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Oh, right, got it. Though it does undercut the dude's trying to seem badass when the ending is basically "Yeah, I lost, but I saved an insignificant amount of money by trying to contest it."
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ibntumart posted:Oh, right, got it. Though it does undercut the dude's trying to seem badass when the ending is basically "Yeah, I lost, but I saved an insignificant amount of money by trying to contest it." Actually he said he lost money because he took time off of work. But even that was STDH because let's be honest, somebody that silly shouldn't have a job!!!
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Feb 24, 2015 23:58
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"I fought the law and the law threw me a bone by compromising so I'd leave the courtroom"
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No cop is going into a court and going "uh, I dunno?" no matter what the question is. Chance are it's not their first time there, or their last, and they would have at least had a little coaching beforehand.
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Feb 25, 2015 07:54
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Going to court to fight the ticket almost always ends in the charges getting knocked down a peg, but you normally don't even have to go in to see the judge for that to happen. They just care about getting the fine out of you.
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Feb 25, 2015 16:14
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That was my experience. I showed up and the judge had me confer with the city's attorney, who gave me a standard (and fair) offer right off the bat. That was the procedure, no grandstanding necessary.
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Max posted:Going to court to fight the ticket almost always ends in the charges getting knocked down a peg, but you normally don't even have to go in to see the judge for that to happen. They just care about getting the fine out of you. Pretty much. For a poo poo That Did Happen, I once had 5 parking tickets, a no proof of insurance, and a driving after suspension on my record (all within 2 months or so). Showed up to whatever state building and saw a hearing officer who instead of having me pay something to the tune of $600 for all of them and a year of suspension, reduced it to $120 and 3 months of probation and I could drive that day. Taking the initiative seems to help with this stuff.
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Lowly posted:Haha, I think he's "proving" that he's not guilty because of reasonable doubt. That only applies in states where traffic courts are still criminal courts, but even if it does apply, "beyond a reasonable doubt" is different than "beyond any doubt." Making sure you pulled over the right car when there are two cars in the vicinity is a pretty reasonable doubt. In fact, checking to make sure you pulled over the right car is pretty much how you REMOVE reasonable doubt. As compared to, say, the cop that doesn't check any details and just says "gently caress it, there were two cars, I got a 50/50 chance this is the right one."
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Excuse me, I think you'll find that the CSI had to actually compare my fingerprints against those found on the murder weapon, they didn't already know it was me, so there was doubt. Clearly you cannot prove I murdered that person beyond all doubt 
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Max posted:Going to court to fight the ticket almost always ends in the charges getting knocked down a peg, but you normally don't even have to go in to see the judge for that to happen. They just care about getting the fine out of you. On a similar note, I remember a story an old coworker of mine told me that smelled like STDH. As the story was told, he was driving through a flat, rural area with almost no traffic, so most people were doing about 65-90+ on a 55mph road. Apparently though, the "This Area is Patrolled by Aircraft" signs were legit because a few weeks later he received a ticket in the mail for doing 75mph. The ticket was large enough that he decided to fight it as he was never pulled over and thought he could prove it wasn't him. The day he goes to court it looked like about 40 people had the same thought that he had since they were all there to challenge their tickets. Court begins and the judge decides to flip a coin to see if he will be going A through Z or Z through A. It lands on tails so he will being hearing people Z though A. My coworker is pissed since his last name started with C and he thought he would be out quickly, but now is afternoon is shot. The first person steps up to plead their case. The judge doesn't care and they have to pay the whole fine. Next person up, same thing. About 5 people in, some guy is called up. He just smiles and asks if the ticketing officer is present. The judge says no. The guy's smile gets even bigger as he states that if the ticketing officer is not present, he cannot prove that the ticket was issued to the correct person and therefore, the ticket has to be dropped. The judge sighs and drops the ticket right there. Everyone in the courtroom that was waiting to challenge their ticket begin to talk amongst themselves. The next person is called up and asks the same question and their ticket is dropped, the next person does the same and so on and so on. Within 15 minutes, the remaining tickets are dropped. After everyone has left the courtroom, the who first guy who got his ticket dropped starts passing his business card to everyone that was still in the courthouse. Of course, he was a lawyer that specialized in driving related issues. Now I can't say if this happened or not, but it just didn't pass the smell test (if it smells like poo poo, it is probably poo poo).
