(Freedom of Choice, Comrades!) North Koreans Allowed to Choose from 28 State-Approved Haircuts

WantChinaTimes.com ^ | 2013-02-23 | Maggie Kuo and Charlie Storrar

[Revolting cat!]

Dude, I got a haircut a couple of weeks ago. Went into a Chinese barbershop, or come to think of it, it might have been North Korean. I asked for something like a quiff, though I didn’t know the name at the time, and I’m sure the woman didn’t either. Anyway, instead she have me a standard North Korean cut. They’ve got 28 choices. We don’t have more than a half a dozen. Are we better off here?

[a fool in paradise]

Gooba gabba one of us, one of us...

[Chode]

[SampleMan]

The Norks allow more options for haircuts than Bloomberg does for soda sizes.

[Revolting cat!]

Come to think of it, what’s the difference between the state imposing some appearance standard and voluntarily self-imposed standard that leads to the same thing - uniformity? The difference is a phantom of liberty. For example, American woman dressing all in black, like some Sicilian widows, what’s up with that? There are no 28 varieties of black, just one, head to toe black, shades covering eyes on sunny, on cloudy days, what’s up with that?

[GeronL]

more choice than our leftists would give us

[left that other site]

Well, one can always buy a wig, but a replacement brain is a much taller order! :-)

[mosesdapoet]

#22

[a fool in paradise]

What color bowl did she put on your head before she started cutting?

[Secret Agent Man]

every little bird needs a nest, pop goes the world....

[Jack Hydrazine]

If only we could convince The Un that it was cool to do.

[KarlInOhio]

Well, one can always buy a wig, but a replacement brain is a much taller order! :-)

I already found a donor, but it's not a very good brain.

[Patriot Babe]

OMG something just dawn on me. What if we are forced to have the Michelle-My-Belle Bangs? Hope I go bald before that happens =)

[righttackle44]

1.) The unjong beat Obama posting nationally-acceptable haircut lists.

2.) North Koreans are going to look awfully stupid in two years if they don't change the styles by then.

[rellimpank]

—great minds, etc.,—my thought exactly-—

[Chode]

he's got enough fat in his head now that all you'd have to do is push in the hole...

[a fool in paradise]

more choice than our leftists would give us

Moe Tucker (drummer) of the Velvet Underground just posted a comment under a photo that read "to conquer a nation first disarm its citizens". She said "second, ban salt in restaurants."

[a fool in paradise]

America, land of the free.

[left that other site]

I’m afraid that one is damaged by excessive plugs.

[righttackle44]

The wall of hair.