At The Moderate Voice, international correspondent Swaraaj Chauhan reports that Oz is considering tightening standards on loosening bathing suit straps a Bondi Beach, a famous resort destination near Sydney:
A Christian fundamentalist politician, the Rev Fred Nile, is calling for topless sunbathing to be outlawed, and he has received backing from several mainstream MPs, reports The Independent.
“While nudity is illegal in Australia except on designated beaches, local councils consider toplessness acceptable. Mr Nile wants the legislation to be tightened. ‘The law should be clear,’ he said. ‘It must say: ”Exposure of women’s breasts on beaches will be prohibited”.
During our most recent national elections, foreigners were pleased to express their preferences for our next president. It seems only right and fair that we take in hand a similar opportunity. To help them carry the burden by expressing our own desires in this oh, so weighty matter. In the interest, you know: Of full transparency. Not to mention reciprocity. And international relations.
I’m glad to see I voted with the rest of the pack
When do we leave Byron? I was number 91 to ask directions. We could probably get our own charter. After all, it is summer in Oz.
Why don’t they invite this guy to spend the rest of his life on a desert island, along with those muslim dudes down there who are always protesting ankle nudity?
A charter sounds great, E Yat. Count me in!
Hang on, hang on… I’m trying to get a hi-res Google Earth of it…
Fred Nile is still alive?
That’s unfortunate.
Bondi (the suburb) is the New Zealand capital of Australia. Be prepared to speak Kiwi. Cuz.
And of course Y’All would be most welcome in BackPackerLand (“where women glow and men chunder”). Y’All come back now YaHear.
GoogieErf Bondi Beach: Where life is a beach:
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l261/SpazSinbad/BondiGoogieErfForum.jpg
Spaz, you’re a hoot
BA: YessireeBob the Hooters franchise is in Oz. Do you need a map?
Well, count me in. My mother & her side of the family were from Murwillumbah, in the Tweed River District. I’m the only one of her kids to never visit Oz, so there’s a good excuse for a visit, eh?
Ought to be fun trying to translate Downeast to Strine.
Get yer freek on at Sydney’s NUDIST beach (official). So what is dear old Fred Nile worried about?
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l261/SpazSinbad/GoogieBondiNudistForum.gif
Go here:
http://americandigest.org/sidelines/archives/2008/12/not_content_wit.html
Pk: That pic gives new meaning ‘hanging two – while hanging 5 or 10″.
Hang Loose Hawaii!
…And the “Yays” have it…
Yeah, a picture’s worth a 1000 words. Maybe more, even.
A random thought here: Didja ever notice how women are at their most beautiful when they are concentrating on the thing they are doing and not on themselves?
Jeez, and I thought the Sydney zoo was a neat place when I visited long ago. I must be very innocent. An innocent AirBoss? Not possible.
It’s been 40 yrs this month since I was in Sydney on R&R from DaNang. Hooked up with a little gal from Carmel, CA. who was a clerk at Wentworth Hotel–had a beach house at Bondi Beach. Fond memories….If I can sneak out of the house past the wife, count me in on the charter! (But will all the Bondi Babes still love me when I’m 64?–and I am) Still, I’m ready and willing to ans the call of duty!
Better keep my shirt on tho…..don’t want the women swarming all over me, right?
Well, it’s nice to know there there is at least one beach in Australia/New Zealand where the great whites won’t get cloth stuck between their teeth.
Using dental floss under water is difficult, particularly when you don’t have fingers.
“those muslim dudes down there who are always protesting ankle nudity?”
Just made that up of thin air did we?
‘Dental Floss’ is what most of our young lassies wear on our beaches anyways. Brazil has a lot to explain. Que?
SPAZ/
I see that some of your black sheep relatives/drunken demented friends/deviant nodding acquaintances–doesn’t really matter, we’ll blame it all on you–have ruined our first stop/step on our way to the Stairway to Australian Heaven.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24864561-5006009,00.html
Spaz, this is simply unforgivable.
Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory is gone! Oh woe indeed. I used to live in Kings Bloody Cross; so I know you will be OK there. Ask for the ‘turtle’: YBYSAIA
Byronic: Two shark attacks in two days, Navy diver in Sydney Harbour & surfer at Bondi Beach:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iW0RwGeHZo-QEAzPkNJmOf1BXFeA