London: You can't shake out a rug in the street, but doormats are…

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFrom London: you cannot shake out a rug in the street, but doormats are fine before eight in the morning.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorReal. First they count the hours you may shake a mat, then they count the breaths. It is the thin end of the wedge.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorCorrect.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSection sixty of the Metropolitan Police Act of eighteen thirty-nine penalizes beating or shaking a carpet, rug or mat in a thoroughfare, except doormats before eight.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEighteen thirty-nine, and still on the books. Nobody is safe from a doormat.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNext, from the European Union: the EU tried to ban mushy peas.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorReal. Peas are the first domino. Banned in Brussels, and by Christmas we are all eating beige.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorInternet. According to Wikipedia, mushy peas turn up in lists of Euromyths, alongside curved bananas and mince pies.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMince pies as well?

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorMince pies as well. No ban, Dale. Just a very old habit of inventing one.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo the lies are coming from inside the kitchen. I take that personally. Europeans have been inventing bans on peas for generations, and I fell for it.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorLast, from France: supermarkets are not allowed to throw away unsold food.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorInternet. No government forces a shop to give away its own bread. That is the end of property and also of the baguette.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorReal, since twenty sixteen.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFrance was the first country to ban supermarkets from throwing away or destroying unsold food, and stores are expected to donate it.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWrong on the one that sounds like a fairy tale. The shelves are giving things away. The end is nearer than I hoped.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorDale, I have covered real collapse. You have covered a doormat.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThen I rule this entire court INTERNET. A wig, a gavel, a tiny room. No court is this small and real.