Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

He's certainly a good lad, but what exactly is a sharp cookie?

 

An extremely dangerous biscuit?

 

Just found a DVD of Saints U14 squad from 2010 whilst moving out. I'll see if I can spot any of the current bunch later.

 

When my father got cancer he was about to retire - his (major multinational German) company kept trying to persuade him to stay on as they'd worked out that they'd have to pay out less were he to die in service than under a retirement plan (under German law you tend to get about 4 weeks death in service, rather than the standard 3-4 years in British law).

Now that was callous......

 

The twats! What did he do?

 

Unfortunately he died, all part of the masterplan of the company it would seem, so my mother only got the 4 weeks in service plus his company car "as a show of generosity". He'd worked for the company for 32 years! The representative that they sent to the funeral actually said someone during the wake at the house "it seems a nice house, she'll be okay".......

Yeah.....nice bunch

 

Sorry to hear that. Just shows how most big companies think these days.

 

Custard creams...you have to watch those bastards. Addictive as hell. Don't even get me started on jammie dodgers!

 

There was a case just a few years ago where a Real Madrid player (and Spain international) Ruben de la Red collapsed during a game due to a heart condition. Real Madrid tried to declare that it was a "common condition", thereby allowing them to annul his contract and entitling him to just £1000 a month in disability benefit, as opposed to paying off the rest of it. I imagine there are a few more cases like this which are banging about.

 

What have I just come across....Two teenage girls kill their best friend because they don't want to be her friend anymore

 

Second degree murder! Really? That takes life imprisonment off the table. How is that not first degree murder? 40 years in prison not nearly enough. At least the one who plead not guilty won't get out of prison, should she be found guilty.

 

Life without parole for minors is no longer an option; that disappeared with the USSC ruling in Miller v. Alabama last year.

Thus, the decision is largely to ensure conviction; overcharging leads to juries coming up with new and novel interpretations of 'reasonable doubt', and second-degree murder is a hell of a lot easier to prove because you don't need to convince the jury that it was premeditated, and the penalty isn't a whole helluva lot different.

 

Minors can still get life without parole: "Under the Supreme Court's ruling, minors can still get life without parole sentences — just not automatically after a conviction; instead a judge will need to decide, taking into account the minor's youth."

 

Am I the only one who read the newspaper article and couldn't help noticing that the victim's family seemed more bothered about sitting through a murder trial of their own daughter, rather than obtaining some sort of justice for her?

 

After which there have been a handful of lower-court rulings that have invalidated it entirely. Not in WVa to the best of my knowledge but it's in a state of flux...there aren't many countries that do allow it, and it's a fairly safe bet that it won't be in place in the theoretical timeframe in which these two would be up for release. There's no reason to risk the jury getting antsy about a life sentence for a couple doe-eyed (white) sociopaths when 40 years does much the same thing.

 

People are ****ed up, couldn't they just tell her?

 

Not really I can see their point. I just got confused which girl was which. They didn't really highlight it well.

 

I can kinda understand why they feel bad about it all coming to light, in a way.

 

Yep having to sit through all the sick twisted ****.