Okay, so he’s about to stand trial for something… but how does the first part of his comment relate to anything?
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They aren’t his peers. Ergo he is better than them.
But how to set this up…. Did he say I’m going with a jury of my peers and they said what, you think you are better than us? Or… did he decide the trial was a good excuse to diss his coworkers.
I can’t get it to work.
But I have to wonder what it must be like to work with Snow White. She’s certainly not his peer.
He’s saying that they are not his peers; i.e. he *is* saying he’s better than them.
A *two* minute difference? I didn’t think I typed *that* slowly.
I just thought of something. Don’t you talk about a jury of your peers when you’re the defendant? Is this his smug way of belittling his employees while telling them he’ll be tied up in criminal court for a while?
The group have misunderstood. This guy (the boss?) says that he’s leaving for a few days to spend some time with a group of his peers, to which this group gets mildly offended.
“What? Are you saying we aren’t your peers? Are you saying you’re better than us?”
This statement is his clarification by adding the word “jury”.
“This statement is his clarification by adding the word “jury”.”
This is probably unnecessary to state, but to add to my comment, it means he’s going to be on trial, not part of the jury itself (before a jury of his peers).
If the legal establishment really took “a jury of one’s peers” seriously, then homeless suspects would be tried by juries of homeless people. There is a history of miscarriages of justice when suspects are from more marginalized walks of life than any of their jurors.
bobpeters61: While I get where you’re coming from, “peers” just means legal equals, not “similarly situated in all aspects.” We don’t expect that white men should only be tried by juries of white men, police officers should only be tried by police officers, etc. . .
Having been on a jury, I can say that the defendant doesn’t get to wander in to the jury room. He could be a boss. He could be a juror who thinks the rest of the jurors are beneath him. I’m going with boss because all the people at the table have briefcases by their seats.
If I was a juror, I’d vote to convict Vic Lee of confusion.
Maybe he doesn’t mean “equals” but “urinators.” He’s going to the prostrate clinic, and he got a group discount because he advertised his problems on Facebook and all the folks Liking agreed to come along and share the cost.
He could just be oddly saying that he’s been called for jury duty, but the negative chart in the background suggests that he’s been engaging in financial shenanigans to try to save his company, so, yeah, he’s probably a defendant. I tried to interpret it as him being the foreman leaving for a better jury, but I can’t make it work.
Trying to remember who had the line about having his fate decided by twelve people who couldn’t get out of jury duty.
Uh… didn’t anybody think the guy in the blue sport coat and red badge might be the person who has to take care of the jury? That works better for me. “Okay, I’m fed up with jurors demanding this and acting like snobs, so I’m going to go have lunch/a weekend with my bros.”
Don’t know if it is still the case, but in England, Lords of the Realm who got in trouble *were* tried by a jury drawn from their Peers – other Lords. Commoners got tried by their peers – other commoners.
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They aren’t his peers. Ergo he is better than them.
But how to set this up…. Did he say I’m going with a jury of my peers and they said what, you think you are better than us? Or… did he decide the trial was a good excuse to diss his coworkers.
I can’t get it to work.
But I have to wonder what it must be like to work with Snow White. She’s certainly not his peer.
He’s saying that they are not his peers; i.e. he *is* saying he’s better than them.
A *two* minute difference? I didn’t think I typed *that* slowly.
I just thought of something. Don’t you talk about a jury of your peers when you’re the defendant? Is this his smug way of belittling his employees while telling them he’ll be tied up in criminal court for a while?
The group have misunderstood. This guy (the boss?) says that he’s leaving for a few days to spend some time with a group of his peers, to which this group gets mildly offended.
“What? Are you saying we aren’t your peers? Are you saying you’re better than us?”
This statement is his clarification by adding the word “jury”.
“This statement is his clarification by adding the word “jury”.”
This is probably unnecessary to state, but to add to my comment, it means he’s going to be on trial, not part of the jury itself (before a jury of his peers).
If the legal establishment really took “a jury of one’s peers” seriously, then homeless suspects would be tried by juries of homeless people. There is a history of miscarriages of justice when suspects are from more marginalized walks of life than any of their jurors.
bobpeters61: While I get where you’re coming from, “peers” just means legal equals, not “similarly situated in all aspects.” We don’t expect that white men should only be tried by juries of white men, police officers should only be tried by police officers, etc. . .
Having been on a jury, I can say that the defendant doesn’t get to wander in to the jury room. He could be a boss. He could be a juror who thinks the rest of the jurors are beneath him. I’m going with boss because all the people at the table have briefcases by their seats.
If I was a juror, I’d vote to convict Vic Lee of confusion.
Maybe he doesn’t mean “equals” but “urinators.” He’s going to the prostrate clinic, and he got a group discount because he advertised his problems on Facebook and all the folks Liking agreed to come along and share the cost.
He could just be oddly saying that he’s been called for jury duty, but the negative chart in the background suggests that he’s been engaging in financial shenanigans to try to save his company, so, yeah, he’s probably a defendant. I tried to interpret it as him being the foreman leaving for a better jury, but I can’t make it work.
Trying to remember who had the line about having his fate decided by twelve people who couldn’t get out of jury duty.
Uh… didn’t anybody think the guy in the blue sport coat and red badge might be the person who has to take care of the jury? That works better for me. “Okay, I’m fed up with jurors demanding this and acting like snobs, so I’m going to go have lunch/a weekend with my bros.”
Don’t know if it is still the case, but in England, Lords of the Realm who got in trouble *were* tried by a jury drawn from their Peers – other Lords. Commoners got tried by their peers – other commoners.