Scotsman beware

**graham_s** · 18th November 08, 05:23 AM

The UK has loads of laws like that.
It's one of the side-effects of having actual history ;)

**Donnie** · 18th November 08, 05:36 AM

**Carolina Kiltman** · 18th November 08, 07:03 AM

Sorta like the one in a smallish city where I once lived. still had a law on the books that every male of 16 years or older was required to carry a "musket or other fowling piece upon leaving his place of residence, to be prepared in case of attack by marauding savages." I'm not certain, but I think it may have been repealed by now.

I have also heard that Yale students are to be provided with a firkin of ale to help with final exams.

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Ah, it is things like that which make life interesting.

**Ian.MacAllan** · 18th November 08, 11:04 AM

For utter impossibility of obeying, I think it hard to beat the law requiring that, "Whenever two or more vehicles meet at an intersection, each shall come to a full stop and none shall move until the others have left."

But it's also hard to beat for indiscriminate equity.

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**McFarkus** · 18th November 08, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by graham_s

The UK has loads of laws like that.
It's one of the side-effects of having actual history ;)

I know....The mere 401 years that English settlers have been here must seem amusing. In the States we consider an 18th century house REALLY old where in the UK it's almost modern.

And you wonder why so many of us are interested in our Scots heritage!

**graham_s** · 18th November 08, 05:25 PM

In my home town, my school was founded in 1183 (30th oldest school in the world BTW), the town itself was the location of the first Scottish Parliament in 978 AD.

**Geoff Withnell** · 19th November 08, 03:13 AM

Originally Posted by McFarkus

I know....The mere 401 years that English settlers have been here must seem amusing. In the States we consider an 18th century house REALLY old where in the UK it's almost modern.

And you wonder why so many of us are interested in our Scots heritage!

The difference between Great Britain and the the USA is that in Great Britain they think of 100 miles as a long distance, and in the USA they think of 100 years as a long time.

Geoff Withnell

**Ian.MacAllan** · 19th November 08, 07:37 AM

It is truly said,"Yanks are a people who believe that 100 years is a long time, and Brits are a people who believe that 100 miles is a long distance."

Edit: Believe it or not, I really had not read Geoff's post when I made mine. Maybe I need to refresh my browser more often than every five or six hours.

Sorry, Geoff.
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