Jul 22, 2021

Hmmm, What Could It Be??????? Hmmmm?????

 There's a lot of hand wringing going on in two places that are 4535.4 miles apart.

First up: Norway! Female members of the Norway handball team are fed up.

The International Handball Federation requires women to wear bikini bottoms “with a close fit and cut on an upward angle toward the top of the leg.” The sides of the bikini bottoms must be no more than four inches. Men, on the other hand, can wear shorts as long as four inches above their knees as long as they are “not too baggy.”

A spokeswoman for the International Handball Federation, Jessica Rockstroh, said on Tuesday that she did not know the reason for the rules. “We’re looking into it internally,” she said.

                                                                        (From a N.Y. Times story)

 

What could it be? Hmmmm. Why might there be a difference between the uniforms for men and those for women?

 

Norway’s men’s and women’s beach handball teams in 2019. 

 

Meanwhile across the Atlantic Ocean, here in Alabama,  Oh NO!!!!!!

Tuskegee officials have shut down the town square because of DANGER from a confederate statue that Councilman Johnny Ford tried to tear down two week ago. Now other city officials are crying about it being A DANGER!!! And we can't have that, can we? 

 

We may not be able to protect you from being hurt if the statue falls, but we can at least protect you from reading foul language spray painted on the statue by vandals!

     The statue belongs to Tuskegee County (for some reason), so today the county and the city will meet separately and decide "WHAT TO DO?????"

     There is a lot of hand wringing going on in Tuskegee too. 

     The city paid for safety reports about the statue from two companies (TWO!) and both (" WE AGREE!!!) say it is a danger to hurt someone if it falls down!!!! (which you can say about just about anything.)

    (Democratic) Mayor Lawrence Haygood even compares the statue to the condo building that fell down recently:

“Just like the situation in Florida, you can’t ignore a report that says you’ve got an unsafe condition,” Haygood said. “Its our responsibility to do something about it.”

     What could that something be? Hmmmmmm. I wonder what they could do? Hmmmm?

     Has anyone asked Alabama's Republican Attorney General Steve Marshall? He and Republican Governor Ivey are the ones trying to protect confederate stuff. What do they suggest? Hmmmm?

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