The Lawyers who won time from god wouldn't be immortal they would only live an extra 209 billion years. They actually wouldn't get to spend more than 0.02% of that time alive on earth as the sun would come to the end of it's life cycle. Also the Lawyers would never get to use any of that time as they would still be lawyers and have to work their law practice for what will seem like an eternity to them.
I was at a workshop recently where a woman was rude to the volunteer picking us up at the airport. Her excuse was, "Look, I'm from New York," as if that justified it. Which leads me to my favorite Onion headline: after the 9/11 attacks, the Onion waited a decent interval, then had a headline "NATION FEELS TEMPORARY AFFECTION FOR NEW YORK."
@@jackbaldyga7952 same here. Lost a cousin and a few friends in the attack and well, it's funny. Lost more friends serving in the wars, only one of which made sense.
When I was in college I read an Onion article that said that teens who are contemplating suicide should be put in a writing class so they can write a decent suicide note. It had 2 notes where the numerous errors were corrected in red pen. I showed it to some of my English professors and the response was always how horrible this was followed by asking me if it was alright for them to make a copy of the article.
I always live double meanings in headlines. One I saw on an actual newspaper, that was a legitimate mistake, was in dutch: "Problemen mortuarium lijken opgelost." It could mean either of these two: "Problems morgue seem solved." "Problems morgue, bodies evaporated."
"Why do the class-action websites always look terrible?" As a web app developer with many big banks and credit unions as clients, I'd guess the reason is similar: they refuse to ditch Internet Explorer, and no sane, self-respecting, and qualified web developer wants to deal with IE.
@@fisch37 They don't want to ditch it because they want EVERYONE to see it, I'm assuming. Even the guy who is actively covered in moss while staring at his IBM PS/2 computer. While I don't support complete deprecation of software (the shit that happened with Flash pissed me off to no end, and the fact that people trying to revive software are getting sued despite the software not being maintained anymore is worse,) you do have to know when the ship has sailed.
@@missingtexturez Well, it's fully offline. Besides: Microsoft is way into backwards compatibility. They support software back to Windows XP at the least
The Chinese food trope will remain in movies/tv because the boxes are opaque, so they can be full to the brim or nearly empty and the continuity person is good.
Either that or you get the traditional Star Trek scean where plates of food are served, looked at for three seconds before finding excuse to leave the table.
@@michaelpettersson4919 if the plates are visible, there is a person responsible for continuity between takes. If there is more than 1 take, it's jarring to see a full plate and then seconds later, a near empty plate. Watch any holiday movie, if they have a scene at the table, they try not to show the plates by using close-ups or over-the-shoulder shots.
Uber got slapped with ADA recently. It was found that the two minute waiting time is too short, and billing people for waiting time when they legitimately have troubles getting to the car, or boarding, was discriminatory.
Update on this -- i had registered as disabled [i am a full-time wheelchair user, and use a walker to transfer] and actually got hit with a waiting fee a week ago. I just escalated the support chat/filled out the right form and it was refunded, no questions asked.
The whole "lawyers eating Chinese food" thing actually makes a lot of sense, from a logical perspective; traditionally, the only two types of food available for delivery, as busy law firms wouldn't have the spare time to send someone out to buy food, were Chinese food and pizza, and it would probably look really bad for important legal documents to show up in court covered in grease prints.
@@jmurray1110This, and you don't have to deal with product placement and problematic copyrighted or trademarked material. You can do the same thing with a Burger King or Wendy's bag, but then they'd have to show those logos to point out that the paper bag in question is filled with food. The Chinese takeout box is iconic in shape without showing its contents or a logo.
"Everyone on the defense team has their counterpart on the prosecution and they're gonna fall in love and they will betray their client for the greater good" Me, an Ace Attorney fan: *nervous sweating*
One of my favourite Onion headlines of all time. From 2008: "Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In". The Onion is also on by far one of the best sources for accurate and truthful news.
For anyone curious, the "45 seconds of extra life" would have the lawyers win... ~2.86 * 10^13 years. What's that, word form? Oh, you know, 28 trillion years. That means if they get 30% of that, they will have ~8.56 trillion years of their own.
To put that into perspective, our star has about 6 _billion_ years until it hits the white dwarf phase, and the longest estimated lifespan of any star (the smallest of red dwarf stars) is about 10 trillion years. It's thought the galaxies will all go dark about 120 trillion years from now, since there won't be enough hydrogen gas left to form new stars anywhere, except via rare collisions between already-existing stellar or substellar objects.
@@democrrrracymanifest A lot of serial killers were known to be very nice and affable and even wonderful spouses and parents in their day-to-day lives, but that doesn't really make them "fine human beings."
@@democrrrracymanifest I don't think you can be an "extremely nice person" and also sexually harass people, on top of everything else. That's just a bad person with good PR.
There's a 3-part run of 'Behind the Bastard's' that does a deep dive into his life... And you don't get a three parter on a show called "behind the bastard's" by being a nice person.
The explanation for the Chinese take-out was that it makes it easier for continuity. If they're eating off plates & you have to re-shoot a scene, you have to make sure the food looks sufficiently similar. If it's concealed in a box, it doesn't matter what the food looks like or how much is left.
Yes agree, especially the format should be standard and payment system as well. Actually, I find the presented website reasonably descent looking, but if every class-action has a different format it does not built any trust. Coupons should be avoided, a bank cheque is quite ideal and practical. Just give the people back the money they deserve.
What has always bought me joy about the Onion, is that the fact that even now some people still get sucked in and believe it is a real news source. Opps spoilers.
@@craigkdillon Yep, the Daily Currant (another satire news site) ran a story about Todd Akin saying breastmilk "cures" homosexuality, in the wake of his most notable news story regarding "the body has ways of shutting it down in the case of legitimate..." entirely believable of the man after what he'd actually said.
shout out to madison, wisconsin where the onion was born in 1988. they were distributed free in boxes on the street and on racks inside grocery stores and such. i remember picking one up the first time and not gonna lie, i was baffled for a second, and then utterly ~delighted~.
As someone who also lives in Madison, wooooo! Yeah! Lmao Seriously though, it's hard to wrap my head around actually living in the city where something huge and well-known like The Onion was started... It's awesome! I can't believe it's come so far though, glad others get to experience it!
Heck yeah! Fellow Wisconsinite here, and I fondly remember them being stocked for free at a mall next to my high school. Never missed a week, they've always been hilarious.
To answer "why do class action claim sites look so janky?" it might be an idea to ask "what happens to the unclaimed settlement money ?" Because if that just gets to sit in a law firm's account earning interest, I think we may have our answer as to the reason for the low quality of the websites.
Are you sure that's the case? Because I was a plaintiff from both the Doordash and Postmates settlements in California and according to their sites any unclaimed amounts will be dispersed during a second payment after a particular amount of time.
@@thegodofallakira6349 since I posted this reply I got a second payment for same settlement. And another settlement from Postmates. The amount of the settlement and the percentages and points granted for each case were clearly explained on the settlement papers provided during the sign up process. Math doesn't have a side I was part of a class-action lawsuit with an online publishing company 18 years ago and just last year I got another check from that settlement, probably the eighth or ninth check I have gotten over the years. Unclaimed settlements, by law, have to be redispersed until the settlement fund is gone. More likely in the future I might even get another check from the settlement and the one from Postmates. Of course, each new round of checks will be substantially smaller.
@@Hayseus712 Aurora borealis. Aurora borealis?! At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen? ...May I see it?
