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Christopher Dudgeon said:
(Ok, as a policing student I think I can debunk this one)4RM3D said:
It would still be murder (as murder is a common law offence) and it would also be an offence under the human rights act 1998.
So its not legal, not in the slightest.
(Just before you guys all start taking up archery lessons)
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The legal definition of theft in the UK (Section's 1-7 of the Theft Act) is:
'To dishonestly appropriate property belonging to another with the intent to permanently deprive the other of it'[/I]
Its split into sections, 'Dishonest, Appropriate, Property belonging to another, with intent to permanently deprive', and without all those criteria filled, it's not theft.
And no, Its not a legal defence to say 'Id've given it back'.
Then why is my belly button lint always the color of my shirt? It was especially strange when I would pull out green lint accumulated from the uniform of the restaurant where I had worked from 2005-2010.feebstalicious93 said:
OT: The words silver and purple, while often cited as English words with no perfect rhyme, do actually have rhymes. Silver rhymes with chilver which is a term for a female lamb, and purple has two rhymes: curple, a Scottish corruption meaning the hindquarters of a horse, and hirple, which refers to any walk with a limp.
Another likely answer to the question of rhymeless words, orange, has two perfect rhymes in the proper nouns Blorenge, referring to a hill in Wales, and Gorringe, a British surname; though most would say citing proper nouns as "cheating."
Month, the last of the four most commonly cited unrhymable words, has only the archaic uneath (also unneth) as a perfect rhyme. Humorist W.S Gilbert also cited the word millionth, treated as a three-syllable word (i.e. mill-ee-unth) as the best rhyme for month, stating "I have the authority of the greatest poets in the English language for treating it as a tri-syllable, if I feel disposed to do so."
I hope this source is solid enough to prove it's true. If not, I don't know what will.mbug said:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1975ApJ...196L..99Z
The Boötes Void is the biggest expanse of empty space in the known universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%B6tes_void
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%B6tes_void
A spacecraft in orbit nor do its astronauts experience "zero-g". The feeling of zero-g is weightlessness. Any time you fall, you experience weightlessness as the push of ground up against you is disregarded for your brief plummet. Weightlessness in a vehicle is simply when you are falling with it, so it appears stationary to you.
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In English, generally, nouns have an accent on the first syllable while verbs have an accent on the second syllable (e.g refuse vs. refuse).
In English, generally, nouns have an accent on the first syllable while verbs have an accent on the second syllable (e.g refuse vs. refuse).
Statistics, all true.
33.3 percent of the Jonas brothers have diabetes.
One out of ever four kids with the initials ADD actually has it, and four out of four kids with the initials ADHD have an annoying, self righteous mother who wouldn't just shut the fuck up and take her husbands last name.
One out every 44 US presidents can DUNK. its Miller Fillmore, you racists.
The average child of Sarah Palin has 46.2 chromosomes.
The average person has one Fallopian tube.
The average penis length is 5.5 inches, and the average penis length of a man who googles ''average penis length'' is 3.5 inches.
33.3 percent of the Jonas brothers have diabetes.
One out of ever four kids with the initials ADD actually has it, and four out of four kids with the initials ADHD have an annoying, self righteous mother who wouldn't just shut the fuck up and take her husbands last name.
One out every 44 US presidents can DUNK. its Miller Fillmore, you racists.
The average child of Sarah Palin has 46.2 chromosomes.
The average person has one Fallopian tube.
The average penis length is 5.5 inches, and the average penis length of a man who googles ''average penis length'' is 3.5 inches.
Die Hard is based off of a novel called Nothing Ever Changes that is a sequel to a previous book called The Detective. The Detective was adapted into a film of the same name in 1968, starring Frank Sinatra. The characters' names in Die Hard were changed for it to be a standalone movie, but in a roundabout way, Frank Sinatra is the original John McClane.
I feel like killing anyone with any weapon is illegal in most of the civilized world, not just a Scottish Yorksman with a bow and arrow.Christopher Dudgeon said:
My fact: In 2000 the Harlem Globetrotters named Pope John Paul II an honorary trotter. His number is 75.
It is also illegal to shoot a whale from a moving vehicle.sage42 said:
If you have 3 quarters 4 dimes and 4 pennies you have a dollar nineteen you also have the most change you can have without being able to make change for a dollar.
The word Nerd was originally penned by Dr. Suess in his book If I ran a Zoo.
The slinky was created from a spare part from an engine of a boeing 747
Isn't it not the most well known though. I thought that one belonged to the line 'Play it again Sam" from Casablanca. Great movie btwVausch said:
Of course it does its called the plastic divider used in supermarkets to separate your wares from other customers.Aspergo said:
As for another random fact:
The original game of "Monopoly" was circular.
It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.
One-fourth of the world's population lives on less than $200 a year.
Ninety million people survive on less than $75 a year.
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
10 body parts have 3 letters (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
On average, a McDonalds burger's bun has 178 sesame seeds.
The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.
The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
Spinach consumption in the U.S. rose 33% after the Popeye comic strip became a hit in 1931.
On average, a McDonalds burger's bun has 178 sesame seeds.
The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.
The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
Spinach consumption in the U.S. rose 33% after the Popeye comic strip became a hit in 1931.
I know someone that actually can. He broke his arm so he can bend it in a strange way now.Nouw said:
To expand on this, the reason is that people selling typewriters would be able to type the word while pitching it in order to impress the customer.Krion_Vark said:
Also, the QWERTY arrangement was designed because the early, more fragile keyboards had a tendency to jam when two keys next to each other were pressed in rapid succession, which meant spreading out the more commonly used letters around some.