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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5200 on: May 16, 2017, 07:33:40 am »
i don't understand the logic behind most people here putting their chopsticks/spoons directly onto the table before/while using them yet throwing out a piece of food that falls off a dish onto the table. i mean, just decide if the table is dirty or if it isn't! if it's dirty... put a goddamn napkin under your eating utensils.

This is funny. I usually use a napkin under mine, but I think I may have to point it out the next time I see it.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5201 on: May 16, 2017, 08:10:09 am »
i don't understand the logic behind most people here putting their chopsticks/spoons directly onto the table before/while using them yet throwing out a piece of food that falls off a dish onto the table. i mean, just decide if the table is dirty or if it isn't! if it's dirty... put a goddamn napkin under your eating utensils.

This is funny. I usually use a napkin under mine, but I think I may have to point it out the next time I see it.
I always put a napkin under my utensils and those eating with me, but I agree with you. I have noticed a lot who do not.

I was out eating dinner with my bf and I dropped my fork and quickly picked it up and kept using it. My bf snickered and mentioned something about Americans and the 5 second rule.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5202 on: May 16, 2017, 08:41:05 am »
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I was out eating dinner with my bf and I dropped my fork and quickly picked it up and kept using it. My bf snickered and mentioned something about Americans and the 5 second rule.
    I used to get comments like this all the time (I'm clumsy). Now, I just immediately go on and on and on about the 'hygiene hypothesis' and how overly sterile environments can lead to all sorts of auto-immune disorders such as allergies and asthma and blablabla. I'm not entirely convinced all of it is true but it does tend to prevent people from commenting the next time I inevitably drop something.  :smiley:


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5203 on: May 16, 2017, 09:41:07 am »
Something that kind of annoys me is when students say how interested they are in English, and that they like it and that they want to be English teachers, but then do diddlysquat in class and just sit there, or sleep, or chatter away the whole time.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5204 on: May 16, 2017, 10:54:29 am »
Yesterday's lunch was great. Gamja tang, Vienna sausages, mushroom/beef/veggie stir fry. Today's lunch was noodles, rice and doughy soup. I guess they used up all the protein on Monday. It's carbs for the rest of the week.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5205 on: May 16, 2017, 11:11:14 am »
Something that kind of annoys me is when students say how interested they are in English, and that they like it and that they want to be English teachers, but then do diddlysquat in class and just sit there, or sleep, or chatter away the whole time.
I know. I think what they really mean is they like classes without homework and where they can get away with not studying.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5206 on: May 16, 2017, 12:00:15 pm »
Literally i have blocked all his numbers and texting, how did the 변태 get a call through??!!  >:( >:( >:( Why is he trying to bother me again!!? 


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5207 on: May 16, 2017, 12:36:09 pm »
Has anyone ever taught camp at an unknown school before??

My school is having construction so all summer vacation activities have been cancelled. My coteacher called the office of education and was told that we can't just do a 4 week camp in winter vacation, I have to go to another school. On top of that, not sure about the budget and she said there's a chance I might not have a coteacher either...

Now I'm super nervous because I'm being thrown into a completely unknown situation and have to go to some school I never been to..

I wish they'd just canceled the camp and call quits due to my school's problem


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5208 on: May 16, 2017, 12:46:12 pm »
Literally i have blocked all his numbers and texting, how did the 변태 get a call through??!!  >:( >:( >:( Why is he trying to bother me again!!?

Wait - what's the lore on this? Why is some creeper calling you?

+1
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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5209 on: May 16, 2017, 12:51:50 pm »
Literally i have blocked all his numbers and texting, how did the 변태 get a call through??!!  >:( >:( >:( Why is he trying to bother me again!!?

Wait - what's the lore on this? Why is some creeper calling you?

A big ole can o' worms. But briefly: Creepy guy from one of my schools who didn't understand boundaries and literally stalked me on my first weekends in Korea under pretense of "looking out for me" cause he's "such a nice person." Asshat

Married with wife and kid but tried to get me to go for coffee with him late at night on a weekend and would send me bizarre texts about how his daughter hates him. Gee wonder why


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5210 on: May 16, 2017, 12:57:16 pm »
***Public service announcement*** We are approaching page 300 on this thread, which is, I believe close to the upper limit allotted for thread lengths. Screen cap everything if you want to preserve other people's misery for posterity, 'cause it may all vanish soon just like its previous iterations!


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5211 on: May 16, 2017, 01:22:25 pm »
Literally i have blocked all his numbers and texting, how did the 변태 get a call through??!!  >:( >:( >:( Why is he trying to bother me again!!?

