All Episodes Talk: All Rise

[Brattinella]

21 minutes ago, iwasish said:

Wasn’t kid on bicycle riding on the sidewalk? Isn’t that illegal? I thought bicycles had to be on the road and follow the same rules as automotives.

I remember always riding my bike on sidewalks.  Maybe they don't allow that now. :(

[SRTouch]

9 minutes ago, Brattinella said:

I remember always riding my bike on sidewalks.  Maybe they don't allow that now. :(

Ah, a wild child - didn't even wear a helmet, right? Another big change - as a kid in the 60's we all went and rode our bikes around the schoolyard, played on the swings, played ball on the ball fields, etc. First, they started locking up the swings, then locked gates and fences kept you off the playground - last time I drive by my old school, even the parking lot was fenced.

[Brattinella]

3 minutes ago, SRTouch said:

Ah, a wild child - didn't even wear a helmet, right? Another big change - as a kid in the 60's we all went and rode our bikes around the schoolyard, played on the swings, played ball on the ball fields, etc. First, they started locking up the swings, then locked gates and fences kept you off the playground - last time I drive by my old school, even the parking lot was fenced.

The good old days!

[SRTouch]

2 minutes ago, Brattinella said:

The good old days!

Yep, saw a mime recently of some dude standing at a pin ball machine with caption about in the old days we had to stand to play video games... a battle fought and lost in the 50-60's was the attempt to make physical fitness a part of American life. ... course, I can't say much as an old fat guy who would keel over if I tried to run a half mile.

[iwasish]

2 hours ago, Brattinella said:

I remember always riding my bike on sidewalks.  Maybe they don't allow that now. :(

From my research, looks like it depends on the law in city, town, municipality.  

[AZChristian]

In our area, if you are riding on a bicycle on a sidewalk, you are treated like a pedestrian.  But that means you also have to get off your bike and walk it across streets, etc.  It's almost like we have two sets of rules:  one for an adult rider in the street (must obey all traffic laws, but can cross intersections without dismounting) / child rider on a sidewalk (considered a pedestrian).    

In the JJ case, I think the woman pulling out of her driveway should have immediately backed up when she saw the kid coming (as she said she did).  It was her private driveway, and there was nothing behind her.  Kids riding bikes freak out easily.  I think he was trying to figure out what to do, and hit her before he finished making a decision.  I sure don't think he should have turned left to go around the front of her car, even though it was a shorter distance.  1) That would have put him moving almost into the street.  2) What if she had decided to pull forward?  She might have hit him.

[Pondlass1]

JJ seems incredibly irritated lately.  More so than usual.  I wonder if she's getting serious about retiring?

From the video angle it looked like the little boy rode his bike into a stopped car.  Maybe he couldn't stop, but I don't see how it was the driver's fault. However the mother didn't look like she had two pennies to rub together and so relieved she didn't have to pay (the production pays the fine, tho, don't they?). So maybe the decision was for the best.

It's really irritating when JJ asks a question and then shushes them before they can answer.

[AngelaHunter]

Spunkygal - It's a wee bit early to hit the sauce, but Happy Belated!!

14 hours ago, stewedsquash said:

Belated thanks for hoping my husband is okay, back many many pages.

So glad to hear that. Both of you must have been very frightened.

12 hours ago, ItsHelloPattiagain said:

Somebody once called that a "pack o' hot dogs" on the back of some big dude's neck and that's all I can think about when I see it.

Well, hell. Now that's all I'll be able to think about. Love it though. :p

14 hours ago, Brattinella said:

If I was still a drinkin' gal, I would raise one in your honor!

Thanks! We'll get you a Shirley Temple and just pretend. XD

I really need to start paying more attention to the audience in the show. I need to see the pond carp.

[Florinaldo]

15 hours ago, stewedsquash said:

I don't want to live that kind of life but I do like to watch weddings for some reason. 

Why settle for just watching at home; you can get the full package in some hotels.

I wonder how many of the people attending these (and paying dearly for them) will have unrealistic expectations and will consequently be disappointed by the event, the food and the photos, and will then end up in litigation... perhaps even on a TV court show.

[Spunkygal]

@ItsHelloPattiagain, the last time you were our designated driver, the $4,375 in student loan money that was stashed in my bra was missing the next morning. Then, I noticed you had a new wig, new "jurry" and some designer purses. And I had my eye on a new baby daddy that you tooken from me at the bar. He has a nice room in his mama's house with kitchen privileges and everything.So I don't think we can trust you while we're out looking for lub in the bars. 

[SRTouch]

2 hours ago, Pondlass1 said:

It's really irritating when JJ asks a question and then shushes them before they can answer.

