{"id":23,"date":"2007-05-30T15:54:21","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T13:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smirkingman.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/30\/massive-craziness-in-poland\/"},"modified":"2011-05-10T22:16:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T20:16:23","slug":"massive-craziness-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/2007\/05\/30\/massive-craziness-in-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive craziness in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have the Poles gone mad? I wrote off the communist witch-hunt, of which McCarthy would have been proud, as once-off silliness brought about by group shame of collaborating with the communist secret police. There was also healthy silliness &#8211; the Polish rock band <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Cyc\">Big Cyc<\/a> (Big Tit), whose 4th album featured a nun drying condoms on a clothes-line.<\/p>\n<p>But the silliness has taken a turn for the worse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A senior Polish official has ordered psychologists to investigate whether the popular BBC TV show Teletubbies promotes a homosexual lifestyle. The spokesperson for children&#8217;s rights in Poland, Ewa Sowinska, singled out Tinky Winky, the purple character with a triangular aerial on his head. (source <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/6698753.stm\">BBC<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Teletubbies are queer? What on earth has got into the woman?<\/p>\n<p>It would appear that the affliction has spread to neighbouring Belarus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Customs officers in Belarus have ordered drivers crossing over from Poland to carry a condom or be denied entry into the former Soviet republic, Polish customs officials claimed on Tuesday. The Belarussian guards have allegedly demanded that drivers include a condom in the emergency first aid kit which road regulations say they must carry. (<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.iafrica.com\/bulletinboard\/917277.htm\">source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m racking my brains trying to think what the motivation could be.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Polish men can&#8217;t resist Belarussian women and Belarus doesn&#8217;t want their gene pool polluted?<\/li>\n<li>Belarussian women all have the clap and their authorities want to spare the Poles? (seems unlikely)<\/li>\n<li>Belarus wants to insult the Poles by implying they all have the clap?<\/li>\n<li>Belarus wants to insult the Poles by implying they can only get it up once (by insisting on only <strong>ONE<\/strong> condom)?<\/li>\n<li>The Belarus have a secret agenda in which condoms are used for something else than contraception?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If anyone has the true reason, please let me know \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have the Poles gone mad? I wrote off the communist witch-hunt, of which McCarthy would have been proud, as once-off silliness brought about by group shame of collaborating with the communist secret police. There was also healthy silliness &#8211; the <a href='https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/2007\/05\/30\/massive-craziness-in-poland\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","tag-silliness","category-10-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvert.ch\/maurice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}