Wait - what's the lore on this? Why is some creeper calling you?

A big ole can o' worms. But briefly: Creepy guy from one of my schools who didn't understand boundaries and literally stalked me on my first weekends in Korea under pretense of "looking out for me" cause he's "such a nice person." Asshat

Married with wife and kid but tried to get me to go for coffee with him late at night on a weekend and would send me bizarre texts about how his daughter hates him. Gee wonder why

Ew. That's next level creep.

Ahhh yeah now I remember the stories about your creeper!
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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5212 on: May 16, 2017, 02:57:52 pm »
- why is like half the food sold in supermarkets here rotten. They can ship anything overnight from Gmarket, but they can't store chicken or fruit for a few days?

- why do Korean companies CONSTANTLY change the flavor of their items. Almond pepero now tastes like sawdust. Dr. Pepper here now tastes like popcorn soda. Orange demi-soda now tastes like watery orange juice.

- why are Koreans afraid of sodas being too fizzy. All the sodas here are soooo flat.

- why do all bottles and some cans of Sprite here taste like plasticky grass, while other cans taste like Sprite. At least 7-Up here is always good, but it's hard to find.

- why do the always exciting and sexy Hite and Cass ads never have "Literally the Worst Beer in the World" written at the bottom.

- why do so many ads have one person staring forward, either a man or a woman. In the West these kinds of ads would have a couple eating or whatever together, or at least a group of friends.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5213 on: May 16, 2017, 03:19:38 pm »

- why are Koreans afraid of sodas being too fizzy. All the sodas here are soooo flat.



I like flat soda or those of the gently effervescent variety.  I'm that person. 


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5214 on: May 16, 2017, 03:27:01 pm »
- why is like half the food sold in supermarkets here rotten. They can ship anything overnight from Gmarket, but they can't store chicken or fruit for a few days?
There just seems to be a greater acceptance of half rotten food here. People seem to have no qualms with paying 3000won for a head a half brown, spongy brocolli, so they just keep on selling it. A homeplus was busted recently for just stickering over expiry dates on meat. "It's not too grey, give it another 5 days"
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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5215 on: May 16, 2017, 03:37:05 pm »
- why is like half the food sold in supermarkets here rotten. They can ship anything overnight from Gmarket, but they can't store chicken or fruit for a few days?
There just seems to be a greater acceptance of half rotten food here. People seem to have no qualms with paying 3000won for a head a half brown, spongy brocolli, so they just keep on selling it. A homeplus was busted recently for just stickering over expiry dates on meat. "It's not too grey, give it another 5 days"

Or they just stick a layer of fresh beef over the old beef and discount it so it looks like you're getting nice beef at a good price.


Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5216 on: May 16, 2017, 07:34:07 pm »
I don't understand how an activity that I've played successfully in multiple forms over the last couple of years has bombed with my 4 newest classes.

I even tried changing the format with the next class when I realised it failed with the previous class.

I'm peeved and frustrated.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5217 on: May 16, 2017, 07:46:56 pm »
I like pizza. I don't like onions.

I ordered my pizza and went to get it.

Potatoes. Check.
Corn. Check.
Cheese crust. Check.
Onions. Nope, check.

As I'm leaving the lady tells me she added green peppers to give it flavour...

There are only two things I don't like on pizza. Onions are in the second most hated position...

WTF.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5218 on: May 16, 2017, 08:43:49 pm »
I like pizza. I don't like onions.

I ordered my pizza and went to get it.

Potatoes. Check.
Corn. Check.
Cheese crust. Check.
Onions. Nope, check.

As I'm leaving the lady tells me she added green peppers to give it flavour...

There are only two things I don't like on pizza. Onions are in the second most hated position...

WTF.
I feel your pain.

Pizza places used to refuse to make cheese-only pizza, because they said it wouldn't be delicious :) (they aren't the ones eating it...go figure).


Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #5219 on: May 17, 2017, 07:29:00 am »
- why is like half the food sold in supermarkets here rotten. They can ship anything overnight from Gmarket, but they can't store chicken or fruit for a few days?
There just seems to be a greater acceptance of half rotten food here. People seem to have no qualms with paying 3000won for a head a half brown, spongy brocolli, so they just keep on selling it. A homeplus was busted recently for just stickering over expiry dates on meat. "It's not too grey, give it another 5 days"

Not necessarily, and I don't think the staff and customers at my Lotte Mart understand how avocados work. Rock hard and bright green avos, 2000 won each. Soft, dark green avos, with a few black spots, which nobody buys, 700W each. Thank you very much ;D
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