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His view on the future of his country must be pretty bleak. Just a guess, but if he's got pains while singing or so, I'm sure his mood is shit. You know, the creeping fears one gets and all.

Maybe I have been a bit argumentative lately. Have some beautiful classical music with spiritually uplifting lyrics to make up for it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF3mjwN6heQ

I'd agree with your assessment as a thought experiment about judging knowledge I don't have; I am just more inclined to expect proficiency above what was shown, based on systems in place precisely for this reason. This is not about writing a poem; this level would be the equivalent of you not knowing how to write down a basic chemical formula. I make dumbass mistakes myself, but I'm not getting paid here, much less for PR, where you need to be positively dapper. In other words, we merely disagree about whether they indeed hired someone hopeful enough. But I did notice native speakers tend to be much less bothered by seeing things like this. (And I'm not a native speaker yet I could tell them so. That's the core of my dismay -- that the stupid little dropout me can see the mistake a professional has made.)

Typo is when you mistype. This was a case of insufficient knowledge. But I'm thinking about that Engrish in lyrics and other things as well. Just a proofread, all I'm asking for. Hell yes they should. Once again, "English graduates". I may or may not recognise good work afterwards, but I have a reason to expect it, especially if the good work is high-school level of proficiency -- in other words, reasonable credentials should assure it. Hence my remark about common sense in business, because you need to think of this in advance. Maybe they didn't find anyone better, fair enough, you play with what you've got, but that they didn't is something that's suprising for me. This is not a case for a native speaker, which I am not either; this is a case of basic English ortography. But I did notice the backstage of K-pop is not a place for perfectionists, I grant you that.

I got you the first time, and that's why I said "English graduates". In other words, someone who can be assumed not to make grade-school level mistakes with a reasonable degree of probability. Those credentials you spoke of answer your own inquiry. In a hypothetical world without such connections you'd be right, but there is a basic system of assessment in place. After all, people who hire teachers of English presumably can't speak much of it either -- yet they can and do expect proficiency. That it sometimes fails is another matter, every measure can fail.

Now that would be some plot twist. Exactly. Korean universities must be producing some capable graduates who'd go for a job like that. Can't be worse than teaching.

I think we can safely say Jonghyun won't be acting any time soon.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it should be common sense in business -- find yourself those who can and make sure they really can, not just barely can on a good day. "Good enough until too many of them complain" is embarrassing. Maybe it's the perfectionist in me. Touché.

I may be, but come on -- "Everybody, get a double-lid surgery... except for people I tell not to!" Oppicially open. That'us niceu. Explain to me why SMEnt won't hire one English graduate to proofread all the international material.

Why do I get the feeling he's playing them for dumbos who can't think for themselves.

Well, after the Sherlock promos, a tummy flash is very modest.

I usually watch Taemin mostly, but in this song I get regularly mesmerised by Key. It just suits his way of moving perfectly.

What "we aren't ready" really means is "I am not ready, and you should cower and hide until I decide otherwise." Tyranny in white gloves. And gay or not, I have to stare at your sig.

She'll sleep on it and be as pink as a cucumber... or something like that. I wouldn't worry.

Well, some of us aren't students, don't have the money, and know fuck all Korean. Other than that, yeah, I'd love to go. I regret to inform you your attempt was unsuccessful. Don't feel bad, darling, there are worse addictions.

I'd love to laugh with him, but I'd hate to be on the receiving side. Anyway, you're right with the skinship, but the talk wasn't about that. That's accounted for.

I meant at that moment when he does it.

Maybe there's something in the lyrics.

Don't get a boner on stage, L. It would show (I very much hope).

They did tell you one can turn the TV off, I hope. The readiness with which the American public allows (mostly) TV to abscond with their own responsibility has always astounded me. When one has Glenn Beck saying they cannot win against Glee, I have to wonder who he demeaned more -- himself or the public. Second, you may have missed the word "comedy". Normalisation is not the point, that's not how it works, and if you see a grand conspiracy in Hollywood, let alone some kind of New World Order, well, have fun I guess. At any rate, if there was an attempt at normalisation, it was called Life is Beautiful -- and the two gay guys had to be picture perfect without even kissing once. All they did was talk. And some concernstipated mothers still run a page-sized ad against the show in a national newspaper. Shinhwa does what they know fangirls like even if they don't talk about it, as do others. Simple as that.

Haven't had the opportunity. Why?

That's not how it works. It's a model, keep in mind, but the rough principle works the way it does precisely because there is a difference between "standing" and "looking". There is a tension, and often a good deal of neurosis if the order is too restrictive, but the attitude can take occasional comedy. That's the point of comedy, after all. But comedy in such an environment must have boundaries -- both how far it can go (even though Medieval comedy could go quite far, for example) and regarding its proper place (hence the special occasions only, like Medieval celabrations). It is by the subsequent return of the ordinary that the order is reaffirmed. Thus the constant assertions of heterosexuality (i. e. normalcy) required from Korean idols. It is when "the centre cannot hold" that mores change, when people realise they don't have to be neurotic any more, and, with passage of time, that they shouldn't force suffering on others based on empty promises. A few remarks more -- first, people in the West were well aware what gay people do, after all, it's right there in Leviticus. Second, if you think the notion that being gay is not a bad thing is braiwashing, I feel sorry for you, but it bears mentioning that Hollywood has been relatively conservative even by American standards.

Assess our compatibility.

Hah. Poor Minho looks like someone from a next-gen videogame. My problem would be I would want to be too close to his genitals him. As long it's a joke, all is fine for them. I think it's productive to see it as centre and perifery (in the structuralist sense). There is the "paradise of Order", where the health, family, goodness, tradition, etc. reside, and the realm of Chaos out there, frightening and without sense. This orderly centre can incorporate tension or a hint of otherness, but the context must be non-threatening to the order itself; all must be well in the end. To come out as gay is to reject that very order, as if the whole moral world got shaken. The Christian rejection comes from a similar viewpoint -- gay people have to be broken and unhappy, because happiness is earned; how could those who "reject God" be happy, be allowed to be happy? The greatest fear of a Puritan is that someone out there is having fun.

Those are one of your best features, dear boy.