Bikinis banned in Barcelona streets

[dipsydoodle]

The Catalan capital has introduced regulations making it illegal to expose too much skin in public, as part of an attempt to clean up the city's image.

Under the new law, anyone caught wearing a bikini or swimming trunks in the streets of Barcelona faces fines of between €120 (£105) and €300 (£262). People caught nude will have to pay between €300 (£262) and €500 (£437).

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Assumpta Escarp, a Barcelona councillor who defended the ban, told The Times: "Some people who live here are bothered by tourists who go about wearing just a bikini in the street, or men with their shirts off. We have to maintain standards."

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The new measure follows another recent ban on the city's streets; it is now forbidden to drink from bottles or cans on the streets of the Catalan capital.

http://uk.travel.yahoo.com/p-promo-3361279

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Who the hell needs them anyway?

Lots of other sunny places to take tourism dollars without all the idiocy.

[TheKingReturns]

2. wow

sad when spain is reverting back to fascism.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Its not Fascism

It's the locals reacting against organised "stag do" influxes

[ixion]

3. Barcelona used to be considered an artist colony

not so much any more, I guess.

[Javaman]

5. only artists wear bikini's? Who knew?

:shrug:

[ixion]

7. lol... well

most of the people who live in such a place aren't artists. :evilgrin:

[jberryhill]

8. You're not kidding

As Las Ramblas alone has about a half mile solid stretch of drug-using transvestite street prostitutes, which might have something to do with the rule.

[seabeyond]

6. puritanical prudes.... damn americans, why cant they.... what? oh, europe. nt

[riderinthestorm]

9. Cue the usual contingent blasting a country for making laws on what women can wear in public

or cannot wear in public....



...oops! This isn't a burka thread. So color me surprised when this thread drops like a stone with barely a whimper as people whistle past the similarities of a country making laws on what people can and cannot wear in the public square.

[seabeyond]

10. funny. hypocrisy abound.

so

let me tell you my story. took forever to do anything about my kindle, per guilt of clumsiness. finally settled on buying one with cash (cause hiding, ok lying). lol. BUT all i could find is one with ads. yuk. after weeks, had son try to bring eveything over. he made a mess. made a mess of account. made a mess of new kindle. and ultimately deleted all my catagories on old kindle that left me not knowing what books i read, or didnt, or liked or didnt. finally i was worried about being charged again, so i called support.

you know what they did?

they sent me a NEW kindle, lol lol, and took old, under warranty. and i was able to give to hubby and fix it all, and he laughed, that i tried to hide anything.

at one point, when hubby came home for lunch, and son hiding the new kindle he said.... youa re sucha bad liar.

so became a big silly joke and spent hours reading description on all the books to recatagorize and all along i said

there was a poster on du that told me to call support and i would probably get a new one and not have to go thru all this. and i didnt listen

so

you were right. thanks.

[riderinthestorm]

11. Yay!! I knew it would work out.

I can't figure out how my kindle screen broke either. I took it well wrapped in my carryon for a flight. I didn't bump it anywhere, it sat in the overhead compartment which didn't have any turbulence. But when I got home, it was broken. I too felt guilty for some reason. Are they that fragile??

And then Amazon quickly replaced it with a new one when I called customer support and I got the distinct impression that this was a pretty standard occurrence.

Glad you got a new one!

[arbusto_baboso]

12. Well, I can cross Barcelona off my bucket list.

Odd when San Diego County beach towns have more freedom of dress than does a cosmopolitan city in Europe.

[riderinthestorm]

13. Yeah, a futile kick for those so keen on ensuring the burka is allowed in western civ

for "clothing freedom choice"!!!11111!! while ignoring other, obvious, clothing restrictions in the public square.

It's all related folks. And if you are arguing for the rights of women to wear a misogynistic garment designed to erase women from society, and that has a troubled history of being FORCED on women, then where are you on this issue? Not on this inconvenient thread.....