Also one legal trope I seen in real life in how chummy prosecutors, defense, and judges were each other. I was a part time bailiff for a several months and remember seeing a defense attorney, prosecutor, and judge chatting away about a ski vacation one of them took while the defendant was squirming. I was thinking, wow those dinner scenes in Law & Order had some truth. It also kinda makes sense. After a while I realized most lawyers would come from similar school or professional circles. Lots of defense attorneys are former prosecutors and judges are former lawyers. Also it doesn't help to be too adversarial either.
Im surprised the God - Life settlement article didn't have a joke about the lawyer doing it Pro-Bono due to being an immortal vampire, not needing the extra life.
@@richardarriaga6271 Well one could apply for afterlife insurance to fix the issue of how fast you decay, but the problem those lawyers will encounter is that you need to have your own birth _and_ death certificates on hand in order to qualify. Think of it like Beetlejuice's lore - if you aren't technically dead in some way, you're just a schmoe stuck in a purgatory of limbo. And without that soul taken out of your body, you're gonna roam the Earth looking like a literal zombie.
Some of the best Onion headlines came from "Holy F____g S____: Attack on America", their first issue printed after 9/11: "American Life Turns Into Bad Jerry Bruckheimer Movie" "Not Knowing What Else to Do, Woman Bakes American-Flag Cake" "Rest of Country Temporarily Feels Deep Affection for New York" and the best one of them all: "Hijackers Surprised to Find Themselves in Hell: 'We Expected Eternal Paradise for This,' Say Suicide Bombers"
The only class action lawsuit I filled out was against FB because I live in Illinois. I heard about it before I saw the ad, so when I saw it I knew it was legit. I got paid out $300 and honestly, that's the best perk I've received from living in Illinois. 🙃
Well, at least your state has a perk. I'm in Pennsylvania, we gave away our only perk to Kentucky, via the rifle that got named after them - from PA rifle makers.
All time "favorite" political/legal Onion headlines Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (mass shootings)
"Man Who Thought He'd Lost All Hope Loses Last Additional Bit Of Hope He Didn't Even Know He Still Had" "Study: Dolphins Not So Intelligent On Land" "Craigslist Server Contracts HPV" "Drugs Win Drug War" "World Death Rate Holding Steady At 100 Percent" They've been rolling out bangers for decades.
Politicians being perfectly fine with each other as some pretend to defend us while others work their hardest to ruin our lives just ruling class solidarity and makes them anything but perfectly fine people
The Onion TV show (clips can be found on UA-cam) are the most entertaining and funny videos on UA-cam. Everything from "Breaking News: Some Bull**** Happening Somewhere" to "Judge Rules White Girl Will Be Tried As Black Adult". It was the golden age of comedy. And everything seems to still be relevant today.
re: class-action lawsuits. Thank you for calling out unprofessional looking but real websites being thought of as scams! It definitely sucks because some illegitimate sites look more legitimate than actual legitimate websites.
The Catholic church Onion article made me think that the obscure world of Catholic Canon law would be a fascinating video for a secular lawyer to investigate
+1 showing love for The Onion. I used to grab the free printed version from one of the curbside paper boxes in NYC 20 years ago (gasp!) My all-time favorite, though it’s not legal in nature, came out after Obama defeated Dubya: “World’s Worst Job Given To Black Man” So classic.
2:36 _Class-action lawsuits are notorius for paying small amount of money or coupons to the class._ LegalEagle nailed it. Tim Hortons proposed settlement is a free coffee and donut. And true, it is only the lawyers that get rich.
All class action settlements should be defined in the amount they pay per plaintiff. And the payment to the lawyers should be a percentage of the amount actually claimed by the victims.
@@macdjord I mean, they are. That's kind of the entire thing. Class action lawsuits are generally a fuckton of people who have been wronged, but not massively in a way that would make it worth it to sue on their own. So some lawyers sniff out these situations, go "okay, look, I can definitely try to punch McDonald's in the nose or something, and I'll do it for free, but in return, part of the full recovered sum is mine. If we lose, which is a possibility, none of y'all have to pay anything." So there are two options for a lawsuit, either the lawyers take it for free and go "yeah, pay me when you win" (but then, since I'm putting *my* income on the line to prosecute your claim, I'll take 25% of the total sum) or they go "pay as you go, my billable rate is like $500 per hour of work, and if we lose, you still have to pay me." Who would sign on to a class action lawsuit with a real chance of losing where you'd have to pay the law firm if you lost?
@@XCC23 If they end up winning a judgement of $12.46 per claimant which nobody bothers collecting because its not worth the bother, they didn't actually win anything meaningful and thus should not get a lot of money.
Tim Horton's in Canada was caught illegally tracking users of their app and the proposed settlement is a free coffee and doughnut. So yeah, the class action on isn't far off.
The food trope started with Law and Order because the director didn't know how to make scenes look less boring while people were just discussing what was going on. He ultimately decided people eating and talking helped make the scene look more dynamic. It's why cops are constantly getting food at food carts on the streets and lawyers are always eating takeaway in their offices or dining out at restaurants while discussing cases.
I mean, this dude is an actual lawyer with a law firm. What is he supposed to say? The Supreme Court Justices are vile excuses of human beings that will cater to the highest bidder? Thats how you get blacklisted in that business
7:18 This is the reason why I rate _A Few Good Men_ as one of the best movies ever made. The original screenplay wanted Demi Moore's character to get romantically involved with Tom Cruise's character but director Rob Reiner said that would be unnecessary since this was a movie about two co-workers just doing their jobs. And they did.
Hell, I want a movie where the two opposing sides do end up romantically involved in the first portion of the movie, independent of the trial. Then the trial itself comes along, and they end up on opposing sides. But still do their job without making it personal or petty.
"Headless body in topless bar" "Boyd Corbin, Once Arrested for Fighting a Drag Queen With a Tiki Torch, Runs for Wilton Manors Mayor" "Man desperate for ride to Hooters calls 911, ends up in jail" "Man busted trying to steal full rack of ribs stashed in his pants"
Fun fact about Chinese takeout in shows and movies! It’s used so often because they don’t need to keep continuity between shots, because you can’t see inside the boxes. With other food you have to make sure it looks the right amount of eaten for each bite taken on screen.
The Onion really takes me back. I grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and you could find their weekly publication for free at various kiosks around the city. Now everything is online, so I think you can go back pretty far if you want to.
tv shows love chinese take out boxes because of continuity issues. with the big white boxes they don't have to worry about food levels changing between shots, and most of them are empty so they don't have to actually worry about food on the set. Its a simple short hand for this box is full of food,
I actually got 80 bucks sent in the mail from a class action lawsuit because I was underpaid in a job. It was preceeded by a letter, and I didn't have to sign up for anything. But I also have a friend who's on the class action websites and has gotten some money for product recalls and stuff. Also, there's a great Jewish folktale about someone arguing with G-d and winning.
There's a lot of those stories in Judaism, other religions could learn a lot from the open questioning of scripture which is where the stories seem to derive from, the need to address complications of interpretation, etc. More critical examination of beliefs helps people understand their faith, and also helps people figure out if they truly believe or not.
@@cericat Honestly, I would just settle for people actually taking the time to read their own holy texts. So many "issues" people have due to their religion are either not really something their religion cares about or is something that their religion actually says the opposite of what these people are saying.
I'm reminded of a joke. A numbers of Talmudic scholars are arguing about one point. One of them argues for one interpretation, the others all disagree with him. Suddenly, there is a voice from the heavens, "Rabbi Moishe is right!" There is silence for a moment, then someone says, "OK, Moishe, that's two on your side!"
@@aaronmccullers384 Oh I'm aware, I left the church as a kid because questioning the difference between scripture and what they said got me in hot water. Better understanding and the willingness to discuss we might get away from the Christofascism we see so often.
