Inviting all but two of your classmates to your party, Classic, Dud, or let's get the government in...

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7479758.stm

Birthday party snub sparks debate

The case has sparked a debate in Sweden about civil liberties
An eight-year-old boy has sparked an unlikely outcry in Sweden after failing to invite two of his classmates to his birthday party.
The boy's school says he has violated the children's rights and has complained to the Swedish Parliament.
The school, in Lund, southern Sweden, argues that if invitations are handed out on school premises then it must ensure there is no discrimination.
The boy's father has lodged a complaint with the parliamentary ombudsman.
He says the two children were left out because one did not invite his son to his own party and he had fallen out with the other one.

― Mark G, Monday, 30 June 2008 09:24 (seventeen years ago)

When I was in high school a friend of mine invited me, and 2 guys we were friends with, and no one else, to her birthday.

On the monday after, in the playground, she was being surrounded by other bitchface girls in our year demanding to know what her fuckin problem was and shoving her into a wall because they didn't get invited.

If only our government had seen clear to blah blah blah.

― Trayce, Monday, 30 June 2008 09:52 (seventeen years ago)

This makes the story make much more sense - http://www.thelocal.se/12682/20080627/

― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 30 June 2008 10:24 (seventeen years ago)

Drunken Swede attempts to row home from Denmark!
Woman wins court case over elusive decimal point!
Stockholm awash with inner city children!

thelocal.se is heading to the top of my daily news feeds.

― ledge, Monday, 30 June 2008 10:28 (seventeen years ago)

Wait, alternatively invitations CAN be handed out to all the boys, OR all the girls. (With no apparent repercussions).

― aimurchie, Monday, 30 June 2008 12:22 (seventeen years ago)

thelocal has a worrying tendency to only run opinion pieces by libertarian thinktanks, usually along the lines of 'Sweden's far too much like some sort of nice place to live, they should be charging for x/spending less money on y/tax es on z are unfair', which seems a strange attitude for an ex-pat, but I haven't lived there (yet) so maybe I'm just naive.

It's good for lolSweden stories though. This is one of my favourites 'cos it's my girlfriend's hometown (also Bolton Wanderers record signing Johan Elmander) http://www.thelocal.se/6697/20070315/

― Bocken Social Scene, Monday, 30 June 2008 13:20 (seventeen years ago)

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