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Quote from: ksu_FAN on February 08, 2011, 01:43:43 PMQuote from: michigancat on February 08, 2011, 12:22:21 PMHere's a good one:http://www.urbanophile.com/2011/01/25/yes-there-are-grocery-stores-in-detroit-by-james-griffioen/There was lots of good info there. Especially this: QuoteA couple of them are even Aldi stores, a chain supermarket operated by the same company that owns Trader Joes.You didn't know that? (They aren't actually operated by the same company, but have common ownership. I'm a bit of an Aldi connoisseur.)
Quote from: michigancat on February 08, 2011, 12:22:21 PMHere's a good one:http://www.urbanophile.com/2011/01/25/yes-there-are-grocery-stores-in-detroit-by-james-griffioen/There was lots of good info there. Especially this: QuoteA couple of them are even Aldi stores, a chain supermarket operated by the same company that owns Trader Joes.
Here's a good one:http://www.urbanophile.com/2011/01/25/yes-there-are-grocery-stores-in-detroit-by-james-griffioen/
A couple of them are even Aldi stores, a chain supermarket operated by the same company that owns Trader Joes.
Just read that NK has the largest sports stadium in the world, seats 150,000 people for soccer matches. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day_Stadium
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel/vice-guide-to-north-korea-1-of-3Pretty good documentary. Found out they built this huge dam in the mid 80's called the barrage, its apparently one of the greatest accomplishments showing how amazing the party is and they shoot lots of official photos with it as a backdrop. In reality it flooded valuable farmland and has contributed to the famines in the 90's...
http://www.kuriositas.com/2011/10/mangyongdae-last-funfair-in-north-korea.html
It looks like the Chernobyl level in Modern Warfare (may also look like real Chernobyl).
This reminds me of the time in high school where Governor Murkowski (the lifelong Alaskan politician who got ousted by Palin in a primary) came to do a question and answer session on politics. When one of my classmates asked him what his opinions were on the rumors of nuclear weapons in North Korea, he went on this long rant about a trip he once took to North Korea and how strange of a place it was -- there were business districts devoid of any people, with entire shopping malls selling only teddy bears and the only other patrons of the mall besides western tourists were paid shoppers to make the mall look busier than it really was (because no North Koreans can afford teddy bears). And then he also told us that the amusement parks were full of paid patrons as well. I wonder if he's been to the "fun fair." He never got around to talking about the nuclear weapons, which was probably the only non-hilarious question that my class asked that day (probably why he lost to Palin).
