It's all good, arr&bee. I was just messing with you. And you're right, WGB. I learned to always take a minute to read documents when someone smiles and says "just sign here..."
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It's all good, arr&bee. I was just messing with you. And you're right, WGB. I learned to always take a minute to read documents when someone smiles and says "just sign here..."
If it relates to marriage, taking more than a minute is recommended:)
Have you heard the saw "a minute on the lips, a lifetime on the hips" referring to sweet food? Well, the sweet kisses you get at the beginning of relationships translates into "a minute on the lips, a lifetime on my ass". If you'll pardon my French... :[[
Three little words , which begin a life sentence....:)
And that reminds me of one of my favorite jokes:
Question: What three words does any man fear hearing while making love?
Answer: "Honey! I'm home!"
As featured in many a French farce, and the cause of many a marriage breakdown.
The only winners are the lawyers.:[[
If I had my life all over again, I would train to be a lawyer.
If life became unbearably boring and lonely, turning oneself into a human form of a mosquito, and becoming a 'vexatious litigant' sounds an interesting way to pass the time.
One is sure of obtaining at least some sort of response.
Question: What would you call 30 dead lawyers who are chained to the bottom of a filled swimming pool?
Answer: A great place to start...
The problem with lawyers is we need some to handle any case, no matter how frivolous or ridiculous in its merits. Just because it seems like conspicuous litigation to 99.9999% of the public does not prove that the person filing suit doesn't believe in it. So, to that person [[and the general good), we need to have some leech willing to handle it, even if its only to make a buck or so.
Even though I know it, I'm still upset that somebody is always available because the greater good is no cure for the short-term headache associated with people who appear to abuse the process.
YEAH,WHAT JERRY JUST SAID I'M DOWN WITH IT....[now somebody slowly explain to me what he just said!!!!!!!!!!!!].
He said in order to prove that the principles of a justice system work, you have to test it in regard to those things that are fringe and unpopular [[as opposed to such things as we all agree make sense). That's why someone can sue a restaurant because his steak was only medium rare when he specifically told the waiter to prepare it medium well.
The case may be thrown out, but the waiter might have done it on purpose for some reason other than an honest mistake. There is always a possibility that there is merit in a case seen to be bullsh*t in the eyes of most, so we need those scumbag lawyers to test the system to find out.
Just to get it clear in my mind, when a case is thrown out, the lawyers on both sides get paid anyway....?
And the judge. Don't forget that the judge gets paid to move these things along...
Justice being seen to be done, I suppose?
So how comes people can successfully sue for scalding themselves on a hot apple pie bought when no warning notices are displayed, when their own common sense should tell them that the pie will be very hot? It comes back to which party has the better lawyer, and has nothing to do with justice.
A good lawyer is undoubtedly an asset, but the decision rests with the judge. Whether justice is then seen to be done, is quite another issue:rolleyes:
Common sense does make good sense. Judges often throw out cases which have been brought for trivial matters - usually brought by someone who feels themselves to be a victim, who ignores the common sense element, preferring to believe a large sum of money is their due. Compensation for 'hurt feelings', etc. When they lose, they usually are judged liable for most if not all costs - but then are likely to say that they have no money to pay.....which surprises no-one...but the lawyers and judge still get paid.
It's a bit like all the free newspapers and flyers that drop through the letterbox, which few want and even fewer read, but which are then recycled, to repeatedly follow the same negative process. It still gives somebody an income....
A lot of what is considered "frivolous" is colored by the media. People here in the US were outraged by the old woman who won several million dollars from McDonalds after she spilled hot coffee on her lap. How outrageous! Thankfully, a rational judge lowered it to a few hundred thousand dollars and our state and federal legislators put a cap on how much can be won via lawsuits of that nature.
But, wait... It turns out that McDonalds has had a long-standing history of ignoring customers who have had their lips and laps scalded by coffee that was at least 10 degrees hotter than what is considered to be safe. Not just that, but the photos of the incident reveal that the coffee was so hot, it burned the skin off of both of her thighs and literally became a life and death situation.
