Malawi poised to outlaw farting
Malawi is determined to “mould responsible and disciplined citizens” with a law banning the breaking of wind. The Local Courts Bill of 2010 is set to be presented before a forthcoming parliamentary session by Justice Minister George Chaponda. The legislation also targets ne'er-do-wells "disturbing religious assemblies", " …
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LOL
Queue much Southparkish Spontaneous Human Combustion!!!
particularly worrying
for politicians and other wind-bags
I'll get my coat
Christ on a bike..
Effectively corking peoples arseparts? Have these rectards not witnessed the god awful mess a seagull makes after its been fed bicarbonate soda?
And for those readers of an RSPB persuation I should note that I havent either...
Seagulls = flying rats
I don't think they even need Bicarb to make a mess...I'm sure the damned things aim for my car every day with a carpet bombing technique even Cmdr Harris would have been proud of.
The politicians
are obviously gunning for a monopoly on talking out of their bottoms.
<- quick with the matches on that one
Expect to have them vanish real soon now.
Population density is high.
Infant mortality is high.
Infection rate of HIV/AIDS and other infections is high.
Life expectancy is low.
And as the old saying goes:
If you don't fart, you don't shit, and if you don't shit - you die.
If is this their government's way of enforcing population control, someone should tell them this is 2011, and there are better ways.
Can you imagine the spin?
The latest green tax on emissions...
A smarter move...
...would be to tax it. Whilst this wouldn't stop people farting, it would at least encourage them to be more discreet about it.
BOTTIE!!!!!!
French Soldier: I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWBUl7oT9sA
Holy Grail Batman!
Who the hell downvoted your beautifully crafted excerpt from the British comedy genius that is Monty Python? A French person? Someone with a complete sense of humour bypass?
(Queue the 'one and the same' jokes)
Probably...
somebody who - like me - saw the post and groaned "Oh, god, another sad git who thinks that the height of wit is endless misquoting of snippets of a damn-near-forty-year-old film spin off of a TV programme that was starting to run out of ideas"
I mean, Holy Grail was funny.
When Cleese, Palin, Chapman, Idle, Jones did it. (Gilliam's bits weren't)
The first few times.
Now? PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD... STOP! STOP NOW! NO MORE!
And as for the Goon Show... <yawn>
Hmmm...
A French person? Someone with a complete sense of humour bypass?
... aren't they one and the same thing????
How will they enforce this?
Will they use the "who smelled it dealt it" rule, or will the police patrol the streets with fart-o-meters?
Nope...
I reckon they'll use the "Whoever denied it supplied it" line of judgement!
@Just Thinking:
I think that's the point, which just wooshed over your head. Are you down the pub already? (It is Friday after all!)
Prison system, court time?
I can see this is simply a job creation scheme for the Malawi court & prison systems. What happens if you let one loose while in prison, get denied parole?
Clearly someone in their government have a great sense of humour!!!
Blimey!
What do they eat in Malawi? Cyanide?
<-arse trumpet
fartless
I'm guessing sales of fart apps are going to take a nose dive in Malawi then!
For real?
There is no way that they will let this pass :-) It's just a lot of hot air.
I have friends who have already planned to leave the country as soon as they got wind of this.
Will they bring out a more severe law next year to trump this one...
I could go on...but shan't
It's an old one
"The legislation also targets ne'er-do-wells "disturbing religious assemblies", "trespassing on burial places", "insulting the modesty of a woman" "
As in:
"How dare you fart before my wife!"
"Sorry, I didn't realise it was her turn."
Investment opportunity
You can't prevent it. Your only hope is to hide it. Expect increased demand for whoopee cushions.
That's going to hurt Heinz
Beanz Meanz Fatrz
How long a prison sentence do you get for being found in possession of a Jerusalem Artichoke?
As mentioned above how will they tell who did it? It's well known that the silent ones are the worst.
Though really if they are going to ban involuntary, unavoidable actions they should ban coughing which is known to spread diseases rather than fats which merely smell.
