January 08, 2005

Turkmenbashi has nothing on Kim Jong Il, who has just started a campaign against that most bourgeois of enemies to Workers' Paradise: long-haired dudes. Be sure you check out the slide presentation.
posted by pyrrthon1 19 years ago
  • After reading the article, I was pleased to learn that there's a newspaper in North Korea called "Nodong Sinmun".
  • I see the comb-over is state approved. That should be reason enough to ban it in America.
  • I have long hair and a beard (I was once in the doctor's office waiting for my appointment and one of the receptionists told me I looked like Jesus). Funilly enough I was stopped by a cop last weekend as I was walking down the street because of my hair. Not because he wanted to hassle me, but because he wanted to tell me that he was retiring next year and was going to grow his hair long for the first time in his life! See what America has come to! Even the police want long hair!
  • Sigh. I remember when long hair was a sure sign you were a commie.
  • At least you bastards have hair! Cold comfort to those of us who are going bald ... and prematurely grey. AARRGGHH!
  • He's just...so...ronery... /bad animatronic movie
  • The "approved" North Korea haircut makes them look like the pro-NASCAR Calvin-peeing-on-Chevy pickup-driving types we have here.
  • In the TV series "Let Us Trim Our Hair in Accordance With Socialist Lifestyle" unruly-haired men are singled out and their names and addresses publicised. I just like the title of the show.
  • Would Kim Jong Il's tall fuzzy do pass muster with the authorities?
  • For some reason dictators seem to become hair-conscious and issue dictums about what is or isn't permissable. Turkmenbashi the Great banned long hair and beards for men back in the spring of 2004. Since which he's gone on to ban gold teeth in everyone, make-up on newscasters fo both genders, and demends girls and women either wear their hair in braids or else wear traditional Turkmen headgear for women. Banning is one of those things dictators do best sincve everyone's too scared of them and the consequences to object.
  • Whenever I go on overseas trips, I tidy myself in accordance with the Republican lifestyle.
  • You shove a bromstick up your ass?
  • Ha! Argh wins. Luckily I had finished my coffee before reading that! bravo
  • bromstick?
  • o oh o
  • This Mr. Il has clearly never heard of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists.
  • Some say I look quite like Jebus as well, jccalhoun. (btw is the jc stand for you-know-who?)
  • jccalhoun does have great hair. I am quite jealous of it.
  • Post proof or retract!!11!
  • If you look like you're obeying the dictator, you're safe. Wonder how long before Bashi or Kim Jong-Il try to ban the more invisible forms of dissent.
  • Like being nude in your home. Or thinking about boobies.
  • "Men should get a haircut every 15 days, it recommended." Does North Korea have incredibly powerful barber lobbyists?
  • 'A man's hairstyle reflects his "ideological spirit",' says the Beeb, quoting somebody in NK, under the thumb and all. I think we can all agree on this.
  • In the TV series "Let Us Trim Our Hair in Accordance With Socialist Lifestyle" unruly-haired men are singled out and their names and addresses publicised. I'd love to be on that TV show. I can't wait for the US spin-off: "This asshole doesn't wear a bowtie!" hosted by Tucker Carlson.
  • I see the comb-over is state approved. This is yet another flagrant violation of US intellectual property laws by an Asian nation, seeing as how the combover has been patented.
  • They obviously haven't looked at too many pictures of Karl Marx or other 19th/early 20th century socialists.