KIM JONG IL might be dead (?)

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2011/12/19/0401000000AEN20111219004700315.HTML

2011/12/19 12:10 KST

(URGENT) N. Korean leader died of fatigue at 8:30 a.m. Dec. 17 during train ride: KCNA

Seems so:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16239693

Apparently, this kid is now running shit.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02085/kim-Jong-Un_2085223b.jpg

2011 being all "hey you thought i was all out of huge news stories, DIDNTCHA?"

any word on obama involvement

Wait so usually whenever someone is hospitalized for "fatigue" it means "Drugs/alcohol". Truly he was the supreme leader of Courvoisier and possibly also some other substances.

i don't think 'usually' applies to (i) n korea (ii) ex supreme leaders tbf

OCCUPY PYONGYANG

...and we have a new Dead Pool leader.

supreme dead pool leader, if you please

juche y'all

threes: hitchens, havel, kim

woo

hoo

Now what? Can they just get the new kid addicted to Starcraft to offset any need for war?

i think i've always tried to be as humorless as possible whenever posting to ilx. even though i recently broke that rule in some fucking sex euphemisms thing, it bugged me for a few days. because i would never want to be part of this kind of thing, where, like... "juche yall!!!" i wish he had posted a picture of jamie kennedy from that movie where he's a wigger or something (a last minute edit changed it from "why yall dissin juche???") and then a few hours pass and he thought of another joke about threes and then a starcraft joke to end it, expressed in the clumsiest way possible.

no shit?

yeah sorry.

can i help you guys blast through the one liners so we can get this over with?

and let me save you guys the time

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x295/Neo-Babylonian/KimJongIL-SoRonery.jpg

they misspelled 'ornery'

"wigger" and "ronery" in the space of 3 posts, kudos

hard to put into words, but it's unfortunate how the response to North Korea among most people is "lol team america" and not "one of the world's greatest tragedies."

/soapbox

how long had he been il

Probably died of embarrassment after hearing this excuse:

"When we stayed in Pyongyang during training our players were hit by lightning, and more than five of them were hospitalised," said coach Kim, without naming the affected players specifically.

"Some stayed in hospital and then came to Germany later than the rest of us. The goalkeeper and the four defenders were most affected, and some midfielders as well. The physicians said the players were not capable of participating in the tournament.

"But World Cup football is the most important and significant event for a footballer, so they don't want to think about anything but football.

"The fact that they played could be called abnormal, the result of very strong will."

Amazing acting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSWN6Qj98Iw

Sonic event of the year, that.

think my bad one liner of choice will be something like "first seve now kim jong il, it's been a bad year for golf".

Maybe they can put this crazy building to use now as a giant mausoleum :

http://images.blog-u.net/wp-content/original/2010_11/Ryugyong-Hotel-Pyongyang-North-Korea.jpg

xp bad year for opera too, and swimming.

it looks much nicer these days btw (i.e. has a facade added)
http://www.lindsayfincher.com/gallery/d/18046-2/DPRK_yanggakdo_hotel_view_18.JPG

yeah they're actually moving forward to maybe opening it. I assume they've stopped airbrushing it out of official photos?

looking forward to when it blasts off to start its journey to Pluto.

Serious numbers station vibe from this: http://www.northkoreatech.org/2011/12/19/voice-of-korea-announces-death-of-kim-jong-il/

If someone doesn't mix chunks of the above with the mass weeping and blend in some Wolfgang Voigt and send it to Xmas #1, then I might have to do it.

...and we have a new Dead Pool leader.

I actually came here to check up on this. Can you link to the standings plz?

KIM J GONE, OUR NI**A DEAD

racist

he's korean - ninjas are japanese

i found out this happened via buzz feed

buzzfeed

Stevie -- https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AiOJtlzTpgyzdDJMOFZVdUNmSmNOaWpIcjFZczFZRFE&hl=en&gid=0

Thx, WmC.

unregistered had been in the lead for months but failed to pick either Hitchens or Kim, allowing abanana -- who picked both -- to surpass him for the lead.

noooo wait, I picked Hitchens! he wasn't on my original ballot, but I subbed him in before the deadline:

You've got Dennis Frederiksen twice. Wanna pick another?

― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Monday, January 3, 2011 3:05 PM (1 hour ago)

oh dang, thanks for pointing that out. here's my revised list:

Charlie Louvin
Aretha Franklin
Andy Whitfield
Dennis Frederiksen
Ed Thompson (politician)
Brian Lenihan, Jr.
Harmon Killebrew
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
D.K. Holm
Keisuke Kuwata
Guy David Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe
Derryn Hinch
Brian Haw
Dave Rose (basketball coach)
Christopher Hitchens

I switched out Twiggy too because my "sources" tell me that she isn't likely to die this year. keep in mind that this is highly privileged information, and I'd appreciate it no one would repeat it outside of this thread.

― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Monday, 3 January 2011 16:34 (10 months ago)

I think you just forgot to update my ballot. I should have 262 points, then.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GQN3MfvYvEkJ:www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet%3Fshowall%3Dtrue%26bookmarkedmessageid%3D2236892%26boardid%3D40%26threadid%3D85023+site:ilxor.com+%22I+switched+out+Twiggy+too+because+my+%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

(link to that post)

His "love of the cinema bordered on the obsessive," notes the BBC in its obituary. "He is said to have collected a library of 20,000 Hollywood movies…. In 1978, he ordered the abduction of a South Korean film director, Shin Sang-ok and his actress wife Choi Eun-hee. They were held separately for five years before being reunited at a party banquet. They said afterwards that Mr Kim had apologized for the kidnappings and asked them to make movies for him. They completed seven before escaping to the West in 1986."

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/daily-briefing-kim-jong-il-cinephile

"The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature. As such it is a powerful ideological weapon for the revolution and construction."

So wrote Kim Jong-il in his 1987 essay The Cinema and Directing.

Countless leaders have recognised film's potential for propaganda. But for the North Korean leader, who has died aged 69, cinema was much, much more.

His enormous collection of video cassettes incorporated everything from Hollywood westerns to Japanese monster movies....

"No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and in which discipline and order have not been established," he decreed in 1987.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16245174

I think you just forgot to update my ballot. I should have 262 points, then.

My bad! Yes, it looks like I switched out Frederiksen for Lenihan, but I forgot to also switch out Twiggy for Hitchens.

Thanks for calling that to my attention.

You are now back on top.

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/365002angel.gif

Goodby Kim Jong Il. We Made You A Cookie. But We Eated It.

In 1978, he ordered the abduction of a South Korean film director, Shin Sang-ok and his actress wife Choi Eun-hee. They were held separately for five years before being reunited at a party banquet.

Worst paid-gig for Cilla Black ever.

Can't believe all this staged weeping and wailing over a dead head of state, you'd never pull that shit over here.

btw, thank you for NOT thoughtlessly titling this thread with "RIP"

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/30/article-1322689384480-0F00C65500000578-351350_304x156.jpg

it's sad he wasn't a democrat

Can't believe all this staged weeping and wailing over a dead head of state, you'd never pull that shit over here.

― Seed Production Scientist cum Head (Julie Lagger), maandag 19 december 2011 18:06 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

Joke or do you really believe all of that is staged?

For I fear it's not, at least not entirely. People there grow up in complete isolation, they are told in schools, at work, by their families, that Kim Jong Il was nothing short of a Messiah, single-handedly responsiible for keeping the nation going. God-like. Add to that the extreme querulant take on foreign affairs ("other countries are the devil, we must persist, and will if we pull together!"). The regime put the fear in its people really good and with a hold on the people like Jong Il had, I do think at least partially, the indoctrination has actually worked. Which is very depressing a thought for me.

http://www.anglonautes.com/voc_pol/voc_pol_mona_charles_1/voc_king_pic_diana_flowers.jpg

People here grow up in complete isolation, they are told in schools, at work, by their families, that Diana was nothing short of a Messiah, single-handedly responsiible for keeping the nation going. God-like. Add to that the extreme querulant take on foreign affairs ("other countries are the devil, we must persist, and will if we pull together!"). The regime put the fear in its people really good and with a hold on the people like Diana had, I do think at least partially, the indoctrination has actually worked.

