Is this a whoosh? It’s turning up on Google News. Panties for Peace, an apparently Canadian organization.
From their website.
Bolding mine.
If it’s really so dangerous, maybe they’ll have to retrain a few bomb sniffing dogs.
I don’t know if it’s real, but last nights local Fox news had a segment on this, so if it wasn’t before it might be now.
Somehow, I don’t see the leaders opening their own mail.
Well I dunno if it’s real or not but any ladies out there wishing to dispose of their panties (used) can email me for my mailing address 
I’ll take the ones that are size 5 or smaller!
The smaller ones empower me and give me strength to face the day. 
If it just has to be garments that cover women from the waist down, is there a footwear analogue?
“Socks for the End of Slaughter”, perhaps?
Used and unwashed.
Is there any other kind?
Is this the start of the** Doper Panty Exchange '08**?
One of the (serious) problems I see with this type of thing is that by the standards of many cultures, including religious subcultures in the West, the people who do this can’t be seen as anything less than degenerate and possibly mentally ill.
Now I’m not saying that I agree with that assessment, although I definitely think they’re a bit beyond wacky to think this is “useful”, I’m simply stating that in terms of world cultural variances, this gets into the realm of potentially counter-productive What The Fuck.
So… a bunch of women around the world mail their panties to the political/military leadership in Myanmar.
That leadership misinterprets the gesture into thinking that the rest of the world thinks that they are girlie-men. So they tighten their iron grip and more folks suffer. :smack:
This sounds bogus, along the lines of, “Eskimos have 40 words for snow.”
The web site seems like an effort to make helping the people of Myanmar seem “fun” and “wacky.” Surely you could do more good by taking the money you’d spend on postage and giving it to some reputable charity working in Myanmar.
That should be fun for the residents of The Sandringham! If you click on the act now link on the website, it directs you to mail your panties to 85 Range Rd, Ottawa, blah blah.
I used to live there, and yes, several embassies do operate from apartments in the building. The RCMP cruises the parking lot hourly at night, which made for some interesting parties since I was living with my Dad at the time, and no smoking in the apartment. The cops just loved seeing 10 kinda buzzed people loitering outside 
Also, the lobby has your typical mailboxes with drop bins underneath for the bigger stuff. Should also be fun for the building staff, and Canada Post.
I should go back one night, and grab undelivered packages!
*Note to CSIS, RCMP, and Postal Inspectors: I am in no way, shape, or form actually advocating mail theft!!!
I’d still like to know if anyone is seriously doing this. Maybe a local newspaper would know.
I volunteer for Chief Panty Inspector and Removal Compliance Officer
Hey if they make a movie out of this…‘A Crotchwork Orange’
Just google “panties for peace” and you will see plenty of articles. It appears to be real.
Research on this subject reveals only the following data:
Link.
A ‘shipment’ of 140 pairs of panties sounds impressive but the figures should be analysed in the context of the population of Geneva which, I believe, is about 185,028.
Let’s say that 50% of this number are women and that 75% of these women are over 18. (I don’t believe it is right and proper for young girls to send underwear to corrupt Burmese regimes, or any other corrupt regimes for that matter.)
Anyway, this gives us a figure of 69,385 women who are qualified to send panties to the Burmese Embassy. I’m going to reduce this by 10% because I’m pretty sure that some women in Geneva don’t wear panties, although I couldn’t tell you who they are.
For the sake of argument I’ll allocate 14 pairs of panties to each woman (62,446 x 14) giving a grand total of 874,244 pairs of panties floating around Geneva and available for sending to Burmese Embassies. Therefore a shipment of 140 pairs of panties represents 0.01601 percent of the total used panty pool in the city.
I’m not impressed.
Dang! I did not see this before starting my own thread on it this morning.
But yes, it’s real. The Burmese junta is extremely superstitious. Thailand’s government leaders, too. And Cambodia’s.
Does it really matter whose underwear it is?
I wonder if someone in Burma is collecting all the panties and selling them to Japanese vending machine stockers.
Sure it does! 
