Over a year ago, the public TV 'board' that monitors and directs ARD and ZDF (the two 'big' German public networks) came out and suggested in a friendly way that the public TV forum chats needed to be 'corrected' in some way. They wanted the forums (probably around six to eight per week via the two networks) to tone down the hyped-up topics. Basically....less confrontation. This meant cutting back on anything to do with integration, migrants, and crime.
So Monday night came, and my German wife dictated that we'd be watching Hart Aber Fair via ARD, the chat forum and live show by Frank Plasberg.
The topic? Beauty treatments.
Yes, a national forum show at 9 PM....live....with five guests. It's safe to say that they found two pro-treatments, one neutral person, and two anti-treatment folks.
The one political figure? A professor-doctor-turned-politician for the SPD Party. His hype? He wants a law to forbid anyone under the age of eighteen in Germany from Botox, or any plastic surgery.
The business in Germany? Well, their numbers say it's booming....920k operations or procedures on Germans in 2018.
Sixteen year-old German girls getting boob-jobs? Well...not yet, but there's this fear that it's just around the corner and likely to become a trend.
I looked at my wife and asked what idiot parent would pay for this? Well....she responded 'rich folks, not us'.
It was successful in getting me to sleep in 30 minutes. A problem to worry about?
Here's thing....every year in August, as school starts up and the teenies all appear in the downtown area to board buses and return home.....I'm usually around and observing dress and attire. The teachers are working hard in that first week to weed out slut-attire and let the young ladies know what is acceptable and forbidden. Every year, it gets worse.
The worry about the boob-job thing starting up? Maybe they have a point. But it's sad you have to go and regulate something like this, and have people working hard to get around the law. I can see teenies crossing the border into Italy or France....to have the boob-job done there, if necessary.
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