AMERICAN REACTS TO TOP 25 WEIRD BRITISH LAWS | AMANDA RAE

[@charlestaylor3027]

In the 60s a student at Cambridge demanded a pint of beer be brought to him in an exam. He was within his rights so they brought him one, then fined him for not wearing his sword.

[@gavintillman1884]

I think this was quite common as it was in the statutes. The fine was 6/8. 33 1/3 p in today’s money.

[@kellyrobinson550]

Not even funny!🤨

[@DarrenHarrison7160]

@@kellyrobinson550 Awwww do you feel better now sweetie?

[@guybrewin556]

HAHAHAHA. That's such a great revenge! I'm annoyed at you for using this stupid, outdated rule/law against me &/OR to get what you want - So I'm going to use this other outdated rule/law to get back at you... Such a perfect revenge!!

[@davidmcgrath7341]

That is hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@christinepage1523]

I played that in the 60's and it was called 'Knock down Ginger' sometimes kids tied some string around a door knocker and across to the neighbours door so whoever opened the door after the knock they had trouble.

[@LADYRAEUK]

👍🏻

[@derekgargan5080]

It is Hackney carriage (taxi or cab) that was required to carry a bale of hay not all cars, special small bales were made to comply with this law. Most of the other laws were repelled under PACE 1984 act.

[@highpath4776]

There are some horse drawn carriages which still ply for hire from a stand (in blackpool and york for example)

[@mbo191]

In the event that they got a fare going outside of Westminster.

[@pud2.trade6]

Quite recently the punishment in the UK for carrying a knife in public was 2 years in prison, but this was upped to 4 years despite the fact that nobody had been imprisoned for 2 years while that was on the books

[@Pomdownuder]

"Knock down ginger" was our knock and run game in South London. Then we got creative and we used the elastic from inside golf balls strung across the roads attached to the door knockers, than when a car came it would knock the doors.

[@guybrewin556]

LOL that's hilarious

[@Pomdownuder]

@@guybrewin556 I can't take full credit for it, a mate of mine came up with it, I supplied the golf balls, there was a course on the way home from school, via the woods on Dulwich Common.

[@regd.2263]

Hi Amanda as a child and living in London in the 1950's we used get a reel of cotton and we used to tie door knockers up on houses, one on one side of the road then go across the road and do the same and keep doing it criss crossing back and forth. Then knock on the first door that door is opened and breaks the cotton to all the others, and in turn each door gets a knocked on. It was great fun watching people coming out and wondering what was going on

[@LADYRAEUK]

That’s such a great idea!!

[@stuartlloyd8746]

I remember once going out to celebrate a friend’s birthday. We sang “Happy Birthday”, and the rest of the pub joined in as well.

[@davochannel-nk8gc]

back in the early 60's we used to play "knock down ginger." which was knocking on doors and running away .......love listening to your voice Amanda and seeing your videos

[@LADYRAEUK]

Thanks so much 😊

[@chrispoole2438]

I once got prosecuted for busking (it was 1981). the act I was prosecuted under was from 1815 and also prohibited citizens from allow matter to run from their sewage heap into the street (I'm rather proud of that!)

[@corleth2868]

Knocking on a door and running away has various names but was definitely a thing in the UK. Where I lived it was called 'Knock down ginger' but I've no idea why.

[@gaz0463]

I’ve just been binge watching your Chanel. Especially your reaction videos. I’ve seen loads of different reaction channels but yours is by far the best. Your laugh is so infectious and your facial expressions when you’re shocked is absolutely priceless. As a side note, your voice is so soothing and relaxing. Your voice is perfect if you ever decide to start an ASMR Chanel. And lastly the sound quality is really good making your voice incredibly clear. You’re such a lovely person. A big loss to the great USA but a huge gain for England and the rest of the UK. An easy thumbs up and subscribe. Much respect. Take care 🙂

[@LADYRAEUK]

Thank you so much, I really appreciate that! 😊 I hope you’re well !

[@ronburden7236]

channel

[@shielahowcroft9852]

where we lived in leeds in the 40s, 50s and 60s we lived in back to back 2 up and 2 down houses and the only way to hang your washing out was to have a pulley system across the cobbled street from one house to another

[@GenialHarryGrout]

Knocking on someone's door and leaving is broken every day but postman that can't be bothered to do their job properly and deliver bulky packages and would rather leave a card telling you to pick up your packages.

[@daztheman552]

Or press your smart door bell

[@stephenscarff471]

bullshit , do you really think a postie comes to your door with a parcel just to put a card through ? , it takes longer to fill the card out , than you to answer the door.

