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http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8Dcxa3JBWAMJ:www.mrlevek.com/northkorea.htm+%3Ca%20href=What a crap hole
Quote from: pike on January 29, 2011, 11:02:46 PMhttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8Dcxa3JBWAMJ:www.mrlevek.com/northkorea.htm+%3Ca%20href=What a crap holeBut for many Western Academic types and other easily brain washed people, communism is/was something to strive for . . . their excuse for things like North Korea was that they just weren't doing it right.
that huge abandoned half built hotel thing is fascinating
it doesn't look that bad, relatively speaking. plenty of other places around the world look like hell on earth.visiting there seems like a stupid idea. taking unauthorized pictures even dumber.
http://www.lindsayfincher.com/2010/03/north-korea-the-ryugyong-hotel.html
I'm an expat Californian who is obsessed with traveling to strange and exotic destinations in the former Communist Bloc. I also like tacos, beer, surfing, trapshooting, and the geopolitics of oil.
Quote from: steve dave on January 30, 2011, 01:14:37 PMhttp://www.lindsayfincher.com/2010/03/north-korea-the-ryugyong-hotel.htmlQuoteI'm an expat Californian who is obsessed with traveling to strange and exotic destinations in the former Communist Bloc. I also like tacos, beer, surfing, trapshooting, and the geopolitics of oil.Interesting
Quote from: pike on January 30, 2011, 01:23:07 PMQuote from: steve dave on January 30, 2011, 01:14:37 PMhttp://www.lindsayfincher.com/2010/03/north-korea-the-ryugyong-hotel.htmlQuoteI'm an expat Californian who is obsessed with traveling to strange and exotic destinations in the former Communist Bloc. I also like tacos, beer, surfing, trapshooting, and the geopolitics of oil.Interestingjust discovered her blog when looking for stuff on this hotel. it's really pretty good. check out her review of the rust bucket death coaster in NK.
http://www.lindsayfincher.com/2011/01/potd-cliff-houses-along-the-mtkvari-kura-river-in-tbilisi.htmlOver under on how long it takes these to crash into the river?
yeah, tons of people just begging for communism.
KU is right on par with Notre Dame ... when it comes to adding additional conference revenue
Beer pro tip: never drink anything other than BL, coors, pbr, maybe a few others that I'm forgetting
Quote from: sonofdaxjones on January 30, 2011, 10:16:35 AMQuote from: pike on January 29, 2011, 11:02:46 PMhttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8Dcxa3JBWAMJ:www.mrlevek.com/northkorea.htm+%3Ca%20href=What a crap holeBut for many Western Academic types and other easily brain washed people, communism is/was something to strive for . . . their excuse for things like North Korea was that they just weren't doing it right.this is like saying Somolia is an example of a properly functioning libertarian society.
Quote from: ednksu on January 31, 2011, 04:23:47 AMQuote from: sonofdaxjones on January 30, 2011, 10:16:35 AMQuote from: pike on January 29, 2011, 11:02:46 PMhttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8Dcxa3JBWAMJ:www.mrlevek.com/northkorea.htm+%3Ca%20href=What a crap holeBut for many Western Academic types and other easily brain washed people, communism is/was something to strive for . . . their excuse for things like North Korea was that they just weren't doing it right.this is like saying Somolia is an example of a properly functioning libertarian society. No, not really.
Quote from: Dirty Sanchez on January 31, 2011, 05:55:17 AMQuote from: ednksu on January 31, 2011, 04:23:47 AMQuote from: sonofdaxjones on January 30, 2011, 10:16:35 AMQuote from: pike on January 29, 2011, 11:02:46 PMhttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8Dcxa3JBWAMJ:www.mrlevek.com/northkorea.htm+%3Ca%20href=What a crap holeBut for many Western Academic types and other easily brain washed people, communism is/was something to strive for . . . their excuse for things like North Korea was that they just weren't doing it right.this is like saying Somolia is an example of a properly functioning libertarian society. No, not really.how do you figure? because right now you are 100% wrong