Ridiculous laws
The following are the result of a survey by UKTV.
Participants were asked which laws (froma list provided) they thought were the most ridiculous.
The UK's top 10 most ridiculous British laws were listed as:
1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27%)
2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British king or queen's image upside-down (7%)
3. It is illegal for a woman to be topless in Liverpool except as a clerk in a tropical fish store (6%)
4. Eating mince pies on Christmas Day is banned(5%)
5. If someone knocks on your door in Scotland and requires the use of your toilet, you are required to let them enter (4%)
6. In the UK a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman's helmet (4%)
7. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the King, and the tail of the Queen (3.5%)
8. It is illegal not to tell the tax man anything you do not want him to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing (3%)
9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament wearing a suit of armour
10. It is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls of York, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow (2%)
The top 10 bizarre foreign laws as voted by those polled:
1. In Ohio, it is illegal to get a fish drunk (9%)
2. In Indonesia, the penalty for masturbation is decapitation (8%)
3. A male doctor in Bahrain can only examine the genitals of a woman in the reflection of a mirror (7%)
4. In Switzerland, a man may not relieve himself standing up after 10pm (6%)
5. It is illegal to be blindfolded while driving a vehicle in Alabama (6%)
6. In Florida, unmarried women who parachute on a Sunday could be jailed (6%)
7. Women in Vermont must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth (6%)
8. In Milan, it is a legal requirement to smile at all times, except during funerals or hospital visits (5%)
9. There is no age of consent in Japan (5%)
10. In France, it is illegal to name a pig Napoleon (4%)
Women in Vermont must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth - awwww
i'd like to share an interesting one. a friend of mine works as a medical doctor in pakistan army. male doctors cannot specialise in gynaecology unless they are married and the wife gives permission in writing.
Born and raised in Nawlins LOL. Moved away for about 18 years then moved back 5 years ago. Hubby working in Doha.
Yeah, they probably said no nerds on the streets so they sent you back to the bar LOL j/k. Was that your first Mardi Gras? My favorite time of the year. We ride Mardi Gras day and just love it. Oh, the sights you see and the ones you don't want to!!! LOL.
Hopefully New Orleans will come back one day only better then it was.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly worth the effort)
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (That makes my husband’s a** a weapon of mass destruction!)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. (My boss makes me squirt up to 100 feet, daily)
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy, I'm still not over the pig.)
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Do not try this at home...... try it at work.)
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. ("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes... lucky pig... can you imagine??)
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)
Butterflies taste with their feet. (And do their feet smell?)
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue (So should men have longer tongues instead of longer…….?)
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (Thank God for that!)
A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (Very good for the media, it can be brain-washed easily by the things it sees)
Starfish have no brains. (Does that make G. Bush a starfish?)
Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (What about that lucky bastard of a pig??)
As my father was a policman in Aberdeen, Scotland I was often surprised that anyone knocked on our door lol.
. If someone knocks on your door in Scotland and requires the use of your toilet, you are required to let them enter (4%) ------ Nobody can stop the pressure
oh this last year... they made us go inside the bar...
maybe it was just were i was at... hahahaha
how long you been living in Louisiana...
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just hanging out and watching dvd's with helen keller... kind of a quite night.
You can drink on the streets here anytime. Especially in New Orleans....The rule for Mardi Gras is you have to be on the sidewalks at Midnight. They have to clear the streets so the street sweepers can clean.
Yes, Geaux Tigers!!!! I was at the Alabama game this past weekend - what a heart stopper....I'll stop now so I won't hijack this thread....
its also legal to drink on the streets up until the last night of mardi gras at 12 midnight
go lsu
just hanging and watching dvd's with helen keller... kind of a quite night.
It is illegal to shoot the button off of a police officer's uniform.
Yes, this is an actual law still on the books.
The English laws are all true but not enforced of course so maybe the same goes for the ones in other countries.
In some states of America it is illigal to tie a giraffe to a lamp post!
I love the pregnant woman one! I'm tempted to go out tomorrow with a cushion stuffed up my jumper and ask a policement to use his helmet! LOL
Khadija
Allaahu Akbar
Below is the link to the BBC article.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7081038.stm
For information:
"Almost half of those asked confessed to breaking the mince pie law, which was brought in by Oliver Cromwell in the 17th Century".
I'd love an explanation of these laws. My ex boyfriends father went to Oxford University and he and a group of friends went through all the old laws of Oxford to see what they could find. They showed up at exams and refused to write until they were given their pint of beer (as promised in the rules), the Dean came in and fined them for not wearing their swords. :P
"You don't have to like me for who I am but we'll see what you're made of by what you make of me." Ani Difranco
yes those man-made ridiculous rules can be broken but you you better not be caught it you don't want to serve your time ;-)
Cheers!
*** I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places. M. Twain***
IOU and i thought rules were made to be broken...lol
do it right - the first time!
an explanation to these ridiculous rules? ;-)
Rules are made for a reason, I will check these rules if I have time, how it originates or isn't even true?
This is disturbing and yet funny, Mr. Dweller.
Cheers!
*** I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places. M. Twain***
that rule number 3 is just an internet tale it is not the law in Bahrain.
I'll even risk masturbating in Indonesia to support that :P
And as for the age of concent in Japan... (9), that is false.
It is 13 years for both male and female, which has just recently been changed to 16 for female, 18 for male.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Asia#Japan
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3. A male doctor in Bahrain can only examine the genitals of a woman in the reflection of a mirror (7%)
LOL poor doc cant touch anything :D just a solid glass
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i thought the one about the policeman s helmet was pretty cool
lol
do it right - the first time!
The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the King, and the tail of the Queen (3.5%
hmmmmmmm.. who takes the middle section ??
..**.. ""They walk among us. They vote & they even reproduce"" ..**..
2. In Indonesia, the penalty for masturbation is decapitation (8%)
---> Surely this is a wind up? I havent heard the authority practicing this law lol.