Quote from: What?What? on December 02, 2016, 03:49:12 pmQuote from: #basedcowboyshirt on December 02, 2016, 01:59:05 pmCompletely 100% unrelated: I genuinely wish I could quit smoking, but I just don't have the will to do it because I enjoy it so much. I generally spend the last 50% of my day looking forward to the cigarette I'll have when I get home. Sucks that it's so bad for you and such a gross smell on your clothes / breath / hair / everything.OMG me too!!!! I look forward to that 5pm cigarette like a kid at Christmas!!!Feel your pain. I smoked a packet a day at my peak, 5 years clean. 1 - Gym, with Death Metal/Gangster Rap in your ears.2 - You've learned to associate stress with smoking, retrain your brain.3 - Stay away from people and situations where you smoke the most4 - Gym some more5 - Did I mention gym?
Quote from: #basedcowboyshirt on December 02, 2016, 01:59:05 pmCompletely 100% unrelated: I genuinely wish I could quit smoking, but I just don't have the will to do it because I enjoy it so much. I generally spend the last 50% of my day looking forward to the cigarette I'll have when I get home. Sucks that it's so bad for you and such a gross smell on your clothes / breath / hair / everything.OMG me too!!!! I look forward to that 5pm cigarette like a kid at Christmas!!!
Completely 100% unrelated: I genuinely wish I could quit smoking, but I just don't have the will to do it because I enjoy it so much. I generally spend the last 50% of my day looking forward to the cigarette I'll have when I get home. Sucks that it's so bad for you and such a gross smell on your clothes / breath / hair / everything.
Quote from: What?What? on December 05, 2016, 08:57:43 amQuote from: Aristocrat on December 02, 2016, 07:38:05 pmQuote from: What?What? on December 02, 2016, 03:49:12 pmQuote from: #basedcowboyshirt on December 02, 2016, 01:59:05 pmCompletely 100% unrelated: I genuinely wish I could quit smoking, but I just don't have the will to do it because I enjoy it so much. I generally spend the last 50% of my day looking forward to the cigarette I'll have when I get home. Sucks that it's so bad for you and such a gross smell on your clothes / breath / hair / everything.OMG me too!!!! I look forward to that 5pm cigarette like a kid at Christmas!!!Feel your pain. I smoked a packet a day at my peak, 5 years clean. 1 - Gym, with Death Metal/Gangster Rap in your ears.2 - You've learned to associate stress with smoking, retrain your brain.3 - Stay away from people and situations where you smoke the most4 - Gym some more5 - Did I mention gym?This is really good advice that I have heard a number of times, but I am an addict and therefore my brain in this regard malfunctions, and I will rationalise and justify my ways through a completely broken cognitive process, I will then try and correct this cognitive malfunction with my own broken cognitive processes. Vicious circle. I actually did stop for a while and changed to an e-cig, was doing really well, but then my CT happened and well things have been down hill from there. I have been promising myself that I need to join the gym for winter..... procrastinating like a mother f*%ker on that one. *screaming at myself* JUST DO IT ALREADYI decided to force myself to take walks out in the cold to prevent my recent problem drinking :) Since I've proven to myself that I lack the confidence to join a gym
Quote from: Aristocrat on December 02, 2016, 07:38:05 pmQuote from: What?What? on December 02, 2016, 03:49:12 pmQuote from: #basedcowboyshirt on December 02, 2016, 01:59:05 pmCompletely 100% unrelated: I genuinely wish I could quit smoking, but I just don't have the will to do it because I enjoy it so much. I generally spend the last 50% of my day looking forward to the cigarette I'll have when I get home. Sucks that it's so bad for you and such a gross smell on your clothes / breath / hair / everything.OMG me too!!!! I look forward to that 5pm cigarette like a kid at Christmas!!!Feel your pain. I smoked a packet a day at my peak, 5 years clean. 1 - Gym, with Death Metal/Gangster Rap in your ears.2 - You've learned to associate stress with smoking, retrain your brain.3 - Stay away from people and situations where you smoke the most4 - Gym some more5 - Did I mention gym?This is really good advice that I have heard a number of times, but I am an addict and therefore my brain in this regard malfunctions, and I will rationalise and justify my ways through a completely broken cognitive process, I will then try and correct this cognitive malfunction with my own broken cognitive processes. Vicious circle. I actually did stop for a while and changed to an e-cig, was doing really well, but then my CT happened and well things have been down hill from there. I have been promising myself that I need to join the gym for winter..... procrastinating like a mother f*%ker on that one. *screaming at myself* JUST DO IT ALREADY
