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If you could break one law and get away with it,what would it be?

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  • #32
    ShowMeTheCash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭ShowMeTheCash


    Dave0301 wrote: »
    Technically it is a theory...
    But Newton's "Law" of gravitation is still technically a law.

    Gravity is the phenomenon. Einstein's theory of general relativity describes the reason for the phenomenon. Newton's​ Law describes the magnitude of the "force" between two point masses.

    Could be very wrong of course :D[/QUOTE]

    Gravity is the theory behind the phenomenon. The reason it is a theory is technically is not proven... we see the effects, but Gravity acts very different when we look at the sub atomic or quantum mechanics so not fully understood.


  • #33
    Cordell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,643 ✭✭✭Cordell


    But Newton's "Law" of gravitation is still technically a law
    Will it still apply post brexit?


  • #34
    ShowMeTheCash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭ShowMeTheCash


    Cordell wrote: »
    Will it still apply post brexit?

    Apparently the Brits are taking gravity with them!


  • #35
    DanMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭DanMurphy


    I'd love to scatter those Council bollards, about a mile of them.
    I was sorely tempted yesterday to 'clip an' scatter' a line of them on the road between Kildare and Thurles!

    One of these days ole Dan'll be to darn old to resist !


  • #36
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Toots wrote: »
    I'll take that but change bank to the mint. Drive my ass out of there with a pallet of €500s and enjoy the rest of my debt free life :pac:

    Yes. That would be my choice too.


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  • #37
    BBDBB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    to post in Boards prison forum unfettered


  • #38
    76544567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭76544567


    I break hundreds of laws every day, as do we all.
    No end of people to warn me what I'm doing is against the law and I'll be got. Never happened yet though.
    It's only against the law if you get caught, charged and convicted.
    If you can just keep it to not getting caught then all the better.
    I'm gonna watch the walking dead on an android box tonight. I'm shaking, but I'll chance it.


  • #39
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,808 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Time travel to meet my younger self (usually an unbreakable temporal law).

    With some Euromillions numbers.

    The universe might fold in on itself and blink out of existence, but at least I'd be rich.


  • #40
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    ShowMeTheCash wrote: »
    Gravity is the phenomenon. Einstein's theory of general relativity describes the reason for the phenomenon. Newton's​ Law describes the magnitude of the "force" between two point masses.

    Could be very wrong of course :D



    In scientific speak - theories always remain theories, it just means explanation. A theory can't be upgraded to a law. Laws are fundamental relationships, theories flesh out the details of those laws.

    The general everyday usage of the word theory as in a hunch or an inkling, in science speak is called a hypothesis.

    The law I'd like to break is Murphy's law. For once I'd like something that could go wrong, not to - just to see what that's like for a change:mad:


  • #41
    Lyle Lanley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Lyle Lanley


    Why'd the guy who said rape get such a hard time but the people saying murder are fine?

    Strange world we're living in.


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  • #42
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Lyle Lanley wrote: »
    Why'd the guy who said rape get such a hard time but the people saying murder are fine?

    Strange world we're living in.


    Blazing saddles, when they're interviewing outlaws

    So what crimes ya been commiting.

    Murder, rape, robbery, rape.

    You said rape twice.

    I like rape

    You couldn't make a film like that these days, doesn't mean it wasn't funny though:D


  • #43
    ilkhanid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭ilkhanid


    Genocide..obviously.

    Only joking.
    It would have to be drug offences. Mad to try those strange outre ones like mescalin.


  • #44
    Hannibal_Smith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 7,709 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hannibal_Smith


    Mr E wrote: »
    Time travel to meet my younger self (usually an unbreakable temporal law).

    With some Euromillions numbers.

    The universe might fold in on itself and blink out of existence, but at least I'd be rich.

    I read the first line of your post thinking, awww that's a lovely peaceful way of breaking the law. Getting rich without causing harm or damage. Then I got to the final sentence :pac:


  • #45
    tkd93
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 348 ✭✭tkd93


    callaway92 wrote: »
    How can you even have the head to write a 'joke' like that.
    Never understood this. Poster few comments above wants to murder multiple people and no one seems to have an issue with that? Murder is alot worst then rape.