@@cericat Absolutely agree. Understanding both your own faith and others’ would fix SO many misunderstandings. I can’t believe how many times I’ve had to defend my faith from accusations that don’t make any sense if you actually understand the doctrine. And it’s not like it’s complicated biblical scholar level stuff either, just a simple understanding of a few key concepts.
You can check the links and verify the emails 10x over and it's still... super sketchy. You would think it was the gig companies that designed the website, to keep the claims low 😂 maybe the lawyers get to keep whatever goes uncollected 🤔 someone needs to hire a proper we developer...these class action lawsuits certainly have plenty of liquidity if successful in court.
@@bernlin2000 They use one-time super long domains and don't explain how to verify their legitimacy - they just claim to be court-approved! I usually have to rely on external resources to find out that. I think these emails look so dubious that many major email providers classify them as spam, likely owing to user reporting.
Everyone: Wow, that Ally McBeal one is pretty on point. Legal Eagle: That one is funnier now than when it was first written. Seriously, would have never thought to date check that article to see that it predates the insanity.
The Onion is amazing at predictions. Their article titled "‘Paw Patrol’ Writers Defend Episode Where German Shepherd Cop Shoots Unarmed Black Lab 17 Times In Back" went viral in the summer of 2020. Most people didn't notice it was actually written in 2018. (I know that wasn't technically a prediction, since unfortunately the article would have been relevant any time since, well, forever. However, the text of the article fit perfectly with the tragic events that triggered protests in 2020.)
Your informative and amusing comments of law need support for the entertainment it has brought me. The laws in my country, Sweden, may differ but it is still fun.
@@annaelizabzth doubt it, younger people especially speak pretty fluent English and even my parents can hold good conversations in it :) especially if you're in Helsinki - when I last visited there seemed to be a fair few English speakers around With how difficult our language is the vast majority wouldn't expect you to know any but on the other hand also appreciate any effort towards learning even if it's just a few phrases
The one (almost) class action lawsuit I remember most, didn't actually make it that far. It was back when Sony Online Entertainment ran the game Star Wars Galaxies. Long story short, they pulled a bait and switch on the players of the Creature Handler class who pre-ordered the Trials of Obi-Wan expansion to get a special item that gave bonus levels. Then, two weeks after that expansion came out, fundamental changes were made to the game, including the complete removal of the creature handler class making the necklace completely worthless. Large numbers of creature handler players threatened a class action lawsuit, including some of us (not me) who were lawyers going pro bono. Realizing the number of lawyer players we had running pro bono and that they'd spend more money trying to fight us than it was worth to them, they nipped the class action before it got started by agreeing to give all players who had any points in the creature handler class prior to the expansion a full refund.
I got $400 from Facebook and the site was shady as hell. Even when I went back to check the site had been defunct. Was pretty scared I just gave all my info to a scammer until the check showed up
Has it not occurred to you the websites for the class action payouts are literally the people doing the payouts so even if they are acting in good faith to actually fulfill the terms of the legal agreement/obligation in the best case scenario at the very least they are the ones who bear the costs of maintaining the website or otherwise informing the relevant parties which the more who answer the more they then payout... Their motivation for maintaining a website that doesn't look poorly produced at best and a scam at worst is not exactly high.
I feel like there might be some people who disagree with Justices Kavanaugh and Thomas being "perfectly fine people", even setting aside their politics. 😬
@@michaellovely6601 came here to say this. I can't think of much that could be more soul-crushing than to make history becoming a Supreme Court justice as a liberal black woman, only to have to work with Clarence Thomas. Like jfc man, dude is almost single-handedly setting both the country and black people back 150 years...
Hey bud, just wanted to state an otherwise lost comment. I just realized you were "the" legal eagle, and finally realized your channel is both high quality and highly informative. I probably spent 5 years hearing your channel name, and never gave it a shot. It turns out this is amazing, and I'm a fool. :/ Absolutely amazing channel, thanks so much for what you do.
Definitely thought I was getting scammed from a class action website, I wonder if the Chinese food trope is because they can show the containers without having to show the food itself thus helping with continuity and just having a lot of food in shot.
IIRC, the reason that settlement websites tend to look shady is because settlement companies have stopped trying to get ahead of scammers. Because there are so many of them and they handle enough of a volume that they can't customize them, scammers are pretty much guaranteed to have access to their templates. If they make a new template, then by the time they get a chance to use it there would probably be a significant amount of scam settlement sites out there using it.
"the people on the supreme court are perfectly fine human beings" Gonna have to object to this one. Fine people don't wield their power to hurt literally everyone in the country.
@@blugaledoh2669 and the EPA gutting, and the concealed carry gutting, yeah. Voting for mothers to die in childbirth, smog to fill our skies again and mentally unstable people or recent convicts to conceal guns on their person at any place is, in my opinion, pretty objectionable!
I believe you need to look up Advocate Teffo from South Africa. His antics currently are completely wild - our Legal Practice Council legit sent out an email of "no reason for this whatsoever, not caused by anyone in particular, but don't do these things". And that was BEFORE he accused the Judge of using witchcraft
Tbf the judge could have been using witchcraft, it doesn't have to be effective to be witchcraft....I am not a lawyer, but I have a PhD in hocus pocus voodoo science according to my ex's Dad and it is my professional opinion that the judge in question was using witchcraft and furthermore was doing it badly enough to get caught which is an extra charge.
The class action sites always do look like scams. I had received an email about one and spent hours looking into it just to see if it was legit because their website was sketchy. Glad to have this confirmed by an actual lawyer. I guess it's to scare people off from joining the settlement idk.
I was part of a class action lawsuit against ITT. I was just informed I'm only owed $8 which the court says doesn't have to be paid out. But I was told not to worry because I might get it in a later phase of payouts.
A local IL playwright did a play based on the Lincoln Almanac trial. I did multiple productions, playing both the eyewitness and a prosecuting attorney. One of the funniest bits was when it started falling apart I yelled objection... Judge: "Grounds? *pause....pause* Me: *To partner* What grounds?
I’m surprised you’ve yet to react to the movie “Philadelphia” with Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks (unless I am missing it on your playlists). Please do that one soon! Oh, and “Primal Fear” with Ed Norton and Richard Gere is another good one.
yeaj, I don't think any of the judges who voted to overturn roe v wade can be considered "fine people". They may look proper and seem polite but stabbing someone politely never made it hurt less.
@@Torlik11 Throwback to that time Clarence Thomas lied about his sister being on welfare just to score some brownie points with hardline conservatives.
Oh yeah they're all crazy lunatics who want to take away our rights! Our rights to express our thoughts freely. And our rights to arms ourselves. And our rights to self-determination. And the rights of the states we live in. How dare they?
@@Torlik11 Roe vs Wade ought to overturned since it is not cover under the constitution and honestly read like a legislation. The Supreme Court interpret the laws, they don't create law so this should have never been their problem to begin with.
I work with a customer service rep who would always come to me to ask questions about customers problems or concerns. He would usually deal with the most difficult customers because he was very good with them but it also meant the scenarios he was talking with me about were usually very complex and nuanced. To be clear, I really like this particular individual. He is a very nice man and is very customer focused. However, I always hated dealing with his questions because no matter what answer I gave him he would always twist my answer to something else or would ask a ton of follow on questions. Usually both. He would want every possible cause and solution to whatever the customer’s concern was and I never had enough time to explain everything to his satisfaction. After working with him and doing this same song and dance repeatedly for 15 or so years now, it finally came up in idle conversation that he was a retired defense attorney! Suddenly I absolutely understood everything I had been going through with him and I gotta say, trying to win an argument with him was near impossible. Very softly spoken but insanely smart.
