Experienced something like this at the beginning of the year. A close friend of mine who I'd known for 7 years had become some kind of monster I couldn't recognize (my other friends saw it too). I blame mental issues, because the behavior made absolutely no sense from a logical standpoint.I also don't like it when Koreans try to treat you the same in some regards, but different in others. It can be really annoying. We foreigners don't just accept things (especially crap) from people and bear with it.
I thought I'd finally found a nice place to live. Upgraded from a one room to a brand new officetel. Lovely thick walls. Bliss.I can hear my upstairs neighbour walking around. A little bit annoying but it comes with the territory I suppose. Although I really wish they would walk on the balls of the feet instead of their heels. I do that. It's a considerate thing to do when living in an apartment. But I can live with it.But now I can smell smoke in my apartment. Someone around me is smoking and that really pisses me off. The buidling managers know about it because they've put up signs everywhere. I've written notes and put them up (as well as other people). The depressing thing is that the smokers won't stop. Why would they? There's no incentive for them to stop, safe in the knowledge there's no punishment.The sad reality of apartment living
A Korean man's world ends at his nose! Selfishness is the order here, and rules are only followed when someone is watching.
Quote from: sligo on September 04, 2018, 01:04:53 pmA Korean man's world ends at his nose! Selfishness is the order here, and rules are only followed when someone is watching.Oh please, you make it sound like Biff Tannen's Hill Valley or some shit. I won't even get into the bigotry of the first part.
Quote from: Mr.DeMartino on September 04, 2018, 01:08:13 pmQuote from: sligo on September 04, 2018, 01:04:53 pmA Korean man's world ends at his nose! Selfishness is the order here, and rules are only followed when someone is watching.Oh please, you make it sound like Biff Tannen's Hill Valley or some shit. I won't even get into the bigotry of the first part.how about you don't get into any part, of any thread, and take your patriotic bollocks away with you, and give people a break from your broken record nationalistic nonesense?
Quote from: sligo on September 04, 2018, 01:10:58 pmQuote from: Mr.DeMartino on September 04, 2018, 01:08:13 pmQuote from: sligo on September 04, 2018, 01:04:53 pmA Korean man's world ends at his nose! Selfishness is the order here, and rules are only followed when someone is watching.Oh please, you make it sound like Biff Tannen's Hill Valley or some shit. I won't even get into the bigotry of the first part.how about you don't get into any part, of any thread, and take your patriotic bollocks away with you, and give people a break from your broken record nationalistic nonesense?Is... it it possible that you're both taking extreme positions, and the reality may be somewhere in the middle?
Is... it it possible that you're both taking extreme positions, and the reality may be somewhere in the middle?
Quote from: sligo on September 04, 2018, 01:10:58 pmQuote from: Mr.DeMartino on September 04, 2018, 01:08:13 pmQuote from: sligo on September 04, 2018, 01:04:53 pmA Korean man's world ends at his nose! Selfishness is the order here, and rules are only followed when someone is watching.Oh please, you make it sound like Biff Tannen's Hill Valley or some shit. I won't even get into the bigotry of the first part.how about you don't get into any part, of any thread, and take your patriotic bollocks away with you, and give people a break from your broken record nationalistic nonesense?Martin seems to have not noticed selfish things evident like....-not moving out of the way of ambulances on the road (I would hate to be in any serious condition where I'd have to rely on getting to a hospital fast by ambulance)-constantly parking in the most ridiculous places, like entrances to car parks, on street corners, across pedestrian crossings, disabled parking spots etc.-pushing in queues because you're older and male or just generally pushing past people(something you'd get a fast rebuke and possibly a smack in most other civilised countries)etctcc
how about you don't get into any part, of any thread, and take your patriotic bollocks away with you, and give people a break from your broken record nationalistic nonesense?
Martin seems to have not noticed selfish things evident like....
Quote from: sligo on September 04, 2018, 01:10:58 pmhow about you don't get into any part, of any thread, and take your patriotic bollocks away with you, and give people a break from your broken record nationalistic nonesense?It is the ranting forum, but this wasn't your rant. This was your response to someone's rant. Why don't you take your bigotry away and give people a break from your incessant negativity and unhelpful bitterness? Did you actually offer anything constructive? Obviously things should slide on the rant forum, but there's a line where you can't expect to not have some pushback.For someone who whines and moans that Koreans stereotype foreigners, you sure like to stereotype Koreans. Anyways, hopefully the residents of OP's building can get lucky and somehow track down the offender, and then the landlord can boot them.
Martin seems to recall having noticed a bunch of selfish things in his home country and other countries and amongst foreigners in Korea, of varying nationalities.Martin seems to recall the lessons he learned in school, from his parents, and from his friends, that you say that individual is selfish and you don't stereotype people or judge their ethnicity/country. Martin also seems to recall various lessons in life that we're often unaware of our own selfish behvaiors, whether as individuals, or if you think of such things, as cultures.
