Comments on: Christ, what a week http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/02/15/christ-what-a-week/ A barrister gossips & rants on intellectual property law, the legal system and civil liberties. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:29:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Ruthie http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/02/15/christ-what-a-week/#comment-1221 Ruthie Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:22:15 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=386#comment-1221 You've got to catch me first. Hah hah hah. You’ve got to catch me first. Hah hah hah.

]]> By: Geeklawyer http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/02/15/christ-what-a-week/#comment-1227 Geeklawyer Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:48:16 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=386#comment-1227 I might have of known Ruthie was a boarding hooligan. Damned menace all of you: go too fast on the slopes, you knock people over getting off at the top of ski-lifts. I once beat up some skiboarding French youth in Tigne for ploughing into the back of me: he didn't look so cool after that, as he spat his blood into the piste. Geeklawyer is predictably against capital punishment: except for snowboarders. Ruthie he would be lenient with and only make her do life with a minimum tariff of 30 years. I might have of known Ruthie was a boarding hooligan. Damned menace all of you: go too fast on the slopes, you knock people over getting off at the top of ski-lifts.
I once beat up some skiboarding French youth in Tigne for ploughing into the back of me: he didn’t look so cool after that, as he spat his blood into the piste.

Geeklawyer is predictably against capital punishment: except for snowboarders. Ruthie he would be lenient with and only make her do life with a minimum tariff of 30 years.

]]> By: Ruthie http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/02/15/christ-what-a-week/#comment-1226 Ruthie Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:31:43 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=386#comment-1226 Now boys..play nicely. Cybercafe pah. Ruthie only stays in the kind of hotels that have fluffy towels, an extensive wine list and free internet access... And I'm good enough that I don't need a ski guide. And not desperate enough to pick up some random character from a bar. But thanks anyway for the advice. I am very well, if with a slightly sore arse from boarding. Now boys..play nicely.
Cybercafe pah. Ruthie only stays in the kind of hotels that have fluffy towels, an extensive wine list and free internet access…
And I’m good enough that I don’t need a ski guide. And not desperate enough to pick up some random character from a bar.
But thanks anyway for the advice.
I am very well, if with a slightly sore arse from boarding.

]]> By: Geeklawyer http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/02/15/christ-what-a-week/#comment-1225 Geeklawyer Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:40:03 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=386#comment-1225 <i>As to sex with the ski guide, that may be all well and good for Ruthie, but I have yet to have an opposite-sex guide, and as a heterosexual, this would give me a significant problem to follow your advice under point 5.</i> There are female ski-guides. Some of whom <i>must</i> shave their armpits so that the sex wouldn't be entirely aesthetically objectionable. As to sex with the ski guide, that may be all well and good for Ruthie, but I have yet to have an opposite-sex guide, and as a heterosexual, this would give me a significant problem to follow your advice under point 5.

There are female ski-guides. Some of whom must shave their armpits so that the sex wouldn’t be entirely aesthetically objectionable.

]]> By: Singing Accountant http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/02/15/christ-what-a-week/#comment-1224 Singing Accountant Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:26:34 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=386#comment-1224 So much to say - so little time The OAP who almost gave me a heart attack today (Worple Road SW19 for anyone who knows the person concerned has two sets of lights, I was slowing for the red set 50 yards beyond the GREEN PEDESTRIAN CROSSING set you blind and almost flattened old biddy) should be congratulated. Stepping off the kerb, swiftly at 10 feet in front of 28mph car does make most NHS cardiac tests redundant. Curiously I was also wondering if Snowboarding is more or less dangerous than skiing today as it may be that I have lost a good friend ostensibly on a skiing trip, who planned to Snowboard. After getting lost on the Mountain on Day 2, a message to say they were safe and sound is the last thing to be heard from them. Top Gear - for those who aspire to go faster than is safe (today 42mph would have done it for one pensioner). It has to be required watching for anyone with a sense that society should not always be PC. JC is so much more fun when taking the P out of any Johnny foreigner, Geeklawyer - I worry, nick the rolls OK -a mid morning snack washed with the hipflask, But lunch MUST be a little leisurely. It is de rigeur to enjoy the antics of the passers-by from a bar rather than eating sarnies from the edge of a Mogul field. The enjoyment is not just the skiing, not just the eating out, not just the boozing, the mix is the quintessential. As to sex with the ski guide, that may be all well and good for Ruthie, but I have yet to have an opposite-sex guide, and as a heterosexual, this would give me a significant problem to follow your advice under point 5. Have you considered the possibility that with technology, Ruthie was in the bar (as in 6) with hi-tech comms device, thus not needing to find cybercafe? Perhaps the inabilty to avoid the umlout proves me wrong. OK I'm wrong. Yeah - Ruthie get a life - you're on holiday - either get back to the bar, the dining table, or , dare one say this on a public forum, the slapkamer? So much to say - so little time

The OAP who almost gave me a heart attack today (Worple Road SW19 for anyone who knows the person concerned has two sets of lights, I was slowing for the red set 50 yards beyond the GREEN PEDESTRIAN CROSSING set you blind and almost flattened old biddy) should be congratulated. Stepping off the kerb, swiftly at 10 feet in front of 28mph car does make most NHS cardiac tests redundant.

