Stupid Laws in the UK

[aaron1867]

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?

[Doobs]

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

[Doobs]

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. 

[AndrewT]

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?

[Doobs]

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.

[DungBeetle]

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.

[MilkShake]

It is Illegal to die in the houses of parliament.

[craigbetts]

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.

[leethefish]

It is Illegal to die in the houses of parliament.

Welcome to blonde Dominic

 

[BangBang]

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In Indonesia, the penalty for masturbation is decapitation

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[Jon MW]

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.

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

[treefella]

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

[BorntoBubble]

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!

[smashedagain]

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

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

[tikay]

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

Oi Doobsy, wtf?

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