What I Learned About My Own Daily Life From The Latest North Korean Propaganda Video
from the pigeons-are-delicious dept
Update: As pointed out in the comments... this is a hoax. The video is real, but the translation is made up for the sake of comedy value. Considering that Monday is April Fool's Day, where a bunch of people are going to be trying to fool others, let's just consider this a "lesson learned" and hope that we're not repeating this message again on April Fool's posts... Original post below...I find myself in the peculiar position of having to congratulate one of my old nemeses in writing for Techdirt, North Korea. I would have thought, after having described their previous attempts at producing propaganda videos, one of which included Elder Scrolls music and the other Call Of Duty footage, that they had exhausted the human limits for laugh-inducing hilarity. As it turns out, if I'm to believe the translator of the following video, these were merely warm up acts for the true star of North Korean humor, which details daily life in America.
Now, should a mere YouTube video reach the limits of your workplace's filtering device, or that of your country, allow me to present to you some of the things I learned about my own life thanks to this wonderfully produced video.
1. All of America is covered in snow, which is a good thing because apparently all American coffee is somehow made from snow.Now, should you be of the same mind as I in that you're beginning to wonder why you can't recall all of these moments in your daily life, it is useful to remember that North Korea is a country which has a dead person as its President. This is not an exaggeration. As you can see for yourself, while Kim Jong-un is indeed the country's First Chairman, neither he nor his father ever held the office of President of North Korea. That position was, and to this day is, filled by Jong-un's grandfather, Kim Il-sung, who has been dead for nearly two decades, but holds the office of "Eternal President".
2. Americans, by and large, live in tents and spend all of our money buying guns to kill children.
3. There are no longer birds in America, because they have all been eaten by the gun-toting tent-dwellers.
4. It is common in modern-day America for our tents to have caved in roofs (?), but we are still proud of our tents, as well as our Green Bay Packers Starter jackets.
5. Before we stray away from our tents, note that all of them are built with supplies donated to us by North Korea.
6. Before we stray away from our propensity to eat birds, note that the most common day for the eating of birds is Tuesday.
7. Homeless people, in general, are former Republican candidates from Oregon.
8. America is very grateful to our government for the 1 cup of snow-coffee handout we all receive daily, after which we resume bird-eating and child-killing activities.
I submit that no amount of pigeon-eating or tent-dwelling can hold a candle the level of crazy required to have a zombie President.
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“And as someone who is learning Korean, I can tell you that the few words I caught definitely had nothing to do with what he was 'translating'.
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Someday the people are going to find out what's been done to them. I pray it's sooner rather than later, and they're going to be very, very angry.
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Snow?
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Relevancy?
"Hilarious 'North Korean propaganda' video...
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Lost in translation :-)
It's not our fault...Punksatony Phil lied to the New England and Midwestern regions...
"2. Americans, by and large, live in tents and spend all of our money buying guns to kill children. "
Ah.....hehe...I have many memories of making big sheet tents/fortresses and having Nurf gun wars with my dad and brother :-)
"3. There are no longer birds in America, because they have all been eaten by the gun-toting tent-dwellers. "
Apparently none of them ever knew how adicting turkey bacon can get ;-P
"4. It is common in modern-day America for our tents to have caved in roofs (?), but we are still proud of our tents, as well as our Green Bay Packers Starter jackets. "
Only when a clothes pin slips out of it's grip on the 2 tents involved.
I could go on but at this moment I wish to inform you, Tim Geiger is that the region that when combined is known as Korea, there are two different dialects between North and South Korea. North Korea's dialect is primitive by comparison and hasn't changed since the Armistice that ended the Korean War. So whether its translated or not, basically what they are saying to their people is that "We give the Americans our money to keep their finances afloat and because of that we are superior".
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Do you really think they would jest about us being the new superior race of humans? Able to live on nothing but frozen water and outgrown need for housing?
I think North Korea is trying to scare their populace and trying to convince themselves they're the new Neanderthals of the world that have to fight to survive against their superiors before they go extinct like the dinosaurs.
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And as someone who is learning Korean, I can tell you that the few words I caught definitely had nothing to do with what he was 'translating'.
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Response to: AB on Mar 29th, 2013 @ 8:36pm
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"mis" translation?
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Ugh. Added an update, and reminded the writers here to be extra vigilant for the usual lame crop of fake stories on Monday as well.
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condolences
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Sorry, couldn't resist, because it can happen to anyone. Hell, some hoaxes can actually look believable, such as this one. I wouldn't have caught on it was a hoax initially, but I raised an eyebrow when the word "yummy" was used.
I'm pretty confident North Korea has no word for "yummy", as that implies a sense of satisfaction, illegal in the government-controlled land.
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The... larch.
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It has to be terribly embarrassing when the rest of the world can't tell the difference between a hacked together hoax and your own official government releases. Even the IRS produce better quality material.
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I think you meant "level of awesome".
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So I'm guessing this is an example of where you guys weren't doing journalism. LMAO! Keep up the great work, Mike. Your band of idiot co-authors are priceless. Way to rip on everyone else when your own house is full of idiot thugs.
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