Beanie level: Entertainer-in-training

1: Uh, there’s one right there.

2: Good. Can we put the writer in one?

3: Too bad it’s a kdrama.

4 & 5: Viewers to writer, or AI, or whatever?

(Bad Memory, day 13 & 14)
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2

Hate to break it to you, but she’s not speaking English.

(Pachinko s2, day 4)
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1/2: That’s part of the problem with fire arrows – you have to take time to light them.

3: And prepare extra-long arrows so you don’t scorch the bows.

4: You’re better off with an arrow head designed to penetrate armor, which she seems to have (it’s a lot like what English longbowmen used to use, and what Romans put on their heavy javelins when they were busy conquering everything in sight).

5: Of course, with historically accurate arrows you don’t get all the pretty fires.

(Queen Woo)
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0

1: Indeed, the head of the family.

2/4: Good she has her priorities straight.

(Queen Woo)
8
0

\”Meet the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes\”

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/meet-the-winners-of-the-2024-ig-nobel-prizes/

Nothing this year matches the brilliance of the award a few years ago that cats a liquid, because of the way they sink to the bottom of a container and then conform to its shape.

But the report that fake medicine that causes pain is more effective than painless fake medicine, somehow reminds me of some experiences watching kdramas. Then there\’s the dead fish swimming to go with the normal dead fish kiss.

It also seems that mammals can breathe thru their butts. No great surprise, since so many humans talk out of their asses.

9
0

Which came first, the Chicken Nugget or the rubber chicken?

(Seoul Busters, ep 1)
9
0

I wouldn’t even recognize Han Ji-hyun from her pics on Asianwiki & Wikipedia. And I much prefer her looks in the show.
https://asianwiki.com/Han_Ji-Hyun_(1996)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Ji-hyun

(No Gain No Love, ep 5)
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1: Expression on the faces of other writers when they see how it’s done…

2 & 3: …and the magnitude of their blunders sinks in.

4 & 5: Viewers.

(No Gain No Love, ep 5)
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In a slightly different context this could be even more “interesting”

(No Gain No Love, ep 5)

Now any of you who still aren’t watching have to correct that so you can see what was really going on 🙂
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1

1: The real reason for Korea’s low birth rate.
2: Pretty aware by k-chaebol standards.
3: No comment.

(No Gain No Love, ep 4)

A rare writer who does not stay on the beaten track.
14
0

If Queen Woo & The Frog had a mutant baby drama, would it be Queen Ribbit?
—
Who is more badass:
Go Min-shi in Frog?
Jeon Jun-seo in Queen Woo?
Lee Jung-Eun in Frog & Miss Night & Day?
The Amnesia Fairy?

6
1

1 & 3: As it so often is in kdramaland, if you know what I mean.

2: Only six empty bottles? Sure, why not?

(Bad Memory, day 9)









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    🥳congrats on finally levelling up. Loan shark seemed to be your equivalent of the long walk to freedom formerly known as Errand boy!

    5
    1

      So am I Entertaining now?

      Guess I’ll have to spend about 4+ years in Training before I make Fan Club President, which — checks birth certificate & life expectancy tables — I can probably do but not necessarily many more levels after that.

      FWIW, I spent about 3 years as Loan Snark, 2 years as Dweller, one and a half as Errand Boy, a bit over 3 months as Fugitive, and blasted thru the lower levels even faster. I expect levels to get gradually harder as you rise, but I still think there is a glitch at Errand level.

      PS: thanks for letting me know. I *thought* I might be close, and have been checking 3 or 4 times a week recently, but…

      6
      1

        I have noticed a few people have spent longer at later levels than as EB’s but it’s not necessarily that each level takes a longer and longer period to move out of as it took me two months longer to move from my rooftop into Loan shark than it did to move from Entertainer to Fan club president. I think Sic’s theory about word count is key so those who write longer comments may climb at a slow and steady pace with fewer comments.
        Re the EB hurdle I think they had to do a cut off point somewhere as continuing the low level quick climbs would eventually mean everyone getting to Rebel who stole the people in a couple of years.

        Cera is on a roll, she joined the chatting community September 2023 and 11 months later is already wearing a sparkling tracksuit. She climbs approximately every 6 weeks so will soon be challenging the DB account which is currently at Flower scholar level!

        1
        0

True love in Kdramaland?

(Bad Memory, day 9)
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Let me know how this works out for you.

(Pachinko s2, day 2)
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Uh… there’s really not much reason for a pre-gunpowder battlefield to have so many fires and so much smoke, certainly not if they fought in daytime and wouldn’t have even needed torches. An historian might tell you that the modern image of a battlefield comes from the devastation of trench warfare & artillery in WW1.

(Queen Woo, ep 1)

Viewer discretion is advised
https://acoup.blog/2019/10/18/collections-the-battlefield-after-the-battle/
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3

    Flamed arrows?

    2
    1

      Those weren’t nearly as big a thing in actual history as they seem to be in movies and games. Really only useful in sieges for shooting over walls and setting fire to the town.
      By the time you got a good enough fire going so it wouldn’t blow out in flight you had something big enough so the weight and air resistance would trash your range, and lighting it wouldn’t do wonders for your rate of fire either.

      7
      1

1: Who are you and what have you done with the Korean?

2: Ah, there’s one.

(Cinderella at 2 AM)
12
1

Guess he’s a player. In which sense of the word?

Couldn’t they say something like “athlete”, “tennis player”, etc ?

(Bad Memory Eraser, day 8)
8
0

Beanie thrilled by the latest surprise plot twist.

(Frog, ep 2)
5
0

1: That would do it.

2: Or not.

(Bad Memory Eraser, day 6)






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If she had more experience with kdramaland she’d understand how things get worse.

(Pachinko, day 1)
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