Weird foreign customs.

[Kramerman]

meh... im indifferent. i was, so i guess my sons should be too, but it wont be for religious reasons

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by Uber KruX


hrm... why was i thinking thiland?

etch, give me a free trip to Germany and i'll goosestep down to the Reistag, giving the good ol' salute to anyone i meet.

you should wear a nice suave black uniform, with the trousers tucked into the pants... no not the nazi S/S uniform...

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Oerdin
I heard that circumsition also has a weak but still useful effect of stopping infections. Back in the old (I'm talking old testiment) days men would get these infections and die. Circumsition prevented these infections.

Now days with modern hygiene this shouldn't be necissary but people keep it up for religious reasons. (i.e. every good Jew and Christian is supposed to get it done & the doctors assume you want it done to your kids unless you say other wise).

I dont think theres any religious reason for christians. Am I wrong?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Uber KruX


religious morons, i mean zealots, which were attempting to remove the pleasure from sex.

if thats the reason i can assure you it failed.

[Traianvs]

Originally posted by Oerdin
I heard that circumsition also has a weak but still useful effect of stopping infections. Back in the old (I'm talking old testiment) days men would get these infections and die. Circumsition prevented these infections.

Now days with modern hygiene this shouldn't be necissary but people keep it up for religious reasons. (i.e. every good Jew and Christian is supposed to get it done & the doctors assume you want it done to your kids unless you say other wise).

Ermm, christians are supposed to have a circumsition?

Nah what they do is when you get born they see if teh thingy of which I don't know the English name is not too long or too narrow?
If that's the case, and only then they do a circumsition. For example I've had one (I think ) but my parents are not christian, jewish or anything else...

[Asher]

When I lived in California nobody was in the habit of taking off your shoes when you enter somebody's house.

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


if thats the reason i can assure you it failed.

from what i've heard, it worked well. i hear sex is much more pleasurable for a man who is uncircumsized, as the foreskin has a large mass of sensitive nerve endings.

but, the uncircumsized man will probably last longer (with less, erm, "practice"), so it's a toss up.

[Dinner]

Read your bible yea heathen scum.

P.S. I don't read the bible so I'm going by word of mouth (yeah I'm a hypocrite).

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Read your bible yea heathen scum.

P.S. I don't read the bible so I'm going by word of mouth (yeah I'm a hypocrite).

Thats one of the parts of the bible y'all aint been following since St. Paul, IIUC. Along with all the unclean animals and stuff like that.

[Gangerolf]

Many of the places I've stayed in in England they had carpet on the bathroom floor. Yes, carpet, in a bathroom. Eeeuuw

[Dinner]

That makes me wonder how many other men have pissed on that carpet which I am, as a hotel guest, supposed to step out of the shower bare foot upon.

[Kramerman]

oh man, everytime i see a carpet in a bathroom, i have an irresistable urge to whip it out and take a piss right there...

[Pekka]

Well, in Sweden there were some weird customs. I bought some 'snus' (not sure what it is in english, smokeless tobacco? But you don't chew it, you but it under your lip) to my friend and this customs guy was actually serious 'what's this?!'.. then I had to explain for good 5 minutes I just bought it from a tax free shop 50 meters away from that spot. It was like he never heard of it, and they made that Ettan brand in Sweden! I was truly overwhelmed and like wtf.. then I got into trouble as I couldn't remember my combination to my suit case.. I had just borrowed it from my dad. 'Is this your suit case, sir?' 'umm.. sure' 'why don't you knwo the combination' 'well.. it's not exactly MY suit case..' I guess you can predict what happened after that? Yeah, once again the brave finnish world traveller experienced yet another back room of airports... I've done them all over.

One funny incident happened in the JFK. This dude just said 'thank you' when he was supposed to check me out and used to being checked out all the time I just replied 'no problem, thank you' and started opening my suit case. Then he waited a bit and said 'thank you, sir' and I was kind of lost and replied 'no problem, nice day' and he was like 'it is.. thank you'. I was like what kind of Japanese thing this is so I just replied 'thank you' and I started sweating and finally he said 'I MEAN YOU CAN GO NOW, THANK YOU!'.. talking about being embarrased..

And about other customs, well.. I've mostly travelled Europe and the US, so .. nothing really very exotic and the customs have been pretty much simular all over.

[Gangerolf]

Snus is banned in the EU isn't it? Well except in Sweden of course, but they're not allowed to export it to other EU countries.

[Pekka]

Gangerolf, so I'm now guilty of smuggling banned substance? COOL!

I didn't know that.. neither did the customs guy I guess, he let me go. Why do they sell it on the airports then? Or in the cruise ships in route finland-sweden? Maybe so, but this ban is not enforced.