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One of my fifth grade teachers had to enter the room sideways. Also broke a couple chairs.

I reminisce for a spell, or shall i say think back

i think i posted about 10 times on trackr.

just think, chuy our own personal zuckerberg.

This nerdy white kid asked me how do you become a teacher.  I asked what he wants to teach and he said "English in Japan". What a creep. He is not fooling anyone. He only wants to do one thing over there and it is disgusting.

there is a whole subset of freshly graduated college students that take a year (or 2 or 10) off to go teach english abroad. I have a a few friends who have done this. One went to Colombia and is still there, having recently gotten married to a Venezuelan girl he met while down there.

The most popular destinations seem to be in Asia as uzi mentioned. Korea, Japan and China are up there.

My dad has been teaching at a University in Thailand for about 10 years now. It's not quite the same thing as fresh college grads looking for a year to find themselves and make a quick buck while visiting an exotic locale, but it still can attract creeps. The uni he teaches at is pretty proactive about sniffing out the pervy predators. He told me about a guy who was teaching there who had an unhealthy obsession with feet. He was launched pretty quickly after asking a few students to massage their feet or smell their socks some other weird, creepy thing.

a friend (different from one above) who did several years in korea before settling down into a career in comms (working for the london mayor's office) recommended that i try to find a university job out there, if i were to go. apparently with a master's/ABD you can get a decent teaching post at an asian university. still think i'd rather go after a PhD. does seem hella fun, though. so long as you're well-adjusted it seems like a blast.

i mean, grads from english-speaking countries have kind of won the lottery in having this industry and constant demand to work abroad.

Last edited by uziq (2020-01-17 13:18:17)

I think your dad went just as native. And I doubt it wasn't on his mind in the first place.

I never said there was anything wrong with going native. For a guy that's fine. For a woman? Absolutely not of course. I used to think that any white woman who dated outside her race was either mentally ill or trashy. But now I see all of these young white girls dating black boys and it hurts my heart. The media told these girls this was okay and set them up for a lifetime of problems.

Also my dad is white not my mom. That's the okay configuration.

Also basketball. That's not a sport a proper white woman should be interested in. Of the four major sports hockey, football, basketball, and baseball, basketball is the only one that has this issue. It is a major red flag for any white woman to be into basketball.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Also basketball. That's not a sport a proper white woman should be interested in. Of the four major sports hockey, football, basketball, and baseball, basketball is the only one that has this issue. It is a major red flag for any white woman to be into basketball.

the ‘four major sports’?!  lmao in about 3 nations in the world, one of which you nuked into accepting it, maybe.

tennis is a good spectator sport. individual sports trump team sports, for me. more pressure, more competitive, more of a psychological test. plus they don't inspire boorish tribalism from people whose glory-days are long gone and rooted in small success as a high-school quarterback who 'could have made the big time' etc etc.

how odd that you complain about a lot of standing around and then talk about cricket. a game so boring it takes a week to resolve. and rugby is about as slow and attritional as the trench warfare it was designed to prepare young schoolboys for.

every professional sport is just a business, it's sort of in the name. if rugby had an opportunity for the viewership/audience of football, it wouldn't be any different in terms of culture, as much as tedious rugby fan bores have fostered the 'we're better than them' mentality (the actions of the governing body to change the game to make it more spectator-friendly suggest they'd love the viewing figures, of course).

i don't watch any sports, though the high drama of a tennis grand slam is always good.

i think we can at least all agree that golf is barely a sport and an even drabber affair on television.

shooting is so little of a sport that it couldn't even make it into the commonwealth games properly this time around. who can possibly be interested? isn't it happening in india or something, a literal side-show? a side-show to a side-show of the olympics -- wow. shooting is on the same order as darts, for me, an idle pursuit bereft of all athleticism. i could maybe get behind it if it took place in darkened conference centres with rooms full of people sat around drinking 12 pints of lager.

Last edited by uziq (2020-01-18 06:33:24)

Just stopped by to see if this site was still active. Amazed to see the same users going at it after all these years. I hadn't thought the community was all that tight knit when I was active.

Wish you all well.