  • #46
    slovakchick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 200 ✭✭slovakchick


    Genocide


  • #47
    please helpThank YOU
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭please helpThank YOU


    Fly over Afghanistan With all my Enemies and drop them out of the plane parachuting into the Taliban.


  • #48
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    please helpThank YOU wrote: »
    Fly over Afghanistan With all my Enemies and drop them out of the plane parachuting into the Taliban.

    What law is that?


  • #49
    triple nipple
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭triple nipple


    callaway92 wrote:
    How can you even have the head to write a 'joke' like that.

    Who said he was joking?


  • #50
    puppieperson1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 301 ✭✭puppieperson1


    ethnic cleansing of the newest ethnic minority for crimes against animals particularly horses and dogs !!


  • #51
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Why are some crimes ok, like genocide, murdering (identifiable) people and beastiality, but others are not, like rape.

    My moral compass has bent in on itself and i'm not sure which direction to point towards.


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  • #52
    slovakchick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 200 ✭✭slovakchick


    Sandra Embarrassed Womanhood wrote: »
    Why are some crimes ok, like genocide, murdering (identifiable) people and beastiality, but others are not, like rape.

    My moral compass has bent in on itself and i'm not sure which direction to point towards.
    Because any man can be a rapist but not any man can commit genocide, too close to home


  • #53
    please helpThank YOU
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭please helpThank YOU


    Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    What law is that?
    :cool:Murphy Law:cool:.


  • #54
    kleefarr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,739 ✭✭✭kleefarr


    Smoke a big fat spliff in front of the Chief Commissioner.


  • #55
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    please helpThank YOU wrote: »
    :cool:Murphy Law:cool:.

    Riiiight so.


  • #56
    please helpThank YOU
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭please helpThank YOU


    kleefarr wrote: »
    Smoke a big fat spliff in front of the Chief Commissioner.
    Who Noirin o Sullivan:P.


  • #57
    Allah snackbar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 161 ✭✭Allah snackbar


    Bracken81 wrote: »
    RAPE...........obviously!

    That question was way too easy :-) :-)

    Ok
    callaway92 wrote: »
    How can you even have the head to write a 'joke' like that.

    jaja321 wrote: »
    Wow.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Jesus Christ.

    So rape is worse than murder now
    s15r330 wrote: »
    Murder, hate them f*ckin Kardashians.

    I know you're joking but I think the rape one was a joke too , let's all pretend were not all pretentious up our own holes robots without a sense of humour :D


  • #58
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Lyle Lanley wrote: »
    Why'd the guy who said rape get such a hard time but the people saying murder are fine?

    Strange world we're living in.

    Because we've become utterly desensitised to killing. Our literature for thousands of years and our movies and stories now involve killing and fighting. Fighting is seen as commonplace, normal even. Almost everything we have now is built on fighting and killing each other. We were all brought up with stories — both historical and fictional — about huge battles for power, glory and what have you. We let our children play games involving shooting, fighting and killing to various extents — whether it's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Space Invaders or Call of Duty. So people don't bat an eyelid when someone talks about killing.

    On the contrary, movies about raping people aren't blockbuster hits, top seller books rarely involve people raping each other, people don't resort to trying to rape each after disagreements.

    So for all the smartarses who came here to post about rape or think you're oh so clever for pointing out the injustice of not being able to joke about rape, it's not the same thing. You weren't brought up on stories of rape. You didn't queue outside a store to buy the latest rape game. Your forefathers did not rape each other for independence.

    Jokes about rape aren't tolerated in our culture. By extension, it was never tolerated in AH and never will be. Having said that, if anyone talks about murder or physical violence in a way that goes over the line, they'll find themselves banned fairly swiftly too.

    I'm closing this thread because it always ALWAYS goes down this road and we could do without bitching about rape and murder. This is why we can't have nice things.


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