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12. What's striking to me

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #8)

Thu Dec 29, 2011, 02:03 PM

Dec 2011

What's striking to me is the cheek it takes for folks in our country to ridicule the goings-on in North Korea after our own week-long necrogasm over The Death of Ronald Reagan, sponsored by 20-Mule Team Borax. While we may not send folks to re-education camps for an inadequate display of grief, there are other punishments available to be inflicted on those who were not sufficiently mournful.

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Undoctored photo from Kim Jong Il's funeral [View all] Ichingcarpenter Dec 2011 OP

That totalitarian motherfucker got AT-ATs? HughBeaumont Dec 2011 #1

Joseph Goebbels is smiling from Hell. Lint Head Dec 2011 #2

Government manipulation of facts prepperdad Dec 2011 #3

Also, I believe the Beatles' faces have been airbrushed into A-Schwarzenegger Dec 2011 #4

Yeah I know but I thought mine was funnier.. notice Ichingcarpenter Dec 2011 #6

Pods like Body Snatcher Pods? A-Schwarzenegger Dec 2011 #7

close up photo.... Ichingcarpenter Dec 2011 #9

Whats more interesting is the line of people behind the crowd Confusious Dec 2011 #11

Wow, I guess Kim Jong was ILL after all. :) Sorry, I had to do that. nt Sarah Ibarruri Dec 2011 #5

Olbermann did it first: "Kim Jong Il has been downgraded to Kim Jong Dead." 1monster Dec 2011 #14

After the extreme public grief in the UK over Princess Diana, I can believe the behaviour muriel_volestrangler Dec 2011 #8

From the documentaries I've seen over the years on NK Ichingcarpenter Dec 2011 #10

What's striking to me gratuitous Dec 2011 #12

Great point. lapislzi Dec 2011 #13

Definitely programmed responses that reflect a shared expectation of behaviour. Old and In the Way Dec 2011 #16

I watched it too on line Ichingcarpenter Dec 2011 #17

I am calling Bullshit, no way do they have that nice a car Motown_Johnny Dec 2011 #15