“That’s how many lawyers I think are created - I mean, how many new law students there are in the country at any given time.” You can’t fool us, Devin. We know that lawyers are just hyper-realistic robots with you being one of their emissaries!
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i dont think so
You repeated the chinese late night thing lmao
yeah one clip came twice
Could you do a reaction video to Weird Al's I'll sue ya, to see how many are legitimate and how many are frivolous?
The Lawyers who won time from god wouldn't be immortal they would only live an extra 209 billion years. They actually wouldn't get to spend more than 0.02% of that time alive on earth as the sun would come to the end of it's life cycle. Also the Lawyers would never get to use any of that time as they would still be lawyers and have to work their law practice for what will seem like an eternity to them.
I was at a workshop recently where a woman was rude to the volunteer picking us up at the airport. Her excuse was, "Look, I'm from New York," as if that justified it. Which leads me to my favorite Onion headline: after the 9/11 attacks, the Onion waited a decent interval, then had a headline "NATION FEELS TEMPORARY AFFECTION FOR NEW YORK."
I lol'd at that shit, reminds me of a joke:
What was osama bin laden's favorite nfl team?
New York Jets.
@@redherronrecords Never heard that one before
well at least they were respectful and waited a while before making a potentially super offensive fake article
@@jackbaldyga7952 same here. Lost a cousin and a few friends in the attack and well, it's funny.
Lost more friends serving in the wars, only one of which made sense.
@@spvillanosorry for your loss
When I was in college I read an Onion article that said that teens who are contemplating suicide should be put in a writing class so they can write a decent suicide note. It had 2 notes where the numerous errors were corrected in red pen. I showed it to some of my English professors and the response was always how horrible this was followed by asking me if it was alright for them to make a copy of the article.
i need this one
Are you doing alright?
@@tigermisty5901 He didn't say he wanted to commit suicide, he just found an Onion article while in college.
As they say, better to have it & not need it than to need it & not have it :) (the ability to write a decent note)
Guess I should improve my writing, thanks!
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“Jurisprudence Fetishist Gets Off On Technicality” is a classic, and definitely one of my all-time favorite Onion headlines
I have that on a T-shirt, and wore it to the first day of my Civil Procedure class. The professor loved it!
The SMJ follow up wasn't bad either.
Time to visit a law school and kinkshame any student with excellent grades.
I always live double meanings in headlines. One I saw on an actual newspaper, that was a legitimate mistake, was in dutch:
"Problemen mortuarium lijken opgelost."
It could mean either of these two:
"Problems morgue seem solved."
"Problems morgue, bodies evaporated."
Yeah that is such a brilliantly lean joke, you couldn’t add or subtract *anything* from that. Perfection
"Why do the class-action websites always look terrible?" As a web app developer with many big banks and credit unions as clients, I'd guess the reason is similar: they refuse to ditch Internet Explorer, and no sane, self-respecting, and qualified web developer wants to deal with IE.
They actually still use IE? Okay they're probably using Win7 if not WinXP...
@@fisch37 They don't want to ditch it because they want EVERYONE to see it, I'm assuming. Even the guy who is actively covered in moss while staring at his IBM PS/2 computer.
While I don't support complete deprecation of software (the shit that happened with Flash pissed me off to no end, and the fact that people trying to revive software are getting sued despite the software not being maintained anymore is worse,) you do have to know when the ship has sailed.
IE hasn't shut down yet?
@@missingtexturez Well, it's fully offline. Besides: Microsoft is way into backwards compatibility. They support software back to Windows XP at the least
They STILL use _Internet Explorer?_ How and why?!?
Should do an “Onion or Not” episode, where you have to guess if a legal headline is real or fake
Onion or Nonion (nunyan)
That’s a great idea!
Every year following the 2015-2019 era it became harder and harder and harder to do that
R/nottheonion is a pretty good place to harvest onion like headlines that are true news stories.
@@KRJ893 Truth.
I am legitimately shocked that aside about class action lawsuits having horrible websites wasn’t a segue for a square space commercial
That legit would've been the BEST segue ever.
@@jasong9492 agreed
Honestly, they need it
😅
Seriously I could hear the tie in as he commented on it, or a VPN ad.
The Chinese food trope will remain in movies/tv because the boxes are opaque, so they can be full to the brim or nearly empty and the continuity person is good.
Either that or you get the traditional Star Trek scean where plates of food are served, looked at for three seconds before finding excuse to leave the table.
A single company really profits from single design prop.
Also LegalEagle repeated that segment twice in the video. Most likely an accident.
@@michaelpettersson4919 if the plates are visible, there is a person responsible for continuity between takes. If there is more than 1 take, it's jarring to see a full plate and then seconds later, a near empty plate. Watch any holiday movie, if they have a scene at the table, they try not to show the plates by using close-ups or over-the-shoulder shots.
Similar to how a bag of groceries will often have a loaf of french bread sticking out, there's an immediate visual association.
Uber got slapped with ADA recently. It was found that the two minute waiting time is too short, and billing people for waiting time when they legitimately have troubles getting to the car, or boarding, was discriminatory.
You can now actually [...supposedly] pre-waive the waiting fee if you're disabled on the website!
Update on this -- i had registered as disabled [i am a full-time wheelchair user, and use a walker to transfer] and actually got hit with a waiting fee a week ago. I just escalated the support chat/filled out the right form and it was refunded, no questions asked.
@@gloraelin that's cool. You probably shouldn't have to escalate at all, but nice that it worked. I assume you haven't registered as disabled?
@@jandorniak6473 uh, i said in my comment that i had registered...?
@@gloraelin I missed that. Weird that you have to actually ask support to waive that fee then... But still good.
The whole "lawyers eating Chinese food" thing actually makes a lot of sense, from a logical perspective; traditionally, the only two types of food available for delivery, as busy law firms wouldn't have the spare time to send someone out to buy food, were Chinese food and pizza, and it would probably look really bad for important legal documents to show up in court covered in grease prints.
Apparently it’s just good for reshoots since you can’t see inside the box like other foods
@@jmurray1110This, and you don't have to deal with product placement and problematic copyrighted or trademarked material. You can do the same thing with a Burger King or Wendy's bag, but then they'd have to show those logos to point out that the paper bag in question is filled with food. The Chinese takeout box is iconic in shape without showing its contents or a logo.
Are coffee cup stains still forgiven?
I'll just get my hat...
"Everyone on the defense team has their counterpart on the prosecution and they're gonna fall in love and they will betray their client for the greater good" Me, an Ace Attorney fan: *nervous sweating*
You went there too, eh?
Same with the technicality one.
It's a special pain that we share, huh? Miles is something.
That is EXACTLY what I first thought of!!
I pity whoever gets matched with Payne
One of my favourite Onion headlines of all time. From 2008: "Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In". The Onion is also on by far one of the best sources for accurate and truthful news.
My favourite is from 2001: "Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'"
My favorite of all time is "Philandering String Theorist Can Explain Everything."
And future news too!
My favorite was after Obama won in 2008: Black man given nation’s worst job.
The nation eventually discovered that they could pay thousands of dollars for "bits" of coins.
For anyone curious, the "45 seconds of extra life" would have the lawyers win... ~2.86 * 10^13 years. What's that, word form? Oh, you know, 28 trillion years. That means if they get 30% of that, they will have ~8.56 trillion years of their own.
Is that long after the cold heat death of the universe? The sun will expand and swallow earth in less than 0.01% of that time
To put that into perspective, our star has about 6 _billion_ years until it hits the white dwarf phase, and the longest estimated lifespan of any star (the smallest of red dwarf stars) is about 10 trillion years. It's thought the galaxies will all go dark about 120 trillion years from now, since there won't be enough hydrogen gas left to form new stars anywhere, except via rare collisions between already-existing stellar or substellar objects.
