The photo with those two Korean girls was definitely the highlight of the olympics for me.

@weine
same.

@weine And Fu Yuanhui! Her reaction when she got to know that she had won a bronze medal is priceless!

Okay, here's how I think it works:
Brother N. Korea is the main representation of N. Korea, and represents the militaristic, oppressive dictatorship. He's the one we've seen shouting at S. Korea.
Sister N. Korea represents the oppressed population of N. Korea and would happily go without the blanket if it weren't for Brother N. Korea.

@stewy497 N Korea is socialist and thus matriarchal at it's core. The people that most resisted the fall of the soviet union was not it's male populace but the women. Women want dependability and do not care as much about freedom. Just look at the western socialist movements that fights freedom like the SJW, the feminists and the college leftists, all of the orgs are mainly female in makeup.

@judgen Actually awhile ago North Korea ditched the Communist/Socialist aspects of it's policies in favor of "Juche" (which ironically emphasizes self-reliance while North Korea in practice depends upon foreign aid simply to survive).

'@judgen'
North Korea is a totalitarian nationalist de facto hereditary monarchy that basically treats its main population like serfs, which I'm not really sure counts as "socialist".

"The people that most resisted the fall of the soviet union was not it's male populace but the women."

That sounds like hogwash.

"Women want dependability and do not care as much about freedom"

This too.

"Just look at the western socialist movements that fights freedom like the SJW, the feminists and the college leftists, all of the orgs are mainly female in makeup. "

Feminists are pretty darn big about freedoms. And would also hate the way you described women above as some sort of domestic stability driven creatures.
Also North Korea is a nightmarish hellhole.

@judgen I think it's at least a little insulting to men to act like they're naturally less inclined to be socialists.

@judgen First the fuck of all, the spooky scary skeletons and the other groups you're hating on aren't out to take away your freedoms, they're here to give other people freedoms and let them enjoy their lives despite society's efforts to shit on them; the only "freedom" they're "taking away!!!1!!" is the freedom to be an absolute unbridled dickhead without consequences. If you can't see that, you're an entitled ass.

Second the fuck of all, you have your gender set as female. How the shit can you write such a misogynistic comment while being a woman?

Third the fuck of all, have you taken a single goddamn look at NK? That shit is not fucking socialist.

What do you call the person who finished in last place in the Olympics?

An Olympian.

@Finngall I don't get it ...

edit: Alright alright! I never disputed the impressiveness of Olympic Athletes, I just thought Finngall was making a joke because "What do you call a [blank]? [Punchline]." is a very common joke format and he happened to frame his question in that manner.

@PaxRomana In order to even be on the field, you're one of the best in the world at your selected sport. Even the folks who come in dead last are pretty legendary.

@PaxRomana @tomyironmane Yep, plus there's how us Aussies won our most unexpected gold at a Winter Olympics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAADWfJO2qM Or at least, Steven Bradbury did. Miracles can happen.... *grin*

@thisfox Damn, I remember that... and then the rest of them scrambling out of their daze to toss themselves across the line.

@PaxRomana just as the other commenter said, any Olympic contender is an Olympian and is the best of that country's best.

it speaks for itself. regardless of whether they won or earned anything, that they will be known as having been a contender, something above any other athlete in their country in that chosen sport. a select elite among athletes.

I think this is the first time I've seen Sister N Korea show her face. Way to go Estonia! ;)

Finland got also just a lousy bronze. Complete disaster, but then again, I didn't even watch the damn thing. Sports medals are vain; only one I've ever had when I was a kid, I threw on the floor for cat to play with, he seemed to enjoy it more than I did. And I used my only trophy from ice fishing competition as an ashtray while drinking booze (I only smoke when I drink so I had shortage of ashtrays).

I'm much more proud of our Fields medal in mathematics and Chemistry Nobel prize, though we really should get one in physics too.

@real-cool-cat Maybe we should go back to the beginning of the modern olympics when they went on for months, but also included events like Poetry etc. =)

@Lavrentivs
A spelling competition, perhaps?
(finns and estonians would excel, for sure)

@ThorsomeTarmukas throw in programming and swedes have surefire win

'@Lavrentivs' I can almost see that now. Maybe it should be even a rule, that an athlete after winning a competition must be able to say five quotes from some author that is not told beforehand. Failing that would disqualify the athlete. :D

I could already see, how much more sophisticated the athletes would be and not just egoistic idiots pumped full of steroids, quoting Mark Twain five times with sweat running from head before getting medal.

-"Congratulations, you made a world record in spear throwing. Or you will after 5 quotes from... *picking an author randomly from the box*... Edgar Allan Poe!"

-Erm.. *panting* let's see... 1. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream". 2. "The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our soul". 3. "I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity". 4. "Words have no power to impress the mind without exquisite horror of their reality". 5. "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering".

*Buzzer scream* -"Sorry, the last one was from Friedrich Nietzsche, not from Edgar Allan Poe. No gold medal. Better luck next time."

That would be awesome. :XD:

@real-cool-cat

I've said many times, the University of Helsinki should erect a giant, heroic statue of Linus Torvalds. Or else put him on your Euros.

'@Dan' He'd deserve both, but he would not like at all either of those ideas; he really resisted even naming his kernel after him, considering it narcissistic.

That's why statues of a person are always made here only after person has died. Otherwise it would be embarrassing.

@real-cool-cat

Maybe Russia can make a Motherland Calls-sized statue of Alexy Pajitnov at some point.

'@Dan' Maybe at the point when their people have full stomachs first. :D

Do you know what this confirms guys, North Korea is not sister Korea.

@Xarsor ... leading to the question: Were there a brother&sister East Germany at some time not so far ago? And if so, what happened to them?

(Best guess: Bro&sis East Germany moved in with the West Germans. Sister East Germany rubbed the hammer&compass off her shirt and runs the household now, with wimpy brother West Germany at her side. Poor brother East Germany and a depressed West Germany goth chick hide in the basement. Sometimes they play cards with Nazi Germany. Or something.)

A happy Estonia is one of the best things on the internet.

And of course there was this girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn0nPGfH1HI who was always wonderful throughout the entire thing

@Nerdburton That was great, and now my face hurts from smiling and laughing. Whoops. :P

omg estonia you pure adorable soul. Also, the koreas pic

Malta: *hasn't won a single medal ever* "Okay, this is where I'd put my Olympic medals and my Eurovision trophy iF I HAD ANY!!!!"