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From GBS' Post Your favorite Mentally Ill Person thread:quote:Jackson13879
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Linked by someone on my Facebook this morning with loads of comments saying how awesome the mother is. It absolutely reeks of STDH to me...Not Always Learning posted:Was Bra-ced For A Different Reaction
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radioaktivitat posted:Linked by someone on my Facebook this morning with loads of comments saying how awesome the mother is. It absolutely reeks of STDH to me... I'm literally a saint, nbd
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Feb 26, 2015 10:16
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Should she really be discussing patient treatment with random people? Even if she leaves the names out, it still seems super-sketchy. Why couldn't she just say "I'm sorry, I couldn't get out of work until [X] o'clock?"
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Feb 26, 2015 10:43
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Pththya-lyi posted:Why couldn't she just say "I'm sorry, I couldn't get out of work until [X] o'clock?" Because then they wouldn't know what a super star life saving heroic nurse she is, duh! Also  at "pulling" the bra "undone", they don't work like that unless it completely breaks apart. I guess the author doesn't have much experience with them. 
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Feb 26, 2015 11:52
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Don't worry, the giant evil schoolyard bully learned his lesson by having his victim's mom get mad at the school administration
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Feb 26, 2015 12:13
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Is there anywhere that people measure height in feet and weight in stone?
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Feb 26, 2015 14:35
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JGdmn posted:Is there anywhere that people measure height in feet and weight in stone? Yes.
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I'm pretty sure British people use feet (and metric? A British person could definitely answer that better.) I actually don't know any place besides the UK where they weigh in stone. Never looked though.
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JGdmn posted:Is there anywhere that people measure height in feet and weight in stone? Yeah, that's how we do it in the UK. Story is still bullshit of the highest order.
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Came here to post the bra snap story! KiddieGrinder posted:
Every training/junior bra I and most of my friends had at that age had only one hook and was constructed like crap since you're only going to be wearing them for a couple months. If your cup size almost immediately went to B or above you might not have had one, but bras for very young girls with smaller cup sizes almost never have 2+ hooks and are very easy to undo, especially if the girl is wearing an incorrect size (which is hard enough for adult women to figure out). I remember mine snapping off once just because I leaned over and reached for something. Anyways, the point of the story is great--I'm glad that there's a lot more pushback against boys physically touching girls against their will instead of it being brushed off as "oh he just likes you!" the way it was when I was a kid. But that story is fake as gently caress.
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I'm flat as a board and mine just snapped one day completely out of the blue after I'd just put it on, despite it basically being under no strain whatsoever. After that I just stopped bothering with them.
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Now that I think about it, there was a group of boys at my school who would deliberately try to undo bras while snapping them, and were successful several times. I was never targeted, due to my status as someone who was neither popular enough to be taken down a peg, or unpopular enough to be ridiculed. CrotchDropJeans, omnipresent junior high background figure. An adult woman's bra, especially a nice, newer one, would be pretty hard to undo like that, but a flimsy one-hook bra is no match for a 14 year old boy determined to touch the thing that holds boobies. And yeah, that poo poo should have been punished immediately. Side note, I was texting my sister about this story and she also said that it sounded like BS that the bra came undone. She had no idea that junior bras (and some adult A-cups) have only one hook. That is because she is a turbobitch who woke up one day with a C cup, while I wore my craptacular WalMart brand trainer til tenth grade. Bitter? A little.
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Feb 26, 2015 17:30
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Finally, the secret of the bra is in my hands. I am one step closer to much coveted female tits!
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Pththya-lyi posted:Should she really be discussing patient treatment with random people? Even if she leaves the names out, it still seems super-sketchy. Why couldn't she just say "I'm sorry, I couldn't get out of work until [X] o'clock?" People who work in the medical field talk about work in clinical detail all the time. It's not really an issue.
