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Re:The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after vo... by semi-extrinsic on Friday June 24, 2016 @12:12PM (#11970940)
In the British Parliament, there are lines which separate the MPs on the two sides. These lines are a bit more than two swordlengths apart, to prevent them from stabbing each other.
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Re:The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after vo... by keithpeter on Friday June 24, 2016 @12:37PM (#11971199)
And the Speaker has a nice big heavy club just in case...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/82544.stm

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Re:The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after vo... by dazzawazza on Friday June 24, 2016 @12:38PM (#11971212)
This is regarded as a bit of a myth. Search for swords in this official PDF https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-information-offi....

MPs have never been able to carry weapons in to the chamber so if it was a rule it's a bit silly (which doesn't mean it's not true given how silly the rest of the UK democracy is).

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Re:The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after vo... by ZeroGravitas on Friday June 24, 2016 @01:34PM (#11971775)
They do still, to this day, have a loop on the cloakroom for hanging their swords on though so it's not totally out of character.
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Re:The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after vo... by thomasahle on Friday June 24, 2016 @12:34PM (#11971159)
Wouldn't it be enough to have them just a bit more than one sword length apart? I suppose that's part of the reason for the London housing crisis.
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