Another German PC madness

[Yahoshua]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060821/...turepicture_dc

Is it really that bad in terms of beaureaucracy there skybird?

[Gizzmoe]

What PC madness???

It´s easy to get married here as long as both are Germans. If one of them isn´t then it can get complicated, because one needs to get a few documents for the home country. If that country has a badly organized bureaucracy, well, then it can take some time.

There are about 400000 marriages per year in Germany, only "up to 1300", the article says, go to Denmark to get married. Not very much...

[Yahoshua]

Good to hear from ya Gizzmoe.....was wonderin where ya went.

[Gizzmoe]

I wasn´t gone!

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Yahoshua

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060821/...turepicture_dc

Is it really that bad in terms of beaureaucracy there skybird?

Honestly, with regard to this specific example, I do not know. but I certainly think that the bureaucracy is taking over here. The desastrous financial situation of local communities also may occasionally produce example of what only can be seen as unneeded foolishness, or simply "Mist". We have a law that prevents pictures engraved in stone, and statues being used on cemetaries. We have a law that enforce everybody to be buried on a rented peice of ground on that cemetary, so that the community can make a financial income from the death of this somebody. But my parents for example want to get ashed, and they do not want their ashes being parked on some piece of soil so that me or friends make it a shrine and travel there and think of it as something that could be mistaken with what they were. They want their ashes being put out to the wind, or into a flowing water. I like the idea. but for that I need to go to the Netherlands, and after having returned to Germany without any proof that the parental ashed have found a rest on a german cemetary, I may be confronted with a charge, and a high money penalty. Pious, isn't it?

And some time ago I wasgiven a ticket for having drivben on my bike on the wrong side of the (very wide and empty) pavement - I travelled from a lightmast where my bike was locked to the traffic light to chnage on the other side of the road. The distance was about ten meters, at best, and I had alread stopped at the traffic light when that green biker appeared from out of nowhere. Ten meters, or less, believe it.

So I wouldn't say that Germany is running short of regulations...

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Skybird

I certainly think that the bureaucracy is taking over here.

Welcome to my world.

We in the U.K. have had this for many years now, sorry Skybird if Germany is going the same way as us stand by for super red tape and mountains of paper work. The way things are going here in the U.K. I will need to fill out a form to use my own bathroom and submit that form six months before going into the bathroom.