• FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      Fuckin' Action Park

      The fact that people reminisce fondly of going to a death park is astounding

      • ashinadash [she/her]
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        2 months ago

        If the terrordome were built people would wax nostalgic about it

        • Rojo27 [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          No doubt in my mind. Just look at all the people who yearn for sports leagues to allow players violently mangle themselves until they're completely disabled.

        • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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          2 months ago

          Yep

          I almost died at the wave pool at Noah's Ark when I was six

          So, I found my weird Communist quirk

          Death to wave pools

    • Magicalus@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      When he was a kid, my dad went to the original Action Park. A few years ago, he took me. When he came in, he said "There's some things missing, but it seems the same otherwise."

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      Action Park had a reputation for poorly designed rides, undertrained and underaged staff, intoxicated guests and staff, and a consequently poor safety record. At least six people are known to have died as a result of mishaps on rides at the park.

      What the actual fuck lmao

  • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    yeonmi-park Sometimes, the water runs out, and everybody is told to get out and spit into the water slide until it is full again.

  • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]
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    2 months ago

    Is it just me or could you swap those pictures with any water park in the US and nobody could tell the difference?

    • booty [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      no, when they post pictures of western water parks they turn up the vibrancy. when they post pictures of DPRK water parks they turn down the vibrancy. big difference

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    if you can't tell, I, a North Korea specialist consultant to the US State Department, will explain what your eyes are seeing.

    the rainbow colors of the slides is because at the "woke" water park, everyone is forced to become homosexual and get gay married by a general in the Korean army.

    also, Kim il sung is allowed to cut in front of everyone to go in the rides and anyone who doesn't clap for him is beaten with sticks until they deny Christ 3 times.

    • ashinadash [she/her]
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      2 months ago

      the rainbow colors of the slides is because at the "woke" water park, everyone is forced to become homosexual and get gay married by a general in the Korean army.

      cat-vibing

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    The only thing that ever makes pictures out of the DPRK look “creepy” is really just that things are often made with materials that look a bit cheap

    Which tends to happen when you put a country under a blockade for decades

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      2 months ago

      I often see that from crackers, they complain that NK looks stuck in like the 70's and gee I bet that has something to do with the fucking embargo the country's been under since it's inception like you said.

          • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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            2 months ago

            In my experience, they usually do. Just shit like:

            grillman Shame Cuba is such a dictatorship, I'd love to go there to get some cigars and see those classic cars.

            Still virtually no knowledge of Cuba and its history lol

            • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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              2 months ago

              My coworkers know I'm going to Cuba next month and one said it's a shame I'm bringing my GF and said they'd just sit back with mojitos, a cigar, and a prostitute.

              Yeah what the fuck

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      There also aren't brands and advertisements everywhere, plus urban areas usually seem sensibly designed. Americans are terrified if they don't know where the closest Taco Bell is.

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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        2 months ago

        Advertising fuck yes that’s what’s missing and I think that’s actually a bigger factor than material quality

        Seeing brand logos everywhere is such a part of my daily reality that I didn’t even realize that was what’s missing

        Hell, even non-brands have logos! We have logos all over the place!

    • mar_k [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      also, they usually cherry pick photos from when its cloudy, grey, foggy

  • healthkick
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    2 months ago

    Kim's objective in building the extravagant park was likely to show off his greatness to foreign leaders amid reports that many of his people are living in poverty and going hungry.

    https://www.newsweek.com/kim-jong-un-water-park-fan-637200

    Apparently NK is showing off its greatness with rock climbing and an on-site craft beer microbrew

    https://www.uritours.com/blog/new-dprk-site-spotted-munsu-water-park/

    • Taster_Of_Treats [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      Uritours site is funny, lol.

      "GET A HAIRCUT Find out if there’s truth to the recent headlines that say there are only 28 state-approved hair styles. (Spoiler: the charts are only used as a guide, we’re told)."

      • carpoftruth [any, any]
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        2 months ago

        Have these people ever gone to a barber? Haircut posters with models wearing different cuts are a thing in literally every barber I've ever been in

        • healthkick
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          2 months ago

          yeonmi-park and anyone caught wearing socks that are too short are publicly ridiculed

  • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]
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    2 months ago

    yeonmi-park in bad country, citizens are required to queue for upwards of several minutes before going down the state-owned water slide

    really scraping the bottom of the propaganda barrel with this one, huh?

    • HelluvaBottomCarter [comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      yeonmi-park citizens have to bring their own water and pour it down the slides while someone catches it at bottom. then they're forced to carry the water back up stairs to the top to do it all over again.

      Also,

      Yeonmi Water-Park kelly

      • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]
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        2 months ago

        Yeonmi Water-Park

        kitty-birthday-sad dammit i should've seen that one, i will assign myself 3 extra turns pushing the bumper cars

      • booty [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        citizens have to bring their own water and pour it down the slides while someone catches it at bottom. then they're forced to carry the water back up stairs to the top to do it all over again.

        this is how the monks do it

        • Philosophosphorous [comrade/them, he/him]
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          2 months ago

          based kim training the populace to be ninjas with comically difficult anime training regimens (pulling trains, strapped to missiles, forced to hunt rats for survival, etc.)

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    I'd throw a dart at a list of water parks in the US, go to that park's food court, and post a picture of the price of food. I guarantee it's creepier than those pictures.

    I can't tell you how relieved I was to go places outside the anglosphere, and sometimes even in the anglosphere, and being fed for a price comparable to going to a US grocery store even while being a captive audience.

    • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      The US has a long tradition of sketch water parks. One got shut down near me because a bunch of kids had tiny worms swim up their dicks and it gave them horrible bladder infections. I think, there was something with worms and dicks and kids getting sick, it was in the news.

  • GeorgeZBush [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Why is it creepy, you may ask? It's because Kim Jong Un goes to everyone's house and points a gun at people and tells them they HAVE to go there. And then he DRIVES them there in an old Soviet TANK that his grandfather got from STALIN. STATE-MANDATED visits to the water park. And because of communism they have to ration the amount of time you spend on the slides. You can only go on one during each visit, which is only once a decade. And the poor souls of North Korea are, much like insects, DRONES who are so BRAINWASHED that they don't even resist!