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 would ban balloons, those stupid lanterns and all plastic straws.

I'd bring back conscription too. Two years in the military.

Dogs should only be allowed to toilet on the owners private property or in a designated dog park.

I'd bring back conscription too. Two years in the military.

I agree with this, only instead of the military I'd make it a retail, or hospitality role. Two reasons, some of the wasters I see and have to interact with everyday I really wouldn't want having access to military equipment and protecting the country, and secondly, hopefully having the experience of working in a role where basically it's socially acceptable to treat you like shit, might just make some people think and treat others with more respect.

Another is that once a year, anyone in a customer facing job gets to tell it like it is back to any customer that is being a knob, with no concequences, and no warning of what day it's going to be.
People who drive like knobs in residential areas will automatically have their wheels fall off the car. You know, the ones that accelerate aggressively, then slam on for a speed bump, then accelerate aggressively to the next speed bump and slam the brakes on again..... All the way up the road.
Spitting on the floor shall be punished by death. No trial, no jury, no defence, just a lightning bolt and boom.

QueenoftheNowhereverse

1) the spokes of bikes would light up red for the back wheel and white for the front wheel.

^^this is actually genius and the kind of rule-making I'm in favour of. Also liking the uniformity of women's clothes sizes idea. Top marks.

Them flashing lights on bicycles... come on guys, i know its dark wet and cold. But surely you don't see much with the front ones and the back ones are just immensely irritating. (... to speak for all people with epilepsy and other conditions who happen to sit in a car.)

YIvamoon They're not for the cyclist to see by. They're actually supposed to be for the benefit of anyone sitting in a car. Yeah, I know.

There was a motoring organisation that said cyclists should have flashing lights instead of steady lights, because otherwise car-drivers behind them (said this organisation) couldn't distinguish cyclists from street furniture in the dark.

Some cyclists took that seriously. No-one wants to be rear-ended by a car, so you would, wouldn't you?

Given each person a limited carbon footprint a year. Spend it how you you wish... flights, 4x4 etc. Once it's gone it's gone but you can increase your allowance by e.g. installing solar panels, growing your own fruit and veg.

As new people have a huge carbon impact if you want to have children you will have to live in a prohibitively carbon frugal way for many many years and certainly never fly.

I hate flashing lights on bikes. I don’t have epilepsy, but they’re still distracting and headache-inducing.

Chocolate to be only sold behind locked cupboards in the same way as cigarettes, because I’m weak willed

• No ridiculously expensive school uniform

• No secondary uniform rules telling girls their trousers are “too tight” or giving them baggy blazers whilst the boys get nice fitted ones - yes that’s at DDs school

• Daycare to be open 7 days a week so single parents who work in retail etc can continue working

• No talking in lectures or seminars and if you do, other students can throw balled up paper at you (there’s a certain group in my cohort that are really pissing me off with this at the moment, and I have to keep getting my Mum face/voice out with them)

• No having your conversation on speaker phone ANYWHERE in public where other people are forced to listen to it, fuck me I wanted to smash a woman’s phone on the dentists waiting room the other day

• Stop putting baby change units in disabled toilets

I like so many of these!
To add to the car-related ones, if you park on white zig-zag lines then you are made to stand up in a public place and explain to a crowd why you are so important that you have put everyone else's safety at risk. This also applies to people who park across other people's driveways, and without blue badges in disabled spots/on double yellow lines.
People who use their phones/iPads/tablets on public transport without headphones should made to sit through an hour of someone else's boring forgetful relative showing them several hundred family photos.
People who are quite able to but won't give up their seats, etc. for others in more need on trains, buses and so forth should either be forcibly ejected and banned from public transport.
If you have those stupid showing off lights, fancy plates, vinyl wraps, extra spoilers and extra loud exhaust on your car, you are required to have a loudspeaker fitted which emits the message, "I am an attention-seeking twat" at regular intervals.

I'd tier unemployment benefits to qualifications, with a dispensation for people with diagnosed learning difficulties.

I've thought for years that if you got more money in benefits if you had GSCEs/NVQs and higher, then the scores of kids that dossed about in lessons, making teachers' lives a misery, would actually have a motive to change their behaviour.

Of course, I'd back this up with an almighty investment in FE colleges and night school courses.

After 7 pm then children under the age of seven are not welcome in adult restaurants. If you want to take your child out at that time of night when they should be in bed then there will be a small selection of places they are welcome.
I work with children and love their company however, I resent going out for a meal that costs a large amount of money only to have it spoilt by the children in the room running around, shouting and generally being disruptive. So they would be welcome before 7pm but not after, ensuring both families and adults can enjoy their food.

All parents to get a housekeeper for the first 6 weeks after having a baby regardless of whether it's the first child or fifth child.
(Doesn't have to be live in, just someone who comes & does all the housework, laundry, cooking etc)

I would have given my right arm for this when DC were born.
Though I would have also like to have had a third arm or (extendable/retractable octopus arms) but that design specification isn't available at the moment

Speed limiters on all cars so in a 20/30 zone you cant accelerate above the limit of that area. Or cars that detect shit driving like not indicating at roundabouts, tail gating etc, you get 3 mistakes and the car stops working. You have to take a test and input a code to get the car working again!

Requirement for being an MP to have done at least five years in a modestly-paid, customer-facing job. That way, more of them might live in the same world that the rest of us live in, instead of their bubble of wealth and privilege (I'm looking at you, Boris/Cameron/Bliar).

Leading the police on a car chase to carry an automatic long prison sentence: 10 years, in addition to whatever they are wanted for. Also wealthy criminals should have to pay for their prison places, as well as serve their time. I'm looking at you, XR, the wealthy squanderers of public services such as the police and prison service.

I'd make it illegal for anyone, especially tourists, to just stop walking right in the middle of the parking pavement in Oxford Street. In fact, standing still anywhere in the middle of a pavement on a busy street.... just no. Maybe even introduce slow and fast lanes like at the swimming pool.

Universities only allowed to take 7% of their students from private schools, reflecting the proportion of kids who are actually privately educated.

Cars manufactured to not be physically able to go above the national speed limit.

Stop putting baby change units in disabled toilets

What about disabled parents who need the toilet and ti change the baby while they're there?

Everyone must read one "proper"book a month.

For every bit of shit TV watched, a serious programme must be watched - or, we all have say a 15 hours a month of trash tv allowance - over this, your TV turns off.

No vote unless you can answer the following questions.

1. Name two policies from the party you are voting for
2. What is the average salary in the UK
3. How much is a train ticket from Birmingham to Exeter, second class return.

A ban on holiday companies increasing their prices over school holidays - or if they must, let it be by 5-10% only

You want to ban capitalism and reverse the economic laws of supply and demand?

The unintended consequence of this is that people who are not tied to school holidays (and there are way more of them) would see prices rise, people would holiday less and thousands of travel related companies would go out of business resulting in job losses.

British Summer Time all year round in the UK.

I assume you'd don't line in the North of the UK?

*you don't live in...