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Comment on Board Games & Cat Cafes…Canada’s future? I hope so! by Board Game Cafés Around the World, part 1 | GameHäus Cafe

Board Game Cafés Around the World, part 1 | GameHäus Cafe — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:03:32 +0000

[...] Occasionally, some of the cafés feature novel ways of punishing board game losers including wacking them with plastic hammers or dropping pizza pans on their heads. Interestingly, around sixty-five percent of board gamers in South Korea are women, and there is [...]

Comment on Board Games & Cat Cafes…Canada’s future? I hope so! by roxykesh

roxykesh — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:48:43 +0000

Yes, since I wrote this blogpost I have learned about snakes and lattes. It’s funny because it’s in the middle of Koreatown in Toronto. I like it even more than board game cafes in Korea because they have a liquor license! I look forward to more popping up in Toronto and throughout Canada!

Comment on Board Games & Cat Cafes…Canada’s future? I hope so! by Leon

Leon — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:29:25 +0000

Well boardgame cafes are hitting Canada slowly but are booming! Me and my business partner are actually launching one of our own in Calgary, Alberta. There is a few in Ottawa and a extremely successful one called Snakes and Lattes in Toronto, Ontario!

Comment on Malaysia by Mysterious Someone

Mysterious Someone — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:45:40 +0000

You lie at the end! You’re totally already in Thailand!

Comment on I’ve left Korea! First stop, Hong Kong! by roxykesh

roxykesh — Tue, 17 May 2011 12:02:21 +0000

You get me. You just….get me. Damn I miss you!

Comment on I’ve left Korea! First stop, Hong Kong! by Nic Meow

Nic Meow — Tue, 17 May 2011 11:06:06 +0000

I couldn’t really see your fingernail… but I believe you and I’m in love with the lovely colorful bill anyway. And of course flamingoes!! I think the Bruce Less pic is the best, that’s really cool!
Sounds like it’s off to an awesome start, can’t wait to hear about the rest too as you go!! Have fun on this wonderful adventure my dear!!

Also I just scrolled up to see if the Bruce Lee photo was indeed my favorite, which it is, and this time around I DID find your fingernail. THAT’S SO COOL!!

Comment on Food…nom nom nom by vivian

vivian — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:43:38 +0000

i love the word “glass noodle!” that’s very good translation lol. sorry for nic in front of yummy salad too.

Comment on North Korea sucks. by Rodolfo

Rodolfo — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:00:08 +0000

I just wanted to get something off of my chest that really bugs me about N Korea, after doing some research and watching how the N Korean people are forced to live by their leadership, I would personally love to beat kim jong il’s ass. Whether I agree with their form of governance or not, and I do not agree, no people deserves to be subjugated like the N Koreans have been for so long, all for the benefit of a sociopath in power, kim. I watched how the N Koreans appear to be totally into the cult of kim, they worship him like some deity and yet he is the exact reason that the people suffer. And today again they are threatening S Korea to not conduct military drills, and Russia has joined the chorus for S Korea to back down. There is such a glaring double standard emerging it is ridiculous, let me see if I cannot understand how the major players in the region see this, China wants us (the U.S) to sit down and talk, so it is Ok to kill people completely unprovoked as N Korea has done and S Korea and the U.S. and its allies should passively sit by and begin talking to N Korea. And today I read that Russia has asked S Korea to not conduct live fire drills, so as not to provoke N Korea, there again, its Ok if N Korea kills people unprovoked but it is not Ok to respond in any way. I could be wrong but sitting back and doing nothing seems tantamount to rewarding kim’s petulant behavior and sending him the message that this is the way you can act and get results, kill innocent people and that’s ok. I realize there are global power shifts underway and allot of people see the U.S. in decline and they cheer as we fall economically. Well, listen up world, I have a news flash for you, communism is a failure, oh wait, lets compare the standard of living and freedom that Cubans, Russians, Chinese and N Koreans enjoy, THEY DON’T! They all, except for China who had integrated forms of capitalism with their communism, have masses of poor and huge divisions between those at the top and those at the bottom. I am not foolish and I certainly see the flaws in capitalism however if I stand them both side by side I will choose the U.S. brand of capitalism every day, I do not want to live in a place where the government controls all that I do and everywhere I go, centrally planned economies do not work, I guess that is the reason N Koreans have such a surplus of food and the people never starve, oh wait, that is not the case. Since I have descended into a rant, I just had to let someone know out there, if even only one person from overseas reads this, my Country is not dead yet, so you go ahead and cheer at what you perceive as the demise of the U.S., if we fall you are coming along for the ride, if the race to the bottom is not that far for you, thank your government. The fact is, that despite the worlds perception, the U.S., while far from perfect, has been good for the world and done good in the world. There is no perfect form of government, only combination’s of what has been tried before in some form. So this is my message to all the U.S. haters out here, reach back in history to World War II, a Japanese general opined that the Japanese would not want to attack the U.S. mainland because allot of U.S. citizens are armed, well, to all my communist douchebag leader friends throughout the world, some people here may embrace you, others, and there are allot of us, believe in what this great Nation was founded on and we are armed so you show up on my shore, I have something for you and your poorly equipped, under trained, underfed troops. I am just one old Marine who still believes in something and I am not ready to surrender nor will I as long as blood courses through my veins. And I hope that some idiot robot N Korean, Russian or Chinese censor reads this, you can all kiss my ass, my arguments above are valid and you can gripe all you want about my Country, but if you push, you might just get pushed back! Semper Fi!

Comment on Happy 빼빼로 Day! by roxykesh

roxykesh — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:01:07 +0000

Apparently Lotte renamed it…Korea loves doing that.

Comment on Happy 빼빼로 Day! by Evert

Evert — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:38:46 +0000

it’s pocky in japan =)