what grinds your gears

[Danllan]

Two things are p!ssing me off at the moment:

1) Round pencils / pens, meaning a circular cross-section; the bl**dy things roll everywhere! And Mrs Danllan has just bough a bulk-pack of them...

2) Situations in which you cannot prove someone else is lying, but you know it.

 

[Ukjay]

2) Situations in which you cannot prove someone else is lying, but you know it.

Are you not a solicitor?

 

[Danllan]

Are you not a solicitor?

F^ck off! I'm a Barrister, although now well out of practice and 'unregistered'; how'd you like to be accused of being French?

In Court it happens regularly, and the opposite is true too; you can only offer a 'technical' defence if you know your client is guilty, i.e. pick holes in the prosecution's case etc..

No, this is a private matter. Just one of those situations when somebody has said something that has had a consequence and, although I know and can argue very convincingly that the individual in question has lied, someone in a position of authority is deaf to that and takes it as a personal affront to be questioned. I can't do a damned thing about - so I shall just have to lump it...





And wait until a suitable and just revenge opportunity to settle the matter presents itself...

 

[Ukjay]

F^ck off! I'm a Barrister, although now well out of practice and 'unregistered'; how'd you like to be accused of being French?

In Court it happens regularly, and the opposite is true too; you can only offer a 'technical' defence if you know your client is guilty, i.e. pick holes in the prosecution's case etc..

No, this is a private matter. Just one of those situations when somebody has said something that has had a consequence and, although I know and can argue very convincingly that the individual in question has lied, someone in a position of authority is deaf to that and takes it as a personal affront to be questioned. I can't do a damned thing about - so I shall just have to lump it...





And wait until a suitable and just revenge opportunity to settle the matter presents itself...

One does apologise for omitting the Barister option, I did think about adding, but hey ho - you'll just have to live with that ?

sh!t isn't it when put in that predicament - been there got the T Shirt, it's a bloody ball ache - but things do come around.

 

[melted welly]

People who fill the kettle to the brim every bloody time. Then have to wait ages for it to boil. Idiots.

and then when you pour it, boiling water pisses all over the place.

that’s what ours does anyway, worst design ever.

Bought it off Amazon, what swayed me was the sales pitch of “as seen on Love Island”, hard not to buy something with such pedigree.

Regret it now.

 

[betweenthelines]

F^ck off! I'm a Barrister, although now well out of practice and 'unregistered'; how'd you like to be accused of being French?

So you're a barrister, eh?

I'll have a large latte, please.

 

[Courier]

and then when you pour it, boiling water pisses all over the place.

that’s what ours does anyway, worst design ever.

Bought it off Amazon, what swayed me was the sales pitch of “as seen on Love Island”, hard not to buy something with such pedigree.

Regret it now.

Had one of those with a 100% clear body once - Now that never got filled with more than was needed at the time - so much more effective than a little window on the side - Still can’t beat the one on low on the aga all day for a quick brew though ...

 

[Sharpy]

F^ck off! I'm a Barrister, although now well out of practice and 'unregistered'; how'd you like to be accused of being French?

In Court it happens regularly, and the opposite is true too; you can only offer a 'technical' defence if you know your client is guilty, i.e. pick holes in the prosecution's case etc..

No, this is a private matter. Just one of those situations when somebody has said something that has had a consequence and, although I know and can argue very convincingly that the individual in question has lied, someone in a position of authority is deaf to that and takes it as a personal affront to be questioned. I can't do a damned thing about - so I shall just have to lump it...





And wait until a suitable and just revenge opportunity to settle the matter presents itself...

So for the unenlightened amongst us (particularly me) what is the difference between a lawyer and a barrister?

 

[Ukjay]

So for the unenlightened amongst us (particularly me) what is the difference between a lawyer and a barrister?

Barristers wear the wig ?

 

[C.J]

So for the unenlightened amongst us (particularly me) what is the difference between a lawyer and a barrister?

About £1000/hour

 

[Celt83]

Barristers wear the wig [emoji23]

And charge the big bucks!

 

[Danllan]

...sh!t isn't it when put in that predicament - been there got the T Shirt, it's a bloody ball ache - but things do come around.

It is, really galling; some things do come around, some don't, it's not the end of the world in this case, but it really, really is annoying.

So you're a barrister, eh?

I'll have a large latte, please.