[@stephenscarff471]

@@daztheman552 yeah , the smart door bell , if people can even be bothered answering it , i have waited ages at a door when i have rung one then not even get an answer.

[@GenialHarryGrout]

@@stephenscarff471 They don't carry the package,that would be extra load to carry, so they knock, post a card and are out of there before you can get out of your chair. Just in case you're struggling to get this or you are a postie, I was being very sarcastic with my comment

[@colinp2238]

Amazon and other delivery drivers do it all the time but I suppose that they leave parcels so it makes them exempt.

[@Clayton-S.]

Great fun as always, Amanda. Many years ago, an associate of mine was fined for exceeding the speed limit on a pedal cycle but he wasn't fined for speeding..he was fined for 'Pedalling Furiously...'😂 Yes, we do have the knock/ring and leg it! Lol...it was known many years ago as 'Knock Down Ginger' ...it is more commonly referred to as 'Knock and Run'.. Many thanks for brightening up my Monday ☺👍

[@Clayton-S.]

@@rileyanoid8444 I really don't know! It would be interesting to find out.☺

[@Clayton-S.]

Apparently it was also known as 'Knocky Door Ginger' possible root of the name was a 19th Century poem which went in part 'Ginger, Ginger broke a winda, knock, knock, CRACK!!'

[@TheVigilant109]

Hi Amanda. Very interesting review. The plank law made me think of the movie by Eric Sykes called The Plank. It's hilarious and I suggest you have a look at it

[@colinp2238]

You can varry it walking in the road, or if unloading a vehicle over the pavement, to take it into a house or garden.

[@andrewfrench4087]

Yes, something of a period piece ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4ClqXt-nbOef9k

[@rogerbarton497]

I was going to suggest the same. There are two versions out there.

[@thefurrybastard1964]

SAME!

[@jonbolton3376]

I suspect the salmon one was about poachers, but i love the way it's worded. It puts weird mental images in my head. 'What's that behind your back?' 'A tin of John West salmon, i was going to have a sandwich.' 'You are holding it suspiciously.'

[@colinp2238]

That's exactly what I thought, about the oaching not John West, I rejected him.

[@lloydcollins6337]

That is still actually a law though (unlike most of the others in here) and is to deter poaching of salmon. There's also still a law that it's illegal to be in possession of Polish potatoes because they have some kind of devastating disease which would infect & destroy potato crops in the UK.

[@afpwebworks]

Singing Happy Birthday: The song "Happy Birthday to you ... " used to be owned by the family of the person who wrote the song. But it was sold to one of the major music companies, (I think Warners) who sometime in the last few years it free of royalties. So you can hapily sing "Happy Birthday to you ... " any time and anywhere you like.

[@ianmoone2433]

Yes Amanda I'm scottish we called it Chapdoor runaway I did this numerous times as a kid almost centuries ago I feel very old haha

[@colinstock325]

I grew up running after knocking at a door was called “knock down ginger”.

[@highpath4776]

children below the age of 10 are normally below the age of having a criminal mind and therefore cannot be charged

[@jessgibson4790]

London Black Cabs have a step for luggage cos they were required to carry bucket, shovel and a bale of straw. Originally, cabs were called hackney carriages and were horse drawn so they had to carry the tools for the job.

[@renejean2523]

When I was a kid in the UK, our game of ringing someone's doorbell and running away was called 'Knock down Ginger'. No idea why.

[@begbie1888]

We used to play chap door run away when we were kids in Scotland. We called it chappy! I remember once an older boy in the street had the bright idea to tie a piece of string to all the door knockers in a close (like an apartment block in the US) straying at the top floor and down all the stairs going through every apartment in the block. When he got to the bottom he gave it five or six hefty pulls and chapped all the doors in the block at the same time! Then when someone opened their door, the string would be pulled and the rest of the doors would be chapped again! One of my funniest childhood memories that. Incidentally if you want to know how not to handle a salmon you should do a reaction video for "Johnny Vegas Last Leg promo!" Keep the videos coming Amanda. Excellent work 👍

[@begbie1888]

*starting at the top floor

[@begbie1888]

One particularly gruesome version of chappy involved putting a dog poo in a paper bag and seeing light to it before shaping and running. Then the owner would open the door and stamp on the bag to put the flames out and end up covered in dog crap!

[@begbie1888]

Oh, and in the "posh" area of Glasgow they called it ding dong dash! Which my brother in law got pish ripped out of him for at a recent, post lockdown, family gathering!

