I want to become a lawyer. Am I right to assume that any decent law school will leave me a soulless husk?
Law isn't about soul. It's about semantics and pedantry.
I want to work somewhere in the area of family law. Do you know how depressing that general area is?
Yes, for people with feelings beyond "bitter" and "cynical" anyway. And by that I mean people who are ill-suited to law.
So law is pretty much everything I expected.
You don't expect enough coldness. Your heart reaches such a temperature as to suck up all the heat from your body like a sponge, and that's why court-rooms are never adequately air-conditioned. And why St. Peter sends them all to hell.
They got it by some crazy old people shoving it through the barely-rolled-down window of my sister's car, along with two cans of cat food, while my sister was in the store working.
Well, damn. I just realised my ex still has the copy of House of Leaves I paid £20 for - most I ever spent on a book - and I never did get to read it!
Poor kitty. I fed my friend's cat today. He only ate half the bowl before demanding to be let outdoors. Later I saw him with a pigeon feather caught in his whiskers.
They got it by some crazy old people shoving it through the barely-rolled-down window of my sister's car, along with two cans of cat food, while my sister was in the store working.
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I work nights and people offer thier kittens at 3am! Other than the people who work there you are really going to give away a cat to a beyond drunk person?
I honestly don't understand how so many people (because there are an awful lot) who otherwise manage to be reasonably upstanding members of society can treat animals so poorly. So many owners and breeders with complete ignorance as to how to care properly for animals.
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You know, you would think if a guy is going to create an 2-3 alts to get past bans that have happened today, just for the purpose of posting in the Primaries thread, that he'd at least make his new alts even slightly different than his previous ones. Rather than simply pressing the random string button.
I work nights and people offer thier kittens at 3am! Other than the people who work there you are really going to give away a cat to a beyond drunk person?
When I worked nights at a drug store, we found two kittens had been dropped off just outside the video drop box.
Thing is, the store was locked.
I had to call my mom to come grab the kittens.
Last I heard they were still incredibly well-loved, though one nearly died from sitting on a car engine and having his stomach opened up. Doing fine now though, bloody mess though it was.
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Janson: Honestly, if I actually encountered someone harming an animal, I would probably be arrested for my reaction. Harming an animal is like harming a child or a retarded person. You just don't fucking do it. If you need to fight someone fight someone who can pull a gun on your ass.
Law is economics minus the confusion of the map with the territory. It is about crafting a set of rules tight enough that actors are willing to play the game but not so tight that the game becomes pointless.
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“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
― Marcus Aurelius
Our first kitty was one of a litter dumped in a cardboard box by the side of the road.
Our first dog was brought into my dad's surgery to be put down because she 'made messes' - i.e. the owners were at work all day long and the young dog was bored stupid.
Our second kitty is brain damaged and was also abandoned.
Our first kitty was one of a litter dumped in a cardboard box by the side of the road.
Our first dog was brought into my dad's surgery to be put down because she 'made messes' - i.e. the owners were at work all day long and the young dog was bored stupid.
Our second kitty is brain damaged and was also abandoned.
We're up to five kitties.
At this particular moment.
There have been many more.
Most of them just showed up one day.
Even had a DOG that just showed up one day.
Also there was a bear that showed up the other day but I don't think my folks plan on making a pet out of it. :P
I'd like to point out that VC doesn't know anything about lawyering or law school and you should really not listen to him about it because he really has no idea about any of it.
I'd like to point out that VC doesn't know anything about lawyering or law school and you should really not listen to him about it because he really has no idea about any of it.
Says the guy who whined extensively about how unfair it was that his professor made him argue a weak case.
Edit: On that note, another important thing to bear in mind, titmouse. If lawyer-jokes get you all bent out of shape and/or cause you to cut yourself while listening to Dashboard Confessional, you might not enjoy a career in law.
Part of why cats see that kind of treatment so often is because there's so fucking many of the damned things.
Yeah, and they can be really bad for wildlife.
They really need to have a big giant spay and neuter movement.
I would actually be happy if cats became somewhat rare, so long as their genes remained nice and healthily varied, so that people would be more likely to value their well-being.
I'd like to point out that VC doesn't know anything about lawyering or law school and you should really not listen to him about it because he really has no idea about any of it.
Says the guy who whined extensively about how unfair it was that his professor made him argue a weak case.
You are obviously not remembering the situation clearly.
I said it was a stupid assignment because it was based upon the work of the opposing counsel, and we were limited to the work that counsel put in the brief, and she was a fucking terrible lawyer. Given the facts, there were some decent arguments to be made. But none of those were made, and we had to try to make nonsensical arguments work.
It was a waste of our time, for the benefit of the professor, who was using our oral arguments as a testing ground of what the opposing lawyer may actually say when the court hears the appeal.
