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International Culture, Binge Stories and Humour
THE KORIER: Funnier than an exploding monkey.
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12/03/09 - "So good we're targeted by spam!" - Korier auto-critique |
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Korea: Those Six-Party Talks In Full
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A brief sketch.
NORTH KOREA: I have the bo-omb, I have the bo-omb.
SOUTH KOREA: Come on man, you're making us both look like assholes...
NK: Okay, brother nation. We are ready to talk to the... capitalists.
SK: Okay, great, but can you lay off that whole 'brother nation' stuff before they get here? The other guys laugh at that, you know...
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Korea: Roh Moo Hyun: We Hardly Knew Ye!
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Ode To Some Guy Who Was In Charge Of Some Country The First Time I Went There
By Jack McLoughlin
A poem (or personal journey in the style of E.J. Thribb).
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A musing on the nature of English First language training school's advertising literature
BEIJING - Sometimes it’s hard not to love living in China. Whenever I’m asked about why I enjoy my life here so much, one of the reasons is that, unless you shelter yourself in a nice apartment in downtown Beijing or Shanghai and keep to a strict regimen of expat friends and expat hangout spots, you will see something incredibly implausible, politically incorrect or just standing-on-the-street-corner-cursing-the-world crazy almost every day.
In the streets, you’ll see wild street performances, blatant prostitution, crazy old people pointing and cursing, public sleeping, extreme intoxication any hour of the day, traffic jams caused largely by articulated lorries trying to drive down alleyways, plenty of traffic accidents, police shaking down the locals and wild arguments which occasionally balloon in to Clockwork Orange style ultra violence. Anything slighty interesting draws a huge crowd as people stand, safe in the group, to watch the drama unfold all the while obeying rule number one: don’t get involved.
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An easygoing show about postdoctoral mathematics (kind of)
by Jack McLoughlin
My mathsey-sense was tingling as I inserted the counterfeit DVD of Season 1, Disc 1 of the US TV Series Numbers. It’s a DVD-9, which in China means that it’s a slightly higher quality, apparently. This, like much of the service industry in this country, is a heap of bullshit as it seems that DVD-9s have just as a high a probability of non-functionality, not containing as many episodes as is claimed on the box or being something else altogether. Admittedly, I maybe need to increase my sample set size and apply a more rigorous regression analysis before asserting this conclusion.
However, after three episodes, I could finally put my finger on what didn’t sit quite right with me about this show: maths (and physics) at graduate student level is largely guys, but THIS SHOW IS FOR GIRLS!
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LONDON - Bottom-feeder turned proof-anybody-can-be-famous, the late Jade Goody, was this morning pronounced alive at The Max Clifford Media Centre Research Labs in London.
Goody, a one-time contestant on the reality show Big Brother, who finished fourth, has joined the likes of Lazarus, Jesus Christ and every Buddhist on the planet (albeit in a different forms) as a mortally-challenged individual and was reported to be "surprised and delighted" at the development.
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Wayne's World Just Got Less Funny
by Jack McLoughlin
It happens about an hour in to this shockingly bad tribute to a big name attempting to make some quick money. The achingly contrived Love Guru character played by Mike Myers is in the car with his young bla- er, African American, tutee and is flicking the radio station from generic hip hop toward something more spiritual. For a second, the guru hits on the awesome guitar solo from Bohemian Rhapsody, makes a startled gesture and then finds his generic Indian subcontinent sounding music. And this painful reference to a good film that he was in got me thinking: was Mike Myers ever that funny?
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Asia: Apropos of the Slacker
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Teachers In Asia: What Does The Credit Crunch Mean For You?
by Jack McLoughlin
BEIJING - To many of us living in Asia, the credit crunch is something that's affecting other people. It can even be kind-of funny to us British, referencing the recent nose-dive of the Pound and declaring that "I get a pay rise every month!" Indeed, we are isolated from the Chinese people getting hit by the financial turmoil - the migrant workers - and these guys aren't spending their extremely hard-earned renminbi on English lessons anyway, so our jobs will remain unaffected. For now, that is...
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Endearingly ridiculous
by Jack McLoughlin
I liked Prison Break. After hearing lots of people talk about how good it was without being specific about it, it had to be another far-fetched drama of the Lost format. That it definitely is, but it's still fun watching an episode because you never know what ingenious plan relying on a set of fortunate circumstances will be concucted next by Michael Scofield, who appears to be a cross between the ice cold calculation of Vladimir Putin and the ice cool loveable invulnerability of Pootie Tang.
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It's not very good...
by Jack McLoughlin
I watched all the Pirates of the Caribbean films recently. No big reason; unlike everyone else on the planet, I’d not even seen one of them before. All the kids I taught in Korea had called me Jack Suh-Pa-Ro-Oo and I had only really heard positive comments about it; “it’s awesome, dude!”, “wow dude, it’s awesome” and “Hans Zimmer did the music for the second one – he’s really talented”. Upon hearing that the third of the series had been heavily cut in China due to it’s unflattering depiction of Chinese pirates, I knew that once again, I would turn to isohunt.com to expand my mind.
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Asia: Are You Blind Ref? No, But All The Players Are
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A report from the all-China blind football cup final
by Daneel Starr
KUNMING, 2008 - Last month, Kunming was host to the seventh Chinese special olympics. The hype started a few weeks before with the removal of all street vendors and other undesirables from the streets of Kunming. I mean, China doesn't want to be seen as a dirty third world country, does it? This pissed me off because a large percentage of my food intake comes from these delightful farmers hawking miscellaneous scraps of animal in various buns or dumplings. But in hindsight it was worth it for the chance to see China's blind elite battle it out for the All China Blind Football Trophy.
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| Friday, February 06 | | · | Citizen Caned |
| · | Sex, Drugs And No Bog Roll (Without The Sex) |
| · | Crouching Tiger, Squatting Tourist |
| Sunday, September 28 | | · | The Wicked Bus |
| · | Thank Fuck The Olympics Is Over |
| Wednesday, August 13 | | · | Boring People You'd Never Listen To Get On The News |
| Sunday, June 01 | | · | Film Review: Aliens Vs Predator 2 |
| Wednesday, April 23 | | · | WUHAN: WOO HOO |
| Wednesday, March 19 | | · | Watching Football in Asia: the Differences. |
| Friday, March 14 | | · | THE DMZ: the Gnarliest Place on Earth |
| Thursday, February 21 | | · | Jimjilbang Uncensored |
| · | A Piss Up in a (Government Owned) Brewery |
| Tuesday, February 19 | | · | Ronald McDonald Arrested |
| Thursday, February 07 | | · | Ninjas in China; Knights in the West |
| Tuesday, February 05 | | · | Religion: 20 Questions |
| Saturday, February 02 | | · | Gig Review: Girls Aloud |
| · | Getting Paid for Being White |
| Saturday, December 15 | | · | Innocent Debauchery and Watered-Down Carling |
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