Curiously I was also wondering if Snowboarding is more or less dangerous than skiing today as it may be that I have lost a good friend ostensibly on a skiing trip, who planned to Snowboard. After getting lost on the Mountain on Day 2, a message to say they were safe and sound is the last thing to be heard from them.

Top Gear - for those who aspire to go faster than is safe (today 42mph would have done it for one pensioner). It has to be required watching for anyone with a sense that society should not always be PC. JC is so much more fun when taking the P out of any Johnny foreigner,

Geeklawyer - I worry, nick the rolls OK -a mid morning snack washed with the hipflask, But lunch MUST be a little leisurely. It is de rigeur to enjoy the antics of the passers-by from a bar rather than eating sarnies from the edge of a Mogul field. The enjoyment is not just the skiing, not just the eating out, not just the boozing, the mix is the quintessential. As to sex with the ski guide, that may be all well and good for Ruthie, but I have yet to have an opposite-sex guide, and as a heterosexual, this would give me a significant problem to follow your advice under point 5.

Have you considered the possibility that with technology, Ruthie was in the bar (as in 6) with hi-tech comms device, thus not needing to find cybercafe? Perhaps the inabilty to avoid the umlout proves me wrong. OK I’m wrong. Yeah - Ruthie get a life - you’re on holiday - either get back to the bar, the dining table, or , dare one say this on a public forum, the slapkamer?

]]> By: Geeklawyer http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/02/15/christ-what-a-week/#comment-1223 Geeklawyer Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:28:56 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=386#comment-1223 Geeklawyer thinks that Ruthie has not quite got the hang of a skiing holiday. As the demon of both Val D'Isere Tigne and Austria he thinks that some tips are in order that should help her avoid the sad fate of wasting time in a German/Austrian (?) Internet cafe, apre-ski: <ol /> <ul> <li>(1) Pack a decent lunch: nick tons of ham cheese & rolls from the breakfast bar throw 'em in a backpack.</li> <li>(2) Get on the slope well before 9 to avoid the ghastly continentals. Ski like a loony all day. Eat aforesaid rolls while on the move. Pausing to consume mulled wine is acceptable as is quaffing Cointreau from a hip-flask.</li> <li>(3) Miss the last lift down to the valley. Ski down.</li> <li>(4) Get drunk in a bar.</li> <li>(5) Have sex with your ski guide (but not in chambers over the photocopying machine as advised in a previous post - the trip back home would be expensive & impractical: a hotel room or cable car is is widely regarded as the best option)</li> <li>(6) Return to the bar in search of more beer.</li> </ul> <ol />Only if one is still able to see straight at this point is it acceptable to waste time in a cybercafe. Geeklawyer thinks that Ruthie has not quite got the hang of a skiing holiday. As the demon of both Val D’Isere Tigne and Austria he thinks that some tips are in order that should help her avoid the sad fate of wasting time in a German/Austrian (?) Internet cafe, apre-ski:

    • (1) Pack a decent lunch: nick tons of ham cheese & rolls from the breakfast bar throw ‘em in a backpack.
    • (2) Get on the slope well before 9 to avoid the ghastly continentals. Ski like a loony all day. Eat aforesaid rolls while on the move. Pausing to consume mulled wine is acceptable as is quaffing Cointreau from a hip-flask.
    • (3) Miss the last lift down to the valley. Ski down.
    • (4) Get drunk in a bar.
    • (5) Have sex with your ski guide (but not in chambers over the photocopying machine as advised in a previous post - the trip back home would be expensive & impractical: a hotel room or cable car is is widely regarded as the best option)
    • (6) Return to the bar in search of more beer.
      Only if one is still able to see straight at this point is it acceptable to waste time in a cybercafe.

