Michael/ Lauren civil trial update February 9

[MHM]

@jvanrens

This one is for @Moderator_1

How on earth is it possible I’ve never seen that one on this board until now?!?

[Omgitsme]

Battered woman was the subtext I read. SierraMist said something about her being manipulated by MB, or doing things to please him…I read that as battered (in a mental/emotional way) woman.
But of course subtext is often subjective.

[erinmeri]

Since @CurrentlyHorseless has suggested that my previous illustration was not horsey enough, I have amended the illustration using the most universal of analogies I could think of for horsemen.

[I did not use the 51% “hurdle” - ahem, fence - as an illustration because it is neither an apt analogy, nor is it universal amongst horsemen.]

[jvanrens]

If it hadn’t shown up on my FB memories today you likely wouldn’t have today either! LOL

[Virginia_Horse_Mom]

OMG

[jvanrens]

@erinmeri

Since @CurrentlyHorseless has suggested that my previous illustration was not horsey enough, I have amended the illustration using the most universal of analogies I could think of for horsemen.

[I did not use the 51% “hurdle” - ahem, fence - as an illustration because it is neither an apt analogy, nor is it universal amongst horsemen.]

Shame you couldn’t have worked a fan in there somewhere.

[erinmeri]

@jvanrens

Shame you couldn’t have worked a fan in there somewhere.

It’s a liability pile! It’s meant to be steamy and fly-laden!

[MHM]

Excellent timing! Lol.

[MHM]

You guys are unbelievably generous with not just your time and your knowledge, but your artistic talents!

[smoofox]

@MHM

Aww. That poor horse looks like he has immediate regrets.

Well, he just thought that if he only tried to clear 51% of the jump, it would work… I should have drawn him trying to crawl between the poles.

[MHM]

Like the occasional video that pops up of a horse in a jumping chute who ducks under the top rail of the jump. Lol.

[erinmeri]

@MHM

You guys are unbelievably generous with not just your time and your knowledge, but your artistic talents!

@smoofox is the true artiste!!!

[CurrentlyHorseless]

@Knights_Mom

@CurrentlyHorseless

Mean Girls is well before my time, VHM. I didn’t get either reference.

So you’re 18 OR 19 years old then? I don’t think so LOL

No. I’m not 19. But if I were it seems unlikely that I would have picked up VHMs references if I was 19 now and in a movie theater as a pre-verbal infant in 2004.

I’ve never seen the movie.

[CurrentlyHorseless]

@smoofox

@DownYonder

@CurrentlyHorseless

A horse clearing a 51% “bar” would have indicated the preponderance of the evidence “standard”, and would have been, well, more horsey.

Horses in jumping competitions incur penalties if they don’t clear 100% of each hurdle. They don’t get a pass on a jump if they only clear 51% of it. Since incurred penalties could knock a horse completely out of contention for the win, your horsey analogy doesn’t exactly work the way you think it does.

Kudos, @smoofox. That’s what I had in mind.

There are three rails. The highest is “beyond a reasonable doubt”, the lowest is “by a preponderance of the evidence”, which can be labeled 51%. There is an intermediate bar labeled “by clear and convincing evidence”. While the relative heights are important, the top two bars do not gave specific numerical percentages attached to them.

In the criminal trial, a horse named Schellhorn cleared the highest bar wrt the charges on LK but not wrt the charges on RG.

The principle of estoppel says that (if it applies), the horse named Stone will not need to jump. However if estoppel does not apply, Stone will need jump, but the two higher bars will be removed, and he only needs clear to the 51% hurdle.

Great artwork.

[CurrentlyHorseless]

@Omgitsme

Battered woman was the subtext I read. SierraMist said something about her being manipulated by MB, or doing things to please him…I read that as battered (in a mental/emotional way) woman.
But of course subtext is often subjective.

I was going by what she actually said and not by any imagined “subtext” to what she wrote.

[CurrentlyHorseless]

@erinmeri

Since @CurrentlyHorseless has suggested that my previous illustration was not horsey enough, I have amended the illustration using the most universal of analogies I could think of for horsemen.

[I did not use the 51% “hurdle” - ahem, fence - as an illustration because it is neither an apt analogy, nor is it universal amongst horsemen.]

I liked smoofox’s horse jumping drawing. It’s exactly what I had in mind.

[DownYonder]

Your revised drawing is

[Sdel]

So, is it just me or does it seem like GAS is not preparing to fight JK and KK’s being held in contempt?

[cutter99]

@erinmeri

Since @CurrentlyHorseless has suggested that my previous illustration was not horsey enough, I have amended the illustration using the most universal of analogies I could think of for horsemen.

[I did not use the 51% “hurdle” - ahem, fence - as an illustration because it is neither an apt analogy, nor is it universal amongst horsemen.]

And today’s winner is most definitely @erinmeri!

Holy crap @erinmeri! You da queen!

[CurrentlyHorseless]

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@CurrentlyHorseless

@Virginia_Horse_Mom

@eggbutt

Who is Gretchen?
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I made a joke earlier referencing a movie.

CH actually referenced the exact same movie (Mean Girls) in earlier Barisone threads in direct conversations with me. So I figured she would understand my joke.

But she now claims she didn’t.

So unfortunate. I think laughter helps ease tension. So I choose to make jokes.

Mean Girls is well before my time, VHM. I didn’t get either reference.

Sometimes jokes are funnier if you make them at your own expense. Particularly “jokes” about mob membership

Oh. I distinctly remember a post calling myself and others on these forums “mean girls” and I thought you were referencing the actual movie.

It came out in 2004, so you must be far younger than I realized. For some reason I thought you alluded to being middle aged at some point, and working in the financial services industry and being in the midst of planning and saving for retirement. My mistake.

I’m glad you like my self deprecating humor. They say that people with a well developed sense of humor have higher IQs, on average.

So sorry you didn’t get the earlier ‘Gretchen’ jokes.

I’m aware the movie Mean Girls exists and is something of an iconic movie, so a reference to a group of mean girls tormenting another female is well known to those of us who have not seen the movie. The other references I did not get.

I’m in the financial services industry and saving aggressively for the future, but not necessarily for retirement. That is not unusual for professionals in the financial services industry. None of my colleagues live paycheck to paycheck.