To be wetting myself laughing at Kim Jong Il's funeral coverage?

[BaublesandCuntingCarolSingers]

It's hilarious.

That massive framed picture on top of the funeral car. The OTT speeches. Kim-Jong Un's hairdo.

It's like something off Monty Python.

Defensive sarcasm a plenty on this thread [Hmm]

even

I'm not even going to express an opinion, lest I am called a cliquey bastard.
So I shall just larf at everything.

I wouldn't call Brooker fourth-rate. I don't need him to formulate my opinions for me either (which I would have thought is obvious, since I have managed to express my opinions all by myself already) I just look forward to hearing his thoughts on stuff. Is there something wrong with that now? That I enjoy reading a fucking column in a newspaper?

Some people really do trundle through life doing pursed lips/arms crossed huffily at everything.

coldweb - For fucks sake! the op has explained herself about a billionth time, stop fucking riding her. Instead of educating people (like myself) on NK, the thread is about the op.
In response to the OP - YABU

Lay off the op.
Can't see any goading. Posts just say YABU and here are the reasons why. Should people not say YABU?

Really open-mouthed at the people on this thread who think that there is no scope for laughter at this funeral, or at the theatrical display of grief. Sympathy, shock, understanding can exist alongside black amusement. It is a really odd and pious twisting of compassion to claim otherwise.

In fact, the little parade of posters managing to work up a show of anger at a non-existent wrong is a leeetle bit like those mourners' displays: a one-upmanship in the display of a strange distorted model of proper feeling.

I think the display of grief was tragic and I don't know if the greater tragedy would lie in the mourners' sincerity or in their faking their grief. But I also find it very funny, surreal, absurd. All of those reactions have been grist for oppositional satire in former European and Russian totalitarian regimes, and it is natural to view NK totalitarianism with the same bleak humour.

Kitty - apparently we should all be grateful for the OP's dazzling wit.

Yes, please be a bit more grateful. I have expressly requested that you be a bit more grateful.

Calatallie - I find the insistence that we must see the humour in this really patronising. And you can take your claim of "one upmanship" and stick it. For some of us, countries like this are more then a target for satire.

That is correct, I cannot make an opinion without the guidance of Brooker. Funny, just minutes ago, DP and I were weighing up the relative merits of Lavazza Vs. Illy, and I pondered to myself "what would Brooker do". I even googled it.

And what do you know - he's .... a nespresso man! The EVIL SATANIST! He also kills babies with his 4th rate trivia. I read it in The DM.

What paper does Brooker write in?
I've only seen him on the telly.

OP, you asked a question, some said YABU & here are the reasons, you became sarcastic and defensive, people said YABU again whilst others said lay off the OP, some said still not funny.
????

Goth, do you truly think that laughter here means that we don't see NK as "more than just a target for satire"? Or do you just pretend you think that for the sake of maintaining a self-righteous anger?

In The Guardian, LadyBeagle. He is fourth-rate, though. Wouldn't bother with him if I were you.

You obviously think YANBU, you seem offended that people disagree.
So why ask?

The op will be able to answer for herself if she wishes to, but I was surprised at the number of people who seemed unable to grasp that her post had nothing to do with amusement at the sufferings of the North Koreans.

Not sure that the OP linked the OTT funeral with politics at all to start with. Which is a bit short sighted.

Calatalie your post at 10:09 was measured, thoughtful and intelligent.

Calatallie - I think the laughter here is that tediously self congratulatory sort, so beloved of certain people and their arselickers on MN.

"You obviously think YANBU, you seem offended that people disagree.
So why ask?"

Because people disagree with a querstion I never asked. People have answered that AIBU to find the suffering of a nation funny. I was laughing at an oversized picture and a haircut. If you can't divorce the two things, then that's fine. But don't piss your knickers saying that I am laughing about something that I wasn't.

Ooh, tedious and self-congratulatory...

There is of course scope for humour in the proceedings- it's just that nobody's made any jokes yet, so I haven't laughed.

Op - The only person pissing their knickers here is you, look at your AIBU question.

No Goth you are wrong in my case. I'm not kissing up to anyone.

I am appalled for the North Koreans and thankful I do not live there.

But I giggled, a lot, at the colossal picture on top of the car. Imagine if the wind picked up.

And the new dudes barnet is breath taking.

FFS Goth, just because the OP has people that agree with her we're tediously self congratulatory and arselickers?
I like to think that my opinions derive from me and nobody else.
In this instance I agree with her not you.
Sorry about that