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| South Korea moves to legalize miniskirts and hot pants |
| 2006-11-04 |
| Hot pants and miniskirts will soon be legal in South Korea. The country is in the final stages of revising an indecency law that prohibits people from wearing revealing outfits and was once enforced by ruler-wielding police during authoritarian governments in the 1970s, officials said. "The law for excessive exposure does not match our current society," said Kim Jae-kwang, an official with the Korea Legislation Research Institute. Under authoritarian rule, police could arrest or fine women for their fashion choices. They also took scissors to men whose hair they felt was too long and tossed people in jail for unauthorized dancing. The rules stayed on the books as South Korea moved to an open democracy in the late 1980s, but were no longer enforced. Now miniskirts are about as common as traffic jams in the capital of Seoul and police have long given up on measuring the distance from knees to hemlines. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #15 Moose: You owe me a new monitor. I hope someone post something to 'cancel' that eyesore! |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-11-04 16:51 |
| #14 Let me tell you something: South Korea hasn't been enforcing those laws for a long time. There are a hell of a lot of good-looking women in this country and an awful lot of the younger ones like those denim miniskirts that extend about six inches down from their crotch. I strongly suspect that the South Koreans haven't got a clue about burkas and would tell any Muzzies proposing it to take a flying leap at a cement mixer. |
| Posted by: mac 2006-11-04 16:49 |
| #13 "... and so, son, that's where rice rockets come from." "Gee, Dad, you know everything!" |
| Posted by: mrp 2006-11-04 16:23 |
| #12 Omigod! My eyes! My eyes! |
| Posted by: Halliburton Covert Operations Division 2006-11-04 16:11 |
| #11 Anybody got a Brillo pad handy? I need to scrub my eyes ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2006-11-04 15:59 |
| #10 Jeez, moose- Hide that abomination behind a link or something. You scared my cats! You owe me a new keyboard! Aieee, my eyes, etc... |
| Posted by: N guard 2006-11-04 15:55 |
| #9 Gosh, I hope it's some kind of optical distorsion due to an incorrect lens or something. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-11-04 15:46 |
| #8 Oh it's nature's way of saying SOMETHING. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-11-04 15:45 |
| #7 Heh, it's Nature's Way of saying 4 wheels -- minimum, lol. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-11-04 15:40 |
| #6 'Moose we allow pictures of LOVELY women in scant but adequate clothes here at the 'Burg. THAT is an atrocity. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-11-04 15:39 |
| #5 I'm gettin' cycle-sympathy pains here, lol. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-11-04 15:28 |
| #4 /Major cause of traffic accidents |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-11-04 15:23 |
| #3 Hot pants and miniskirts will soon be legal in South Korea. That means the end of South Korean television, of course... what, with all those Nair ads running 24/7... |
| Posted by: mrp 2006-11-04 15:13 |
| #2 But make sure they're worn by good-looking wimmen!!! |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-11-04 14:19 |
| #1 More meat left out for the cats. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2006-11-04 13:54 |