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Posted by Eugene on Mar-25-2002 21:29:

Everyday Freedoms in the UK

So what's the deal with individual freedoms in the UK?

Are soft drugs like marijuana de-criminalized, like in Holland?
Is prostitution legal?

Just curious about how it is in the UK.
Here in the USA -- supposedly the Land of the Free -- the situation is very sad indeed, in all respects.

Just thought I'd share with you this humorous site that lists some sex laws in the United States:
http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/flux/gSpot/sexLaw.html
(look for the yellow box -- the laws are summarized there)

Posted by Spad on Mar-25-2002 21:37:

None of it's legal. We all do it anyway though.

Posted by Az on Mar-25-2002 21:42:

fecking hell thats shite, USA sucks, UK rules!!!!
actually holland rules more...but we've got the NEC
Cannabis isn't legalised..YET, they're just turning a blind eye to it
Laws sketchy on whores... don't know anything about them..honest

Posted by DJ Sarah H on Mar-27-2002 02:31:

quote:
Originally posted by Spad
None of it's legal. We all do it anyway though.

Very true , Spad is the biggest pimp in the UK

Posted by tu_face on Mar-27-2002 12:02:

the funniest law + drugs combination i have ever seen was at last years summer sound system... there were police all over the place outside the tents, inside we were all gettin well mashed on class a's and they never came in to see muahahaha!

drugs: cannabis is soon to be decriminalised.. some time this year it wont be an arrestable offence to smoke a joint *woohoo!!* some government type people are also tryin to get MDMA & MDA (forms of xtc) down to class b instead of A.

whores: its perfectly legal to offer sex for money in your own house. goin out on the street and finding 'business' is illegal.

sex: legal age of consent is 16. however for some strange reason u have to be 18 to be gay.

general: u have to be 16 to smoke, 17 to drive, 18 to drink, and 21 to buy lighter gas. most clubs are over 18's but some are over 21 or over 25 (but these are generally shite).

Posted by flystyler on Mar-27-2002 12:04:

And 14 to drive a tractor, hehe, i have said it once, and i will say it everytime this kinda thread comes up

Posted by dj_mdma on Mar-27-2002 12:39:

Not that i smoke but u have to be 18 in US to smoke and 21 to drink! WHATS UP WITH THAT?!

U have to be 18 to buy lighter fluid and gas here tu_face, I had to learn it cos i work on the Kiosk at TEsco's!

Big up Dave Blunkett for wanting to lower the Class of ecstasy and cannabis!

Posted by Ste on Mar-27-2002 12:59:

15 to sell scrap metal hehehehe

Posted by Ste on Mar-27-2002 12:59:

quote:
Originally posted by tu_face
some government type people are also tryin to get MDMA & MDA (forms of xtc) down to class b instead of A.

i wonder if them government people dabble in the old battenburgs?

Posted by Ian on Mar-27-2002 19:52:

and you only have to be 13 to earn 4.50 a week on a shit paper round, unlike america u can't just throw them either, u have to deliver them to the house... that sucks and as far as whores go, just goto ur local park on a friday night and u could get laid easily... darkness and alcohol helps them have sex

Posted by evil_bastard on Mar-27-2002 22:46:

It's legal to drink in your own home in the UK from the age of 5.

If you're a policeman it's also legal to beat up blacks and asians as a leisurely pastime.

By the way, Ste will you please take that lass out of your sig. It distracts me every time you make a post!

Posted by flystyler on Mar-27-2002 23:24:

quote:
Originally posted by evil_bastard

By the way, Ste will you please take that lass out of your sig. It distracts me every time you make a post!

Hehe, the mad dash to the toilet

Posted by Eugene on Mar-28-2002 00:18:

Guys,
I suppose none of you have read the article I provided.
Do read it, it's very interesting
I think you'll be amused

Posted by flystyler on Mar-28-2002 00:40:

quote:
Originally posted by Eugene
Guys,
I suppose none of you have read the article I provided.
Do read it, it's very interesting
I think you'll be amused

LOL, sorry i missed that, damn funny

Posted by tu_face on Mar-28-2002 12:25:

i like this one:

"In Newcastle, it is illegal to have sex in a butcher shop's meat freezer"

does this apply to middlesboro and other surrounding towns..? if so, im gonna grass u up ste

Posted by Ste on Mar-28-2002 17:35:

quote:
Originally posted by tu_face
i like this one:

"In Newcastle, it is illegal to have sex in a butcher shop's meat freezer"

does this apply to middlesboro and other surrounding towns..? if so, im gonna grass u up ste

sorry those hams looked so tempting

Posted by G K Murray on Mar-28-2002 18:33:

There may as well be no laws in MIDDLESBROUGH, i'm sure it's summin to do with the fucked up air we breath in!!

hehe, any 1 seen the big CHEMICAL SITE just near the town centre???

Posted by Ste on Mar-28-2002 19:39:

quote:
Originally posted by G K Murray
There may as well be no laws in MIDDLESBROUGH, i'm sure it's summin to do with the fucked up air we breath in!!

hehe, any 1 seen the big CHEMICAL SITE just near the town centre???

u mean ICI / hampshire chemicals / seal sands / some oil fractioning plant?

my dad works at elementis, that big fuck off green place a few miles out of boro

Posted by G K Murray on Mar-29-2002 12:38:

That's a bit further up, nearer BILLINGHAM STE!

I mean the chemical site between the RIVERSIDE STADIUM and the town!
If you haven't been to BORO you will laugh ur tits off!

Posted by Volksjoolz on Mar-30-2002 22:35:

i think drug laws are getting more an more relaxed by the week.. because its now finally getting recognised that half of us out there are just out to enjoy ourselves and caus no one any harm!

the U.S is waaaaay far behind in realising this!..drinkin at 21??..bollox to that!..i've been drinkin down my local since i was 14!..

is it stil illegal to cross the road other than by a curb or allocated crossing???..wtf?