Korea- Too boring

[Ideologue]

Killed people.  Degraded morale.  Destroyed their major port facilities.

Airpower didn't defeat Japan, the USN defeated Japan

Conceding for argument's sake this is true, the USN defeated Japan with..?

[Neil]

Killed people.  Degraded morale.  Destroyed their major port facilities.

And how would that have helped win the war in Vietnam?  Would that have prevented the antiwar movement from agitating surrender?

Airpower didn't defeat Japan, the USN defeated Japan

Conceding for argument's sake this is true, the USN defeated Japan with..?

Every weapon at their disposal, including dreadnought battleships.

[Ed Anger]

gedunk ships

[Josquius]

I just think it's weird that someone would assume that, just because someone is 'smart', that automatically means they are also good at conveying their knowledge to others.  Then again, there are plenty of professors at American universities who can't teach worth a damn either.

In my experience, the purpose of the foreign English teachers isn't to teach the kids grammar.  There are other local English teachers who will do that.  Their purposes are to

(1) serve as role models on how to speak real English without an accent (something the local teachers simply can't do)
(2) make the kids converse in English (they have no choice but to speak English to Tim and Ide) and
(3) make sure that the lessons aren't just about grammar (a lot of local English teachers suck at speaking English and they are reluctant to speak English themselves for fear of making a fool of themselves in front of their students)

Also IMO there's a big role to be had in making English a real, useful skill.
When I was learning French it was just some boring theoretical bollocks in a text book. Have a young, interesting foreigner around though and it becomes far more of an applicable real world skill.

Though teaching grammar certainly is an important point. I'm always getting questions from Japanese English teachers about little nuances of grammar. Several of them have trouble with the/an

[Monoriu]

the heavy bombers could have significantly shortened the war by never being built.

How do you propose to deliver the nukes without heavy bombers?

[Neil]

the heavy bombers could have significantly shortened the war by never being built.

How do you propose to deliver the nukes without heavy bombers?

Don't care.  Nuclear weapons have ruined everything.

[Eddie Teach]

Have a young, interesting foreigner around though and it becomes far more of an applicable real world skill.

Do they ever actually find any of those? 

[Monoriu]

I liked the foreign teachers when I was in primary school.  Instead of the never-ending exams, tests and exercises, they just talked to us.  They came to class, and said today we would talk about the moon.  There were no marks to be deducted, no grades given, and no homework.  That's all they did.  We really enjoyed the opportunity to slack off 

[Siege]

What I think of: Remo Williams   


Ironically, the racist Korean martial arts master in that movie is Joel Grey, who knows no martial arts and is actually Jewish, not asian. His daughter is Jennifer Grey from Ferris Bueller and Dirty Dancing.

What? The HOTT chick in Ferris Bueller is Mia Sara, who is also in Legend with Tom Cruise.
And she is jewish.

[Tonitrus]

What I think of: Remo Williams   


Ironically, the racist Korean martial arts master in that movie is Joel Grey, who knows no martial arts and is actually Jewish, not asian. His daughter is Jennifer Grey from Ferris Bueller and Dirty Dancing.

What? The HOTT chick in Ferris Bueller is Mia Sara, who is also in Legend with Tom Cruise.
And she is jewish.

Jennifer Grey was Bueller's sister.

[Siege]

Korea?
I think of Yi, that girl band, and fat asian chicks.
Of course, Samsung and Hyundai are the first things that come to mind.
Then Yi.
No offense bro.

[Siege]

What I think of: Remo Williams   


Ironically, the racist Korean martial arts master in that movie is Joel Grey, who knows no martial arts and is actually Jewish, not asian. His daughter is Jennifer Grey from Ferris Bueller and Dirty Dancing.

What? The HOTT chick in Ferris Bueller is Mia Sara, who is also in Legend with Tom Cruise.
And she is jewish.

Jennifer Grey was Bueller's sister.

Oh. I haven't seen that movie in a while.

[Ideologue]

Killed people.  Degraded morale.  Destroyed their major port facilities.

And how would that have helped win the war in Vietnam?  Would that have prevented the antiwar movement from agitating surrender?

Airpower didn't defeat Japan, the USN defeated Japan

Conceding for argument's sake this is true, the USN defeated Japan with..?

Every weapon at their disposal, including dreadnought battleships.

We have fun, don't we?

[Ideologue]

I liked the foreign teachers when I was in primary school.  Instead of the never-ending exams, tests and exercises, they just talked to us.  They came to class, and said today we would talk about the moon.  There were no marks to be deducted, no grades given, and no homework.  That's all they did.  We really enjoyed the opportunity to slack off 

Training the scribes of the People's Republic of China: a new scandal envelopes Newt Gingrich.

[Zoupa]

I'm not sure it's possible, dude.  I'll look into it.

I'll fucking buy you the damn ticket dude. You can pay me back later.

Like it or not, this is happening.