Comments on: No eros please, we’re Icelandic

By: rob

rob — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:08:55 +0000

I find the banning of the strip clubs a sad thing that people are starting down the slippery slope of censor ship, and the loss of freedom of expression.

By: Larsson

Larsson — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:08:56 +0000

As the child of an alcoholic rendezvous I entreat all to remember that babies are babies and not just statistics dragging down the state’s bottom line.

By: hildigunnur

hildigunnur — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:14:49 +0000

and again – I’m almost positive this doesn’t come from higher up than some prudish person on the board of ÁTVR. No use nor need to read more into it than it is.

By: hildigunnur

hildigunnur — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:12:45 +0000

Easy, not at all, but the kids when they start buying their alcohol have seen tons of erotic stuff already – so it doesn’t matter. I think the “kid” argument means children under 12 or something.

Pretty happy about my 18 year old not being the least interested in drinking – but she’s got a steady boyfriend…

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:09:10 +0000

I’d suggest that these might be some of the “back room” conditions of EU membership and/or IMF austerity. While the oligarchs revel in their private bacchanals, they want to keep the surfs and peasants more restricted. Puritanical Moral codes have always been a way to control the populace. The energy of sexuality is very powerful and they want to control it. Of course, as with all things, repression leads ultimately to illness, chaos and seething unrest. Oligarchs have never understood this because they themselves are ethically crippled and supremely ignorant about human nature. They tend to view people and society mechanistically. It never works, except perhaps for brief periods of time.

By: marcvdb

marcvdb — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:40:18 +0000

Maybe you should look at who owned the import rights to this particular drink. And who is importing the competition. When something is ‘odd’ there usually is something more to be told to the story.

By: Easy

Easy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:27:31 +0000

I think there are MANY other decisions the ‘Icelandic Authorities’ are making, which really are putting our liberties in jeopardy, aahh! “but don’t mess with my alcohol with sexy pictures” that is just crossing the line.

By: sylvia hikins

sylvia hikins — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:45:35 +0000

Who are these ‘Icelandic Authorities’? Do you have a legitimate committee that meets to censor things??? If so, who is on it and how do they make the decisions? Sounds like you need some accountability and transparency. Make a fuss about it. The decision is ludicrous.
sylvia from viking wirral.

By: Pétur

Pétur — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:31:59 +0000

I’d like to think of myself as a moderately open-minded Icelander and what bothers me about this case is the fact that some nameless holier-than-thou committee has the power to tell some vendor “we don’t like the look of your product. Change it or go out of business!” It’s not like the vendor has any choice in the matter – ÁTVR is a monopoly. If you can’t sell your product there – that’s it, you’re done!
It’s just absolutely amazing and saddening that something like this can happen in Iceland in the year 2010. We still have a long way to go to become a “normal nation”.

By: Rik Hardy

Rik Hardy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:08:19 +0000

No, of course kids under 20 buy alcoholic drinks – a lot.
But they don’t need the alcohol to get pregnant.
They get pregnant because they are careless about life, and that has deeper roots in our society than the availability of naughty drinks.
Personally, I’d like to see strong alcohol banned everywhere, but then I don’t drink it, so my impartiality is compromised.
But I really think some basic philosophy needs to be reintroduced into our elementary school life.
2,000 years ago, Plato actually proved that living a truly human life on pretexts other than utter selfishness works better for all human beings, whether as individuals or as a civilization.
But who cares today?
So, on the one hand, we have the deliberately careless, and, on the other, we have Frank’s busybody hypocrites, while neither group has much to recommend itself.
We need to get our own personal common sense back. It’s out there somewhere…