…what is even this word salad of a title?
In American, that’s bachelor and bachelorette parties.
What is?
Stag and hen dos.
So is it a Stag Do and a Hen Do respectively?
Yup.
No Bucks/Hens nights was one of my rules as a pub bouncer. It’s always trouble. It’s mostly a group of friends out for a piss up and extremely bad behaviour at the expense of other patrons enjoyment.
a ban that was introduced several years ago in Barcelona to little effect as offenders are mainly tourists who fly home without paying the fines.
So you make them pay before leaving jail.
Or provide collateral. And chuck them on a wanted list for the EU. If they ever return, they get detained and have to pay and sent home.
I’m pretty sure dutch tourists will just get the fined forwarded to them through the CJIB (the Dutch fine collection authority). So fleeing the country does not help.
They don’t do a “wanted list” for murderers, I don’t think they’re going to do that for some drunken tourist that was dressed like a penis
What you talking bout Willis?
Europol has wanted lists, and just recently dutch wanted goons where arrested in Spain. If anything there is more need to European cooperation on the apprehension of criminals and border control… not less.
There are many cases where murderers were allowed to leave the country under the "pinky promise I will come back "
For example Rassoul Bissoultanov
The Spanish system is overburdened and someone is finally judged guilty after years and years. Meanwhile, if leave the country, good luck finding them again.
They can’t manage for murders and robberies, adding block lists for petty crimes would only exacerbate the situation
Looking it up, the fine is UP TO €300 in Barcelona. They could say “pay now, get 50% off, pay later and pay the full 300”
Or vice versa… now is 300 of we have to collect in the uk via a collection agency it will be 450.
I’ll bet plenty of collection agencies will collect that for 100 euro
What’s a hen do?
Mostly just walks around clucking and eating corn off the ground.
Lay eggs, mostly.
It’s what the English call a bachelorette party apparently.
A devotee of Vishnu. /s
Bachelorette party.
Hen = female
Do = party
A stag do is the male equivalent. In the UK & Ireland the word “do” is used often for social gatherings or events. Like a “work do” means you’re going out for drinks or whatever with colleagues from your workplace.
You heard them. No human genitals.
Bring a gigantic dragon dance horse cock.
As someone with Hyperphantasia, this is the comment of the day for me.
So instead of a mouth that opens and closes…
It specifically says human genitals. 😏
Dresses up like a horse cock
I can’t tell you how happy it would make me to drive down the street and see someone in a giant penis costume walking around.
That would brighten my day no question.
Stupid Spain.
Now picture in your mind that, again, and again, and again and it’s now the 20th time this month.
There are no cool things that cannot be spoiled by being done all the time, relentlessly.
Also in my experience - having lived in Britain - the brits doing this stuff actually behave even worse outside their own country than in Britain (which is quiet shocking if you’re familiar with Friday and Saturday nights in areas like Essex) - British hen and stag dues are expected to be extreme nowadays and they get worse when abroad in the kind of place that’s just a cheap flight away from most of Britain and is comparitivelly much cheaper, because the kind of Britons you get there couldn’t give a rats arse about what foreigners think (Brexit didn’t happen in a vacuum and the whole idea that “Brits are superior” is definitelly common in Britain, especially England) so their behaviour abroad is even more unrestrained than in their own country and not just in this kind of dress-like-a-cock way (which IMHO is fine, even if it gets old after a while) but they’re very loud at all hours of the day and night, and prone to fights and breaking things.
(In the context of Europe, Brits are pretty bad in how they handle drinking since they’re prone to binge drinking rather than having habitual moderate drinking - such as normally having a beer or a glass of wine with lunch - so not only do they really go for getting drunk as fast and as hard as possible in those traditional two days a week of going out and getting pissed but also, funnilly enough, by not drinking in a moderate way the rest of the week they don’t have the same capability of handling their booze as many other Europeans)
I suspect what they did in this town is more some kind of half-arsed pushback against that more general behaviour problem of loudness, rowdiness and destructivness than the actual costumes, only in trying to balance the interests of the hotel and bar owners with those of the people who do not make a living from the cheap side of the Tourism Industry, they came up with this “trick” to try and make it less appealing for hen and stag dues or at least for the ones with the more rowdy crowds.
The bylaws also prohibit going shirtless or in a bikini in areas away from the beach, a ban that was introduced several years ago in Barcelona to little effect as offenders are mainly tourists who fly home without paying the fines.
That’s easy to solve. You confiscate the passport until the fine is paid. Or arrest them and hold them without bond as a flight risk. The last time I got a speeding ticket–about 15 years ago, I think–I was in Ohio, and driving home to Illinois. The cop took my license, and said they’d mail it back once I paid the fine.
Quick edit: I’m not talking about cash bail here; that’s a separate issue. Bond can be refused when a suspect is deemed to be unlikely to show up for court, such as the suspect being a foreign national. This happens regularly, and isn’t particularly controversial. A person that is a citizen and resident of a foreign country is very likely to skip out on criminal penalties, therefore they shouldn’t be permitted to leave without paying their criminal fines.
In the US, the only way a government ID can be confiscated is if it’s provably fake. This is akin to debtors prison, a practice that has been outlawed in much of the civilized world for good reason. I get the sentiment, but there are better ways to enforce.
100% false, because as I said I’ve had it happen to me. States can, and do, do this.
Some important context here is that this is an effort to deal with terribly behaving British tourists, since the same bylaw also bans walking around nude or only in underwear. In addition to just being terrible tourists generally, there’s a history of British tourists treating Spanish beaches like their personal vacationing grounds and not a different country where other people live and speak a different language.
went to Benidorm on a lads holiday in my early 20s, can confirm it was just like a warm day in Swindon.
Fuck, there goes my weekend.
