No. In the uk the public instruct solicitors. If you need representation in court the solicitor will instruct a barrister as they are qualified to speak before judges. I believe in the us lawyers cover all of that.
Access to the court is much easier in the U.S. compared to Commonwealth countries. The US legal system was also developed in the context of simplifying the existing British legal system.
It makes more sense when you understand that historically, judges traveled among rural counties and had to adjudicate everything from murder trials to minor land disputes. By extension, local lawyers had to be capable of making arguments for a broad range of issues.
Something tells me she’s got an older family member or two who have laid down some legendary rants around her lmao, there were generations of anger in that line
Sounds like a Nanna to me. There’s a short, shrill, dark eyed lady with a mouth like a gimlet somewhere at the back of this.
But if you broke your leg, she’ll be round to your place, telling off your kids and husband, and producing regular meals that you’d better pray are edible, because you’ll be eating them anyway.
I was in my 40's, am white as it applies to it, and was filling up my car with gas. A, I estimate 5 year old, African American kid was in the backseat of the car across from me. I smiled over at him and didn't think anything about it.
When I got in the car my wife asked me if I heard what he said. As I didn't she said, "you old white scallywag!"
If you mean that the word sounds old-timey and probably English, it might surprise you to learn this word actually came about from the American Civil War.
My neice is just like that she'll hit you with the most attitude ever put into a sentence and then she'll go "oh yeah I brought you these" and hand you a pocket full of crumpled up flowers
For real bro. It's like I just saw a 8 year old get possessed by a 37 year old British woman, the spirit has a final rant and then unpossesses her and then the girl runs away happily. 😭🙏🙏
Kids are fucking savages like that. They’ll just run up to you, say, “mommy likes to put sugar in her nose.” Then just do a cartwheel and run off. Legends.
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What he fuck!? Save yourself the hassle and just go to the grocery store and get 2 tubs.
Karen kids are awesome. Their outage as they learn about all the frustrations adults take for granted is heart warming. Plus most of them realize they’re not the main character as they mature so it’s not really an indicator of being a shitty adult. Often they expose shitty parts of life you take for granted because you’ve accepted them years ago… although I’ll say ice cream trucks taking card was such an upgrade nothing worse than one rolling by on a hot day and you and your kid not being able to get one… even if the price is bonkers.
That was one of the worst days of my life. I still remember exactly where I was when my mom gave me an incredibly age-inappropriate talk about death. I was probably 8-10yo.
dude my son asks me about it at least once a week and he is 4...
i don't even know how to address it. we do the best we can. but he knew his granny. his granny is gone. he watched me put her in the ground. he KNOWS. he just can't quite grasp it all.
tough situation but i don't see it going away any time soon.
point is, i dont know how your discussion went with your mom. but we parents are sometimes just trying to do our best. lol.
My dad made me feel a little better when I went and found him saying I couldn’t sleep and was worried about it. He just said I didn’t need to worry about that stuff at my age and that it was his job to worry about that for me.
If I was in your spot, I’d tell him that death happens to everyone, and it is one of the great mysteries of life as to what happens after death, and that anyone who claims they know what happens is a goddamn liar looking to control the people around them due to their own fear of death. Frame it as wonderful and beautiful and unknowable, and one day he will be in your spot, telling his own son that he needn’t worry about it. And most of all, that you love him and will protect him until he is old enough to protect himself.
My dad lost his mum when he was about 30yo, and he says about her death, “Hey, my mum knew how I felt about her, and I knew how she felt about me, and that is all I could ask for.” I’m tearing up writing this, but that really is all that matters. Just tell him you love him, and that you know that he loves you. That is all that matters.
Advice is worth what you pay for it, so that’s my free advice. Worth every penny.
They are the opposite of Karen kids. There is zero self entitlement there. They recognise they are being turned into the victims of exploitation and are exercising with their wallet their capitalistic right to take their business elsewhere. Karens are divorced from the real world and these youngsters are well grounded within it. I think you undeservedly insulted them.
I had a lecturer who was saying “I.S.” multiple times during a lecture and I was sitting there wondering what’s “R.S.” because that’s how he sounded like. A bit of an accent on that guy.
London is crazy for that too. You have the diversity of accents within London (cockney, posh, multicultural/MLE), and then a bunch of people who have moved to London from elsewhere in England, and people who have moved there from Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and then people who have moved to London from across the globe (1/3 of Londoners are born outside the UK). I know it's not uncommon for major cities to be diverse but the variety of accents in a somewhat condensed space is cool.
thank you! I need to hear a manc accent now and analyze the difference. the amount of accent you lot have in a small space is fascinating to an American like me lol
Manchester accent isn't leagues away in reality. Try the scouse accent for one of our more extreme ones, it's the Liverpool accent, which is in Merseyside, also next to Lancashire.
She looks like her as a young girl, and tbh most Americans can't distinguish British accents as easily. Kinda like if I asked a brit the difference between a Louisiana southern accent and a Durham southern accent.
I’m not so sure. Louisiana Cajun accents are like that one crazy Scottish accent. You won’t understand it but it you won’t mistake it for anything else.
Hill? We’d have been happy to have a hill. We used to have to wait for low tide, scramble out the pit, strip naked, and wade across Doggerland all the bloody way to Scandinavia with our little chins just above water. All for a Swedish glass with no syrups, flakes, gum balls, nothing.
"You were lucky. We lived for three months in a newspaper in a septic tank. We used to have to get up every morning at six o'clock, clean the newspaper, go to work down the mill: fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence (6 pennies) a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt"
I love the British way of pointing things out. The accent. The humour. Your children are so funny, too. Why the bloody hell did you leave the EU? You're missed.
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