Thursday, 11 April 2013

North Korea Reveals Basketball Playing Cyborg

The People's Democratic Republic of North Korea has unveiled what they are calling a Super Ultimate Basketball Player in what experts say is a bid to score at least one win over America. Basketball was chosen as the area to excel in over other fields like technology or literature because of their leader's longstanding love affair with the game and the perceived ease of making a layup vs inventing an iPhone. The prototype basketball player was unveiled in front of a crowd of millions at a military parade Thursday by dictator for life Kim Jong Un and immediately declared by state run media outlets to be the best thing ever. The amassed millions were then goaded into a chant of “This is seriously the best thing ever” by Jong Un, with one citizen near the cage that held the Western journalists being overheard saying “I am honoured to have this [super ultimate basketball player] instead of food.”

Despite the glowing endorsement from people with a gun to their back, North Korea's basketball playing cyborg has failed to impress North America's expert in the field of Proto-Human Studies, Ovaltine Goose Shredder, who has been an especially spiteful critic of the new cyborg prototype since it's unveiling. “Oh, so you just have to put a golfer's range finder over the eye and give the dude a calculator and you've got a fucking cyborg? Is that the standard now?” he said late Thursday. In a description that would border on cruelty if it weren't so accurate, the cyborg is described by Goose-Shredder as “a 5'6” Charles Barkley that has been repeatedly struck in the face with a 2x4.” Goose-Shredder was quick to qualify his assessment, saying “I love Charles Barkley, and I would never want him to be hit by a piece of wood, but that's the only way to describe what I'm looking at. They didn't do a good job putting [the cyborg] together at all.” Goose-Shredder's assessment has prompted fears that the unidentified man who underwent all the body modifications to become the best thing that will ever play basketball may have been injured in the process, and brought new criticisms from human rights groups over the regime's treatment of their citizens. Goose-Shredder has been especially critical of the country's behaviour since unveiling the prototype, saying “One quarter-assed attempt at putting together a cyborg and Kim Jong Un starts strutting around like he's the new royalty of the mad science community. Fucking Dictators ruin everything.”

So far the regime has yet to actually demonstrate the basketball prowess of their cyborg, but promises that seeing it in action “will shatter everything North America knows about living on Earth.” Analysts are skeptical about it's abilities, as the thought of someone building a basketball cyborg and then not having a hoop around to see what it can do is too large an oversight to have been overseen, even amongst the colossal fuck ups of the North Korean regime. “The thing can't dunk, I'm calling that right now.” Goose-Shredder said. “Bjork is like four feet tall, right? Like pixie size? I would put money on Bjork to take the thing 1 on 1, even in one of her crazy dresses. Race to 11 and Bjork wins.” Despite his confident assurances, gambling experts disagree with Goose-Shredder's odds assessment because Vladimir Putin has yet to fight a wolf.

With all the media bluster the cyborg basketball player has caused, the threats of war North Korea has been making in recent weeks have been mostly swept aside. Goose-Shredder had a stray sentence that addressed the issue. “If we give them wheat, they'll shut up for a while and stop building nukes. They make threats, we give them food, they shut up until the food is gone. That's how our relationship with North Korea has been working for a while, so what we're seeing right now is nothing new and nothing to be worried about. ”

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