Thank you for doing the math
Well 8.5 trillion years, guess those lawyers will invent warp drive to escape from the sun dying in about 5-6 billion years.
well, statistics show that they'd get killed long before they could ever live that long.
"I think people on the Supreme Court are perfectly fine human beings." That there's an EXCELLENT Onion headline.
@@democrrrracymanifest A lot of serial killers were known to be very nice and affable and even wonderful spouses and parents in their day-to-day lives, but that doesn't really make them "fine human beings."
@@democrrrracymanifest I don't think you can be an "extremely nice person" and also sexually harass people, on top of everything else. That's just a bad person with good PR.
There's a 3-part run of 'Behind the Bastard's' that does a deep dive into his life... And you don't get a three parter on a show called "behind the bastard's" by being a nice person.
Yeah I was surprised he said that
Yeah, he really shouldn't say things he can't take back over the next two to five years
Devin: "Everyone On Defense Team An Equally Matched Romantic Interest for Member of Prosecution."
Me: "Glares At Ace Attorney"
Why would you say "Glares At Ace Attorney" out loud?
@@Hyperboid because why not?
@HarryLLCYou are the only one talking in title case
At no point in the games does that happen
@@edgeworth097 no but the chemistry between Wright & Edgeworth and Apollo & Klavier is undeniable to me
The explanation for the Chinese take-out was that it makes it easier for continuity. If they're eating off plates & you have to re-shoot a scene, you have to make sure the food looks sufficiently similar. If it's concealed in a box, it doesn't matter what the food looks like or how much is left.
It's just a box.
Signing up for a class action lawsuits should be done through an official government website. That would remove the "Is this a scam?" factor.
Oh god please no, we don't need more shitty govt. websites 😩
Yes agree, especially the format should be standard and payment system as well. Actually, I find the presented website reasonably descent looking, but if every class-action has a different format it does not built any trust. Coupons should be avoided, a bank cheque is quite ideal and practical. Just give the people back the money they deserve.
Yeah, that would remove any doubt that it's a scam.
@@almc8445 On one hand I agree. On the other if they weren't so constantly shit then the idea wouldn't be at least somewhat reasonable.
What has always bought me joy about the Onion, is that the fact that even now some people still get sucked in and believe it is a real news source. Opps spoilers.
That is because The Onion's stories are more credible and rational than real news.
We live in a crazy world, don't you know?
And as they say, Truth is stranger than Fiction
Was it Poe's Law that states "Extreme believes and parodies of extreme believes are indistinguishable from each other."
Well most of them are real headlines, just from the future
@@craigkdillon Yep, the Daily Currant (another satire news site) ran a story about Todd Akin saying breastmilk "cures" homosexuality, in the wake of his most notable news story regarding "the body has ways of shutting it down in the case of legitimate..." entirely believable of the man after what he'd actually said.
shout out to madison, wisconsin where the onion was born in 1988. they were distributed free in boxes on the street and on racks inside grocery stores and such. i remember picking one up the first time and not gonna lie, i was baffled for a second, and then utterly ~delighted~.
I miss reading the Onion, and yes I'm from Wisconsin.
As someone who also lives in Madison, wooooo! Yeah! Lmao
Seriously though, it's hard to wrap my head around actually living in the city where something huge and well-known like The Onion was started... It's awesome! I can't believe it's come so far though, glad others get to experience it!
I never knew it was started here. I just remember always picking up an issue at woodmans.
Heck yeah! Fellow Wisconsinite here, and I fondly remember them being stocked for free at a mall next to my high school. Never missed a week, they've always been hilarious.
Me, too, proud graduate of UW Madison here. Fond memories of reading The Cruise by Jim Anchower instead of listening to my Shakespeare prof 😊
I like how Onion articles always seem so topical and up-to-date before I found out it was written in 2006.
To answer "why do class action claim sites look so janky?" it might be an idea to ask "what happens to the unclaimed settlement money ?" Because if that just gets to sit in a law firm's account earning interest, I think we may have our answer as to the reason for the low quality of the websites.
Are you sure that's the case? Because I was a plaintiff from both the Doordash and Postmates settlements in California and according to their sites any unclaimed amounts will be dispersed during a second payment after a particular amount of time.
@@LuisLopez2They’re lawyers, why are you taking what they write at face value
Dispersed to who? After what period of time? What amount of it?
@@thegodofallakira6349 since I posted this reply I got a second payment for same settlement. And another settlement from Postmates.
The amount of the settlement and the percentages and points granted for each case were clearly explained on the settlement papers provided during the sign up process. Math doesn't have a side
I was part of a class-action lawsuit with an online publishing company 18 years ago and just last year I got another check from that settlement, probably the eighth or ninth check I have gotten over the years.
Unclaimed settlements, by law, have to be redispersed until the settlement fund is gone.
More likely in the future I might even get another check from the settlement and the one from Postmates. Of course, each new round of checks will be substantially smaller.
Money awarded from a class action lawsuit would probably sit in some kind of trust account
The Onion is almost the journalistic equivalent of the Simpsons at predicting our life nowadays, please do more of these!
The Simpsons has not really predicted anything, we just have all the exact same problems we did in 1989.
@@mitchellpatterson1829 fair enough, that's true.
@@mitchellpatterson1829 then why is there an aurora borealis in my kitchen? 🤔
@@Hayseus712 Aurora borealis. Aurora borealis?! At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?
...May I see it?
@@TyphinHoofbun ...no.
Also one legal trope I seen in real life in how chummy prosecutors, defense, and judges were each other. I was a part time bailiff for a several months and remember seeing a defense attorney, prosecutor, and judge chatting away about a ski vacation one of them took while the defendant was squirming. I was thinking, wow those dinner scenes in Law & Order had some truth. It also kinda makes sense. After a while I realized most lawyers would come from similar school or professional circles. Lots of defense attorneys are former prosecutors and judges are former lawyers. Also it doesn't help to be too adversarial either.
Im surprised the God - Life settlement article didn't have a joke about the lawyer doing it Pro-Bono due to being an immortal vampire, not needing the extra life.
Na, they'd be demons, considering they sold their soul to the Devil.
I am surprised nobody pointed out that while he is immortal, he will still age.
@@coriespringer9785 That's just bad lawyering to not have a full health and anti-aging clause.
@@richardarriaga6271 Well one could apply for afterlife insurance to fix the issue of how fast you decay, but the problem those lawyers will encounter is that you need to have your own birth _and_ death certificates on hand in order to qualify. Think of it like Beetlejuice's lore - if you aren't technically dead in some way, you're just a schmoe stuck in a purgatory of limbo. And without that soul taken out of your body, you're gonna roam the Earth looking like a literal zombie.
Just because they don't need the extra life doesn't mean they won't take it. Have you met a lawyer before?
It's amazing to me how accurate The Onion is---years later. Satire when written, truth after the passage of time.
The Onion is the only site on the internet that has continued to be good since the 90s
I know a lawyer who never went to law school. He just took the bar exam over and over until he passed.
"what a sick joke!"
yeah it's kinda weird how graduating from law school doesn't grant a law license
Ironically he probably learned a decent amount just by passively absorbing that information.
Some of the best Onion headlines came from "Holy F____g S____: Attack on America", their first issue printed after 9/11:
"American Life Turns Into Bad Jerry Bruckheimer Movie"
"Not Knowing What Else to Do, Woman Bakes American-Flag Cake"
"Rest of Country Temporarily Feels Deep Affection for New York"
and the best one of them all:
"Hijackers Surprised to Find Themselves in Hell: 'We Expected Eternal Paradise for This,' Say Suicide Bombers"
That's gold Jerry! GOLD!