Or repeatedly asks a leading question,  to which she has already decided on HER correct answer. Litigant tries to answer, then gives up and agrees with JJ. Heaven forbid the litigant go back to their original answer, cuz then JJ pounces - you told me 2 minutes ago (whatever she decided the answer should be and badgered litigant until they reluctantly agreed) and now you're changing your answer... Remember what you said.... I have it on tape, we can play it back!

Edited May 12, 2018 by SRTouch

[Brattinella]

13 hours ago, ItsHelloPattiagain said:

Somebody once called that a "pack o' hot dogs" on the back of some big dude's neck and that's all I can think about when I see it.

I just died when I read this!  SUCH a perfect description, and I will never see them again without thinking of you!

[ItsHelloPattiagain]

2 hours ago, Spunkygal said:

@ItsHelloPattiagain, the last time you were our designated driver, the $4,375 in student loan money that was stashed in my bra was missing the next morning. Then, I noticed you had a new wig, new "jurry" and some designer purses. And I had my eye on a new baby daddy that you tooken from me at the bar. He has a nice room in his mama's house with kitchen privileges and everything.So I don't think we can trust you while we're out looking for lub in the bars. 

Listen ***hold my earrings AngelaHunter*** I will CUT you grrrlll!! Remember back when I got you that cell phone on my plan and you promised to pay the bill with your tax return, but then you showed up at dah club with my (fake) cousin's godmother's hairdresser's boyfriend who was on parole? Damn that man was FIIINNNE, but ya know he can't keep a job cos he got caught ridin' dirtty when he was practicing his parallel parking in the HS parking lot at 4:00 AM. Those cops got nothing better to do but harass him and I FEEL emotional distress cos he stole my 55 inch TV that I got last week (no, why would I have a receipt, you think Walmart keeps track of those things?) 

[Spunkygal]

1 hour ago, ItsHelloPattiagain said:

Listen ***hold my earrings AngelaHunter*** I will CUT you grrrlll!! Remember back when I got you that cell phone on my plan and you promised to pay the bill with your tax return, but then you showed up at dah club with my (fake) cousin's godmother's hairdresser's boyfriend who was on parole? Damn that man was FIIINNNE, but ya know he can't keep a job cos he got caught ridin' dirtty when he was practicing his parallel parking in the HS parking lot at 4:00 AM. Those cops got nothing better to do but harass him and I FEEL emotional distress cos he stole my 55 inch TV that I got last week (no, why would I have a receipt, you think Walmart keeps track of those things?) 

Lissen up, you skank. I saw that new titty tat you got that has my 3rd baby daddy's name and face on it. I know he spends money on you and sends me "whatever he can to help out" so don't you bring that trash talkin' to my door. And I don't give a rat's patoot about that protective order you have on me. I'm gonna key your hoopty and smash your windshield, all in the name of love. And you best not forget about your friend, Pen E Cillin, because after spending time with baby daddy 3, you're gonna need lots of it. 

But hey, it is what it is. We can still be friends, can't we? Tell baby daddy that the twins, Bubonic and Typhoid, need some diapers.

Edited May 12, 2018 by Spunkygal

[AngelaHunter]

5 hours ago, Spunkygal said:

And I had my eye on a new baby daddy that you tooken from me at the bar.

Hey! That was MY man, and after I passed out..Uh, I mean after I fell asleep you dragged him into your bedroom and had SEX with him because you know he has no free will! Hmmpph. Someone needs to come outside and fight me now.

So, "Big Boy" with the pack o' hot dogs neck? Isn't North America a wonderful place to live (and I mean that)? It's one of the only places where someone could have all kinds of terrible health problems (I guess he wasn't hospitalized for a gastric bypass) and extreme financial woes and still get enough food to feed an entire town! Loved his mouthy but idiotic Mama, who, before she got the Byrd escort out the door,  rattled on how her darling boy had to pay his mortgage and had to pay his rent (he pays both?) and keep his kid in private school! I wanted so badly to see the woman who desired him and figured out how make a kid with that behemoth. Dweeby plaintiff had a silly, wiseguy attitude that seemed a bit much for someone who is not too bright.

Shameka! What a janky-ass, lowlife scammer. She speaks well. Too bad everything she says is a lie to back up her scamming and ripping off her lifelong friend. How nice that this amoral POS has kids. What a positive example she is.

I didn't catch the pond carp. In which case do we see her?

Edited May 12, 2018 by AngelaHunter

[Brattinella]

18 minutes ago, AngelaHunter said:

Shameka! What a janky-ass, lowlife scammer. She speaks well. Too bad everything she says is a lie to back up her scamming and ripping off her lifelong friend. How nice that this amoral POS has kids. What a positive example she is.

