That North Koren parade is WELL good!

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Kewl thread... Nazi's, nutters and mad anti western antics, If I had a nuclear bomb, I too would HAVE to have a go with it (like the almost irresistable desire to set off fireworks bought too early combined with Stella Artois!)

And I probably wouldn't even bother finding a disused coal mine.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Kewl thread... Nazi's, nutters and mad anti western antics, If I had a nuclear bomb, I too would HAVE to have a go with it (like the almost irresistable desire to set off fireworks bought too early combined with Stella Artois!)

And I probably wouldn't even bother finding a disused coal mine.

Innit.

Thanks to MoH I have read LOADS about the Nasti's on the interweb today. I used to LOVE learning about how they came to power, well interesting stuff. Not good interesting as the Nazis were horribobs but interesting none the less.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

So...APART from having 1/3 of its population living in starvation, the world's largest stadium, torch-lit million strong "anti-imperialist" processions ripped off from the Nazis AND the setting off of massive nuclear explosions in abandoned coal mines in the north, WHAT has Kim Jong-Il done for us?

the worlds largest stadium can be found in czech republic

 

[Man of Harveys]

the worlds largest stadium can be found in czech republic

Damn - you're RIGHT. With room for NINE football pitches too. Better used for its original purpose of having millions of smiling Soviet-fed children waving flags etc etc. - which is exactly what the one in North Korea's used for, I guess.
http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_menu/past_future/pictures/past_stadiums/prague_strahov.shtml

 

[Rougvie]

I reckon we should hire them to do the opening ceromany at the 2012 olympics.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I reckon we should hire them to do the opening ceromany at the 2012 olympics.

Who, the Nazis?

 

[cannedheat]

Is there any North Korean lady sodliers in it with them little red boots on, just curious.

 

[Lammy]

the worlds largest stadium can be found in czech republic

The World's Largest FOOTBALL stadium can be found in North Korea.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

The World's Largest FOOTBALL stadium can be found in North Korea.

yes

 

[Virgo's Haircut]

Damn - you're RIGHT. With room for NINE football pitches too. Better used for its original purpose of having millions of smiling Soviet-fed children waving flags etc etc. - which is exactly what the one in North Korea's used for, I guess.
http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_menu/past_future/pictures/past_stadiums/prague_strahov.shtml

Browsing through that website it seems an "Olympic Stadium" is being built in Bagdhad.

Are the 2016 Olympics going to be held there?

2016 Hosts?

 

[Man of Harveys]

Are the 2016 Olympics going to be held there?

Don't be ridiculous. They could never hold the Olympics in a crime-and terrorism-ridden shit hole, where all local infrastructure, especially transport and healthcare, is entirely inadequate to provide even the most basic provisions after years of brutal government, and where successive attempts to address the situation by the authorities all fail miserably.

Where are they in 2012 again?

 

[Virgo's Haircut]

Don't be ridiculous. They could never hold the Olympics in a crime-and terrorism-ridden shit hole, where all local infrastructure, especially transport and healthcare, is entirely inadequate to provide even the most basic provisions after years of brutal government, and where successive attempts to address the situation by the authorities all fail miserably.

Where are they in 2012 again?

Andorra?

 

[glasfryn]

Put it this way. Its turn out to the parade or your relatives go missing.

Quite simple really.

or starve.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

What a GREAT thread. Is their an inverse correlation between the quality of a nation's parade skills and the level of dictatorship?

 

[The Oldman]

Andorra?

Blimey, they have copied Withdean. We have a top world stadium

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

In fact that looks more like the old withdean before we moved in!!!

 

[Man of Harveys]

What a GREAT thread. Is their an inverse correlation between the quality of a nation's parade skills and the level of dictatorship?

Definitely. Nicolae Ceausescu's flag-waving children kitsch parades were over the top even by the standards of cold war central Europe. My mate's wife used to be in them.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Definitely. Nicolae Ceausescu's flag-waving children kitsch parades were over the top even by the standards of cold war central Europe. My mate's wife used to be in them.

I never realised Ceausescu was a big parade man but, inspired by your snippet of information, I had a quick google image search for Ceausecu and his parades. Somewhat disconcertingly on the first page was this image:

Blue water shopping centre

 

[NMH]

There are few leaders in the current world that are worse than Bush. N.Korea only got nukes after being cited as "axis of evil" by a national leader who invades and attacks other countries under false pretences.