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I have found two really stupid ones.

I was queuing in a shop and some guy had got loads of random crap from around the shop and I mean it was random! But along with his spray tan, endless amounts of pasta, there was also painkillers and apparently you are not allowed to buy so many of these, ya knows, just in case ya guna top ya self? But why is this stupid? Because you can just go next door and buy the limit again! Stupid!

Another one I found that I couldn't believe is that you are not allowed to pay for things that are mor ethan 10/20p with pennies! What a stupid law that is!

Any more?

More suggests you have found one already ;)

The second one is just wrong.  The shopkeeper can refuse to accept pennies once you get above 20p.  But given shops have to pay for getting change from the bank, you'd struggle to find one that would choose not to take as many pennies as they can.

The first is never going to stop every suicide.  But just by stopping people buying 100 paracetamol at once it is going to mean some potential paracetamol overdosers are made to try a bit harder/haven't got the means to carry out an immediate suicide. 

I don't thing many people have a pressing need for 100 paracetamol by contrast. 

Yeah, the paracetemol one is simply that in going from chemist 1 to chemist 2, the potential suicidee's desire for a vodkacetemol cocktail passes.

With pennies, I actually noticed yesterday that I get far less bronze coins in change these days (as measured by the coins I take out of my pocket in the evening and don't pick up again the next morning). Have prices of things changed without my really noticing that things are not .99 any more, but more .95, and prices in general are rounded to the nearest 5p rather than 1p?

At the risk of becoming known as a tikay clone, I was reading the other day that £1 is the new 99p.  Supermarkets are now allegedly pricing more items at exactly one pound in response to the competition from £1 shops.  I also noticed in some cafe/bar or other as i was getting rid of my change that everything ended in 5p or 10p.  Guess he wouldn't have been as grateful for all the coppers as I used to be when I worked in a shop!

Guess it is part an inflation thing too.

The 99p idea was to make sure staff couldn't steal takings so easily.  If you sell at 99p you need to ring the till to get the 1p change out.  Selling for £1 it is easier to just pocket the pound without using the till.

It is Illegal to die in the houses of parliament.

I randomly found this out today as I am heading there soonish.

No food or drink can be consumed in the houses of parliament, exception is the Chancellor may have an alcoholic beverage whilst delivering the budget.

Welcome to blonde Dominic

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Just googled stupid Laws and found this one...

In Indonesia, the penalty for masturbation is decapitation

Blondes do not visit Indonesia and log onto Amatays fit older women thread...

I think that's the floor of the Commons rather than the Houses of Parliament but close enough

'No Fishing'
Just hate this one. How can anyone own a river ffs

similar to the paracetamol one aaron i saw a sainburys refuse to sell tinfoil once... It was 10pm on a friday night this poor girl refused to sell this guy tin foil for his "cake" no back up from security this ..... obvious druggy was going psyco at her poor girl i thought it was wrong for her to be left in that position!

can't fish this Friday but can on Saturday the glorious 16th

" at the risk of becoming a tikay clone".......

Oi Doobsy, wtf?

Good job you are a valued Client of mine.......

I think the point of the paracetamol limit is simply to lessen the chance of someone having a fatal dose amount in their house.

Exactly that. Perhaps not ideally framed, but well intended. Everything has a reason.

It's illegal to kick your granny while she's shaving.

I'm still a little confused about the "decapitation".

Blimey good job no one was watching!

Exactly this.
More than well intended it has significantly reduced suicide via paracetamol overdose since its introduction

Apparently i'm not allowed to brutally murder people who get on my nerves.

What's that all about? :/

When did this law get passed?!? What a joke they will let any old laws through nowadays!!

I get 200 paracetamol per prescription from my GP. I tried overdosing on them but fely better after taking two :)

Yup. It is easy to just say things are "stupid", but eveything is done for a reason, & sometimes it's worth investing a little thought into the "I wonder why?" area. To be fair, when I was a young man, I thought knew everything, & may well have expressed a similar view. 

I get shoals of communications saying we do stuff ridiculously badly, "stupidly" or whatever, next door. And I guess we do sometimes, like the complainers, we ain't perfect.

One wrote & called me a "complete moron" (thanks mate), because we had "Happy Hour" promotion (double cash for points sort of thing) at the wrong hours of the day. I wrote & asked him how he came to that conclusion, & I confess I did so a little tongue in cheek.  He replied - "cos u do it wen the sight is at it's quitest".

I did not have the heart to explain the teeny weeny flaw in his thought process.

I do think it is too easy just to say things are "stupid", negativity is so much easier than putting a positive spin on things.

I also think that maybe I should not post such contrary views early in the morning, when my grumpy-meter is set to max.

I'll get me coat.

I have absolutely no idea why that law ever came into place. Anybody know?

"anyone who dies in Parliament is technically entitled to a state funeral and the law is in place to ensure this does not happen.

However, a spokesman for the House of Commons said: "The people who know about these things here say there is no basis for such a law, not to say it does not exist somewhere in writing.""

so it probably doesn't actually exist - but if it does that's the reason

Here is a stupid lawmaker proposing a stupid law

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18434112

I thought our internet use was monitored already. You know, the fight against terrorism / drugs / espionage / treason etc...

No?

i was under the same impression also that certain phrases or sentances were monitored! mabye someone who knows a bit more about this could ellaborate!!!

It was a bit more complex than that but that's pretty much the system that was used for telecommunications pre-internet. It's a reasonable assumption that it was extended to the internet.

The difference is that the quantity of electronic communication that's available now is gigantically bigger than it was pre-internet - also there are a lot of channels that are encrypted, and de-crypting and monitoring would push the processing 'cost' even higher; and some encryption isn't really hackable in real team. All in all there's probably too much to use the same system.

I would guess that they probably use the same system of monitoring that they were starting to use when encryption over the net and other telecommunications systems were starting to get really hard, which is more to look at the flow of data to look for suspicious points then target the more sophisticated processing once they find areas which are more likely to yield results.

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Can you dumb your answer down a bit Jon. Are they motoring the average Joe or not.

as far as i am aware w e are all monitored by key words  such as my last post! (http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/war/bomb.gif) (http://www.sherv.net/bomb-emoticon-461.html)  being one of them

although i suspect its a lot more sophisticated these days.

probably not because I don't think even the Americans have the capacity. But if their NSA has been given enough money then they might do - but nobody looks at the data until it's suspicious even if they do - it's all analysed by computer programmes.

From Wiki
Transaction data mining
NSA is reported to use its computing capability to analyze "transactional" data that it regularly acquires from other government agencies, which gather it under their own jurisdictional authorities. As part of this effort, NSA now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card transactions and travel and telephone records, according to current and former intelligence officials interviewed by the Wall Street Journal

This is the analysis they do - if they have the money they will also be doing it for international data. GCHQ is our version and they have less money and less computers, but that's also what they do - all the NATO countries share their data anyway.