[@tonymarshall5731]

Yes Amanda knocking on door and running away is called”Knock Down Ginger”

[@LADYRAEUK]

Why’s that??

[@xenontouchstone]

Up here in Manchester it was knock and run, self explanatory.

[@owenpavey]

That's a great post Amanda.😇 mentioned it before,but will say it again-love the way you record the video on the first take and if the words dont come out right you giggle,snort and keep going,it's really endearing 🥰 Just a thing about the public library abuse-Chesterfield Library has two security gaurds on rotation,and they are deemed necessary to make staff and public feel safe.Chesterfield does not have a bad reputation,far from it,but of course the Library is in the town centre,has free internet & wifi and a table for recharging phones.Because of this it is popular with both schoolkids and the homeless,and it is not uncommon for a group of kids to use bad langauge around the re-charging table, somebody to fall asleep at a computer station or collapse through illness. One other law missed out of that list of 25.... The north east England town of Berwick Upon Tweed is technically still at war with Russia.🤔 There.You wouldn't have moved here if you knew that,eh Amanda? 😆

[@ralphwood5875]

As a kid we would do the Bell/Knocker thing, we called it ""Push Bell bunk". Great selection Amanda now I must go find my bow and make some new arrows

[@afpwebworks]

The local vicar was out for a stroll on a lovely sunny day, and he saw a small boy trying to reach the doorbell of a house He asked the small boy "Do you need to ring the bell? Would you like me to help you?" The boy said "yes please it's too high up for me." So the vicar pressed the button and the doorbell rang out loudly. The boy said, "Now RUN!!!!!!" and sprinted away.

[@raycope2086]

Before I go, I want to congratulate you on the many new and hilarious sounds that you emitted today. I was in stitches. Have a grand week. : - )

[@honestchris7472]

When I was young, knocking on a house door and running away was called "knock down ginger" it came from a child's poem called Knocky Down Ginger "Ginger, Ginger broke a winder Hit the winda - crack! The baker came out to give 'im a clout And landed on his back" (winda and winder was cockney accent for window) I believe that this was called "Ding dong ditch" in the USA.

[@lisabowenhospital]

There's a funny clip on the tv series Chef staring Lenny Henry to do with Salmon.

[@Wahian1]

The song Happy Birthday To You was claimed to be written in 1893 by sisters Patty and Mildred Hill in the US. So far no problems until eventually Warner Chappell Music claimed US copyright of it and charged licensing fees for its usage. In 2015 a Federal Court determined this copyright claim/ownership was illegal and WMC reputedly had to repay $14 million in fees they’d charged. In the EU, copyright expired 4 Jan 2017.

[@coltsfoot9926]

The seamen’s and soldier's false character act was repealed in 2008. In any case, it referred to making false claims and forgery of service records rather than just wearing uniform

[@warrenrandall6936]

I've dressed as a British soldier many times, without ever serving in the army. I then went on to perform juggling in the streets whilst playing a harmonica and was arrested for busking.

[@coltsfoot9926]

@@warrenrandall6936 the original uniform acts specifically excluded wearing a uniform for a theatre play, and were eventually amended to exclude entertainment generally. So you wouldn't be arrested for wearing a uniform whilst busking, but busking without a licence is illegal, as you no doubt were informed 😉

[@kevinfroude8679]

Hi Amanda, we used to call it "rat-a-tat-ginger" in Coventry....."ginger" seems to be the common theme here.

[@babalonkie]

In London it was/is called "Knock down Ginger".

[@LADYRAEUK]

I’m curious, why ginger?

[@babalonkie]

@@LADYRAEUK From a old poem/Rhyme... apparently lol

[@kevinfroude8679]

@@LADYRAEUK I have no idea.....perhaps you need to look into that? :-)

[@colinp2238]

In Brum (just down the road) we called it knock door run, it does what it says on the tin.

[@martinlaffey328]

I was a member of the North East knocky 9 door Society from the early 60s. I have absolutely no idea why it was called knocky 9 door or what we aimed to achieve by our endeavour's.However even though I was only 5 or 6 I knocked on a door then ran like Jimmy Saville was chasing me. ...So in North East England we had Knocky 9 door.

[@andyleighton4970]

We called it knock down ginger, I'm from the south east

[@optimusprime708]

we use to call it, Nick knock Nanny lol

[@watchvidjedi]

I had no idea that knock and run was illegal! I used to live alongside a path opposite a supermarket... most evenings some "charming young teenagers" used to knock and run, disturbing my young daughter and my dog. It never got old.... LOL So to answer your question, yes it's a thing in the UK too!!

