16-04-2003 17:19									#1
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LOL, a bunch of drunks stopped me rollerblading home at 9:00PM and decided to shove me over.

I tried to explain that I wasn't American, etc etc, but all they saw was a white face speakin english. Had to listen to the usually "Bushie bad, F U Usa' speech". The shoving was kinda pathetic after I got up because they were so piss-assed drunk on soju. I just wiggled away and put on some speed.

Thank Odin I'm back now.

First time anything physical happened to me in Korea.

I heartily must say it is not typical and Korea is still a great place for an expat.

	16-04-2003 17:36									#2
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if they were that pissed, you should have taken the opportunity to beat the **** into them

	16-04-2003 18:27									#3
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Or just tie their shoe laces together

	16-04-2003 18:40									#4
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Koreans? Koreans are just this side of dwarves.
Toss them.

	16-04-2003 18:42									#5
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Huh? Koreans can be BIG.

	16-04-2003 18:44									#6
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is tossing dwarves an American thing then?

	16-04-2003 18:46									#7
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I don't think so.

	16-04-2003 18:48									#8
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quote: Originally posted by SlowwHand Koreans? Koreans are just this side of dwarves. Toss them.

Yeah well, Seeker ain't big himself.

	16-04-2003 18:53									#9
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quote: Originally posted by C0ckney if they were that pissed, you should have taken the opportunity to beat the **** into them

Nah. If they were that stupid, they might have done something more than push him down in that case.

	16-04-2003 18:54									#10
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Yes it is. I have a team called Dallas Dwarf Tossers.
Ask around. A few at ACS are familiar with it.


Koreans big. HA! I guess it's all relative.
To you shortshits, they probably are.

	16-04-2003 18:58									#11
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I don't know... does 6'4'' and 280 pounds sound big?

	16-04-2003 19:07									#12
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You should have been polite 'Hey guys, come on, there's nothing to worry about here, let's go to a bar, first round is on me!', and when they get their drinks, distract them for a second and poison their drinks.

	16-04-2003 19:08									#13
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It's not confined to Dallas, or even Texas.

"For Beetlejuice completists, here's the brief Amityville, N.Y. police report detailing how cops and State Liquor Authority investigators busted up that recent dwarf tossing exhibition at the Odyssey Bar. Beetlejuice, a/k/a Lester Green, was ticketed along with his manager, the always annoying Joey Boots, a/k/a Joseph Bassolino. We're confused about Beetle's real age, though. Last November, The New York Post reported he was 33. According to the d/o/b on this report, Beetle's age has plummeted to 25. (2 pages)"
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/dwarftoss1.html


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	16-04-2003 19:09									#14
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you could simply have said "**** Bush".

It's the password apparently.

	16-04-2003 19:10									#15
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glad you didn't retort back in native speech.

doubt that calling them kehsekidul would have helped much. or michinseki. or shippalseki.

but i bet it would've made you feel better if you saw the expressions on their faces when they realized you could speak korean.

	16-04-2003 19:22									#16
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Koreans small? Hee Sop Choi (Cubs rookie 1Bman) is 6'5'' 240lbs. Sure, he is probably on the top of the Bell Curve, but I don't think the Korean average height is much smaller than American.

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quote: Originally posted by Q Cubed doubt that calling them kehsekidul would have helped much. or michinseki. or shippalseki.

I hope they mean something particularly vile.

	16-04-2003 19:28									#18
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quote: Originally posted by paiktis22 you could simply have said "**** Bush".

That reminds me of an old Vietnam-era joke:

A newbie in Vietnam asked how he could tell the Viet Cong from the regular citizenry. He was told you yell out "F*** Ho Chi Minh. If he shoots at you, he's a Viet Cong."

A week later, the newbie is found in the hospital. He's asked what happened.

"Well, I saw a Vietnamese and so I shouted out, 'F*** Ho Chi Minh.' He shouted back, 'F*** LBJ.' And while we were in the middle of the road shaking hands, a truck ran over us."

	16-04-2003 19:29									#19
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s.o.b., psycho (which actually is worse than you think), f*cker.

	16-04-2003 19:38									#21
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@ Zkribbler.

That has to be one of the funniest jokes on here in a long time.

	16-04-2003 21:05									#22
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Korean insults are wierd.

Most of the 'bad' ones basically mean crazy or stupid, or 'gay say ree' (Yeah that's not the proper way but that's how it sounds to me, Son of dog).

I got in a bit of trouble calling a girl 'crazy' because it translates as michinoma, it isn't a lighthearted thing in Korean.

Also, I know it exists but none of the korean teachers here can tell me the word for 'silly', or 'wacky' or some other lighthearted equivalent for 'foolish'.

I keep getting 'babo' or 'may-long' which is really 'stupid' or 'fool' in English.

	17-04-2003 00:05									#23
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Hope you are OK, Seeker.

OTOH, I am glad they were not Russians.

quote: Originally posted by Seeker First time anything physical happened to me in Korea.

So the Russians that used to haunt you over there never got physical?

	17-04-2003 01:54									#24
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gay say ree == keh sek ki
michinoma ~= (another form of) michinnum ~= michinseki (son of, actually)

yeah, for some reason, michi* (the other endings which change it to a noun, adjective, verb, etc.) is one of the taboo words on korean radio or television. i remember a rap group called DJDOC which had one song which couldn't be played because it had the word "michigesuh".

pabo == babo == stupid

have you heard the following?
mungchung-i
duhlmuhri

	17-04-2003 01:58									#25
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yeah!! learning to swear in another language!!!

	17-04-2003 01:59									#26
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT I don't know... does 6'4'' and 280 pounds sound big?

Sounds like the first Korean I met too...

	17-04-2003 02:06									#27
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Why is being called a psycho so bad in Korea?

	17-04-2003 02:07									#28
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i honestly don't know. but: i've noticed it's almost taboo to mention anybody in the family being mentally ill...

it's prolly some deep seated cultural displeasure for any form of mental disruption.

	17-04-2003 02:09									#29
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quote: Why is being called a psycho so bad in Korea?

Weird.... in the US, if your psycho, you get elected to public office!

	17-04-2003 02:14									#30
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as for silly, wack, or foolish, i dunno of any other word than pabo.

the only thing i can think of which kinda translates with silly in it is:
ookijimaruh == "don't be silly"
but that's almost invariably used in a sharp disagreement.