I cannot wait to see if this happens.Prank leaves Justin Bieber facing tour of North Korea
By Daniel Emery
Technology reporter, BBC News Justin Bieber It is highly unlikely Bieber would be given permission to enter North Korea
Justin Bieber's Twitter page has become the target of an internet joke.
A public vote on the Canadian singer's My World Tour page asked users which country he should tour next, with no restrictions on the nations that could be voted on.
This spurred users of imageboard website 4Chan to nominate North Korea, with the vote now turning viral.
There are now almost half a million votes to send Bieber to the secretive communist nation.
The contest, which ends at 1800 on 7 July, saw North Korea move from 24th to 1st place in less than two days, several thousand votes ahead of Israel.
Given the fact that almost all citizens of North Korea are denied internet access and there are restrictive controls over all media, it is unlikely that any of the votes have actually come from within the country.
A spokesman for the North Korean Embassy in London told BBC News that any application for 16-year-old Bieber to tour would be dealt with by its mission to the United Nations, although the matter would be referred to Pyongyang.
Hate campaign
Justin Bieber has been target of a number of internet pranks in recent weeks.
Last month, a post on 4Chan urged users to all search for the term "Justin Bieber Syphilis" pushing it to the top of Google Trend's Hot Searches list.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il It is not known if Kim Jong-il is a fan of Justin Bieber's music
And over the weekend, Justin Bieber videos on YouTube were the target for internet hackers, redirecting users to adult websites or triggering pop-up messages saying that the Canadian singer had died in a car crash.
Google temporarily suspended commenting on videos and issued a statement saying: "We took swift action to fix a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability." The vulnerability hole was patched a few hours later.
His Last FM page was also hit, with photos of the singer replaced by pornographic images.
There have also been false rumours circulating that Bieber had died, that he had joined a cult, and that his mother was offered $50,000 to pose topless in Playboy magazine.
"Let's take some time to answer some crazy (rumours)... I'm not dead," Bieber wrote in just one of his Twitter postings.
And last week he posted that "My mum is a moral woman... let's just leave that one for what it is... because that rumour just grossed and weirded me out."
Prank Leaving Bieber faced with tourdates in N. Korea
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#1 Prank Leaving Bieber faced with tourdates in N. Korea
It is not known if Kim Jong-il is a fan of Justin Bieber's music
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I honestly could care less about this kid, and this really isn't that funny. It won't happen because he has to be hired by a venue... if there is no venue to hire him, there is no concert.
((oh and BTW The Quote you have in your sig "Never Trust a Skinny Chef" is from a Hawaiian Chef named Sam Choy))
((oh and BTW The Quote you have in your sig "Never Trust a Skinny Chef" is from a Hawaiian Chef named Sam Choy))
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LimePink: "Um, Mr. President? I was doing a suduko puzzle, and based on the hidden co-ordinates in the grid, I think Osama Bin Laden is either here : points on map: or here :points to another spot within 5 miles:. Also, Jay-Z killed Tupac Shakur and the lost treasure of Atlantis actually turned to the glacier that sunk the Titanic."
shark42bait: i admire that in a woman....
I'm a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in an AWESOME rack!
"if you want to get out of a speeding ticket short skirts and crying are still the way to go" Kairy on "mythbusters"
LimePink: "Um, Mr. President? I was doing a suduko puzzle, and based on the hidden co-ordinates in the grid, I think Osama Bin Laden is either here : points on map: or here :points to another spot within 5 miles:. Also, Jay-Z killed Tupac Shakur and the lost treasure of Atlantis actually turned to the glacier that sunk the Titanic."
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I think he was asking for the prank. But the rumors about his Mom? Uncool. If you wanna screw with a guy fine, fair game but you should leave his momma out of it man. It just ain't right you know?
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I have heard it attributed to several chefs over the years, so I will look that guy up, if he seems legit then I will totally change thatRukia wrote: ((oh and BTW The Quote you have in your sig "Never Trust a Skinny Chef" is from a Hawaiian Chef named Sam Choy))
'Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today — but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all'
-- Sir Issac Asimov
The True Resurrection would undo the chartrusing of the Gnome
-- My friend figuring out how to permanently turn a gnome chartreuse
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents
--HP Lovecraft in Call Of Cthulhu
-- Sir Issac Asimov
The True Resurrection would undo the chartrusing of the Gnome
-- My friend figuring out how to permanently turn a gnome chartreuse
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents
--HP Lovecraft in Call Of Cthulhu
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It's funny though.frigidmagi wrote:I think he was asking for the prank. But the rumors about his Mom? Uncool. If you wanna screw with a guy fine, fair game but you should leave his momma out of it man. It just ain't right you know?
