Quote from: alexisalex on June 26, 2019, 08:41:39 amQuote from: Aristocrat on June 25, 2019, 09:40:12 pmJust felt so defeated today and literally stopped the class, mid-lesson, sat down and did work on my computer while the students sat in silence...I definitely feel your pain here and I've come close a few times to doing that. I always thought I went a bit overboard on trying to get into their heads what adjectives, nouns and verbs are but I agree that it is essential for them to know it. But yeah, I still get a sea of blank faces when I ask for examples of each. I explain "adjective" as "Brother Dragon four, but in Korean", and wait for it to click. Once they get it, most of the kiddos will always remember that "adjective = brother dragon four".... although not all of them are clear what 형용사 is in Korean either, so that can be a stumbling block...
Quote from: Aristocrat on June 25, 2019, 09:40:12 pmJust felt so defeated today and literally stopped the class, mid-lesson, sat down and did work on my computer while the students sat in silence...I definitely feel your pain here and I've come close a few times to doing that. I always thought I went a bit overboard on trying to get into their heads what adjectives, nouns and verbs are but I agree that it is essential for them to know it. But yeah, I still get a sea of blank faces when I ask for examples of each.
Just felt so defeated today and literally stopped the class, mid-lesson, sat down and did work on my computer while the students sat in silence...
Circumstance: Today, in a huge cafe. It is the size of 2 villas put together, 3 floors. Maybe 1/3 full at most. (lots of places all over)I am there with 5 other people at a large table playing a board game and having our coffee. I can hear people yelling from the other side of the building and laughing. A guy behind on speakerphone talking on the phone. We are not being loud or anything over the top IMO. After 10 min a lady from 2 tables comes over to tell us to be quiet.... We obviously obliged and tried to keep it down but why is it that she just didn't move to the other side of the building? Why did she not go over to any of the Koreans making noise right beside her? I mean, I guess this is a rhetorical question and also just a rant but wtf....
anyone else ever experience unbearable stenches on the subway coming from some people? it's like.. they've been rubbing themselves in raw garlic and kimchi then refusing to wash for a weekwonder if i smell weird to koreans, as my wife never seems to notice these smells :/
Quote from: oglop on June 29, 2019, 12:00:42 amanyone else ever experience unbearable stenches on the subway coming from some people? it's like.. they've been rubbing themselves in raw garlic and kimchi then refusing to wash for a weekwonder if i smell weird to koreans, as my wife never seems to notice these smells :/Damn dude. Racist much? So some people have body odor? Big deal. It happens, especially when it's hot out and people are packed into confined spaces.
bernard werber is on korean tv right now. bernard werber written in hangeul is 베르나르 베르베르lol
For the holidays I'm doing a stopover in Warsaw. So said that to the teachers. But I knew that I had to think of it in Hanguel, but they didn't understand what I said, so when I checked it, it was 바르샤바.Not even close.
Quote from: Ronnie Omelettes on July 01, 2019, 08:30:13 amFor the holidays I'm doing a stopover in Warsaw. So said that to the teachers. But I knew that I had to think of it in Hanguel, but they didn't understand what I said, so when I checked it, it was 바르샤바.Not even close.Except that in Polish, it's pronounced [varˈʂava], so actually, the Korean pronunciation is a fair bit closer to the real thing than the English pronunciation.I've noticed the same is true for a lot of Russian, German, and Dutch names as well.English is horrible for mangling foreign city names. I mean... "The Hague"? Really? Really?['sxraːvə(n)ˈɦaːɣə]. Or if you really must, at least [dɛn ˈɦaːx].
...but with the Hanguel syllable construction it can be way off too. I remember hearing a teacher had been to 상트페테르부르크 and it took a while to understand where he'd been.
Quote from: Ronnie Omelettes on July 01, 2019, 09:50:17 am...but with the Hanguel syllable construction it can be way off too. I remember hearing a teacher had been to 상트페테르부르크 and it took a while to understand where he'd been.Oh definitely no denying that.The Hanguelization of my name looks more like somebody deep in the throes of a grand mal than an honest attempt at sounding it out.
Summer is here and so my gym has a bunch of new patrons all signed up trying to get their beach bodies ready before their vacations. It's so aggravating because the majority of them aren't taking it seriously and are getting in everyone else's way. I mean why dafuq would you sign up for a gym membership just so that you can sit on a machine for ten to fifteen minutes chatting or texting on your stupid phone? Go the **** outside if whatever conversation can't wait. Or just stop coming to the gym if you can't even be arsed to follow general gym etiquette. Meanwhile, read the goddamn signs and put your ****** weights away. This goes double for those guys who overload the machines with way more ****** weight than they can actually handle so that they can stroke their egos with the 5% ROM that they can just barely manage to push or lift. Dude, you're NOT accomplishing anything with that. You're just going to hurt yourself and put yourself out of commission. Stop using the benches as your personal lockers. There are actual lockers where you can keep your crap in. Also, you can't actually reserve multiple machines for your own personal use. This isn't your home, it isn't your equipment, and other members have just as much right to use those machines as you do. If you're not currently using it, others can, and you have to wait to use it later just like the rest of us. AND ANOTHER THING, STOP USING THE MACHINES AS YOUR PERSONAL STRETCHING AREAS. GO TO A CORNER AND USE THE ****** WALL LIKE EVERYONE ELSE DOES. DON'T BOTHER GIVING ME A LOOK WHEN I TELL YOU TO ****** MOVE SO THAT I CAN USE THE MACHINE WITHOUT CATCHING YOUR FINGERS IN THE GEARS, JUST ****** MOVE.
