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    p.s. i knew you were in asia, remember me asking how many other cat cafes were there because someone talked about seeing one and i thought it was yours?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Abandon View Post
    p.s. i knew you were in asia, remember me asking how many other cat cafes were there because someone talked about seeing one and i thought it was yours?
    Wasn't certain who knew and who didn't I wasn't offended, but some people do get really touchy about it. I swear it seems whenever dogs/cats and Korea are mentioned, the idea of them being eaten comes up every time. It's not that I have a problem with animals that were being raised as food being killed and eaten, but animals raised as pets are given antibiotics and vaccinations that could make their meat toxic and it's stupid for the pro-meat people to think it's OK to kill and eat shelter animals (or eat stolen pets, like in this article).

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    This big wig real estate developer bought the company I work for. He's surprisingly cool and came in my office with a gift card to a fancy ass French restaurant he owns. Me and my team are getting all classed up and going there this evening.

    I'm taking all the little victories I can get these days. Also, I'm pairing the correct wine with every course, the fuck outta here think I ain't stepping in there classy as shit!

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    He's probably going to tell you all that you're fired at the end of the meal >.> But grats if not!

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    lmao naw, he doesn't even know we're coming. My department decided to go together and I settled on this date, mostly because Friday nights are mine.

    The tentative plan is to hang at a bar afterwards and get just drunk enough to thoroughly enjoy the midnight premier of Spiderman 2. Attempting to win across the board tonight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Siccmade View Post
    lmao naw, he doesn't even know we're coming. My department decided to go together and I settled on this date, mostly because Friday nights are mine.

    The tentative plan is to hang at a bar afterwards and get just drunk enough to thoroughly enjoy the midnight premier of Spiderman 2. Attempting to win across the board tonight.
    I saw the movie last week (gotta love how Korea gets Marvel films a week earlier than the US ), and it's definitely worth a watch. 100x better than the previous Spiderman trilogy, even though at times you still wanna slap the main characters upside the head... I assume they're following the comic storyline closer, but as Marvel has re-done its main series story-lines I haven't had a chance to research which line it's on. I wish Sony would allow Spiderman to integrate into the larger Marvel multiverse, even if it was just a cameo in the Avengers... Hell, even a file with his name and picture that said [REJECTED].

    My own random win for the week is a bit weak... My Little Pony has started airing in Korean, and we've been recording it. I can now watch together with my kids and learn some Korean at the same time (they watch the English show with me and understand it fine, but they enjoy having it in Korean since they use that more with everyone other than me). Once I can trim and encode the files I'll toss them on YouTube, but that'll be posted in the Pony thread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MaachaQ View Post
    The show was in Incheon, I think there were only maybe 4-5 non-asians in attendance other than myself ^^; The whole dog meat / cat meat thing is really blown out of proportion, as it's something that is largely frowned upon though not yet illegal. Some people, mainly age 60+, view dishes with dog meat or cat meat as having special powers similar to traditional Chinese medicine, like granting stamina or easing aches and pains. Go go placebo effect...
    Wait... that whole chinese food is dog and cat thing was real? Sorry if this is old news, but I always thought it was a joke growing up lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by ninjafox View Post
    Wait... that whole chinese food is dog and cat thing was real? Sorry if this is old news, but I always thought it was a joke growing up lol
    It's a holdover from times when food was scarce (and food is still scarce in many parts of China, so it persists more there than in Korea nowadays). Dogs and cats were something that reproduced easily (there's always strays around, and nobody was neutering non-feral animals that were kept as working animals; guard dogs, ratters, mouser cats), and generally would stay around their homes. Dogs would be fed table scraps, cats pretty much left to fend for themselves, and once they were big enough or food was needed, off they went. I'm not certain the origin of the idea in Korea that Dog Meat gives extra stamina, or that cat meat cures asthma, but that is really what some people believe and it's the reason the practice still continues in some places. Some even believe the dog meat "tastes better" if the dog is frightened and tortured before killing, or if the cat is boiled alive...

    I would not be against eating of any animal if the animal was raised as a food animal and treated with respect until its non-painful death, but some of the things I've heard about "traditional" methods of preparing dog and cat meat make me sick just to think about. It's hard to find sources that aren't emotional and biased about the issue (for good reasons), but here's a few with relevent information that I could find in a quick search:

    WARNING, some NSFL animal torture pics on some of those links, especially the middle one
    http://animalrightskorea.org/dog-mea...-industry.html
    http://koreandogs.org/
    http://www.examiner.com/article/sout...-face-protests

    Now, this is supposed to be the random win thread... uhh... My husband and I had a huge fight today, but he actually finally admitted that some of the problems that I was complaining about really were his fault, in front of witnesses, so he can no longer accuse me of being a crazy nag for no reason...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Laugana View Post
    He's probably going to tell you all that you're fired at the end of the meal >.> But grats if not!
    That was my immediate thought as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ninjafox View Post
    Wait... that whole chinese food is dog and cat thing was real? Sorry if this is old news, but I always thought it was a joke growing up lol
    like all the best jokes, it has a kernel of truth at its core.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BaneTheBrawler View Post
    like all the best jokes, it has a kennel of truth at its core.
    Fixed. Couldn't pass up the golden opportunity.

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    Just took both my my exams 8 days early for my two classes, got a 96% on one and a 100% on the other.

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    One man's fail is another man's win.

    I went to the deli at work for lunch today and ordered a sandwich dubbed The Rachel (turkey pastrami, russian dressing, coleslaw, and swiss cheese). The guy making it was masterful in the way he built it before setting it down to grill, it was like art. Grilled it to perfection, took it off the grill, cut it in half, and immediately slid half of my perfect sandwich from his cutting board onto the floor. Got the good half for free while he made me a replacement.

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    Who got to eat the delicious half from the floor?

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    Whatever hobo picks it out of the garbage.

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    I'm helping this non profit (they help latino/minority students) and accomplished some major stuff today. Now I'm gonna lift outside, it's such a beautiful day. Feels good man.

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    Smashed the PFT, then went with a group to pick up 12 boxes of pizza from Domino's, none of which lasted more than an hour. Aww yeah

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