12 weird facepalm worthy UK laws

Ellie Jane
3 min readMar 31, 2024
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Some of these laws are just outdated and have no bearing on society in the UK today, some are obvious and shouldn’t even need a law and others are just plain weird. Some of these laws you’ve probably broken yourself without even realising they exist (number 3 anyone?). They’ve just got lost in the deep hole of UK legal history along with many other things the government thinks is too time consuming to fix from the past.

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Ellie Jane

Classist, Ancient Historian and Archaeologist who loves exploring a variety of topics: historical and personal