Category Archives: human failings

Looniest Judge *ever* Award: nice try - no pie, Peter.

April 19, 2008 – 9:41 am

Having also been on the wrong end of a major bollocking recently Geeklawyer has not a little sympathy for Mr Justice Peter Smith. Pete was referred to the Office for Naughty Judges (OJC) last year after showing “undoubted animosity” towards one of the parties in a case before him.
At least that’s the polite version. Geeklawyer […]

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Royal blackmail

October 28, 2007 – 5:40 pm

So who do you think was being blackmailed?
Some are speculating it was Harry Hewitt: sex drugs. Could be. Then again maybe it was an old tape of Prince Charles getting caught performing an act of oral sex on his manservant Micheal Fawcett? (After all if you were shagging Camilla, a donkey wearing lipstick, a manservant […]

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Handbags at Dawn

February 15, 2007 – 12:08 am

Ruthie was amused by the complaint by Wigan Athletic, that referee Phil Dowd verbally abused players “in an aggressive and menacing manner” during their recent 2-1 defeat by Arsenal. Ruthie finds it hard to imagine that such a complaint would ever be made by a rugby team. At least not one that didn’t want to […]

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Pr0n drives successful technology

January 12, 2007 – 12:22 am

Apparently some people take a quarter of a century not to learn the lessons of history. Even when they are told: “there is a critical lesson from history for you in this. Learn it. You may fail if you don’t”.

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Drinking too much

October 29, 2006 – 11:55 pm

Geeklawyer was somewhat pleased by Ruthie’s confession, in a private email that the rather ungracious Geeklawyer now reveals in sinful breach of confidence, that she had, unaccustomedly, consumed an entire bottle of wine and was somewhat the worse for its biochemical consequences.
Nothing is so sweet to the ears of small men than the failings […]

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