I'd like to point out that VC doesn't know anything about lawyering or law school and you should really not listen to him about it because he really has no idea about any of it.
Says the guy who whined extensively about how unfair it was that his professor made him argue a weak case.
You are obviously not remembering the situation clearly.
I said it was a stupid assignment because it was based upon the work of the opposing counsel, and we were limited to the work that counsel put in the brief, and she was a fucking terrible lawyer. Given the facts, there were some decent arguments to be made. But none of those were made, and we had to try to make nonsensical arguments work.
It was a waste of our time, for the benefit of the professor, who was using our oral arguments as a testing ground of what the opposing lawyer may actually say when the court hears the appeal.
Right, that's what I said, you whined extensively about how unfair it was that you had to argue a weak case.
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edited May 2008
Man, dealing with emotional problems is tough when you're away from friends / alcohol.
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edited May 2008
"Luigi had taken his shirt off and was pouring beer on his chest. ... We had two bags of fire flowers, 75 mushrooms, five invincibility stars ... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge winged turtles, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car ..."
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You don't expect enough coldness. Your heart reaches such a temperature as to suck up all the heat from your body like a sponge, and that's why court-rooms are never adequately air-conditioned. And why St. Peter sends them all to hell.
I've heard it's good. Pin-tastic.
On the bright side I picked up a 360 and a nice little 19" HDTV to play it on.
My family got a new kitty.
They got it by some crazy old people shoving it through the barely-rolled-down window of my sister's car, along with two cans of cat food, while my sister was in the store working.
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Poor kitty.
I work nights and people offer thier kittens at 3am! Other than the people who work there you are really going to give away a cat to a beyond drunk person?
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When I worked nights at a drug store, we found two kittens had been dropped off just outside the video drop box.
Thing is, the store was locked.
I had to call my mom to come grab the kittens.
Last I heard they were still incredibly well-loved, though one nearly died from sitting on a car engine and having his stomach opened up.
--
Janson: Honestly, if I actually encountered someone harming an animal, I would probably be arrested for my reaction. Harming an animal is like harming a child or a retarded person. You just don't fucking do it. If you need to fight someone fight someone who can pull a gun on your ass.
― Marcus Aurelius
Path of Exile: themightypuck
Our first kitty was one of a litter dumped in a cardboard box by the side of the road.
Our first dog was brought into my dad's surgery to be put down because she 'made messes' - i.e. the owners were at work all day long and the young dog was bored stupid.
Our second kitty is brain damaged and was also abandoned.
We're up to five kitties.
At this particular moment.
There have been many more.
Most of them just showed up one day.
Even had a DOG that just showed up one day.
Also there was a bear that showed up the other day but I don't think my folks plan on making a pet out of it. :P
Says the guy who whined extensively about how unfair it was that his professor made him argue a weak case.
Edit: On that note, another important thing to bear in mind, titmouse. If lawyer-jokes get you all bent out of shape and/or cause you to cut yourself while listening to Dashboard Confessional, you might not enjoy a career in law.
Yeah, and they can be really bad for wildlife.
They really need to have a big giant spay and neuter movement.
I would actually be happy if cats became somewhat rare, so long as their genes remained nice and healthily varied, so that people would be more likely to value their well-being.
Because damn I loves me some kitties.
I said it was a stupid assignment because it was based upon the work of the opposing counsel, and we were limited to the work that counsel put in the brief, and she was a fucking terrible lawyer. Given the facts, there were some decent arguments to be made. But none of those were made, and we had to try to make nonsensical arguments work.
It was a waste of our time, for the benefit of the professor, who was using our oral arguments as a testing ground of what the opposing lawyer may actually say when the court hears the appeal.
I have a feeling I'm going to need surgery but I won't find out until monday.
― Marcus Aurelius
Path of Exile: themightypuck
Good luck.
Right, that's what I said, you whined extensively about how unfair it was that you had to argue a weak case.
I drive. Relaxing for me. On bad days I'll put on Abbey Road and sit on Berry's mountain campus in the pretty parts for a while.
Only because you take yourself too seriously.
I'm bipolar in everything.
Sometimes I take myself entirely too seriously.
Other times I do vaudeville in a leather trench coat in front of 200+ students with an angry yelling asshole with a bible behind me.
So I finished listening to this mix.
It's pretty damn awesome.
I could give you a limp.
Nightly. :winky:
This episode of MASH was just on two hours ago! Now it is on again!
It's just not right.
"Luigi had taken his shirt off and was pouring beer on his chest. ... We had two bags of fire flowers, 75 mushrooms, five invincibility stars ... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge winged turtles, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car ..."
Hand, I think.
Odin's beard that looks painful
edit: on closer inspection (of the filename), it's clearly a foot