Disney stole Dwarf Grumpy and other charaters from North Korea

  On 7/29/2012 at 8:55 PM, chenGOD said:

Ruiagnelo - we must have different definitions of stupid and ignorant. I tend to call someone like Hitler lacking in humanity.

 

They are ignorant of their own arrogance, just like you.

  On 7/29/2012 at 8:57 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

  On 7/29/2012 at 8:55 PM, chenGOD said:

TIMJ: 42% of 19 is 7.98 which rounds up to 8. So obviously they got the answer from 8 kids, not 7.98. They wrote 42% because it sounds better than the number 8 (and much better than 7.98 - which was a joke).

sounds better?? sounds misleading and retarded... the thing is, you were the one who started lecturing me about percentages when i made fun of it...

 

It sounds better to marketers. I didn't lecture you - I was trying to explain what I said.

  On 7/29/2012 at 9:01 PM, chenGOD said:

It sounds better to marketers. I didn't lecture you - I was trying to explain what I said.

i was making fun of it, and instead of a lol, you started explaining me stuff, you're nuts... Edited July 29, 2012 by THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON

  On 7/29/2012 at 9:01 PM, HoA said:

  On 7/29/2012 at 8:55 PM, chenGOD said:

Ruiagnelo - we must have different definitions of stupid and ignorant. I tend to call someone like Hitler lacking in humanity.

 

They are ignorant of their own arrogance, just like you.

Yes yes I'm arrogant because I happen to have spent time studying North Korea, so i know something about the country. And also because one of my future paths is to hopefully work on economic development in North Korea so that the people who live in pretty awful conditions there have a chance to improve their lot in life.

 

I know - I'm a pawn in the orthodox view of the world and obviously am pure evil.

 

 

TIMJ - it didn't sound like you were making fun of it. Thanks for insulting me anyways.

  On 7/29/2012 at 9:03 PM, chenGOD said:

TIMJ - it didn't sound like you were making fun of it. Thanks for insulting me anyways.

 

 

 

 

Edited July 29, 2012 by THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON

  On 7/29/2012 at 9:03 PM, chenGOD said:

Yes yes I'm arrogant because I happen to have spent time studying North Korea, so i know something about the country. And also because one of my future paths is to hopefully work on economic development in North Korea so that the people who live in pretty awful conditions there have a chance to improve their lot in life.

 

I could imagine this. I know that you live in South Korea (i guess so, as i recall reading it somewhere in some threads), and i don't participate in political and economical related questions at watmm that much, because i don't think i have enough knowledge, as you do for example. And that's why i got angry in the first place, because i knew you are a knowledgeable person, and you just popped up claiming that i thought NK people were dumb and ignorant.

You definitely got a point now: "we must have different definitions of stupid and ignorant".

 

I didn't start this thread to achieve a complex and deep discussion on NK, but simply wanted to share the Disney story. As someone said already, other totalitarians regimes have showed a strange fascination for Disney. It might not even be the case with NK, but how come have this gotten to a point where NK simply claim that Disney stole their characters? I just see it as a sign of ignorance and stupidity.

But please don't think i am here to condemn a whole nation. I can understand this is more complicated than it seems.

Edited July 29, 2012 by ruiagnelo

TIMJ - yeah you insult me when you call me nuts, or retarded.

 

ruiagnelo - apologies for misinterpreting your intent in posting the article.

 

I do think it's hilarious though - it's not like many of Disney's movies/characters are original anyways.

  On 7/29/2012 at 9:16 PM, ruiagnelo said:

  On 7/29/2012 at 9:03 PM, chenGOD said:

Yes yes I'm arrogant because I happen to have spent time studying North Korea, so i know something about the country. And also because one of my future paths is to hopefully work on economic development in North Korea so that the people who live in pretty awful conditions there have a chance to improve their lot in life.

 

I could imagine this. I know that you live in South Korea (i guess so, as i recall reading it somewhere in some threads), and i don't participate in political and economical related questions at watmm that much, because i don't think i have enough knowledge, as you do for example. And that's why i got angry in the first place, because i knew you are a knowledgeable person, and you just popped up claiming that i thought NK people were dumb and ignorant.

You definitely got a point now: "we must have different definitions of stupid and ignorant".