It was avoidable, yet ignored. So her case wasn't as frivolous as it seemed to be in the headline. And now, the overreaction by legislators means that people no longer have the constraint of civil jurisprudence to prevent them from negligence that can possibly result in death and/or disfigurement.
That's why it's important that cases be heard on individual merit and why [[hopefully) rational people make decisions. And why we need the sleazy lawyers who are willing to chase a buck for what we otherwise assume is a petty basis for a lawsuit.
Yes Jerry, I quite agree with that. There is often the consequential side to a story which is then played down by the media.
The individual merits of each case do need to be considered, but that takes time and expense. In the case of injury to customers, businesses have insurance for such events, but are still expected to take reasonable care.
I wonder if the day will come when personal insurance for all of us becomes mandatory, for when we step out of our homes?
Perhaps it will come down to that. People can't laugh with each other over differences any more for fear that they are laughing at each other for reasons that might be considered discriminatory and illegal. One of my favorite movies is "Blazing Saddles" which has some of the most blatantly racist language imaginable. But, placed into context of the film, it's hard to be offended unless you really just want to be. They can't do a film like that in 2014 for fear of being run out of the industry on a rail.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa,i got folks sueing me left and right just because a braincell died here or there[hey they can't live forever can they??]or just because a liver fossillized while it was still in the body[call the smithsonium]why bother me i'm just a small business man,i mean on every jug it printed[down in the corner to the right in the back,under the skull and crossbones what do you mean you can't find it???all you need is a good hubble telescope,it's right there.
They should know when they tried to pass it as tequila by putting a worm in it, that it was bad/good hooch. When the worm dissolved, I guess they just assumed that it was a bad worm.
The customers were stung because they were sold formic acid.
That might be better than grape Kool-Aid and anti-freeze bottled as cheap wine.
I'll take champagne over real pain.
Hmmm... Maybe instead of selling it as "cheap wine", I can make more money by calling it champagne... I get most of my good ideas from you guys.
At least the beverage you offer does, in reality, exist.....:rolleyes:
??! It does? And do people actually imbibe? :[[
I was just being screwy, but it shouldn't surprise me if people drank battery acid blended with broken glass so long as it was cheap and somebody else told them it was cool to do.
I think you're probably correct, Jerry...but I was actually alluding to arr&bee's hooch...:)
Okay, that is worrisome. There's a new party beverage here in the States: Purple Drank. You mix alcohol with codeine-laced cough syrup to make it. People have gone brain-damaged from over-indulgence of it and it is still gaining in popularity. I no longer shake my head at such stoopidity...
Not good news.
There's a whole lot of difference between getting drunk on too much alcohol, then sleeping it off - and being brain-damaged. I suppose the difference must be the quality of somebody's life, if not their actual life itself.
WHOAAAA!!!ACID??WORMS???...FIRST OF ALL NO WORM IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD GO NEAR A REAL BATCH OF THIS WONDERFUL ELIXUR[THEY CAN TELL-DON'T ASK]AS FOR THE ACID,THIS PRODUCT EVAPORATES ACID[TOO WEAK]THE ACID THAT IS,READ THE INGREDIENTS,what do you mean you can't see any,its there under the scull and crossbones...where did I put that hubble telescope???
You dropped it in the hooch, and it dissolved.
I'm not sure about that one. It'd take a lot of hooch to dissolve the Hubble telescope and something tells me that it doesn't stay around in great volumes for very long...
My reasoning is that the virtual hooch of arr&bee [[never made in great volumes in the first place) has phenomenal qualities, simply because he regularly reminds us....
Although the Hubble telescope also has phenomenal qualities, it has never allowed anyone to see arr&bee's hooch.
The whole scenario has an interesting parallel with Alice in Wonderland.:)
But instead of "through the rabbit hole", it's "down the hatch"...
And don't forget The Mad Hatter's Tea Party.....
What was in the tea pot, and why did the Dormouse keep going to sleep?
Purple drank, I suppose...
Which leads to Purple Haze ...and seemingly, for some, total oblivion.
Depressing.....:[[
Oblivion would be the perfect name for a drug or type of booze. It would sell out like crazy if the name reflected the effects.
'Arr&bee's Oblivion Hooch', anyone? :)