posted November 28, 2004 11:55 AM            

Hungary - Blonde jokes are set to be banned in Hungary after blonde women staged an angry protest outside parliament.

The protestors handed in a petition claiming they were being discriminated against in every walk of life by bad taste blonde jokes.

Spokesperson Zsuzsa Kovacs said: "Blondes face discrimination in the job market, in the workplace when they get a job, and even on the streets.

"People are banned from discriminating against Jews, or blacks, so why not grant blondes the same protection."

The petition was handed to the equal opportunities minister Kinga Goncz asking her to investigate whether jokes about blondes fall into the same category as religious discrimination.

The petition was just short of the 100 000 needed to force parliament to debate the matter but Goncz's deputy who spoke to the crowd pledged the government would act to stop any discrimination.

Blondes - real and bleached - protested outside the ministry as the petition was handed in, waving banners with slogans like "We're blonde, not stupid" and "Love us for our minds". -

Ananova.com
http://www.newsmax.com/r/?http://www.news24.com/News24/Backpage/Offbeat/0,,2-1343-1347_1626049,00.html

posted November 28, 2004 10:20 PM              

A blonde, a brunette, and a redhead were standing on a corner.....

posted December 02, 2004 12:44 AM              

"Aw, they're taking all our fun away! What else have we got to make fun about? I'm sure the Irish will pipe up soon..." -Dean

Dang right, amigo, I'm Irish and I'm 'piping up'.

"Oh. My. God.

"I guess they haven't gotton over that communism thing quite yet. " -TINK

Gotta say, I am oh so curious to hear how it relates to communism. It's much more like democracy, actually. So technically it could happen here.

posted December 02, 2004 12:10 PM              

A brunette who told too many BLONDE JOKES!!

posted December 02, 2004 02:03 PM              

Blonde woman have nothing to do with communism. In fact, I 'm going to guess that most communist females have brown hair. Politically correct thinking annoys me. Politically correct laws annoy me even more. Politically correct stuff reeks of the nastier elements of Stalinist-type communism. And before anybody gets on my case about that ... I sympathize a bit with Lenin and I admit to a certain affection for Trotsky (I think it was the hair).

posted December 03, 2004 05:58 AM              

It's easy for you to say, Randall, being a member of the dark-haired majority. I realize this discussion is fairly silly, but the fact remains that the Hungarian Parliament saw fit to pass a law protecting blondes.

Randall, your statement 'Hair color is not a protected class' is false. In Hungary, certain kinds of hair color are protected.

[And no, I'm not blonde, well not technically, more of a strawberry-blonde-light-brown. I am argumentative.]

posted December 04, 2004 02:29 AM              

Randall, I don't understand why you think this kind of legislation is so awful, and why you are intent on pinning it on liberalism. Are you especially attached to your blonde- and redhead- jokes? Do you take a particular pleasure in making fun of hair color? If you do it's no fault, I suppose I've told blonde jokes. It just seems as if you're up on a soapbox here. That law has little to do with liberalism and everything to do with the will of Hungary's citizens.