Don't think I'd be cut out for it, I look at the wrong things. And I'm not just talking courtroom - I'm talking kids colouring in contests, cook-offs, anything that requires a neutral opinion.
I sat watching the olympic gymnastics saying "Not her, she's got shit hair, not her either, she's a cocky-looking wee bitch" etc etc.
Our work had a few competitions as part of a halloween charity fun day, one guy I don't like won the Fancy dress competition, now thank the lord I wasn't a judge for it, I mean his outfit probably was the best, but I fucking hate him and I would have overlooked him straight away.
Bonnie baby competitions? "She can't win, her name's Leticia, imagine calling your kid Letitia"
Shocking I know, but thems the breaks. Have you got it in you to be a judge? Have you ever done so? Were you ridiculously biased?
― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 1 November 2004 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link
The judges on programmes like Pop Idol, or X-Factor or shit like that are biased as well - a lot of the entrants sound identical, so the best looking ones go through.
― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 1 November 2004 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Yes, I could be, absolutely. I'm fair to an extent that astonishes people who know me when I have to be.
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 November 2004 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link
I've never been a judge, but I was an editor, which meant judging people's work and giving a verdict, sometimes by mail, sometimes face to face. I think I handled it pretty well.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 1 November 2004 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
I judged a battle of the bands once, and, aside from the free booze, it was terrible.
― Huk-L, Monday, 1 November 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
one year passes...
I often think about it when I see those tube ads for becoming a magistrate. In some ways I think I would be an excellent judge. But I would agonise over my decisions for weeks afterwards and probably have a nervous breakdown, so in that way, not so much. My mum sits on employment tribunals and that's traumatic enough.
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Fairness/objectivity is hardly the sole quality required of a judge
(and no, probably not. I've been told I might make a ood one but it wasn't necessarily a compliment)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
haha, markelby "yes, I could be, absolutely"
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link