I didn't catch the pond carp. In which case do we see her?

I forgot about Shameka!  A degenerate liar, to be sure.

The koi pond carp was seated in the audience for both of those cases.

[AngelaHunter]

Just now, Brattinella said:

The koi pond carp was seated in the audience for both of those cases.

Blonde, white shirt? Is that the one?

[Brattinella]

3 minutes ago, AngelaHunter said:

Blonde, white shirt? Is that the one?

I think for one of the cases, she had a turquoise shirt on.  Glasses, light brown hair.  Keeps gawping at every opportunity.

[badhaggis]

36 minutes ago, Brattinella said:

I think for one of the cases, she had a turquoise shirt on.  Glasses, light brown hair.  Keeps gawping at every opportunity.

Second case on Shameka episode (uninsured driver rear ends Lyft driver) had a gawper black shirt glasses and a friend that also over reacts to everything behind the defendant. I love this forum! We've had a rough time recently with a death in the haggis household and you guys have really given us some much needed laughs!

[Spunkygal]

29 minutes ago, badhaggis said:

Second case on Shameka episode (uninsured driver rear ends Lyft driver) had a gawper black shirt glasses and a friend that also over reacts to everything behind the defendant. I love this forum! We've had a rough time recently with a death in the haggis household and you guys have really given us some much needed laughs!

I am so sorry to hear of your recent loss, @badhaggis. Sending you and the Haggis household warm cyber hugs. 

[Brattinella]

So sorry for your family's loss, @badhaggis!  Glad we could cheer you up, even if only a little.

[AngelaHunter]

Aww, sorry to hear of a loss in your family baghaggis.

Laughter really is good for the ol' soul.

[seacliffsal]

Baghaggis, please know that you and your family have my sympathy for your loss.

I was impressed by a young man who was negotiating with the insurance company himself after an accident.  He stated that he and his son had previously been in an accident and the lawyer received more than they did.  Well, of course, the friend for whom he was also negotiating did not pay him back a loan that he made to her or pay for her own medical bills from her settlement.  What a piece of work!  She kept trying to double-talk Judge Judy but JJ was having none of it.  

[momtoall]

Baghaggis so sorry for your loss.

[SuburbanHangSuite]

9 minutes ago, seacliffsal said:

I was impressed by a young man who was negotiating with the insurance company himself after an accident.  He stated that he and his son had previously been in an accident and the lawyer received more than they did. 

I think JJ was impressed with him too!  But I thought she should've awarded him the extra money he was requesting for his time spent on the case.   That "friend" was some piece of work.

11 hours ago, AZChristian said:

In the JJ case, I think the woman pulling out of her driveway should have immediately backed up when she saw the kid coming (as she said she did).  It was her private driveway, and there was nothing behind her.  Kids riding bikes freak out easily.  I think he was trying to figure out what to do, and hit her before he finished making a decision. 

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I thought the same thing as I watched the security tape.  I think that little guy hadn't been riding very long.  He looks very much like my kid who is still super green on a two-wheeler.  I refuse to let him ride on our street anymore until he's more experienced because I swear, it's like there's a magnet pulling him toward every parked car on the block.  I got sick of watching with my heart in my throat so I take him to a wide open school parking lot to practice now.   

[iwasish]

I wish the towns would step in and ask or demand that homeowners keep the field of vision clear. I have a house on my corner that has a similarly placed bush that forces drivers to pull way out into the intersection to see if it is clear to pull out. 

[lovesnark]

@BADHAGGIS, I'm so sorry for your loss. You folks here had me laughing loud enough to wake the nearly deaf dog. I'm sure glad we have this little PTV family to give us smiles when we need them!

[badhaggis]

12 minutes ago, lovesnark said:

@BADHAGGIS, I'm so sorry for your loss. You folks here had me laughing loud enough to wake the nearly deaf dog. I'm sure glad we have this little PTV family to give us smiles when we need them!

Absolutely! Love you guys!

[AZChristian]

@badhaggis . . . just saw your post.  I, too, am sorry for your loss.  It is good to have friends to help.  And many of us consider the folks on these boards as cyber-friends.

[chenoa333]

On 5/12/2018 at 3:07 PM, Brattinella said:

I think for one of the cases, she had a turquoise shirt on.  Glasses, light brown hair.  Keeps gawping at every opportunity.

JJ's audience members are most often, as f'n annoying as the litigants. I HATE the ines who lean really far to the right or left just so their ugly mugs get on camera. 

[NYGirl]

Guys.... please please please take pics and post them of audience members you deem "interesting".  I'm audience impaired and never notice anything.  You can make this old person's life easier this way.

