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Reply | Reykjavik
at 17:41 16 Jan 2023
It's a few years since I was there but I really enjoyed it. Back then, the bars did a staggered happy hour so as one bar’s happy hour ended the next one down the street started theirs so you could drink (relatively) cheaply for a while in the early evening. It’s also an almost completely cashless society. I didn’t handle any currency at all during my stay and can’t recall seeing anyone else, tourist or local, do so either. Having a card that charges no foreign exchange commission could save you a bit. |
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Reply | In other news
at 11:07 12 Sep 2021
According to the Vital Football home page, their forum has been suspended pending a review of the moderation process owing to a “clear escalation of posts that raise concern”. Which will come as no surprise to anyone who has ever visited that forum. |
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Reply | Coroners Court
at 11:23 19 Mar 2021
Agree with both of those points.
My only experience of jury service was on a money laundering case with multiple defendants at Isleworth Crown Court involving millions of pounds. The case lasted six weeks. It took two days to select a jury for a start — there are a lot of people who can’t take that amount of time out of their lives and have good reasons not to do so (I had just retired so my excuses would be limited). A lot of the evidence was obviously technical; I could follow it as I used to work in the financial sector and even found some of it interesting. I doubt most of my fellow jurors did but I also think we all did our best when considering the verdict. The judge announced he would accept a majority verdict after a couple of days and the defendants were found guilty 10-2; the two dissenters just could not follow it.
Things that impressed me about the system. The jury selection process results in a reasonable cross section of society now that the grounds for avoiding jury service have been restricted. The particular judge seemed to work hard and was very good at the case management.
Barristers, on both sides, on the other hand did not impress me and lived up to my prejudices. It’s all about drama and acting, not about truth and justice.
I’m now excused jury service after that marathon. |
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Reply | where are all you happy r's originally from.
at 18:20 4 May 2020
Born: Perivale
Grew up: East Africa
Lived: Liverpool (uni), Cricklewood, Wembley, Parsons Green, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland
Now: Twickenham (two places) for 30 years |
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Reply | Haircuts! What's your plan? Will you cut your own?
at 17:28 8 Apr 2020
I must be fortunate. I ordered some clippers from Amazon last week and they arrived today. My hair is pretty thin all round and non-existent on top so I'm going to try for #2 all round and #0 on top. This is potentially disastrous but on the other hand probably no worse than anybody else when we emerge from all this. |
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Reply | What's your claim to fame?
at 11:13 18 Mar 2020
I once got into the same lift as Rod Stewart in a hotel in Sydney. He asked me which floor I was going to and pressed the button. |
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Reply | Tourism and Trains
at 16:03 23 Jan 2020
I liked that so much I shared it with a mate who is a driver with the (awful) South West Rail. He reckons it's pretty accurate. He also added that the one thing the guard and the driver agree on is that all the other people on the train are c***s. |
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