A lot of it has now been converted to National Parks to formally preserve what was unintentionally created.
Brilliant. A shame, but brilliant.
They’re called Epicanthic Folds and they are typical in all people of Asian des— oh… not that kind of “lids”.
Nevermind.
My WAG earlier in the thread was that the big Soviet style hats are army and the other, French style hats are maybe Airforce or whatever they call their rocket artillery forces. Still haven’t been able to confirm that, and doesn’t look like anyone else has found a cite either. Not sure why, but Google is turning up a blank on North Korean officer uniforms. I did find a cite confirming my earlier take on the collar tab ranks though.
The great poet Rainer Rilke wrote his own epitaph, which is chiseled by his grave (with the poet’s lineation):
Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust,
Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel
Lidern
My take on a translation for the purpose of this post (which cannot get the impact of the words as lined in German):
Rose, oh pure contradiction, desire,
To be no-one’s sleep under so many
Lids
Work that out, why don’t you.
Thanks to all for this lovely hijack of a who-would’ve-thought-it-would-show up here thread. GQ at its finest.
Is it possible that the latest test was in fact a fraud, conducted with conventional explosives? I keep reading reports that anomalously little radiation was detected.
They have to know that they have no strike capability what-so-ever. So, I can only imagine that this is motivation “the people”.
North Koreans version of Putin-style glamour shots? Maybe he should go on a camping trip with Putin and they can make a bunch of “strappin’ man” shots wrestling bears, alligators, and a T-REX!
Perhaps the lids are based on individual haircut preference, ie. large bowl, small bowl, side walls, etc.
Sidenote: What are all those medals for?
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Sidenote: What are all those medals for?
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The fruit salad (a.k.a. ribbons) on their chests? They aren’t (necessarily) medals, though they can be…usually, (in the US and I think most countries) they denote awards or represent types of service (there are ribbons denoting medals, ribbons denoting combat service, or ‘I was there’ type service in specific theaters, etc). In this case, that’s some big fruit salad there, so it’s probably mostly fluff and feathers that generals award themselves just to make it look impressive. I don’t know the specifics of NK fruit salad though…maybe some of those guys fought (as kids) in the Korean War, though they don’t look old enough to me…if so, there would be ribbons for that and for combat service, if they are like the US.
ETA: Found this on Wiki that might explain it better.
The missiles are going to make thousands of mid-flight course corrections so that they appear to fly straight in relation to that map.
When I was on a NATO Ex with a number of former Eastern-Bloc countries, the size of their hat did actually correspond with rank leading to some, in my opinion, almost comically huge hats.
Sounds like he has Dr. Evil on his side, at least…
You knew someone was going to ask: cites?
Not doubting, but I think it would be funny to look at.
ETA: To Poysyn.