Badhaggis...I'm sorry for your loss.  You're in the right forum to get some cheering up.

[badhaggis]

Thank you! You get to a point in your life where you think okay I lost my mom, my dad and my mother-in-law my father-in-law had quit smoking, was taking car of himself then had discovered a lesion on his liver had a biopsy on a Tuesday and died on Sunday. Seriously a punch in the gut. Then my niece who lived with him was taken to her Father's home in Iowa the same  day. Fortunately she seems really happy and her dad and stepmom are keeping in touch with us. Not a great April. I love you guys and you all helped me get through tough times! I would have gone crazy without you all! Thank you!

Back to the audience those girls really distracted me completely from the episode. I thought the Velma lookalike was bad yikes she had nothing on them!

[NYGirl]

Badhaggis.  I count on this forum to cheer me up.  We all get along and the posts are always intelligent, smart and witty!  I'm so happy I found TWOP so many years ago and now it has evolved into this.  The posters have always been great for both websites.

My son's girlfriend's dad was diagnosed with bile duct cancer last month and they had our hopes up that with surgery and a little chemo he'd get better.  So he then goes to Sloan Kettering and they do further tests... stage 4 pancreatic that has already spread to liver, lungs, etc.  It was a punch in the gut as we were all so hopeful.  He's only 59 years old.  Anyway we made lemonade out of it as my son proposed yesterday (he was going to do it next year so just moved it up a little) and we now have a wedding to plan.  Life sucks sometimes doesn't it?

Back to the show..I've noticed JJ has been very salty lately against certain litigants.  I suspect she reads all the evidence and prepares a head of time and in the interest of time constraints when she makes her ruling we don't see everything.

[configdotsys]

@badhaggis Sorry to hear of your loss. I have my own challenges (being widowed out of nowhere and then diagnosed with cancer while trying to come to terms with my husband's passing). This board has been so helpful to me as I go through treatment (have a road ahead), to get me to laugh and smile at the snark. Glad you were able to get a little of that here too.

[Spunkygal]

32 minutes ago, configdotsys said:

@badhaggis Sorry to hear of your loss. I have my own challenges (being widowed out of nowhere and then diagnosed with cancer while trying to come to terms with my husband's passing). This board has been so helpful to me as I go through treatment (have a road ahead), to get me to laugh and smile at the snark. Glad you were able to get a little of that here too.

 

1 hour ago, NYGirl said:

Badhaggis.  I count on this forum to cheer me up.  We all get along and the posts are always intelligent, smart and witty!  I'm so happy I found TWOP so many years ago and now it has evolved into this.  The posters have always been great for both websites.

My son's girlfriend's dad was diagnosed with bile duct cancer last month and they had our hopes up that with surgery and a little chemo he'd get better.  So he then goes to Sloan Kettering and they do further tests... stage 4 pancreatic that has already spread to liver, lungs, etc.  It was a punch in the gut as we were all so hopeful.  He's only 59 years old.  Anyway we made lemonade out of it as my son proposed yesterday (he was going to do it next year so just moved it up a little) and we now have a wedding to plan.  Life sucks sometimes doesn't it?

Back to the show..I've noticed JJ has been very salty lately against certain litigants.  I suspect she reads all the evidence and prepares a head of time and in the interest of time constraints when she makes her ruling we don't see everything.

Aw, warm cyber hugs to you guys, too. Griping about and making fun of JJ and the litigants on a daily basis often does help take our minds off our own problems. Glad the board is a welcome distraction. 

Which reminds me, we haven't seen that pesky fly that irritates Her Honor! Wonder if he's lurking around some of those goofy audience members?

[configdotsys]

4 minutes ago, Spunkygal said:

 

Aw, warm cyber hugs to you guys, too. Griping about and making fun of JJ and the litigants on a daily basis often does help take our minds off our own problems. Glad the board is a welcome distraction. 

Which reminds me, we haven't seen that pesky fly that irritates Her Honor! Wonder if he's lurking around some of those goofy audience members?

Thank you.

As a absolutely rabid fan of The Odd Couple TV show(I can probably quote every episode), every time a fly shows up on JJ, I call him Sol, beloved fly of Oscar Madison.

[badhaggis]

1 hour ago, configdotsys said:

@badhaggis Sorry to hear of your loss. I have my own challenges (being widowed out of nowhere and then diagnosed with cancer while trying to come to terms with my husband's passing). This board has been so helpful to me as I go through treatment (have a road ahead), to get me to laugh and smile at the snark. Glad you were able to get a little of that here too.

I'm sorry to hear all you have and are going through! Life is pretty challenging at times. I tell God you know what I'm pretty sure I'm strong enough we can stop the testing now!

