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  • #16
    where do you live? At the shooting sites of Bonanza?

    *starts wildly singing the theme music, drumming the table*
    In da butt.
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    • #17
      In York, excluding Sunday one may shoot a scotsman with a bow and arrow
      Sh...ugar, I missed an opportunity: In 1992, I had a lecture given by a scotsman.
      Why doing it the easy way if it is possible to do it complicated?

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      • #18
        About that shooting, I remember it had some other rules too, like it supposed to happen at certain hours and at certain distance. I'm not sure though.
        In da butt.
        "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
        THE UNDEFEATED SUPERCITIZEN w:4 t:2 l:1 (DON'T ASK!)
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        • #19
          I remember that my father and I were making fun of the local regulations on waste water during a carnival show.

          It is forbidden to:
          - dispose of water hotter than 35°C,
          - dispose of water with pH < 6 and pH > 8 or so,
          - dispose of water containing oils,
          - dispose of water mixed with faeces,
          - dispose of water containing peptides,
          - dispose of water containing detergents,
          and a lot more. The only legal way to use it is to open your cold water tap and let it run.
          Why doing it the easy way if it is possible to do it complicated?

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          • #20
            actually, Adalbertus, that makes lots of sense.
            urgh.NSFW

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Adalbertus
              It is forbidden to:
              - dispose of water mixed with faeces,
              - dispose of water containing detergents,
              It's illegal to flush a toilet or wash clothes in France? Ewww.
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              • #22
                It's illegal to flush a toilet or wash clothes in France? Ewww.
                ... or to wash dishes. (btw. this just was the thing we were joking about. I was going to take a shower and to go to the toilet first. In the end I said that makes me vomit (usual familiar expression in Germany) and the answer was: "anywhere where you like except into the toilet".

                Haven't heard anything of being forbidden in France. I was talking about Rottenburg near Tübingen near Stuttgart in Germany. I think the makers of these regulations never thought about what they are doing in their life.
                Why doing it the easy way if it is possible to do it complicated?

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Adalbertus
                  Haven't heard anything of being forbidden in France. I was talking about Rottenburg near Tübingen near Stuttgart in Germany.
                  Mea culpa. I must have misunderstood.
                  I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                  For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                  • #24
                    England has to have the most strange and dumb laws.
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                    • #25
                      Isn't it still legal for any resident of the City of London to drive their sheep across Tower Bridge, or something similarly stupid? Or is that just some urban legend?
                      If I'm posting here then Counterglow must be down.

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                      • #26
                        I don't know if it is or not but it should be. It causes terrible traffic jams.
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                        • #27
                          I guess that many of those "laws" are urban legends. Mine is not, I saw it in the official communal announcements.
                          Why doing it the easy way if it is possible to do it complicated?

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                          • #28
                            The English examples given are by-laws. Totally overruled by the Common Law and statutory law.
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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by PLATO1003


                              Exactly. If you have to legally protect your culture, then what real value does society place on it?
                              The point wasn't about the "value" of culture, it was that many good french groups wouldn't even exist now if this law hadn't been voted.
                              So, protectionism has advantages sometimes
                              "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind" - Gandhi

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                              • #30
                                You mean you can not shoot Scotsmen and Welsh.
                                I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                                For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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