Petty, small minded little laws?

[Luddite]

and The Sunfor reading matter'
2 (a)) Without page three.

The Sun

Front cover - young celebrity in her panties
Page 2 - Kill the peodos
Page 3 - Phwooaar...have a bang of the tits on that.  Chelsea is 16 today eh?  You would wouldn't you?
Pages 4 to 14 - Kill the peodos
Pages 15-17 - Up yours Delors!  Europeans are all monsters.
Pages 18-20 - Kill the Muslims.
Page 21-30 - Sport.  With tits.

The sooner this filthy Murdoch rag is closed down the better.

[Leon]

If you're in the UK then register on the Mailing Preference Service Website http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/ and the Telephone Preference Service website (for junk calls) http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/tps/index.html

It definitely works - takes a month or so then junk mail will stop from any 'legitimate' company.

The TPS is decent, although it won't stop all the calls unfortunately.  It only covers companies who are directly selling you something, and only those within the UK.  We still get piles of market research, PPI , 'had an accident', bank charges, etc. etc.

2.  It is illegal for TV stations to make the adverts 120 decibels louder than the programmes its transmitting.

3.  It is illegal for a (typically feminine pointless smellies product) manufacturer to put the following on its adverts; '67% of 14 women agree'.  IF its using statistics to back up its ridiculous, lying claims about the new 'madeupetrese' or 'handwavium' ingredient, it has to have a scientifically conducted survey of at least 10,000 random people.

Yep, those two bug me sufficiently enough to be passed as law. 

[goat major]

3.  It is illegal for a (typically feminine pointless smellies product) manufacturer to put the following on its adverts; '67% of 14 women agree'.  IF its using statistics to back up its ridiculous, lying claims about the new 'madeupetrese' or 'handwavium' ingredient, it has to have a scientifically conducted survey of at least 10,000 random people.

absolutely agree as well. What they also don't tell you is that there is nothing stopping the small number of people surveyed from being employees/relatives/drinking buddies of the company selling the product - which is why the results are invariably good. Try reading Bad Science by Ben Goldacre for a very entertaining critique of this sort of nonsense

[Luddite]

I drive the wife mad with my 'TV shouting'.


'Look!  36% of 8 women agree!!  They've just passed it round the office and a couple of them said it wasn't bad...'


Illiciting the usual scowl and 'will you shut up about those bloody advert?!' from my better half.

[peterdong]

Peter - all three of those ARE.....

Enforcing it is the problem - particularly from international locations.

Should make debt collection agencies illegal.

IanS

Are you sure they are illegal in the states?
Everyday, at least 5 people i don't know come to the door. 

[Nosher]

Got to love TV shouts

Mine are usually at biased rugby presenters like Jonathan Davies, Brian Moore and Mike Stephenson and any kissball player/pundit/manager as they all spout meaningless drivel.

I drive the good lady mad with my 'virtually ref' commentary of rugby/cricket matches. That said I am 9 times out 10 saying what the commentator says five seconds later. Always knew I chose the wrong career path

[Leon]

Are you sure they are illegal in the states?
Everyday, at least 5 people i don't know come to the door. 

Have you tried answering the door topless with a bloody knife in one hand and a chicken in the other?   

[goat major]

that might start to attract even less desirable visitors

[goat major]

Right... further heinous crimes

- Farmers who drive tractors along main roads to get from one field to another during rush hour

- The driving of jeeps/hummers/land rovers etc by people who clearly live in towns. To apply to own a 4x4 you must prove you own a field.

[Leveller Mutineer]

1. Reading the Daily Mail
2. Believing what's written in the Daily Mail
3. Telling other people what you read in the Daily Mail

[Leveller Mutineer]

Or

1. Starting a sentence with "I'm not racist, but.....".  Because we all know what's coming next.
2. The 'comments' section attached to stories on news websites.  If I wanted ill-informed, bigoted, idiotic comments from dullards whose only skill is the ability to use a computer keyboard without any knowledge of grammar, spelling or the way sentences are constructed, I'd go down the pub.
3. An upward inflection at the end of a sentence when it's NOT a question.

[goat major]

3. An upward inflection at the end of a sentence when it's NOT a question.

three cheers for that man!!!

[Leveller Mutineer]

Or even..

I work in a shop.

1. Anyone who walks into a small independently owned shop and attempts to pay for an item priced under a pound with a twenty pound note.  Especially first thing in the morning.
2. Anyone who lets me get halfway through putting their items through the till before they realize that there's four other items they need.  No that's ok everyone else behind you can wait.
3. After asking all those questions, saying that you'll be back when you've got some money.  WHO GOES SHOPPING WITHOUT MONEY!!!  You've got all our advice for nothing now you're off to the shop down the road.  We know you are.  Last time you did it I followed you.

All punishable by death through the Californian method (continual poking in the genitals by the blunt end of a surf board).

[Leon]

To apply to own a 4x4 you must prove you own a field.

I was living out in the sticks in Cornwall when I bought it... 

[Rob]

- The driving of jeeps/hummers/land rovers etc by people who clearly live in towns. To apply to own a 4x4 you must prove you own a field.

All persons who have nothing better to do do than be critical of other peoples love affairs with a gorgeous vehicle should immediatly be given a frontal lobotomy and and have all their fingers chopped off so that they can no longer be so tedious. 

bloody cheek