Try that in America and see what happens.

I have people in my rural neighborhood that refused to hook up to the local sewer when it started, opting instead for their private septic systems.

Jeez if only all laws could be shot down because they’re really difficult to enforce. Although then we’d have no prohibition on drugs AT ALL. Jack-holes!

“If I lived in the U.K., I’d give serious thought to telling the government to stick their tax up their royal fannies and tune in through iTunes or Pirate Bay.”

Regardless of what they say, the TV police over there will still nail you with a fine if you have a TV that’s even capable of picking up a signal (they have vans they use to sweep neighborhoods and they compare what they find to their national database which tracks license holders). The burden of proof’s on you to show that you’re not pirating cable if you’ve got a TV capable of receiving the BBC or any other channel. The hassle of proving your innocence isn’t even worth the L135.

P.S. By the way, “fannies” doesn’t mean the same thing over there that it does here…it refers to a different body part over there :)

Yes, I realize that the US was never the perfect Utopian republic but at least we had laws which made sense and were used to hold all peoples regardless of their status accountable for their actions.

Where has the American can-do spirit gone, was it left on the moon?

So … how long before they enact a computer tax?

“You need a TV licence to use any television receiving equipment such as a TV set, set-top box, video or DVD recorder, computer or mobile phone to watch or record TV programmes as they are being shown on TV”-BBC website

Wonder if you would need a special license for a Slingbox-like setup?

I am kidding. I am just so tired of being told where I can puff and what I can and cannot put into my pipe bowl. The anti-smoking zealots are having a heyday with this big ol gov’ment.

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But banning it? When I am fully aware that it’s not healthy and I want to eat it anyway? For my own good? Why?

The money seizure is too much. If there is no proof that the money is dirty, why assume that it is? There is no law against someone carrying that sum of money around.

Partially that’s because the standers set for accepting applications to become an officer have been lowered both mentally and physically. This is why your seeing an increase in women officers. 20 years ago they wouldn’t have fit the height requirements for most offices.

My husbands father was an officer for 20+ years and he actually looked into becoming one himself. His Dad actually said he probably would have been accepted. He passed the written portion of the test applicants are given with flying colors but, He has a medical issue with his shoulder though and they actually said he couldn’t be hired as an patrol officer, but could start off in the penitently. Thankfully he declined their offer.