Stupid Laws

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  • 'man-spreading?' That sounds like something republican congressmen do at an airport bathroom...

    Gary-Oak posted: »

    The first arrest for "Man-spreading" has been made in New York, so I guess that's a pretty stupid law.

  • All these laws here are just....

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  • I know about Oregon from "Life Is Strange".

    Oregon: It is illegal to buy or sell marijuana, but it is legal to smoke it on your own property. Ice cream may not be eaten on Sunday

  • I'm racist and I find this Polish

    alostguy25 posted: »

    Oh and this one as well: Under the terms of the Polish Potatoes (Notification) in England Order - 2004: No person shall, in the course of bu

  • Charlie Chaplin moustaches (these days looked at as Hitler staches by pessimists and apologists) aren't really a law but considered by the general public where I live to be offensive, politically incorrect and a turn off. A friend of mine came out of state sporting one and he got dirty looks like they were going out of style even from the bar tender

  • edited September 2015

    I think ya mean "I'm from racist and I find this Poland"

    Edit: thanks I think.

    I'm racist and I find this Polish

  • In Louisiana, it's a federal law that you can't fuck an alligator... And by that, I mean it will give your dick off.

    ....okay, that's not true, but, however, stealing a crawfish or alligator can land 10 years in prison.

  • AWESOMEOAWESOMEO Banned
    edited August 2015

    Tenneesee: Students may not hold hands in school;

    Way to encourage remoteness instead of love.

    Iowa: Kisses may not last for longer than five minutes;

    lol.

    Arizona: No more than two dildos in the same house;

    ????????????

    Any laws prohibiting or condemning incest in the states and beyond;

    Just stupid.

  • What "Fantastic" thing comes from USA?

    CrazyGeorge posted: »

    Observation... Everything we love, comes out of the United States. Everywhere else... Generalizing is phun.

  • No more than two dildos? What in the hell happened that they needed to make that law.

    AWESOMEO posted: »

    Tenneesee: Students may not hold hands in school; Way to encourage remoteness instead of love. Iowa: Kisses may not last for longer th

  • The whole "stupid law" subject reminds me of an episode of American Dad.

  • Something tragic.

    No more than two dildos? What in the hell happened that they needed to make that law.

  • edited August 2015

    Well here is something interesting.
    Homosexuals always to essentially be "victims of their own nature."
    Every person has feelings, but they can still choose if they act on them, or not.
    This is true, even in regards to homosexuality.
    And one homosexual man admitted this on live tv!

    Observe.....
    ()

    In Russia being gay is punishable by death. One the stupidest laws ever and makes me lose hope in humanity.

  • edited August 2015

    Laws in my state.

    West Virginia

    • Whistling underwater is prohibited.
    • It is illegal to snooze on a train.
    • If you wear a hat inside a theater, you may be fined

    • It is legal for a male to have sex with an animal as long as it does not exceed 40 lbs.

    • A person may be placed in jail for up to six months for making fun of someone who does not accept a challenge.
    • For each act of public swearing a person shall be fined one dollar.

    City Laws in West Virginia

    Alderson- One may not walk a lion, tiger or leopard, even on a leash.

    Huntington-

    Firemen may not whistle or flirt at any woman passing a firehouse.

    It is legal to beat your wife so long as it is done in public on Sunday, on the courthouse steps.

    Nicholas County- No member of the clergy is allowed to tell jokes or humorous stories from the pulpit during a church service.

  • Whistling underwater is prohibited.

    Is that even possible? D:

    Laws in my state. West Virginia * Whistling underwater is prohibited. * * It is illegal to snooze on a train. * * If you wear

  • In York it's legal to kill a Scotsman with a bow and arrow unless its a Sunday. I think it might have been changed recently though.

  • So mom and daughters all need to share one? I'd think that would be even more perverted!

    AWESOMEO posted: »

    Something tragic.

