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North Korea: Male University Students Required To Get Kim Jong-un Haircuts
An anonymous reader writes in with one more reason not to accept that full-ride scholarship to a North Korea University. "Male university students in North Korea are now required to get the same haircut as their leader Kim Jong-un, it is reported. The state-sanctioned guideline was introduced in the capital Pyongyang about two weeks ago, Radio Free Asia reports. It is now being rolled out across the country - although some people have expressed reservations about getting the look. 'Our leader's haircut is very particular, if you will,' one source tells Radio Free Asia. 'It doesn't always go with everyone since everyone has different face and head shapes.' Meanwhile, a North Korean now living in China says the look is actually unpopular at home because people think it resembles Chinese smugglers. 'Until the mid-2000s, we called it the "Chinese smuggler haircut",' the Korea Times reports."
Kind of sad what Slashdot has become. When CNN is already reporting this as a fake, for it to appear here is a joke.
Just a dude. Stuck in IT.
...at least it's not a mullet
Mullets are cool. Kim Jong-un's haircut is just crap.
You do know that an insurance policy is just a policy. The same thing applies to anyone buying it. You could just as truthfully say that women's health insurance covers testicular cancer.
It's not like insurance policies just changed this year to include it. They've been like that for years. You'd know that if you had ever read your policy.
Meanwhile, women have been buying health insurance that covers testicular cancer the whole time. Stuff a sock in it... This is how insurance works. We pool everyone. You're not buying specific health procedures. You're buying decreased risk. That's how insurance works. You got lumped into a pool that includes women.
If you only want to pay for SPECIFICALLY what you get sick for, we call that self insured. We also call that Not Insured.
I'm getting really sick of this stupid !@#$ing meme and the stupid !@#$ers that keep repeating it.
Here in the US, males 26 and older are forced to buy health insurance that includes pregnancy, even though pregnancy isn't a health condition for males.
Yeah, and? Insurance plans have been that way for decades and decades.
That the USA for example.
What is Godwin's law for Slashdot called? i.e. any Slashdot story about North Korea, after sufficient threads, will claim the USA is similar to North Korea in the given trait being discussed..
But a good one, it was not SO far out that it was easily debunked.
Then again, creating a believable hoax around NK is like shooting fish in a barrel.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.