2005-01-10

winterbadger: (shaolin evil spirit)
2005-01-10 12:24 pm

"Let us trim our hair in accordance with Socialist lifestyle."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4157121.stm

"North Korea has launched an intensive media assault on its latest arch enemy - the wrong haircut.

A campaign exhorting men to get a proper short-back-and-sides has been aired by state-run Pyongyang television."

also

"The programme...stressed the "negative effects" of long hair on "human intelligence development", noting that long hair "consumes a great deal of nutrition" and could thus rob the brain of energy.

Men should get a haircut every 15 days, it recommended."

Yikes!

thanks to Nuck Bruner for pointing this out to me...