# My first edicts as Regent of All About Which I Care **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 18, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999 "2017-08-18T19:54:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/1 "2017-08-18T19:54:16Z")
I have just been named Supreme Invincible Ruler Over All Things That I Care About and None Other. SIROATTICANO. You can call me SIR for short. My first edicts are as follows and are effective immediately: 1. Anyone who uses any toilet that may possibly be used by others and fails to take whatever measures necessary to ensure upon completion of their business thereon or thereabouts that the seat is clean and readily useable by another shall be subjected to the punishment of cleaning all surfaces of each toilet of the realm, and the surrounding floor, by method of their own tongue for a period of not less than 30 days, during which time no other food or water shall be ingested by the convict. Let them depend on slobs such as themselves for sustenance. 2. Anyone who shall take the last of the coffee from a communal coffee pot and fail to immediately brew more shall be steeped in near boiling water until all of their essence is removed and their remains discarded in the compost pile. The resulting essence water shall be poured into the Royal dog food bowl on top of the dry kibble, in appropriate amounts to make proper gravy for said kibble, until gone. Those who will not brew will be made into stew, doggy style. So it is written, so let it be done. Hast thou any to add? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/2 "2017-08-18T19:58:45Z")
Meat products ruin a compost pile. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Tee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Tee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tee)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/3 "2017-08-18T20:54:52Z")
Yes, I do. The offense: returning two ice cube trays to the work freezer containing one (1) single cube apiece. More than once. It’s diabolical. I await a remedy. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/4 "2017-08-18T21:01:26Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Meat products ruin a compost pile. Just sayin’. 1. Anyone who attempts to give a sensible rebuttal to any of my edicts shall be guilty of persnickitery and sentenced to not less than 6 months of turning the compost pile by hand. During the duration of the sentence the prisoner shall not be allowed to wash or bathe said hand(s). ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/5 "2017-08-18T21:02:36Z")
The dishwasher should be emptied at one time and not over the course of the week. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/6 "2017-08-18T21:03:39Z")
> [@Tee](#): > > Yes, I do. The offense: returning two ice cube trays to the work freezer containing one (1) single cube apiece. More than once. It’s diabolical. > > I await a remedy. That is clearly A Thing About Which You Care and is, by definition of my title, completely outside my prevue. You must make the appropriate decree and design the appropriate punishment. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/7 "2017-08-18T21:05:32Z")
Sorry dude. I still have the keys to **Skald the Rhymer** ’s secret lair. I’ll be sending the assassin-bots AND the flying monkeys after you. Nothing personal. I just have a thing against alleged supreme ruler types that aren’t me. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/8 "2017-08-18T21:07:19Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > 1. Anyone who attempts to give a sensible rebuttal to any of my edicts shall be guilty of persnickitery and sentenced to not less than 6 months of turning the compost pile by hand. During the duration of the sentence the prisoner shall not be allowed to wash or bathe said hand(s). I compost in a cement mixer. Makes turning the pile as simple as plugging it in. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Tee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tee)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/9 "2017-08-18T21:44:20Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > That is clearly A Thing About Which You Care and is, by definition of my title, completely outside my prevue. You must make the appropriate decree and design the appropriate punishment. Bureaucrats. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/10 "2017-08-18T21:51:11Z")
So what about people who drink all the coffee, don’t make a new pot, AND don’t turn off the warmer, causing the carafe to overheat and explode? ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/11 "2017-08-19T05:51:04Z")
Oh, great and powerful SIR, do you care about litter? If so, would you please issue a decree that all offenders be made to crawl on hands and knees along a busy street, picking up litter with their mouths for no less than six months? As your humble servant, I beseech thee. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/12 "2017-08-19T12:05:27Z")
Anyone who, while motoring slightly ahead of me in an adjacent lane and approaching a crimson traffic signal, veers into my lane and in front of me in order to be “first” when the signal changes to shamrock, shall have each and every of their orifices packed with Vegemite for 24 hours. And thus it shall be. mmm ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/13 "2017-08-19T14:55:04Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > So what about people who drink all the coffee, don’t make a new pot, AND don’t turn off the warmer, causing the carafe to overheat and explode? Immediate death by insult and mockery dispensed by a mob of all coffee drinkers in the realm. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/14 "2017-08-19T15:02:54Z")
1. Any able-bodied adult who, upon leaving a public restroom, uses a paper towel in order to avoid touching the door handle and then throws said paper towel on the floor, shall be required to place the bare palms of his/her hands upon every faucet, handle, flush activator, etc in the facility for a full 10 seconds, then to exit the facility without washing hands, and to refrain from any handwashing for a full hour. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/15 "2017-08-20T07:23:18Z")
No, no - such a miscreant should, after the fondling of the fittings, be required to rub his/her hands upon his/her face and genitals for a like period of time. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/16 "2017-08-20T07:54:29Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > So what about people who drink all the coffee, don’t make a new pot, AND don’t turn off the warmer, causing the carafe to overheat and explode? Off with their heads; unless they caught it on video and it goes viral, 'cause that would be kinda cool. > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Anyone who, while motoring slightly ahead of me in an adjacent lane and approaching a crimson traffic signal, veers into my lane and in front of me in order to be “first” when the signal changes to shamrock, shall have each and every of their orifices packed with Vegemite for 24 hours. No, no, not the mouth! It’s inhuman! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/17 "2017-08-20T08:28:15Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > That is clearly A Thing About Which You Care and is, by definition of my title, completely outside my prevue. You must make the appropriate decree and design the appropriate punishment. Purview. Typos and unintended spelling mistakes may be pointed out but shall not be punished. Those who purposefully misspell or misuse punctuations marks shall be made to wash graffiti off walls and other surfaces, preferably under bad weather conditions. ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/18 "2017-08-20T08:29:55Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > No, no - such a miscreant should, after the fondling of the fittings, be required to rub his/her hands upon his/her face and genitals for a like period of time. zxz= = nzzxxxxd===xxr =xxx Sent from my SM-G900T using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/19 "2017-08-20T08:38:28Z")
Please ignore the above. My phone has started posting things on its own. :o Sent from my SM-G900T using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999/20 "2017-08-20T09:51:45Z")
> [@coffeecat](#): > > zxz= = nzzxxxxd===xxr > =xxx > > Sent from my SM-G900T using Tapatalk > [@coffeecat](#): > > Please ignore the above. My phone has started posting things on its own. :o > > Sent from my SM-G900T using Tapatalk I don’t know which one of you to believe. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-edicts-as-regent-of-all-about-which-i-care/793999.md?page=2)