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NZ, the country blessed with enough water to drown your donut, has decided to ban sales of incandescent light bulbs (for house lighting) after 2009. The energy minister (a misnomer in NZ if there ever was one) says only 5% of the power they use is produced as light, the rest is lost as heat. So far so good.
New Zealanders will be allowed to import incandescent light bulbs for personal use. You can imagine the scene at Customs...
Her Majesties uniformed officer; Excuse me sir, but are these 2 dozen 65watt bulbs for your personal use?
Scumbag in torn jeans, carrying his worldly possessions in a sugarbag pikou; er yeah I mean you know whatareya you know aah ya fuckin pig i use the bloody things everyday whattya got against me ya arsehole? My house blows them about one a fuckin month so I need lots.
HMO; Oh excuse me , sir, I'm sorry I asked.
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HMO; Listen shitface, you're off for a body search to see how many you've concealed internally. Pheeep!!!
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Scumbag; listen you jerk yu probbly got heating. I gotta light up nine of those just to heat up my effing boodwar.
HMO; Well, why don't you burn your floorboards like the rest of youse unemployed arseholes?
For those ignoramus among you, a sugarbag is a light jute sack to hold 20kilos of sugar. Probably made for single use but they last for years. 30 years. Tie string from one corner to the other diagonally, repeat crosswise, drape it over your shoulders and it's a pikou, aka daypack.
Australia will ban personal imports of incandy lightbulbs so their Customs won't have the pleasure of these questions.
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Some years ago there was a huge smuggling business from Canada into the US. In toilets. The US had mandated low-flow toilets in all new construction; which meant of course that if you take a proper shit, you have to flush 2 or 3 times to get the job done. In Canada, they still had full capacity bogs, and they commenced to trickle across the border in car trunks (boots?).