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codespace posted:People who work in the medical field talk about work in clinical detail all the time. It's not really an issue. See here.
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JGdmn posted:Is there anywhere that people measure height in feet and weight in stone? Stones make me scoff out loud every time I see it used for measuring weight. 
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radioaktivitat posted:Linked by someone on my Facebook this morning with loads of comments saying how awesome the mother is. It absolutely reeks of STDH to me... Someone just posted this same thing on my feed. Facebook is quickly going from a place to keep up with social contacts to a place of clickbait and clueless family members posting The Onion articles without a hint of irony. At this point its main purpose for me is updates from animal charities and races I follow.
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Maggie Fletcher posted:Someone just posted this same thing on my feed. Seriously. I wish it didn't have such a monopoly on social media because it's insanely convenient for trying to get people together or check up on someone I'm friends with, but not friends enough to need their phone number ever. Slowly I am hiding most actual people I am facebook-friends with and eventually I will only "follow" five actual people and then a poo poo ton of cat pages.
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Feb 26, 2015 21:36
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Maggie Fletcher posted:Someone just posted this same thing on my feed. Facebook floated when, 2012? They know drat well their days are numbered (like every social media site ever) and are trying to rake in as much cash as possible before everyone else works it out. That's why they've bought up WhatsApp and Instagram and 25+ other tech companies you've probably never heard of so they can diversify into other markets and maintain value. People are only just starting to realise that reddit is controlled by corporations and people looking to make money from their profiles, and they're actually pretty open about their business model. Facebook are pulling in stupid amounts of money doing the same thing but giving the illusion that they're nothing more than a great way to keep up with old friends. In reality they're just a market research company. Our kids won't use facebook and facebook knows this.
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We use weight in stones here too and everywhere else either uses kilos or lbs and I have no idea how they convert.
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We uses stones here too, but only for measuring people for some reason. Everything else is kilograms.
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Splicer posted:for some reason I'm sure it's the same reason that over here women's sizes are in some arbitrary scale that varies by manufacturer and probably even product line, as opposed to men's clothing which is measured in inches
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Sentient Data posted:I'm sure it's the same reason that over here women's sizes are in some arbitrary scale that varies by manufacturer and probably even product line, as opposed to men's clothing which is measured in inches e: the clothes thing. Splicer has a new favorite as of 01:11 on Feb 27, 2015 |
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Splicer posted:We uses stones here too, but only for measuring people for some reason. Everything else is kilograms. Yeah we use the metric system for everything except human height/weight. It's weird.
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Sentient Data posted:I'm sure it's the same reason that over here women's sizes are in some arbitrary scale that varies by manufacturer and probably even product line, as opposed to men's clothing which is measured in inches It's the same everywhere. Women of the world, we are united on this one issue!
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Sentient Data posted:I'm sure it's the same reason that over here women's sizes are in some arbitrary scale that varies by manufacturer and probably even product line, as opposed to men's clothing which is measured in inches ah, marketing.
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EmmyOk posted:We use weight in stones here too and everywhere else either uses kilos or lbs and I have no idea how they convert. From what I understand a stone is 14 pounds. Which is a bitch to convert in your head unless you're good with multiples, which I'm not. I end up just doing X x 10 + X x 4, which takes longer than it should. bringmyfishback posted:It's the same everywhere. Women of the world, we are united on this one issue! I'm pretty sure if I ran for president on the platform of standardizing women's sizes, wherein you'd always be the same size no matter what store you shopped at, I'd be voted in by a landslide, regardless of where I stand on other issues.
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Maggie Fletcher posted:From what I understand a stone is 14 pounds. Which is a bitch to convert in your head unless you're good with multiples, which I'm not. I end up just doing X x 10 + X x 4, which takes longer than it should. You have my vote.
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While you're at it, make sure all women's trousers get decent pockets too.  I don't know why these people seem to think we don't need pockets.
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