being stuck behind motorists at 20km/h who are too scared to overtake road cyclists. fucks me right off
Yeah! F*cking cyclists should just f*ck off or pay road user taxes like motorists do!!!
"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009
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This is not really a "Things that piss you off...", but drivers who can't judge the width of their own car & give way to you when there's plenty of room for 2 cars to pass each other side by side on a street with parked cars. Often, when I look in the rear vision mirror after passing each other, I see them driving down the middle of the street!!
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People who complain about people eating at the cinema. Seriously, the film is loud and everyone is eating. You're just jealous because you couldn't afford a packet of snifters and a medium popcorn.
which cinema has them? I thought they stopped making them
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being stuck behind motorists at 20km/h who are too scared to overtake road cyclists. fucks me right off [/QUOTE]
Yeah! F*cking cyclists should just f*ck off or pay road user taxes like motorists do!!!
nah not so much the cyclists, more the wussy drivers.
[QUOTE=Wongo]This is not really a "Things that piss you off...", but drivers who can't judge the width of their own car & give way to you when there's plenty of room for 2 cars to pass each other side by side on a street with parked cars. Often, when I look in the rear vision mirror after passing each other, I see them driving down the middle of the street!!
yep or if at a T intersection, you want to go left but the car in front is going right and giving way to oncoming traffic that, but theyre hogging up the entire two lanes so that you cant squeeze past to get on your way. angers me deeply.
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"Phoenix till they lose"
yep or if at a T intersection, you want to go left but the car in front is going right and giving way to oncoming traffic that, but theyre hogging up the entire two lanes so that you cant squeeze past to get on your way. angers me deeply.
That is annoying and always happens when you're running late.
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Having your pay changed from fortnightly to monthly without much notice and head office expecting you to manage on 2 weeks pay for 4 weeks... 
At least you have got a job.
If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid
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I worked for a company that paid the staff montly for 9 yrs...man it was tough!! If you think that's bad, but if anybody can correct me, the British High Commission pays their staff every 2 months!! My mrs's friend use to work there & I'm sure that's what she said.
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This quote from the SST https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4814205/Jurors-stand-by-their-disputed-cruelty-verdict
"Put it this way, it was thought that if everybody had washed their kid's mouths out with soap, the jails wouldn't have been overflowing years ago." The juror said "99.9%" of the 12-member jury agreed the discipline handed out by the father was "perfectly reasonable".
1) You are a lunatic if you think a soapy mouth is a preventative to crime
2) How can you have 99.9 % of a 12 person jury?
"Put it this way, it was thought that if everybody had washed their kid's mouths out with soap, the jails wouldn't have been overflowing years ago." The juror said "99.9%" of the 12-member jury agreed the discipline handed out by the father was "perfectly reasonable".
1) You are a lunatic if you think a soapy mouth is a preventative to crime
2) How can you have 99.9 % of a 12 person jury?
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This quote from the SST https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4814205/Jurors-stand-by-their-disputed-cruelty-verdict
"Put it this way, it was thought that if everybody had washed their kid's mouths out with soap, the jails wouldn't have been overflowing years ago." The juror said "99.9%" of the 12-member jury agreed the discipline handed out by the father was "perfectly reasonable".
1) You are a lunatic if you think a soapy mouth is a preventative to crime
2) How can you have 99.9 % of a 12 person jury?
"Put it this way, it was thought that if everybody had washed their kid's mouths out with soap, the jails wouldn't have been overflowing years ago." The juror said "99.9%" of the 12-member jury agreed the discipline handed out by the father was "perfectly reasonable".
1) You are a lunatic if you think a soapy mouth is a preventative to crime
2) How can you have 99.9 % of a 12 person jury?
firsst thing i thought too 
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Having Juries decide criminal cases = 
Getting a group of 12 people to pass judgement on laws they know nothing about,without any bias etc is never going to work. Not now not ever.
From personal experience as a Juror,stories from others who have been jurors, and seeing things like this happen.
Actual calls from aJuror rooms:
"well the police probably planted that evidence there"
"I dont trust her (the victim) she seems like a slut"
"I'm going to vote not guilty just to piss you off"
"It was probably an inside job from the dodgy bloody [insert ethnicity]"
"he/she may not have done this crime,but he/she has certainly done something else wrong"
"I'm voting not guilty,I couldn't vote guilty because he/she is wearing a mask in the footage,I'd need to see his/her face on camera before changing my mind" (ruling out 99% of guilty verdicts in all robberies)
There have been many more....
Allegedly
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Having Juries decide criminal cases =
Getting a group of 12 people to pass judgement on laws they know nothing about,without any bias etc is never going to work. Not now not ever.
From personal experience as a Juror,stories from others who have been jurors, and seeing things like this happen.
Actual calls from aJuror rooms:
"well the police probably planted that evidence there"
"I dont trust her (the victim) she seems like a slut"
"I'm going to vote not guilty just to piss you off"
"It was probably an inside job from the dodgy bloody [insert ethnicity]"
"he/she may not have done this crime,but he/she has certainly done something else wrong"
"I'm voting not guilty,I couldn't vote guilty because he/she is wearing a mask in the footage,I'd need to see his/her face on camera before changing my mind" (ruling out 99% of guilty verdicts in all robberies)
There have been many more....
The judge tells them what the law is and how it is applied in practicial terms and then the Jurors apply the facts to the law. What gets appealed with regards points of law is the judges direction in summing up.
When I read that story though it did seem as though the Jury had pushed the statute in a certain direction
www.kiwifromthecouch.blogspot.com
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Having Juries decide criminal cases =
Getting a group of 12 people to pass judgement on laws��they know nothing about,without any bias etc�is never going to work. Not now not ever.
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From personal experience as a Juror,stories from others who have been jurors,�and seeing things like this happen.
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Actual calls from aJuror rooms:
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"well the police probably planted that evidence there"
"I dont trust her (the victim) she seems like a slut"
"I'm going to vote not guilty just to piss you off"
"It was probably an inside job from the dodgy bloody [insert ethnicity]"
"he/she may not have done this crime,but he/she has certainly done something else wrong"
"I'm voting not guilty,I couldn't vote guilty because he/she is wearing a mask in the footage,I'd need to see his/her face on camera before changing my mind" (ruling out 99% of guilty verdicts in all robberies)
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There�have been�many more....
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This was something that always bugged me at Law School but arent juries supposed to be deciding on fact as opposed to law?
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The judge tells them what the law is and how it is applied in practicial terms and then the Jurors apply the facts to the law. What gets appealed with regards points of law is the judges direction in summing up.
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When I read that story though it did seem as though the Jury had pushed the statute in a certain direction
Not perfect by any means but better than many countries.
If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid
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Weregild anyone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weregild
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People who claim to be life long fans of Monty Python and then try and argue with you that the line "Blessed are the Cheesemakers" was not in The Life of Brian but in the Cheese Shop sketch...
D'Oh!
"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009
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