The last one is so simple but REALLY funny.
@@lentlemenproductions770 maybe I’m just super dumb but I don’t get it, can you explain?
@@demon-goat It has to do with the religions and ideologies of those particular terrorists. That simple.
@@demon-goat the joke is killing a bunch of new yorkers was supposed to be a good thing
The only class action lawsuit I filled out was against FB because I live in Illinois. I heard about it before I saw the ad, so when I saw it I knew it was legit. I got paid out $300 and honestly, that's the best perk I've received from living in Illinois. 🙃
Hey, we've got legal weed now, and we're ending cash bail! ...Hopefully you'll never need that second thing though.
I'm so sorry.
@@Cool_Calm_Cam Now we just need legal weed at reasonable prices, it's a bloody racket.
@@crowe6961yea but that was always going to be the trade off
Well, at least your state has a perk. I'm in Pennsylvania, we gave away our only perk to Kentucky, via the rifle that got named after them - from PA rifle makers.
All time "favorite" political/legal Onion headlines
Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (mass shootings)
I also like how Onion repeats the second headline whenever it happens, and the same comments on IG follow that post.
@@Andrew-ry9be did you see it after Buffalo/Uvalde? The entire page was that headline going back years.
"Man Who Thought He'd Lost All Hope Loses Last Additional Bit Of Hope He Didn't Even Know He Still Had"
"Study: Dolphins Not So Intelligent On Land"
"Craigslist Server Contracts HPV"
"Drugs Win Drug War"
"World Death Rate Holding Steady At 100 Percent"
They've been rolling out bangers for decades.
They run the "no way to prevent this" after every notable massacre - 25 times so far.
They republish the mass shooting one each time one happens, and the only edit is the date & location in the dateline.
Politicians being perfectly fine with each other as some pretend to defend us while others work their hardest to ruin our lives just ruling class solidarity and makes them anything but perfectly fine people
"And the people on the Supreme Court are perfectly fine human beings"
This has got to be the best satire in this video
1:29
The Onion TV show (clips can be found on UA-cam) are the most entertaining and funny videos on UA-cam. Everything from "Breaking News: Some Bull**** Happening Somewhere" to "Judge Rules White Girl Will Be Tried As Black Adult". It was the golden age of comedy. And everything seems to still be relevant today.
Franz Kafka International Airport is still the funniest thing that's ever been on the internet.
My favourite is "Situation in Nigeria Seems Pretty Complex".
@@Tjalve70 The debate over the burning money pit is one I always remember too.
I rewatch Bullsh+t every six months or so. Classic.
"Judge Rules White Girl Will Be Tried As Black Adult" is one of The Onion's best. So is the real-time polling data during debate video
re: class-action lawsuits. Thank you for calling out unprofessional looking but real websites being thought of as scams! It definitely sucks because some illegitimate sites look more legitimate than actual legitimate websites.
its crazy how sophisticated some scams have gotten compared to legitimate efforts and businesses
The Catholic church Onion article made me think that the obscure world of Catholic Canon law would be a fascinating video for a secular lawyer to investigate
Don't forget the surprising list of famous people who were technically Catholic lawyers.
Having known a few canon law students in Leuven, the people studying it are just as crazy as you'd imagine, too.
+1 showing love for The Onion. I used to grab the free printed version from one of the curbside paper boxes in NYC 20 years ago (gasp!) My all-time favorite, though it’s not legal in nature, came out after Obama defeated Dubya: “World’s Worst Job Given To Black Man”
So classic.
I recently received a check from a class action lawsuit. $0.10. I might retire
I am not a lawyer by profession, nor am I an American but I still find this channel entertaining because how eloquently he talks
Eloquent, but lucid
2:36 _Class-action lawsuits are notorius for paying small amount of money or coupons to the class._
LegalEagle nailed it. Tim Hortons proposed settlement is a free coffee and donut. And true, it is only the lawyers that get rich.
How many Timbits do the attorneys get??
@@Highfalutinloyd
Lol. I looked up the lawyers and all they do is class actions. Easy money for them.
All class action settlements should be defined in the amount they pay per plaintiff. And the payment to the lawyers should be a percentage of the amount actually claimed by the victims.
@@macdjord I mean, they are. That's kind of the entire thing. Class action lawsuits are generally a fuckton of people who have been wronged, but not massively in a way that would make it worth it to sue on their own. So some lawyers sniff out these situations, go "okay, look, I can definitely try to punch McDonald's in the nose or something, and I'll do it for free, but in return, part of the full recovered sum is mine. If we lose, which is a possibility, none of y'all have to pay anything."
So there are two options for a lawsuit, either the lawyers take it for free and go "yeah, pay me when you win" (but then, since I'm putting *my* income on the line to prosecute your claim, I'll take 25% of the total sum) or they go "pay as you go, my billable rate is like $500 per hour of work, and if we lose, you still have to pay me."
Who would sign on to a class action lawsuit with a real chance of losing where you'd have to pay the law firm if you lost?
@@XCC23 If they end up winning a judgement of $12.46 per claimant which nobody bothers collecting because its not worth the bother, they didn't actually win anything meaningful and thus should not get a lot of money.
Tim Horton's in Canada was caught illegally tracking users of their app and the proposed settlement is a free coffee and doughnut. So yeah, the class action on isn't far off.
A solid C$2.50 payout.
@@JollyOldCanuck that sounds looney... badumtsh
The attorneys got a million coupons for donuts and coffee.
The food trope started with Law and Order because the director didn't know how to make scenes look less boring while people were just discussing what was going on. He ultimately decided people eating and talking helped make the scene look more dynamic. It's why cops are constantly getting food at food carts on the streets and lawyers are always eating takeaway in their offices or dining out at restaurants while discussing cases.
"the people on the Supreme court are perfectly fine human beings"
well that didn't age well
Yeahhhh…
I mean, this dude is an actual lawyer with a law firm. What is he supposed to say? The Supreme Court Justices are vile excuses of human beings that will cater to the highest bidder? Thats how you get blacklisted in that business
…ya. It’s not getting better!
Yeah...
REALLY didn't age well
7:18 This is the reason why I rate _A Few Good Men_ as one of the best movies ever made. The original screenplay wanted Demi Moore's character to get romantically involved with Tom Cruise's character but director Rob Reiner said that would be unnecessary since this was a movie about two co-workers just doing their jobs. And they did.
Hell, I want a movie where the two opposing sides do end up romantically involved in the first portion of the movie, independent of the trial. Then the trial itself comes along, and they end up on opposing sides. But still do their job without making it personal or petty.
@@onijester56 JAG did have a good depiction of a pair who did face off often and DID do their jobs regardless of their feelings.
I'm surprised The Onion is still in business... Real-life headlines are crazier than anything they could come up with!
IIRC they had a headline about that
R/nottheonion
"Headless body in topless bar" "Boyd Corbin, Once Arrested for Fighting a Drag Queen With a Tiki Torch, Runs for Wilton Manors Mayor" "Man desperate for ride to Hooters calls 911, ends up in jail" "Man busted trying to steal full rack of ribs stashed in his pants"
I follow them on Twitter and sometimes I have to check the handle twice
The Onion was ahead of it’s time.
Fun fact about Chinese takeout in shows and movies! It’s used so often because they don’t need to keep continuity between shots, because you can’t see inside the boxes. With other food you have to make sure it looks the right amount of eaten for each bite taken on screen.
The people on the supreme court being fine human beings. That one aged badly xD
The Onion really takes me back. I grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and you could find their weekly publication for free at various kiosks around the city. Now everything is online, so I think you can go back pretty far if you want to.
tv shows love chinese take out boxes because of continuity issues. with the big white boxes they don't have to worry about food levels changing between shots, and most of them are empty so they don't have to actually worry about food on the set. Its a simple short hand for this box is full of food,
Interesting
The Onion: This is so over the top it could NEVER actually happen, right?
