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Pointless Laws
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Kinda inspired by the tolerance thread, where MOK stated that he believed that certain (all?) anti-discrimination laws are pointless, and that it's a change of attitude that causes change rather than laws. So what laws have you experienced that you think are pretty pointless. More a place to rant rather than have a proper debate, so don't take everything too serious (that means you, regulars). Oh, and preferably stuff that affects you personally.
One from my work which I've never got is the drink measures law where everything must legally be measured before it's poured and must be in measures of 25 or 35ml (one or the other, not both, and it doesn't apply to cocktails). I mean as long as the customer can ask beforehand how much they're gonna get, I don't see the need for strict rules. Any half-decent pub is gonna measure anyway for stock control.
So which ones have you come across. *Waits for the rush to say "all of them"*
One from my work which I've never got is the drink measures law where everything must legally be measured before it's poured and must be in measures of 25 or 35ml (one or the other, not both, and it doesn't apply to cocktails). I mean as long as the customer can ask beforehand how much they're gonna get, I don't see the need for strict rules. Any half-decent pub is gonna measure anyway for stock control.
So which ones have you come across. *Waits for the rush to say "all of them"*
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Hmm... I'm sure I've thought of one/discussed them with friends before now, silly little laws that make no sense... but I can't think...
I will be back once I've thougt. Any excuse to rant.
"MPs are not allowed to don armour in Parliament."
I can just see Tony Blair in a suit of armour during question time.
A few can be found for the UK here:
http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/international/united-kingdom/
Also has ones for other countries, like this one from Singapore:
"It is illegal to pee in an elevator."
A No Shit Sherlock Law i think. :yes:
One of the joys of going to places like Spain is ordering a drink and having the waiter pouring a generous amount directly from the bottle without any measuring bullshit. A lot cheaper too...
ETA: Spirit measure laws don't apply to cocktails, for example (a cocktail being defined by any drink with three or more ingredients).
In the state of Texas it is illegal to sell someone's eye !! WTF
"When raining, a person may not water his/her lawn."
In the American State of Wyoming: "Using a firearm to fish is strictly forbidden."
And 1 from Montana:
"It is illegal for a man and a woman to have sex in any other position other than missionary style." Boring Bastards
Tbh... If there weren't laws on the measures of alcohol, pubs could take the piss. Plus I don't think we're a nation of binge drinkers, not good.
I think there should be stricter laws regarding food labelling, so parents know that those Dairylea Lunchables are full of shit.
Pointless laws? There's one regarding knives, if you have them in public you can be arrested and charged. For example, if you use a stanleyknife in work and take it home from work in your car and get pulled over... The police search your car and find it. You technically have it in a public place and can be sent to court.
I don't understand that you can't serve more that a double in a bar but it's fine for someone to order two doubles and drink that, if that makes sense.
I don't see how. Customers are smart enough to know what they're getting. It's not as if they'd be allowed to misrepresent anything. Customers in cocktail bars don't get the piss taken out of them, so I don't see why they would in any other pub.
I think that cocktail bars are mainly middle class territories just because they're so expensive. Also, most are in the cities and you watch what you drink more in the city because you have to get home.
I'm not saying that working class people are anymore irresponsible, but if you're giving people a shitload of spirits, or inconsistant amount then people aren't able to pace themselves as much.
Why would it be an inconsistant amount? Like I said, the vast majority of pubs (or at least any that want to make money) would still measure it to control their stock. It's just mean that they couldn't be fined for daring to serve their spirits as 30ml measures rather than 25ml or 35ml, or their lager as mug fulls rather than pints if that's what they really wanted to do.
Putting a stamp upside down is considered high treason (and was punishable by death until 1998).
It's legal to shoot a Welshman within the City of Chester on any day except a sunday and anywhere but on Cathedral Close.
At least, I think it's Chester anyway.
Why n earth would anyone want to do any of these in the first place, anyway?
:thumb:
That is illegal. Vodka, Rum, Whisky and Gin have to be served in 25ml or 35ml measures. The pub has to have a sign telling you how much, and everything they put these four things in, except cocktails (defined as any single drink with 3 or more ingredients) have to be served in that measure. I think it's pointless, but if there's a pub doing what you're saying, they're breaking the law.
Nah ive not known that to happen. But supposing spirit measurements varied from pub to pub, there is more chance of being mislead by promotions.
In the 1960s it was illegal. No idea about the law on this now though.
Yeah, but wouldn't you be pissed off if you went to one pub and bought a double whisky and coke with 50mil of whiskey, then paid the same in another and got 40 mil?
No, I'd look at the measures they're using. I'd be about as pissed off if I went into one bar and a double was 50ml instead of 70ml as well, but that happens at the moment. So like most other people, I'd make sure that I went to the one that serves 70ml in future instead.