Olympic Comedy Gold!
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As any American can tell you, geography is really hard, learning the names of all those little countries and stuff. Maybe the organizers shouldn’t have hired this guy as their consultant.
What I still don’t understand is why North Korea is welcome at the Olympics at all.
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Well, let me help you with that! South Africa’s apartheid system was based on racial bias, which has been an atavism for decades now. North Korea, which professes collectivism, is nominally based on class bias–which is alive and well among the Western intelligentsia.
As much as I may be a smart aleck online about DPRK stuff, I will never get to anger them at one of the biggest events in the world.
;_;
Godspeed, sign display troll, you are a king of the internet.
Out of interest (and pardon my French), what’s the Korean for “fuck! Oh, fuck! Fuckity, fuckity, f-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-ck!!! We are so fucked!”?
I imagine it was going through the Chollimas’ heads.
~alec
Alec, Was that really necessary?
It’s a question which has to be answered!
(In Scotland, said word can be a gesture of affection, just as “coupon” is another word for fizzog – see physiognomy – or face. In Glasgow, a coupon is a bus/train ticket which requires punching, or to have a non-hanging chad removed… that is, so much of Scots culture/language is predicated on impending physical violence.)
Incidentally, Malcolm Caldwell just has blogged. I have a feeling the KCNA news agency is registered to and maintained by that scion of Spanish fascists, Alejandro Cao de Benós de Les y Pérez y Cacacacacacacacaca.
~alec
PS Out of interest, have you ever considered setting-up a Facebook page?
What’s funny about something as simple as a flag being messed up at what’s supposed to be a very proferssionaly run event? I think it’s rather embarassing for the organisers that they can’t get something like this right.
I thought this war reported farily for a change. The DPRK team was (as you might guess) quite upset when at first they did not know what to make of what happened… but when it was established that it was simply human error they went ahead and played anyway even though it must have been quite a distraction for the players.
Silly to be saying “let the missiles fly” and similar. That’s what this is to all of you, isn’t it? Perhaps you should go back to watching James Bond – the problems on the Korean peninsula are real problems, affecting real people.