[@richardforder8390]

We called it Knock down ginger in south london where I lived

[@mauricejamblin9795]

yes it was popular with kids in London it was called Knock Down Ginger

[@milescosher83]

Knock up ginger in the shires.

[@guybrewin556]

@@richardforder8390 I don't get it... Firstly, why ginger? It's not like most of the 'victims' OR the 'perpetrators' would be redheads, so why ginger? Secondly & perhaps more importantly, why knock down? They aren't knocking down the door! Or knocking down a person! They aren't knocking down ANYTHING!! They're just knocking on the door... Or ringing the bell - It SHOULD be called Ding & Dash, or Ring & Run, or Knock & Knick-off LOL

[@guybrewin556]

Oh that's right, I think we called it 'Ding-Dong Ditch' here in Australia... Well that was the most common, it was also sometimes just called 'Knick Knocking' - I think it may have originally been called 'Knick-knock SOMETHING' (can't remember th he last word) and gout shortened to Knick Knocking as a verb... And occasionally, it was just called 'Stupid, Immature & Rude' LOL

[@ralphwest8156]

Yes ' as kids in England we played ' Knock and Run ' ...and after a night on the beer, I think some adults still do '

[@LADYRAEUK]

👍🏻🤣

[@johnmassey55]

Those are some very weird laws ! Thanks for another fun reaction video !

[@LADYRAEUK]

😊👍🏻👍🏻

[@kevdoe3360]

Knocking on a door & running away was called "Knock Down Ginger" when i was kid here in the UK!Never knew why it was called that?

[@smeg2020]

"Happy Birthday to You" is in the public domain since 2016

[@rickirene9424]

Knocking on the door was called Knock Down Ginger when I was a kid. Met Police Act 1839 was the bale of hay in Taxi Cab only, not all cars.

[@LADYRAEUK]

😊👍🏻

[@mdawson5581]

Played so much knock door run when I was a kid lol

[@pauldear6660]

When I was growing up as a kid in South West London in the 60s & 70s, knocking and running away was known as "Knock Down Ginger". I have no idea why.

[@jonnyblaze761]

We play "knock door run" here too 🤣🤣🤣

[@LADYRAEUK]

🤣😊

[@adrianclarke9132]

Hi Amanda, singing Happy Birthday was also an issue in the US until 2015, it's now out of copyright.

[@enemde3025]

Used to play " knock door run" when I was a kid. The bale of hay law was for Taxis. How can you " annoy passengers" with a kite !?

[@shaunw9270]

Yes, the bale of hay law actually specifies Hackney Carriages, which obviously predated motor cars but there are still similar by-laws in certain towns that use horse drawn carriages for pleasure rides (Great Yarmouth sea front for example).

[@colinp2238]

Flying it past a window?

[@mavos1211]

I love your thumbnail, you look like a typical cute “girl next door” but your tattoos are such a massive contrast to that image I just love it and you you’re amazing.

[@LADYRAEUK]

Thank you!

[@EssexSilvering]

Knocking on someones door and running away, ... We all done it as a kid, ... In the UK we call this ''Knock Down Ginger'' .. When I was living in Canada I think they called it ''Nicky Knock Knock'' lol ... Or something like that, can't remember now but I'm sure you will know Amanda ;-)

[@martinbell3302]

The Copyright for Happy Birthday ended January 2017 in the EU and Britain, and 2016 in the US

[@kellyrobinson550]

Nice reaction Amanda love😂👍 💋💋

[@stevenhill83]

There is a Film called the plank, the film is about one plank of wood it’s brilliant and very funny.

[@stewartwebb5699]

Great as usual. Amanda. You must watch The Plank. A 1960's (I think!) legendry comedy film. Very British. With many British famous commediens of the time. Watch it. Would love your reactions!

[@LADYRAEUK]

I’ll check it out 😊

[@ChrisBrown-px1oy]

I had no idea Knock Down Ginger was illegal either, growing up in the 1970s. I doubt whether any of our victims did either, nor my dad when he caught me at it and gave me six of the best 😂

[@chrisw3771]

It's still a requirement for men of service age to keep a longbow & arrows (OK I have 6) Until recently it was still legal to shoot a Welshman with a longbow in Hereford on Sundays. It's also illegal under the terms of the Prohibition and Inspections Act of 1998 to cause a nuclear explosion.

[@HarrisonXFrosty]

Some of these aren't inforced and the happy birthday song isn't copyright anymore (it's been in the public domain since 2016).

