YB just finished our local broadcast (LA area) last Wed. And ep. 1 of WISFC started this Thursday so I am starting that one. So far, enjoyed it much. Now off to read the recaps here....Have a wonderful weekend everyone. It's been raining in So. Cal..I want the sun to come out now....

@ samsooki

TMI, dood, TMI. Hhhmm, I've been accused of subscribing too much to gender-tropes, but one of the things I insist on is men doing their thang standing up, because otherwise, it kinda freaks me out. Almost like a subversion of the gender roles. Also, its kinda unfair, if I can train my daughter to pee standing up, I would, because have you *seen* the bathrooms in public places. I've glad my daughter is a pee-camel, because I get grody shivers just thinking of assisting her baby peeing in most places.

Agreed with JB on this one. The peeing situation... I don't want to think about what the bathroom is really like. Really, ignorance is bliss in these situations.

@ 153 samsooki

Oh, I believed you even without the visual aid. Just thought it was cute how you went all scientific when what you really meant was "I'm a guy but I believe in the "seat down" position because ewwww, sitting in pee is gross"!

And we're off on another OT tangent! I LOVE THIS PLACE!

(Now sneaking out of OT to clean in case samsooki comes over. Just tweeted about how I was NOT in the cleaning mood, too. Sigh...)

@ ockoala

but your hubby is bipolar "lub" and ruthlessly cruel ;)

@ Samsooki

Lol.
Hubby often pees sitting down...when I asked him why, he said it was because he was too lazy to stand (so, not because of the splatter) ;)

@ langdon813
"spaceporn"

lol...at first, I thought you were referring to the porn in space :P

@Samsooki

Bahahaha! This is also why I bought a toothbrush cover and close the toilet lid whenever I flush it--I heard once that a flushing toilet sprays a fine mist over everything in the bathroom, including your toothbrush. Scary thought. XD

Of course, I'm not really a neat freak, but some things just really bother me. I can't stand a dirty shower, for example, which is why my own bathroom scares me from time to time. The boys who lived here before us NEVER cleaned, and I still haven't been able to clean all of the mildew/soap scum/god-knows-what from the sides of my shower. Thankfully, I managed to at least clean the floor, so I just try not to touch the walls if I can help it. :P

Also, my younger brother will clean every bathroom but the one we share, so whenever I go home I attack it with every cleaning product we have. My mother is always amused.

@ 159 hjkomo

Shhhh! That's a different website! :-D

@ ockoala

LOL! That had to be the dumbest choice since Jung Hwa chose Jang Bo Go over Yeom Moon in EOTS! Seriously, what is wrong with these women? Are they just blind? Or were they dropped on their heads as children?
As for the whole "MINE" thing , it's the story of my life, I'm always a day late and $5 short! :)

@ samsooki

gee, I want to make fun of you about your treatment of the socks but I just realized that I've done similar things.

I just don't get why people don't clean up after themselves in public bathrooms. (Don't get me started on the people who DO NOT WASH THEIR HANDS!) If you leave a little "present" on the toilet seat, wipe it off. If you need to flush twice, then flush twice! I do not need to see that!

"Hubby often pees sitting down…when I asked him why, he said it was because he was too lazy to stand (so, not because of the splatter)"

hmm.. mine says the same thing when i ask him about why he sometimes pees sitting down too...

plus, it saves me from falling in the toilet. :)

@ saramohan

the same thing happens at work. my suspicions are ppl do it to me purposefully because they know it disgusts me.

in the words of a park jaebeom "this is a conspiracy!"

@157 samsooki

What did you do with the shoes you wore home with said "grody"socks?

"167 samsooki
blerg!"

i had to look that up. in case anyone else, like myself, does not know what that means, please see below:

Blerg!
Most commonly used in the same context as "oh, damn". Used to express frustration, anxiety, depression, etc. Ocasionally the second syllable is prolonged to demonstrate any emotion in an extreme fashion.
As an exclamation on it's own: Instead of "I can't believe I'm so stupid!", just use "Blerg!"

i believe this means Samsookie just got PWNED by blkrose. :D

@ samsooki

I like the "Better Than Facebook" one. Because, actually, I haven't been really refreshing FB that often - I realized that I end up just using FB for its chat option (which is actually, a really really crappy chat application) since I don't have some people's screennames, so I end up just FB chatting with them.