      ]]> By: Ruthie http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/02/15/christ-what-a-week/#comment-1222 Ruthie Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:04:37 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=386#comment-1222 Started to develop "blog tick" a nervous affliction caused by absence from this site. So am posting from an undisclosed foreign location. (Lets just say it has snowy mountains and big sausages, heh heh). Weather is glorious (I already have an attractive "panda eye" suntan.) Ruthie is, of course, an excellent skier, and having skied the whole mountain already will be going boarding tomorrow, a bit more of a challenge. Anyway: to Neil. For God's sake don't take Clarkson seriously. Have a laugh at his arrogance, but I'm sure his attitude about the environment is just a way of pandering to a certain section of the viewing public and a way of achieving notoriety. Don't fall for it. "Automative transport just gets you from A to B." Are you, like a girl or something? So why aren't you rollerskating to work then eh? By the way I think you'll find that motorbikes are very environmentally friendly, but that's not the point. If you mail me I'll send you a great joke about older women drivers. No-one seems to ever mail me from this site. Either that or Geeklawyer intercepts them all..:-) Uh..struggling with föreign keyböärd. All the letters are in the wröng pläce.... Started to develop “blog tick” a nervous affliction caused by absence from this site. So am posting from an undisclosed foreign location. (Lets just say it has snowy mountains and big sausages, heh heh). Weather is glorious (I already have an attractive “panda eye” suntan.) Ruthie is, of course, an excellent skier, and having skied the whole mountain already will be going boarding tomorrow, a bit more of a challenge.

      Anyway: to Neil. For God’s sake don’t take Clarkson seriously. Have a laugh at his arrogance, but I’m sure his attitude about the environment is just a way of pandering to a certain section of the viewing public and a way of achieving notoriety. Don’t fall for it.

      “Automative transport just gets you from A to B.” Are you, like a girl or something? So why aren’t you rollerskating to work then eh? By the way I think you’ll find that motorbikes are very environmentally friendly, but that’s not the point.

      If you mail me I’ll send you a great joke about older women drivers. No-one seems to ever mail me from this site. Either that or Geeklawyer intercepts them all..:-)

      Uh..struggling with föreign keyböärd. All the letters are in the wröng pläce….

      ]]>             By: Neil http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/02/15/christ-what-a-week/#comment-1214 Neil Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:07:22 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=386#comment-1214 This incident was in a far more respectable area, although I will not defend the area of my office. Thanks for keeping its identity secret, as per our agreement! This incident was in a far more respectable area, although I will not defend the area of my office. Thanks for keeping its identity secret, as per our agreement!

      ]]>             By: Geeklawyer http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/02/15/christ-what-a-week/#comment-1217 Geeklawyer Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:08:12 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=386#comment-1217 Pensioners eh! in my day they were polite and respectful. Now they just hang around in gangs menacing passing youngsters, get drunk on ginger wine & cause trouble in bingo halls and they all dress they same in those housecoats & floppy hats. Still you work in chav central neil so it's no so surprising. Pensioners eh! in my day they were polite and respectful. Now they just hang around in gangs menacing passing youngsters, get drunk on ginger wine & cause trouble in bingo halls and they all dress they same in those housecoats & floppy hats.

      Still you work in chav central neil so it’s no so surprising.

      ]]>             By: Neil http://blog.geeklawyer.org/2006/02/15/christ-what-a-week/#comment-1219 Neil Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:52:46 +0000 http://blog.geeklawyer.org/?p=386#comment-1219 Please don't worry for me. I was just being honest about my views of automotive transport, ie. it simply gets you from A to B. I have reflected on my comments re Jeremy and I have to confess that I do find him almost as funny as he is arrogant. It's his dismissal of any link between cars and global warming that gets on my nerves. I have no idea to what extent, if at all, the two are linked but in his rush to decry anything he regards as politically correct or inconvenient to the motorist, he concludes, without any supporting evidence, that exhaust emissions do not affect the environment. By the way, on the issue of cars, can I take this opportunity to applaud the driving earlier today of the old biddy in a white car who, rather than waiting in the long and very slow moving queue of traffic into town, drove along the outside lane (for traffic going out of town) and then proceeded to cut into the front of the queue. I dare say she would have played the old bat card and declared ignorance of the road layout had I had the guts to confront her rather than fuming silently. Congratulations on your ingenuity! White van man would be proud. Please don’t worry for me. I was just being honest about my views of automotive transport, ie. it simply gets you from A to B.

      I have reflected on my comments re Jeremy and I have to confess that I do find him almost as funny as he is arrogant. It’s his dismissal of any link between cars and global warming that gets on my nerves. I have no idea to what extent, if at all, the two are linked but in his rush to decry anything he regards as politically correct or inconvenient to the motorist, he concludes, without any supporting evidence, that exhaust emissions do not affect the environment.

      By the way, on the issue of cars, can I take this opportunity to applaud the driving earlier today of the old biddy in a white car who, rather than waiting in the long and very slow moving queue of traffic into town, drove along the outside lane (for traffic going out of town) and then proceeded to cut into the front of the queue. I dare say she would have played the old bat card and declared ignorance of the road layout had I had the guts to confront her rather than fuming silently. Congratulations on your ingenuity! White van man would be proud.

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