ADDED: "Fairyland" strikes us as absurd, but it must be a translation. What perhaps they didn't notice is that it doesn't simply mean a beautiful place. It means — when it's not literally the realm of the fairies — a place that is beautiful and insubstantial.
By the way, there's a place in Wisconsin, in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, called Fairyland. It's an "old growth hemlock hardwood forest situated on the shore of Lake Namekagon at the foot of a prominent interlobate moraine."
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Take your kiddies on that dream vacation to Stalinland!
Is Trump paying dividends on the Korean peninsula big time?
What are they going to do? Whitewash the bodies.
It's already a socialist fairyland. Only the fairies are evil and they eat people.
More Potemkin-Biden loveliness!
Well, as long as the North Koreans continue to kill those fellow subjects who are failing to be supportive of the Kim regime, they'll be very recognizable as the right bastards they've always been, fairyland or no.
to pass laws to "spruce up the country into a beautiful and civilized socialist fairyland."
it's About Time! No one wants to go to the People's Republic now; what with all the fat slobs lazing around idling and all wearing different clothing. If they could just Impose a little more order..
Is "Socialist Fairyland" a trigger phrase?
I'll go back to my cave now.
bi-coastal USA could be the model for them
I'm moving.
Great!! Let's send all of our America hating Progressives there. They are looking for their Socialist Utopia...THERE IT IS!!!
Fairyland .. they got that right.
I was thinking of moving to Portland, but this sound so much better.
In North Korea they can only afford a Potemkin Potemkin Village.
A fairyland, you say?
LGBTQ people can now vacation there.
If they don't mind being killed, of course...
Fire up Google Earth and fly virtually into Pyongyang.
THERE IS NOBODY THERE. There simply are no (very, very few) signs of any life in that place. Go to any other large city and see all the life on the streets, sidewalks, in the parking lots, at the parks, the shopping malls, randomly on the streets.
Then fly over Pyongyang.
There is simply NOBODY HOME. They're all dead.
And by the way, if Reuters reports it, you can be assured that it is propaganda.
Fire up Google Earth and fly virtually into Pyongyang.
THERE IS NOBODY THERE. There simply are no (very, very few) signs of any life in that place. Go to any other large city and see all the life on the streets, sidewalks, in the parking lots, at the parks, the shopping malls, randomly on the streets.
Then fly over Pyongyang.
There is simply NOBODY HOME. They're all dead.
And by the way, if Reuters reports it, you can be assured that it is propaganda.
What am I looking at? A giant projection? Colossal wax statues?
Is Kim going to build any golf courses?
The District of Columbia is a fairyland and the Mayor just declared an emergency over the 2000 illegals delivered by Texas.
Maybe you could make North Korea your "sister state," if Vermont or Massachusetts or Hawaii doesn't beat you to it.
North Korea has the best military hats.
Trans/homophobia.
I am sure it is a poor translation, but the reality is not any less ridiculous.
What is amazing is what incredible control North Korea has over its people. Historically, any population that was so abused by their rulers would have revolted by now. They may not have succeeded, but it would have happened, either an uprising of the masses or a military coup.
Asshole translator. The word to use was obviously "wonderland".
Fairy Land Building, 480, rue Saint-François-Xavier - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
I prefer Tom Sawyer's Island
Oh great, first iced coffee and now North Korea?!
My mother used to talk about how, during WWII, she and other girls would go to USO dances, including the Officers Club at the airport, HQ of the Fourth Fairy Command.
That's how it sounded to me. Cue Python and the military fairies.
BTW, the Norks aren't all dead, just very very thin.
Michael K said...
The District of Columbia is a fairyland and the Mayor just declared an emergency over the 2000 illegals delivered by Texas.
i KNEW there'd be a way, to tie this in Somewhere.. Somehow!!
Lori Lightfoot doubts Gov. Abbott’s faith as migrant buses arrive in Chicago: 'He professes to be a Christian'
That's Right! you heard her! The Lesbian Mayor of Chicago States that, and i am quoting..
"Sending people to Chicago, is Unchristian.. Because Chicago is a Living Hell"
How's THAT for a fairy land ?
fairy (n.)
c. 1300, fairie, "the country or home of supernatural or legendary creatures; fairyland," also "something incredible or fictitious," from Old French faerie "land of fairies, meeting of fairies; enchantment, magic, witchcraft, sorcery" (12c.), from fae "fay," from Latin fata "the Fates," plural of fatum "that which is ordained; destiny, fate," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say." Also compare fate (n.), also fay.
- etymonline.com
Slang meaning "effeminate male homosexual" is recorded by 1895. Fairy ring, of certain fungi in grass fields (as we would explain it now), is from 1590s. Fairy godmother attested from 1820. Fossil Cretaceous sea urchins found on the English downlands were called fairy loaves, and a book from 1787 reports that "country people" in England called the stones of the old Roman roads fairy pavements.
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