European Union threatens to ban boobs!

[silenus]

Link.

Time to invoke the NATO treaty. An attack on one (or two) is an attack on all!

Nuke Brussels!

[What_Exit]

@silenus

Link.

Time to invoke the NATO treaty. An attack on one (or two) is an attack on all!

Nuke Brussels!

Whoosh
It is the Sun, famous for Page 3 girls and nearly fake stories.

[Mr.Blue_Sky]

“I’m Boobarella. These are my booooooooobs!”

[Sunspace]

@The Sun

KNOW a busty barmaid who could be hit by the ban? Email a snap of her to barmaids@the-sun.co.uk or post to Busty Barmaids, The Sun, 1 Virginia Street, London E98 1SN.

We’ll print the best — and make a plaster cast of the winner’s boobs to hang in your local.

Uh huh. Clearly the voice of disinterested skepticism with everyone’s best interest at heart.

[Larry_Mudd]

@jrfranchi

It is the Sun, famous for Page 3 girls and nearly fake stories.

Here’s a link from that other infamous tabloid, The Daily Telegraph.

Under the EU’s Optical Radiation Directive, employers of staff who work outdoors, including those in Bavaria’s beer gardens, must ensure they cover up against the risk of sunburn. […]

“This is European law-making at its most pedantic,” said Munich’s mayor, Christian Ude. “A waitress is no longer allowed to wander round a beer garden with a plunging neckline. I would not want to enter a beer garden under these conditions.”

[Tentacle_Monster]

Wait a goddamn minute. This is the European Union?

So I could go to The Netherlands or Germany and legally pay a woman to take a dump on my chest, but I can’t look at cleavage at the bar? Because it’s a health hazard?

Words fail me.

[Snowboarder_Bo]

:eek:

Clearly this is a terrorist act and we should immediately send troops! I mean, if this policy stands, what’s next? We cannot allow these boobs to lose any of their precious freedom!

I volunteer to head over now and start handling things on my own…

[AngelicGemma]

Nooo! They can’t take away the boobs!

[glee]

@Tentacle Monster

Wait a goddamn minute. This is the European Union?

So I could go to The Netherlands or Germany and legally pay a woman to take a dump on my chest, but I can’t look at cleavage at the bar? Because it’s a health hazard?

Words fail me.

Of course you are welcome to look at cleavage. Anywhere, any place, any time.
The suggestion is that bar staff should be careful of sunburn. That’s all.

I hear that the US has banned the teaching of evolution in all schools. At least I think that’s what it said…

[Mops]

Seems to be a case of unfounded speculation (like a few years ago when an EU directive on emploment health protection when lifting loads was trumpeted to spell the end of mail services - that didn’t happen either. Postmen with large rounds got carts or bicycles instead of lugging round a heavy bag, and workplaces with much manual lifting had to invest into measaures to protect their employees’ backs, that was all.

Article from Ärzte Zeitung, 3. August, rough translation:

EU directive does not apply to dirndl

The furore about a dirndl ban in Bavaria turns out to be a tempest in a teapot. Respective concerns of Städtetag (1) president Christian Ude were called unfounded by the Bavarian European representative, Paul-Joachim Kubosch (2).

Ude had voiced concerns that according to the the EU directive for protection against optical radiation beer garden serving staff could not continue to serve with a deep cleavage. Kubosch called this a “misinterpretation”.

The EU directive, which was still in the legislative process, only applied to high-risk professions where employees were exposed to extreme solar radiation.

picture caption: Servestaff not threatened with dirndl ban.

1): Städtetag: organization of German cities. Christian Ude, Munich’s mayor, is its president at present.
2) An ambiguous term. Googling for the name shows he’s the EU’s representative to Bavaria, not Bavaria’s representative to the EU.

[Larry_Mudd]

@tschild

picture caption: Servestaff not threatened with dirndl ban.

I’m sure the stock photo folks are overjoyed by the increased demand for piccies of barmaids coyly unbuttoning their drndls, though.

Hell, I’m overjoyed by the increased demand for piccies of barmaids coyly unbuttoning their drndls.

[silenus]

I like just saying the word “drndl.”

drndl
drndl
drndl
drndl

It’s a fun word that makes you sound like the Swedish Chef.

To modify an old dirty joke: A drndl isn’t the best thing in the world, but it’s next to the best!

[kniz]

Is there anyone that didn’t go to page 3? :o

[Little_Nemo]

If cleavage is outlawed, only outlaws will have cleavage.

Hopefully they’ll be hot-looking outlaws.

[Larry_Mudd]

@silenus

I like just saying the word “drndl.”

I can never hear that word without thinking of Tales of the City.

“It’s called a 'Heidi dress. Can you say ‘Heidi dress,’ sweetie?”

“:rolleyes:”

[Dunderman]

When they came for the boobs, I did not speak out, for I was not a boob.

[Tentacle_Monster]

@glee

The suggestion is that bar staff should be careful of sunburn. That’s all.

Oh. I see.

Somebody should tell those people about a wondrous new invention called “sun-screen”.

[Scruloose]

@Online Sun

They say barmaids run a skin cancer risk if they expose themselves to the sun when they go outside to collect glasses.

Lamest. Excuse. Ever.

[Rayne_Man]

@Tentacle Monster

Oh. I see.

Somebody should tell those people about a wondrous new invention called “sun-screen”.

I’ll even volunteer to apply the sun-screen to the aforementioned naughty bits (now where can I get a cheap flight to Munich?)