What point are you trying to make here?

none really, except hilarious public displays of indoctrination lie pretty close to home

NV you didn't even correct the extra 'i' i accidentally added to the word 'responsible' ;_;

Hilarious public displays of indoctrination lie close to home, sure. The beast that can be mass-mourning (lolNult). But my point was that I fear it's not a temporary mass psychose like with Diana, but indoctrination at its most succesful: people actually feel their demi-God died.

Via ILX vet donut bitch:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/404905_10150477138938879_611153878_8717916_366871026_n.jpg

I call "Game of Throats."

Let me put it this way: I would have liked to see small signs (a wink, unconvincing behaviour) of the people that are 'mourning', to somehow show us "it's ok guys lol, we don't really mean this. Look at me trying to cry my eyes out over this fucker lol". But I haven't seen it yet.

But then the 'apparatsjik' wouldn't ever allow images like that to be broadcast. They probably torture and shoot people not crying enough.

I don't know, I am with the person up here who is depressed that most reaction are "lol that puppet from team america died".,

From the comments on a friend's fb post: "Not a good year for guys who wear women's sunglasses (Qadaffi, Kim Jong-Il). Hope Al Davis is okay ..."

Uh...Davis is already dead.

That was the joke, methinks.

I certainly hope it was one!

rip but should have his own thread imo

new kid is the NK Jonah Hill

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/384094_275615692483624_268425733202620_879595_101787784_n.jpg

Foster guy sad when he heard the news.

Nevah forget the good times:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwoSFQb5HVk

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Kim_Il_Song_Portrait-2.jpg

what will happen to http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/ ??

hope this one will be as good http://kimjongunlookingatthings.tumblr.com/

Looking at his lunch?

http://i.imgur.com/Egl1o.jpg

would be perfect if it said "Kim Jong II"

i guess the main talking point re his death is whether it will be a bigger loss to 4chan whites or tumblr whites

It's a good thing they've already canceled Community.

Ken Jeong ill, nobody wants to see his sorry ass waste away

Communisty

Congratulations to the "Haters Gonna Hate" kid on his new role as Leader of North Korea btw.

i really kinda dig the idea of hitchens and havel sitting at the gates and god being like 'ok yall get to pick #3' and they turn to each other and smirk and then

the gates to what

respective gates

god being like y'all

http://newspaper.li/static/37f31290e35bebe2d1905c46726d7b53.jpg

http://www.dangerousminds.net/images/uploads/tumblr_lwfmwkyRsd1qzezhmo1_500.gif

Perry's Latest Oops Moment: 'Kim Jong the Second'

oh god

people cried their eyes out when keegan left newcastle ffs.

now there really was a cruel dictator

i heard he once admitted that he luvs beating people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJNBfBr-OGU

ok that was pretty lol

posted upthread. amusing, though.

no aimless, this is a different one!!

(slaps forehead)

i guess the main talking point re his death is whether it will be a bigger loss to 4chan whites or tumblr whites

― awesome to have a clever englishman zinging yr enemies (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 01:31 (3 days ago)

tumblrs 1 4chans 0

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/7/2011/12/43a0d15cc9fe88836b360e62c03b9732.jpg

ghostrides the whip

aerodynamic

lmao I see what you did there xp

ty, ty

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/12/28/blogs/20111228-lens-manipulate-slide-AV75/20111228-lens-manipulate-slide-AV75-custom1.jpg

not exactly http://qc.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/trotsky_removed_from_history.jpgwkroy9.jpg

but ok

I can see why all the libertarians like Arizona - Communism looks cold.

they don't call it the Cold War for nothing! waka waka waka!

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/dec2011/8/7/mystery-giant-soldier-at-the-funeral-of-kim-jing-il-pic-getty-images-667449816.jpg

'Giant soldier' pictured mourning North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il

o_o