[QUIZ] Kim Jong Un loves buzzwords too... Oh wait it's just TED
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http://www.motherjones.com/files/imagecache/top-of-content-main/kim-ted630x354.jpg
North Korea recently released a list of 310 slogans, trying to rouse patriotic fervor for everything from obeying bureaucracy ("Carry out the tasks given by the Party within the time it has set") to mushroom cultivation ("Let us turn ours into a country of mushrooms") and aggressive athleticism ("Play sports games in an offensive way, the way the anti-Japanese guerrillas did!"). The slogans also urge North Koreans to embrace science and technology and adopt a spirit of can-do optimism—messages that might not be too out of place in a TED talk.
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The BBC have listed all 310 slogans:
Thoroughly get rid of abuse of authority and bureaucratism!
Seriously?
Hold fast to ideological work as the top priority!
Anyone else thinking
Arbeit Macht Frei
?Training is also a battle!
TDEMSYR
Be constantly on the alert without a moment's relaxation!
Paranoia is now a requirement!
Always live the way you did as a soldier!
If it moves, shoot it, if it doesn't, paint it?
Builders!
No, seriously, that's the complete slogan
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That's a fucking specious connection and they know it. What a ridiculous article.
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Hey this morning, my cat said "meow!" That's something that might not be out of place in a TED talk! Or maybe it would be out of place! Who knows. TED talks are popular, right? So people Googling them might accidentally find this article instead. This article about my cat.
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Yeah, but there's a non-trivial possibility that Mother Jones is trying to normalize Juche!
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Better invade. Maybe they have cigars in North Korea, too.
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Now you're starting to make sense.
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Well, if you ask me, this is totally a thing Kim would say:
Democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting!
So is this one:
Capitalism, at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy!
Because of that (and more), my final score was 6/14.
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What's a ted talk
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That's that movie with the bear, right?
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that's where this guy, i think his name is terry, talks.
the whole show is just about that.... rather boring to watch actually
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They forgot:
Stay alert! Trust no one! Keep your laser handy!
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Builders!
Developers!
It's a good movie; they're making a sequel
Sequel preview looks bad, though.
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mushrooms
I do wonder about this translation. I mean there isn't a 1:1 mapping of words and terms. We can't even agree whether we are in the year of the goat or sheep! (To talk about their neighbour)
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It's the Year of the Wood Goat
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Hey this morning, my cat said "meow!" That's something that might not be out of place in a TED talk!
To be fair, if TED was an organization of cats, then that's not at all implausible.
Filed under: 'if' is such a great word...
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If it moves, shoot it, if it doesn't, paint it?
My dad (US Army, WWII) always said, "If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't move, pick it up. If it's too big to pick up, paint it." OTOH, he was never in combat and spent most of the war stateside, so that may be the reason for saluting rather than shooting.
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I believe it's spelled goatsecx.<thedailywtfcom>
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I've only ever seen it mentioned as "goatse." I think .cx is the TLD, but I've never visited and I'm sure as heck not going to try, or even google, to find out for sure.
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Well, if people saw del.icio.us and thought "icio is a site where you bookmark things", it'd be a similar thing. It's like zombocom.
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The full link is http://goatse.cx/ but it's only ever referred to as goatse.
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TL4 censors link in 3…2…1…
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There are links on the internet that I have never followed. This gaping void in my life isn't something that I need to have filled…<nyucknyucknyuck>
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gaping void
…Well, I guess someone had to make that joke, whether they meant to or not
No, I haven't seen the website. But I do know what it supposedly is.
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Consider this enlightenment: http://tubgirlandgoatse.tumblr.com/
According to @PJH it's slightly NSFW
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…I'll save it until I get home. And then probably not look at it anyway
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You may not want to look at those after dinner. Probably not before either.
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Not on the train either...
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Just look at the pictures. They're not that bad. Nobody dies in a gruesome fashion, it's not a picture of an aborted foetus, and you'll have had an education.
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No, no, that's just the container. The fetus looks more like:
[spoiler]
[/spoiler]
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Still wrong. That's just the fetus's food storage.
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Nah, there's a few cells in there that comprise the unfertilized embryo. If pro-lifers can get away with calling a fetus a baby, I think I can get away with calling an embryo a fetus ;)
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Nah, there's a few cells in there that comprise the unfertilized embryo. If pro-lifers can get away with calling a fetus a baby, I think I can get away with calling an embryo a fetus
If it is unfertilized, then there's only a cell in there with half the necessary genes. That isn't a fetus or an embryo. That's not even a zygote. That's a gamete.
Petition to refer to it as a fetus: DENIED.
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Actually, the necessary genes are all in place.
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The full link is <a>http://<!-- !!! !!! -->goatse.cx/</a> but it's only ever referred to as goatse.
Has anyone actually tried to visit the site? It doesn't work anymore, and I think it's been down for ages!
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Actually, the necessary genes are all in place.
All right, fine. Only half of the chromosomes. But then, those chromosomes are what carry the genes, right? So, technically, if the gamete only has half of the necessary chromosomes, then it only has half the necessary genes.
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No.
But feel free to try it yourself ;)
I have and, as I said, it doesn't work anymore. Go on, try it.
Okay, that sounds like a way to get people to click the link. If you don't trust me, read it, safely, here (note the past tense):
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Has anyone actually tried to visit the site? It doesn't work anymore, and I think it's been down for ages!
#WARNING! BAD ADVICE BELOW!
if you want to find out what it had. just GIS for goatse......
#WARNING! BAD ADVICE ABOVE!
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Here is a reasonable facsimile, courtesy of Time Magazine:
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/2004/1101040920_400.jpg
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All right, fine. Only half of the chromosomes. But then, those chromosomes are what carry the genes, right? So, technically, if the gamete only has half of the necessary chromosomes, then it only has half the necessary genes.
If you could somehow duplicate the chromosomes, or found a way to make the gamete replicate despite missing chromosomes, the genes it has would allow for full development of a healthy organism. The two halves of genetical code are needed not for the genetical code itself, but solely to make the cell start doing its work. It's like, you don't technically need a keyboard to boot a PC, but it won't boot if you don't connect one.