...and we have a new Dead Pool leader.
I actually came here to check up on this. Can you link to the standings plz?
― Stevie :-D, Monday, 19 December 2011 13:01 (twelve years ago) link
KIM J GONE, OUR NI**A DEAD
― j crunchwrap supreme, Monday, 19 December 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
racist
― ken c, Monday, 19 December 2011 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
he's korean - ninjas are japanese
i found out this happened via buzz feed
― your voice of treason, Monday, 19 December 2011 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
buzzfeed
Stevie -- https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AiOJtlzTpgyzdDJMOFZVdUNmSmNOaWpIcjFZczFZRFE&hl=en&gid=0
― William (C), Monday, 19 December 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Monday, 19 December 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
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 LouvinAretha FranklinAndy WhitfieldDennis FrederiksenEd Thompson (politician)Brian Lenihan, Jr.Harmon KillebrewRuth Bader GinsburgD.K. HolmKeisuke KuwataGuy David Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of RoxburgheDerryn HinchBrian HawDave Rose (basketball coach)Christopher HitchensI 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)
― 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 LouvinAretha FranklinAndy WhitfieldDennis FrederiksenEd Thompson (politician)Brian Lenihan, Jr.Harmon KillebrewRuth Bader GinsburgD.K. HolmKeisuke KuwataGuy David Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of RoxburgheDerryn HinchBrian HawDave 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.
― unregistered, Monday, 19 December 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― unregistered, Monday, 19 December 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 19 December 2011 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Monday, 19 December 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/365002angel.gif
― zappi, Monday, 19 December 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
Goodby Kim Jong Il. We Made You A Cookie. But We Eated It.
― Y.O. Mini (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Monday, 19 December 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Y.O. Mini (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Monday, 19 December 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
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), Monday, 19 December 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
btw, thank you for NOT thoughtlessly titling this thread with "RIP"
― Hurting, Monday, 19 December 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/30/article-1322689384480-0F00C65500000578-351350_304x156.jpg
― Y.O. Mini (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Monday, 19 December 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
it's sad he wasn't a democrat
― Seed Production Scientist cum Head (Julie Lagger), Monday, 19 December 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
― 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.
― lebateauivre, Monday, 19 December 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.anglonautes.com/voc_pol/voc_pol_mona_charles_1/voc_king_pic_diana_flowers.jpg
― Seed Production Scientist cum Head (Julie Lagger), Monday, 19 December 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Seed Production Scientist cum Head (Julie Lagger), Monday, 19 December 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
What point are you trying to make here?
― shakur rump (I left my login in El Sandboxo), Monday, 19 December 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
none really, except hilarious public displays of indoctrination lie pretty close to home
― Seed Production Scientist cum Head (Julie Lagger), Monday, 19 December 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
NV you didn't even correct the extra 'i' i accidentally added to the word 'responsible' ;_;
― lebateauivre, Monday, 19 December 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― lebateauivre, Monday, 19 December 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
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."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 December 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
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".,
― lebateauivre, Monday, 19 December 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
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 ..."
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 December 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
Uh...Davis is already dead.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 December 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
That was the joke, methinks.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 December 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
I certainly hope it was one!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 December 2011 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
rip but should have his own thread imo
― bloating forecast: ruff swells (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 19 December 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
new kid is the NK Jonah Hill
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 19 December 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 19 December 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
Nevah forget the good times:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwoSFQb5HVk
― Sanpaku, Monday, 19 December 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Kim_Il_Song_Portrait-2.jpg
― awesome to have a clever englishman zinging yr enemies (nakhchivan), Monday, 19 December 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
what will happen to http://kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com/ ??
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Monday, 19 December 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
hope this one will be as good http://kimjongunlookingatthings.tumblr.com/
Looking at his lunch?
― Dermot O'Leary is playing some beats/at night he's a TV presenter (snoball), Monday, 19 December 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Egl1o.jpg
― elks thunder, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
would be perfect if it said "Kim Jong II"
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
It's a good thing they've already canceled Community.
― remy bean in exile, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
Ken Jeong ill, nobody wants to see his sorry ass waste away
― remy bean in exile, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
Communisty
― t. silaviver, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
Congratulations to the "Haters Gonna Hate" kid on his new role as Leader of North Korea btw.
― Action Jackson (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 08:29 (twelve years ago) link
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
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 09:16 (twelve years ago) link
the gates to what
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 09:30 (twelve years ago) link
respective gates
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 09:30 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJNBfBr-OGU
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Thursday, 22 December 2011 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
ok that was pretty lol
― river wolf, Thursday, 22 December 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
posted upthread. amusing, though.
― Aimless, Friday, 23 December 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
no aimless, this is a different one!!
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Friday, 23 December 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
(slaps forehead)
― Aimless, Friday, 23 December 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
― awesome to have a clever englishman zinging yr enemies (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 20 December 2011 01:31 (3 days ago)
tumblrs 1 4chans 0
― nakhchivan, Friday, 23 December 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/7/2011/12/43a0d15cc9fe88836b360e62c03b9732.jpg
― James, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
ghostrides the whip
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Thursday, 29 December 2011 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
aerodynamic
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 December 2011 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
lmao I see what you did there xp
― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Thursday, 29 December 2011 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
ty, ty
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Thursday, 29 December 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
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
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Thursday, 29 December 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
I can see why all the libertarians like Arizona - Communism looks cold.
― M. White, Thursday, 29 December 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
they don't call it the Cold War for nothing! waka waka waka!
― ~connecticut~ (henrietta lacks), Thursday, 29 December 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
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
― lebateauivre, Friday, 30 December 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
o_o
― HOOS aka driver of steen, Friday, 30 December 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link