Idiot of the Day

[Shale]

There is a particularly damaging rule of professional responsibility for lawyers: they're not allowed to lend money to their clients, even when those clients are good credit risks: poor but have a very high chance of winning a case worth a lot of money in the near future.  That enables rich defendants to pressure poor plaintiffs to accept settlements at worse terms than they otherwise would; it's the easiest thing in the world to delay the resolution of a civil suit.  The family of the decedents requested a lenient sentence because the family of the defendant promised to settle their wrongful death civil suit immediately.  If lawyers could lend clients money, you bet your ass the family of the decedents would have been clamoring for jail time, not leniency.

Why can't a bank lend money to a good credit risk, though? A lawyer can't make the loan him/herself, but there's no ethical conflict in assisting a client in finding a bank that will take them on, is there?

[NotMiki]

No, there's no ethical conflict in that.  There's a growing business in lending for lawsuits (both to clients and to lawyers), as a matter of fact.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/business/15lawsuit.html

And even setting that all aside lawyers can and often do work on contingency or do work before being paid.  So layers can loan clients the value of their services.  they just can't give clients cash for, y'know, groceries and rent.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I just don't understand you people.  Sex and food is like a hot cup of tea and a rock concert.

Tea in a rock concert is superbly posh, you're just a freak.

[DomaDragoon]

Sex and Food go perfectly fine together. You just have to make sure that you don't have sex someplace that's hard to clean, because chocolate syrup is annoying to get out of mattresses.

To be fair, it's harder to get mattresses out of chocolate syrup.

Don't ask me how I know this.

[NotMiki]

I just don't understand you people.  Sex and food is like a hot cup of tea and a rock concert.

Tea in a rock concert is superbly posh, you're just a freak.

I need one hand for the lighter and the other hand to keep the monocle on.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

If you can't hold a lighter and a teacup on the same hand, you're not my badass friend anymore.

[metroid composite]

I just don't understand you people.  Sex and food is like a hot cup of tea and a rock concert.

Tea in a rock concert is superbly posh, you're just a freak.

I need one hand for the lighter and the other hand to keep the monocle on.

Wait what?  You need to use a hand to keep your monocle on?  Lrn2monocle.

[AAA]

Maybe it's constantly popping out due to frequent shocking twists?

[metroid composite]

Maybe it's constantly popping out due to frequent shocking twists?

Good point, but when your monocle pops out, it should really be popping out into your cup of tea!

[Shale]

I'm not sure if it was Dan Didio or Jim Lee or Bob Harras, but somebody is responsible for giving Rob Liefeld money in exchange for drawing things.

[Grefter]

To be fair to the dude.  That IS much better than a lot of his older stuff.

[Captain K.]

Agreed.  Those vaguely resemble human bodies.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

He kind of drew a foot.

[NotMiki]

If you can't hold a lighter and a teacup on the same hand, you're not my badass friend anymore.

People with monocles don't have friends.  They have peers.

[Shale]

Speaking of "DC goes to the 90s", those of you with taste may remember Harley Quinn from Batman: The Animated Series.

This is what she's going to look like now.

[VySaika]

...what.

[NotMiki]

I think that'd bother me more if she didn't look like a ripoff of (homage to?) Yoko from Gurren Lagann

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Speaking of "DC goes to the 90s", those of you with taste may remember Harley Quinn from Batman: The Animated Series.

This is what she's going to look like now.

... why did Jim Lee barf over Harley Quinn.

[metroid composite]

Speaking of "DC goes to the 90s", those of you with taste may remember Harley Quinn from Batman: The Animated Series.

This is what she's going to look like now.

I'm sad now.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

I think that'd bother me more if she didn't look like a ripoff of (homage to?) Yoko from Gurren Lagann

I didn't think it could have been worse and then you say this.

[Sierra]

That is incredibly depressing.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Also who the fuck is that manshark?

[Anthony Edward Stark]

The Manshark is the one thing I am okay with. I am, however, even more bothered now that I realize I saw that exact outfit on a stripper last summer.  I don't want to think he and I hung out at the same nudie bar.

[superaielman]

Maybe the artist was just big into suicide girls and decided to pay homage to them with that abortion of a character design?

[Cmdr_King]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that someone told him to make a 'sexier' version of the Arkham Asylum Harley.