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Subject: PC Clothing regulations


Author:
Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 14:40:53 11/18/04 Thu
In reply to: Dave (UK) 's message, "And in Australia..." on 10:47:49 11/18/04 Thu
 A friend of mine who studied History at the Soviet Socialist Republic of Balliol College, Oxford, told me some time back that the Undergraduate Committee for Public Safety attempted to ban the wearing of tweed on college premises, as it was perceived to entrench ideas of elitism, chauvinism, blood-sports, and many other other out-dated and offensive things. Probably racism, too. Fortunately, he says, the proposal was defeated (just) after someone pointed out that tweed effectively hides the stains of beer, mud, and vomit, and as such is the perfect uniform for students the world over.

Still, I'm intrigued by this bush hat thing. Are the hats supposed to represent neo-colonial oppression of native Australians, and as such would go down about as well as a solar topee in Calcutta? Or are they just condsidered a bit naff? Alternatively, has the supply of corks to suspend from the brim run out?
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Dave (UK)
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Date Posted: 15:02:46 11/18/04 Thu
Tempting as it is to believe that this is about corny political correctness, I believe they are under threat because they do not afford the necessary level of head protection to the wearers on horseback!

Desert is no boundary to the nanny state!

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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 15:26:28 11/18/04 Thu
... I shall reluctantly have to give up my long-held ambition to go to Sinai and become a hermit. I would be fined because my cave does not conform to planning regulations; fined again over my only friend, my pet lizard Barry, because I do not have an Exotic Animals Owner's License; and fined a third time because my loin-cloth is unacceptable under the new Public Indecency Act (2003).

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Dave (UK)
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Date Posted: 15:29:25 11/18/04 Thu

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