Christmas holidays
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eastmidswhizzkid
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^^^wot he said. have fun!
Well I was handsome and I was strong
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
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Damn. You've got some stones on you, hoss.EvilBastard wrote:Not a chrimbo holiday, per se, but rather than start a new thread...
I've booked me olibobs to The Hermit Kingdom, the "Democratic" People's Republic of North Korea, reasoning that, since my plans for retirement have encountered what my financial adviser refers to as "a great big cock up the arse, sans lube" (it's an industry term, apparently), the prospect of being arrested for doing something to offend local sensibilities and sentenced to 30 years on a collective re-education farm eating turnips or twigs or something is more appealing than spending my twilight years shuffling down to the food bank in a pair of carpet slippers and a shabby dressing gown sporting an assortment of unmentionable stains.
Indeed, while we have been briefed extensively on Dos and Don'ts (Do bow in front of the statue of Dear Leader, Don't wear a t-shirt with pictures of Ms Bassinger, Ms Cattrell, Ms Novak, and Mr. Jong-Un on it, bearing the legend "These Are A Few Of My Favourite Kims"), the fact that they have recently outlawed sarcasm makes it almost certain that I will not get out of the airport without being arrested, or possibly gunned down in a hail of high-velocity lead.
So stay tuned to your Independent News Source over the coming weeks - if you hear that a Briton has been invited to view NK's next nuclear test from the test chamber itself, that'll be me.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
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Not a chance! I've been growing it out since January, it's just at the Jim Morrison "young lion" phase now - then again, I understand that "a #1 all over" is de rigeur down at the Kim Jong-Il Holiday Camp For Those Whose Revolutionary Zeal Falls Short Of The Optimum.Pat wrote:Get "the" haircut.
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And then there's the haircut...EvilBastard wrote:"a #1 all over" is de rigeur down at the Kim Jong-Il Holiday Camp For Those Whose Revolutionary Zeal Falls Short Of The Optimum.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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markfiend wrote:And then there's the haircut...EvilBastard wrote:"a #1 all over" is de rigeur down at the Kim Jong-Il Holiday Camp For Those Whose Revolutionary Zeal Falls Short Of The Optimum.
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Pista wrote:markfiend wrote:And then there's the haircut...EvilBastard wrote:"a #1 all over" is de rigeur down at the Kim Jong-Il Holiday Camp For Those Whose Revolutionary Zeal Falls Short Of The Optimum.
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@Evilbastard I don't suppose the Sister's are big over there yet? You could do your bit for the cause, maybe an alternative version of Vision Thing, but contextually appropriate. 25 turnips in the room next door....
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Anyway, I love Christmas. I do miss Santa though, but we had a good innings, seeing as he came here twice over the season, up to age 13 in one case. It is a family tradition, main presents at Christmas but something small on Little Christmas in January, on his way back to the North Pole. Double the magic. Now we have a quiet one for Christmas Day and St.Stephens Day and after that go see the relatives.
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Probably not 25 turnips, if any at all. Maybe "25 pints of tree-bark soup in the room next door?"Microcosmia wrote:@Evilbastard I don't suppose the Sister's are big over there yet? You could do your bit for the cause, maybe an alternative version of Vision Thing, but contextually appropriate. 25 turnips in the room next door....
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... warfs.html
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I've read that article before and it f**king terrifies me.sultan2075 wrote: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... warfs.html
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They're evident in some parts of the Near West too, the US being a good example. Maybe not as bad as it was, but certainly still pretty awful if you look closely. I'm not excusing NK's behaviour by any stretch, but it seems that we're often prepared to give our "friends" the benefit of the doubt (I'm thinking Saudi, Oman, Brunei, who all have fairly oppressive and totalitarian systems) which we don't always give our "enemies" (NK, Iran, etc.). And when you think about some of the places that we've supported in the past, some of the people who we've got into bed with, and some of the more unpleasant regimes we've shored up, I'm not sure that we're in a position to be casting too many stones.euphoria wrote:Might be at its most extreme in NK, but these concepts of race and purity are very evident everywhere in the Far East. Japan is as good an example as any.
That's just my view - again, not finding excuses for the things that NK gets up to (and some of it just sounds really really silly, like having to have a special towel with which to dust the portraits of Dear Leader and family - this is Python-esque stuff), but from a rational standpoint - we're either for principles, or we're not. I don't think we have the luxury of making fine distinctions:
NK has the bomb - this is bad, a cause for concern, and may ultimately lead to another war on the peninsula, which will not end well for anyone.
Israel (just as an example) may (or may not) have the bomb - they're not saying. But we're prepared to turn a blind eye to the issue, despite their not being signatories to the NPT.
Either a thing is bad or it isn't. And if it's bad, it's bad for everyone.
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Off-topic somewhat, but...EvilBastard wrote:Israel (just as an example) may (or may not) have the bomb - they're not saying.
In one of Colin Powell's leaked emails he said that Israel has 200 nuclear weapons. And I think that he would know.
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And you know that they're sitting around in Tel Aviv today, bitching about "the schvartzes and their big mouths"...markfiend wrote:Off-topic somewhat, but...