The US: Hold my beer...
...and get me my gun.
I actually got 80 bucks sent in the mail from a class action lawsuit because I was underpaid in a job. It was preceeded by a letter, and I didn't have to sign up for anything. But I also have a friend who's on the class action websites and has gotten some money for product recalls and stuff.
Also, there's a great Jewish folktale about someone arguing with G-d and winning.
There's a lot of those stories in Judaism, other religions could learn a lot from the open questioning of scripture which is where the stories seem to derive from, the need to address complications of interpretation, etc. More critical examination of beliefs helps people understand their faith, and also helps people figure out if they truly believe or not.
@@cericat Honestly, I would just settle for people actually taking the time to read their own holy texts. So many "issues" people have due to their religion are either not really something their religion cares about or is something that their religion actually says the opposite of what these people are saying.
I'm reminded of a joke. A numbers of Talmudic scholars are arguing about one point. One of them argues for one interpretation, the others all disagree with him. Suddenly, there is a voice from the heavens, "Rabbi Moishe is right!" There is silence for a moment, then someone says, "OK, Moishe, that's two on your side!"
@@aaronmccullers384 Oh I'm aware, I left the church as a kid because questioning the difference between scripture and what they said got me in hot water. Better understanding and the willingness to discuss we might get away from the Christofascism we see so often.
@@cericat Absolutely agree. Understanding both your own faith and others’ would fix SO many misunderstandings. I can’t believe how many times I’ve had to defend my faith from accusations that don’t make any sense if you actually understand the doctrine. And it’s not like it’s complicated biblical scholar level stuff either, just a simple understanding of a few key concepts.
Quite funny headlines, but in all honesty, the backpedaling with the "230,000 defective lawyers" made me laugh even more
My mind immediately went to Lionel Hutz
7:14 Ace Attorney. That is all.
Eat your hamburger
I was part of the Uber class action and can confirm the website looked like a scam.
You can check the links and verify the emails 10x over and it's still... super sketchy. You would think it was the gig companies that designed the website, to keep the claims low 😂 maybe the lawyers get to keep whatever goes uncollected 🤔 someone needs to hire a proper we developer...these class action lawsuits certainly have plenty of liquidity if successful in court.
@@bernlin2000 They use one-time super long domains and don't explain how to verify their legitimacy - they just claim to be court-approved! I usually have to rely on external resources to find out that. I think these emails look so dubious that many major email providers classify them as spam, likely owing to user reporting.
To paraphrase Bill Hicks, "I didn't know when they said 'anybody can be a lawyer' they really meant anybody... A body of water. A dead body."
US legal system is sooo convoluted that those headlines might actually come true in the near future
I wouldn't be surprise if they do
Some have already
I wonder what would happen if someone discovered there was a misprint of the Bar exam and anyone who took the test that year was automatically passed.
The black highlighters one is so good - "almost invariably the most crucial passages"
Everyone: Wow, that Ally McBeal one is pretty on point.
Legal Eagle: That one is funnier now than when it was first written.
Seriously, would have never thought to date check that article to see that it predates the insanity.
The Onion is amazing at predictions. Their article titled "‘Paw Patrol’ Writers Defend Episode Where German Shepherd Cop Shoots Unarmed Black Lab 17 Times In Back" went viral in the summer of 2020. Most people didn't notice it was actually written in 2018.
(I know that wasn't technically a prediction, since unfortunately the article would have been relevant any time since, well, forever. However, the text of the article fit perfectly with the tragic events that triggered protests in 2020.)
“The people on the Supreme Court are perfect fine human beings”
X to doubt
That age very poorly considering what happened a month ago
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Three of them should be executed as domestic enemies to the Constitution
@@1985toyotacamry He said this July 30th.
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Your informative and amusing comments of law need support for the entertainment it has brought me. The laws in my country, Sweden, may differ but it is still fun.
Would you recommend Sweden to Americans? I’m looking to GTFO, since America is beyond saving.
@@annaelizabzth Nordic countries are some of the best to live in! I'm looking forward to moving back to Finland at some point (Currently in the UK)
@@Millenia3D Would people judge me for not being able to speak Finnish well? I find it very phonetic, but grammatically it’s… HELL. 😂
@@annaelizabzth doubt it, younger people especially speak pretty fluent English and even my parents can hold good conversations in it :) especially if you're in Helsinki - when I last visited there seemed to be a fair few English speakers around
With how difficult our language is the vast majority wouldn't expect you to know any but on the other hand also appreciate any effort towards learning even if it's just a few phrases
3:04 about 3.2 trillion additional years, in fact. Good deal.
1:25 There is no way Clearance Thomas or Alito are decent humans. I am not even sure they are humans. They give off a real swamp creature vibe.
The one (almost) class action lawsuit I remember most, didn't actually make it that far. It was back when Sony Online Entertainment ran the game Star Wars Galaxies. Long story short, they pulled a bait and switch on the players of the Creature Handler class who pre-ordered the Trials of Obi-Wan expansion to get a special item that gave bonus levels. Then, two weeks after that expansion came out, fundamental changes were made to the game, including the complete removal of the creature handler class making the necklace completely worthless. Large numbers of creature handler players threatened a class action lawsuit, including some of us (not me) who were lawyers going pro bono. Realizing the number of lawyer players we had running pro bono and that they'd spend more money trying to fight us than it was worth to them, they nipped the class action before it got started by agreeing to give all players who had any points in the creature handler class prior to the expansion a full refund.
Always be careful with scamming video gamers and/or furries as they are the ones with enough disposable income to actually pursue a lawsuit.
@@aaronmccullers384 if they have enough money to commission thousands in art, they have enough to hire a good lawyer
I got $400 from Facebook and the site was shady as hell. Even when I went back to check the site had been defunct. Was pretty scared I just gave all my info to a scammer until the check showed up
Has it not occurred to you the websites for the class action payouts are literally the people doing the payouts so even if they are acting in good faith to actually fulfill the terms of the legal agreement/obligation in the best case scenario at the very least they are the ones who bear the costs of maintaining the website or otherwise informing the relevant parties which the more who answer the more they then payout...
Their motivation for maintaining a website that doesn't look poorly produced at best and a scam at worst is not exactly high.
1:29 The members of the Supreme Court are perfectly fine human beings!
Huh, that aged well.
When the "any idiot can be a lawyer" one started, it was interrupted by an ad...for a law firm. Oh, algorithms....
I feel like there might be some people who disagree with Justices Kavanaugh and Thomas being "perfectly fine people", even setting aside their politics. 😬
Those people are racists
I definitely wouldn’t call several of the justices “perfectly fine people”…
That’s what I’m saying lol.
Yeah, three of them don't give a shit about the plain text of the Constitution.
Something tells me that he doesn't want to burn bridges...
Clarence Thomas being a prime example of this.
@@michaellovely6601 came here to say this. I can't think of much that could be more soul-crushing than to make history becoming a Supreme Court justice as a liberal black woman, only to have to work with Clarence Thomas. Like jfc man, dude is almost single-handedly setting both the country and black people back 150 years...
Legal Eagle and Dr Mike are favorite career UA-camrs! Never thought law and medical videos could be entertaining.
>The people on the supreme court are perfectly fine human beings
Oof, that smarts
Hey bud, just wanted to state an otherwise lost comment. I just realized you were "the" legal eagle, and finally realized your channel is both high quality and highly informative. I probably spent 5 years hearing your channel name, and never gave it a shot. It turns out this is amazing, and I'm a fool. :/ Absolutely amazing channel, thanks so much for what you do.