[@raycope2086]

When I was a kid we played that game of knocking on doors and running away. We called it, " Thunder and Lightning."

[@charliebruce592]

As a child many years ago we had a game called knock down ginger which was knocking on someone’s door and running as fast as you can.

[@andyleighton4970]

I'm from the south east of England. Knocking on a door and running away we called knock down ginger

[@zingystardust4082]

Very interesting video, thanks. I hadn't heard of most of them. I'm off to Sainsburys to get all suspicious with a salmon.

[@fungusv375]

in the dengie we called it knock knock ginger, knock on door and leg it.

[@bobcarne3305]

Here's a couple. It used to be illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas day. This law was brought in by Oliver Cromwell in the 1650's. A law that is still current, you cannot sell Christmas crackers to anyone under the age of 12. This is a relatively new law brought about in 2015 under the pyrotechnic articles regulations. Keep up the good work Amanda.

[@LADYRAEUK]

Thank you! 😊

[@NigelWickenden]

@@LADYRAEUK The law is one must not bake mince pies on Christmas Day.

[@stuartlloyd8746]

As a child, my friends and I used to do this. We called it “Knock Down Ginger”, but I don’t know why, or who Ginger was.

[@LADYRAEUK]

I’m curious !

[@markgillespie8842]

we called it knocky door neighbour and used to tie some string to the letterbox lol.

[@LADYRAEUK]

Lol !

[@markgillespie8842]

@@LADYRAEUK I think the funniest one is a pregnant woman been able to pee in a coppers hat lol x

[@keithbaker120]

Knocking on some one's door nd running away when I was a kid in London was called "Knock Down Ginger" I have no idea why we called it that, but we did. The best was to use a block or flats(apartments) and have 4 people. The first 2 hit the first knockers and ran passed the 2 below and so on down the floors

[@goodbyerawlings]

The illegal knocking on doors thing was when I was a kid it was known as Knocky nine doors.

[@barrygibbens1900]

We called it knock down ginger

[@mikeallen7566]

Always cheers me up to watch you smile and laugh 🙃

[@LADYRAEUK]

😊

[@grapeman63]

The handling salmon in a suspicious manner law sounds like it is part of a wider anti-poaching act. The term "handling" has an additional legal meaning of allowing stolen goods to pass through ones possession, usually for profit. Most of these laws are very old and haven't been used for centuries. I very much doubt whether a modern British court would entertain any cases brought under them. Although they may not be technically repealed they may be abrogated through disuse. The legal doctrine of desuetude applied until the late medieval period.

[@colinp2238]

Sounds a bit fishy.

[@JackRabbit002]

Glad you cleared that up man!, I was getting a tad concerned like! Lol

[@milescosher83]

Can you tickle a salmon or is it just a trout thing? All fish in British rivers are owned by someone or other (rivers are private property). So catching them and taking them home for your tea is just theft. Had a unfortunate polish guy do 120 hrs comunity service for catching fish for his supper. Like you would in pretty much every other country on earth.

[@grapeman63]

@@milescosher83 No idea. The point here is about handling them as stolen goods (i.e. fencing them) rather than tickling them into a trance. Eastern European immigrants were a big problem in the early 90's due to them not understanding our laws. I remember once all the ornamental coy carp disappearing from a lake in Enfield over the course of a single night!

[@colinp2238]

@@milescosher83 Whatever floats your boat, it's a free country, allegedly.

[@jackthelad8182]

Ringing or knocking someone's door and running away was a thing we did regularly as children we called it thunder and lightning some call it knock down ginger, knocky nine doors is a few I know one law I broke regularly around 40yrs ago was being drunk in a pub and another law drunk in the street love these old laws the swans I knew about there was a law about having a bow and you could kill someone only on a Sunday once again amanda great content

[@markpotter8280]

I am so glad I saw this comment I explained to my girl friend that we use to call it knock out ginger and she was having none of it believing I made it up.

[@christombling9849]

Number 24 we use to call it knock a door run 🏃‍♂️ when i was a kid

[@barryrudge1576]

Still commonly used in British Magistrates courts is the Justice of The Peace Act of 1361 mainly for breach of thr peace in which one agrees to be bound over for 12 months to behave themselves. As fot knocking on doors, we called it "Knock a door- run" As for the bail of hay, not quite right. It was Hackney carriages that required to carry a bail of hay. That was written in the days before motor vehicles and as never been repealed.

[@MartinFarrell1972]

Happy birthday was copyrighted but then it was changed back to royalty-free. Before covid there was a rule in Scotland that if a stranger came to your door and asked to use your toilet you had to allow them in.

