Comments for Victim of Formality

Comment on Shocked, shocked! by Cal

Cal — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:47:16 +0000

What am I thinking!!!!! Oh please for the sake of “Canada” don’t let them reproduce.

Comment on Shocked, shocked! by Cal

Cal — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:42:00 +0000

These same idiots will look back with fond menories in 15 years. Thankfully their children can find the vidios in 30 and see what morons they truely are.

Comment on “I will ask for the mercy you love to decline” by Jarrett

Jarrett — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:02:51 +0000

My co-counsel had a similar experience to your co-counsel. Her job was to talk about how the trial judge had failed to alleviate prejudice with two sentences in her jury charge.

“Fortunately, no bloodbath occurred here, so don’t focus on that possibility. Finally, I want you to apply the law and not t-shirt slogans.”

Her argument was that absent of any other significant charge, all this did was remind the jury of inflammatory rhetoric of the Crown and individuals in the courtroom. Regarding the second sentence, the judge just stopped her and was like, “Really, I don’t see how this be any more clear in alleviating prejudice. DON’T focus on t-shirt slogans.” When she started to repeat her argument, Mr. Justice G. just stopped her and told her to give up much as happened to your co-counsel. On the second issue, she focused on the repetition of the word bloodbath. After five minutes of arguments on this, Mr. Justice G. sits there, thinks for a sec and goes, “Okay, I’m not convinced, BUT the word ‘fortunately’ is problematic because…”

It was like he made a third oral argument.

Comment on Bugles, Daisies and Whistles by robert

robert — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:17:17 +0000

The blurb about the horn at the linked site is wrong. Cnut was Danish, and was warned of a Saxon attack.

Comment on Bugles, Daisies and Whistles by Brenda

Brenda — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:38:51 +0000

Oh man, so that’s what the horn actually looked like? Crazy.

Comment on “You know, it says sign it. I signed it.” by Jarrett

Jarrett — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:42:36 +0000

I love the part where he asks if she knew what she was signing and she goes, “Yeah, legal stuff. They’re not responsible etc”

Comment on So the Métis are cool with us now, right? by joshua

joshua — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:04:00 +0000

Alex, every morning it’s a new disappointment when I see that your letter hasn’t yet arrived! Satisfy me! In the meantime I will write you something soon. Also, I plan to post those embarrassing New Year’s photos soon. Tell Brenda to prepare herself. Hope that all is well. Bis gleich (German is going wunderbar!) …joshua

Comment on Ô douceur! ô poison! by Wrenkin

Wrenkin — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:51:17 +0000

Brenda made fun of the random German. Apparently it’s “pretentious”. I should point out that I uncomfortably often, perhaps in an attempt to justify those German classes I pretentiously took, will say things to the effect of “Do you want some soup, or as the Germans would say, Suppe?”. Point is I didn’t think it thematically out of place, but there you go.

Comment on “Day begins to crumble” by Gorilla Romero

Gorilla Romero — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:07:45 +0000

Your use of the phrase “the above” suggests you’ve chosen the right profession.

Comment on “Day begins to crumble” by Wrenkin

Wrenkin — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:55:32 +0000

I had been putting off buying Monocle given the cost ($12.50 or something ridiculous). However, I was eventually pursuaded by a very perceptive magazine seller who spotted my waffling a mile off. I don't think it was worth it. I get what they're going for, with the whole Wallpaper but newsier thing, but I think their divertisements are a little too divers. I felt like I was wasting my time learning about all these irrelevancies (and I'm normally all about useless knowledge), and wondered how such an imposing magazine could read so fluffyt. Surely their target market, no matter how stressed out, can concentrate for more than 4 minutes.

The cover story a few months back about the world's 20 most livable cites was maybe 15 small pages long, and I don't think they managed to say anything perceptive about Vancouver in the 200 words afforded. Why bother? This has been a complaint about Wallpaper as well, where "the hot spots" in each city are often uninteresting places that just happen to be near the hotel where the correspondent stayed, supplemented with a few places that even the Globe and Mail would considered having peaked. The editor briefly had a show on Newsworld which was at least interesting insofar as you got to watch him go around London and spend lots of money.