Dont knock our legal system
With our legal system ( or parts of it ...... 28 days , 56 days , or is it 250 days , you know what i'm on about ) currently being so topical , should we also be debating in parliament , the follolwing laws which has not been repealed
- Prohibition on perishing within the palace of westminster
- It is an act of treason to use a postage stamp upside down
- Women are banned from going topless in public , in Liverpool ; unless they are clerks in a tropical fish shop.
( by the way are there any women in liverpool that one would wish to see topless ?... just asking )
- it is illegal to eat a mince pie on christmas day
( courtesy of Oliver Cromwell )
- If someone needing the toilet knocks on your door in scotland , you are required to let them in
- pregnant women are allowed to pee anywhere - even in a policeman's helmet
- the head of any dead whale found on the british coast automatically becomes the property of the king , and the tail the property of the queen
- it is illegal not to tell the taxman anything you do not want him to know , but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing
- it is illegal to enter the houses of parliament wearing a suit of armour
- it is legal to murder a scotsman within the ancient city walls of York , but only If he is carrying a bow and arrow ( Has anyone spotted that so unfunny Billy Connoly in york recently , carrying a bow and arrow ?)