Some people think onesies are actually daywear. Horrendous. The fact that a cafe in Kaitaia (I salute you!) has to inform clients that they won't be served if they are in one, is an indictment on a town's self respect. And yet. I won't be restraining anyone or suggesting bylaws against public onesie wearing.
What about grey suits? Should they be banned on the basis of being boring? Bike helmets and suits? Meh. On them.
Comb overs? Definitely should be illegal but really who cares? T-shirts on young children involving inappropriate sexual jokes. "Future Playboy Bunny". On a 3-year-old? Seriously not OK but should we call CYF?
The whole burkini ban debate has once again centred around what women should wear and how they should appear in public. If it's not Julia and her skirt, it's Helen and her hairdo or comments on Metiria's jacket; it's women and their appearance that seems to be the target.
If a country wants to go on a banning binge they really need to get creative and inspiring in making dumb annoying stuff illegal. Like Brunei: they banned Christmas - what's not to like about that? Iran banning hair gel for men is also refreshing but they should have gone all out and banned all forms of man-spray and then I could emigrate. Lynx is the death of every high school teacher of adolescent men.
The US has the difficulty of being one of the biggest producers of porn and to also have laws in many States that ban fellatio and then historically confuse it with sodomy. Only God and the police department would know how to collect evidence of people en flagrante without that constituting the making of porn but who am I to judge?
Last week hundreds of angry students in Austin, Texas publicly protested the fact that concealed guns - after all the mass shootings - were now allowed on campus.
In order to underline the absurdity, they brandished giant dildos, which are illegal, but generally not lethal. Considering the size of them though, I'm not so sure. In the interests of public safety best kept banned.