[@abarratt8869]

Re: gambling in libraries. If you're ever late returning a book, it's akin to Russian Roulette with 5 rounds loaded out of 6; you're whole life is now in the hands of the librarian, and they can kill with a look. Or, so I remember from when I was a kid returning books late...

[@TheSnowdogsShorts]

The happy birthday song was copyrighted until fairly recently. It is why you never used to hear happy birthday in films.

[@LADYRAEUK]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@petejones879]

Haha I laughed out loud about his comment on handling a salmon in a suspicious manner... Class that is

[@LADYRAEUK]

🤣🤣

[@jamesrussel1133]

Sounds like something from monty python or black adder!!

[@petejones879]

@@jamesrussel1133 exactly

[@gavintillman1884]

Happily, I saw it was announced that the copyright on Happy Birthday had recently expired.

[@nickbentley7482]

With regard to the archery requirement it goes back as far as Agincourt and Crecy where landowners had to provide either knights, men-at-arms or archers to fulfill their obligations to the crown. Also it is not only illegal to attend Parliament in armour but you cannot step past a line approximately 3 feet beyond the seats as this is beyond the maximum sword striking length at the the time.

[@camerabag15]

The line on the floor of Parliament was drawn to prevent sword fighting; any MP who steps forward to make his/her speech cannot have his/her toe over that line, hence the term "Toeing the line"

[@charleshayes2528]

The sword's length at parliament is an urban myth. Older paintings show that it was not true even when swords were worn. As for "Armour", the American guy said "bear armour" at one point, but you don't "bear" armour - you wear it. You do "bear" (as in carry) arms or weapons, so perhaps the law was not concerned with how you dress, but whether you were carrying certain weapons?

[@Rockdoc2174]

Handling doesn't mean quite its usual sense in that context. We usually talk about handling an everyday object so that's what our minds jump to but in the terms of the law handling really means being in possession of an item, normally illicitly. In the same way you can be charged with 'handling stolen goods.'

[@Kari_B61ex]

We definitely used to knock on doors and run away in the UK - We used to call it 'Knock, Knock, Ginger'. 🤣

[@mbo191]

The one about hay in the boot of the car I've heard before. Others I heard of is the one saying it's illegal for people from Wales entering the city of Chester before sunrise, and the penalty for it is decapitation. I've also heard that people on the Isle of Man can shoot and kill someone from Scotland if they are within 10 meters of a beach. I am from Sweden and we have had some peculiar laws there too, but they were removed sometime in the late 1980's. The Wolf Call is the first one that comes to mind, and I think not just Sweden had it but other countries as well. If a Wolf was sighted it was the duty of every able man aged 18 or older to go out and hunt it down. You didn't need a Driving Licence to drive a Bin Lorry/Garbage Truck, not even a Licence for a car. That law came about during WWII when many men in Sweden served in the Army and the collection of garbage still had to keep going. If you had Homing Pigeons you were required to have them registered at the local Army Headquarter, also a Law from the time of WWII, in case of war the normal Postal Service would stop working and other forms of communication was needed. / B.

[@NicholasJH96]

Door knocking was definitely a thing when I was young but I didn’t do it in the area I live in I did it in school to annoy the teachers that irritated me with my best friend

[@LADYRAEUK]

Lol

[@NicholasJH96]

@@LADYRAEUK only got caught once doing it properly did it 3 to 5 times

[@ItsAWasteOfTime]

Re: plank of wood Amanda. Have a look at the video 'The Plank' starring Eric Sykes and other British stars. A real classic :)

[@LADYRAEUK]

I’ll have a look

[@ktang001]

Rae Rae's snort-laugh just makes my day! LOL!

[@michaelsnow4735]

Great video, Amanda. I knew about most of them, including the money one,and the last time that was used was when we started getting East Europeans over here, a couple were arrested for not having a coin of the realm on them. Also there used to be a law that made it illegal to shoot a Scottish person within the walls of York, with a bow&arrow

[@LADYRAEUK]

Thanks for sharing!

[@guybrewin556]

LOL about the shooting a Scottish person in York... As opposed to just shooting ANYONE, ANYWHERE. Also, what was the money rule? I think I missed it

[@michaelsnow4735]

@@guybrewin556 it comes under the vagrants act

[@1949corek]

Got removed from the statute books, and the scotsman had to carry the bow & arrow.

