If you could legalise three things and illegalise three other things...

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what would they be?

― ;_; (blueski), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Can't think of more than 1 each:

Legalise:
growing yr own weed

Illegalise:
tailgating (ok it might actually be illegal already, but I'd make it a lose yr license and get yr car impounded on the spot offense)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

haha, at first I thought you meant like football tailgating and I thought, 'what a grump.'

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

legalise:
uthanasia, or 'assisted-suicide'

illegalise:
alcohol before 5pm

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

illegalise:
alcohol before 5pm

you fun-hating bastard!

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

legalize:
*driving barefoot
*shoplifting from Walmart
*backyard campfires

illegalize:
*bad breath
*fat people wearing too small/tight clothes
*gated communities

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Illegalise spitting and body odour.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Sam, re: tailgating. thats what i thought too! southerners.

illegalize:

alcohol for angry drunks
pot for mean stoners
interstates within city limits

legalize

all the good stuff, but just for me because you guys cant handle it.

selfish!

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

legalise - jumping the train

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

legalize -

stalking, rape, murder

outlaw -

mayonaisse, ketchup, jello shots

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

Legalise:

-fox hunting
-various drugs
-24 hour drinking

Outlaw:

-battery farming
-private transportation (at least within the M25, preferably all of England)
-Service charges on buying advance tickets

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

i thought we already had 24hr drinx?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Legalize:
gay marriage in U.S.
off sale liquor on Sundays in Minnesota
baby juggling

Outlaw:
further restrict stock options as compensation
limit the legal use of independant contractors by the U.S. military
winter

― Coach Dave (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

legalize (kind of Boston-specific):
smoking INSIDE ALL BUILDINGS except MAYBE hospitals
drinking outside in public on days that aren't Marathon Monday

illegalize
nick OTM on fat girls/skinny clothes
some sort of limit on tanning bed use
leash law for children under five

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

smoking INSIDE ALL BUILDINGS except MAYBE hospitals

Haha fuck you.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

illegalise:
alcohol before 5pm

I'm kinda with this one. There was an article in the paper the other day about how the local authorities are considering making a bar in Oak Park open later than 6am. And the most quoted man in the story was this dude who actually shows up there at 6am every morning and starts drinking. The story seemed almost to be on his side. Um... gross.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

if you use your pure, unadulterated lungs to suck a little harder you might get ALL the fun out of the thread.

xpost

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Outlaw:
....
-private transportation (at least within the M25, preferably all of England)

Does that include men in jodphurs on horseback?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oops, my mistake. Private PETROL-BASED transportation. Bicycles, skateboards and horses are all still perfectly fine.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

can anyone clarify the 24hr drinking thing?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Legalize:
most recreational drugs
gay marriage
file-sharing

de-legalize:
private gun ownership
cell phone talking while driving (not illegal in my state)
can't really think of anything else. . .

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Fucked if I know. There was all the hoo-ha about it, and the only practical upshot seems to be a few crappy bars being open till 1 or 2 at the weekend.

xpost

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

6am drinkers = market people and night shift workers. And alcholics.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

And people whose drugs from the night before haven't worn off yet. Kerazee!

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

legalise: weed

illegalise: booze

― teh_kit (g-kit), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

can anyone clarify the 24hr drinking thing?

It's in place. Establishments still have to apply for 'whatever' time they wish to open till though. we have a club in Warrington open till 6am every weekend.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

i always wondered what it felt like to be right!

― teh_kit (g-kit), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

legalize:
coke
13 year old girls
12 year old drinking age

illegalize:
pot (life term motherfuckers for all those high school and college speeches I had to go through about legalizing it)
21 year old driving age
taxes

― christopherscottknudsen (christopherscottknudsen), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

illegalize:
pot (life term motherfuckers for all those high school and college speeches I had to go through about legalizing it)

well if you legalise it then there wouldn't be anymore of those speeches anywhere huh

― ;_; (blueski), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Pot IS illegal.

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

illegalise:
alcohol before 5pm
I'm kinda with this one. There was an article in the paper the other day about how the local authorities are considering making a bar in Oak Park open later than 6am. And the most quoted man in the story was this dude who actually shows up there at 6am every morning and starts drinking. The story seemed almost to be on his side. Um... gross.

"um...gross" should never be a reason for making a law, except when it comes to bad breath.

Also, shift workers OTM.

de-legalize:
private gun ownership
cell phone talking while driving (not illegal in my state)

BAH. You make me feel like a libertarian.