In one of Colin Powell's leaked emails he said that Israel has 200 nuclear weapons. And I think that he would know.
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Blimey.
I know what you mean but I'm a bit uncomfortable with that language!
May as well blame the Russians as Powell himself, as it seems to have been them who "hacked" and leaked the emails.
I know what you mean but I'm a bit uncomfortable with that language!
May as well blame the Russians as Powell himself, as it seems to have been them who "hacked" and leaked the emails.
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I'm not comfortable with it either, but since we were on the subject of race and purity, I can't honestly say that I've ever met anyone as casually bigotted as some jewish people I know. Saying it in yiddish doesn't make it any more palletable - schvartze, fegele, goyim, shikse, blondie, epithets that most of us would hesitate to utter in public, but (again) turned a blind eye to.markfiend wrote:Blimey.
I know what you mean but I'm a bit uncomfortable with that language!
May as well blame the Russians as Powell himself, as it seems to have been them who "hacked" and leaked the emails.
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And I'm back. Somewhat unscathed, although I had a few "sweaty palms" moments when they investigated my camera to see if it had a GPS function (it does, but they didn't find it. I shall be writing to Pentax to praise their overly-complicated Menu function!).sultan2075 wrote:Damn. You've got some stones on you, hoss.EvilBastard wrote:Not a chrimbo holiday, per se, but rather than start a new thread...
I've booked me olibobs to The Hermit Kingdom, the "Democratic" People's Republic of North Korea.
Interesting place, full of contradictions - imagine, if you will, someone taking Orwell's 1984 and using it as a manual for how to run a country, and you've pretty much got the DPRK. A personality cult, worship of graven images, unquestioning loyalty, and an apparent lack of any kind of irony. Not bad beer, although I won't be ordering dog soup again in a hurry - dog meat is fatty, tough, and overall not a great experience.
I gave one of our minders a flash drive full of western music - quite what they'll make of the Stooges, Plasmatics, Big Black, and The Girls I don't know, but either the youth of Pyongyang will be waving their hands in the air like they just don't care or they'll conclude that The West has absolutely nothing to offer them.
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you could have included some beastie boys, then they could have been kim jong-illin'...
Well I was handsome and I was strong
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
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Licensed to Ill was on there, as well as some NWA and Hawkwind - apparently they listen mostly to Korean folk music with lyrics that exhort the listener to honour the leaders, but the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang has a collection of western music (well, at least one knock-off Beatles CD) so perhaps this will add to their understanding of what's going on out here.eastmidswhizzkid wrote:you could have included some beastie boys, then they could have been kim jong-illin'...
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Fascinating. I've got a whole host of questions that I can't even begin to formulate right now. Do you have photos? I'd love to see them (as would everyone else here, I'm sure).EvilBastard wrote:And I'm back. Somewhat unscathed, although I had a few "sweaty palms" moments when they investigated my camera to see if it had a GPS function (it does, but they didn't find it. I shall be writing to Pentax to praise their overly-complicated Menu function!).sultan2075 wrote:Damn. You've got some stones on you, hoss.EvilBastard wrote:Not a chrimbo holiday, per se, but rather than start a new thread...
I've booked me olibobs to The Hermit Kingdom, the "Democratic" People's Republic of North Korea.
Interesting place, full of contradictions - imagine, if you will, someone taking Orwell's 1984 and using it as a manual for how to run a country, and you've pretty much got the DPRK. A personality cult, worship of graven images, unquestioning loyalty, and an apparent lack of any kind of irony. Not bad beer, although I won't be ordering dog soup again in a hurry - dog meat is fatty, tough, and overall not a great experience.
I gave one of our minders a flash drive full of western music - quite what they'll make of the Stooges, Plasmatics, Big Black, and The Girls I don't know, but either the youth of Pyongyang will be waving their hands in the air like they just don't care or they'll conclude that The West has absolutely nothing to offer them.
You're in NYC, right? I was in Nyack last week for a funeral. To repeat myself: you ever make it down to Versailles-on-the-Potomac, drop me a line and we'll grab a pint or 12.
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
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october the fucking tenth and the tv has begun it's xmas onslaught of unavoidable festive reminders. and not even an advert for this christmas but one suggesting that now is the perfect time to begin paying for xmas 2017. some cunt's idea of a joke? i hope they get exactly what they deserve for xmas- brutally fucking murdered. 
Well I was handsome and I was strong
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
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eastmidswhizzkid wrote:october the fucking tenth and the tv has begun it's xmas onslaught of unavoidable festive reminders. and not even an advert for this christmas but one suggesting that now is the perfect time to begin paying for xmas 2017. some cunt's idea of a joke? i hope they get exactly what they deserve for xmas- brutally fucking murdered.
Well December is here and it looks like I only post in December!!
I'm going away again for xmas to Geneva. Be nice if we had some snow!!
I really don't buy xmas presents
xmas is for children to get a festive positive mood and a couple of presents to enjoy. I will not forget that i got some Sisters stuff back in 80's- early 90's as xmas presents 
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"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."