Brock Manson

Fucking overslept and missed my lecture. Got a seminar at 4 but going into town for a bit before then at 12.

That's tragic. RIP. At least his sister is going to be ok.

One of the reasons my relationship ended earlier this month was because she liked someone else. Fuck them, just move on and don't give them the satisfaction of letting it get to you. Snakes with tits tbh.

Cheers Jimbo!

Doesn't sound like it's over at all.

Secondhand Serenade - Maybe

Click on photos under applications. Should see the link to add photos from there.

Butterfly Effect. Brilliant film.

Merry Birthday! *Big gay hugs*

Say Anything - Baby Girl, I'm A Blur

Same sort of person who'd manage to spill hot coffee from McDonald's in their lap?

what happened ??? Copped off with Julie again.

Well I'll be ding my washing...and that's about it. Still regretting last night. Well partially so.

Get yer fat arse out for a run.

Bottom of a well?

No. I don't really want to go into detail but it's nothing I've done that caused this, nor is there anything I could've done to stay together.

Not anymore since Saturday.

Made out with a complete randomer last night. Me mate is coming to stay for the weekend to see if I'm ok and keep me company. Absolute star.

Don't know any mackems but NG7....

What a week that was.

You don't have Drive-Thrus in Britain? You don't think that McDonalds has a duty to tell someone that they're being handed a substance that will cause $20,000 worth of personal injuries on contact that it is dangerous? Not when it's coffee no. The only thing I have sympathy with her about (and I'm pushing it here) is that certain of the paper cup types are extremely deceptive, i.e. you can't tell the temperature because they are such good insulators, however, I just come back to the whole 'sticking a flexible cup of hot coffee between your legs while driving' issue. And you can't do anything over here in a car that will distract your attention from the road, pretty sure that would include transporting coffee between your legs. It's a pity companies can't counter sue on grounds of not having any common sense, hence every little thing is coming down to safe procedure and operating instructions. As I said above, it's a question of degrees of expeectation. She could expect some burns, but it is unreasonable to require her to expect and protect against such a severe burn from a substance that most people do not have contact with at such temperatures. Edit: Oh, and she was the passenger in the car. She sounds rather special tbh. I'm sure out of the millions of cups of coffee sold by McDonalds with no incident taking place, there was no real inclination for them to alter their serving policy. Not until some idiot didn't use the cup holder.

If that's referring to the infamous coffee burn case, I feel I should point out the real facts of that case.... The woman was given coffee which was heated to over 190 degrees F (that's 88 degrees C) which is MUCH higher than the suggested safe temperature for serving a beverage (but was McDonald's standard temperature in their manual) When she was given the coffee and it spilled, she suffered 3rd degree burns on her thighs and genitals, resulting in the need for several skin grafts from her back which cost upwards of $20,000. This was not the first instance of this injury; McDonalds had had warning of the danger of serving superheated coffee yet continued to direct its employees to do so. The woman sued for ONLY the medical expenses, and the other damages were PUNITIVE. The point of punitive damages is to provide a deterrent for repeated offenses. The amount required will differ with defendants. If Gemmill beats me up, a punitive award would be less than if Kieron Dyer beat me up. It's not because Gemmill is less of a twat, it's because a fine of $5,000 is significant to Gemmill, but pocket change to Dyer. I'm not commenting on the the case in the first post, however, as I don't know the circumstances of it as yet. How hot is a cup of coffee when you pour it from a freshly boiled kettle at home? Coffee should be *brewed* at approximately 90 degrees C. It should be SERVED at about 65-75 degrees C. One serving coffee at home is not a. Serving it in a paper cup b. Sitting in a car c. unaware that it is being served at a temperature at which it is unsafe to drink because it would burn your esophagus. Agree with points a and b, but what has c got to do with it? That's just common sense to work out how hot it is before drinking it. Are you saying that if she was aware how hot it was, she wouldn't have bothered spilling it in the first place? If she knew that it was that hot, she would likely have been more careful with the cup; for instance not placing it between her legs. If you know it is too hot to drink you're more careful with a drink than if you don't know the temperature. Maybe she wasn't used to having a hot object between her legs.

I often judge a person by their craic. Yours is fucking woeful. agreed, if he hadnt responded the way he did no-one would have battered an eyelid, brock was only having a laugh like! Still am after that response.