The recent cases have been back to the things that seem to make JJ extra testy. The producers need to look for something else!

[Guest]

This is such a nice forum.  People really are compassionate and while we don't always agree - it really gives one the opportunity to see different points of view.  Still looking for the person who thinks hula-hoop earrings are sexy but I subscribe to the thought that hope springs eternal.

Also, while I'm posting corny sayings  "For those in the right, life's not fair." 

This from a guy who has a harem living in a rented room which may or may not contain a T-Square.

Hugs to Badhaggis and configdotsys.   I'm thinking of you both.
 

[SandyToes]

I have friends who gasp when they learn (not that I confess) that I watch JJ.  Not for the show, but for all of you here. Fun to read the posts, but more fun when I know what's going on in the cases being discussed.  Hugs to dear cyber-friends, one and all. 

FYI:  The Little House on the Prairie forum can be a real hoot, too. That used to be my go-to on bad days, but I haven't checked in for a while. Found it on TWoP long ago. There are LHotP High Holy Days, where things get REALLY wacko. Used to be a haiku-only-posts day in there! I got to where I had read (and written) so many that I kind of spoke in Haiku for a while. 

My favorite JJ cases are the ones where she shows a teensy bit of compassion, lets one side  hang themselves by feeding out the rope a little at a time, and where we get a little legal education (rather than legal lecturing.) She has been so screechy of late that the new shows, for me, aren't nearly as fun as the older ones.

And then the whole fly-swatter thing.  That's just always golden.  It seems the fly usually picks the most poignant moment in the sad-sack's story to appear.  Hee!

 

ETA: Re: Today's eps:  The lothario who moves his TWO girlfriends in together (so as to cut down travel time, according to JJ) - what on EARTH would possess these idiot women to appear on TV? For as much as a slimeball as he appears to be, they just come across as stoooopid!

Then the chicken case:  Doncha' know that if Judy could have awarded the plaintiff $10,000 per chicken she would have. What an awful defendant.  And an awful liar. 

Edited May 14, 2018 by SandyToes

[jilliannatalia]

I'm not sure if it was a repeat, but we had a case today [not terribly interesting] regarding a landlord who withheld a tenant's deposit deposit in part for having allegedly paid a company a rather outrageous sum of money to cart the tenant's trash bags out of the apartment , but who did not have documentation that carrying out trash was the actual service for which the company was paid. In the hallterview, the landlord/defendant accused the plaintiff's husband of "bullying" her. The act that, in the defendant's mind, constituted "bullying" was that the plaintiff's husband threatened to take the landlord to court of the deposit were not returned. Some people now think all they have to do is use some form of the word "bully" in an allegation to instantly have any dispute reolved in their favor.

 

I'm quite weary of the various forms of the word "bully" being overly applied, and, in my opinion, too often accepted without question. The term has become so highly inflammatory that all a person has to do is merely invoke the word 'bully" in some  form for many people to refuse to look at any other aspect of a situation.  Real or imagined "bullying" cases are all over court shows and Dr. Phil-type programs. In one JJ case a few years ago, a kid threw the first punch in a fight that ultimately resulted in his own glasses being broken, yet whose mother sued for the cost of the glasses because her kid had [allegedly]  previously been 'bullied" by the kid he punched and who ultimately got the better of him in the altercation.  JJ didn't buy into his mother's line of reasoning, but those who commented on the Youtube video of the case were all up in arms. "He was bullied!!! Of course the "bully's" parent should have to pay for the glasses. " 

 

I don't like honest-to-goodness bullying any more than does the next person, but a simple accusation doesn't make it true. Furthermore, people who inappropriately make accusations of bullying cheapen the term and make it more difficult for appropriate action to be taken in cases of legitimate bullying. I wish the interviewer had called the defendant on her inappropriate accusation of bullying. Threatening to sue a landlord over failure to return a deposit is not an fair accusation of bullying.

[Spunkygal]

53 minutes ago, jilliannatalia said:

I'm not sure if it was a repeat, but we had a case today [not terribly interesting] regarding a landlord who withheld a tenant's deposit deposit in part for having allegedly paid a company a rather outrageous sum of money to cart the tenant's trash bags out of the apartment , but who did not have documentation that carrying out trash was the actual service for which the company was paid. In the hallterview, the landlord/defendant accused the plaintiff's husband of "bullying" her. The act that, in the defendant's mind, constituted "bullying" was that the plaintiff's husband threatened to take the landlord to court of the deposit were not returned. Some people now think all they have to do is use some form of the word "bully" in an allegation to instantly have any dispute reolved in their favor.

