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LONDON (AFP) - Queen Elizabeth II's speech in the British parliament Tuesday may have been routine but at least nobody got bored to death. That would have been against the law.
Dying in parliament is an offence and is also by far the most absurd law in Britain, according to a survey of nearly 4,000 people by a television channel showing a legal drama series.
Die and you're under arrest! Britain's most stupid laws - Yahoo! News (broken link)
I break law number two pretty much every time I post a letter and compound the felony by writing a republican ( in the UK sense not the American one) website details on both stamp and banknotes thus committing an act of treason. I find the monarchy an absurd archaic, anachronistic institution and cannot believe a modern democracy can possibly rely on an inherited system of privilege.
Surely the most absurd law in the UK is having to swear allegiance to the monarch when you become a member of parliament ( a democratic country which expects it citizens/subjects and democratically elected representatives to be a monarchist is just not a democracy).
It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down
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It's illegal here too, though with the Swedish monarch, but thankfully, I have yet to commit this "horrifying" crime!
My poor grandmother however did this about 9 times out of 10 when she sent someone a letter... Guess we should be happy she never wrote any authorities!
(And like her, I am very fond of our royalties They have no power, and may live in luxoury, but they do a great job representing us and our country.)
Then they'd best get busy placing citations at the local cemetery for fines that will never be paid.
hehe...at least cops know where the perpetrators are...
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They have no power, and may live in luxoury, but they do a great job representing us and our country.)
