If we were starting from scratch, what laws would we make?

lazygal

Like, would tobacco be banned? Would abortion be legal? Would we have a TV licence fee? What would we never see the need to legislate for?

Lapin

In before the Legalise Coke & Hookers brigade.

They'll be here soon enough.



I'd like to see some laws on white collar crime introduced.

Sick of seeing people in golden circles giving the rest of us the 2 fingers while we struggle to make ends meet.

kfallon

No more TeddyTedson threads on the internet :pac:

starbelgrade

Why is grass green?

How can I fit a square peg into a round hole?

AAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!

al28283

No more apples in the vending machine
People having a conversation must be within 4 feet of eachother
Keep to the left

PieForPi

Well, this country felt it appropriate to introduce a law against blasphemy only three years ago, so I suppose protecting the church and the ears of its patrons would still be a priority and thus many other things that are illegal due to the influence of theism here would remain thus.

Ghandee

Those that have teeth should be forced (by law) to brush them at least once a week.

(some folk I know have dung beetle breath)

Tombi!

starbelgrade wrote: »

How can I fit a square peg into a round hole?

Make the peg smaller.

AnonoBoy

Full transparency and mandatory reporting by Jacob's on how they get the figs into the figrolls.

Teyla Emmagan

No more moaning about bankers. That should be a law.

brandon_flowers

Bring in the death penalty for "trackies inside your socks" offence.

Mocha Joe

€100 for every thanks you get on boards.

starbelgrade

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

Make the peg smaller.

Or the hole bigger!

Sea Sharp

Put a cap on the amount of wealth a person can have.
Make alcohol and tobacco illegal
Make weed legal
Change divorce laws so that they're more case by case assessed as opposed to just HALF!!!!

Tombi!

starbelgrade wrote: »

Or the hole bigger!

Alright, alright, I'll be over to give the bird a seeing to

Seaneh

Ban the sale of Fizzy Yellow Piss (Hieniken/Budwiser/Carlsberg/Harp/Grolsch/Fischers/Staropraman/etc) in pubs.

Diapason

Sea Sharp wrote: »

Put a cap on the amount of wealth a person can have.
Make alcohol and tobacco illegal
Make weed legal

I'd be emigrating.

starbelgrade

Sea Sharp wrote: »

Put a cap on the amount of wealth a person can have.
Make alcohol and tobacco illegal
Make weed legal

Feck off with ya... I'm not having some stoner telling me that I can't drink, smoke or have lots of money!

Sea Sharp

So it'd just be me alone in my hippy Utopia then?:(

Fr Jessup

Anyone who spits in public should get the death penalty.

syklops

Seaneh wrote: »

Ban the sale of Fizzy Yellow Piss (Hieniken/Budwiser/Carlsberg/Harp/Grolsch/Fischers/Staropraman/etc) in pubs.

Ban the putting of Staropramen and Budweiser in the same sentence.

mikemac1

Seize the oil from the Corkonians

AnonoBoy

Make sure there's enough beer at my friend Rory's 25th birthday party in 2002. We ran out at a ridiculously early hour.

Corvo

It's illegal to sleep in a caravan, even on holidays. Refusal to comply with this law means immediate deportation to the newly renovated Spike Island, complete with zombies.

Tralee does not exist and any speak of it and its deportation time again. Except you swim.

No cigarettes allowed

People who imitate a D4/Yank accent face a firing squad. No exceptions

Seaneh

Seaneh wrote: »

Ban the sale of Fizzy Yellow Piss (Hieniken/Budwiser/Carlsberg/Harp/Grolsch/Fischers/Staropraman/etc) in pubs.

Us "piss" drinkers would take to the hills, brew our own, then blast the parliament......

















.......with lager.

nacimroc

You get one chance at an ATM. Mess it up and try a second time results in instant lashing! For that matter if you don't have your pass card ready when you get to the head of the queue, your put out to pasture in griffins new spike island!

FANTAPANTS

have no kerry football side

Seaneh

syklops wrote: »

Ban the putting of Staropramen and Budweiser in the same sentence.

They are both fairly **** pale lagers.


Then again, all pale lagers are pretty ****.

Lawrence1895

- Night curfews for children
- Long term leases for houses and apartments as a standard

Gummy Panda

That I'm dictator for life

On a woman's wedding night, she has to spend it with me rubbing my belly (unless she is a swamp donkey). Like what the English did to the Scottish in Braveheart.

Rayne Wooney

I would make a law in which a hormonal pregnant woman, at any given moment, can take the hat right off a Garda's head.. and relieve themselves in this hat. They deserve it.

syklops

Seaneh wrote: »

They are both fairly **** pale lagers.


