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Lord Cobol
@lordcobol.bsky.social
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Former computer programmer. You might be able to guess what language I used. Cat person Kdrama fan Refugee from the Dramabeans fanwall demolition (aka Wallpocalypse)
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · 1d
Well, not this writer. Not any more 🥱 💤
#kdrama #dramabeans #myyouth
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · 4d
THIRD GRADE?? Isn't that a bit early for the common S. Korea "got prettier" routine?

#kdrama #dramabeans #missincognito
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · 11d
How to tell it's not a Netflix show.
#kdrama #dramabeans #shinsproject ep 8
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · 11d
Also don't want a Microsoft account and don't need any of Microsoft's "cloudy" offerings.
Microsoft needs to accept that if I spend $2,000+ on good hardware it's MY computer not theirs and I should be able to use it the way I want to.
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · 11d
I have 2 boxes that can't officially run win-11. One updated to 11 via Rufus recently seems to be working fine.
Both have Windows-only software. I have 40+ years with DOS & various flavors of Windows, zero experience with Linux. Really don't want to switch.
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · 13d
No, she came for the gold bars in the basement.
#kdrama #dramabeans #missincognito ep 3
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · 20d
Words you don't hear often enough from:
- Kdrama writers #Twelve? #Heartbeat
- Noble idiots
- Politicians
#kdrama #dramabeans #bonappetityourmajesty #tyrantschef ep 12
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · 20d
How to tell someone hasn't watched many kdramas.

#kdrama #dramabeans #bonappetityourmajesty #tyrantschef ep 12
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · 20d
Uh...
#kdrama #dramabeans #confidencequeen ep 8 #parkminyoung
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · Sep 8
Have you seen this? Might your students enjoy it? And is it even correct?

Sound of Silence Cover in Classical Latin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx3c...
Sound of Silence Cover in Classical Latin (BARDCORE)
YouTube video by the_miracle_aligner
www.youtube.com
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · Sep 8
Anybody and everybody hearing about yet another show about "good" con-persons?
Viewers watching Park Min-young's new show?
or
PMY herself checking the ratings?
#kdrama #dramabeans #confidencequeen ep 1
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · Sep 6
Or at least in Kdramaland
#kdrama #dramabeans #queenmantis ep 2
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · Aug 19
True love in #kdramaland. Again.

#kdrama #dramabeans #mytroublesomestar ep 2
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · Aug 19
2025

#kdrama #dramabeans #mytroublesomestar ep 1
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · Aug 19
Ya mean, go back to when Dramabeans had fan walls? And a year when there were more good kdramas?

#kdrama #dramabeans #mytroublesomestar ep 1
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · Aug 9
Yes. That's all. Nothing happened. It's a kdrama in a rather lame season.
#kdrama #dramabeans #theniceguy ep 7
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · Aug 4
Back then, "Aborigine" was not "Taiwanese". But I'm way out of date on current usage.
FWIW, Taiwanese were maybe 80% of the population. If you wanted to see an Aborigine you mostly needed to go to a mountain scenic spot / tourist trap, which I never did.
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · Aug 4
"Aborigines" remnants of the original inhabitants. Ethnic Asian but not ethnic Chinese. (3/3)
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · Aug 4
...but most also knew Mandarin (the official dialect, from northern China)
"Mainlanders" people who came over after WW2 and the Communist takeover of the mainland. They mostly spoke Mandarin, sometimes with strong regional accents (2/3)
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · Aug 4
In the 70s, the population groups:
"Taiwanese" descendants of Han who moved across the Taiwan straits a few hundred years ago and mostly displaced the natives. Their native language was a dialect of Chinese that was not mutually comprehensible with Mandarin... (1/3)
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · Aug 4
When I taught English in Taiwan in the 1970s one of my students asked if I thought interracial marriages could succeed. Turned out her brother was dating a different kind of Chinese -- native Taiwanese vs mainland refugee :)
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · Jul 29
Change the title to "I'm Not a Charger"?
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · Jul 26
How to tell she's not American?
#kdrama #dramabeans #theniceguy ep 3
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · Jul 23
Looks like steam coming out her her ear :)
#kdrama #dramabeans #headoverheels ep 10
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Lord Cobol @lordcobol.bsky.social · Jul 18
What could be a good 3rd word of a Caesar-style quick negative review of a TV series?
Veni, vidi, ???? with translation
"I came (home), I saw (episode 1), I lost (interest)"
or I got bored, I dropped it, or some such.
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