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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2003-05-08

"'All staff are fully trained,' Stephen Boyd, the deputy manager, said grimly on a recent day. 'They know exactly what to do if there's a sudden outbreak of dancing in here.'"

(The context: it's from a New York Times story about fines for bars that allow dancing without having a public entertainment license, in London: "[...] deputy manager of one bar says it is his job to decide if customer is really dancing, or only swaying".)

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posted by [identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com at 09:25am on 2003-05-08
*blink* "allow dancing without a public entertainment license"?!

Maybe someone should talk to Renee and Alex about this.

Sheesh.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 11:07am on 2003-05-08
What gets me is that, if I'm reading it correctly, the purpose of the law and the fines is to control the amount of extra noise the establishments for dancing produce. So the fine distinction of whether a customer is "swaying" or "dancing" as they make their way to the bar shouldn't matter as long as the sound isn't turned up too high. "Sheesh" indeed!

Though it does remind me of the joke about why Baptists won't have sex standing up. (It might lead to dancing.)
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