I popped over to Carol's today and saw she had a post and an image up pointing out the World Youth Day that was taking place in Cologne, Germany.
I remember the World Youth Day we had here in Denver back in the early 90's, it was fantastic. The whole thing made me wish I was a teen and Catholic. Seeing the young people from all over the world coming together for worship, seeing their excitement when they saw Pope JPII; it was beautiful.
But this one disturbs me:
Love shack plan for World CupGerman MPs want to erect love shacks for the 2006 World Cup 2006 so prostitutes can service football fans in private.
Tens of thousands of prostitutes are expected to converge on World Cup venues and politicians fear many will offer their services in the open.
The portable cabins, inspired by the success of the drive-in-brothel projects in cities such as Cologne, will be set up in areas where the football matches will take place.
Christian Democrat Dirk Lamprecht, who put forward the idea, said: "The boxes would certainly be a better alternative to prostitutes offering their services on the streets, in parks or in local zoos."
German paper Bild quotes experts who predict an influx of over 40,000 foreign prostitutes into the country over the next year.
A spokesman for Dortmund's Public Affairs Office, where six of the games are to be held, said the town needs a plan to deal with the incursion.
He said: "If hundreds of foreign women join the 380 prostitutes already on Dortmund's strips near the stadium we'll be bursting at the seams. We have to prepare now, or it will turn into Sodom and Gomorrah."
From Ananova
Same town, two very different events, how effing sad is that? When I read about these drive-in brothels that Cologne has used I just about fell out of my chair. Excuse me but, in even contemplating portable whore houses you rank right up there with Sodom and Gomorrah. Why don't you run this idea past the organizers of WYD and see what they think of it.
"Christian Democrat"--I guess we should've expected such an idea to come from a party with that ironic misnomer attached.
Posted by: Jeff H at August 14, 2005 07:09 PMThis is a new one on me. Liberals may say this is good planning for the inevitable.
I say keep your pants on and enjoy the World Cup Series. How freakin' hard is it to control yourself for a few days and show some morals. If it's that bad, stay home and do that voodoo that you do.
"Oh, what are those daddy?" "Why those are Porta-Potty's, son, and ignore those women holding the door open for that man, things are different here." Yeah, right.
Who knew the World Cup would end up filled with semen?
Posted by: Jeff H at August 14, 2005 11:29 PMThey're called "Porta-Whores," actually.
Posted by: Kevin at August 14, 2005 11:30 PMY'all are sick.
Posted by: Stacy at August 15, 2005 12:17 AMHoly cow. That is disturbing.
Now about this trackback thing. Should I put a trackback here to your place or vice versa? lol I don't know though NADH, about trackbacking this one. ;-) Man those people are unbelieveable. I almost fell out of my chair as well. Still, after two minutes of sitting here being speechless and trying to figure out what to type, well I'm still speechless. lol
Posted by: Housewife at August 15, 2005 07:15 AMHousewife: if you mention a post of Stacy's (for instance), what you do is go to your commenting utility (such as Haloscan); enter info on your post, except for the "ping" URL, which is the trackback URL for the post of Stacy's you mentioned.
Posted by: Jeff H at August 15, 2005 03:40 PMAnd this is a better alternative...why?
Posted by: Nettie at August 15, 2005 05:16 PMOh I know how to do a trackback. I was just wondering if I should trackback my post to here or let Stacy do a trackback to my site. lol I suppose we could do both. But, it's too late now anyway.
I like Stacy's style though and will be on the lookout for more posts to link to over at my site. I think she gets more readers than me though. lol She should.
And by the way Stacy, I don't have any guidelines for trackbacking to my site. In other words you don't have to link my name in a post of yours to trackback, as long as it's on the same topic.
Posted by: Housewife at August 15, 2005 10:18 PMIt's late, I'm tired. I've been working my fingers to the bone for Cotillion. Is that trackback or backtrack? Again, confused. LOL
Posted by: Stacy at August 16, 2005 12:47 AM