The breaking news out everywhere now is that Bill Clinton has succeeded in obtaining the release of the two journalists arrested earlier this year for entering into North Korea illegally. Maybe now they should send him to Iran.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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I always forget that smiling is generally an insult in this culture. But what a strange picture none the less!
What?
I read it in a book called "The spirit catches you and you fall down", which is how the Hmong refer to epilepsy. It's a great read, but I could be totally wrong on the smiling in Korea front - maybe it's only in certain asian cultures.
Well, I don;t know all that much about the Hmong (other than they farm delicious produce here in the Midwest ... and they're prone to getting in shootouts with hunters) but they're such a small population in the THai/Viet mountains. that smiling thing doesn't apply to Koreans.
Yes, please elaborate. I'm heading to my brother's wedding in (South) Korea in September, and I'd like to behave appropriately.
I'd so totally start giggling. I mean, look at that fucking place.
huh? I lived in Korea for several years and smiling is most certainly not an insult.
You're thinking of Indonesia.
But I don't know what I'm talking about. I just heard that once.
"In Happier Times."
Meanwhile, Al Gore's latest film plays in the background.
Someone please get the man a blowjob! Hell, make it two blowjobs!
That's after two blowjobs. You should have seen him before.
That carpet? Really? All right... really?
Got it from Gewn's Hsrajuku Lovers collection.
Gwen's Harajuku.
The wall mural - like my grade school reading room.
you ever have nightmares about drowning in grade school?
or about seagulls?
What an animal.
Does anybody have a number for a Pyongyang escort service? Anyone?
Looking to pee or be peed?
You know the Koreans and their fucking waterworks, Res. Whole god damned country wants to soak or be soaked with urine. My travels have taught me that it's the curse of these little yellow bastards. You should get a wetsuit whenever you fly into the airport in North or South. It's a national obsession and Clinton probably played to that during their meeting. "What's that Kim? You rike to make a pee pee on Hirrarry? Oh, me send her to your room right now, nomberwanson.
But the real problem is the dog-eating. Where's Fido Kang? No I don't him on a bed of Kimchee, I wanted to take him for a fetch.
That's why I shoot shovelheads for the railroad.
Lil' yellow fuckers with
I got cut off in my antiKorean rant.
So they got to the awl too huh? Nefarious little fuckerz.
IT'S ON NOW KIM!!!!
you are a candidate for a good old-fashioned execution. take your rants elsewhere please.
It's a running joke, sigerson. And it already got me executed on Gawker last month.
I love the Koreans just as I love all the monkeys of the world.
Fucking Christ, Hillary is so pissed.
I KNOW RIGHT.
She's so taking shots right now.
Doesn't she get credit for overseeing the negotiations that made this happen?
Being a woman... no.
That's what my mechanic said, too, when the news came over the TV as I was waiting for my car.
America! Fuck yeah!
www.awkwardinternationalincidents.com
Burkel is going to be so pissed when he finds out he has to give Kim a ride on his jet.
Slick Willy continues to be the master of picking up women.
Ha!
I would have sent Loretta Swit, but whatever, this is great.
Lookie there, the North Koreans are WAY more understanding than we are...Their Bachelorette gets the option to explore her sexuality during the show. Can you imagine any of the networks here allowing that?
Tall, good looking one, back row, third from the right. Let me help you with that tension in your shoulders...
Also, John Hodgman, way to have Bill's back on this one!
Totalitarian regimes have terrible fucking aesthetic tastes. And please don't anyone blather about the graphic design sense of the Nazi regime ..
typically they're very single-minded (rimshot)
I don't know, that wall is pretty fucking dope.
-- but the floor is an epic fail.
Did anyone see the standing-up photos of Kim Jong with Clinton? Was Kim standing on a box or something? He came up to Bill's earlobe!
I used to work with Hmong people in Vietnam. You are either wrong about the smiling thing...or I've spent 12 months offending the shit out of everyone.
Argh. This was a response to the comment at the top.
They've just been told the Chuck E Cheese they're having this banquet at ran out of Mr. Pibb.
Rescue of the Gore "Employees"...
Note they sent Bush Family Clinton NOT Peacemaker Carter.
Deadpan Alley.