The Daily Habit: World News
Wear a Helmet Get a Free Ride- BERLIN - Boy, those crazy Europeans are one step ahead of the game, aren’t they? It’s like every new fad that’s super cool and hip starts over there and ends up trickling it’s way across the globe. First it was vomit porn in Japan after the young, hip generation took control and started marketing nudity and queer fetishes on a global perspective. Then it was that quasi pricey Ikea furniture that the Swedes couldn’t give away at one time or another, but now all of a sudden everybody wants to go there and buy things they don’t want or need. The Germans are doing it way better though. Everybody there is helping to save the environment by wearing a bicycle helmet, the only thing is you wont be riding a bike, and it’s pretty close to being free.
A Berlin brothel has come up with a fun new way to hump through the global economic crisis and target a new group of customers at the same time: By offering a discount to regulars who drive over on bicycles. Anybody who wants to get laid and shows up on bicycle or takes public transportation gets a 5-euro ($7) discount from the usual 70-euro ($100) fee for 45 minute romp with a happy ending, and apparently it’s working. “The recession has hit our industry very hard,” said the owner of one place, “no pun intended, and nobdy wants to pay big bucks for something they could get at home for free. Obviously we hope that hump discount will attract more people. We have around 3-5 new customers coming in daily to take advantage of the discount, but we’d like to see a hell of a lot more” (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090713/od_nm/us_brothel_odd).
Coincidentally, Germany is one of the few countries left in the world where good old fashioned prostitution is 100% legal. There are roughly 400,000 proud prostitutes who have been allowed to enter formal labor contracts with standard percs like health insurance, free STD testing, stock options, paid vacations and unemployment when the paying johns get tired of tapping the same old holes. So, next time you feeling like jumping on your bicylce, wear a helmet to a whore house in Germany where the best kinds of rides are toally legal and damn near free.
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