We know that the a$$emblies have become more programmed every year. They did away with food service. They cut off the Great Outdoors. They want people to stay in the building now. They have signs instructing people to be quiet and keep moving. They instruct people to only use one towel (a child size towel) per hand washing, or one section about a foot long. Candy machines and outside vendors are off limits. Advertising on food and drink packages is prohibited (if you have that Coke cup, it has to go). Milling around is now tightly regulated. People are herded like cattle into sections of the auditorium despite plenty of seating in the upper levels.
Additionally, they have last year told people to keep their embarrassment badges on at all times. They also want people to stay dressed up at all times, so they can impress any passer by. This has always been the policy, but they are cracking down on it as of last summer.
And they have the perennial rule that everyone must pick a hotel from the approved list. They have more enforcement lately, with the hounders noting anyone that picks off the list and marking them. Of course, they have rules about behavior at the motel, some of them sensible (but the witlesses, being that poor, usually cannot afford enough rooms to stay legal) and others frivolous. Children are supposed to be like miniature adults in the motel as well as at the a$$embly. That way, they can place littera-trash and make a good impression on others.
What I wonder is, what additional rules are they going to start imposing? Any guesses are appreciated, as well as backed rules (anyone with the insert in the Kingdumb Misery or a transcription of a hounder talk about that, or a letter to the hounders). Hopefully, we can get the message that these things are just too much of a hassle to even bother attending. Any rules that are specific to special and/or circuit a$$emblies (Big and Great Boasting Sessions) are also helpful.