[@shandywarhol4444]

Knock-A-Door Run.... That's what we called it in Lancashire!!!! Lol. Kx

[@LADYRAEUK]

Lol that’s great 🤣

[@williammcaleese2709]

Ring Bell Skoosh, as we called it in Scotland.

[@LADYRAEUK]

That’s a new one lol

[@HyperDaveUK]

The Happy Birthday thing is no longer true nor was it a "British Law" It was copyright.

[@Greenwood4727]

we never throw away anything that can be useful.

[@mark240862]

Not many people know this as its not highly publicised and denied by the powers that be when their asked about it... But there is no speed limit on the north side of the Thames embankment after midnight between Battersea Bridge and Lambeth Bridge. If you don't believe me... Try it and see how you get on.

[@highpath4776]

it is def 20 now, and camera enforcement.

[@mikeduffield9174]

AMANDA you crack me in a nice way, your face expression's when your confused or surprised at the some of things us crazy Brits do, Also when you laugh uncontrollable you get the snorts that makes me lol even more that's how my Daughter sounds lol and makes us laugh even more, your so Pucker London Lingo for great just don't try using it your videos though as it will become a habit I put that word in my 8 year old nephews birthday card and um he started saying Pucker to his mum but um it came out with the f word as he was trying to say Pucker he said to his mum well uncle Mike says it lol oops. And now his dad says it to wind his wife up. So glad I spotted you videos my chance, your videos are so Pucker lol and interesting to watch thanks Amanda for Brighting my days up, oh love your tattoos though I have to get some it will make me look ard in it lol.

[@jameswestley8386]

Most of these have been repealed but I've definitely heard of the suit of armour law in the commons and the Archery law. Id bring that back.

[@vinnyfurlong6845]

Never noticed before Amanda yo snort when you laugh sometimes........ 🤣(snort!)

[@LADYRAEUK]

Lol

[@rattytattyratnett]

Its not illegal to put a postage stamp on a letter upside down. Although often reported, it's never been a law to shoot a welshman with a longbow.

[@jamesrussel1133]

Ha you are wrong! I was brought up near Chester city. We were all told as kids it was still legal to kill a Welshman from the city walls, shooting over the river Dee providing it was done with a bow and arrow. To be honest that’s a pretty long way and would be one hell of an achievement. It would be nice to think it’s still literally a “ get out of jail” card, as I have met some pretty disagreeable Welsh guys, especially when trying to park in a seaside town where they think they own the street in front of their house….Lol…only joking.

[@lordcypher7922]

I believe the Salmon law has something to do with poaching/illegal fishing and was probably granted by landowners to protect stocks and their interests but some of these laws have been repealed.

[@thebolsta]

Tickling trout and salmon for sure... And poaching laws are still enforced.

[@cornovii934]

In the English border towns of the Marches , Chester , Oswestry , Shrewsbury , Hereford etc , i believe it is still technically legal to shoot a Welshman with a crossbow between sunset and sunrise .

[@chrisanderson6950]

Isn't there a similar law about shooting Scots in York too?

[@colinp2238]

Must get a crossbow.

[@warrenrandall6936]

We tried to extend that law to Essex.

[@marcu8028]

The handling of salmon - is referring to poachers, who could catch salmon by "tickling" them, while the fish waited to get past some obstacle. This would entrance the fish so that it wouldn't react fast enough, when the poacher grabbed it, and pulled it out of the water.

[@LADYRAEUK]

Ahvtaybks!

[@LADYRAEUK]

Ah thanks! 🤣😊*

[@Turnbull50]

I’m in the uk and we used to knock on doors and run away for some reason we called it knocky nine doors

[@emmahowells8334]

Brits have done that knock a door or rang a bell & ran away, it's happened all over the UK lol.

[@LADYRAEUK]

👍🏻

[@chindleymuffin]

The law about singing Happy Birthday is void now, since that song is out of copyright and now in the public domain. I believe it became copyright free during the Pandemic.

[@LADYRAEUK]

Ah ok, I didn’t know that

[@niknoks6387]

We played knock a door run as kids.

[@LADYRAEUK]

😊👍🏻👍🏻

[@alistairmcdougall9625]

Knocking on someones door & running away was called knock down ginger, which originated from a British poem Ginger, Ginger broke my winder. Hit the winda crack, strange but true🤭

[@LADYRAEUK]

Lol I wondered why it was called that

[@alistairmcdougall9625]

@@LADYRAEUK Going to try & find the poem today which must be very old as I know my mother played knock down ginger as a child over 50 years ago

[@Sp0tthed0gt]

Knock down ginger has been a children's game for ever. It's only cabs for hire were required to carry hay. Pretty sure "Happy Birthday" is way out of copyright. I suspect the reason for the Salmon law had a lot to do with poaching, or rather an attempt to supress it.

