Andrew @generalising@mastodon.flooey.org

It's a great Act from a special-cases perspective, to be honest. Not only does s.17 ensure that Shetland is not disrespected (though apparently you can box up Orkney or the Western Isles all you want), s.1(1)(a) has an urgent caveat to make sure they didn't accidentally omit Skye.

Today's quiz question: a) what is the most unusually specific legislative requirement in the country, and b) why is it section 17 of the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018

Chapter ten and he has not explained how to make the money yet, this is eerily up-to-date. all it needs is to add "27/?" and some random emoji

I think this bit went around a couple of years ago from someone talking earnestly about tomatoes, now I think about it

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A delightful mystery, 1948: two kids playing in the attic of a Hampstead pub find a deed box, forced open, with someone's will inside it.

No-one of that name ever lived there. The passage had been nailed up for decades.

The manual of trademark guidance notes there is special statutory protection for this, the Red Cross (etc), the Olympic/Paralympic symbols... and also the International Civil Defence sign, which I had no idea even existed.

THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:

Another from the "well they would, wouldn't they": 1934, and the National Bridge Association recommends bridge be taught in schools. While making it sound surprisingly murderous.

THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:

Geneva, 1923: Esperanto

THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:

Perthshire, 1915: "the value of plain fare", or, how to take delight in a potato

THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:

London, 1926: in a surprising twist, the Institute of Actuaries thinks we should teach insurance

THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:

Kingston-on-Thames, 1949: golf

(unusually, it actually got put into practice!)

THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:

London, 1892: writing poetry

THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:

Louisiana, 1886: "the science of forestry"

THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:

Edinburgh, 1875: physiology

THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:

Argyllshire, 1899: domestic science ("cooking, laundry work, dress making and housewifery")

THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:

Parliament, 1895: the metric system. Well, that one went well.

THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:

Surrey, 1931: the law pertaining to bigamy (!)

THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:

Notts, 1949: agricultural training (which surprisingly was not a cipher for 'get them out in the fields, it's harvest time')

THINGS THAT SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS, a brief and occasional #history:

London, 1932: biology, and/or sex