7:49 - how many lawyers are “created”? I’m onto you, Devin!!! We all know that lawyers are actually just robots created in factories!
Definitely thought I was getting scammed from a class action website, I wonder if the Chinese food trope is because they can show the containers without having to show the food itself thus helping with continuity and just having a lot of food in shot.
I wouldn't describe Clarence Thomas as a "perfectly fine human being".
He's the current subject of the Behind the Bastards podcast. Good listening.
Nor, Samuel Alito. At least one other name comes to mind as a possibility...
Sonia Sotomayor tried to describe him that way. I wonder if she regrets doing that. 🤔
In irony, I would. Like "perfectly fine" people demonstrating with Tiki torches at Charlottesville, VA.
@@curiousworld7912 Let's just say there's been a lot of shitty people in the US Supreme Court...
IIRC, the reason that settlement websites tend to look shady is because settlement companies have stopped trying to get ahead of scammers. Because there are so many of them and they handle enough of a volume that they can't customize them, scammers are pretty much guaranteed to have access to their templates. If they make a new template, then by the time they get a chance to use it there would probably be a significant amount of scam settlement sites out there using it.
2 years later, Rudy did lose his license in DC
Voting to take away a coworkers rights is a toxic working environment tho.
you're fired.
Try and maintain workers rights now that you don't have a job' f*cker 😎
Yeah I'm not sure I agree with a majority of the justices being 'decent human beings'.
That would almost be as bad as voting to take away everyone's rights.
Ohh really struggled with "most people on the Supreme Court being perfectly fine human beings"
When the Supreme Court asks... Hit them with that one!
hint: "most"
What are you referring to?
Three of them need a kick in the ass.
@@blugaledoh2669 1:24
I was going to comment but here it is. They are NOT mostly good people, directly because of their politics and habit of ignoring precedence.
"the people on the supreme court are perfectly fine human beings" Gonna have to object to this one. Fine people don't wield their power to hurt literally everyone in the country.
What have they done? Are you referring to Roe vs Wade?
they are in the legal profession, so this guy has to lick their boots. He is as much a grifter as the rest of them, just with a pretty face.
@@blugaledoh2669 well that only hurt women so it’s fine (sarcasm)
@@Anonyomus_commenter Roe vs Wade ought to been overturned anyway.
@@blugaledoh2669 and the EPA gutting, and the concealed carry gutting, yeah. Voting for mothers to die in childbirth, smog to fill our skies again and mentally unstable people or recent convicts to conceal guns on their person at any place is, in my opinion, pretty objectionable!
A year later, how accurate is "SCOTUS members are friends" these days? xD
8:12- Thank you for the “Liar, Liar” reference; good laugh to start my day with! 🤭
I believe you need to look up Advocate Teffo from South Africa. His antics currently are completely wild - our Legal Practice Council legit sent out an email of "no reason for this whatsoever, not caused by anyone in particular, but don't do these things". And that was BEFORE he accused the Judge of using witchcraft
Hm, a judge using witchcraft? Could that be a counter to the Chewbacca defense?
Tbf the judge could have been using witchcraft, it doesn't have to be effective to be witchcraft....I am not a lawyer, but I have a PhD in hocus pocus voodoo science according to my ex's Dad and it is my professional opinion that the judge in question was using witchcraft and furthermore was doing it badly enough to get caught which is an extra charge.
i love and respect the slight serious tone you have in your videos makes the video much more enjoyable ❤️
GLORY TO RUSSIA, DEATH TO FASCISM! Z
The class action sites always do look like scams. I had received an email about one and spent hours looking into it just to see if it was legit because their website was sketchy. Glad to have this confirmed by an actual lawyer. I guess it's to scare people off from joining the settlement idk.
I was part of a class action lawsuit against ITT. I was just informed I'm only owed $8 which the court says doesn't have to be paid out. But I was told not to worry because I might get it in a later phase of payouts.
My favourite will always be the first one. It doesn't show here, but the picture of the dude they chose for the headline is perfect.
There is no way any normal person could tolerate Brett, Amy and Samuel in any workplace.
What’s not to like about Brett?
@@doinked7465 so many sexual harassment lawsuits.
And Clarence and Neil. I immediately came down to the comments to make sure someone else said this.
No member of the supreme court is a "normal person", though. As they say, it's a big club, and you ain't in it.
@@j-rey- quick! Hold no opinions! We can’t upset the status quo!
A local IL playwright did a play based on the Lincoln Almanac trial. I did multiple productions, playing both the eyewitness and a prosecuting attorney. One of the funniest bits was when it started falling apart I yelled objection...
Judge: "Grounds?
*pause....pause*
Me: *To partner* What grounds?
My daughter says current events have morphed The Onion from satire into a crystal ball.
I love watching him react to these headlines with such emotion while I don’t know enough to find most of these headlines funny
I’m surprised you’ve yet to react to the movie “Philadelphia” with Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks (unless I am missing it on your playlists). Please do that one soon!
Oh, and “Primal Fear” with Ed Norton and Richard Gere is another good one.
I won $1,400 randomly in a class action law suit once, I was blown away. From a prescription company of a prescription I've been on for half a decade.
i mean i guess i didn't win in the long run though cause the lawsuit was about overcharging the brand name meds and refusing to sell the generic
"The people on the supreme court are perfectly fine human beings." Debatable.
😲 Perfectly fine human beings? This statement looks sillier with every new ruling the current SCOTUS makes.
7:49 "how many new lawyers () are CREATED "
Depends on how busy Satan is at the moment.
Was part of a class action about 2 years ago, payout was 43 cents.
"I'm sure the people on the supreme court are fine people" rare instance of your institutional bias showing pretty hard here.
yeaj, I don't think any of the judges who voted to overturn roe v wade can be considered "fine people". They may look proper and seem polite but stabbing someone politely never made it hurt less.
Yeah, I think Brett is an awful person. Same with the Handmaiden and sexual pervert Thomas.
@@Torlik11 Throwback to that time Clarence Thomas lied about his sister being on welfare just to score some brownie points with hardline conservatives.
Oh yeah they're all crazy lunatics who want to take away our rights! Our rights to express our thoughts freely. And our rights to arms ourselves. And our rights to self-determination. And the rights of the states we live in. How dare they?
@@Torlik11 Roe vs Wade ought to overturned since it is not cover under the constitution and honestly read like a legislation. The Supreme Court interpret the laws, they don't create law so this should have never been their problem to begin with.
I work with a customer service rep who would always come to me to ask questions about customers problems or concerns. He would usually deal with the most difficult customers because he was very good with them but it also meant the scenarios he was talking with me about were usually very complex and nuanced. To be clear, I really like this particular individual. He is a very nice man and is very customer focused. However, I always hated dealing with his questions because no matter what answer I gave him he would always twist my answer to something else or would ask a ton of follow on questions. Usually both. He would want every possible cause and solution to whatever the customer’s concern was and I never had enough time to explain everything to his satisfaction. After working with him and doing this same song and dance repeatedly for 15 or so years now, it finally came up in idle conversation that he was a retired defense attorney! Suddenly I absolutely understood everything I had been going through with him and I gotta say, trying to win an argument with him was near impossible. Very softly spoken but insanely smart.
“That’s how many lawyers I think are created - I mean, how many new law students there are in the country at any given time.”
You can’t fool us, Devin. We know that lawyers are just hyper-realistic robots with you being one of their emissaries!
As an aspiring medical malpractice attorney I can confirm this statement
7:17
The Ace Attorney fans called
They want their WrightWorth back
Please walk thru the Alex Jones trial... Especially the part when his attorney "accidently" sent his texts and didn't retract them.