 

I'm quite weary of the various forms of the word "bully" being overly applied, and, in my opinion, too often accepted without question. The term has become so highly inflammatory that all a person has to do is merely invoke the word 'bully" in some  form for many people to refuse to look at any other aspect of a situation.  Real or imagined "bullying" cases are all over court shows and Dr. Phil-type programs. In one JJ case a few years ago, a kid threw the first punch in a fight that ultimately resulted in his own glasses being broken, yet whose mother sued for the cost of the glasses because her kid had [allegedly]  previously been 'bullied" by the kid he punched and who ultimately got the better of him in the altercation.  JJ didn't buy into his mother's line of reasoning, but those who commented on the Youtube video of the case were all up in arms. "He was bullied!!! Of course the "bully's" parent should have to pay for the glasses. " 

 

I don't like honest-to-goodness bullying any more than does the next person, but a simple accusation doesn't make it true. Furthermore, people who inappropriately make accusations of bullying cheapen the term and make it more difficult for appropriate action to be taken in cases of legitimate bullying. I wish the interviewer had called the defendant on her inappropriate accusation of bullying. Threatening to sue a landlord over failure to return a deposit is not an fair accusation of bullying.

I have to say, I feel bullied by your post......naw, just kiddin'. I agree the rampant use of it dilutes true bullying. 

I don't even want to comment on the open relationship rent case other to say that there's not enough brain bleach to clear my mind of that disgusting situation. So, off to pour a tumbler of Chardonnay.

ETA: yeah, the defendant in the chicken massacre of 2018 helped clean up the carnage because he's such a good neighbor. Riiiight.

Edited May 15, 2018 by Spunkygal

[augmentedfourth]

I'm not sure what, exactly, was the legal basis behind it (especially since I was only half paying attention), but I loved JJ's arbitrary determination of the value of each chicken so the plaintiff got the full $5000. Did she do that just because the defendant was being obnoxious? Possibly/probably. Do I mind? Not at all.

 

The plaintiff in the security deposit case was one of the few people in recent memory to actually be allowed to explain something that didn't gel with JJ's preconceived notions. Things like only having the puppy on the tile floor and not the carpet (which I'm not 100% sure I buy, but JJ probably would have said that after that long of a time, the carpets in a rental would need replacing regardless), the fixtures for the missing cabinets, and so on. I'm not sure if she quite managed to get through to JJ that she and her friend put some trash on the curb for bulk pickup and the other neighbors went "woo-hoo! dumping party!", but it didn't matter in the long run. I'll admit to some bias here and say that the defendant/landlord just looked like she'd be a pain in the ass to deal with.

 

I also wanted to chime in with hugs, condolences, and shared laughs for anyone who needs them. I'm so far behind on the other TV shows I follow, since it's sweeps time and I don't have enough hours in my day, but I always try to catch up with JJ first because this is my favorite forum here. I don't want to miss out and fall too far behind with the posts!

[Blissfool]

6 hours ago, PsychoKlown said:

Still looking for the person who thinks hula-hoop earrings are sexy but I subscribe to the thought that hope springs eternal.

Also, while I'm posting corny sayings  "For those in the right, life's not fair." 

 

 

Here's another corny saying for you (re: big hoop earrings). It's a favorite of my son's: The bigger the hoop, the bigger the ho.

Wait, whaaat....not corny, you say?

[badhaggis]

7 hours ago, SandyToes said:

I have friends who gasp when they learn (not that I confess) that I watch JJ.  Not for the show, but for all of you here. Fun to read the posts, but more fun when I know what's going on in the cases being discussed.  Hugs to dear cyber-friends, one and all. 

FYI:  The Little House on the Prairie forum can be a real hoot, too. That used to be my go-to on bad days, but I haven't checked in for a while. Found it on TWoP long ago. There are LHotP High Holy Days, where things get REALLY wacko. Used to be a haiku-only-posts day in there! I got to where I had read (and written) so many that I kind of spoke in Haiku for a while. 

My favorite JJ cases are the ones where she shows a teensy bit of compassion, lets one side  hang themselves by feeding out the rope a little at a time, and where we get a little legal education (rather than legal lecturing.) She has been so screechy of late that the new shows, for me, aren't nearly as fun as the older ones.

And then the whole fly-swatter thing.  That's just always golden.  It seems the fly usually picks the most poignant moment in the sad-sack's story to appear.  Hee!

 

ETA: Re: Today's eps:  The lothario who moves his TWO girlfriends in together (so as to cut down travel time, according to JJ) - what on EARTH would possess these idiot women to appear on TV? For as much as a slimeball as he appears to be, they just come across as stoooopid!

Then the chicken case:  Doncha' know that if Judy could have awarded the plaintiff $10,000 per chicken she would have. What an awful defendant.  And an awful liar. 

