London hair salon uses picture of Kim Jong-un in an ad, gets a visit from angry North Korean officia
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[quote]North Korean officials paid a visit to a London hair salon to question why it had used their leader Kim Jong-un's picture in a poster offering haircuts.
The poster in M&M Hair Academy in South Ealing featured the words "Bad Hair Day?" below the leader's picture.
Barber Karim Nabbach said embassy officials were shown the door and the salon's manager spoke to the police.
The Met Police said: "We have spoken to all parties involved and no offence has been disclosed."
The salon put up the poster on 9 April and the next day two men claiming to be officials from the North Korean embassy visited the salon and demanded to meet the manager, Mo Nabbach.
Karim Nabbach said: "We put up posters for an offer for men's hair cuts through the month of April. Obviously in the current news there has been this story that North Korean men are only allowed one haircut.
"We didn't realise but the North Korean embassy is a 10-minute walk from the salon. The next day we had North Korean officials pop into the salon asking to speak to the manager.
"He said 'listen this isn't North Korea, this is England, we live in a democracy so I'm afraid you're going to have to get out of my salon'."[/quote]
North Korea has an embassy in the UK?
Put his family in the gulag.
[QUOTE=matt000024;44555837]North Korea has an embassy in the UK?[/QUOTE]
Apparently so. Here's a picture of it.
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[QUOTE=matt000024;44555837]North Korea has an embassy in the UK?[/QUOTE]
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not pictured: gigantic nuclear cave with ten million warheads.
[quote]"He said 'listen this isn't North Korea, this is England, we live in a democracy so I'm afraid you're going to have to get out of my salon'."[/quote]
Ruthless banter m8.
[QUOTE=matt000024;44555837]North Korea has an embassy in the UK?[/QUOTE]
How else are they going to stop the imperialist haircut aggressors
[quote]"He said 'listen this isn't North Korea, this is England, we live in a democracy so I'm afraid you're going to have to get out of my salon'."[/quote]
also if this were a south park episode this would start WW3.
[QUOTE=MenteR;44555892]also if this were a south park episode this would start WW3.[/QUOTE]
life is already starting to look a lot like South Park.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;44555863]embassy[/QUOTE]
Their embassy is on a normal housing street isn't it?
Imagine what it's like to be their neighbours. I bet they're the kind of guys who wont give you your football back if you kick it over the fence :(
Oh hey I passed that shop with the poster this morning on the way to work.
[QUOTE=matt000024;44555837]North Korea has an embassy in the UK?[/QUOTE]
It must kill them that people outside of North Korea actually have basic human rights and freedom of speech.
Fun Fact: [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/03/22/report-north-korea-ordered-its-foreign-diplomats-to-become-drug-dealers/"]North Korea actually uses their diplomats to peddle their cheap state-produced drugs.[/URL] That's literally how desperate they are for cash. North Korean money is worthless and they have so many sanctions on their country for being assholes that they use their diplomatic and embassy officials to make money anyway they can. Think that sounds far-fetched? Uh...you must not keep up with North Korean news. That's "nearer-fetched" than most of they shit they do.
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;44556016]life is already starting to look a lot like South Park.[/QUOTE]
Ample parking day or night, people spouting howdy neighbour!
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;44556016]life is already starting to look a lot like South Park.[/QUOTE]
I'm still waiting for the day where I can bounce on my balls around town and put them in a wheelbarrow
[QUOTE=matt000024;44555837]North Korea has an embassy in the UK?[/QUOTE]
I dunno if its a "real" embassy, they might just be claiming to have an embassy like when VICE did some stuff in North Korea they had people turn up from the "embassy" in the US, which doesn't exist.
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I smell a sitcom.
[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;44557519]I smell a sitcom.[/QUOTE]
Keeping up with the Koreans
[QUOTE=Complifused;44556024]Their embassy is on a normal housing street isn't it?
Imagine what it's like to be their neighbours. I bet they're the kind of guys who wont give you your football back if you kick it over the fence :([/QUOTE]
Anything moving on or over the fence is immediately exploded.
[QUOTE=01271;44557588]Anything moving on or over the fence is immediately exploded.[/QUOTE]
With NK's glorious missle capability that can hit anything with a 0.10% chance of success
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...So, where is it? Is it inside the mail-box? Oh, oh! I know! It's the flagpole, isn't it? It HAS to be inside the flagpole somewhere!
Coulda sent Rayhalo there this entire time.
I wonder what particular words were used by the North Koreans to express their disapproval. I also wonder in what way the salon expressed "I don't fucking care" in response to the dismayed North Koreans. I highly doubt the quoted sentence was what was said, if it was I cannot imagine it wasn't preceded by hysterical laughter.[QUOTE=The Maestro;44557673]Coulda sent Rayhalo there this entire time.[/QUOTE]I offered to fly that fucking guy to North Korea, but he was suspiciously silent when I pressed the matter.
I'm sorry but this is just too fucking hilarious :v:
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[quote]The Met Police said: "We have spoken to all parties involved and no offence has been disclosed."[/quote]
I don't know, some people might find Kim Jon-un's haircut kind of criminal.
[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;44559656]If mocking an evil dictator who violates human rights everyday becomes an offence then something is very wrong.[/QUOTE]
He should know Wright?
[quote] "He said 'listen this isn't [b]North Korea, this is England, we live in a democracy[/b] so I'm afraid you're going to have to get out of my salon'."[/quote]
Ooh, fucking wrecked. Someone dial 999, because I think shots have been fired here.
[QUOTE=Strontboer;44559482]I'm sorry but this is just too fucking hilarious :v:
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I don't know, it looks like a nice place to live
[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;44557519]I smell a sitcom.[/QUOTE]
[I]What's the deal with the new haircuts anyways? Did I miss the memo, do we have a flash mob planned at pyongyang at nine fifty? You know us North koreans, we're all about the party.[/I]
[B]Canned laughter[/B]
*Kim jong un slides through the doorway*
[I]Gitty op[/I]
I always feel strangely sad when it comes to North Korea, even with hilarious shit like this. Not just because it's one of the most oppressive regimes on the planet, but because it's not likely to cease existing as a state for a [I]very long time. [/I]
Ah well, melancholy spell passed. Sucks they couldn't get this on film or something :v:
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