Minor rules you'd bring in with far reaching consequences

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What seemingly minor rules would you introduce that could make a bug difference?

I'd make it illegal to sell coats (for any age) that didn't have some kind of reflective strip somewhere on the back and on at least one sleeve. On these dark mornings and early evenings I've lost count of the number of pedestrians, dressed in black or other dark colours, ambling across the road (not at a crossing point), oblivious to the fact they are nearly invisible to oncoming traffic.

I think if this was a unilateral rule, clothes designers would rise to the challenge to make stylish coats with flashes of reflective stuff. It could quite cool.

So what would your minor rules be?

I'd also make it impossible for vehicles to turn without first indicating.

So agree!

No car could run a red light, no cyclist either.

Keeping a door open for someone right behind you would be mandatory.

People who push in or do the 'was there a queue here' number would have to do a course on manners and, break it again, they'd have to pay a fine.

Spitting in public would be illegal.

Can we expand the reflective clothing rule to runners as well? Disclaimer - I'm a runner and when I go out in the dawn / dusk / dark I'm lit up like a Christmas tree, but I see so many without lights or reflective clothing that I'm worried for their safety!!

School uniforms: coloured polo, contrasting jumper, dark tracksuit/jersey bottoms. Sew on patches with school logo. No whites being ruined by classmates pens or sun cream and no hefty pricing.

All politicians should have lie detectors fitted at all times.

Driving tests every two years. If you fail on minor breaches, not if you are an actual danger, you get 3 months to retake and pass.

License to have children- so forced adoption or termination for unplanned pregnancies?!

Sound limit on motor bike engines-the sound that annoys me more than any other sound in the world... (motor bike guy that drives through our village at 6 every morning with the loudest engine in the world I'm looking at you dickhead!)

Happy to expand the reflective clothing rule Stravapalava

Let me expand on what I mean by minor:
e.g.

Banning the inclusion of seafood in all sandwiches
automatic ejection from the means of transport for anyone playing music through a mobile phone without headphones
kneecapping for anyone who spits on pavements.

Y'know. Relatively small things (except that last one) rather than rules that are significantly life-limiting

In NI we've had dog licenses for decades which I think need renewed annually.

I'd make parking outside schools illegal for privately owned cars.

Turning on the car activates a cell phone jammer that doesn't go off until the car is off. It is TERRIBLE around here for all the idiots driving on their cell phone (we're in the US and they're not nearly as hot on ticketing for it as the UK is).

Historia, my car stops me from receiving text messages. Not that I would anyway!

Visible indication on every car dashboard telling you the speed limit for your current location which flashes and beeps annoyingly if you exceed it.

School uniforms: coloured polo, contrasting jumper, dark tracksuit/jersey bottoms. Sew on patches with school logo. No whites being ruined by classmates pens or sun cream and no hefty pricing.

no, white polos because a hot wash a bio powder works, but it wrecks coloured polos.

and you can't ban prawn and tuna sarnies!!!!!!

When someone applies for credit, the company who is giving it has to ensure that a letter goes to the officially registered address of the person who wants credit.

No credit can be given until this letter has been received and acknowledged.

This would slow down the system, but would help to reduce the level of identity fraud.

Fit & able persons receiving Job Seekers Allowance to do voluntary community work 3 days a week.

Yes to the yappy dog recording! Our NN lets theirs out to bark at 6.30am and 11.30pm every day without fail.

Some kind of automatic system that uses existing cctv and recognises a dog walker who does not pick up their pet's poo. A hefty fine is issued immediately or maybe taken out of their wages/benefit. Or they can opt to do community service of picking up poos instead of paying.

I'd enforce fathers taking their the paternity leave they were entitled to. That way employers would have not logical reason to discriminate against mothers.

All cars to be fitted with a device that can sense shit driving, and will permanently disable the engine and the drivers license in the nearest safe space. Not just the obviously dangerous such as alcohol, but middle lane hoggers, shit parking, dawdlers etc.

All but petite clothing ranges to be made to offer longer length in everything at the same price. Longer length to actually fit tall people, not trousers that might fit someone with the average length body, or 32" labelled as long. Ditto long boots.

All prams and buggies to be fitted with handles that give electric shocks if the pusher is using it like a twat. Eg thinking it means everyone else should immediately jump out of their way, or hogging disabled facilities.

Anyone making rules that only inhibit others should be forced to experience their life and see if they can manage. So eg all dwp mps and rule makers forced to live on benefits for a few years. Any city dweller, particularly Londoners, banging on about how we should all stop driving as much and use public transport should be dumped somewhere without that public transport for a few years to demonstrate how we can all just get the bus or the non existent tube.

Politicians that refuse to definitively answer direct questions to immediately have the word cunt appear behind them on a neon sign.

Lights, big fucking flashing lights to be mandatory on bikes. And all non-driving cyclists made to drive around with someone for several nights to see just how invisible cyclists are when not lit up like a Belisha beacon. My theory is that the worst offenders must be those who don’t drive - I can’t see how anybody who drives could possibly be stupid enough to cycle without lights at night.

ban schools from making uniform compliant coats black with no white stripes etc.

Fit & able persons receiving Job Seekers Allowance to do voluntary community work 3 days a week

It's not voluntary of it's an enforced condition of receiving JSA and it basically amounts to slavery. There is a reason Workfare was scrapped.

All prams and buggies to be fitted with handles that give electric shocks if the pusher is using it like a twat. Eg thinking it means everyone else should immediately jump out of their way, or hogging disabled facilities.

PSA: some people who push pushchairs have disabilities and are entitled to use those disabled facilities. Not all disabilities are visible.

Boys who habitually have their hands down their pants have to be fitted with an auto-taser that stings their ballsack if they fiddle. Bit like a chastity belt.

When I say boys, I mean teens and upwards.

Those that spit - especially those that hawk great big snotty wads of bile - are ordered to clean it up. Preferably with their own tongues.

I don't care how these are implemented, just get it done!

No eating in cinemas, theatres, concerts. Immediate expulsion of anyone who rustles a sweet wrapper/crisp packet!

1. the spokes of bikes would light up red for the back wheel and white for the front wheel. All bikes would display a unique ‘licence’ plate
2. cars would audibly beep loudly when overtaking cars and bikes too close
3. noisy or misbehaving children would have a time out space on planes away from passengers
4. women’s clothing would have standardised sizes; a 10 in M&S would be a 10 in Primark and Zara
5. every car would have a ‘rate my driving’ reference; chronically indecisive and drive at 15mph in a 30mph zone? Drive like you’re auditioning for F1? Three strikes and your licence is suspended for a week Three suspensions inside a year? Lose your licence for six months
6. anyone committing cruelty to animals or children, neutered- we don’t need those genes replicating

@Fantababy yes! As a non driving parent I find buses so tricky, now I’m traveling with a toddler and a buggy it actually makes me anxious! I’d have thought it positive that I don’t own a car 🤷🏻‍♀️

oblivious to the fact they are nearly invisible to oncoming traffic.

Honestly, until I started driving, I was oblivious to how hard it can be for a driver to see a darkly-dressed pedestrian at night. You never get the same problem when you're walking/

Anyway, my rule. All new cars to detect illegal or idiotic parking and pester the driver with a nag noise via their phone. I'm thinking this would be a good one:

Obligatory to wear a helmet if you're on a bike.