Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered
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Re: Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered
#2Ah, yes, England and its innumerable traditions; turns out, Gormenghast is actually a documentary.
Re: Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered
#3Ah, yes, England and its innumerable traditions; turns out, Gormenghast is actually a documentary.
Up to 1973, London Taxis were required to carry a bale of hay (for benefit of the long absent horse). https://www.ludlowthompson.com/property_news/searching-for-a...
Re: Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered
#4British people love old stuff like Americans love cars and guns.
Re: Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered
#5Ah, yes, England and its innumerable traditions; turns out, Gormenghast is actually a documentary.
Up to 1973, London Taxis were required to carry a bale of hay (for benefit of the long absent horse). https://www.ludlowthompson.com/property_news/searching-for-a...
Is that really true? Section 51 of the London Hackney Carriage Act 1831 (to which the article refers) doesn't seem to require that; it (among other things) forbids a taxi driver feeding another driver's horses with anything other than corn or hay - but doesn't say anything about requiring them to carry hay for this purpose. There is no other reference to "hay" in the act.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1831/22/pdfs/ukpga_1831...
Re: Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered
#6British people love old stuff like Americans love cars and guns.
I don't know if you've ever been to London, Rome or Kyoto, but Americans actually fucking love old stuff
Re: Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered
#7This isn't just an old tradition. It's a coded signal - and one that the river users can be assumed to understand. There's no principle difference between this use of straw to caution navigators on water, and the use of (for example) "
300 status codes to signal redirection to to navigavators of the internet.
Re: Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered
#8British people love old stuff like Americans love cars and guns.
The city adjacent to me has a law that all heads of households must have a firearm. In response to the gun law, the next city over created a law everyone need to have a rake for leaves. Unlike the straw bale laws, we don’t take it seriously.
It’s also illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp. In another city it’s illegal to eat fried chicken with anything but your hands.
Re: Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered
#9British people love old stuff like Americans love cars and guns.
> British people love old stuff like Americans love cars and guns.
As a British person who was involuntarily dragged around countless ruined Abbeys, castles, and monestaries for hours as a sprog by my parents, I can assure you that there exist plenty of British folk with an active disinterest in "old stuff", as you put it.
Re: Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered
#10British people love old stuff like Americans love cars and guns.
The city adjacent to me has a law that all heads of households must have a firearm. In response to the gun law, the next city over created a law everyone need to have a rake for leaves. Unlike the straw bale laws, we don’t take it seriously. It’s also illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp. In another city it’s illegal to eat fried chicken with anything but your hands.
> The city adjacent to me has a law that all heads of households must have a firearm
Oklahoma?