Plus, Facebook gets old after a while. And it's not nearly as amusing as some of the discussions that occur here.

Do you think people would be offended if you busted out with footies when visiting? (like what surgeons or highpriced plumbers wear)

I understand your dilemma. I should invest in Clorox. I am never without my Clorox wipes.

@ samsooki

Oh no you don't, there you go again, twisting the facts for your own self-serving needs.

It's Join The War To Save Or Destroy PATZZI and Bora.

@ hjkomo

Yeah, he's evil, or really, if I may be afforded a moment of honestly, I'm the bi-polar one with evil tendencies and is a tad OCD - he's the lacksadasical one with really annoying habits.

Oh, and I re-trained hubby to pee standing up (yeah, you heard me right, samsooki). See, as much as it weirded me out when guys sat down, what was really unacceptable was that hubby couldn't care less, he used to pee standing up his entire life.....until he met his ex-GF. She was extremely fastidious, and insisted he keep the bathroom clean.

Ergo, he did it to please and accommodate her. And that was a giant no-no for me. It was a dealkiller - you want to date me, you start peeing the way you did before you met her. Honestly, I like how sitting down keeps the bathroom clean, but my pride, female marking-of-the-territory tactic, and the general adage of "if you did it just to please *her*, then you better not do it in front of me" keeps me from advocating said practice, regardless of its efficacy in keeping the bathroom clean. I, however, wipe the bathroom floors every night. So, yeah, more work for me, but at least I won in principle (*sobs in my room now*).

@ trixicopper

Ha ha ha - "Are they just blind? Or were they dropped on their heads as children"

You go, girl! I totally think that way about a lot of drama leading ladies. Anyways, really teasing about the get in line thing, the fan club is wide open, and mookie and I constantly update on his doings and comings/goings. We are cyberstalking him!

Dramabeans Open Thread: Come for the fun, stay for the wisdom...leave grody socks behind.

Dramabeans Open Thread: Come for the crazy, stay for the awesome.

I swear, I never set foot in an OT without going "Wth, how did they get on this topic?"

I neglect FB most of the time but it's definitely the best way to let people know what's going on in your life in the fastest, most expedient way possible. And speaking of FB, I got a friend request yesterday that was such a blast from the past, I couldn't believe it.

This guy sent me the request with along with a message saying "not sure if you remember me or not, we went to elementary and middle school together, and one year of high school." Well, I hadn't thought about him in years but there was no way I could ever forget him. He may not remember, but we even went to kindergarten together...he was the most bullied, most picked on boy EVER. And I mean from kindergarten all the way through that first year of high school, this kid was abused and tortured. He didn't do himself any favors, bless his heart. He was just the quintessential, annoying nerd. Glasses, dorky clothes, sucked at P.E. The works.

Anyway...I accepted his friend request and sent him a note in reply: "Of course I remember you, so great to hear from you". Yada, yada...and then I checked out his profile (naturally).

Y'all ready for this?

RETIRED US ARMY! TOTAL BADASS!

My mouth is still gaping open from shock. I would have never believed it, but there's photographic evidence. And it's definitely him, he still has the exact same face. I felt like I was in an alternate reality or something. Weird.

@176 langdon813

LOL, I know how you feel! My dad got transferred to a new job when I was 8, so we moved all the way across the country and didn't really keep in touch with anyone we used to know. Not only did I get friend requests a few years ago from half the kids on my old cul-de-sac, my dad and I randomly decided to drive through the old neighbourhood on our way back to my university this year, and everyone remembered us. We ended up drinking wine and making s'mores in our old neighbour's barbecue pit, chatting about everything that's happened in the past 13 years. Sitting next to my old best friend was so surreal.. She, unfortunately, doesn't believe in Facebook, and I didn't think to get her cellphone number before I left. :/

I'm still waiting for my first love to find me on Facebook.. I'd look for him, except no one can remember his last name. :(

@ samsooki hyun bin in 'the world they live in' cleaned the hell out of song hye go's apartment when he got nasty dirt smarm on his socks from walking around in there. *you are not alone.*

Tag line in an front page article on MSNBC:

"The United States is doing little to defend the planet against potentially devastating asteroids"

Wow, double shocker - that the US is in charge of defending the planet (really, I though the rest of the planet is on a "US, butt out" philosophy?) AND that there are potentially devastating asteroids (I thought we all agreed post-Armageddon, that we are sending Bruce Willis and Ben Afflect - after he makes out with Liv Tyler using animal cookies - in two shuttles to loop around the moon and blow up said asteroid - or we can go the less kick-ass route and build a asteroid shelter after Elijah Woods discovers the impending asteroid). Either way, we've got it covered, I thought....

