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Started by MV/Liberace!, June 20, 2014, 04:56:20 PM

jazmunda

In Australia only licensed electricians are allowed to change a light bulb even in private residence.

I have broken this law many times.

MV/Liberace!

Quote from: jazmunda on May 21, 2015, 01:16:40 AM
In Australia only licensed electricians are allowed to change a light bulb even in private residence.

I have broken this law many times.

reported.

MV/Liberace!

The furniture and decorations of a church in the Czech Republic are made with human bones.

MV/Liberace!

Eastern skunk cabbage not only stinks, but can melt the snow around it.

jazmunda

Quote from: MV on May 22, 2015, 11:09:56 AM
Eastern skunk cabbage not only stinks, but can melt the snow around it.

I swear that my wife must be feeding this stuff to my infant daughter.

jazmunda

In Australia you can actually get fined if you walk away from your car ā€ˇwithout locking it.

http://www.allianz.com.au/car-insurance/news/fine-for-an-unlocked-car

albrecht

Quote from: jazmunda on May 21, 2015, 01:16:40 AM
In Australia only licensed electricians are allowed to change a light bulb even in private residence.

I have broken this law many times.
The unlocked car fine and "is cursing at sheep ok" controversy I can believe- but not this. Are you serious? I could see some government or school  or even business coming up with this ridiculous provision to make work and protect against perceived threats of lawsuits but in private home??

jazmunda

Quote from: albrecht on May 24, 2015, 06:05:34 PM
The unlocked car fine and "is cursing at sheep ok" controversy I can believe- but not this. Are you serious? I could see some government or school  or even business coming up with this ridiculous provision to make work and protect against perceived threats of lawsuits but in private home??

It is true but it is only in the state where I live. It's one of the those old laws that has never been changed. I've heard the fine ranges from $10 to $100.

jazmunda

Apparently it is also illegal to wear a disguise without a lawful excuse and it is also illegal to roam the streets wearing black clothes, felt shoes and black shoe polish on your face as these items are the tools of a cat burglar.


wr250

Quote from: jazmunda on May 24, 2015, 06:15:35 PM
Apparently it is also illegal to wear a disguise without a lawful excuse and it is also illegal to roam the streets wearing black clothes, felt shoes and black shoe polish on your face as these items are the tools of a cat burglar.
you mean like this?

albrecht

Quote from: jazmunda on May 24, 2015, 06:12:18 PM
It is true but it is only in the state where I live. It's one of the those old laws that has never been changed. I've heard the fine ranges from $10 to $100.
I wonder if the police have ever tried to use it as an "excuse" to get inside someone's house or get a criminal for something they suspect of doing other crimes but can't prove it?
Scenario:
Your Honor, we entered Jazmunda's property to endeavor to see if any light bulbs have been changed. Upon entry and checking latent prints on lightbulbs we noticed a laptop in clear view of the light-bulb in question. searching his laptop we discovered references to porn of an equine nature and posts on a board critical of an iHeartMedia, Inc mustachioed radio personality in violation of -redacted due to its secret nature- of provisions of the Trans Pacific Partnership in addition to Australian law.......to wit iHeart Media and the Crown demand financial recompense and remand to prison for no more than 5 years. With additional fine of $100 for changing not just one light-bulb but several. Jazmunda is a clearly scoff-law and the public deserves to know that light-bulb changing is a serious offense.

jazmunda

Quote from: albrecht on May 24, 2015, 06:32:51 PM
I wonder if the police have ever tried to use it as an "excuse" to get inside someone's house or get a criminal for something they suspect of doing other crimes but can't prove it?
Scenario:
Your Honor, we entered Jazmunda's property to endeavor to see if any light bulbs have been changed. Upon entry and checking latent prints on lightbulbs we noticed a laptop in clear view of the light-bulb in question. searching his laptop we discovered references to porn of an equine nature and posts on a board critical of an iHeartMedia, Inc mustachioed radio personality in violation of -redacted due to its secret nature- of provisions of the Trans Pacific Partnership in addition to Australian law.......to wit iHeart Media and the Crown demand financial recompense and remand to prison for no more than 5 years. With additional fine of $100 for changing not just one light-bulb but several. Jazmunda is a clearly scoff-law and the public deserves to know that light-bulb changing is a serious offense.

This could happen.

twiki

I once found out the hard way that it is illegal to jump the queue on the Tube in London.

BobGrau

Quote from: twiki on June 03, 2015, 06:56:46 PM
I once found out the hard way that it is illegal to jump the queue on the Tube in London.

