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No More Kissing at the Train Station If You Live In Cheshire

First the UK's Travel Czar, now this.

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that nobody likes a full on spot of necking to be in their line of vision first thing on a Monday morning. But is a peck on the cheek really that bad? We ask because the Independent reports that the managers of one British railway station think that it’s such a terrible thing that they’ve introduced “No Kissing” zones on the premises.

Apparently, the signs--featuring Brief Encounter-y and completely sexist silhouettes of a man in a hat and a mega-permed housewife woman puckering up--were put up last Friday to divide the carpark and taxi ranks of Warrington station in Cheshire into “Kissing” and “No Kissing” zones.

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Mexican City Elevates Kissing From Crime To Raison d'être

Lovers are once again free to lock lips in the Mexican town of Guanajuato, now that local officials have shelved a proposal that would have made public displays of affection a crime. As the LA Times points out in an amusing Valentine's Day story, the intent of the law, which was proposed by a conservative faction of the city council, was never to stifle the innocent smooches of paramours, but rather to prevent offensive displays of groping and "Olympic fondling" in view of impressionable children. Still, the wording of the law was general enough to give the faction's adversaries a tremendous opportunity, tapping into the affectionate nature of a nation whose standard greeting involves a cheek kiss.

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