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Why hasn't anyone just made completely random/silly laws for the fun of it?


Waist of Thyme

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Waist of Thyme

If I were authority, I'd have laws like:

-All places that sell something have to sell gummy bears, regardless of what kind of products they sell. Whether it's a grocery store, a college bookstore, a sex shop, a car lot, or whatever else, gummy bears must be sold. If a store neglects to follow this, no money for the store. They have to give away anything for free until they put gummy bears on the shelves.

-If you play a board game with others, there's a ritual before you start where you all rub each others' cheeks.

-If a couple gets married and at least one of them is female, the cake icing for their wedding cake has to be the female(s)'s menstrual blood.

-I'll have a DJ around me whenever I give speeches. Every time I mention a vegetable in a speech (this includes using the word vegetable itself), the DJ will play a randomly selected song for the entire nation to hear. The speech will resume after the song. The speeches themselves will also be mostly nonsense.

-If you own a calculator and someone asks "Can I borrow your calculator?" you must instead give them a stethoscope. If you don't have a stethoscope, awkwardly pat them on the head.

Seriously, I find it hard to comprehend that throughout the entirety of human history, there hasn't been a single leader who would make laws like this just for amusement. If I became in charge, I'd definitely want to make those kinds of laws. It would be so much fun ^_^ I'd do any number of silly things and it would be like having action figures or dolls, or playing Sims.

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HermioneGranger

Well, I like the gummy bear law. I've been known to walk around to the offices of coworkers and randomly solicit gummy bears.

When you have a craving, you have a craving.

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SorryNotSorry

US legislators make silly laws all the time.

Runaway capitalism has transformed the US into a mafia state, dontcha know.

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Waist of Thyme

I would not vote for you.

I was assuming I was a dictator who didn't come to power through being voted for.

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Maybe a dictator would be better off not pushing their luck too far. Stupid laws would let the public know that you're possibly insane, which could lead to an uprising. People in your government would probably doubt your sanity/capability as leader, which could result in a coup.

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Come live in England. I think you'll find your theory will be blown out of the water ;)

Having said that, the powers that be tend to make them for serious reasons :blink:

Lets see: How's about we don't let paramedics help save a drowning mans life, a man who has had a heart attack and fallen in to a shallow stream, because they aren't really supposed to go into water. That is less than one foot deep. Because they might drown.

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Emperor Caligula of Rome did silly stuff all the time, like appointing his horse a consul and a priest. He was assassinated.

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Before it was a law here that every man HAD to go outside of the realm and fight in battle AND rape every sixth year or something. That is pretty fucked up >.<

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Lets see: How's about we don't let paramedics help save a drowning mans life, a man who has had a heart attack and fallen in to a shallow stream, because they aren't really supposed to go into water. That is less than one foot deep. Because they might drown.

While I agree with your sentiment about the stupidity of that incident a few months back, technically it wasn't a stupid law that caused it, but rather the stupid, petty-minded, H&S obsessed bureaucracy that we seem to be cursed with in our fair country...

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Waist of Thyme

Maybe a dictator would be better off not pushing their luck too far. Stupid laws would let the public know that you're possibly insane, which could lead to an uprising. People in your government would probably doubt your sanity/capability as leader, which could result in a coup.

It's a somewhat smaller country, I have hundreds of tanks, and I myself am personally armed with a rocket launcher and can move so fast that I break sound.

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Lets see: How's about we don't let paramedics help save a drowning mans life, a man who has had a heart attack and fallen in to a shallow stream, because they aren't really supposed to go into water. That is less than one foot deep. Because they might drown.

While I agree with your sentiment about the stupidity of that incident a few months back, technically it wasn't a stupid law that caused it, but rather the stupid, petty-minded, H&S obsessed bureaucracy that we seem to be cursed with in our fair country...

Yeah, you're right, and I think that makes it more scary. It was essentially a flimsy rule and not a law.

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