The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #81717   Message #1500058
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
04-Jun-05 - 09:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Who Will Watch the Watchdogs?
Subject: RE: BS: Who Will Watch the Watchdogs?
Here in Brisbane, the Myer Centre, a 5 storey shopping mall in the centre of Brisbane, once tried to ban sandals on males - insisting that males must wear shoes. A friend of mine made a phone call to some of his 'resistoid' friends (a high school based movement) and by the time he got home, he saw on the TV news that dozens of them were waving placards in protest. 'My God! what have I started?' he said, and carefully moved that business card to the back of his wallet, planning on not using it again in a hurry....

On TV was a mention of a shopping centre that is charging $5 to access the toilet room used my mothers to change their babies or breast feed them - we used to charge a penny to access public toilets a century ago (still have cultural poems about that!) but we stopped that...