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Gross encounters

IT has been reported that Japanese authorities are considering a move to ban women from applying make-up on trains.

According to a story in Grazia magazine, commuters are getting fed up with declining standards of social etiquette on the country's public transport and there are claims the practice is unhygienic.

I don't know about you, but judging by the behaviour on trains and buses across these fair shores, I suspect fellow passengers putting on a bit of slap is the least of the Japanese commuter's worries.

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