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Turkmenistan has banned long hair and beards.
Whatever you, do don't go to Turkmenistan is
you have long and want to do ballet dancing. That is also illegal.
If this works there is link with details.
If it doesn't work, go to google and do a search
on Turkmenistan beards and then look under news.
As Paul Harvey says it's not one world.
Wow, those are some strange strangw laws
BARBERS MUST BE HAPPY:
"It also applies to foreigners and
barbers are being set up at AIRPORTS and BORDER CROSSINGS
to make sure the new ruling is adhered to." [!!!]
"Other laws include a ban on BALLET and a tax on foreigners
wanting to marry women from Turkmenistan AND includes a honeymoon BED SHEETS TAX." !!!!
Does it apply to females?
That is bizarre!
I wonder if they put such peculiar laws upon their women?
Their president must be either insane or a facsist (no offense to any Turkmenistanis on the board!!)
I thought http://www.ananova.com was a joke site that makes up news.
Apparently there is some truth in it -
http://knowledgenet.tol.cz/look/TOLnew/
article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=51
&NrSection=17&NrArticle=11702
The Deep End:
The Naked Truth
Candidates who bare it all, a hair-raising presidential comment, and a frighteningly large sausage.
by TOL Staff
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Another strange place i probably won't visit. It is unfortunate, Imaging the police trying to run around and enforce unshaven or longhaired men. If you were a cop, think of how many peolpe you see in the day that would be in violation of these laws? I guess it is another way to oppress human tendancies, too bad these people don't fight back a little, but then they'd probably get executed.
I am very discouraged with the world today, I doubt I would ever want to bring children into it. I feel so forutnate to be as able to choose for my self what to do with my life, but I worry things are just going to continue to get worse.
Well at least you can Vote out Bush and save the rest of the planet.
Britain should do its bit and boot his lap dog Tony Blair.
[Thus ends a party politcal broadcast by the WWIII avoidance party.]
Although I don't normally support it, a little anarchy might be helpful in this situation. It sounds like it is time for the people there to rise up against those currently in power and set up a democratic government. Absalom
That`s stupid. Even in Islamic countrues like Pakistan, they dont ban long hair!
No, really they wouldn't - in Indo-Afghan Islam, a centuries-old tradition of long hair on men exists, preferably among sufis (mystics) and dervishes!
Awal rish - baz darvish! (Afghan proverb, meaning "first the beard, then the dervish")
See you in Khyberspace!
Yadgar
Well, I guess that is what is important, to try and look like you are being hygenic even if you aren't.
I would assume that they will follow with laws about wearing clean clothing (washing machine sales would rise), bathing, hand washing rules for food workers and making sure that the food industry is regulated like we do here in the U.S. (unless, of course, they are not really serious about hygiene).
Kind of reminds me about an article I saw years ago about a firefighter in the U.S. who got fired because he wouldn't conform to the rule about not having chest hair for health/hygiene reasons (however that works).