Brickbat: Unmentionables

The Eurasian Union – a trading bloc that includes Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus – has banned the import, sale and manufacture of underwear containing synthetic materials unless it meets a very strict absorption standard. Up to 90 percent of ladies underwear currently sold in those countries will be banned under the rule, which takes effect July 1.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

That's the problem with joining a trading block. They block things. Now, a trading bloc, on the other hand...

[invisible furry hand]

Don't be so churlish - he can't be expected to get the link and spelling right in the same post

[Radioactive]

a cock block?

[Scruffy Nerfherder]

Babushka panties for the win.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Synthetic lace lingerie ban prompts street protests in Russia and Kazakhstan

And Ukraine.

[db]

The Tighty-Whitey Revolution?

[Steve G]

I'm all for 'freedom of underwear', but if you're actually physically out in the street protesting a first world problem like this, you really need a job and/or get ur priorities in order.

[PM]

This regulation does remove one barrier in the male access to boobs, so on those grounds I might be persuaded to support it.

(TIWTANFL)

[Radioactive]

TIWTANFL???

[Byte Me]

...unless it meets a very strict absorption standard.

What? Does this mean all they get is Pampers? Someone please explain. I have not the time or patience to read the linked article.

[Steve G]

Inversely proportional to the moisture wicking standard.
Underarmor has a sad

[Pavlov's Cat]

unless it meets a very strict absorption standard.

A minimum absorpsion standard means women's underwear there will suck.

[John Thacker]

Has to contain a certain percentage of cotton, basically.

[db]

There is a compelling government interest in how much blood your clothing can absorb during a police street beating. It helps minimize cleanup costs afterward.

[db]

Alt-text: "Author of Highly Absorbing Literature Ayn Rand."

[Ted S.]

That has to be a Photoshop: look at the length of the lower legs compared to the thighs.

[Wasteland Wanderer]

It's not shopped. It's called foreshortening.

[Wasteland Wanderer]

Well, strike that...it probably is, but the apparent length of her thighs in that image aren't dispositive of it.

[Ted S.]

The photo looks more like foredisappearing, not foreshortening.

[Mickey Rat]

Next you will be telling us her boobs are not real.

[Pavlov's Cat]

They're real polymer.

[hamilton]

I presume they will be going door-to-door collecting the dangerous outlawed materials?

[An Innocent Man]

No, that's Connecticut.

[Zombie Jimbo]

I think visas and refugee status should be granted to all Eurasian Union women who feel oppressed by that regulation. Well, all of them that would look good in the pictured underwear.

[wareagle]

great...the nannies overseas giving the ones here ideas. Where would people be without govt regulating their underwear.

[Radioactive]

underwear bombers of the world unite...when they came for my tighty whities...from my cold dead fingers...yadayadayada.

[Doctor Whom]

If you don't approve, then mail-order your underwear from Somalia.

[UnCivilServant]

Can't, the Somali Postal service is on strike. Something about traffic cops getting in the way of their trucks.

[SugarFree]

Maybe those girls eed to stop catching the dripping crotch rot.

[Rich]

"eed"?

[Rich]

Synthetic lace lingerie ban

Nice ban, I mean, *band* name.

[Harvard]

This may result in a compelling desire for women to go commando, proving once again that unintended consequences are not necessarily always bad.