Friday, June 19, 2009

A Month of Boring Things - Day Three: The Ryugyong Hotel

So in the eighties the North Koreans* got their collective panties in a wad over some hotel the South Koreans had built. In response, they began construction on the Ryugyong Hotel. Then they ran out of money. The place has been untouched since 1992.** But they won't take the crane off the top--you know, just in case. Well, I have this to say to you, Ryugyong Hotel: Shit or get off the pot, buddy. Because there are scores of us who would like the pot, who need the pot. We, too, feel the desire to shit and, preferably, we would like to do so in the pot. And you, by neither shitting in nor getting off the pot, are making it difficult for us to do our own shitting. And that is leading to moderate-to-severe bowel pain. And that is out and out rude. And also boring.

Rating: 12%



*This dude from Canada has an interesting blog about N.K.

**Apparently the North Koreans have recently decided to add windows to the bastard. Windows! To a half-finished structure!

31 comments:

  1. glen got severe bowal pain from the cheese stuff hes been eating (dude hasnt pood since he wrote the review and cant go to hospital w/o health in surance

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  2. Hooray for the triumphs of communism!

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  3. That whole 'having a bat shit insane dictator' thing must have delayed construction.

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  4. At one point, construction costs were the equivalent of 2% of the country's GDP.

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  5. Man, I love North Korea. I mean, I feel really sorry for its citizens, but their nutjob dictator really is entertaining. It's like a country controlled by an angry three-year-old.

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  6. Anyway, supposedly they've been doing some work on the building. Something about building a telecom infrastructure or some shit, since no one has cellies except for employees of the state.

    Apparently, one website claims it'd take $2 billion to "finish the hotel and make it safe, that is the same as 10% of the annual GDP of North Korea."

    Damn.

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  7. And by "Anyway" I was referring to my previous comment, which was just trying to stir some shit.

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  8. I don't think your previous comment will be stirring any shit. Nobody here on R3 is a communist.

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  9. Except maybe R Kelley tag...I'm not sure where he stands.

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  10. V.A. are you kidding? I'm pretty sure Glenn reps the DPRK.

    Socialism. Communism. What's the difference?

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  11. What's the difference between Denmark and China?

    I'll tell you: Blond hair.

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  12. Why would they need a big hotel when no one is allowed to visit there anyway? Silly non-Americans.

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  13. Speaking of blonde hair, that Canadian blogger is truly a handsome man.

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  14. @I.J.,

    He certainly is.


    @RKt,

    Who's there?

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  15. hey anonymous, that was another rly great post. hey, on an unrelated note y dont u suck shit and die u unoriginal sack of human waste

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  16. I really don't like that word, Anon.

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  17. yeah anon like i. jon says that word sux and u sux and you shld be ashamed at having been born

    (i ratted you out above)

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