hanging my head in shame

worried_jim

Jo4 wrote: »

How is the new job role going?

The most boring thing I have ever done and I will start moaning tomorrow so much that they send me back. If I ever have to deal with another Nigerian passport or Latvian I.D card ever again it will be a day too soon.

miggy

worried_jim wrote: »

The most boring thing I have ever done and I will start moaning tomorrow so much that they send me back. If I ever have to deal with another Nigerian passport or Latvian I.D card ever again it will be a day too soon.

So... off to a good start, huh?
Can't you mix them up a bit to add interest or something?
Hope you are enjoying all this sunshine!

GeorgeUK

Jim, have you heard that they are bringing out a new Oxo cube in support of the English World cup bid?
It's going to be white with a red cross on it.

It's going to be rebranded for Scotland though and called the laughing stock.

worried_jim

I enjoy nothing more than sitting in the garden on a summers day with a good book. Books normally come to me as recommended lends from friends or I'll read the book review in the Sunday times and order them from the library (about a year later when they finally get a copy). At the moment I am reading "Warden: Texas Prison Life and Death from the Inside Out"-
http://www.amazon.com/Warden-Texas-Prison-Death-Inside/dp/1931721505/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277626322&sr=1-2
The story is of the author’s 30-year career in Texas prisons, from his first night as a shotgun-wielding guard to the last man he accompanied to the death chamber, Willett remembers not just the big events of his career but the small ones that give prison life its texture. In measured but powerful prose, he describes the efficient actions of the “tie-down team”; the prisoner’s often meandering last words; and the way that he himself lifted his glasses from his nose to signal the executioner to start the IV flow.
It is an absolute page turner and emotion filled. I love books about people in tricky situations and how they cope so Death row is an ideal setting and the way he describes the execution process is riveting. I personally don't get capital punishment as it isn't a deterrent so seems pointless, but what haunts me most is those that choose to go and see a person put to death like a victim's family is going to get some "comfort" from watching a death, whilst the condemned persons family is also watching her son put to death just beyond the other side of a partition.
Other good books about the subject include "Within These Walls: Memoirs of a Death House Chaplain"
http://www.amazon.com/Within-These-Walls-Memoirs-Chaplain/dp/190413274X/ref=pd_sim_b_1
Again another book you will just fall into and be engrossed with the going ons. I know that these seem a bit morbid but Harry Potter just doesn't do it for me. I've read a few threads on mse about capital punishment and they never seems to be any shortage of mse members who would happily pull the lever or flick the switch to end a persons life, again it's all about the human condition chalk and cheese with both parties thinking that they are right and the other is wrong. Can the state taking a life ever be just or should we practice eye for an eye even though Gandhi said that eventually the world would be blind.
Happy thoughts for a summers day...

savingwannabe

Crumbs, v deep for a sultry summer morning. Some of my friends have been called for jury service. I am so glad it is not me. I would not be able to sleep. What happens if you make a mistake???? One of them is from the hang'em brigade too. Oh dear.

worried_jim

A friend of mine did jury service and it sounded really interesting. I've never done it but I did visit Crown Court once to see a trial when I was doing A-levels. It was a death by reckless driving case and the court spent all morning discussing if the tyre marks at the accident were to be used as evidence, I don't know why they bothered, I took one look at the defendant and decided he was guilty, he was dressed like Del Trotter, Case closed, next.
I used to drive past Hove Crown Court on my way to work and at 8.30 you could see all the chav scum waiting outside in their trakkie bottoms, Reebok classics, Burberry caps drinking redbull/stella, smoking rollies. I don't know why the magistrate bothered hearing the cases he/she could have just looked out the window and done society a favour by just rounding them all up and shipping them off to borstal. They were all guilty of something and if they weren't today then they would be tomorrow. I'd make a great Judge....

savingwannabe

I was a witness in a court case once. I am Indian (when i had a Saturday job whilst doing my degree i realised the gift vouchers being used were stolen) and when i went to court to give evidence against the defendant everyone stared at me as they couldn't believe an Indian girly might be a potential criminal.

I felt rather brave. In the end I did not have to give evidence as he had so many other bad crimes the one in our shop was a formality. It was rather exciting though.

I still couldn't assume from the way people are dressed that they were guilty. I would be too scared to make a mistake.

Having said that I used to live next to a chav family. They were horrible to me and got away with all sorts. The police used to lock them up and they did not care at all. I do feel sorry for people that deal with horrible person's on a daily basis though.

worried_jim

I Love your answer savingwannabe. I am Indian....
I've never seen a chav wearing a sari, how could that work? Bright colours, flowing clothes and a Burberry cap, I am sure they are out there. I can just hear my Indian friends parents "your not going out dressed like that" "shut up Dad, your are sooo fresh"

savingwannabe

Love it. Never worn a sari mate. 'Elth and safety and all that!

worried_jim

OMG I have just seen Michael Eavis singing Happy Birthday on stage with Stevie Wonder. This image and sound will haunt me till I die, why Michael why?