 

I didn't start this thread to achieve a complex and deep discussion on NK, but simply wanted to share the Disney story. As someone said already, other totalitarians regimes have showed a strange fascination for Disney. It might not even be the case with NK, but how come have this gotten to a point where NK simply claim that Disney stole their characters? I just see it as a sign of ignorance and stupidity.

But please don't think i am here to condemn a whole nation. I can understand this is more complicated than it seems.

 

The leaders knows its not true, Kim Jon Ill knows he didn't play the "best golf game ever", its just propaganda to feed the oppressed masses. The NK propaganda machine (or any nations propaganda machine for that matter) are kind of like Mad Men.

  On 7/29/2012 at 9:45 PM, chenGOD said:

TIMJ - yeah you insult me when you call me nuts, or retarded.

 

ruiagnelo - apologies for misinterpreting your intent in posting the article.

 

I do think it's hilarious though - it's not like many of Disney's movies/characters are original anyways.

i didn't call you retarded, i called retarded to the people who wrote that articleor the people who conducted that survey... wtf, me??? calling you??? a retard??? even if i did it couldn't be serious, if it was, that would mean that i was actually a hell of a dumb prick, bu hey, maybe that's what you think of me...

 

and nuts is a tender term imo

  On 7/29/2012 at 9:53 PM, YO303 said:

  On 7/29/2012 at 9:16 PM, ruiagnelo said:

  On 7/29/2012 at 9:03 PM, chenGOD said:

Yes yes I'm arrogant because I happen to have spent time studying North Korea, so i know something about the country. And also because one of my future paths is to hopefully work on economic development in North Korea so that the people who live in pretty awful conditions there have a chance to improve their lot in life.

 

I could imagine this. I know that you live in South Korea (i guess so, as i recall reading it somewhere in some threads), and i don't participate in political and economical related questions at watmm that much, because i don't think i have enough knowledge, as you do for example. And that's why i got angry in the first place, because i knew you are a knowledgeable person, and you just popped up claiming that i thought NK people were dumb and ignorant.

You definitely got a point now: "we must have different definitions of stupid and ignorant".

 

I didn't start this thread to achieve a complex and deep discussion on NK, but simply wanted to share the Disney story. As someone said already, other totalitarians regimes have showed a strange fascination for Disney. It might not even be the case with NK, but how come have this gotten to a point where NK simply claim that Disney stole their characters? I just see it as a sign of ignorance and stupidity.

But please don't think i am here to condemn a whole nation. I can understand this is more complicated than it seems.

 

The leaders knows its not true, Kim Jon Ill knows he didn't play the "best golf game ever", its just propaganda to feed the oppressed masses. The NK propaganda machine (or any nations propaganda machine for that matter) are kind of like Mad Men.

 

It would be propaganda if the NK people knew what Disney is in the first place. But claiming this just makes the leaders appear ridiculous to us, watching from the outside. I wonder, at this point, what is the amount of outside world information the NK people are actually given...

jimmy status in this thread:

 

[X] rustled

[ ] not rustled

 

i can't believe Disney would do something like this

Simba just means "lion" in Swahili.

 

Don't you feel cheated now?

Whole thread reminds me of that Simpsons episode when it was at its best...

OK, I think I deserve to share this with most of you. It was a docu smuggled out of DPRK, and it completely blew my mind. Take it all with a pinch of.. a pinch of whatever you like. It's fucking mind blowing though.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NMr2VrhmFI&feature=plcp

 

It's called "Propaganda".

Edited July 31, 2012 by hexson

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"The character of the dwarf Grumpy was clearly based on my dad,” Mr. Kim said.

Are we sure that Un was not just making a joke?

  On 7/31/2012 at 8:30 PM, hexson said:

OK, I think I deserve to share this with most of you. It was a docu smuggled out of DPRK, and it completely blew my mind. Take it all with a pinch of.. a pinch of whatever you like. It's fucking mind blowing though.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NMr2VrhmFI&feature=plcp

 

It's called "Propaganda".

 

My god, they're the planet of tinfoil hats!

  On 7/29/2012 at 5:31 PM, YO303 said:

They stole Snow White from an old German fairy tale.

 

Yeah and Peter Jackson stole The Hobbit from Tolkien.