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Obviously, Berkeley, CA, is a hilarious place to be. TDS (The Daily Show) team certainly thinks so. And there’s a reason for that. For those who have no concept of what I’m talking about, the Berkeley people have strongly encouraged the Marine’s recruitment office in their town to cease to exist. That is, after all, the true meaning of the word “democracy”. Click below for the full story.

In case you have kids…

And here’s a short video from a mock-crime fighting series called “Reno 911″:

Well, what can you say. Lots of places these days are trying to put up English signs even though they can’t hire a person who would actually translate them into real English. So, here’s an example of what happens (as seen at the Kosice indoor swimming pool facility).

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SWIMMING POOL’S RULES

The pool enter is allowed only with valid ticket (daily or prepaid). The swimming pool can be visited in agreement with with valid schedule for several days in a week. Time period of visit is 1 hour + 20min for dressing up. If the visitor will this time period overpass, he will pay the charge in amount of every started hour.

If the swimming pool is full occupied, the headman is allowed to close the enter and stop ticket selling until the pool release.

Children younger than 10 years must be in company with parents or person older than 18 years (maximum three children per person).

On coming to dressing room is every visitor obliged to unboot and in area of dressing room and swimming pool can move only without shoes. Every visitor lay aside his top clothes, shoes, bag to dressing box, close the pulley and take the elastic circlet with the key on his wrist. In case of key loss the deposit will not be refund.

In the pool room the visitor takes only things necessary for swimming. Before the pool enter every visitor is obliged to wash without swimming dress with soap in the shower. It is banned to bring any glass objects — bottles, glasses, shampoos in the area of swimming pool.

In time of staying in the pool and the area of pool is every visitor obliged to abide by life-guard and observe the written rules, instructions and prohibitions on the hanging boards. In time of swimming can visitors use swimming glasses, diving glasses, diving equipment and breathing pipe so, as they dont endanger other pool visitors.

Every visitor is due to save the pool’s equipment, save the water and use the shower only in the time period of necessary. Advise the headman, life-guard or person in the dressing room of behavior of somebody in contradiction of the pool’s rules. The visitor is obliged to stand every loss in the pool’s equipment or the other visitors’ holding in the full amount.

Administration of the swimming pool is not responsible for any injury and hurts of the visitor which are caused by own carelessness or unfair the rules.

If the life-guard do not direct different, the pool jumpings are allowed only from the “starting blocks” side.

Nonswimmers can restrain only in 25m pool with depth of 130-160cm. For smaller children is needed to use swimming waist, air wheel or other protective subjects for swimming.

IT IS FORBIDDEN:

To enter the pool to people with infection disease, skin disease, having emissions, wounds or other desease, when the pool visiting is not suitable for the esthetic or sanitary reasons and also drunk people.

To mutually dive, throw others to the water, run, scream, and any other way obstruct and endanger other visitors. To move out of dedicated area, to restrain in the building of the swimming pool out of opening hours. To pollute the water, pool and other areas of the swimming pool’s building.

Every visitor will be ejected with no money-back if do not keep the rules, do not keep the instrucitons of the pool’s responsible workers or behaves other disturbing manner. We would like to thank you, that you will keep these rules by your swimming pool Mestska kryta plavaren visit and so dulcify the stay to you and other visitors.

I’m not a racist, but I think color does sometimes matter a lot in life. I’m sure you know what I mean. And I think it’s good that it is this way. After all, it’s a tradition. A matter of consensus. That can’t be bad. Read the rest…