No Cuabas for me!

[Dogface]

A definite dumb law: The US embargo against Cuba. Were I to want to smoke a Cuaba or two (not that I've ever actually had a Cuban cigar, oh no sir), I have to take a road trip north. Yeah, I've heard the tired old rhetoric, but I still don't see Tio Fidel toppling any time soon...

[Phreakmeister]

And why put an embargo on Cuba, on North Korea, on Vietnam, on the Soviet Union, on Eastern Europe (untill around 1991; I dunno when exactly those embargoes were lifted), but not on China? Is China less of a dictature? Is China a democracy?

[Dogface]

China has better restaurants.

[Phreakmeister]

Clearly you have never tried North Korean restaurants. Tree bark with stewed grass, paper, cardboard and wood pulp in a nice water sauce, followed by acorns and dog beef on a bed of dried seaweed.

(I'm sorry, that was a sick joke...)

[Dogface]

Indeed it was. Everybody knows that acorns go as the dessert in this cuisine.

[Sephirstein]

I'd celebrate anything that killed every member of the Chinese Red Fascist Party as long as innocent Chinese people were in no way harmed.

[Phreakmeister]

I just found a German tourist agency, which is specialized in tourist trips to North Korea. Tourists will sleep in kingsize beds (http://www.kdvr.de/tour/yanggakdo-hotel-2.jpg) in hotels in Pyongyang (http://www.kdvr.de/tour/yanggakdo-hotel-4.jpg). Make sure you don't miss the hotel shop (http://www.kdvr.de/tour/yanggakdo-hotel-3.jpg) and the swimming pool (http://www.kdvr.de/tour/yanggakdo-hotel-8.jpg). In Pyongyang, you can always take the subway (http://www.kdvr.de/tour/metro.jpg) (underground for Dippy, Zany, Paul and our other Brits). Don't forget to visit Kim Il Sung's birth house (http://www.kdvr.de/tour/geburtshaus-02.jpg) and mausoleum (http://www.kdvr.de/tour/mausoleum.jpg). Another must is the Palace of the Children (http://www.kdvr.de/tour/kinderpalast-01.jpg). You can also go to the beach (http://www.kdvr.de/tour/natur-03.jpg), the forest (http://www.kdvr.de/tour/natur-04.jpg), the mountains (http://www.kdvr.de/tour/natur-05.jpg) or the hills (http://www.kdvr.de/tour/natur-06.jpg) around Pyongyang.
(I must say, the landscape is wonderful there)

[Zandi]

I always figured that was real dumb !
Cuba use to be like just another one of the keys off florida and then Poof cut off and it truly makes no sence !
I was in junior high durring the boat lifts and living in southern florida and from the things people told me maybe just maybe there wouldnt have been such a flood of imigrants to the US if the two nations wetren't so cut off from each other !