View Full Version : Do you think we could do this in the U.S.?
Kyobanim
11-09-2006, 07:48
Maybe they should do this to our tax collectors :)
20 eunuchs start collecting taxes in IndiaDancing, singing to the beat of drums, they collect money from shopowners
PATNA, India - They are India's new tax collectors. Dancing and singing to the beat of drums, about 20 eunuchs in bright saris began going from shop to shop, asking the owners to pay overdue municipal taxes in Patna, the capital of Bihar, one of India's most impoverished and lawless states.
Full story (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15635783/)
incommin
11-09-2006, 11:14
Yes.....but the hard part would be finding 20 eunuchs......or volunteers to be eunuchs.
Jim
Kyobanim
11-09-2006, 12:59
I thought that when they took the job they immediately became eunichs.
Hahahaha. The "Chukkas" (Eunuchs) are primarily known from going house to house, asking for donations. Else they curse you.
They often make a living on tips for dancing at weddings and blessing newborn babies, and are believed to be stubborn and not take no for an answer.
This is true. A tradition is that they come around to homes with newborn babies and bless the kids, sing songs, clap their hands (all fingers spread out, a trademarked 'gang sign'). If they are not allowed to do so, again, they curse you. Letting the "Chukkas" bless your kids in some areas is considered auspicious since it protects the kids against evil intentions of others (bad 'nazar' - evil looks).
Most normal people pay them off cause they're just a nuisance and damn annoying. Having a dog at your home keeps them at bay. They generally won't enter the gate of your house and if you ignore them long enough, they moved along to the next one.
Goggles Pizano
11-09-2006, 13:51
Yes.....but the hard part would be finding 20 eunuchs......or volunteers to be eunuchs.
Jim
How about every pedophile and rapist found guilty as candidates?
x SF med
11-09-2006, 14:03
How about every pedophile and rapist found guilty as candidates?
+3 - but I'd favor complete emasculation over castration.
The Reaper
11-09-2006, 15:15
Yes.....but the hard part would be finding 20 eunuchs......or volunteers to be eunuchs.
Jim
Not in San Francisco.
Plenty of people paying good money every year to be neutered.
TR
incommin
11-09-2006, 15:16
"How about every pedophile and rapist found guilty as candidates?"__________________
You forget.... the left wing nuts are in charge now. They would never allow it!~
Jim
x SF med
11-09-2006, 17:02
Jim, what was that about left nuts? Oh, sorry left wing, nuts - yeah, they should be cut off too.
incommin
11-10-2006, 11:33
My father, member of the old Army Air Corps and US Air Force, told me a story once about loose left wing nuts......and something about a crash.....myabe there will be one, a crash that is, before '08.
Jim