We Are Off Early Today As We Are Going Out,

so I was going to go straight to today's post,

but having seem both of these I just had to put them on, the first concerns some one with way too much time on their hands, the manager of a pub in the UK decided to hold a ‘Ugliest Woman’ contest, all went well until some muppet complained to the police that it was sexist to hold such a contest, the complainant demanded the competition be cancelled and wanted the owners of Islay Inn in Glasgow be prosecuted under the full force of the law,


the police who take this sort of case very seriously indeed sent out two female officers from Maryhill Police Station, but it all ended up in laughter, the contest to find the uglist women was only open to men who dressed in drag! Manager George Hogg said, 'I have no idea who made the complaint and the police wouldn’t tell me - but if he or she had bothered to read the advert properly, they would have realised that it was not ugly women we were looking for - but ugly men dressed up as women',


several customers posted comments, saying a competition for ugly men would not have been met with the same reaction, Andrew Parr wrote: ‘ridiculous getting the police involved, some people are pathetic', Mark McCarrick added: ‘as if our overstretched police service haven’t got enough to do without being bothered by some silly complaint, I bet the silly fart wouldn’t have moaned had it been an ugly man competition',

although the competition has been allowed to take place, Strathclyde Police confirmed to the MailOnline that an enquiry into the complaint is still ongoing, I suspect some one else complained as the competition is only open to men!

 

one of the things I enjoy when we go back to the UK is the street markets, covered or open air, the banter from the stall holders added significantly to the atmosphere, but this pleasure has been banned in a covered market in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire Council imposed new rules on 'call off' without any discussion, the term is used when traders shout out prices of good for sale, much as people on street corners would when they sell newspapers, typically calling off would be used as a sales pitch when goods are coming to the end of their sell by date, but now stallholders can only 'call off' after 1pm on Saturday, the market is open six days a week and for the rest of the time all shouting is banned,


there is a new cry that stall holders should be shouting, as trader Simon Stanley says, 'its not supermarkets that are closing markets, its local councils!' he has been taken to court, banned from his market for three months and hit with a £980 legal bill, Simon Stanley's offence was to shout out his prices at his indoor market stall, well done North Lincolnshire Council for potentially bankrupting him as he goes about his daily work.