Quote from: Mr.DeMartino on September 04, 2018, 02:10:52 pmQuote from: sligo on September 04, 2018, 01:10:58 pmhow about you don't get into any part, of any thread, and take your patriotic bollocks away with you, and give people a break from your broken record nationalistic nonesense?It is the ranting forum, but this wasn't your rant. This was your response to someone's rant. Why don't you take your bigotry away and give people a break from your incessant negativity and unhelpful bitterness? Did you actually offer anything constructive? Obviously things should slide on the rant forum, but there's a line where you can't expect to not have some pushback.For someone who whines and moans that Koreans stereotype foreigners, you sure like to stereotype Koreans. Anyways, hopefully the residents of OP's building can get lucky and somehow track down the offender, and then the landlord can boot them.I tell it how i see it. Everyday someone almost totals my car because they make no effort to accommodate others on the road. Everyday i see people smoking where there are no smoking signs. Everyday i see cars parked on crossings, pavements or blocking entrances. Everyday i see people littering, sometimes withing 10 metres of a bin. Everyday i see human residue in the form of vomit or piss against a building. Everyday i hear people screaming at each other in the street. Tell me, do you not consider this selfish? I lived in the UK for 27 years, and i saw all those behaviours from time to time, but never daily, and never in tandem.I get sick of having someone push past me as i exit a building, or an elevator. The concept of "exit before entrance" means nothing here, especially when negotiating a T junction, or a car park entrance. I get sick of making emergency stops, because a driver will not wait his turn at a junction, and pulls out causing me to fear for my baby in the back seat. **** your hazard lights, you nearly caused an accident.I get sick of drivers driving 1 metre behind my car, and flashing lights to make me move, because there is a car in the adjacent lane. This basically means i cannot hit my brakes, as the **** behind me will plow into me. What gives him the right to demand i move for him? Why should i drive at an unsafe speed just because he wants to pass?Or the guy the slams on his brakes without warning and makes a turn without indicating. Or the guy who parks in the turning lane because he doesn't want to walk to the post office, thus causing those behind him to forcibly merge into the left lane. Or the guy who refuses to indicate, so you wait at a junction for him to drive past you, and instead turns and you realise you could have gone earlier. Or the guy who will overtake you at a frightening speed only to slam on his brakes as soon as he gets in front as there is a speed camera, so you nearly have an accident. Then there are the breakdown drivers who think they can do as they please.You want my rant, here it is.A Korean's world ends at his nose!
Park in a disabled parking spot in the west, or on a crossing, you get a fine and probably towed if it's there long enough. No two ways about it, no arguing. So you don't do it or if you do then that teaches you not to do it again.... You don't need your parents or friends to tell you about that. What part of doing this kind of stupid parking is not to do with selfishness? Or 'cultures' as you call it.
Quote from: Dave Stepz on September 04, 2018, 02:04:15 pmQuote from: sligo on September 04, 2018, 01:10:58 pmQuote from: Mr.DeMartino on September 04, 2018, 01:08:13 pmQuote from: sligo on September 04, 2018, 01:04:53 pmA Korean man's world ends at his nose! Selfishness is the order here, and rules are only followed when someone is watching.Oh please, you make it sound like Biff Tannen's Hill Valley or some shit. I won't even get into the bigotry of the first part.how about you don't get into any part, of any thread, and take your patriotic bollocks away with you, and give people a break from your broken record nationalistic nonesense?Martin seems to have not noticed selfish things evident like....-not moving out of the way of ambulances on the road (I would hate to be in any serious condition where I'd have to rely on getting to a hospital fast by ambulance)-constantly parking in the most ridiculous places, like entrances to car parks, on street corners, across pedestrian crossings, disabled parking spots etc.-pushing in queues because you're older and male or just generally pushing past people(something you'd get a fast rebuke and possibly a smack in most other civilised countries)etctccA few years back my fiend and I were waiting for an elevator. We wanted to go down 3 floors. When it came, it was full, several people refused to make eye contact. The guy right at the front waved at use to say "no" while frantically pushing the close button. We had to wait for the next one.My friend was in a wheelchair!!!!
I get sick of drivers driving 1 metre behind my car, and flashing lights to make me move, because there is a car in the adjacent lane. This basically means i cannot hit my brakes, as the **** behind me will plow into me. What gives him the right to demand i move for him? Why should i drive at an unsafe speed just because he wants to pass?
German's reaction to ambulance..In Japan, the same....(picture too big)
Quote from: sligo on September 04, 2018, 02:27:53 pmI get sick of drivers driving 1 metre behind my car, and flashing lights to make me move, because there is a car in the adjacent lane. This basically means i cannot hit my brakes, as the **** behind me will plow into me. What gives him the right to demand i move for him? Why should i drive at an unsafe speed just because he wants to pass?What is the context for this? If you're driving adjacent another car at the same speed, and you're in the passing lane, then you are in the wrong. The same if you're driving slightly faster than vehicles in the slower lane and never pulling in to let faster vehicles pass.