[@christianoliver3572]

I guess I'm going to have to rethink how I treat my salmon from now on.

[@Jamie_D]

lol i've swore a number of times in a library, not too loudly and mainly at their slow ass computers

[@tonysutton6559]

Knocking on doors and running (or thunder and lightning as we called it) has been done for years. A better version was to knock on the door of a stranger and engage them in conversation. The kid who talked longest won the kitty. Another variant was to tie a long piece of string to the door knocker and hide some distance away before jerking the string to make the knocker bang on the door. The person would open the door, see nobody and go back in the house and you would jerk the string again making the owner come back out again. There was always a chance that they would spot the string so you made sure that you played the game with other kids who couldn't run as fast as you.

[@guybrewin556]

Firstly, a MASSIVE LOL at 'making sure to play with kids who couldn't run as fast as you', I love the loyalty to ones friends!! HAHA. Secondly, I actually really like the first variation, where the kid to talk the longest wins... That's a really good way to get kids, from an early age, used to talking to strangers and to adults... Especially for kids more on the shy/ introverted end of the spectrum, it's s really good way to get them used to it from an early age & would massively help them out later in life... I REALLY struggled with that sort of thing - engaging with strangers, making small talk, ETC - in my early adult years, because as a kid, I was never forced to learn to interact... I never everr learned how to make friends - I went to a REALLY small primary school, there were only approximately 80 kids in the school, so aside from prep, every class had two years in it; the grade 1's & 2's together, 3's & 4's together, etc and still the classes were only 10-20 people, so everyone was automatically friends with everyone in their year and the year above & below them and everyone in the school (even the preps and grade 6's) knew each other, at least by name and face... It was a great school academically and their learning/teaching philosophy was great, but for the quieter, more introverted &/OR shy kids, it could be really quite damaging to our social skills - When I moved on to high school, as a 12 year old going from a school of 80 to a school of 800, I REALLY struggled, I didn't make a real friend in my class for the entire year, just spoke to whoever was closest to me & even then, only really when they spoke to me first. It took me a LONG time to develop some adequate social skills. And WAY longer than that even to learn how to make a friend... As opposed to either A) One who I've known my whole life, therefore we never really made friends, we just always were. OR B) One who came up to me and made friends with me like they wouldn't take no for an answer - For example, when I was 16, I went to a new school after coming back from a year in Brasil. And towards the end of my first week, this girl came up to me and started rubbing my chest while singing 'The Bad Touch' by The Bloodhound Gang (You and me baby aren't nothing but mammals, so let's do it like they do in the Discovery Channel) ... Not in an inappropriate way or anything, she had just seen how alone I was and how unhappy I was and mistakenly thought I was lonely (I wasn't really lonely, I enjoy a certain amount of social interaction, but I've always been happy with my own company... I was just a very serious and quite depressed kid and, although I didn't know it yet, was at the beginning of what would be a nose dive into incredibly severe depression, anxiety disorder & BPD), anyway, point is, she became one of my best friends and introduced me to her group of friends and I became quite close to all of them... But if she hadn't come up to be and insisted on being friends, I could've easily gone through those 2 years of school without a single friend - Just friendly acquaintances. And it's not like It's the FAULT of my primary school, none of my other friends from primary school had those problems, it's just that like I said, for an introverted, shy, socially awkward kid to go through his formative years without having to learn to socialise with a stranger, or make a friend, or even make a friendly acquaintance, or initiate any kind of social interaction at all with anyone who isn't already a close friend; well it can be VERY damaging to already poor social skills. And from experience, it takes a LONG time to repair and develop to our social skills as an adult & teenager (started as a teenager) was probably about 24-25 before I felt confident my social skills were where they SHOULD be, I mean I'll never be an outgoing, social butterfly type person (thank God, or Satan, or Buddha, or Kabala Monster for that!!), but I can make small talk with a stranger without feeling totally awkward and like I'm doing it wrong, if a person seems interesting to me, I can walk up to them and befriend them, or attempt to at least, because I know when to walk away if they aren't interested in being friends, ETC, ETC, ETC. Whoops sorry, I've been rambling a bit (a lot really) and I've probably repeated myself a few times, but I'm FAR too lazy to go back and edit, so if by some chance anyone is actually still reading; I'm sorry you had to wade through the muck of my (frankly quite boring) history of social inadequacy.