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Scrambled Password Bogus Email
11:38 / 05.02.04
Must go to York with a bow and arrow. But not on Sunday, natch
 
 
Jub
12:02 / 05.02.04
Hm. Some of these are a bit out of date. It's illegal to have anal sex? There's reference to that in Bridget Jones Diary (film) and I can't imagine Hugh Grant doing anything sexually illegal! That came out 3 or 4 years ago, so it must have been changed before then.

I think they changed the law on suicide being illegal too.

As for the Carrots thing, that is definitely not true anymore - although I seem to remember (just before they changed the Sunday trading laws) that warehouse furniture shops sold a bag of carrots for thousands of pounds with a free sofa thrown in! crafty crafty.
 
 
Scrambled Password Bogus Email
12:29 / 05.02.04
Yes, and one can only assume that it is, actually, against the law to shoot Scottish men in York with a bow and arrow.

On any day of the week. Even in a leap year.
 
 
gingerbop
21:52 / 05.02.04
What Bridget Jones said was "do you know that thing we just did is actually illegal in several countries? (I dont know why the prime minister doesnt mention it more in his speeches)" Not illegal here. I presume. And no, I havent watched that film too many times and can churn off the majority of the script. Humm...
 
 
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22:04 / 05.02.04
Well, I read some time ago that anal sex is mainly legal, but anal sex with your wife is a capital offence. Anyone else's wife is fair game. This probably isn't true as even the Piracy and Treason death penalties were phased out a few years ago.
 
 
Mistoffelees
12:54 / 07.03.06
It was on the news today, that dying is illegal in the Westminster-Palace.

Reason: the dead would be entitled to a state funeral!

But the officials bypass the law. If you remove the body before the death certificate is written, the above entitlement is void.

It´s also illegal to wear platemail or to ride cows while drunk in the palace.

There are 28.000 laws in Britain, written before 1801, that are still valid. Another example: the "Town Police Act" says, it´s illegal, to walk on ice, to let kites fly or to continually ring the bell of your neighbours.

That´s all from a book by a Nigel Cawthorne.
 
 
pointless & uncalled for
13:19 / 07.03.06
It's illegal to have an abortion in the state of South Dakota unless it is specifically to save the life of the mother.

That sounds pretty dumb and arcane to me.
 
  
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