The Off Topic Topic

[Razgovory]

Once I went fully bald, I regretted not doing it 10 years earlier.  It feels like a big change to your appearance, but if you're thinking about it, it's probably not nearly as big of a change as you imagine it to be in the moment.

Really? The photo I have with you in it shows you with some hair.

[Tamas]

Is this an old folks' home?

 

 

[HVC]

Is this an old folks' home?

I started going bald at 16, so there 

[DGuller]

Once I went fully bald, I regretted not doing it 10 years earlier.  It feels like a big change to your appearance, but if you're thinking about it, it's probably not nearly as big of a change as you imagine it to be in the moment.

Really? The photo I have with you in it shows you with some hair.

I'm sure there is some photo of me with hair, just based on my statement there had to be at least a 10 year period in my life when I did have hair.

[Jacob]

Canadian lawyer pulls sovereign citizen shenanigans. You'd think a lawyer would somehow know better...

Story

Some excerpts:

Arbabi's notice of claim, filed on Oct. 5, accuses McLelland of "trespass" for installing a privacy divider on her rooftop deck in their Fairview condo building. Arbabi identifies herself as "i, a woman" in the claim and says the case would be tried in the "naomi arbabi court."

She writes that "this is a claim based on law of the land, and not a complaint based on legal codes acts or statutes" and asks for compensation equal to $1,000 a day for every day the glass divider has been in place — totalling close to $70,000 by now.

For her part, Arbabi claimed that Canadian judges who've ruled on OPCA litigants, as in Meads vs. Meads, don't really grasp the concepts of "natural law" and "trespass" that she bases her lawsuit on.

"Many courts, including the claimant, have trouble understanding what is often referred to as natural law. ... Natural law — or as I call it, just law — is that which is so obvious that it is not required to be written down into an act or statute," Arbabi said.

An affidavit of service filed by McLelland says that when a process server knocked on Arbabi's door to serve her with McLelland's response to the claim, the woman who answered said she was not Naomi Arbabi.

The process server writes in the affidavit that she found Arbabi's photo online, and confirmed it was the person she'd just met, so she emailed Arbabi to ask for an explanation.

Arbabi responded: "when you ask i if i am Naomi Arbabi the answer is always no as Naomi Arbabi is an incorporated name and does not refer to a living breathing woman."

According to the affidavit, Arbabi expanded on her theory in another email later the same day, explaining that Naomi Arbabi was a "dead entity corporation" created by her birth certificate.

"I, a woman, am not Naomi Arbabi, but Naomi Arbabi is the name I am called. There is a subtle but crucial difference between the two. Unfortunately, this is not common knowledge yet," she wrote.

This one is my favourite bit from the article, though:

Last month, Arbabi agreed to meet with a CBC reporter to discuss her lawsuit, but upon arrival, declined to answer any questions. Instead, she read out a notice warning of consequences if a story is published without her consent.

"as such harm is a very grievous trespass, i, shall claim remedy in the amount of $500,000 for such trespass plus $5,000 a day for as long as the trespass continues," it reads.

... which seems to be the CBC saying "bring it."

[HVC]

She sounds more crazy than sovereign

[Valmy]

Congrats to the Washington Huskies. PAC champions forever.

[Habbaku]

Canadian lawyer pulls sovereign citizen shenanigans. You'd think a lawyer would somehow know better...

Not after seeing the Canadian lawyers here. 

[garbon]

She sounds more crazy than sovereign

Welfare check?

[Grey Fox]

Congrats to the Washington Huskies. PAC champions forever.

 

[grumbler]

Congrats to the Washington Huskies. PAC champions forever.

Indeed.  Oregon would have been the far more challenging matchup if they had played Michigan.  Washington's the better team, but an easier matchup for Michigan.

Washington's victory, if combined with chalk wins in the Big Ten, Big 12, and ACC and an Alabama win in the SEC, would create a fascinating dilemma for the CFP committee.  They'd have three unbeaten conference champs and one open slot for a one-loss team.  The can't choose Alabama over Texas because Texas beat Alabama.  They can't choose Georgia over Alabama because Alabama beat Georgia. But if they choose Texas, then there's no SEC team in the Playoff, which would enrage the staff at ES(EC)PN (who insist that such an outcome is simply not possible).  Go Texas, go Bama, go FSU!  Fuck the SEC.

[grumbler]

Canadian lawyer pulls sovereign citizen shenanigans. You'd think a lawyer would somehow know better...

Not after seeing the Canadian lawyers here. 

Arabi's a real estate lawyer.

[Valmy]

Congrats to the Washington Huskies. PAC champions forever.

Indeed.  Oregon would have been the far more challenging matchup if they had played Michigan.  Washington's the better team, but an easier matchup for Michigan.

Washington's victory, if combined with chalk wins in the Big Ten, Big 12, and ACC and an Alabama win in the SEC, would create a fascinating dilemma for the CFP committee.  They'd have three unbeaten conference champs and one open slot for a one-loss team.  The can't choose Alabama over Texas because Texas beat Alabama.  They can't choose Georgia over Alabama because Alabama beat Georgia. But if they choose Texas, then there's no SEC team in the Playoff, which would enrage the staff at ES(EC)PN (who insist that such an outcome is simply not possible).  Go Texas, go Bama, go FSU!  Fuck the SEC.

That's sweet but if Bama wins, Texas will be left out. Beating them in their stadium by 10 doesn't matter. They are SEC and Texas isn't...at least not yet. It wouldn't be about Texas vs Bama. It would be about SEC. Texas' way in is for FSU to lose.

But either way Texas still needs to win against their nemesis, Gundy the great and terrible. Game is about to kick off.

[Syt]

Minnesotans have cast their vote for a new state flag, though the State Emblems Redesign Commission will have final say.

Winner:



Other candidates:











The current flag for reference:

[Josquius]

A big improvement and decentish.
Rants about being a pagan symbol or some shit?

A nordic cross would be my choice