Published on 12, July, 2020
I watched a documentary on north korea a decade or two ago, and was struck by their weird way of life.
Their women, in addition to having to play tradwife roles ALSO have to have the state propaganda running on a speaker in the kitchen!!
Appaerently (and it was the BBC so it could be true!) all able bodied people are forced to leave their houses and do pyhsical jerks of some sort in the street!
As far as I could gather the people don't specially resent this, any more than we resent our govenment getting us into a shooting war with Russia, and they just focus on getting on with their lives and staying out of trouble.
BUT being made to excercise together and being constantly told that they are a unique and special people, did seem to make them like their supreme leader adn get along with each other...
If I can find it on youtube I'll link it, it was intersting.
IF you elect me to be supreme leader in addition to making us all do some excercise together before I get deposed (or excuse myself) I'll also be keen on promoting government standard canteen food installations so that lazy buggers like myself can just go and eat as cheaply and nutritionally as possible without having to wash our own dishes.
In betwen getting my head down and scarfing my food, I enjoy pausing to look around at my fellow diners, and yes if they are loud and carefree, listen to their chat and see how they are. Providing you don't stare or join in their chat, it seems to be acceptable social behaviour.
I was wondering if other autists enjoy eating in canteens despite the people-iness?
Sadly I am informed their Glorious Leader does not provide much in the way of food, just martial music and excercise. (And production of an indegenous two stage thermonuclear warhead which has been tested and works well apparently)
North Korea, send up ballons of rubbish and dump them in South Korea!
I would hate to have to eat in a canteen, I'd probably be ill as my dietry needs wouldn't be met, but then I'd probably have been dragged off and shot or "reeducated" or something, for not being able to eat certain things.
TheCatWoman said:I'd probably have been dragged off and shot or "reeducated" or something, for not being able to eat certain things
You could be made to join the Solynet Green division.
Solyent Green is people ;)
Old sci-fi film reference in case you are wondering...
That's a sanitsed version of what is actually occurring, the headline I read was "Kim Jong literally sh**s on South Korea". I i wll admit I didn't give the story much attention after the first few frames.
I will admit, when I smoke a strain that confers the transitory gift of "megalomania" I do like to imagine myself as a benevolent dictator doing that pose they do where they put out one had as if to say, "See what I have given you and what you have accomplished with it" but then of course my own personsonal belief system kicks in and I realise that is God's job. My role is more to try and actually do some "accomplishing".
On a side note, I did actually do some "accomplishing" I lead a small amateur team (by agreement) for ten years, keeping them working and improving the general safety of the thing and offering "support". In due course they "Produced" a partial proof of the concept machine, on an entriely self funded basis. We'd love to give it to the nation, and supply all the information that a team might need to see if the intended power production side of it can be done, as well as simply making helium.
I didn't turn out to be a glorious leader, and after ten years or so under my stewardship although THEY got it partially working, I accomplished NOTHING in terms of finding them some funding and facilities. You cannot in all conscience attempt to make a 20KW experiemental nuclear fusion electrical power production device in your shed, let alone your KITCHEN. Our chief designer did exactly that and the police (Kinda righty) took his set of the apparatus away.
Although I want out of it, and to not remain in communication with the others any longer,that I need, I consider myself lucky to have been involved, 'cos they actually seem to be able to make helium out of deuterium on the tabe top for only a couple of hudred grand rather then the millions others need to be unable to do that. And it was real, I still have a sample of the gas they made.