Boss: I’d rather employ a paedo than a veteran

[citizen k]

Get a doctor's confirmation that he's too ill to sit jury?

That's Plan A

[Martinus]

What *I* find a little weird is the swearing-in of new military recruits at halftime of sporting events.

What the fuck. Does it really happen? 

[citizen k]

What *I* find a little weird is the swearing-in of new military recruits at halftime of sporting events.

What the fuck. Does it really happen? 

[Razgovory]

The black guy in the second picture probably should have worn pants.

[Caliga]

Get a doctor's confirmation that he's too ill to sit jury?

Wrongo.  If I end up being empaneled, the person is going to be found guilty NO MATTER WHAT THE EVIDENCE MIGHT SUGGEST. 

[Syt]

Get a doctor's confirmation that he's too ill to sit jury?

Wrongo.  If I end up being empaneled, the person is going to be found guilty NO MATTER WHAT THE EVIDENCE MIGHT SUGGEST. 

Will you be: ONE ANGRY MAN?

[The Brain]

OK I have taken what passes for a military oath in Sweden. I would have been SERIOUSLY WEIRDED OUT AND ANNOYED if they had cheapened it by having me do it AT A FUCKING SPORTS EVENT.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH AMERICA

[Razgovory]

Get a doctor's confirmation that he's too ill to sit jury?

Wrongo.  If I end up being empaneled, the person is going to be found guilty NO MATTER WHAT THE EVIDENCE MIGHT SUGGEST. 

Great.  Now languish will be subpoenaed.

[Agelastus]

WTF.

Grumbler, have you done something? I tried to access this thread and Windows DEP function crashed the tab, and nearly the whole of Internet Explorer.

[Barrister]

Get a doctor's confirmation that he's too ill to sit jury?

Wrongo.  If I end up being empaneled, the person is going to be found guilty NO MATTER WHAT THE EVIDENCE MIGHT SUGGEST. 

I knew I liked Cal for a reason.

[DGuller]

BTW, can you get in legal trouble for serving in bad faith as a juror?

[sbr]

The black guy in the second picture probably should have worn pants.

Why not the white guy right next to him?  Raciss

[Razgovory]

The black guy in the second picture probably should have worn pants.

Why not the white guy right next to him?  Raciss

The black guy looks like he just showed up in his boxer shorts.

[Agelastus]

Conclusions are opinions, yes.  In American English, that is.  I am not offering any "counters" as is made plan by my statement that I have no conclusion in the absence of data.  Cost is something you brought up, and you have yet to make it relevant to the discussion.

Opinions can be changed with facts. Conclusions are final. Is that too hard to understand?

Anyway, I can't be bothered with most of the mass cropping today just to counter your own mass with mass, so I'll eliminate most of the redundant crap.

Now then...

"Obtuse" is obviously your word of the say, but I will throw it back in your face:  you are being obtuse to ignore the similarities between the two, and have yet to make your references to cemeteries (no matter their history) relevant to the discussion.

Westminster Abbey and Arlington's only similarity is that important people are buried there. Comparing a location that has become important for burials due to accidents of history to one specifically established for that function is what I consider obtuse about your position.

So there is no Brookwood Military Cemetery in Brookwood, Surrey, England?  No Aldershot Military Cemetery, in Aldershot Military Town, Hampshire?  I don't see what point you are making here that wouldn't be countered by the mere existence of The Cenotaph in London, frankly, but go ahead and try to make it.

Brookwood's cemetary is related to the memorials around the world for WWI and WWII; I am fairly sure that the USA has its share of war memorials for those two particular conflicts too. Arlington is still in use and has a much broader remit, so again a direct comparison between the two is somewhat invidious. Which is, of course, why your mention of the cenotaph has no relevance either, as would be any mention I could make of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Aldershot's a garrison town, and has been for centuries. I'd be more surprised if there wasn't a military cemetery there. It is also not a  perhaps the best term is "designated national military cemetery" so again the two aren't really comparable. As far as I am aware Arlington's location is due to a battle rather than to it being near a long standing garrison, although I would be happy to be corrected on this point if this is not the case.

We do not have the equivalent of Arlington. The USA, as you have pointed out, does not have the equivalent of a Tatoo. You have used the existence of the Tatoo as evidence that Britain has events closer to North Korea's than the fire safety show in New York, despite the fact that I have never related the event itself to North Korean practises.

On the other hand, if you are using the Tatoos as you have been doing as an example of reverence for the military that could be seen as excessive, then raising the issue of Arlington is entirely germane to the subject, and you are trying to avoid admitting this.

Oh well. Five years ago I respected you as a well read and interesting poster, one whose positions I tended to agree with on most issues.

Now I see that you are simply another one schtick wonder. Which is a real shame.

Always finish with a personal attack when you have no logical counter-arguments left to make, eh? 

All I can and will say here is that I can now read a thread on Languish and come to a point where I can tell exactly when you will post and ninety percent of the time what type of post it will be. That's why I used the term "one schtick wonder". All I can advise you to do is go back and reread a few of the threads you have added your wisdom too in the last few months.

After all, I've pretty much already said I constructed the original post deliberately to exclude the possibility of this type of spurious argumentative behaviour on your part, and all I can say is that I regret it failed to achieve its purpose.

[Sheilbh]

We do not have the equivalent of Arlington. The USA, as you have pointed out, does not have the equivalent of a Tatoo. You have used the existence of the Tatoo as evidence that Britain has events closer to North Korea's than the fire safety show in New York, despite the fact that I have never related the event itself to North Korean practises.

We have many Arlingtons.  They're in Flanders.  Menin Gate serves a similar purpose in our national identity I think.