EU bans decolletages?

[Liar]

Or rather, bare skin in general.

It's a weird world.

Even if you desexualise the issue (as I'm sure this is the Sun's own charming angle of it, like this article indicates) it's still as weird. Sould everyone working in sunlight be forced to put on more clothes?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005350741,00.html

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Save our barmaids' boobs

By TIM SPANTON

THE EU has declared a crackpot war on busty barmaids — by trying to ban them from wearing low-cut tops.

Po-faced penpushers have deemed it a HEALTH HAZARD for bar girls to show too much cleavage.

And in a daft directive that will have drinkers choking on their pints, Brussels bureaucrats have ordered a cover-up.

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

Last night the move was blasted as an affront. Annie Powell, of real ale group Camra, raged: “It’s just another blatant example of Europe gone mad.”

The ruling is part of the new Optical Radiation Directive — expected to be rubber-stamped by the EU parliament next month.

Germans are already frothing over the new law — because bars in Bavaria have been forced to comply in advance.

Drinkers are threatening to boycott Munich’s famous Oktoberfest beer festival. The city’s mayor Christian Ude fumed: “This is European law-making at its most pedantic.

“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.”

 

[Lauren Hynde]

You do realise that's just a joke to exacerbate Brits' Europhoby and take the opportunity to show some ample barmaid décolletage, don't you?

 

[Liar]

You do realise that's just a joke to exacerbate Brits' Europhoby and take the opportunity to show some ample barmaid décolletage, don't you?

Yep. I mean. it's The SUn. Need I say more?. The bill is real tho afaik. Got very little to do with barmaids. (check my second link) But what would be the fun in reporting that?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Yep. I mean. it's The SUn. Need I say more?. The bill is real tho afaik. Got very little to do with barmaids. (check my second link) But what would be the fun in reporting that?

lol good point.

 

[Liar]

A more sensible read here:

http://www.eureporter.co.uk/articles/article.cfm?id=2003

I still think this shows the EU at it's most silly.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

A more sensible read here:

http://www.eureporter.co.uk/articles/article.cfm?id=2003

I still think this shows the EU at it's most silly.

Yes, I had seen that article as well. I looked in the official EU site, though, and could find no reference to this directive. I think the notion that it would be rubber-stamped by the EU parliament is quite paranoid.

 

[R. Richard]

OK, I used to run a bar. What I would do here is to hire ONLY black African barmaids (actually there are Indians, from the south of India, who are as black as any African) who would not be affected by sun exposure. Then, I would have the only bar in town with waitresses with plunging necklines [Hint: I would rename my bar "The Plunge!"] Of course, what is being proposed is racial discrimination at least in the minds of European politicians.

Are they all nuts over in Europe?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

OK, I used to run a bar. What I would do here is to hire ONLY black African barmaids (actually there are Indians, from the south of India, who are as black as any African) who would not be affected by sun exposure.

That would mean shit, as far as this supposed directive goes. If it were real, it would apply to everyone regardless of race or tone of skin.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . 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. . . .

Nice to see that The SUN is quick to jump to the support of women in the workforce being discriminated against.

Especially those women who really need support.

 

[R. Richard]

That would mean shit, as far as this supposed directive goes. If it were real, it would apply to everyone regardless of race or tone of skin.

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Save our barmaids' boobs

By TIM SPANTON

THE EU has declared a crackpot war on busty barmaids — by trying to ban them from wearing low-cut tops.

Po-faced penpushers have deemed it a HEALTH HAZARD for bar girls to show too much cleavage.

And in a daft directive that will have drinkers choking on their pints, Brussels bureaucrats have ordered a cover-up.

They say barmaids run a skin cancer risk if they expose themselves to the sun when they go outside to collect glasses.
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Since the bureaucrats have stated "barmaids run a skin cancer risk if they expose themselves to the sun" I would have the basis for a very strong challenge to the law, if law it becomes. Black Africans do not run a skin cancer risk from exposure to European sun.

Actually, the worst problem would come from the press. Naturally, I refer to the psychological damage to the barmaids when being interviewed by the press, where the barmaids have to deal with the press comment, "You have a couple of good points there!" The life of a barmaid is not an easy one!

 

[fieryjen]

Yeah, Germany definitely went crazy about the Oktoberfest issue. I mean, busty barmaids are the icon of the whole thing.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

There is an old saying, that each person will rise to the level of their own incompetance.

I think lawmakers, wether Us. Congressmen, British parlimentarians or on the Eu are simply some of the worlds biggest over achievers in that reguard.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Since the bureaucrats have stated "barmaids run a skin cancer risk if they expose themselves to the sun" I would have the basis for a very strong challenge to the law, if law it becomes. Black Africans do not run a skin cancer risk from exposure to European sun.

Oh, that would be the ticket. A law is passed that says that for a person to be subject to an X level of radiation constitutes a health hazard. And you, instead of even trying to determine how much radiation your workers are subject to, just send in the monkeys.

"But your honour. It doesn't matter that I don't know the level of radiation they're exposed to, as the law states. It's not like they're people..."


It's The Sun. Girls with big tits.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . Since the bureaucrats have stated "barmaids run a skin cancer risk if they expose themselves to the sun". . .

English Bars must be considerably different from the ones that I have encountered in North America. Exposure to the sun is the least of ones worries over here.

A person who spends an excessive amount of time in a bar over here is far more likely to develop a Vitamin D deficiency whether they display a décolletage, or sport a turtlenecked apron.

I was unaware that al Fresco bars were all that common in England.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

It bears saying one more time: The Sun.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

OOPS! My bad!

Were they trying to protect barmaids from exposure to the sun, or from exposure to The SUN?

 

[oggbashan]

The intention of the legislation is to protect workers who have to be in the open air constantly e.g. post persons, builders, gardeners in places where the sun is a significant factor such as Spain, Italy, Southern France.

The UK has said that it does not see this legislation as being applicable here except to a very few. It would be sensible for open-air workers to wear clothes made of materials that actually block the sun and employers should not insist on unsuitable uniforms e.g. nylon shirts in high summer.

Builders should be wearing hard hats and protective clothing. Some employers may welcome the legislation to enforce safety regulations.

Barmaids at beer festivals are unlikely to qualify, despite The Sun.

Og

PS. If they had insisted on umbrellas - much more suitable for a UK summer!

 

[R. Richard]

Oh, that would be the ticket. A law is passed that says that for a person to be subject to an X level of radiation constitutes a health hazard. And you, instead of even trying to determine how much radiation your workers are subject to, just send in the monkeys.

"But your honour. It doesn't matter that I don't know the level of radiation they're exposed to, as the law states. It's not like they're people..."


It's The Sun. Girls with big tits.

Let us be calm here. I was based in Kamina, Africa some time back. If you had seen the sunlight at 8 degrees south of the equater, you would realize that European sunlight is as nothing in comparison.

However, Africans do have a problem with the lack of European sun in the winter. They get a condition called [in the USA] the ashes from too little, not too much sunshine. Naturally, I would provide my African barmaids with winter sun lamp exposure as a caring employer.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Let us be calm here. I was based in Kamina, Africa some time back. If you had seen the sunlight at 8 degrees south of the equater, you would realize that European sunlight is as nothing in comparison.

My mother was born and lived half of her life in Angola, but that has no bearing on the law. One of its principles is that it applies to everyone.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . One of its principles is that it applies to everyone.

http://www.dlbfilms.com/-fzpage/FZ,-many-rad-suits.jpg
Sporting thier new regulation uniforms, barmaids clean up

in preparation for Happy Hour at the Pig & Whistle.​