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Tit groping forbidden in Pamplona

Started by Perikles, Thu 3 Jul 2014, 15:47

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Janet

well, youngsters after "carnage parties" ... there are similar "excursions" here ...

It's still possible to enjoy them without going to these extremes otherwise we ban them or label the kids sexually wanton and throw the baby out with the bathwater and we're into Sharia before we blink. In this, I agree with the Guardian article about the Sun exposé that the turtle linked to, but as usual, the Guardian is too full of its own postmodern cultural relativity to see that their liberalpoliticalcorrectnessatallcosts stance is, as usual, offering an equal and opposite evil ...

Janet

Interesting comparison, for me, in THIS article today with Tenerife. The Mail has clearly decided there's more outrage and mileage in shifting blame now to the British owners of the "excursion", who also own two of the main bars in the organized pub crawl, and two hotels in which punters for the crawl are signed. Circular and captive audience.

Let's be under no mistake. Carnage-type excursions are available here in Tenerife, and are very popular, and there are those here who happily pose as perfect parents while offering the seediest and most exploitative "entertainment".

This paragraph towards the end of the article could have been written about the Patch and Veronicas:

QuoteA long time ago, locals signed a Faustian pact with the British: they would clear up the broken glass, the vomit and used condoms in return for their money.
Now the profits of Magaluf are ending up in the pockets of the Daly brothers, much to the disgust of tourism chiefs and hoteliers who have been trying to improve the resort's downmarket image.
'We're not trying to turn away from mass tourism,' said Alvaro Gijon, deputy mayor of Palma, the capital city of Majorca. 'But people vomiting in the streets and worse is just not on.'
Officials want to develop the area as a base for hikers and cyclists (Bradley Wiggins spends several months of the year training in Majorca). There are plans, too, for  new luxury hotels.
'We demand that the greed and unscrupulousness of a few businesses, if you can call them that, do not ruin Majorca's reputation, especially with a market as important as the British market, nor ruin the historic opportunity that Magaluf has for recovery after years of shame,' declared that Majorca Daily Bulletin front page on Saturday.
'It is time to shout from the rooftops that we don't want this tourism. It's not worth it.'