The Netherlands bans dirty, stinking hippies from drug dens

[Tucker]

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Newsjock Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue Jun-07-11 12:51 AM
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Netherlands: Pot shops to be off limits to foreign tourists
   
Source: Los Angeles Times

The Netherlands plans to ban foreign visitors from pot shops in a move that opponents have labeled "tourism suicide."

The Dutch government is trying to stop drug tourism in the country, according to a recent announcement. Under the plan, the "coffee shops" that sell marijuana will become private clubs limited to adult Dutch citizens who have to show proof of ID and become a member to buy marijuana.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-trb-dutch-coffee...

Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue Jun-07-11 01:00 AM
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2. Yup - tourism suicide.
   
Wait'll they lose a couple billion, then they'll quickly reopen them

Like the Ramen noodles and doughnut crowd spend Billions.

Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue Jun-07-11 01:08 AM
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4. My wife and I were at the couples donkey sex workshop in the Red Light district and I recall that..   Updated at 12:38 AM
   
...she commented that the pot shops were just bringing the whole city down, culturally. At least I think she did, between the braying and the ball-gag, I had to piece a lot of it together myself.

PB

Am I reading this correct? His wife and the symbol of the democrat party boinking.

jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue Jun-07-11 01:21 AM
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8. That's a bad move
   
Edited on Tue Jun-07-11 01:21 AM by jberryhill
Since then you'll have Dutch citizens doing street sales to the tourists, and where you have tourists, cash, and criminals, bad things happen.

That's why the red light district was put in hundreds of years ago in the first place.

A fool DUmmy and his money are soon parted.

iamthebandfanman (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue Jun-07-11 01:22 AM
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9. exactly, they are just increasing their crime rate..
   
its still going to happen, just now it wont be in the open.

theyll regret it

Don't Y'All say that drugs don't cause crime?

comtec Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue Jun-07-11 02:32 AM
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14. It's the conservatives there... The CDA who are behind this
   
God I hate balkinende and the lot!
Long short their conservatives (and believe me they make our guys look like rank amateurs at times) are grade A Calvinistic bible thumping assholes!

The problem is that the liberals have gotten disorganized and weak
The d66 dem party and the sp socialist party (which I votes for locally yay me) are confused
The DISadvantqge to having too many parties is that liberals fight far more than conservatives
Thus cOnseevative parties (each bat Whittier than the next - wilders anyone?) join forces to keep the lobs out of power

Basically balkys CDA ("christian" democratic party) has been chipping away at pot laws for years
He started by outlawing it on the border towns

The thinking in the swamp (us allochtonen's pet word) is that people do NOT come to holland for the (lack of) culture or museums
Not in the droves that go there now

Already the red light reduction by two thirds has brutalised the tourist industry
Regional governments (gemmente) are restricting permits to run whore houses

Leaving the ethics od prostitution aside for a moment it's KILLING the Dutch governments tax revenue from tourism

Complain all you want about thr illegal prostitution problem (it is legit) but goto Albania or Russia and you'll see grls that are brutally terrorized legally
Whatever else the Dutch work laws demand the red light girls a certain ammount of freedom that can't be taken away

Of course the major problem aren't the girls behind the glass so much as the ones underground (which has only grown since the great whore purge of 2005)

We have to choose our evils to fight

Which do you choose?

It's Bush's fault.

[DumbAss Tanker]

As long as there are hookers in Amsterdam, the Tourism Ministry has nothing to worry about.

[Celtic Rose]

I spent several hours in Amsterdam on my way to Ireland.  I had a 9 hour layover, so I went on a quick city tour.  The city just felt dirty and there was graffiti everywhere. 

[Ballygrl]

iamthebandfanman (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-07-11 01:22 AM
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9. exactly, they are just increasing their crime rate..
   
its still going to happen, just now it wont be in the open.

theyll regret it

Actually crime and vagrancy have increased and that's why they're trying to do something about it.

[Tucker]

Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Tue Jun-07-11 01:08 AM
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4. My wife and I were at the couples donkey sex workshop in the Red Light district and I recall that..   Updated at 12:38 AM
   
...she commented that the pot shops were just bringing the whole city down, culturally. At least I think she did, between the braying and the ball-gag, I had to piece a lot of it together myself.

PB

Re posted from OP.

Is this guy telling the world that his wife had sex with a donkey?

[Skul]

Haven't quite figured that out myself, Tucker.
It has to be one of the absolute strangest comment I've ever seen.
You don't suppose someone slipped something "special" into the bong water, do you?

[DumbAss Tanker]

Re posted from OP.

Is this guy telling the world that his wife had sex with a donkey?

While one can't entirely discount that possibility, I believe he was actually going for sarcasm.

[Karin]

Yes, Poll Blind was telling a joke. 

[delilahmused]

As long as there are hookers in Amsterdam, the Tourism Ministry has nothing to worry about.

Yeah, my son's soccer team played a tournament in Holland when he was 15. The boys could've gone to the Anne Frank museum. They decided to walk through the red light district instead. Evidently it was quite thrilling for them (they were only 15 & 16) because the whores waved and said hello.

Cindie

[Tucker]

Yes, Poll Blind was telling a joke. 

Hard to tell.

I couldn't make someone I cared about the object of a crude joke. Hard to comprehend.

[GOBUCKS]

The boys could've gone to the Anne Frank museum. They decided to walk through the red light district instead.
Cindie

Wow, that's astounding.

[delilahmused]

Wow, that's astounding.

Yeah, my husband went along as a chaperone and wouldn't allow any of the boys to take pictures. It still impressed their friends when they got home. Gotta love teenage boys, full of spit and raging hormones.

Cindie

[BlueStateSaint]

Re posted from OP.

Is this guy telling the world that his wife had sex with a donkey?

Or, alternately, that he's married to one.