It is weird how successful moves to modernization always include both the substantial (rights for women) and the superficial (no more fezzes). I like to think that an important part of modernity is precisely recognizing that rights are important and headgear is not.
I have never purchased a single-testicled horse.
I HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED! Why is it that as soon as I see a story saying something like "Unlike most countries, in Turkey horse bettors have 25% of their winnings confiscated by the bookie and 25% of what's left confiscated by the state", all I can think is "Wow! Natural experiment! Soooooo fruitful for behavioral economics!"
... and headgear is not.
So it's not important whether women wear veils or not?
Interesting article, although it's kind of weird at the end where he's shocked, shocked! that the government would set up a gambling system so as to maximize its tax revenues without providing a realistic chance for players to win.
and headgear is not
So, it's not important if your kids wear helmets when they go bike-riding?
and headgear is not
So you don't care if your kids are called Snaggletooth their whole lives?
and headgear is not
So you don't care if your children use dental dams?
9: If the sire only has one testicle, must we really fuss about the dam's teeth?
and headgear is not
So you don't care if Dr. Hannibal Lector eats Clarice Starling's face off?
and headgear is not
So you don't care about Hallen Hpoe or Hwinter?
and headgear is not
So you don't care about sombreros?
and headgear is not
So you don't care about snorkel masks?
and headgear is not
So you don't care about pince-nez?
and headgear is not
So you don't care about masquerade balls?
and headgear is not
So you don't care about beehive hairstyles?
and headgear is not
So you don't care about headbands with springs attached, with balls on the ends painted to look like alien eyeballs?
and headgear is not
So you don't care about Carmen Miranda's complicated fruit hats?
JBS's point about veils was if like a legitimate thing to ask in comparison to fezs
i am glad he cares about women's rights
and headgear is not
But fezzes are cool.
4: I only care about veils to the extent that they are linked to more substantial forms of oppression, and when designing public regulation, I would target the more substantial forms of oppression.
12-19: I care a lot about Carmen Miranda's complicated fruit hats; headbands with springs attached, with balls on the ends painted to look like alien eyeballs; beehive hairstyles; masquerade balls; pince-nez; snorkel masks; and sombreros; and believe that the government should use non-coercive measures to encourage all these things. Sadly, I can't figure out what Hallen Hpoe or Hwinter are.
I don't think I've ever seen a hipster rocking a fez. I wonder when that will become a thing.
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I only care about veils to the extent that they are linked to more substantial forms of oppression, and when designing public regulation, I would target the more substantial forms of oppression.
A more substantial form of oppression is acid attacks on unveiled women. One way of dealing with this is to forbid anyone wearing a veil. Of course procedural liberals wll be horrified by this idea but it might have more appeal outside the liberal bubble.
Are the people on the train trying to get you to wear the paper bag again?
Speaking of Ataturk, I've often wondered about people who lead countries and when name is so closely related to the name of the country. I wonder if the psychological process of identification is different when you name yourself after the country (Ataturk) or the country after you (the House of Saud) or is unrelated except to people who can't pronounce the language (de Gaulle).
Where does Captain America fall into this taxonomy?
"In fact, the Chinese people in those days revolted not because the country was on the verge of ruin, but because they had to wear queues." (From Lu Xun, "The Story of Hair" )
19, 22: There are two important supreme court cases about constututional rights involving hats. The conflict between free exercise of religion by wearing hats in the Jewish tradition, and the army requirement to remove hats while saluting, was resolved In goldman v weinberger. The duty of police to advise arrestees of the right to wear fruit on their hats was established by the very famous Miranda decision.
The duty of police to advise arrestees of the right to wear fruit on their hats was established by the very famous Miranda decision.
Whence we get the Lemon test.
Does the US army take their hats off to salute? You're weird.
33: That's not in my mental picture of the normal military salute. Some googling suggests it's only in certain very formal situations, like saluting the flag or to an officer in their office (in the latter case one removes headgear before entering).
33. No. Goldman was about wearing headgear indoors.
in Turkey horse bettors have 25% of their winnings confiscated by the bookie and 25% of what's left confiscated by the state
In the UK, you pick whether or not to pay the tax up front or out of winnings. Bookies tend to suggest the first option.
33: indeed. Over here we specifically never salute without a hat on.
And you never salute in the field, of course. Unless you're saluting an officer you don't like very much.
In the UK, you pick whether or not to pay the tax up front or out of winnings. Bookies tend to suggest the first option.
Not for about a decade, actually. The government made a deal with the bookmaking firms that they'd drop gambling duty in return for the latter starting to pay corporation tax [1] and not moving all their internet operations to Gibraltar.
[1] Gambling winnings not, for fundamental reasons in the genealogy of the British tax system dating back to the Napoleonic wars, being taxable income.
The government made a deal with the bookmaking firms that they'd drop gambling duty in return for the latter starting to pay corporation tax [1] and not moving all their internet operations to Gibraltar.
Whereas the US government made a "deal" where they didn't get any tax revenue and they moved all their internet operations to Antigua. Cunning.
Goldman was about wearing headgear indoors.
Bonus caps, right?
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I just watched the Louie rape episode. It was... disturbing.
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