Quote from: Chinguetti on July 01, 2019, 09:20:10 amSummer is here and so my gym has a bunch of new patrons all signed up trying to get their beach bodies ready before their vacations. It's so aggravating because the majority of them aren't taking it seriously and are getting in everyone else's way. I mean why dafuq would you sign up for a gym membership just so that you can sit on a machine for ten to fifteen minutes chatting or texting on your stupid phone? Go the **** outside if whatever conversation can't wait. Or just stop coming to the gym if you can't even be arsed to follow general gym etiquette. Meanwhile, read the goddamn signs and put your ****** weights away. This goes double for those guys who overload the machines with way more ****** weight than they can actually handle so that they can stroke their egos with the 5% ROM that they can just barely manage to push or lift. Dude, you're NOT accomplishing anything with that. You're just going to hurt yourself and put yourself out of commission. Stop using the benches as your personal lockers. There are actual lockers where you can keep your crap in. Also, you can't actually reserve multiple machines for your own personal use. This isn't your home, it isn't your equipment, and other members have just as much right to use those machines as you do. If you're not currently using it, others can, and you have to wait to use it later just like the rest of us. AND ANOTHER THING, STOP USING THE MACHINES AS YOUR PERSONAL STRETCHING AREAS. GO TO A CORNER AND USE THE ****** WALL LIKE EVERYONE ELSE DOES. DON'T BOTHER GIVING ME A LOOK WHEN I TELL YOU TO ****** MOVE SO THAT I CAN USE THE MACHINE WITHOUT CATCHING YOUR FINGERS IN THE GEARS, JUST ****** MOVE. This resonates deeply with me.Almost every time there's some new guy (the women are, almost without exception, considerate and tidy at my gym) that comes in, he always falls into at least one of these categories:- doesn't put anything away after using it and just leaves equipment everywhere- uses one of the benches as his personal storage area for his phone and water- is either excessively loud and dramatic when lifting, or drops his weights with a huge clang after every set, even though he's nowhere close to lifting to failure - group of high school kids who aren't really doing anything except talking, taking up space and being in the wayHonestly half the time when I go to the gym, the dumbbells are just scattered all over the gym, so I'll take like five minutes and put them all back on the rack, and tidy the place up a little bit, just so it doesn't drive me crazy while I'm trying to exercise. I do see a lot of inexperienced people come in and really try hard, too, though. So that's nice. Starting out at the gym is hard and scary for a lot of people, so like, I get that not everyone's going to be focusing on etiquette from the start but... yeah no, like a lot of it is literally just common decency and not being an an inconsiderate idiot. Also yeah, waygook.org user Chinguetti - nobody reads the signs. I wish they would.
Luckily, most people won't put up a fight if you tell them to "GTF out the way" if they're lollygagging on the bench or if you tell them to take their crap off the equipment.
Quote from: Aristocrat on July 02, 2019, 08:10:38 amLuckily, most people won't put up a fight if you tell them to "GTF out the way" if they're lollygagging on the bench or if you tell them to take their crap off the equipment. In my previous apartment gym there was this one guy in his 20s who, apart from the fact he'd have conversations with the tv, used to spend most of his time not exercising. Like, he'd be on the running machine, then he'd put his feet either side of it, and then use his phone sometimes for up to 10 or 15 minutes with the belt still running. What's the point of going to the gym if you're not going to work out? Sometimes, I see people sitting on the mats using their phones or taking pictures for 15 or 20 minutes and just not get it. It's not like they're doing some strenuous workout and have to take time out. That is one part (apart from Korean driving) of Korea I absolutely detest, which is being glued to their phones. If you go to the gym, work the fukc out, don't do what you do all day anyway. Put down the phone and do something else for a change.
I do see a lot of inexperienced people come in and really try hard, too, though. So that's nice. Starting out at the gym is hard and scary for a lot of people, so like, I get that not everyone's going to be focusing on etiquette from the start but... yeah no, like a lot of it is literally just common decency and not being an an inconsiderate idiot.
What's the point of going to the gym if you're not going to work out? Sometimes, I see people sitting on the mats using their phones or taking pictures for 15 or 20 minutes and just not get it.
Not to mention the dumb things that go on in the locker rooms and showers - untidy, no sense of person space and many other annoying things.
I'll never forget the king of gym douchebaggery. He was a short, bald pumped-up little ajjushi, who resembled humpty-dumpty.