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Half of UK disregard green man when crossing the road - what laws do you break daily?

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    Frosty McSnowballs
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    If its yellow let it mellow, if its brown flush it down


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    minidazzler
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    Rules of the Road..... but only the ones I don't agree with.


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    Dravokivich
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    What small laws do you break daily?

    Just thermodynamics.


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    MadsL
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    Think before you post.


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    mikemac1
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    I live with the shame of no TV licence :)

    Eamonn Gilmore has outsmarted me though with his new broadcasting tax
    * shakes fist *


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    mutley18
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    The law of gravity, I float around all day in my shopping trolley like a boss.


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    redtapestyl
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    I haven't broken any laws Garda.


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    fasttalkerchat
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    I don't think Jay-walking is illegal here.


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    MadsL
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    fasttalkerchat wrote: »
    I don't think Jay-walking is illegal here.

    It is.


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    Roger_007
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    mutley18 wrote: »
    The law of gravity, I float around all day in my shopping trolley like a boss.
    I tried breaking that law......I was out of hospital in just three weeks.:o


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    lahalane
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    I'm not falling for this again...


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    #13
    Czarcasm
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    Blasphemy


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    Dravokivich
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    MadsL wrote: »
    It is.

    It can't be if pedestrians always have priority. Unless, you're thinking of your "here."


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    Mickey H
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Nearly half of British adults often ignore the green man when crossing the road

    http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/09/06/green-man-gets-red-light/

    What small laws do you break daily?

    Aren't they the bastards. What will they be at next? Selling drugs? Riding whores? Where will it end? 'Tis terrible Joe... :D


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    MadsL
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    Dravokivich wrote: »
    It can't be if pedestrians always have priority. Unless, you're thinking of your "here."

    http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/si/0182.html#zzsi182y1997a46


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    Dravokivich
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    MadsL wrote: »
    http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/si/0182.html#zzsi182y1997a46

    I'll be honest and say I've never read over that before. But I think the comment I made, would be more relevant to section 8.3 of it. As in a possible misrepresentation of what 8.3 refers to when it says:

    "A driver of a vehicle approaching a road junction shall yield the right of way to another vehicle which has commenced to turn or cross at the junction in accordance with these Regulations and to a pedestrian who has commenced to cross at the junction in accordance with these Regulations."

    "At the junction" appears to be something amiss, with regards to common conversation on the matter.


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    MadsL
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    Dravokivich wrote: »
    I'll be honest and say I've never read over that before. But I think the comment I made, would be more relevant to section 8.3 of it. As in a possible misrepresentation of what 8.3 refers to when it says:

    "A driver of a vehicle approaching a road junction shall yield the right of way to another vehicle which has commenced to turn or cross at the junction in accordance with these Regulations and to a pedestrian who has commenced to cross at the junction in accordance with these Regulations."

    "At the junction" appears to be something amiss, with regards to common conversation on the matter.

    I thonk it makes it clear enough that pedestrians do not have absolute right of way. Crossing the road within (I think) 50 feet of a pedestrian crossing (but not on it) is also an offence.


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    Nothing. Everything like crossing the street and drinking beer in public is legal over here :D.

    (Well, okay, maybe not the first one, but seriously? Not even the Germans give a ****...)

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    Royal Legend
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Nearly half of British adults often ignore the green man when crossing the road

    http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/09/06/green-man-gets-red-light/

    What small laws do you break daily?

    Just goes to prove what an ignorant racist society they live in. Still I suppose at least we have not heard of any green men been stabbed to death yet.


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    MadsL
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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Nothing. Everything like crossing the street and drinking beer in public is legal over here :D.

    (Well, okay, maybe not the first one, but seriously? Not even the Germans give a ****...)

    Errm. Hate to burst your bubble....not in Dublin

    Intoxicating Liquor Bye-laws under the Local Government Act 2001 came into effect on 1st October 2008. The Bye-laws prohibit the consumption of intoxicating liquor on roads and in public places within the city of Dublin.


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    Mr Benevolent
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    I have always flaunted the Maximum Penis Size laws.


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    MadsL wrote: »
    Errm. Hate to burst your bubble....not in Dublin

    Intoxicating Liquor Bye-laws under the Local Government Act 2001 came into effect on 1st October 2008. The Bye-laws prohibit the consumption of intoxicating liquor on roads and in public places within the city of Dublin.

    Dublin?! Dublin?! Hah! Ahahahahha................h............................































    Dublin, he sez....... :D

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    MadsL
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    In the words of Robocop...I don't make the laws...


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    IvaBigWun
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    Mr Benevolent wrote: »
    I have always flaunted the Maximum Penis Size laws.

    No comment.


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    MadsL wrote: »
    In the words of Robocop...I don't make the laws...

    Ah, seriously... "Dublin"... ah, the **** you come out with.... :D:D

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    bnt
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    I'm so used to jaywalking in Dublin and the UK, that I found myself doing it in New York, where the cops are infamously harsh on the practice. Luckily no cop was around, and I found that the traffic lights in Manhattan operate on a much shorter time cycle, so it wasn't actually necessary to jaywalk.

    I have to do it in Dublin centre, otherwise too much time is wasted waiting for the lights to change. London's not quite as bad, but I try to avoid it in the city centre, purely in the interests of safety.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    MadsL
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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Ah, seriously... "Dublin"... ah, the **** you come out with.... :D:D

    Well the simple truth is you are not allowed to drink in public or jaywalk in Dublin, if you don't believe me just go look at the streets for yourself....


    ...never mind.


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    Czarcasm
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    MadsL wrote: »
    Well the simple truth is you are not allowed to drink in public or jaywalk in Dublin, if you don't believe me just go look at the streets for yourself....


    ...never mind.


    Yep, I got told off by staff outside the badass cafe in temple bar when I went out for a smoke with a bottle of bud in my hand, this was a few years ago now. More recently I was nearly ran over by a Dublin bus as I was crossing O' Connell street, I misjudged the time it'd take me to get across and the bus came out of nowhere...

    The words my mother said to me as a child came back to haunt me-

    "Always wear clean underwear, you never know you might get hit by a bus".

    Pointless advice really, given that I'd practically soiled myself at the sight of the bus coming towards me.


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    Jester252
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    I'll cross the road when no traffic is around without waiting for the red man to turn. What gets under my skin is when people are beside a zebra crossing or lights and don't use them. I'm looking you lady who walked out in front of my car after I had just past a zebra crossing.

    To the group of student that refused to use the lights during rush hour, when I walked passed ye up to the lights and waited for them to turn and crossed the road while ye where still waited until the traffic had come to a full stop slightly down the road to cross it because fcuk the man. Who than went to cross the road as the lights turn forcing a driver and cyclist to make a emergency stop. Two days after someone else was knocked down for doing the same thing.
    Feck ye.

    As for other small laws I have broken. Drunk in public but tbf most people have broken that law


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    Jester252
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    Czarcasm wrote: »
    Yep, I got told off by staff outside the badass cafe in temple bar when I went out for a smoke with a bottle of bud in my hand, this was a few years ago now.

    That not very badass of them


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