Mixed-Sex Pool Halls Shut Down In Iran

IOL ^ | 11-1-2003

[blam]

Mixed-sex pool halls shut down in Iran

November 01 2003 at 03:55PM

Tehran - Ten billiards clubs found to have been allowing mixed-sex games have been closed down in the Iranian capital, the Jam-e Jaam newspaper reported on Saturday.

The paper said the clubs, shut down last week, had been caught breaking the Islamic republic's strict rules on gender segregation late at night.

Snooker, billiards and pool clubs have only recently been opening in Iran, after a ban on the pastime was lifted. But the games remain banned in two of the country's 28 provinces, on the grounds that they could lead to gambling.

[stevem]

Either you are closing your eyes to situation you do not wish to acknowledge,

Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster,

Indicated by the presence of a pool hall in your community,

Wellll...you've got trouble my friends,

Right here I said trouble right here in...

[blam]

Should alienate a few more Iranian youth to Islam.

[AmishDude]

Mixed-sex pool halls in Iran? How are they dressed? Leather, studded burkas?

[billorites]

I say, first, medicinal wine from a teaspoon,
Then beer from a bottle.
An' the next thing ya know,
Your son is playin' for money
In a pinch-back suit.
And list'nin to some big out-a-town Jasper
Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin'.

[billorites]

And all week long your Tehran City
Youth'll be frittern away,
I say your young men'll be frittern!
Frittern away their noontime, suppertime, choretime too!
Get the ball in the pocket,
Never mind gittin' Dandelions pulled
Or the screen door patched or the truckbomb loaded.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[Heatseeker]

LOL! You guys made my day.

"In other Iranian news, the noted middle eastern singer Lida Rose held a concert in downtown Tehran, where scandalous dancing broke out to ancient Iranian folk songs such as "Shipoopi". :)

[billorites]

Are certain words creeping into his conversation?
Words like "swell?"
And "so's your Imam?"
Well, if so my friends,
Ya got trouble,
Right here in Tehran city!
With a capital "T"
And that rhymes with "P"
And that stands for Pool.

[isom35]

ahh the marvels and wonders of the 21st century :)

[Deathmonger]

We got trouble, right here in River City, with a capital 'T' and that rhymes with 'P' and that stands for "Pool"...

[Pan_Yans Wife]

ping

[Cyrus the Great]

Isolating the population, more and more..

A very pro-Western youth ready to explode--Mullahs are stupid for not allowing some large concessions.

[AnalogReigns]

on the grounds that they could lead to gambling.

Sounds like why the baptists don't allow sex among young people--it could lead to dancing...