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Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon holds up a sign yesterday in Gwanghwamun, central Seoul, to encourage citizens to vote in a referendum on the free school lunch program. Oh is campaigning to bring voters to the polls on Aug. 24, as referendum results are only valid when turnout is more than 33.3 percent.
Via the Joong Ang Ilbo.
8:00 pm on August 16th, 2011 1
Free lunches is bad because it reminds people that poverty is a reality for many kids. Korea Whaiting!
8:28 pm on August 16th, 2011 2
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10:56 pm on August 16th, 2011 3
#2,
WTF is TANSTAAFL?
12:01 am on August 17th, 2011 4
“WTF is TANSTAAFL?”
Tirelessly Asking Naive Shyt, Teadrinker’s Always A Funkin’ Loser
I’m sorry. I’m totally messin’ with you.
I looked at it and… and… well… it had two Ts. It was begging for it. What could I do?
It lacks any Cs… but I hope for a clever reply. I suggest F is good for Fowl.
12:49 am on August 17th, 2011 5
Another acronym foul? Is there a demerit system for that?
2:52 am on August 17th, 2011 6
#4,
I won’t bother. I win by the mere fact that you’ve wasted time thinking about that one.
3:28 am on August 17th, 2011 7
You presume I didn’t look at it and immediately see FL which is intuitively Funkin’ Loser. The A before it is also blindingly obvious. “Always” fit exactly into place without thought. And, of course, the T before it was what I was shooting for to begin with. All of that was over in less than 5 seconds.
TANS was a bit harder.
“Asking” was a good place to start. Asking (some type) of Shyt was obvious. Needless, Niggling, Naive came to mind. I selected Naive. And how was it asked? Tirelessly was the first thing I thought of.
Total time? Less than 30 seconds.
This type of thinking keeps the mind sharp and is much, much, much better than passively watching TV or some other nonsense.
I win again.
3:43 am on August 17th, 2011 8
I lost. I spent a whole minute laughing to ChickenHead’s expansion of the acronyms.
5:58 am on August 17th, 2011 9
The Korean left is urging voters to boycott this referendum on THEIR proposed policy. That 33.3% requirement is a lame excuse to urge a boycott of the election.Urging people to boycott voting is the stuff of third world sham elections. Boycotting elections is a strategy that should alienate those interested in good government. They also do everything they can to prevent votes in the Korean national assembly. Do the Korean left leaders understand that in a democracy the will of the VOTERS is what should matter when governing?
6:15 am on August 17th, 2011 10
In case anyone doesn’t know, the Seoul mayor is in the conservative party, but the city council has a Korean left majority. That Korean left majority should understand their responsibility to properly govern and not pass controversial spending bills then sit on the sidelines when those issues come to votes by the people. Instead of urging a boycott, the Korean left in Seoul should be explaining the merits of their proposed school lunch program. For a political party in control of a city council to ignore issues that they raised is just so wrong.
9:17 am on August 17th, 2011 11
#7,
2 minutes to write. This, 3 seconds. I win.
9:24 am on August 17th, 2011 12
PS. 15 seconds or so…
Thoughtless, Asinine, Nonsensical, Sht…That’s All A Fowl Levels.
9:32 am on August 17th, 2011 13
“That’s All A Fowl Levels”
GG, TD.
Don’t try. Your command of advanced English linguistics is appalling.
9:33 am on August 17th, 2011 14
…It also crossed my mind that I could have substituted Sht for Stupid, but chose it to be an object instead of another qualitative adjective. Besides, had I chosen to do so, I would have also substituted “That’s All A Fowl Levels” with “That’s why All Fowls Lose”…but that would have been cheating a bit since there’s no W to play with.
9:37 am on August 17th, 2011 15
#13,
I see your vocabulary is very limited. Levels as in the transitive verb…
Level: To direct emphatically or forcefully toward someone.
9:42 am on August 17th, 2011 16
I was also using the OSV sentence structure. Although it’s rare in English, it is sometimes used in poetry (yes, poetic justice) or for emphasis.
-What do you do at work everyday?
-Shit I have to do.
7:24 pm on August 17th, 2011 17
…Even better, “Shit my boss makes me do”.
7:26 pm on August 17th, 2011 18
““That’s why All Fowls Lose”…missed an A…”“That’s why All American Fowls Lose”
7:29 am on August 18th, 2011 19
Is the trashcan by a restaurant a positive externality for the homeless or does the risk to health incurred from eating from the trash can factor in as a cost?
3:58 am on August 20th, 2011 20
No free lunch for Governor (and potential President) Rick Perry.
5:13 am on August 20th, 2011 21
Glans,
The real story is that he is standing in front of Adolf Hitler.
Rick Perry governs with just a little too much help from Jesus…
…and, despite talk of freedom, he is a bit too worried about gay people committing to each other…
…and he dances around taking a firm stand against the Mexican Invasion… as the Hispanic vote too often runs along loyalty to race and Mexican nationalism instead of loyalty to America…
…but he is big on States’ Rights, Gun Ownership, Reduced Taxes, Global Warming Ridicule, and he is a friend of Ted Nugent…
…and he seems a bit somewhat less crazy than anybody else the Republicans are prancing around in the public eye at the moment.
So we will see.
Strangely, I’m leaning toward wanting Obama to have a second term.
While all the wrong groups will see that as affirmation of all the wrong ideas, the reality is that he is such an ineffective non-entity who has really accomplished almost nothing for his legacy or his party, he could well be less harmful than somebody stronger who goes off in the wrong direction… as both parties are currently going in the wrong direction.