Look, Timmy! Grandma has given you a week at a wonderful camp, and here’s the brochure!
Let’s see. Judging from these photos, many of the activities seem to center around carrying heavy logs, and there’s also wading in a frigid river and wearing old dirty tires on your head. The place is called Self-Denial Training Camp. No, actually I’m not making that up. It says here the camp is run by ex-marines. Those guys know how to boogie!
Well no, Timmy, it’s not a summer camp, because Grandma got a better rate for the winter session. She’s not made of money, you know. But she is paying for the full denial program - no food, no sleep, no television, nothing but the big logs, and the old tire head-gear. Is Grandma great, or what? Oh look, here’s a slideshow about the place:
Students at a winter military camp for civilians at Cheongryong Self-denial Training Camp run by retired marines in Ansan, southwest of Seoul, January 7, 2008. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won
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“Listen, ladies, if you want to be the next Korean ‘Harry Potter’ you’re gonna have to learn that pain is just weakness leaving the body!
- Posted by John C AbellDid you hear the one about the hot Korean chick who went to Log Camp? She was stacked.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksNo, Sir. I’m not a real marine. I’m just wearing the hat.
- Posted by Shawn Hendricks…Aaaaand. Hold. That. Note.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksBuilding a Generation of Resentment, one Youngster at a Time!
- Posted by Shawn HendricksWhere’s the blizzard? Where’s the uphill? What, are they at Band Camp?
- Posted by Shawn Hendricks“Oh, we’re lumberjacks and we’re okay!
- Posted by CharleneWe sleep all night and we look like idiots all day!”
Is that ’self denial’ as in, “I’m not a dork,” or “I’ll never, ever be a loser.” or perhaps, “My parents sent me here because they totally care about me?”
- Posted by Shawn HendricksWhy does nearly everyone in the photo have glasses on is that part of the criteria to go to the camp. Also the guy on the left actually looks like he´s really enjoying himself!!
- Posted by Hunter