Then again, all pale lagers are pretty ****.

BOOM! head exploded.

Lets make this easier and just ban you.

Gummy Panda

syklops wrote: »

BOOM! head exploded.

Lets make this easier and just ban you.

No! No!

We make it law that Staropramen is the only beer available. That'll teach him!

frag420

Mocha Joe wrote: »

€100 for every thanks you get on boards.

If that were true then I wish I had the second post in this thread.......

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056102387

Lawrence1895

Some more to ad:

- Cut the dole for those, who refuse a job with no reason
- Jobs in the community for people on the dole, like cleaning school yards from snow and ice in the winter
- Merge the jobseeker's section of the dole office with FAS (makes it easier to find out who is willing to take a job)

Gloomtastic!

Ban any association of glass with alcohol - a deadly combination that for some bizarre reason no one has legislated against.

Silly world........

gigawatt2007

Anybody who bought a house since 2006 has the option to hand back the keys with the house being handed to someone homeless.

The person then gets to obtain another mortgage at today's rates.

Lawrence1895

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

Ban any association of glass with alcohol - a deadly combination that for some bizarre reason no one has legislated against.

Silly world........

They sell beer in plastic bottles in Germany and it's horrible.

But you get 30 cent if you bring the empty bottle or can back to the shop, some kind of recycling scheme, they have.

Jesus Shaves

Fight obesity by killing all fat people

MaxSteele

Lapin wrote: »

In before the Legalise Coke & Hookers brigade.

They'll be here soon enough.



I'd like to see some laws on white collar crime introduced.

Sick of seeing people in golden circles giving the rest of us the 2 fingers while we struggle to make ends meet.

In after the "I don't agree with personal habits which don't affect me, so ban it" brigade.

Valetta

Immediately introduce a property tax/household charge.

Otherwise what would Donalg1, Alastair, Ghandee, Gerryo777 and Tayto Lover do to keep occupied.

Sykk

All men over the age of 22 must wear one of these in public at all times.

wolfeye

No tax on your wages from work,just a consumption tax.

AskMyChocolate

starbelgrade wrote: »

Why is grass green?

How can I fit a square peg into a round hole?

AAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

Make the peg smaller.

starbelgrade wrote: »

Or the hole bigger!

Or a REALLY snazzy adaptor.

CreepingDeath

+1 for limit on personal wealth
At the heart of this is probably the stock market, distribution of profits and tax breaks. So a unified worldwide tax system would have to be put in place.

Anyone receiving the dole should work for the community, cleaning estates etc.

Actually, maybe everyone should be forced to engage in community activities at least once a month... cleaning, teaching, co-operative activities, a sort of bartering of skills to get people engaging with their community.

Bring back Gardai on the beat around communities, clipping the ears of kids/teenagers who step out of line.

Corporal punishment for minor offenses, bring back fear of the justice system.

3 strike rule for criminal offenses then off to jail

Death penalty for any drug dealing/trafficking.

fasttalkerchat

wolfeye wrote: »

No tax on your wages from work,just a consumption tax.

And everyone pays different prices? Or the rich don't pay extra tax at all?

1ZRed

kfallon wrote: »

No more TeddyTedson threads on the internet :pac:

No more cunts like you on the internet

sheesh

Well first we need a Capital

I suggest Tralee!



Secondly use of the term Irish pub world wide can only be conferred on a pub that has Had an irish person in it we can raffle out who goes to each junket.

thirdly you cannot be a TD if one of your parents were a TD 10 years or less previously.

Financial Auditors need to audit.

preddy

CreepingDeath wrote: »

+1 for limit on personal wealth
At the heart of this is probably the stock market, distribution of profits and tax breaks. So a unified worldwide tax system would have to be put in place.

Anyone receiving the dole should work for the community, cleaning estates etc.

Actually, maybe everyone should be forced to engage in community activities at least once a month... cleaning, teaching, co-operative activities, a sort of bartering of skills to get people engaging with their community.

Bring back Gardai on the beat around communities, clipping the ears of kids/teenagers who step out of line.

Corporal punishment for minor offenses, bring back fear of the justice system.

3 strike rule for criminal offenses then off to jail

Death penalty for any drug dealing/trafficking.

Sounds like you should move to north Korea and you could be living that life now!

Biggins

I would introduce a law that Canada has, all news and documentaries have to be honest and accurately factual.
No lies could be broadcast - and that would be law!
We're not too bad here as such - but it would act as a precaution to keeping the likes of America garbage Fox news and its very one sided, lying twisting outputs, off our screens.
(They (and others similar) are subsequently banned in the Canada - they tried to have the revoke the law but were told where to go!)

mikemac1

Death to the 10pm off license law