Brickbat: The Big Cover Up

The Palma City Council in Majorca is looking at a law that would ban people from walking around the streets wearing only swimsuits. Those who leave the beach without covering up could face fines of up to £500.

Comments

[Zombie Jimbo]

Two words: Older Germans.

[Swiss Servator, CH yeah!]

AUGH! MY EYES!!!!

[Hyperion]

I still remember the first time I was at a little bar near one of the beaches at Porto de Galinhas. Everyone is sitting outside, under thatch umbrellas, drinking. I have never seen so many 80-90 year old guys in speedos. All of them, German.

[Swiss Servator, CH yeah!]

"The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German."

[Hyperion]

All of the ones I see in Brazil at the beaches, apparently don't speak any English or Portuguese, because we're always laughing at them and they don't seem to notice or care. But I guess that's one of the benefits of drinking beer for breakfast and then all day afterwards, you just don't give a fuck.

[Drake]

Where?

[sarcasmic]

Here.

[Will4Freedom]

I went there while I was in the Navy. Nice place.

There was I nice old castle on top of a hill there, as I remember.

I'd love to back and could care less what the folks are wearing.

Now where did I put my speedo...

[Redmanfms]

As somebody who has personally witnessed people fucking and relieving themselves in public in the middle of the day in Palma every single time I've been there (to be fair, I've only been 3 times), I don't think the "Moral Panic" tag is appropriate.

More like rescuing the tourism industry from the blight that is Banana Hammock Wearing Oily Fat Old German Dudes (yeah, old Eurotrash are fucking bizarre, they think baby oil is like sun tan lotion or something).

[Rich]

Alvaro Gijon, the mayor of Palma, said that the aim of the new laws was to regulate good behaviour for tourists and residents with the aim of preserving 'harmony and civility'

Well, DUH! Those are the aims of *all* new laws. 8-(

[Ted S.]

What if it's one of those 1920s vintage men's bathing suits?

[Rich]

And what it you wear your Speedo over it?

[Bones]

This is one law that really is for the children...of all ages. Some things cannot be unseen. And to quote Kyle Broflovski,

"What the fuck is wrong with German people?"