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THE BLOODY CODE

SaphSaph Registered User regular
edited August 2008 in Social Entropy++
The following crimes were all punishable by death in 18th Century England

  • Coming back early from a sentence of transportation
  • Stealing a horse or sheep
  • Cutting down trees without permission
  • Damaging Westminister Bridge
  • Rape
  • Stealing from a rabbit warren
  • Being out at night with a blackened or dirty face
  • Piracy
  • Being a Homosexual
  • Treason
  • Destroying turnpike roads
  • Taking part in a riot or demonstration
  • A child between 7 and 14 years of age who shows 'strong signs of malice'
  • Murder
  • Forgery
  • Stealing goods worth more than 1 Shilling
  • Cowardice in the Army or Navy
  • Desertion from the Army or Navy
  • Mutiny in the Army or Navy
  • Impersonating a Chelsea pensioner
  • Witchcraft
  • Being in the company of Gypsies for a month
  • Wearing a disguise

What stupid laws did/does your place of birth have?

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Man, i wish I knew how to google stuff

    or wikipedia 8-)

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  • BibbleBibble __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    atheists not allowed to hold any public office

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  • World as MythWorld as Myth a breezy way to annoy serious people Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    pff, death penalty for murder

    what a silly law

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    wait, you're not seph at all

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Bibble wrote: »
    atheists not allowed to hold any public office

    You live in 21st Century America?

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    there is a law in my town that says beating your wife is legal as long as its done on the courthouse steps on a sunday

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  • SaphSaph Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    ascot wrote: »
    Man, i wish I knew how to google stuff

    or wikipedia 8-)
    I actually got this from my local museum. Lets hope I don't get killed for plagiarism.

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I am all about witchcraft.

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    fuck i was around gypsies for a couple months once

    as if that weren't punishment enough

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    OH LOOK GUYS OUTDATED LAWS STILL EXIST WE SURE WERE PRIMITIVE THEN HUH?!?!??!?!! LOL!!!!!!

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I have like...a hat.

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Saph wrote: »
    ascot wrote: »
    Man, i wish I knew how to google stuff

    or wikipedia 8-)
    I actually got this from my local museum. Lets hope I don't get killed for plagiarism.

    just as long as you reference

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    more like bitchcraft.

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Why I oughta...

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    russia doesn't have laws

    only gulags

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  • World as MythWorld as Myth a breezy way to annoy serious people Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    apparently it is illegal to walk down the street in portland with your shoes untied

    it is also illegal to wear rollerskates in any bathroom

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    i practice the ancient art of bongcraft

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  • SaphSaph Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I just found it funny that the presentation came across as like "How funny! You could've been killed for stealing a sheep!" and then I found Rape and Murder in there.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    CrackedLens wrote: »
    there is a law in my town that says beating your wife is legal as long as its done on the courthouse steps on a sunday

    time to make another daytrip honey

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    seriously, fuck gypsies. thieving cunts.


    also, in Wyoming, if you take a horse to school, it is a state law that the principal has to provide a stable and hay and water for the horse. not sure if it's enforced.

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Fallout wrote: »
    i practice the ancient art of bongcraft

    even the pros still have to practice.

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    bitchcraft sounds like a new line of hot stopic tshirts

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    hot stopit.

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  • SaphSaph Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    There is a school in my city that was founded by Henry VIII, and technically there is still a law that you will get top marks if you come dressed to an exam with your sword and military uniform.

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    It was perfectly legal in the UK to rape your wife up until like, 1990

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  • ComahawkComahawk Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Saph wrote: »
    There is a school in my city that was founded by Henry VIII, and technically there is still a law that you will get top marks if you come dressed to an exam with your sword and military uniform.

    So, why hasn't someone done this?

    Top marks for a couple hundred dollars in costuming.

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  • SaphSaph Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    ascot wrote: »
    It was perfectly legal in the UK to rape your wife up until like, 1990
    I was born in 1990!

    This explains everything

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    The New York City Transit Authority has ruled that women can ride the city subways topless. New York law dictates that if a man can be somewhere without a shirt, a woman gets the same right. The decision came after arrests of women testing the ordinance on the subways. A transit police spokesman said they would comply with the new rule, but "if they were violating any other rules, like sitting on a subway bench topless smoking a cigarette, then we would take action."




    i haven't haven't seen one instance of this rule in action >:[

    several close calls, but dammit ladies, the morning commute would be so much better if some of you took things off.

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    It's still legal to rape people here

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Jordyn wrote: »
    Fallout wrote: »
    i practice the ancient art of bongcraft

    even the pros still have to practice.

    all stirring herbal tea in my hempen robes atop my wizard tower Blunta-dûr

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Guys, you know that it's illegal in most places in America for homosexuals to get married?

    Also, in Louisiana it is legal to teach creationism as science, and in one part of Texas, school teachers can openly carry guns!

    Man those old outdated laws are so silly, I'm glad no one follows them anymore.


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  • SaphSaph Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Comahawk wrote: »
    Saph wrote: »
    There is a school in my city that was founded by Henry VIII, and technically there is still a law that you will get top marks if you come dressed to an exam with your sword and military uniform.

    So, why hasn't someone done this?

    Top marks for a couple hundred dollars in costuming.
    People do it, but the teachers just laugh at them and say 'nice try'

    It wouldn't hold up in a court of law, even if technically it should

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Zzulu wrote: »
    It's still legal to rape people here

    man, you're even behind India now

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  • JaninJanin Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    No idea if any of these are true, or email-forward fodder, but anyway:

    It is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless the target is a whale.

    No vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 miles per hour.

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Zzulu wrote: »
    It's still legal to rape people here

    and i get free money for unemployment just for living there basically right?

    S I G N - M E - U P

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    in fact, they endorse it

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    NotACrook wrote: »
    Guys, you know that it's illegal in most places in America for homosexuals to get married?

    Also, in Louisiana it is legal to teach creationism as science, and in one part of Texas, school teachers can openly carry guns!

    Man those old outdated laws are so silly, I'm glad no one follows them anymore.


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  • SaphSaph Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Faricazy wrote: »
    The New York City Transit Authority has ruled that women can ride the city subways topless. New York law dictates that if a man can be somewhere without a shirt, a woman gets the same right. The decision came after arrests of women testing the ordinance on the subways. A transit police spokesman said they would comply with the new rule, but "if they were violating any other rules, like sitting on a subway bench topless smoking a cigarette, then we would take action."




    i haven't haven't seen one instance of this rule in action >:[

    several close calls, but dammit ladies, the morning commute would be so much better if some of you took things off.
    Unfortunately nature has decreed that fat people will be the first to feel heat in a crowded space, and therefore the first to act.

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  • ascotascot Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    you can retrospectively sue a family member for causing bodily harm to you while you were still in your mother's womb

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Saph wrote: »
    Faricazy wrote: »
    The New York City Transit Authority has ruled that women can ride the city subways topless. New York law dictates that if a man can be somewhere without a shirt, a woman gets the same right. The decision came after arrests of women testing the ordinance on the subways. A transit police spokesman said they would comply with the new rule, but "if they were violating any other rules, like sitting on a subway bench topless smoking a cigarette, then we would take action."


    i haven't haven't seen one instance of this rule in action >:[

    several close calls, but dammit ladies, the morning commute would be so much better if some of you took things off.
    Unfortunately nature has decreed that fat people will be the first to feel heat in a crowded space, and therefore the first to act.
    you know what

    the ratio of nice titties to horrible titties during the morning commute skews pretty heavily in the favor of nice titties, so i am willing to take the chance

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