  • I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. Homosexual shouldn't be "victims of their own nature", or shouldn't be themselves, because their harmless actions are looked down on by many societies?

    Kenny/Lee posted: »

    Well here is something interesting. Homosexuals always to essentially be "victims of their own nature." Every person has feelings, but the

  • Incest is prohibited because of genetic diseases. It should always be illegal.

    AWESOMEO posted: »

    Tenneesee: Students may not hold hands in school; Way to encourage remoteness instead of love. Iowa: Kisses may not last for longer th

  • Haha I live in West Virginia and I didn't know this until today. I don't get what's so bad about it.

    TheCatWolf posted: »

    Whistling underwater is prohibited. Is that even possible?

  • AWESOMEOAWESOMEO Banned
    edited August 2015

    That's actually unfounded. There is a popular belief that incest results in physically or mentally deformed children, although this is a vast oversimplification. Inbreeding (which may occur through incestuous or non-incestuous relations) results in an increase in homozygosity, i.e. the same allele at the same locus on both members of a chromosome pair. This occurs because close relatives are more likely to share more alleles than nonrelated individuals. If an individual has an allele linked to a congenital birth-defect, it is likely that close relatives also have this allele; a homozygote would express the congenital birth defect. If an individual does not have such an allele, a homozygote would be healthy. In small populations this dynamic would lead to an initial increase in birth defects. But if health care is limited, it is likely that such children would not reproduce; consequently, the frequencies for the allele in question would go down. Ultimately the result would be a population with a large number of homozygotes and a small number of congenital birth defects. In large populations with good health care, however, it is likely that there will be consistently high levels of heterozygosity despite periodic inbreeding. Consequently the alleles linked to congenital birth defects will remain in the population, with a significant chance of a homozygote with the linked allele.

    Besides, what does that have to do with legal consequences? If they want to have a child that will have more of a chance to have a defect, it's still their choice to have the child. The destruction of human fetuses, who are biologically human, is also permitted. There are many stupid and unfounded laws. But that's beside the point. Incest is prohibited largely because of religious zealots, social taboos and dogmatic people, not genetic defects. At least in America. If the Bible thumpers would stop thumping and actually read the damn book, they would find that there is quite a lot of incest in it.

    Skiba7671 posted: »

    Incest is prohibited because of genetic diseases. It should always be illegal.

  • So is it wrong for homosexuals to act on their feelings, but okay if its heterosexual people acting on their feelings?

    Also, would you like to have a relationship with another man? You could, it would be your choice like it was said in the video, but I wouldnt like it and I am sure no heterosexual man would like it either, so why should homosexuals choose to do that too? You posted this video as if it was the same for homosexual people to be with a person of the same gender or of the different gender. It is not the same.

    Kenny/Lee posted: »

    Well here is something interesting. Homosexuals always to essentially be "victims of their own nature." Every person has feelings, but the

  • AWESOMEOAWESOMEO Banned
    edited August 2015

    You're right, lmao. I have no idea what actually happened to lead to this law, but it's probably one hell of a story.

    WarpSpeed posted: »

    So mom and daughters all need to share one? I'd think that would be even more perverted!

  • Cant call your son/daughter nutella in france and new zealand (not sure why you would but there).

  • As a fellow West Virginian, I know as to why this is illegal. Whales mistake the sound as a mating call and they begin to invade from Virginia to get to the whistler. What results breaks the "having sex with animals under 40 lbs" law. It also causes there to be hundreds of dead whales due to them forgetting how they managed to swim through our tiny creeks.

    never forget the whale invasion of 99'!

    Haha I live in West Virginia and I didn't know this until today. I don't get what's so bad about it.

  • edited August 2015

    In Colorado, it's illegal to borrow a vacuum cleaner from your neighbor. I think the stupidity of that speaks for itself.

  • You're telling me "incest"* porn isn't at the least a tiny bit hot?

    *it's actors pretending

    Skiba7671 posted: »

    Incest is prohibited because of genetic diseases. It should always be illegal.

