The European Union has banned means.

I wish I were making that up, but I'm not.

The EU Parliament sometimes accused of being a useless pack of intrusive busy buddies

who sit around passing absurd regulations to enhance their own sense of power and prestige,

while having absolutely no sense of the regulations realistic effects or expenses

because the parliamentarians are out of touch elites who despise the people they're supposed to govern

and really should be tart and feathered before being tied to a rail and tossed in the zen river

then pelted with rotten vegetables as they float out of Brussels into the North Sea.

I guess I sort of lost track of where that sentence was going.

But anyway, the EU passed a law that would make it illegal to post screen grabs from movies

and TV shows on Facebook or Twitter.

This would mean Europeans or surfs and slaves, as they're now called, would not be allowed

to make those little visual slash verbal jokes that enliven the internet with their

rollicking hilarity.

In a statement issued after the ban, EU President Claus von Blunderschmuck said, quote,

although the so-called memes may appear fun and harmless, they are, in fact, the beginning

of a slippery slope that could lead to the sort of satire that mocks and belittles absurd

abuses of power like this one by petty politicos like ourselves.

We must protect the leaders of Europe from the wit of the common people.

Dutch MEP, young have dunk for brains, addressed reporters under the mousse head on the wall

it is hunting lads saying, quote, a Europe that can recklessly publish pictures and ideas

is only one dangerous step away from becoming a land of widespread artistry and free thinking.

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