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Australia nightclub bans staring without
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Posted By: Beardo, 8/25/2022 4:48:32 PM

An Australian nightclub is implementing a policy that bans individuals from staring at each other without prior consent of the person being stared at. Club 77, a nightclub located in Sydney’s Darlinghurst neighborhood, posted on its website that it is considered "harassment" to stare at someone without their consent and that law enforcement may be called if patrons engage in that behavior, The New York Post reported. "We operate a zero-tolerance policy on harassment of any kind," the club’s website says. "Club 77 is not a place to come to if your sole purpose is to ‘pick up’.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: marbles 8/25/2022 5:00:42 PM (No. 1259197)
How to delineate staring from looking. Ma, she/he's looking at me, make him stop,................ma ?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: F15 Gork 8/25/2022 5:10:37 PM (No. 1259203)
These are the people who fought at Gallipoli, the Somme and Verdun? What happened?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: mobyclik 8/25/2022 5:31:02 PM (No. 1259219)
At what point does 'checking out' (looking) become a stare? Will stop watches be handed out at the door with 3x5 cards listing legal stare times? Is Australia going to sink into the ocean because of an over abundance of STUPIDITY!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Moritz55 8/25/2022 5:33:47 PM (No. 1259222)
😳
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 8/25/2022 5:52:19 PM (No. 1259236)
What happens if I give Fred a stare?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: marbles 8/25/2022 6:00:25 PM (No. 1259238)
#5 He might ask you to dance.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: wilarrbie 8/25/2022 6:00:30 PM (No. 1259239)
Assuming (perhaps in error) it doesn't snow in Australia - so what do they call their 'snowflakes'. Also I'm not buying that crocodile tough guy thing anymore. Do they lift a pinky to sip their Fosters?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: columba 8/25/2022 6:48:10 PM (No. 1259264)
Staring is often unconscious.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: rocket-j-squirrel 8/25/2022 7:04:00 PM (No. 1259268)
Bèware, #5, according to #6 you might need to change your nom de plume to oniP ouL adI ( with all that backtracking you'll be forced into).
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Reply 10 - Posted by: coyote 8/25/2022 7:04:52 PM (No. 1259269)
lunacy sweeps across the land. No one knows why.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: konocti95 8/25/2022 7:26:15 PM (No. 1259277)
Tempest in a teapot. Everyone is too busy swiping at their smartphones to pay any attention to any patrons of the bar. Of course, those who don't get asked to be stared at will be offended, which will lead to the establishment of mandatory assigned staring which will be tracked by surveillance cameras. Any stareor not staring at their stareee will be fined and have to buy themselves extra beers (to be guzzled immediately) until completing the appropriate staring duration.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: EQKimball 8/25/2022 8:01:42 PM (No. 1259296)
Hillary Clinton recounts that she met Bill at Yale, where after several weeks on campus she walked up to him and said, "I figure if you are going to keep staring at me at least I ought to know your name. I'm Hillary." Young singles who go to nightclubs are actually there to see and be seen. These folks sound like Puritans.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: downnout 8/25/2022 8:40:14 PM (No. 1259330)
How long a time is allowed for one stare?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: whyyeseyec 8/25/2022 8:46:04 PM (No. 1259334)
In other words, this policy is put in place to discriminate against ugly men.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: SkeezerMcGee 8/25/2022 9:06:34 PM (No. 1259347)
This reminds of a judicial decision upholding a southern state statute that made it a CRIME for a black man to stare at any white female, including while the white female was walking on the other side of a public street.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: chumley 8/25/2022 9:27:51 PM (No. 1259365)
I agree this is dumb, but have you ever been to one of those places? I have. There is a certain kind of guy who just sits there and stares at one particular girl for minutes on end, sometimes longer. The girl makes all the "not interested" body language and the guy still stares. Its very creepy. Her friends will set up a defensive perimeter and/or confront the creep and he still stares. Nobody has any fun when all thats going on.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: slipstik 8/25/2022 10:00:08 PM (No. 1259381)
Sounds more like a church than a "club". Why bother??
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Reply 18 - Posted by: DVC 8/25/2022 11:08:09 PM (No. 1259420)
Whiners, whining. No sympathy at all. How sad.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: TexasHillCountry 8/26/2022 5:04:14 AM (No. 1259550)
Re: #5 great pun. Answer: he might take flight.
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