British people love old stuff like Americans love cars and guns.
British people love old stuff like Americans love old British stuff.
Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I wish we had the back stories on more of these. Who was it who tied a giraffe to a telephone pole? What disaster ensued, such that "there oughtta be a law!"?
> I wish we had the back stories on more of these. Who was it who tied a giraffe to a telephone pole?
(Teeters on the edge of this rabbit hole. Pulls back just in time)
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know if you've ever been to London, Rome or Kyoto, but Americans actually fucking love old stuff
They should visit our thousand (nearly) year old door: https://www.westminster-abbey.org/history/explore-our-histor... I'm a Brit and didn't realise until recently that England is one of the world's oldest countries (927 AD).
And as a Scot I should point out that Scotland is about a century older at 843 AD - but then neither have really existed as separate countries for centuries. ;-)
Re: Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered
#24Daylight Savings Time was first proposed to save candles, everything after is a forced retcon.
This equally anachronistic law fits with that quite well.
We are all very good at being modern humans.
Re: Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered
#25Reminds me of the tradition of topping out a finished roof. You often see 100m+ skyscrapers with a pine wreath hanging on top as if we were still worshipping some forest gods.
Re: Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered
#26This 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.
Ancient website still uses archaic human-centric deci-mal number 301 to redirect traffic. Early humans believed these were powerful and called them "magic[al] strings".
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know if you've ever been to London, Rome or Kyoto, but Americans actually fucking love old stuff
They should visit our thousand (nearly) year old door: https://www.westminster-abbey.org/history/explore-our-histor... I'm a Brit and didn't realise until recently that England is one of the world's oldest countries (927 AD).
927 - 1066 doesn’t seem that old to me ;)
Re: Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered
#28Reminds me of the tradition of topping out a finished roof. You often see 100m+ skyscrapers with a pine wreath hanging on top as if we were still worshipping some forest gods.
> You often see...
Where in the world is such a thing a frequent enough sight to say that?
Re: Millennium Bridge workers hang straw bales after ancient bylaw triggered
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Dunno about Oklahoma, but Kennesaw, Georgia, does have a gun ownership requirement, passed in 1982 in response to Morton Grove, Illinois, banning handguns. Kennesaw's neighbor, Acworth, is the one with the rake ownership requirement -- passed in response to Kenneswaw's gun law -- though it is not immediately clear to me whether that ordinance is still in effect.
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#30British people love old stuff like Americans love cars and guns.
You should go to Boston someday…