― Coach Dave (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Illegalise:
Hip op "music"
Atonality
Terrorism

― Comstock Carabineri (nostudium), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

legalise: no age restrictions on cinemas/dvd sales, certain drugs, right to roam over any open ground
illegalise: religious indoctrination in schools

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Legalize:

Drugs (Amsterdam-style)
Prostitution (again)
Gay marriage in a wider scope (I'm Canadian, and so far we're still there)

Criminalize:

Gun ownership by civilians
Corporate environmental disgregard
Fictitious casus belli

― shorty (shorty), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

As far as drugs go:

Legalise:
Weed

Decriminalise:
Coke, E

Make available on prescription:
Heroin

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

legalize:
gay marriage, good idea
wearing religious clothing or symbols in schools (more for europe, not the us)
open containers in public

illegalize:
driving five miles below the speed limit and slowing down to ten miles below when you see a cop. assholes.
year-round road construction
holding prisoners indefinitely without trial

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Chap OTM, although I never really know what "decriminalise" means - for me the distinction would be available at newsagents vs. available over the counter at Boots.

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

surely there are enough self-important pricks in the world without legalizing coke?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Illegalise:
Hip op "music"
Atonality
Terrorism
-- Comstock Carabineri (copp...), October 23rd, 2006 9:22 AM. (nostudium) (link)

Right after we criminalize terrorism, we should outlaw murder and theft.

P.S. I said a hip hop, hippie to the hippie, the hip, hip a hop, and you don't stop, a rock it to the bang bang boogie, say, up jump the boogie, to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat, DOOD!

― Coach Dave (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

surely there are enough self-important pricks in the world without legalizing coke?

decriminalisation = de-glamourisation/de-romanticisation leading to ironic decrease in use, possibly (same goes for all illegal drugs)

― ;_; (blueski), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

legalise:
public nudity

criminalise:
public nudity again, eurgh that was a horrific mistake!

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

legalize:
coke

― teh_kit (g-kit), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Right after we criminalize terrorism, we should outlaw murder and theft.

It already exists. Hip op murdered good music and is based on theft from real, talented musicians.

P.S. I said a hip hop, hippie to the hippie, the hip, hip a hop, and you don't stop, a rock it to the bang bang boogie, say, up jump the boogie, to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat, DOOD!

I'm sorry, but I only speak English :)

― Comstock Carabineri (nostudium), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

This no longer qualifies as a conversation.

― Coach Dave (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

yes, its now a vicious battle rap

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

illegalise:
private transport with less than 35mpg efficiency (separate rules for commercial vehicles)
state funding of faith schools
prayer in state funded schools
(I'd like to say that churches/mosques/synagogues/religious buildings should come with an 18 certificate)
Driving your kids to school in urban areas

legalise
traffic lights that let bikes get off five seconds before busses and busses 5 seconds before other vehicles, particularly at major junctions
Compulsory cycle training for children
tax free bikes for all

― Ed (dali), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ed those aren't really things you can 'legalise' as such, but OK.

― ;_; (blueski), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

I never really know what "decriminalise" means

In practical terms I doubt the drugs would be available commercially, you'd still have to buy from dealers. The crucial difference would be that people would no longer get banged up for carrying a couple of pills/wraps for their mates.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Make available on prescription:
Heroin

What do you have to have to get that prescription because I think Ive got it?

― sunny successor (katharine), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

addiction?

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

basically mark c wants to move to singapore

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

illegalise
- stupidity
- laziness
- noobness

legalise
- stupidism
- lazism
- noobism

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

legalize (american spelling, sorry):

-file sharing
-squatting (the rent kind, not the hole-in-the-ground kind)
-anything that outmoded faith-based laws currently prohibit

illegalize:

-rich dudes/think tanks with wacky ideas buying their way onto ballots (isn't democracy rad?)
-the private sector's influence on public politics (this is a more inclusive version of my first one)
-restrict the amount of airtime a political candidate's "friends" can purchase for televised campaign ads

― cocksure triumphalism at its most vacant (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Legalize:

- weed
- acid
- punching politicians in the face

Illegalize

- Rugby Union (England only)
- politicians
- mobile phones

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

drugz
copyright infringement
unpasteurized cheese

death penalty
torture
leaf blowers

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

blue m&ms, or has that one already been done?
political term limits
instant run-off voting

fart box exhaust systems (though they do a great job of pointing out idiot drivers)
animal leg-hold traps
NASCAR

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

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