Brilliant! Not heard that one before*.

So for the unenlightened amongst us (particularly me) what is the difference between a lawyer and a barrister?

Barristers, solicitors, legal exec's, law lecturers are all lawyers, as is pretty much anybody earning a living via the law and their knowledge of it. For a very long time only Barristers had rights of audience in the higher Courts; since the creation of solicitor-advocates they, too, can appear in all.

Generally... a solicitor will frame a case and a Barrister will provide the advocacy in Court as well as written advices beforehand, if required. As a generalisation, a Barrister will have a much more focused area of expertise and a solicitor will be a - in a given field - a bit more of a general-practitioner. However, this is no rigid rule, there are many Barristers have a good knowledge of a wide range of law and many solicitors have a thorough and esoteric knowledge.

Somebody mentioned money... solicitors are usually the ones instructing Counsel, via chambers' clerks. This is a very important thing when starting at the Bar, they are the ones who chose which jobs go to whom. Later on, if a Barrister makes a good name for himself, the situation can reverse and the Barrister will have much more choice in wat he takes on, rather than getting what he is given or taking what he feels obliged to.

Barristers wear the wig ?

For a decade or so (because of an awful lot of whining due to inferiority complexes) solicitor-advocates have been allowed to wear wigs too; but they still have to wear crap gowns that make them look like ushers with a wig-fetish.



*I lie...

 

[Gerbert]

Neighbour has sheep but isn't able to keep them inside his own parimeters. I don't mind at all that they break out if he would come immidiately, or even the same day to retrieve them. I actually like them on my land to eat up the worthless grass that's still there but he can't be arsed to ask before them wooly basterds break out, which happens at least twice every year. In fact, when asked his reaction was: I don't see your problem, and makes me feel like I am the ureasonable one.
Every year the same fecking thing and every year I am apperantly "the unreasonable one".
I said I just wanna be kept in the loop is all.
I am not keeping my hopes up...

 

[Courier]

Neighbour has sheep but isn't able to keep them inside his own parimeters. I don't mind at all that they break out if he would come immidiately, or even the same day to retrieve them. I actually like them on my land to eat up the worthless grass that's still there but he can't be arsed to ask before them wooly basterds break out, which happens at least twice every year. In fact, when asked his reaction was: I don't see your problem, and makes me feel like I am the ureasonable one.
Every year the same fecking thing and every year I am apperantly "the unreasonable one".
I said I just wanna be kept in the loop is all.
I am not keeping my hopes up...

You would really get peeed of if he put his feed troughs your side of the fence - it does happen!

 

[DrWazzock]

Today vet visiting for RT health plan, £££
Tuesday free to get on with my work.
Wednesday, Anglian water visiting for water supply regulations inspection.£?
Thursday a trip to the dealers to get the moisture meter tested for RT. ££
Friday NROSO update half day course. ££

It's getting silly.

 

[Wombat]

Today vet visiting for RT health plan, £££
Tuesday free to get on with my work.
Wednesday, Anglian water visiting for water supply regulations inspection.£?
Thursday a trip to the dealers to get the moisture meter tested for RT. ££
Friday NROSO update half day course. ££

It's getting silly.

I had to pay for the vet to sign an empty form for the antibiotics one before Xmas as we haven’t used any in the year

 

[DrWazzock]

I had to pay for the vet to sign an empty form for the antibiotics one before Xmas as we haven’t used any in the year

Looks like we will be forced down the organic road eventually if the powers that be have their way. Cull anything that looks a bit dodgy. Accept higher losses. For the greater good, apparently.

 

[Gerbert]

You would really get peeed of if he put his feed troughs your side of the fence - it does happen!

He isn't the evil type by a longshot, he is a nice guy just really really laidback. The kind of guy that would mow around a fallen tree for years instead of just clearing it.
What annoys the living shiit out of me is that I have to explain myself to him. It's my land, I don't owe you an explanation, kindly pisss off.

 

[melted welly]

Bloody wife picking up roadkill, bad enough when it was just pheasants but she got a fecking deer today.

like living with a fecking fox.

 

[Celt83]

Bloody wife picking up roadkill, bad enough when it was just pheasants but she got a fecking deer today.

like living with a fecking fox.

She sounds like a keeper to me!

Most women would pull a face if they had a fresh pheasant from the shoot, but a nice freebie off the road, good on her.