Quote from: moonbrie on December 05, 2016, 09:14:27 amQuote from: What?What? on December 05, 2016, 08:57:43 amQuote from: Aristocrat on December 02, 2016, 07:38:05 pmQuote from: What?What? on December 02, 2016, 03:49:12 pmQuote from: #basedcowboyshirt on December 02, 2016, 01:59:05 pmCompletely 100% unrelated: I genuinely wish I could quit smoking, but I just don't have the will to do it because I enjoy it so much. I generally spend the last 50% of my day looking forward to the cigarette I'll have when I get home. Sucks that it's so bad for you and such a gross smell on your clothes / breath / hair / everything.OMG me too!!!! I look forward to that 5pm cigarette like a kid at Christmas!!!Feel your pain. I smoked a packet a day at my peak, 5 years clean. 1 - Gym, with Death Metal/Gangster Rap in your ears.2 - You've learned to associate stress with smoking, retrain your brain.3 - Stay away from people and situations where you smoke the most4 - Gym some more5 - Did I mention gym?This is really good advice that I have heard a number of times, but I am an addict and therefore my brain in this regard malfunctions, and I will rationalise and justify my ways through a completely broken cognitive process, I will then try and correct this cognitive malfunction with my own broken cognitive processes. Vicious circle. I actually did stop for a while and changed to an e-cig, was doing really well, but then my CT happened and well things have been down hill from there. I have been promising myself that I need to join the gym for winter..... procrastinating like a mother f*%ker on that one. *screaming at myself* JUST DO IT ALREADYI decided to force myself to take walks out in the cold to prevent my recent problem drinking :) Since I've proven to myself that I lack the confidence to join a gymJUST DO IT
I hate when the students let out these long drawn out groans when I tell them to open their notebooks. I mean come on, it's school. Of course you are going to have to do some work for crying out loud.
Quote from: HaLo3 on December 05, 2016, 10:39:36 amI hate when the students let out these long drawn out groans when I tell them to open their notebooks. I mean come on, it's school. Of course you are going to have to do some work for crying out loud.Kids are shit.
I'm not sure what I was thinking, but when I first got to Korea and learned about all the ways they recycle I thought this sort of awareness would extend to other parts of the society too. People told me how much Koreans care about recycling/the environment/not wasting energy etc etc so I had some weird expectations. Like, I thought Korean-made products would have less extra pointless packaging. Somehow, there seems to be MORE??
People are shite. Grown ass adults are shite. Foreigners pestering me "where are you from?" after I've already spoken enough to show an American midwestern accent and said I'M FROM THE USA. "Oh, but you look [insert Asian ethnicity here]." "Oh but where are you really from?" Cause apparently the default American is just a white person. Things like this make me more than content to remain on my island. Honestly, the last two weekends I have dealt with this rubbish.
Quote from: yirj17 on December 05, 2016, 10:54:48 amPeople are shite. Grown ass adults are shite. Foreigners pestering me "where are you from?" after I've already spoken enough to show an American midwestern accent and said I'M FROM THE USA. "Oh, but you look [insert Asian ethnicity here]." "Oh but where are you really from?" Cause apparently the default American is just a white person. Things like this make me more than content to remain on my island. Honestly, the last two weekends I have dealt with this rubbish. I often get asked, "Are you [European ethnicity]?" and have no hurt feelings whatsoever.
"Oh, but you look [insert other ethnicity here]." "Oh but where are you really from?"
Quote from: JNM on December 05, 2016, 11:29:43 amQuote from: yirj17 on December 05, 2016, 10:54:48 amPeople are shite. Grown ass adults are shite. Foreigners pestering me "where are you from?" after I've already spoken enough to show an American midwestern accent and said I'M FROM THE USA. "Oh, but you look [insert Asian ethnicity here]." "Oh but where are you really from?" Cause apparently the default American is just a white person. Things like this make me more than content to remain on my island. Honestly, the last two weekends I have dealt with this rubbish. I often get asked, "Are you [European ethnicity]?" and have no hurt feelings whatsoever.There's a bit of a difference tho if people don't accept your answer of being american cuz they're trying to place what kind of asian you are. I get that. I'm mixed so people try to guess where I'm from. Good luck to them guessing cuz I'm also adopted and have no clue what my background is. I usually say "I uno, something white and something black" and people back off XD
Quote from: JNM on December 05, 2016, 11:29:43 amQuote from: yirj17 on December 05, 2016, 10:54:48 amPeople are shite. Grown ass adults are shite. Foreigners pestering me "where are you from?" after I've already spoken enough to show an American midwestern accent and said I'M FROM THE USA. "Oh, but you look [insert Asian ethnicity here]." "Oh but where are you really from?" Cause apparently the default American is just a white person. Things like this make me more than content to remain on my island. Honestly, the last two weekends I have dealt with this rubbish. I often get asked, "Are you [European ethnicity]?" and have no hurt feelings whatsoever.Are you then toldQuote"Oh, but you look [insert other ethnicity here]." "Oh but where are you really from?" ?