Re: That's going to hurt Heinz
And it's quite likely any prisoner will have their sentance extending while farting in prison.
I can just see the Tory's putting some fart meters into our bottoms, if you've paid your fart tax, your fart comes out smelling like one of those automatic air freshner type smells, no pre-paid tax would mean it would smell like you've eaten loads of beans and a extremely high fibre diet, causing British Gas to come around looking for a gas leak lol
If we had it here, what if it like the smoking ban and you have to pop out in the fresh air to fart outside instead? Sounds like an idea to get out of doing a lot of work :-)
Not quite
The Tories would install a fart tax meter and bill you on the methane content, although you'll be able to sign up for EU fart credits which you can write off against income tax. Labour would set targets for farts, you'll be fined if you don't fart enough, and get ASBOs (Arse-Supplied Body Odour) for excessively smelly farts. The LibDems will insist that everyone be free to fart, but encourage you to choose your diet to be fart friendly, and will end up agreeing to install fart meters provided the tax is on a sliding scale linked to smell. The DUP will ban farting on Sundays, and Sinn Fein will expect everyone to light their farts in the presence of legitimate targets. The BNP will deport any immigrant caught farting in public.
Fortune Teller
"those who pass the time by pretending to be a fortune teller"
Presumably then, real fortune tellers will still be allowed.
or
Or those who pretend to be fortune tellers in a commercial capacity, instead of pretending merely in order to pass the time.
RE: Fortune Teller
""those who pass the time by pretending to be a fortune teller"
Presumably then, real fortune tellers will still be allowed."
This just in, Malawi outlaws religion!
If they brought that into the UK......
They'd have to lock me up and throw away the key
and everyone else...
Except the Queen, Stephen Fry and if he were still with us, Kenneth Williams
My uncle used to say...
Every fox smells it's own hole.
And my Grandma used to say...
Better out than in.
Best one I ever heard was
If you hold in your farts, they'll escape into other parts of your system and eventually travel up to your brain.
And that's where shitty ideas come from.
Surely you can't be serious!
"...making it criminal is a joke of democracy."
Welcome to the world of "representative" democracy. :(
better pack a bung
Need to go there for three months. No baked beans for me.
Safety
Do they use candles to produce some of their lighting there? Ever seen what happens when you fart on a candle? It can be VERY impressive (and, somewhat dangerous, too!).
beggin for a prankin
Oh boy, those chaps in the Malawian government are just ASKING to have their lunches topped off with a dusting of farting powder, followed by (of course) what every right-thinking and decent Malawian citizen would feel is their partiotic duty - a quick call to the boys in blue to tip them off about the indecent & criminal activities of the ruling classes ;)
Grenade because you can bet that politicians in Malawi dont have to go outside to smoke ... KABOOOM! (Guy Fawkes should have thought of this first)
YOU SHALL NOT PASS
Anyway, as they used to say: First smeller's the guilty feller....
Bean, Beans, the magical fruit
The more you eay, the more you toot
The more you toot, the better you feel
So let's eat beans for every meal.
Botty Burps
Where you may be let your wind go free, church or chapel let it rattle was a pet rhyme of my ex. She came from the fens oooh arrr.
Careful it is natural gas, and it can be lit. A backfire is a hospital job!!!
Better not go there on holiday
I've got wind on the best of days, but if I am not allowed and had a nice goat curry better be careful.
Farts are Free
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/dead_vulture_32.pngWherever you be let your wind go free , cause the want of a fart was the death of me but when in Africa stick with a pee
How about...
... giving everybody one of those devices that convert all fart noises into Steven Wright jokes?
(Its a family guy reference for those of you who don't get it)
Toot Tone
Stewart,
I think you may be referring to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LvwYUnSoQo
Farts are not green
There should be a global campaign to suppress farting. A lot of the released gas is methane which has worse greenhouse properties than carbon dioxide.
Unless of course the methane is ignited to convert it to CO2 + water vapour...
Hmm
I was really looking forward to a holiday in Malawi, but I don't want to go to jail for something I'm really good at.
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