The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread


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Warpiglet-7

Cry havoc! And let slip the pigs of war!
I was called up something 8 years ago, spend two days sitting on my butt, then was released.
I got a deferment when I was taking care of my dying mother, a couple of years ago.
Six months after her death I received notice but that was cancelled a couple of weeks before, due to the case being resolved.
And now Monday...
I cannot believe they kept me…

The whole thing was expert witnesses in my field. I knew all the jargon and really enjoyed it.

It was 4 days away from the office to boot. Sorry your experience was less fun. I know I lucked out…
 

Ryujin

Legend
I cannot believe they kept me…

The whole thing was expert witnesses in my field. I knew all the jargon and really enjoyed it.

It was 4 days away from the office to boot. Sorry your experience was less fun. I know I lucked out…
No one would want me on a jury.

  • Play RPGs.
  • Work in IT.
  • Research traffic law as a hobby.
  • Own at least a dozen swords and 3 bows.
  • Make chainmail.

I'd show up in one of my several period suits, to highlight just how much they don't want me, but it might be taken as contempt.
 


RealAlHazred

Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
No one would want me on a jury.

  • Play RPGs.
  • Work in IT.
  • Research traffic law as a hobby.
  • Own at least a dozen swords and 3 bows.
  • Make chainmail.

I'd show up in one of my several period suits, to highlight just how much they don't want me, but it might be taken as contempt.
"What are you talking about, your Honor? I want a jury of my peers, if this isn't one of them, I don't know who else qualifies!"
 

Cadence

Legend
Supporter
Probably comes down to their diets, which are (very broadly) similar but very different in the amount digested and how long it spends in the GI tract. The big vegetarian dinosaurs appear to have gotten a fair bit of their food from treetop grazing, which is pretty different from the grasses, shrubs and water plants geese live on in the wild. Plants have evolved quite a lot since the days of the dinosaurs, and geese have evolved with them, so it's hard to speculate meaningfully as a hobbyist. Probably some actual paleontologist who could say with more confidence.

As an aside, there have been a number of D&D cartoons over the years dealing with the obvious dangers of something the size of a dragon soaring overhead and voiding itself (intentionally or otherwise) on targets below. One might reasonably assume that the draconic "elemental" affinities shown in their breath weapons and immunities/resistances are echoed in their excreta as well. A passing black dragon might be the very worst type of acid rain, red dragons a menace akin to an incendiary bombing run, greens a chemical weapon attack. The prospect of whites leaving hailstones in their wake is a bit more absurd but (as anyone who's passed a kidney stone can testify) might explain why they're so cranky. Who knows what's up with blues - does a stream of their urine conduct electricity like a inverse of the electrical fence adage?

I've heard it from deer hunting enthusiasts, albeit rarely. Certainly possible that the scouts or 4H might teach it. The terms are archaic but technical language tends to preserve specialist terms well beyond general linguistic shifts, and hunting parlance is definitely pretty technical at times. And that's the thing, I don't think fewmets/fewmishings was ever just another general word for...um, poop? The filter allows poop, right? They've always meant something pretty specific as far as I can tell.
I could Google this, but who knows how far I'll get sucked in if I do.

Don't ruminants deal with low quality greenery by having the multiple belch and fart inducing stomachs, while geese do it by quantity and passing it quickly as a grass walking hazard? (Dinosaurs and plants had quite a span together, so I'm assuming the later ones had plenty of time to evolve if needed).
 


I could Google this, but who knows how far I'll get sucked in if I do.
Paleontology and evolutionary history are subjects fraught with that particular peril, agreed. I took a quick poke and found a fairly concise site that addresses a lot of the possible questions with decent clarity, though. Worth a few minutes of reading if it isn't too far below your existing knowledge level.
Don't ruminants deal with low quality greenery by having the multiple belch and fart inducing stomachs, while geese do it by quantity and passing it quickly as a grass walking hazard? (Dinosaurs and plants had quite a span together, so I'm assuming the later ones had plenty of time to evolve if needed).
All true, and worth noting that even large sauropods don't seem to have ever developed the mammalian multiple-stomach trait. Some (possibly many - that seems to be unsure as yet) of them did have discrete gizzards like birds do, which is discussed at the link above, and gastroliths (another digestive aid used by many avians) were commonplace in all manner of herbivorous dinosaurs - with the big browsers having an impressive number of them in their large single stomach. Also worth noting that the treetop and water-plant browsers were chowing down on more efficient foodstuffs than grazers, so they evolved differently to reflect that.

But that site explains it all better than I can without getting overly deep for casual reading.
 

Scribe

Legend
I could Google this, but who knows how far I'll get sucked in if I do.

Don't ruminants deal with low quality greenery by having the multiple belch and fart inducing stomachs, while geese do it by quantity and passing it quickly as a grass walking hazard? (Dinosaurs and plants had quite a span together, so I'm assuming the later ones had plenty of time to evolve if needed).

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My Victorian "Undertaker Suit" might well be considered evidence of bias.
Wearing an Al Amarjan-style silk noose instead of a tie might help put the point across. Be sure to bring your copy of 1st edition Over the Edge as evidence of it being a legitimate fashion trend if anyone claims your fashion choices are somehow disrespectful to the court.

Come to think of it, insisting Al Amarja is real ought to either get you removed from consideration (possibly with a quick stop in a psychiatric evaluation facility), or perhaps immediately seated as a juror regardless of procedure if the right conspiracies happen to be in charge of the trial.
 

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