Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lostinrates

I am after a fancy dress item for free and very low effort. Its ideally a joke on 'sight'. I was going I had something I could turn into comedy glasses, in fact I still might have,....(card or paper and my gardening sunglasses).

Any other bright ideas?

fc123

Wow, I now know more about Judaism than I have ever known before
As we recently found out OH is 1/8 th Jewish (or maybe 1/16th as we don't know if his Grandmother was 100% or 50%) I do feel we should know something about it. All we know are the bits we were taught in RE 40 of years ago.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

I am after a fancy dress item for free and very low effort. Its ideally a joke on 'sight'. I was going I had something I could turn into comedy glasses, in fact I still might have,....(card or paper and my gardening sunglasses).

Any other bright ideas?

We took a small child down to Margate on Sunday and went into the joke shop.
It isn't free but made us LOL and if OH and I get invited to one, this is the theme for us.
There was a Fried Egg outfit and a Bacon outfit. They didn't have a toast one but we worked out you could make one out of an old blanket.
Just an idea

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

If a judge directs a question specifically to you, I think you should answer it (standing up first, of course). Start by saying you have no rights of audience, and if he still wants you to answer, go ahead. I've not actually come across it happening though - not to a clerk. i've seen solicitors (who don't have rights of audience in the Crown Court or High Court or higher) get asked things.

Load of over-privileged old bunkum

If the bloke wants an answer he should ask and accept an answer that's given.



And be grateful somebody knows the answer

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

If a judge directs a question specifically to you, I think you should answer it (standing up first, of course). Start by saying you have no rights of audience, and if he still wants you to answer, go ahead. I've not actually come across it happening though - not to a clerk. i've seen solicitors (who don't have rights of audience in the Crown Court or High Court or higher) get asked things.

I didn't say I had no rights of audience, so I got that bit wrong, but I think my glancing around and moments of 'er, who, me?' Probably made it clear I was not sure what to do!

I did stand....and I did answer, and every one looked really uncomfortable, and I remember thinking, I am really uncomfortable too, and I don't know tips this is just because its so odd he is talking to me or they all know what I should be doing and I don't!

Counsel was furious with me for not coming up with better excuses for why he was late, but frankly.....not my problem, I was furious with him for being late and letting down my solicitor and our client. He wasn't a little late, he was like half a day late, and I had no idea what was happening because I couldn't get answers from his chambers. So I asked my solicitors what to say and they said to say to the clerk at court and they said to say I don't know but the solicitors are making every effort to find out'. I don my think any one anticipated I'd be asked by the judge when he lost patience!

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

I remember on the last thread that we were discussing online storage options- I just wanted to pass on what someone on another thread posted, that Copy.com is offering 20 Gb free storage instead of 15, if you download their Windows app, after a referral from another user. Seems to be highly recommended at least by this site, which FAIK, could be owned by them.

I've signed up and it seems OK. If anybody wants me to refer them so we can both get 5Gb extra you can still get 10x the free space of dropbox for nought if you use this link and download the app. Otherwise, in true MSE style you can still get the basic free 15Gb by going to the site yourself (the non-sponsored alternative).


It's another layer of backup, works on all gadgets AFAiK.

What about people with PCs? Any good for them?

Or is it just for gadgets?

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My school, at GCSE, made us all do maths, Eng language, Eng lit, and a foreign language. Then we had to do one of physics / chemistry, one of geography / biology, one of Latin / history / RE / classical civilisations, one of art / music / drama / CDT.

Then you chose 2 more out of any of the above, including extra modern languages, so you could easily do all 3 sciences, if you wanted to, or 3 languages (4 if you chose Latin). I did physics, geography, history and music as my choices, and added Latin and class civ as my options. My sisters both did all 3 sciences, and one of them also did both French and German.

Some of those subjects didn't exist at my school: Latin, Classical civilisations, Music, Drama, Extra Modern Languages, CDT.

I'd have loved to have done Drama, but they never did it at the school. I'd have been good at that.

Not even sure what CDT is really.

silvercar

CDT is craft, design and technology. You may have called it woodwork and metalwork.

Cookery got renamed food technology at one point.

GDB2222

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

One day during my 3 month trial in Jan to March this year, the Defendants (who were in the same car) were 30 minutes late for court. They'd been on time every other day, and it was snowing heavily, and the A40 was completely gunked up. Despite all that, the judge lost his rag, and said if they were so much as a minute late any day in the following 2 months of the trial, he'd remand them all in custody for the duration.

He can say that, but is it a fairly empty threat? If he did do it without a rather better reason than that, what would your chance be of 'springing' them on appeal? I thought there's a presumption in favour of not holding people on remand without very good reason?

Besides that, would G4S necessarily get them to court on time if it snows? And it costs a fortune to keep them in jail and transport them about every day. The public purse ought to be protected from judges having a bad day.

silvercar

We all did maths, eng language and english lit. Then had to choose at least one language (french, german, welsh, latin) and at least one science (physics, chemistry, biology, geology) and to make 5 .choices. other subjects on offer were history, geography, art, music, food tech, CDT, drama. computing was introduced the following year.