I was talking to @Kazu and said the same thing I mainly watch for this forum. Some of the smartest and funniest people post on here.

I was so glad she had the number of the owner of the chicken killing dogs. Yikes the lies that rolled off that man's tongue.

[Kazu]

@badhaggis and @configdotsys you two are certainly not far from my thoughts. Prayers and hugs to you both. I wish I could be there for both of you and just spend some time chillin' and snarking on some of our fave shows. Judge Judy is certainly one of the best shows ever. As I have said before, she needs to host those damn TM reunion shows. I'd pay good money to see that shit go down.

[califred]

Lots of Iove to all of you that are hurting ??

 

 

I think she’d have given the max for the chickens whatever it came out bc the defendant was a moron.  I live in the land of feral chickens.

[Toaster Strudel]

Polyamorous Pauper looked like Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys. Same glasses, and with a beard. I'd like to know why not one, but two women were willing to hitch their wagon to... this dim rock that's not going anywhere. But who knows, maybe he was just a conduit for the ladies to hook up and ditch him later, except it didn't work out between them.

Fowl Fatalities - Of course the pitbull owners pretend it wasn't their dogs, have no insurance, and take no responsibility. Maybe there is some truth to the trope "it's the owner, not the breed" because pitbulls tend to attract shitty owners. Such as the ones whose dogs attacked 4-5 people in Nanaimo today, spirited the dogs away in their car from the mauling scene, leaving everyone behind bleeding and screaming without calling for an ambulance. I'm glad JJ gave the small time poultry farmer $5000. "Mean JJ" gave the owners their just take down. JJ especially warned the wife not to take the stand, but no, she thought she could outsmart JJ when she's on fire against injustice. She drilled her with the perfect questions and tone to get her to admit the plaintiff's witness was totally truthful. She started out defiant, but within seconds I could tell she realized that this wasn't going well for her at all. She looked terrified.

Feline Torture - Who leaves a cat alone in a tiny room for a whole week? Imagine the insecurity, stress, and mind-boggling boredom for the poor animal. Defendant was really sketchy, had no facts, but the plaintiff didn't have a legal leg to stand on.

Diaper Trash - Get it? It's a word play on diaper rash. Landlady didn't have an itemized invoice, plaintiffs looked like trouble makers. Not a good match.

[Quof]

Diaper Trash landlady has a problem with tenants, neighbors, and the world in general.   I didn't care enough to pay for the online service to read all of her court files, but the list was long.

[DoctorK]

9 hours ago, Toaster Strudel said:

Such as the ones whose dogs attacked 4-5 people in Nanaimo today, spirited the dogs away in their car from the mauling scene, leaving everyone behind bleeding and screaming without calling for an ambulance.

I think this is the attack mentioned:

https://www.cheknews.ca/pit-bull-attack-near-nanaimo-injures-two-children-and-one-woman-450395/

The artticle will probably raise your blood pressure when you read about the dog owner and her reaction.

[funky-rat]

20 hours ago, badhaggis said:

I'm sorry to hear all you have and are going through! Life is pretty challenging at times. I tell God you know what I'm pretty sure I'm strong enough we can stop the testing now!

Yep.  I've told him that a number of times over the past almost-two years.  Things are going better, but because I'm used to it being shitty for so long, I'm having anxiety that the next bad thing is just right around the corner, and I'm unable to start relaxing and stop fixating on what may never happen, but my brain believes I need to be 100% vigilant about.  May be all be blessed with calm sooner than later.

19 hours ago, SandyToes said:

FYI:  The Little House on the Prairie forum can be a real hoot, too. That used to be my go-to on bad days, but I haven't checked in for a while. Found it on TWoP long ago. There are LHotP High Holy Days, where things get REALLY wacko. Used to be a haiku-only-posts day in there! I got to where I had read (and written) so many that I kind of spoke in Haiku for a while. 

 

The people there are fun, but I removed it from my list because most of the posts were about a podcast that I had no time to listen to.

13 hours ago, augmentedfourth said:

The plaintiff in the security deposit case was one of the few people in recent memory to actually be allowed to explain something that didn't gel with JJ's preconceived notions. Things like only having the puppy on the tile floor and not the carpet (which I'm not 100% sure I buy, but JJ probably would have said that after that long of a time, the carpets in a rental would need replacing regardless), the fixtures for the missing cabinets, and so on. I'm not sure if she quite managed to get through to JJ that she and her friend put some trash on the curb for bulk pickup and the other neighbors went "woo-hoo! dumping party!", but it didn't matter in the long run. I'll admit to some bias here and say that the defendant/landlord just looked like she'd be a pain in the ass to deal with.