You mean you survived getting held down and shot seven times in the head?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/seven-mistakes-that-cost-de-menezes-his-life-1064466.html

Daggit

According to the law in Oregon drivers may not pump their own gas.

b_dubb

Woody Harrelson's dad was a contract killer

zeebo

Quote from: Daggit on June 06, 2015, 10:50:09 PM
According to the law in Oregon drivers may not pump their own gas.

I can confirm this as true.  And the requirement is estimated to cost around 4 cents per gal.

zeebo

The sun contains 99% of the mass of the solar system.

ItsOver

Quote from: b_dubb on June 07, 2015, 12:14:43 AM
Woody Harrelson's dad was a contract killer
...who was convicted of killing a federal judge.

ItsOver

Quote from: jazmunda on May 24, 2015, 06:15:35 PM
Apparently it is also illegal to wear a disguise without a lawful excuse and it is also illegal to roam the streets wearing black clothes, felt shoes and black shoe polish on your face as these items are the tools of a cat burglar.
Black shoe polish on your face...what about on top of your head?

Quote from: zeebo on June 07, 2015, 09:10:57 PM
I can confirm this as true.  And the requirement is estimated to cost around 4 cents per gal.

I guess that's what the service station attendant was talking about in Oregon when I filled up.  I had taken the bus down to California to pick up a car, a 1984 non aspirated 300zx, and was just getting used to their rules of paying before you pump.  We do the same in British Columbia now, but not then. 

I crossed the line into Oregon in my big frikken' empty U-Haul, pulling my barely serviceable freshly purchased car on a trailer.  I had expected to drive it up the same weekend I bussed down.  Instead I spent a week in California while the seller (a good guy) and his shady mechanic friend tried to reassemble it -- but that's another story.  Then I ended up with one of the bigger U-Haul trucks because that's all I could get on short notice.  I had never driven anything like that before.

Anyway, I pulled up alongside a rather desolate gas pump island in my monstrosity of a rig with California plates and went off searching for someone to pay before I filled up.  Keep in mind I had already been driving about 400 miles leaving behind the notorious California heat wave of 2006.  I found this old codger who seemed to have materialized out of nothing in the middle of the island, like he was right out of a movie where someone finds the only living soul along a country backroad in the middle of nowhere.  I offered my money not really knowing if he worked there, with a confused expression on my face.

He took one long look and said "This your first time buying gas in Oregon, son?"

I said "<gulp> yes sir"

He said "Well son, we do things a little differently here than them sissy Californians"

Okay, he didn't say 'son' and the part after that was a fabrication, but I realized it wasn't that interesting of a punchline half way through and tried to give it more character.  The joy is in the telling, right?

bateman

Quote from: Daggit on June 06, 2015, 10:50:09 PM
According to the law in Oregon drivers may not pump their own gas.

Jersey too. The first time I drove out to Pennsylvania at 17 or so, I sat at a pump for a good 15 minutes wondering where the hell the attendant was.

Lt.Uhura

Who knew there was once a "Miss Magic Marker"??

In 2000, the US government had $524 billion in cash in circulation. Today, "There was approximately $1.37 trillion in circulation as of June 4, 2015, of which $1.32 trillion was in Federal Reserve notes. "


Eddie Coyle


   Due solely to cable news, there are now 3,226,719,448 more experts than there were in 1985.

ShayP

A pack of rats is called a 'mischief'.

Yorkshire pud

The polygraph and three colour traffic signals were both invented by US police officers. The polygraph inventor (Larson) had a PhD.

Yorkshire pud

Albert Einstein invented the electro magnetic pump which he believed would make refrigerators safer. Today they're used in nuclear power plants to pump coolant around.

Quote from: b_dubb on June 07, 2015, 12:14:43 AM
Woody Harrelson's dad was a contract killer

I knew Woody's acting in Natural Born Killers was more than method.

It's fucking genetic.

Speaking of Einstein, he admitted that the term relativity was an unfortunate choice and would have preferred the term Invariantentheory*.

I couldn't agree more, since the ~thrust~ of general and special relativity is that physical laws should apply for everyone, independent of their reference frame.

*letter to E. Zschimmer, 30 SEP 1921.


Holy Ghosts

Quote from: Lt.Uhura on June 10, 2015, 03:51:42 AM
Who knew there was once a "Miss Magic Marker"??
Am I the only person who finds Miss Magic Marker to be extremely hot?

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