Coming soon to a boozer near you...

[Pot Bellied Fool]

After a long Friday lunch on the vino collapso, there's something stirring in the corridors of Europe...
[Quote=timesonline]British builders could be forced to cover their reddened torsos if a proposed European directive aimed at protecting workers from exposure to sunlight is passed this week.

The “optical radiation directive”, due to be put to the European parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday, was intended primarily to protect workers from x-ray or welding equipment.

However, members of the chamber’s powerful Socialist group — which includes Britain’s Labour MEPs — are pressing for the directive to be modified to cover natural radiation from the sun.[/quote]

"But what does this mean to me?" said the man in the street.

This is what it means!
[pic]http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/_images/db/15/31/NK632_01.153138.full.jpg[/pic]
will have to become this
[pic]http://www.modernamuseet.se/pics/5653_page.jpg[/pic]

[url]LocalLondon says|http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.622203.0.pubs_defy_eu_over_cleavage_cancer.php[/url]
[Quote=Local London]BRUSSELS bureaucrats have been slammed by pub bosses for introducing laws to ban barmaids' cleavage. [...] EU lawmakers say barmaids wearing low-cut tops risk skin cancer when collecting glasses outdoors.[/quote]
So there you have it... The official PBF advice is to get down to your nearest boozer pdq and get some quality ogling time in! [pic]http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/ekelig/p014.gif[/pic]

[scared but happy]

Lets face it the (lower) uncovered bit is what we look at anyway. So whats the problem?
Sorry, going now

[Vitesse39]

Yeah, but if they're going to start wearing bikini bottoms like that who cares

[rooster]

they just tried to get the bavarian beer maids to cover up for the same reasons!! There was uproar and not just among the punters. needless to say they are ignoring the directive to cover up!

[r988]

So does this 'EU' thing actually do anything useful apart from attempting to remove any shred of fun from out miserable lives?

[blueyes]

Vitesse39 said:

Yeah, but if they're going to start wearing bikini bottoms like that who cares

Me! because most of the barmaids around here have bigger beer guts (plus stretch marks) than the buliders.

[maxf]

scared but happy said:

Sorry, going now

I could have done with one of them through a particularly low phase at uni (for 'them' not for me )

[cotty]

Just buy them some sun lotion, I sure there will be many willing punters to offer to put it on in case they dont want slippery fingers when they are picking up glasses

[sparkythecat]

blueyes said:

Vitesse39 said: Yeah, but if they're going to start wearing bikini bottoms like that who cares Me! because most of the barmaids around here have bigger beer guts (plus stretch marks) than the buliders.

A Cardiff barmaid pictured getting ready to go on duty this evening

[puggit]

rooster said:

they just tried to get the bavarian beer maids to cover up for the same reasons!! There was uproar and not just among the punters. needless to say they are ignoring the directive to cover up!

Yep - the Oktoberfest in Munich was in trouble at one point.

We'll be in Munich in 2 weeks time for the start of the Oktoberfest, so I'll report back with photographic evidence

[scared but happy]

sparkythecat said:

A Cardiff barmaid pictured getting ready to go on duty this evening

On Channel 5 this week:
9pm. Bernard Manning fails to fool the judges on this weeks Gender Swap.

>> Edited by scared but happy on Monday 5th September 19:14