SMOCKING KILLS

PORTE DE ROBE INTERDIT A Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France: Ladies, Scots and cross-dressers are from 2007 liable to a 68 (?) euro fine for smocking inside the public areas of ski lifts belonging to La Compagnie du Mont Blanc. It is offensive to trouser wearers and we should surely be doing our utmost (€68) to protect our children from exposure to smocking, it is, after all, pretty outdated. Indeed, like the smoking ban that has hit Europe, I'm sure that within a matter of months people will quickly adapt to the change and do all their smocking outside in the cold. To non smockers, this represents a victory for them and their proches leaving keen French smockers curiously proclaiming that this sign and this blog is, and I translate "is euh ridiculisation off ze new legislation". No idea what they're talking about.

Maybe in the two years they have to prepare for the ban they can stop and actually talk to a Rosbif before writing such entertaining stuff. Hopefully not.

While the public have been banned from smoking cigarettes in public places and indeed ski lifts, no one has ever had to suffer the whopping €68 fine which sees a few exemptions in extenuating circumstances. a) when mixed with marijuana. b) at the end of the season where children are hotboxed by hippies, freestylers and even lifties inside the ski lift c) lifties who are of course allowed to have a fag hanging out their mouths (it couldn't be classed as working otherwise though could it??) while transporting fuel on the ski lifts, so long as their are no (American) tourists aboard.

It does beg the question: who is going to extract that €68 fine from offenders? The answer is of course, a liftie who is being nagged by an American tourist to do something while realising that on his salary alone, he cannot afford the extortionate prices demanded by the local smockists.