  • I don't know....remember that Spongebob episode?

    ralo229 posted: »

    In Colorado, it's illegal to borrow a vacuum cleaner from your neighbor. I think the stupidity of that speaks for itself.

  • What episode?

    I don't know....remember that Spongebob episode?

  • So, in a place with good health care, like America, it there would be an increase in children with these ailments? Or did I misunderstand something?

    AWESOMEO posted: »

    That's actually unfounded. There is a popular belief that incest results in physically or mentally deformed children, although this is a vas

  • California:
    1.No sticking wooden sticks up a mountain goat’s ass
    2.California Law states NO Fake Orgasms
    3.You can not beat your wife with a strap wider then 2 inches without consent.

  • This increase would be so small that it won't change much. How many people have incestual relationships? And of all of them, how many children will be deformed?

    Viva-La-Lee posted: »

    So, in a place with good health care, like America, it there would be an increase in children with these ailments? Or did I misunderstand something?

  • Murder laws are really stupid. I can't innocently take another human being's life without getting arrested.

  • I heard of a law somewhere in America that feeding or molesting alligators is prohibited by state law

  • I don't know the number or people that have incestuous relations, but if it would cause an increase in these ailments (even if small) doesn't that mean it isn't unfounded and isn't only based on religious zealotry, social taboos, and dogmatic people?

    AWESOMEO posted: »

    This increase would be so small that it won't change much. How many people have incestual relationships? And of all of them, how many children will be deformed?

  • AWESOMEOAWESOMEO Banned
    edited August 2015

    I'm pretty sure that if you ask people why it's illegal they would say something along the lines of "because that's just sick!" or "God hates it" or other similar peremptory statements, I think that the last reasoning would be that there's a chance that the offspring would have the same disease as the parents, because when people hear of incest they are just disgusted of the fact that some people fall in love with someone from their family.

    It's not like incest itself leads to deformed children, it's that if the parents are deformed, the chance for the offspring to inherit the deformation is just a little higher, because it's the same blood, so it would be almost like saying that parents with deformities that will most likely pass on through genetics shouldn't have children because the risk of the child to be deformed like them is there. I don't think we should legally stop people from consummating their relationships just because of this. Besides, the bigger problem here is that any incestuous relationship is inherently wrong, even without sexual activity.

    You could argue that there should be a law passed where if there is such a relationship then no offspring are allowed, but prohibiting incestuous relationships? Why?

    Viva-La-Lee posted: »

    I don't know the number or people that have incestuous relations, but if it would cause an increase in these ailments (even if small) doesn't that mean it isn't unfounded and isn't only based on religious zealotry, social taboos, and dogmatic people?

  • I'm all for sticking it to the religious (trust me). But even if they say something is wrong because their god says so (which is hilarious nonetheless) doesn't mean that it isn't wrong in its own rite. For instance if they say "murder is wrong because God says so," doesn't mean that it is right to murder. Same with social norms or what have you. From my limited understanding inbreeding will cause an increased likelyhood of recessive genetic deficiencies coming out in offspring, and from this I think it's fairly founded that incestual sexual relations should not be permitted (and by necessary extention, nonsexual incestuous relations). Should people know the reasons for not accepting incest? Most definitely, but I don't think knowing the correct reason for not accepting should bereason for accepting.

    AWESOMEO posted: »

    I'm pretty sure that if you ask people why it's illegal they would say something along the lines of "because that's just sick!" or "God hate

  • Self defense?

    Reconn posted: »

    Murder laws are really stupid. I can't innocently take another human being's life without getting arrested.

  • Laws in Dublin city.

    • its illegal to be drunk in a pub..
      -its illegal to smoke on Grafton street (where all the main tobacco shops are)
      -if a leprechaun turns up at your door you must, by law, give him a share of your dinner.

    This is my favourite
    -its illegal to preform witchcraft.

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