@ ockoala, lb_tmi

The only problem I have with the hubby-peeing-sitting-down is -
~SORRY IF THIS GROSSES YOU OUT, PEOPLE~
...that I don't know initially if he's going #1 or #2.
See, Koreans are very open about toileting (in case you haven't figured that out by now), so it took a couple years before hubby stopped getting freaked out if I walked in the bathroom while he in there doing his business (in my family, we didn't even bother closing the door). Now, he doesn't mind so much, unless he's going #2....but if he's sitting down for both, then how am I supposed to know if I shouldn't go in there when I need to get something (we only have one bathroom)? That is my dilemma. Aigoo..
( phew, that took a long time to type out on my iPhone)

@samsooki
answered a few questions correctly. Think I'm up to about 5 pts. I haven't actually seen all these dramas. I haven't seen alot of the overly popular/classics shows

@90 momosan
LOL! Actually from the very moment her character stepped on the screen I knew that "their" relationship nor "ours" would work. I really don't like her. She's too much...She's what my guy friends call "Extra." So though I may not call her names...believe me, I completely understand!

@108 ockoala
I would have to say "No." I don't quite remember but I think that Last Scandal had just ended when she died so that wasn't an issue for her. As for Jung Da BIn, I actually watched She's Nineteen/My 19 yr old Sister-in-law first and during that show maybe but it was more that we were same age and I just wondered what I was doing during that time, when she was depressed, etc. I watched Attic Cat this summer with no problems and finished Lobbyist about 2 months ago.
I find that in dramas, I get sucked into their world and pay little attention to world outside their sphere. I don't usually have problems watching anything like that except maybe Batman:Dark Knight....but prob for the same reason as my first experience with JDB, we're the same age. Plus, I'm not sure that the role itself didn't affect Heath's state of mind.
When I hear about someone close to your age dying, it effects me. I empathize in a way that don't with others mainly because we're in the same phase in our lives, etc.

Hmmm, did someone mention cyberstalking? True story. I have been out stalking one time in real life . And yes cocktails were involved. If you happened to see us (my evil twin and I) that was us in the big black glasses with the fake noses and mustaches. We were going incognito after all. Just another episode of "we should have gone to jail". :)

@42 Mai: the drawing is pretty impressive. I wish I had such artistic skills.
To add to the discussion of FB, I think it's overrated. I mean, do you really need to FB somebody "Happy birthday" to make the world knows that you care for your friend? I have a friend who has the tendency to do so, and it's sad.

Rereading today's OT so far and I'm trying hard not to sound like a drunken college girl after a few too many trips to the keg...but I love you guys so much! What did I ever do before I could come here to be cheered up every day? I have no idea.

okay, so i don't have the time to read all 184 comments, but i'm really interested on what's going on.
and cyber stalking is my life! hahaha.... creepy, i know.

MAN. i leave for lunch and i come back to talks of peeing standing up, gross bathrooms and dirty brackish socks.

@ Kender

i'm glad my toilet has a room of it's own in my bathroom and i always hold my breath and close my mouth when i flush [i heard about the spraying too!] both in my bathroom and in public ha.

@188 momosan

You mean the fact that he might clean our apartments? XD Unfortunately, I HATE people messing with my space. Common areas are fine, but I don't like people to even look into my bedroom without permission, let alone clean it.

Although if it was Binnie, I might forgive it. :P

aaww.... always am late with the friday OT..... oh well.....

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYBODY!!!!

o gosh.... toilet...pee...splattering... and some red color dye thing?!?! O_o I mean gaaaa I work at a hospital... I'm always trying NOT to use bathrooms, and I hypnotized myself *I'm a camel*... but man!

@ the hubby+toilet seat Situation: I screamed, woke him up with a big pinch w/ my just washed super cold hands@ tummy, I'd lecture/scold him, and he slept in he guest bdrm for the rest of the nite.

ok first let me make it clear, I don't have problems with JNR and SYR... BUT...
***PATTZI BORA MUST DIE!!!! *** preferably together. Glorious!

