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Why are Japanese shaving brushes banned from Ireland?

  • 11-02-2005 03:33PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,379 ✭✭✭✭


    I was browing the Parcelforce website in the vain hope that I might find out where the hell my Nintendo DS is when I came across this in the Ireland information section;

    "Apart from the general prohibitions, the following are also prohibited: Japanese shaving brushes; items falsely bearing the markings of a Government Department; items which infringe authors' rights; goods made in prison; unseasoned celluloid; stamps and stamp impressions. Euro 48 Prohibitions: all arms and weapons, alcohol in proportions which will result in excise fees; food; gold; human remains; live animals and plants; money; personal effects; precious metals and stones; silver; works of art."

    The rest of it makes sense, but Japanese shaving brushes?


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭Chalk


    you cant post stamps?
    hahaahahahahaahah

    are japanese shving brushes like combs with razors in them?
    there probably dangerous.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,669 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Maybe the bristles are made from an endangered animal?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,300 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I looked into this peculiarity a while ago and discovered that you might get anthrax from the bristles, apparently!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Chalk wrote:
    you cant post stamps?

    bit of a contradiction in itself dont you think


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,526 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Thats only with parcelforce. They don't want to assist an post.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,133 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    Do many lads still use shaving brushes in these days of tinned foam or gel ?

    Seven Worlds will Collide



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    do many people post human remains these days??!? :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,468 ✭✭✭Lex_Diamonds


    What the hell is wrong with personal effects? OK if someone owned a particularly large poo collection then I could understand...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭tba


    Ei2JC wrote:
    Do many lads still use shaving brushes in these days of tinned foam or gel ?

    Right here buddy!
    Thats the only way to shave.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,133 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    tba wrote:
    Right here buddy!
    Thats the only way to shave.
    ...and can you still get shaving sticks (to make the lather)

    Seven Worlds will Collide



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭tba


    nah the stuff comes in tubes now. Same principal though


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