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Criminal of the day[^]
Anyone seen Pompeyboy (or whatever he was last called) recently?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I pretended to be a ghost once, but people saw right through me.
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You obviously didn't get into the spirit of the thing!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Keep padding that budget with silly fines...
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To be fair he was kind of asking for it 
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Where you see 'asking for a fine' I see 'asking for an arse kicking'.
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What beats me is how he gets time added onto his suspended sentence, rather than being sent straight to jail without stopping at go.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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The UK can't afford to give him £200...
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Waitaminute!
"Police were alerted and arresed and charged Stallard, 24, with using threatening or abusive words or behaviour likely to cause distress"
They can arrest people for "behaviour likely to cause distress"?!?
Hot Damn! That means we can really go after hedge fund managers and tories!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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India were 8/4 yesterday.
You might find him at Old Trafford?
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He feels ill going as far north as London, I think it could be fatal for him to go to Manchester.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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The closing arguments in the Pistorius trial are only being delivered now, is it just me or did that trial go on for bloody ages? Is that a South African thing?
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Don't you remember the OJ trial? That went on for ages as well - or at least it seemed to. How long would it take in a country that didn't beleive in "swift" justice? 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Actually it's been quicker than a lot of cases because it's a high profile case. Other cases can drag on for years, being postponed at various stages, but this one got a lot of attention so it moved along quicker.
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The entire legal system has been built/designed by lawyers to create as many billable hours as possible. They basically wrote themselves a lucrative career. The entire system is utter nonsense and lawyers should be strung up on lampposts as a warning to others who would attempt to rob the down trodden and unfortunate in this manner.
I'm sorry to say this but it really is time for Western Civilization to disappear.
It had a good run.
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be careful what you wish, some cultures will string you up from said lamppost for believing in a different invisible sky pixie (or even just a different flavour of the right sky pixie)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: be careful what you wish, some cultures will string you up from said lamppost for believing in a different invisible sky pixie (or even just a different flavour of the right sky pixie)
I don't think making the legal system simple, efficient, and straightforward is the same thing as frontier justice. Those other cultures aren't stringing people up because they lack lawyers - they're stringing people up because they're idiots.
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the problems with simple laws is that they only protect the clever
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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And the problem with clever laws is that they only protect the rich (as Bernie Ecclestone is showing)
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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not sure I agree as the Judge actually said that their was no case to answer, it actually looks as if Berni was a fool to offer the payment as the case was collapsing
a lots of the complexity of laws is to try to make them fair (unfortunately this plays into the hands of the lawyers)
if you look at the times of simple laws it was often a time where the rich used those laws to legally steal from the poor
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: the problems with simple laws is that they only protect the clever
Care to post an example?
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care to post an example of a simple law that cannot be circumvented?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: care to post an example of a simple law that cannot be circumvented?
Can I post a simple example of a law that is well understood by everyone that reads it?
Yes.
Can I post a simple example of a law that a lawyer is incapable of twisting into an irrational, society-destroying mess of legalize, complexity, and horror?
No.
That doesn't mean the law is the problem.
Oh, BTW, I did notice that you dodged my question.
You must be a lawyer of some sort - hoping to push the conversation into a gray/poorly defined/incomprehensible area so that you can work your evil. I'll have to drop out of this conversation because you'll have me confessing to the Kennedy assassination before it's through.
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You killed Kennedy? 
After all these year, and you finally admit it!
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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We aren't there yet.
Lawyers in the USA are still trying to define the word 'is'. They've a 3,500 page outline and are now working on filling in the actual texts of the various sections. We've a team of 400+ lawyers working on it - ever since the Clinton scandal. I think they're making great progress.
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