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That's Best Korea for you. Incidentally, the two Koreas have diverged so much that it's quite likely that within a generation or two reunification may become nearly impossible. As it is the situation is bad enough as to make West Germany's absorption of East Germany look like a minor hiccup. If South Korea were to annex North Korea, it would cause their economy to implode pretty much instantly, not to mention all the social issues that would result from a wave of North Koreans moving South in search of better living. Pretty much the only way to make it work is for South Korea to treat North Korea like a colony, with few voting rights, travel restrictions, and sweat shops were workers are paid a pittance. Then slowly building them up to having full rights as well as complete economic and political integration over the next 20-40 years. The sad thing is that merely making it so that everyone get enough food and consistent access to electricity and transportation would be a huge improvement already, even if they were otherwise an oppressed colony.

The telling part about how much they're diverging, though, is North Korea's infiltration course. Way back after the end of the Korean War it was six months, that was all they needed to train people to pass themselves off as South Korea. Probably about as much or less than you'd need to train American to infiltrate Canada. Now the course is three and a half years, and it involves an underground recreation of a South Korean city complete with actors pretending to be South Korean, because otherwise it's simply impossible to get the right context.

I'd say that reunification is already not possible in a viable fashion and that's why nobody is particularly interested in the concept anymore.

Also I could infiltrate Canada easy enough. "I like hockey and weed, eh!"

"And the moose, too, ya hoser!"

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Also I could infiltrate Canada easy enough. "I like hockey and weed, eh!"

It isn't that easy. We're talking about The One True Faith here. You gotta know this shit. You need to know the teams and the conferences, the great ones and the over rated guys who are being paid too much, and have some back seat driver comments about the coaching and management of you home team. You need to know Muhammad's mother's name with this shit yo.

Cynical Cat wrote:It isn't that easy. We're talking about The One True Faith here. You gotta know this shit. You need to know the teams and the conferences, the great ones and the over rated guys who are being paid too much, and have some back seat driver comments about the coaching and management of you home team. You need to know Muhammad's mother's name with this shit yo.

Personally I think letting Sullivan and Tortorello go was the right call. But with the Hurricanes and the Capitals both looking for new head coaches it's going to be interesting to see who they end up picking up as replacement. Also, I'm wondering what Kassian's contract is going to end up looking like since it's obvious he's going to refuse any low ball qualifying offers with his numbers usually. I mean nobody want's to end up like Fleischmann during the 07 season getting the low end contract and scoring their ass off. On the other hand no team wants another Gerbe with a huge contract and not earning his keep, putting up kind of lackluster numbers in comparison to previous seasons after they hired him on for a 3 year deal at near 1.5mil per. The other bit there is that Kassian is a bit inconsistent at times, and the Canuck's still have Tanev on RFA too I believe.

See, that's the shit you gotta be able to do. I'm sure you can get sleeper agents from Boston, New York, and Detroit. Fuck you might even be able to get them Cali these days.

One thing I've learned about Boston over the years is that fuckers know their sports. The main problem is that their sleepers would be easy to pick out- just diss on the Bruins and watch their knuckles go white.

"The fuck you say? THIS MEANS WAH!"

I can dance that dance in Baseball and Football and even fake it in Basketball, but I'm afraid Canadapuck still eludes me.

For a moment, I read that as Canadapunk, and now I must make that the next big Nerd fad.

Hotfoot wrote:For a moment, I read that as Canadapunk, and now I must make that the next big Nerd fad.

Well, since you love Heavy Gear that puts you ahead of the curve.

Okay, now we have to actually mold Canadapunk until it's a thing, then unleash it on the world and stand back to watch the chaos.

The very polite chaos.

I already want to nominate this thread as the best Libarc Thread of 2014.

So, I make a slight off the wall comment and Josh takes it and runs to the end zone, scoring a touchdown and utterly derailing the thread. A sane person might perhaps decide to stop making off the wall comments and maybe start giving Josh a wide berth. Fortunately! Sanity is scarce around these parts. ^_^

Lys wrote:So, I make a slight off the wall comment and Josh takes it and runs to the end zone, scoring a touchdown and utterly derailing the thread. The conclusion I draw from this is that I need to make more off the wall comments.

Indeed.

Lys wrote:So, I make a slight off the wall comment and Josh takes it and runs to the end zone, scoring a touchdown and utterly derailing the thread. A sane person might perhaps decide to stop making off the wall comments and maybe start giving Josh a wide berth. Fortunately! Sanity is scarce around these parts. ^_^

This does, however, explain why lots of other people veer off as I approach.

Just like the good old days.