Quote from: yirj17 on December 05, 2016, 10:54:48 amQuote from: CO2 on December 05, 2016, 10:40:53 amQuote from: HaLo3 on December 05, 2016, 10:39:36 amI hate when the students let out these long drawn out groans when I tell them to open their notebooks. I mean come on, it's school. Of course you are going to have to do some work for crying out loud.Kids are shit.People are shite. Grown ass adults are shite. Foreigners pestering me "where are you from?" after I've already spoken enough to show an American midwestern accent and said I'M FROM THE USA. "Oh, but you look [insert Asian ethnicity here]." "Oh but where are you really from?" Cause apparently the default American is just a white person. Things like this make me more than content to remain on my island. Honestly, the last two weekends I have dealt with this rubbish. I hate that. I know it's just because they are super ignorant, so most of the time I let it slide, but the worst is when people narrow their eyes after you respond like you're lying after and press you further, as if they think they have a better idea of where you're from than you do. I've had people ask me "then where are your parents from?" "America" "then your grandparents?" "America and Canada..."I don't get annoyed anymore when people don't think I'm from the USA at first glance, but how they respond after I tell them is the problem. Only once have I had someone actually apologize for making an inference based on my skin color/stereotypes, a nice old Japanese man actually said sorry when he realized he had picked me out of a group of Americans as the only non-American, and his wife continued to chastise him after for not knowing any better.
Quote from: CO2 on December 05, 2016, 10:40:53 amQuote from: HaLo3 on December 05, 2016, 10:39:36 amI hate when the students let out these long drawn out groans when I tell them to open their notebooks. I mean come on, it's school. Of course you are going to have to do some work for crying out loud.Kids are shit.People are shite. Grown ass adults are shite. Foreigners pestering me "where are you from?" after I've already spoken enough to show an American midwestern accent and said I'M FROM THE USA. "Oh, but you look [insert Asian ethnicity here]." "Oh but where are you really from?" Cause apparently the default American is just a white person. Things like this make me more than content to remain on my island. Honestly, the last two weekends I have dealt with this rubbish.
Quote from: sevenpm on December 05, 2016, 12:00:27 pmQuote from: yirj17 on December 05, 2016, 10:54:48 amQuote from: CO2 on December 05, 2016, 10:40:53 amQuote from: HaLo3 on December 05, 2016, 10:39:36 amI hate when the students let out these long drawn out groans when I tell them to open their notebooks. I mean come on, it's school. Of course you are going to have to do some work for crying out loud.Kids are shit.People are shite. Grown ass adults are shite. Foreigners pestering me "where are you from?" after I've already spoken enough to show an American midwestern accent and said I'M FROM THE USA. "Oh, but you look [insert Asian ethnicity here]." "Oh but where are you really from?" Cause apparently the default American is just a white person. Things like this make me more than content to remain on my island. Honestly, the last two weekends I have dealt with this rubbish. I hate that. I know it's just because they are super ignorant, so most of the time I let it slide, but the worst is when people narrow their eyes after you respond like you're lying after and press you further, as if they think they have a better idea of where you're from than you do. I've had people ask me "then where are your parents from?" "America" "then your grandparents?" "America and Canada..."I don't get annoyed anymore when people don't think I'm from the USA at first glance, but how they respond after I tell them is the problem. Only once have I had someone actually apologize for making an inference based on my skin color/stereotypes, a nice old Japanese man actually said sorry when he realized he had picked me out of a group of Americans as the only non-American, and his wife continued to chastise him after for not knowing any better.If I don't sense ill intent or malice behind the questions, I don't mind if it's an honest mistake or even badly phrased. I can tell when a person is genuinely just interested versus trying to label me as "other"