January 9, 2008

Funny, Bunny!

So, I decided to ask the Playboy Online Store whether they ship to Austria. Here's the reply:

We regret that we can not fulfill requests for products to be shipped to your country. The Playboy Online Store, and Playboy Enterprises, Inc. have no control over product restrictions and censorship imposed for import of Playboy products into foreign countries.


Well, I'm not aware of restrictions or censorship that would keep Playboy magazine out of the country (my subscription usually arrives on time), and I really, really wonder what exactly the restrictions are we have in Austria that they don't have in countries the Playboy Online Store ships to like Germany, Italy or the UK. (The latter, as far as I know, is rather more restrictive when it comes to pornography than Austria.) So, I asked them about these restrictions. I wonder what reply I'm going to get to that.

Personally, I suspect the problem is really more along the lines that the average Playboy Bunny wouldn't know what continent a country as small as Austria is on, let alone find it on a map.

Wow, aside from the fact that it is about the wonders of globalization at not work and that I'm going to claim I was hoping to buy the "Playboy - 50 Years of Cartoons" book as a birthday present for my girlfriend right about just a second ago, this post is a totally non-odd, sane rant.

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