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Eddie Teach

#1095
May 21, 2009, 09:03:03 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 21, 2009, 04:57:15 AM
Today I am: Paranoid.

That gave me an idea for a status rating system.

Status:
Paranoid
Crazy Train
Goodbye to Romance
Mama I'm Coming Home
No More Tears
Back on Earth
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Tamas

#1096
May 21, 2009, 09:05:25 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 21, 2009, 09:03:03 AM
Quote from: Tyr on May 21, 2009, 04:57:15 AM
Today I am: Paranoid.

That gave me an idea for a status rating system.

Status:
Paranoid
Crazy Train
Goodbye to Romance
Mama I'm Coming Home
No More Tears
Back on Earth



WHERE THE FUCK IS IRON MAN?!!!!!!!

Eddie Teach

#1097
May 21, 2009, 09:10:21 AM
Quote from: Tamas on May 21, 2009, 09:05:25 AM
WHERE THE FUCK IS IRON MAN?!!!!!!!

I doubt Jos has ever felt like Iron Man in his life.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Josquius

#1098
May 21, 2009, 09:25:16 AM
Destroyed all I once held dear?
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True. Can't say I have.
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charliebear

#1099
May 21, 2009, 11:25:46 AM
Another beautiful day in the 'burbs of Detroit.  I've got brat's on my new grill.  Life is good.

charliebear

#1100
May 21, 2009, 11:27:41 AM Last Edit: May 21, 2009, 11:34:17 AM by charliebear
Quote from: Queequeg on May 13, 2009, 10:18:31 PM
Anybody else watch Lost?

Yes, I do.  I always end up with more questions than answers, especially after that season finale.

Caliga

#1101
May 21, 2009, 07:41:45 PM
0 Ed Anger Disapproval Points

Monoriu

#1102
May 21, 2009, 10:29:00 PM
I knew it.  I was right - I knew I was not on the jury list for the past 10 years.  Because I was just informed that I am now on the list. 

I did not graduate in Hong Kong and I am not a registered voter.  But I still had to renew my driver's licence.  And if I am qualified to take the test I cannot claim to be illiterate, can I. 

I am: pissed.

Habbaku

#1103
May 21, 2009, 10:37:44 PM
Quote from: Monoriu on May 21, 2009, 10:29:00 PM
I am: pissed.

You've managed to duck even being in the selection pool for jury duty for ten whole years and you're pissed?   :huh:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Monoriu

#1104
May 21, 2009, 10:38:46 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on May 21, 2009, 10:37:44 PM
Quote from: Monoriu on May 21, 2009, 10:29:00 PM
I am: pissed.

You've managed to duck even being in the selection pool for jury duty for ten whole years and you're pissed?   :huh:

Of course.  I want to be immune for the rest of my life  <_<

MadImmortalMan

#1105
May 21, 2009, 10:44:36 PM
You sure there's no stipulation about government worker bees serving on juries? There might be a conflict of interest. Like, if you ever worked for the prosecutor's office or something.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Monoriu

#1106
May 21, 2009, 10:47:44 PM
You are right, those in the department of justice, lawyers and the disciplinary services are exempted.  But other civil servants are not.  The reason I am so sure that I was not on the jury list in the past is because most of my civil service colleagues have been called up at least once.  My wife served twice in the past 5 years.  They probably had a very limited pool - there aren't that many university graduates from HK universities. 

But if they are now including everybody who has a driver's licence, the jury selection pool should be greatly enlarged now.  So my chances should not be too bad.  If I am called up I am going to come up with every conceivable reason to fight it.

Barrister

#1107
May 21, 2009, 11:04:48 PM
Dude - you're a civil servant.  You'll get full pay while you're on jury duty, yet have laughably easy days.  You should milk jury duty for all its worth.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Monoriu

#1108
May 21, 2009, 11:14:05 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 21, 2009, 11:04:48 PM
Dude - you're a civil servant.  You'll get full pay while you're on jury duty, yet have laughably easy days.  You should milk jury duty for all its worth.

What I am worried about is I need to go back to the office after trial each day to do the same work until midnight.
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