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North Korea TV Censors Alan Titchmarsh's Trousers

by tagawa on 3/27/24, 6:34 AM with 16 comments

  • by rsynnott on 3/27/24, 10:40 AM

    > "You couldn't send Dad's Army, as it is about war. But Teletubbies could be an option, or The Good Life, with a bit of gardening and squabbling in the kitchen".

    The Good Life? I mean... I remember it as being quite political; it's about a suburban middle-class couple who renounce consumerism and turn their house into a farm, to the annoyance of their irritating social-climbing neighbours. Now, maybe that is political in a manner appealing to North Korea, but it's hardly just a bit of gardening and squabbling in the kitchen.

  • by mock-possum on 3/27/24, 5:48 PM

    > Current leader Kim Jong-un, himself a fan of voluminous legwear, is reportedly irked by skinny jeans and T-shirts bearing Western logos which are popular in South Korea.

    This all feels a bit tawdry to me. I feel like I rarely see this kind of content on HN, and tbf I’d kinda rather not see it at all.

  • by grahamm on 3/27/24, 6:37 PM

    I am so glad Titchmarsh's trousers are a threat to the North Korean regimes hold on it's people. What else can we throw at them, Angela Rippon's legs?

  • by hiccuphippo on 3/27/24, 4:36 PM

    Reminds me of a story about one of the things people smuggle into North Korea is USB sticks filled with foreign sitcoms, ebooks and movies.

  • by mauer1361 on 3/28/24, 2:01 PM

    I would suggest taking basically any news of this type about NK with a grain of salt - a lot of it comes from South Korean tabloids afaik.

  • by osti on 3/27/24, 3:42 PM

    If even this kinda article makes it to the 2nd page of hacker news, I don't know if I should continue to frequent this website.

  • by password54321 on 3/27/24, 11:12 AM

    Don’t worry these id*ts only have the data of tens of millions of UK voters.

  • by paganel on 3/27/24, 10:11 AM

    The BBC going at it, as usual. They've been on a roll the last couple of years, a step up though compared to "Gaddafi's soldiers are high on Viagra all the time!!" [1]

    [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13705854