Clinton, Indians, Warriors, Falcons.

No lead is safe.

WFMB: the system is getting better.

So 5 years ago, Mrs v4 got a letter in the mail saying "be at this court at this date for jury duty". Turns out that was the day we were flying out for our honeymoon. So she had to send some form back, inc receipt of flights or something, and she was allowed to skip it. But it was a couple of weeks of internal nerves for both of us as we didn't know how flexible the system was going to be. She ended up getting a letter a bit later saying "you're gonna get called up soon though" but we haven't heard anything since.

Cue me opening my mailbox recently and there's a letter to me addressed by the sheriff (cue nerves). I rip it open and to my surprise, it's a letter telling me that I am going to be a juror some time between March this year and March next year. It then tells me to go to a website where I can confirm my details etc, but most importantly I can input dates in the next year that will be inconvenient for me to be on the jury and so they can avoid calling me then. You're only allowed 2 date periods, max of 2 weeks per period, but it definitely came in handy for one time I know I can't do it already this year. 

To go from the shitty system 5 years ago, to such forewarning and flexibility now, I'm super stoked with how the system has improved.

Cue me doing my best Pauly Shore impersonation as Jury Foreman :lol:

WFMB: Bonnyrigg White Eagles followed me on Twitter lel

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Friday night meat tray win at pub.

Saturday morning door prize at BCF.  $100 rod / reel combo.

Saturday night / Sunday morning 10 legal muddies (kept 7) 2 x 50cm flatheads and a giant whiting. 

Have you bought a lotto ticket yet pal!?!

I did actually.  Bought a quickpick on Saturday lunch time (after the rod / reel win) for the $21 million superdraw (I never play lotto) but my trifecta was the mudcrabs and not the lotto win.

Can't win 'em all I guess.

Wish we had muddies down here (if there are I'd love to know where to go :) ) but going for blue swimmers is heaps of fun.

Don't get too excited mate.

First time I was on a jury it was for a case where a guy was accused of interfering with his own daughter.  He was a complete dick but the prosecutor was hopeless and the case was weak.  We kept getting sent out while there was legal argument and then we would come back and the case would move on without the key issue in question ever being explained.

Long story short, we had two reserve jurors who got discharged when we went off to deliberate.  One of them asked me to give her a call afterwards to let her know the verdict etc.  We had to find the guy not guilty because there wasn't enough evidence.  Rang the reserve juror and told her.  She told me that court officer who took them out had told her that the guy was already in prison for interfering with his other daughter and that most of the evidence against him was linked to that and it was considered prejudicial so that's why we weren't told.

Actually vomited.

So be careful what you wish for. 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not actually excited to be on a jury, I was just stoked to see a clearly-flawed system has at least improved in 5 years.. Wrt Jury Duty - I fully realise that I'm going to be hearing the stories of, and passing judgement on, the actual scumbags of this world (lawyers). 

That is a horrendous story and I hope whatever panned out, the guy had his fate deal him some pretty shitty things after it all. 

WFMB: Bit late but I had a lovely weekend in Melbourne

Wfmb: my tormentor aka my boss got his ass sacked on Friday.  My job place is actually a better place  for it as the negative air he carried around him is no more, and our general  manager who is also now our production manager is a complete 180 from my old boss. Asks questions, gives us informstion,  gives feedback  and gIves us props when we do good.  

That's awesome :)

It is, all of us feel appreciated and andre (old new boss) told us he was proud  of us , gave us all a ego boost . His English isnt good (Russian only been in the country for a year) but he gets his point  across

Glad it's working out for you. It's a tough situation when you're trying to build experience and you're not enjoying your work.

Yep. My depression  got  worse due to it. My depression has actually gotten better but i know its a long road . I think  having  andre being the production  manager as well as our general manager has helped.  As he was and is jovial  when he deals with us. Never ever brings management disagreements  to us on the floor.  

WFMB:

Flat Earthers and their adherents on youtube. 

Just awesome comments underneath the vids.  (The spelling capabilities of the commenters is fantastic too.)  Every conceivable conspiracy is covered.  (NASA is fake, the ISS is fake, satellites are fake, boats disappearing over the horizon are fake, there's a dome (Simpson's style) over the earth, rockets that launch that then hit said dome.  Brilliant stuff.

The mental gymnastics they have to perform to believe in it has to be read to be believed.

They should be the first ones to be strapped to rockets and taken into outer space.

-PB

Flat earthers are like hardcore vegans. Scum. 

WFMB: Arsenal fans. Before the FA Cup Semi they were telling me 'I hope we don't win because then Arsene will stay', then they win and are giving it large! When they went years without a trophy and were finishing above us it didn't matter because they were making Champions League, now we haven't been top all season yet are bottlers and because we are second and not top it doesn't matter if we finish above them.

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This story.

http://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/7-ways-prove-love-country-unlike-yassmin-abdel-magied/

Actually the whole site in general.

Haha I love these arguments. Gravity is apparently fake and all photos showing a curved earth are CGI :laugh:

WFMB: The Ken Burns documentaries on Netflix, bloody fair dinkum historical viewing 

WFMB: Just got back from a cruise to New Caledonia, wasn't expecting much... Just a bunch of retirees and children crowding everything but it actually wasn't like that at all.
Was a pity that other than my wife our travel party were a bunch of selfish fuckwits.

WFMB: I got 1000 words left on the last essay of the semester

WAFMB: Got full pissed for the first time in ages on the weekend, forgot how interesting socializing is. Also had LSA seeds earlier in the day, fascinating experience, would recommend only to the experienced 

I was talking to a mate last night while watching the aus v saudi game and thought how big the coverage of football has changed now.  Sure weve got the usual haters BUT... just under 12 years ago all we had to watch was the premier league, which was on foxtel which was alot more out of reach back then. 
Now weve got 3 bein channels which are 90% football, 3 club channels, eurosports has barca tv, villa tv, benfica, fox has socceroos games, espn has internationals and cup games... then on a fta basis which is the biggest change, 9/9go has socceroos and every june/july club games (7 has latched onto this in the past) abc has just murdered a club game and have the w-league (if i recall) sbs with premier league and cup finals from Europe, 10 has the a-league... 
I love watching football...

That's whay floats my boat. 

WFMB: Saw Russell Howard last night, was fucking excellent. Definitely recommend him to other people interested in comedy.

Wfmb:being housebound for the past week because of illness. Got to play watch dogs 2 . So caught up with my gaming 

WFMB:  Some of the best young footballers in Australia in Coffs Harbour for the FFA championships.

http://northernnswfootball.com.au/high-performance/national-youth-championships/

May have just seen Craig Moore wander by.

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