O trixicopper, welcome to the sweet side of loverboy love! haha look what u did ockoala-twin! Good job!!!

on his upcoming Clothes:

http://ss3.sinaimg.cn/orignal/54ff3727g7dc3981740f2&690
apparently our loverboy is of coz a fav play thing of the ladies and their ps since he stole and ate all the snacks a while back.

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/3230/5e49744bg7dad61dd23a969.jpg
that lady is a pd ....or it could be me

http://yule.sohu.com/20100122/n269763583.shtml
a silly fangirl moment lol: he mentioned Janine Chang by her whole name, but he said 'ShiShi' kekeke

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5e49744b0100gcy4.html
this pic is just sooo pretty!

@ unni

Hhhm, OT train hasn't yet de-railed, not like last week when bear poo, samsooki poo begat battle of Stirling begat hippie dolphins begat Love Story hatred begat figure skating begat [I dies....]

@ nycgrl

I almost forgot, you asked me whether I know what a ginny-tee is. I think I do - is it a Guido-ism that is a synonym for a certain gender's modern-day version of drawers?

Btw, I call it now - someone is going to sing "Pants on the Ground" at the Super Bowl.

@181 hjkomo
i am not grossed out -- this is hilarious if, i realize, a serious dilemma for you. We also have one bathroom and leave the door open most of the time. If hubby doesn't want you in there for #2, perhaps HE could give a small signal to that effect by closing the door oh ever so slightly to indicate off-limits time?? Otherwise you'd know it's #1 and you're free to move about the bathroom at will. ^^

as a non-Korean, i really do appreciate how open Koreans are about "toileting" (it sounds like a new crafting trend keke). it shows how repressed americans are. how about this korean ad, via my friend and food blogger Dan Gray of Seoul Eats:
http://www.seouleats.com/2010/01/do-you-sodomize-your-vegetables.html

@on Cutting Edge:

Barry Manilow sang Love Story last nite on Conan... so I told hubby about Love Story the story (he has never seen it) then a commercial of Winter Olympics was on, somehow we skated to Blades of Glory..skating movies...THEN he mentioned he's seen Cutting Edge and loved it (I haven't...and he put it on our Netflix que)..... I'm still very weird out. O_0 he mentioned it's about a hockey player... injured then he went into paired figure skating?!?!?!?!?!?! um... realistically we called that coming out of the closet, no?!?!

another korean culture question! reminded by @194 paula253 what does "keke" mean? is that like lol? or . . .

@ mookie-twin

There is something I've seen that you haven't!?! Oh lord, cue the heavens opening up and the skies falling (oops, that's already happened, its on day 5 now).

The Cutting Edge - only, like, THE BEST figure skating movie EVER! Maybe a top-10 sports movie, and a top 25 romantic comedy. Yeah, it's that beloved the world over. Okay, I made up everything I just said - but it is a very beloved movie to me (and lovenyc52 and hjkomo).

It's a classic opposites attract in every sense of the word - hockey player meets prissy figure skater, rich girl/poor guy, engaged prude/womanzing stud, hockey skates vs. figure skates, well....you get the picture. Oh, and almost forgot, it's got a younger(ish) Terry O'Quinn as the daddy! (weird, like seeing Locke in an alternate universe, oops, that is the Island itself).

I know many guys who secretly love it. And let me reiterate what lovenyc52 said last OT "TOEPICK!!" And and yeah, DB Sweeney singlehandedly made kinda weird looking turn into the hottest thang I had ever seen as a 14 year old.

Enjoy, twin.

@196 moana

Haha, yeah, it's a sort of laugh.. Keke = ㅋㅋ in hangul.

@Samsooki

Haha! When I was little I decided that "bathrooming" was a word. It encompassed the general idea of using the bathroom, whether for the toilet or to brush your teeth or shower.. Very useful, actually. ("*someone knocks on the door* You alive in there?" "I'm BATHROOMING!") ("Where's Kender?" "She's bathrooming.")

I still use it, actually, although I always have to explain it to people who aren't related to me. I'll probably pass it on to my kids without realizing, haha.

typing this one w/ one finger as i'm lying on the ground holding my tummy w/ the other hand.. dying.. of laughter.

between the ear-wax-clogged brainiacs @ work and the OT discussions, i'm just dying..

if i'm not back in 10 mins. send someone to pick me up off the floor. thanks!