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Lawyer attacking The Oatmeal shocked by big mean Internet's reaction The reaction of the lawyer is understandable, it being the sole prerogative of lawyers to
by grellas 14y ago
Lawyer attacking The Oatmeal shocked by big mean Internet's reaction
The reaction of the lawyer is understandable, it being the sole prerogative of lawyers to bully hapless victims into submission and, if not bully, at least to trick and cajole them into giving them what they want and, if not that, in extremis, to get a true day in court for their client in which the victim can finally speak up, and might even win, but then the client on whose behalf the bullying is done pays in spades for the privilege of financing a futile process in which everyone loses except, of course, the lawyers who invented a system dating back at least to Jarndyce v. Jarndyce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarndyce_and_Jarndyce http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarndyce_and_Jarndyce) for the betterment of society and only incidentally for those who might take a modest profit from their humble efforts in the service of humanity.
- StavrosK 14y agoHoly hell, that was one sentence.
- Shenglong 14y agoI'm more surprised, that it was actually comprehensible.
- sliverstorm 14y agoTry German, I hear sentences can go on for pages and pages.
- JacobAldridge 14y agoIt's Bloomsday on Saturday - the last two sentences in Ulysses are 11,282 and 12,931 words long, respectively.
- StavrosK 14y agoThat's only because there's no punctuation. The sentences end, sort of, but the full stops have been omitted.
- brazzy 14y agoThey can, but it's gone out of fashion since Mark Twain's times. If you really want to, I recommend Kant.
- mkopinsky 14y agohttp://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Query-of-Despair.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Query-of-Despair.aspx
- rokhayakebe 14y agoTry some of Plato's works, not pages, but certainly very long sentences.
- devth 14y agoHHOS
- anigbrowl 14y agoBut since you're a lawyer, maybe that's what you want me to think!
- noonespecial 14y agoIts also interesting that lawyers seem to operate in 2 modes. Bully mode where they try to say whatever they think will shock the "victim" into easily giving up his rights/money, and "civil" mode where they politely ask a disinterested third party to forcibly take resources from their victim and hand it to them. The first mode, I believe is responsible for much of the bad PR the legal profession has. Its kind of a "shock and awe" deal where ordinary people are just astonished that any human being can behave so repugnantly and this makes them afraid, especially if they have never dealt with anything like it before. This is a feature, and is very much intended. Lawyers have been accustom to behaving like this in what amounted to nearly full privacy. Even their clients were not fully aware of the extent they did this. Enter the internet. Paradigm shifted.