Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

kabayiri

PasturesNew wrote: »

What is the first car debate?

Funding DS/DDs car will reduce the reliance on expensive lessons; and mean less of parents precious time shuffling them around to all the classes and stuff in the evening. Add it all up and you're somehow in credit!

It feels like the discussion where your tother half comes home and claims to have saved £40 by buying a pair of £80 shoes half price in the sale. The online banking app *must* be broken because I really struggle to find this £40 saving

CKhalvashi

I really need to catch up.

Was discharged from jury service yesterday and currently dealing with contracts for the summer, which is what I should have been doing last week.

PasturesNew

kabayiri wrote: »

Funding DS/DDs car will reduce the reliance on expensive lessons; and mean less of parents precious time shuffling them around to all the classes and stuff in the evening. Add it all up and you're somehow in credit!

It feels like the discussion where your tother half comes home and claims to have saved £40 by buying a pair of £80 shoes half price in the sale. The online banking app *must* be broken because I really struggle to find this £40 saving

My parents never shuffled me round to things in the evening.
I paid for my own lessons.
I bought my own car.

It's a different world!

kabayiri

PasturesNew wrote: »

My parents never shuffled me round to things in the evening.
I paid for my own lessons.
I bought my own car.

It's a different world!

.. I did say "next generation"

(and no, I didn't mean Star Trek!)

PasturesNew

kabayiri wrote: »

.. I did say "next generation"

Well... what can I say .... I blame the parents!

kabayiri

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I really need to catch up.

Was discharged from jury service yesterday and currently dealing with contracts for the summer, which is what I should have been doing last week.

I should have emailed you the MP3 of Tony Hancock's classic episode "Twelve Angry Men" before the jury service.

It's a reference text

CKhalvashi

kabayiri wrote: »

I should have emailed you the MP3 of Tony Hancock's classic episode "Twelve Angry Men" before the jury service.

It's a reference text

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

We had a brilliant jury manager for the first week, and a lady who took it really seriously for the second (including not seeming too happy that I'd taken my expenses form back before leaving central Cambridge yesterday)

I've met some brilliant people though, despite not actually getting to sit on a trial.

OH is having a sim ride, so hopefully she'll be home soon

kabayiri

CKhalvashi wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

We had a brilliant jury manager for the first week, and a lady who took it really seriously for the second (including not seeming too happy that I'd taken my expenses form back before leaving central Cambridge yesterday)
...

An old schoolfriend is a barrister in London.

On his very first case the chambers sent him to Coventry, for a court case there.

As a non-driver, he manages to arrive in time, but still apologises to the judge for his lateness.

At which point, the judge discovers and explains to m'learned friend, that he is not down for any case in his court that day.

The case was actually in Leicester !!

So he hikes it over to Leicester; by expensive taxi; is late; and is fined for contempt of court !! :rotfl:

-- It turns out this was a common prank played on the newbie barristers by the Chambers.

(And you wonder why we have to pay these people such high salaries? It's to cover the jokes cost)

PasturesNew

kabayiri wrote: »

So he hikes it over to Leicester; by expensive taxi; is late; and is fined for contempt of court !! :rotfl:

-- It turns out this was a common prank played on the newbie barristers by the Chambers.

(And you wonder why we have to pay these people such high salaries? It's to cover the jokes cost)

But ... it's not funny is it.

It's stupid, juvenile, pointless, unprofessional and wasting everybody's time.

Daft twonks.

kabayiri

PasturesNew wrote: »

But ... it's not funny is it.

It's stupid, juvenile, pointless, unprofessional and wasting everybody's time.

Daft twonks.

If you listen to the kind of trivial cases which often come up, you can't avoid the conclusion that a lot of it does seem pointless.

He used to make a decent wedge representing different members of the Triad gangs, often with ludicrous defences for their actions.

We never had trouble getting a decent table in the restaurants in Soho. I guess that was a plus.

Maybe it's changed now, I dunno.