizens should know about. Rather we are subjected to vivid shots of food being prepared that are followed by the grotesque image of a man (usually) taking an enormous dumpling, or rice roll, or sandwich, and cramming it into his mouth to the tremendous amusement of those sitting around him on that inane program.

http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=255513

Bojack Horseman, Season 5, now up on Netflix.

The bus I take shows graphic adverts for colonoscopy clinics and dental procedures.

There is a pipe under the sink, not like the male bathroom three years ago, where there was no pipe and you'd get wet feet when washing your hands.

I remember there was a sink in one of the bathrooms at one of my former public schools in the past that also had a pipe missing for some reason, so my feet would always get splashed/wet whenever I'd wash my hands. It was annoying.

There is a pipe under the sink, not like the male bathroom three years ago, where there was no pipe and you'd get wet feet when washing your hands.

I remember there was a sink in one of the bathrooms at one of my former public schools in the past that also had a pipe missing for some reason, so my feet would always get splashed/wet whenever I'd wash my hands. It was annoying.

Drain gets clogged, but smart maintenance guy decides the floor drain works fine!

Bojack Horseman, Season 5, now up on Netflix.

https://yarn.co/yarn-clip/a4a3b045-674a-4332-9965-e2b1f9c3e9dc

Drain gets clogged, but smart maintenance guy decides the floor drain works fine!

Removing the middleman x9000.

Anyone else's schools having students do mid-terms right before Chuseok?

Bojack Horseman, Season 5, now up on Netflix.

Can't wait for impending sadness.

Thy're not swallows but they fly in a similar fashion.

Laden or unladen?

Thy're not swallows but they fly in a similar fashion.

Laden or unladen?

African or European?

A load of birds (the feathery types) made their nests on the roof just above my classroom.  It's lovely watching them coming and going and bombing down outside my window.  When I looked out now they were flying around, and there must have been at least 100.  I was more of an ornithologist, I'd be able to identify them.  Thy're not swallows but they fly in a similar fashion.

Could be swifts.
They look a bit like swallows, and are similarily acrobatic, but are actually related to hummingbirds. Unlike hummingbirds, several species live in Asia.

Can't wait for impending sadness.

Embrace the sadness. Just don't fetishize it.

Thy're not swallows but they fly in a similar fashion.

Laden or unladen?

African or European?

Well, you do have to know these things.

Hello Mr.Demartino, you might not want to reveal too many details but I've always been curious...what field of work are you in now?

I've always wondered what kind of job allows you to read and post on here all day, every day, without ever taking a break?  Also...are they looking for more people because teaching is getting a bit tiring and I'd like a nice break 

Without giving away too many details, basically my job gives me long streteches of boredom with little to do, punctuated by a periodic 'hell week'.

Ah cool, I didn't realise you were a teacher.  Thanks for the quick reply.

Anyone else's schools having students do mid-terms right before Chuseok?

I think mine are doing it the week after Chuseok, but my co-teacher needed a class of mine last week to prepare for mid-terms, but classes haven't been cancelled for this week, so I'm assuming they are after Chuseok.

Kind of a rant, but not angered enough to post it there.......... haha

We're teaching the song Thunder by Imagine용 to the 5s and 6s. We have a video on youtube that shows the lyrics in English................ and in hangeul.


So for thunder, you'd think they'd hangeulise it 썬더, right? Nope.................

떤덜, 필더 떤덜 (DRUM DRUM DRUM)

Just..................... no. Dawn Doll, Peel the Done Doll (BANG BANG BANG)

Hello Mr.Demartino, you might not want to reveal too many details but I've always been curious...what field of work are you in now?

I've always wondered what kind of job allows you to read and post on here all day, every day, without ever taking a break?  Also...are they looking for more people because teaching is getting a bit tiring and I'd like a nice break 

Without giving away too many details, basically my job gives me long streteches of boredom with little to do, punctuated by a periodic 'hell week'.

Ah cool, I didn't realise you were a teacher.  Thanks for the quick reply.

Yes and no. I work two jobs, one of which involves teaching (and no, the other isn't flipping burgers or tending bar).

So for thunder, you'd think they'd hangeulise it 썬더, right? Nope.................
떤덜, 필더 떤덜 (DRUM DRUM DRUM)
Just..................... no. Dawn Doll, Peel the Done Doll (BANG BANG BANG)

To be fair, most European languages that lack the "th" sound also pronounce it as a "d" sound.

Yes and no. I work two jobs, one of which involves teaching (and no, the other isn't flipping burgers or tending bar).

An agent of the Korean Ministry of Culture, cyber division? If so, stellar job! Although you failed to out those Russkie provocateurs that were hanging around on Waygook for a year or two. 

So for thunder, you'd think they'd hangeulise it 썬더, right? Nope.................
떤덜, 필더 떤덜 (DRUM DRUM DRUM)
Just..................... no. Dawn Doll, Peel the Done Doll (BANG BANG BANG)

To be fair, most European languages that lack the "th" sound also pronounce it as a "d" sound.

Who eeze dat guy over dere?

So for thunder, you'd think they'd hangeulise it 썬더, right? Nope.................
떤덜, 필더 떤덜 (DRUM DRUM DRUM)
Just..................... no. Dawn Doll, Peel the Done Doll (BANG BANG BANG)

To be fair, most European languages that lack the "th" sound also pronounce it as a "d" sound.

Who eeze dat guy over dere?

That sounds like an evil German aristocrat impersonating an evil French aristocrat.

Also, I wanna modify my comment to "most unRomantic European languages"
Ze French, zey speak ze "th" like ze "z". Alzough come to zink of it, ozer times zey say ze "th" as a "t" such as when zey speak of ze atlétique té at ze discotèque.