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North Korea: Winners get Refrigerators Losers get Labor Camp - Is it real?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 1:55 am
by powerfulguy
North Korea's Olympic athletes are surprising the world by winning medals, and attributing their success to Kim Jong Un. However, there are rumors that suggest the success of the country's small number of athletes at the Olympics is the policy of giving rewards like cars, refrigerators, and televisions for medalists, but losers are sent losers to labor camps.

But the consequence of loss is greater if the athletes lose to countries in conflict like the ROK and the US.

One North Korean defector stated at an interview that Shin Ui-gun, coach of North Korea's women's football team, will be criticized for the loss to the US at the London Olympics.

Moreover, North Korean defectors testified that if athletes lose a match, they are held responsible as if they had lost in a battle. Matches against Korea and the US is almost always considered as a war that needs to be won at all cost.

North Korean athletes are participating in sports not from sportsmanship, but from the fear of Kim Jong-Un's punishments. Is this even possible, and sensible? Some say this kind of rumor is from the negative perception of North Korea, but we are talking about North Korea, here. I think it's very probable because the 3 generation of Kim dictators gained the know-how of threatening and forcing people.

North Korea: Winners get Refrigerators Losers get Labor Camp - Is it real?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:27 am
by spot
There are rumors, are there? That's moderately vile, don't you think. It would take a particularly shoddy plonker to want to disparage the sporting achievement of these athletes just because of their nationality. We're grateful to you for bringing it to our attention.

North Korea: Winners get Refrigerators Losers get Labor Camp - Is it real?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:20 am
by Oscar Namechange
Olympic Losers Sent To Labor Camps In North Korea? - YouTube

North Korea: Winners get Refrigerators Losers get Labor Camp - Is it real?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:45 am
by spot
How very helpful. Would you like to summarize the link's content, oscar? Cause I'm buggered if I'm going to watch it just to discover what point you're attempting to make.

North Korea: Winners get Refrigerators Losers get Labor Camp - Is it real?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:02 am
by Betty Boop

North Korea: Winners get Refrigerators Losers get Labor Camp - Is it real?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:21 am
by Betty Boop
spot;1399743 wrote: How very helpful. Would you like to summarize the link's content, oscar? Cause I'm buggered if I'm going to watch it just to discover what point you're attempting to make.


I didn't listen too carefully, it was boring, but one thing that did make me listen was the fact that the reporter on the clip also claimed what they were discussing was 'rumour', at which point I stopped listening again.

North Korea: Winners get Refrigerators Losers get Labor Camp - Is it real?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:21 am
by spot
I'm left puzzled as to why the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide might be in any way relevant to South Korean bully-boy ****-stirring on the Internet.

North Korea: Winners get Refrigerators Losers get Labor Camp - Is it real?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:28 am
by spot
Here, for anyone interested, is where this toerag write-only arse "powerful guy" stole his copy-paste. The original's as distasteful as his muck-spreader.

North Korea: Winners get Refrigerators Losers get Labor Camp - Is it real?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:49 am
by gmc
Load of rubbish they wouldn't get refrigerators as they don;t have electricity in north korea

This is funnier

Hobbit Homes? Potential Texas Senator Ted Cruz Believes It - YouTube

North Korea: Winners get Refrigerators Losers get Labor Camp - Is it real?

Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:48 pm
by Richard Bell
...and what good is a refrigerator if you don't have food to put into it?

North Korea: Winners get Refrigerators Losers get Labor Camp - Is it real?

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:32 am
by Snooz
What's a toerag?

North Korea: Winners get Refrigerators Losers get Labor Camp - Is it real?

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:41 am
by spot
SnoozeAgain;1399811 wrote: What's a toerag?


From wiktionary:

toerag (plural toerags)

1. (chiefly UK) a rag worn around the foot in place of a sock by a tramp or vagrant

2. the tramp himself, subsequently generalized to:

3. a worthless nobody from the dregs of society, as in:

2007, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, USA: Arthur A. Levine Books (2007), page 674, "I know James Potter's an arrogant toerag," she said, cutting across Snape.

North Korea: Winners get Refrigerators Losers get Labor Camp - Is it real?

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:43 am
by Snooz
Ah, thank you. I always pictured one of those ID tags tied to the toe of a corpse.

North Korea: Winners get Refrigerators Losers get Labor Camp - Is it real?

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:59 am
by spot
When I was growing up we referred to the rags we wrapped around our feet before going outdoors as clouts. Maybe that was a regional variation. A clout in general is any article of clothing which shows major signs of wear and tear, such as might be used in more well-to-do families as a dishcloth or polishing rag. We were adjured never to discard such items before the end of May in case the cold weather returned before summer set in.

North Korea: Winners get Refrigerators Losers get Labor Camp - Is it real?

Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:05 pm
by Bryn Mawr
spot;1399815 wrote: When I was growing up we referred to the rags we wrapped around our feet before going outdoors as clouts. Maybe that was a regional variation. A clout in general is any article of clothing which shows major signs of wear and tear, such as might be used in more well-to-do families as a dishcloth or polishing rag. We were adjured never to discard such items before the end of May in case the cold weather returned before summer set in.


Don't cast a clout 'til May is out refers, not to the month but to the blossom of the May tree - remember, this was a rural saying, none of your citified gobbledygook.