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| Aug 27, 2008 03:21 |   |
 | Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk. To enhance public decorum, Italian mayors have released a series of strange rules. No.1 To stay on the right side of the law, you’ll have to make sure you don’t wander off the beach in Capri if you’re still wearing your bikini. No.2 Under no circumstances may you build a sandcastle in Eraclea, near Venice. No.3 And don’t even think about mowing your lawn at the weekend in Forte dei Marmi. No.4 In Eboli, don't do PDA (Public Displays of Affection). Otherwise, you will be fined up to 500 Euros. No.5 Feeding pigeons is off-limits in the centre of Lucca while in Novara groups of more than two people are forbidden from lounging around in parks at night. No.6 In Positano and Ravello, people are not allowed to have picnic on the beaches. No.7 In Capri, people are forbiddened to wear sandals that make sound. What do you think of those rules? |
| Aug 27, 2008 05:33 | #1 |
| Somewof those make a lot of sense to me, andno doubt there are reasons for the others. In Aus we have a lot of noise pollution from motor mowers at weekends. Just as you sit down to a BBQ lunch or a quiet drink a neighbour starts mowing his lawn. he finishes and another starts up. This is not the basis of a harmonious society. feeding pigeons is banned in many places as feeding them has allowed their numbers to grow enormously and with all their dropings they have become a major health hazard. Have you seen the little kids in China with sandals that squeak as they walk? I wish someone would ban these! maybe Capri has theright idea. I have trouble with the bikini rule though - personally I believe they should be obligatory wherever the temperature is high enough!!!! |
| Aug 27, 2008 07:30 | #2 |
| And the Italians say that the people of China are not free! |
| Aug 27, 2008 20:56 | #3 |
| "I have trouble with the bikini rule though - personally I believe they should be obligatory wherever the temperature is high enough!!!! " Haha, if bikini is banned, I am sure that there will be fewer men on the beaches. Baron, what about people of UK? Are they free? |
| Aug 27, 2008 22:29 | #4 |
| BBQQ, the last time I counted there where five different police forces in Italy. Most of them just ponce around in very well tailored uniforms ( as you would expect in fashion land) being totally ignored by the general population. The last time I was there the place resembled one giant Gilbert and Sullivan production. Dodger. |
| Aug 28, 2008 11:15 | #5 |
| BBQ - no people in the UK are far from free. Just recently in the news a mother was prevented from kissing her daughter goodbye before she left on a 3 day school trip because they were on school property where kissing has been banned! This is how ridiculous things are in the UK. You can't photograph your child in a school play anymore either (unless you have written consent from all other parents). I used to be a photographer working for the main government tourism promotion department (probably the same people responsible for that hideous closing ceremony at the Olympics), and I used to go all over the country photographing families at major tourist attractions. You can see some of these images in the UK embassies and visa offices all over China. Most of these "families" were actually models, as it is very difficult to find an entire good looking family in the UK these days. Anyway, after I moved to China, my colleague continued to do this work until recently, but now he is not allowed (by law) to photograph children under the age of 16 (even if he has their parents' consent!). The only way he can continue this job is to get a government certificate to show that he has never been convicted of molesting children in the past. Although he is clean as a whistle (that means he would never even dream of doing anything like that) he refuses to get this check because he totally disagrees with the principal. I wouldn't do it either. There are now so many rules, regulations, and laws in the UK, everyone is controlled by the government. However because they think they live in a "democratic country" they are free. America is the same. They are just all fools believing what the government tells them. And they have the nerve to say "poor Chinese people"! Australia is just as bad. The only democratic country in the world where voting is mandatory! Isn't that a contradiction in terms?! Political correctness has gone mad and taken over in the UK. If you are disabled, gay, black, Indian, an Illegal immigrant, Asylum Seeker, etc, then no one can say a bad word against you and you will be protected at all costs by laws. If you are an able bodied hetrosexual white person however, then you might as well leave the UK, because you have no chance. It's crazy, and is getting worse. Do you remember that the little girl who got off the bus at the closing ceremony, before bizarrely walking over people's backs and then getting back on the bus again (what was the point of that?!)? Well she was chosen from hundreds of entires by a children's tv programme in the UK. There is no way that the winner could have been a white person. Before the winner was announced, I would have bet my life that the "lucky person" would have been a girl, non white, and probably disabled in some way. Well 2 out of 3 ain't bad huh! It's so predictable, and it's getting really boring. Why do you think I now live in China? I came to be free again, and it feels great. |
| Aug 28, 2008 13:51 | #6 |
| Thank you Mr. B for some insight of situations in other countries. The jaws of the vise (human freedoms) are slowly being tightened. |
| Aug 28, 2008 18:18 | #7 |
| <<Do you remember that the little girl who got off the bus at the closing ceremony, before bizarrely walking over people's backs and then getting back on the bus again (what was the point of that?!)? Well she was chosen from hundreds of entires by a children's tv programme in the UK. There is no way that the winner could have been a white person>> Mr. Baron, I agree with you on the British performance was really really bad at the closing ceremony, which gave the impression that next olympics would be hosted Canada or USA. As a one ethnic or race nation, the presentation in the ceremony is not appropriate. And there are lots more that UK are definitely entitled to boasting in terms of modern law, science, technology, literatures, arts, political phylosophy, besides double decker. Probably what can comfort you is that the art director intends to send the message that UK was and will be the COLONIAL MASTER in India, Africa, and Australia...??? |
| Aug 28, 2008 21:46 | #8 |
| “Probably what can comfort you is that the art director intends to send the message that UK was and will be the COLONIAL MASTER in India, Africa, and Australia...???” Psychiatrist, perhaps I’m a little thick. I don’t get your point. Dodger. |
| Aug 29, 2008 21:39 | #9 |
| I am also confused Dodger - maybe we both need a psychiatrist! Psychiatrist - Let me give you some information. 1. I certainly don't need comforting. 2. There obviously was no art director (it was simply too bad). 3. My original point has nothing to do with ex British colonies. I was commenting on the extent of political correctness in the UK. 4. If you think the UK is a "one ethnic or race nation" then you are clearly reading the wrong books. |
| Aug 30, 2008 10:39 | #10 |
| My piece of mind is not from book but from reality. The girl chosen in the show I think is from an Indian who could be from Latin America Guyana (one of british commonwealth nations) where lots of Indians as servants were exported by their white british masters long time ago. And one of the singers looks like african and seems from British administration of new Guinea. I know that as colonial legacy, there are a certain number of Indians, africans, even Chinese in UK (heard by 1997, 100 business men spent 0.2 billion US dollars for UK passports). And even more, some of them from those colonized land are proude of stamps with the brand of conquered nations. I am not againt globalization, but i think Olympic host should present its unique cultures or customs. So I am still wondering what this british art direcor intend to express through this show. |
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