Weekend Chatterbox

I won another game of Apex Legends, basically pro level now.

Putting my CDs in order (they've been out of order since I moved in February). Used it as an opportunity to introduce the 5yo to Never Mind the Bollocks.

If they are out of order you should punish them by taking away their playing privileges for a month!

Idiosyncratically alphabetical. Classical is separate. Cash, Cave, and Cohen (85 CDs in total) have a separate shelf for themselves at an easily accessible height, and Freddie solo records are with Queen, all the Mark Lanegan stuff is together regardless of whether it's actually released by a band with a different name, Arab Strap are in with Malcolm Middleton, JT and the Clouds are with Po' Girl, etc. Lennon solo work is under L though, not with The Beatles, I dunno why. I don't own any solo work by other Beatles.

Currently listening to The Eurhythmics.

Would I lie to you?

Hope the Jury Duty doesn't result in you being found guilty.

Just put The Wombles next to Wu-Tang Clan.

I feel your pain, Crank. There's not a day goes by I don't tell my kids about the man cave I had to give up to clear space for them.

There are a Knights scaffolding in Burnley and one in Doncaster, Wellington and Croydon.


I bet at least one of those has a William.

He might not be a doctor.

Crank


Have you done jury service before?


There is a very large amount of waiting around.
The delays are more likely to be bureaucratic arguments (along the lines of has anyone seen the case file?) than dramatic legal arguments.

As and when you get a case it will most likely be grubbier and less inspiring than you hope.

I was once invited to become a magistrate; I was already working 55-60 hrs. a week so turned it down. But I should have to redress the balance with the hang em, shoot em and flog em brigade in Bexley. For a start I could've passed community service sentences.

But as my local friends were either the chess club illuminati, or my fellow darts team players who regarded me like a trophy intellectual because I completed forms for/with them (some of them statements, HMRC notices) they looked after me.

On one occasion they told me "Dunt come ere tomorrow, we're going to sort those fuckers in the saloon art." And they did 8 skinheads took apart 20 odd mods who'd been ambushing the Ye Olde Black Horse public bar skinheads at 10 of them to 1 of ours in quiet dark alleyways ...



In my day 35 years ago, it was just "The Black Horse"...  It does still have a dartboard with a bastard throw for a tall guy.

The pub was closed for 2 days, nearly all the glasses were smashed, and 6 of the mods were hospitalised...  all the darts team were let back in and the landlord had no idea who had fought ...  Before and after the mod crowd had infested the saloon, the skins had merely by being there scared off any thugs; even the really nasty, deadly gypsies from Crayford who were fond of shotguns.

So there would eventually, inevitably have been a conflict of interest if I had become a JP.  Besides being a beak or playing darts - no contest.

I started using Mirage as my main shortly into Season 3. I don't think his passive is much use but on some occasions you can use his invisibility when already out of sight and run round to the enemy and attack them from behind once uncloaked, although I hardly ever remember to do this. 

I cannot stand Pathfinder's creaky weird movement so tend to avoid him. I recently unlocked Octane so I am thinking of using him in season 4. 

Dammit the cats have chewed through the wires on my Skullcandy headphones.

The last pair * were eaten by the vacuum cleaner...

* Headphones that is, not cats.

Can I just say that, for the furnishing of the best dry martini, Tanqueray No.Ten Batch Distilled Gin  has been the absolute winner over the recent drinking season.

(This has been a public service announcement.)