european kissing vote

Its time to vote again and what fun it is in Tilling. You go into
the Centre Culturel and kiss the bloke sitting at a table and give
him your polling card.
Then you kiss everyone standing around the table.
You pick up the list that you plan to vote for and in a curtained
booth you fold it up and put it in the little envelope that the
bloke at the table has given you. You come out and kiss the
newcomers.
Then you stand in a line to put your envelope in the box above -
as you can see, it is transparent and placed in a hole in another
table. Everyone standing about is kissed. Another bloke takes
your card, picks up the list of etrangers and finds your name -
you sign it upside down. Then you kiss him and go to the vide
grenier at Fa.

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Anyone catch the red dwarf last night?
I'm curious because I don't know what its supposed to be like
and what I saw I thought was probably an hallucination due
sobriety and the lateness of the hour. It looked like a green
and gold phoenix, a tiny glittering thing with a long tail.