I've never lived in a rental where carpet was replaced before I moved in.  When we moved in to our first apartment, I was told there were burn marks on the carpet in the living room from the prior tenant, to be careful with candles, and he wasn't putting in new carpet just for that, so if it bothered me, put a piece of furniture over it.

10 hours ago, Toaster Strudel said:

Fowl Fatalities - Of course the pitbull owners pretend it wasn't their dogs, have no insurance, and take no responsibility. Maybe there is some truth to the trope "it's the owner, not the breed" because pitbulls tend to attract shitty owners. Such as the ones whose dogs attacked 4-5 people in Nanaimo today, spirited the dogs away in their car from the mauling scene, leaving everyone behind bleeding and screaming without calling for an ambulance. I'm glad JJ gave the small time poultry farmer $5000. "Mean JJ" gave the owners their just take down. JJ especially warned the wife not to take the stand, but no, she thought she could outsmart JJ when she's on fire against injustice. She drilled her with the perfect questions and tone to get her to admit the plaintiff's witness was totally truthful. She started out defiant, but within seconds I could tell she realized that this wasn't going well for her at all. She looked terrified.

Feline Torture - Who leaves a cat alone in a tiny room for a whole week? Imagine the insecurity, stress, and mind-boggling boredom for the poor animal. Defendant was really sketchy, had no facts, but the plaintiff didn't have a legal leg to stand on.

I don't get the Pit Bull apologists.  I really don't.  I have zero issue with Pit Bulls IF they were not "rescued", did not come from fighting stock, and their owners read-up on them and correctly socialized them.  Most that were rescued came from horrible situations and the dogs can't be trusted.  If they came from a backyard or sketchy breeder, they're likely from rescues or fighting stock.  Reputable breeders can show the lineage.  And most people that just want them as a status symbol, or "for protection" have no clue how to properly socialize them.  I have a friend who has a pure-bred Pit from a reputable breeder and he did a lot of research before he got him.  He did everything correctly, and I have no issues with his dog.  Same with the barber shop my husband goes to.  They have two Pits.  Both very nice dogs and are around people all day - all kinds of people, all shapes, sizes, etc.  I have no issues with them either.  And even so, they are on the ball with the dogs.  The one wanted to play with me and she got a little rough (like all dogs can - she wanted to play tug-of-war) and she caught me with her tooth - I ended up with a minor scratch (I've gotten worse from my cat).  He was on it immediately, and got her to go sit down for a bit.  I didn't blame the dog - she was playing - but I appreciate an owner who is on top of things.  Yes, it's somewhat the crappy owners, but it's also the crappy rescues, putting dangerous dogs back in to the public, all the while blowing smoke about the "nanny dog" crap (which has been debunked frequently - google "nanny dog myth" - lots of sources), and crappy breeders who use rescue dogs or dogs who were fighters.  Pits are the new cause du jour, and people are rushing to adopt them so they can feel good about it and brag about how they've rescued this poor soul.  It's an unpopular opinion, but if a dog (any dog) is rescued from a bad situation and shown to be even slightly aggressive/easily agitated after a few days, then perhaps they should be put down, and NOT adopted out to someone else.  If they're shown to be able to be rehabilitated, then they need to be spayed/neutered BEFORE being adopted out.  The gene pool on Pits is so full of fighting dogs that it's going to be the only way to bring them back to where they should be.  I remember reading about a 2 year old killed by a rescued Pit.  His crime?  Picking up the dogs bone off the floor.  Witnesses said he was toddling over to the dog to give it to him.  The keyboard warriors lit up, saying it wasn't the dog's fault.  The dog is territorial about his food.  Not his fault  - the baby should have known better than to touch the dog's food.  A bunch of us went nuts.  A 2 year old can't possibly know that.  Then they said it was his parents fault for not teaching him.  HE WAS TWO YEARS OLD!!!!  It IS the parents fault for rescuing a Pit from unknown background, but they were probably told he'd be a fantastic nanny dog.  They were up in arms because the dog was put down (as he should have been).  Until they can find a way to come up with a punishment for the owners that will stick, just what should they do?  No one had a good response.  Because there isn't one, besides putting the dog down.  At least the dog was put down humanely, which is more than I can say for the two year old.  If people have Pits and I'm in their home, I immediately ask where they came from.  If they don't have a good answer, I severely limit my time there.

My cats are in a room with the door closed, and they are freaking out within minutes.  Hell, if I'm in a room with the door closed, they're in the hallway freaking out, putting paws under doors, meowing loudly, etc.  I open the door, they look around, and leave.  I can't imagine that cat being in a room for a week.  :'(