Could you be a judge?

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Don't think I'd be cut out for it, I look at the wrong things. And I'm not just talking courtroom - I'm talking kids colouring in contests, cook-offs, anything that requires a neutral opinion.

I sat watching the olympic gymnastics saying "Not her, she's got shit hair, not her either, she's a cocky-looking wee bitch" etc etc.

Our work had a few competitions as part of a halloween charity fun day, one guy I don't like won the Fancy dress competition, now thank the lord I wasn't a judge for it, I mean his outfit probably was the best, but I fucking hate him and I would have overlooked him straight away.

Bonnie baby competitions? "She can't win, her name's Leticia, imagine calling your kid Letitia"

Shocking I know, but thems the breaks. Have you got it in you to be a judge? Have you ever done so? Were you ridiculously biased?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 1 November 2004 13:45 (twenty years ago)

The judges on programmes like Pop Idol, or X-Factor or shit like that are biased as well - a lot of the entrants sound identical, so the best looking ones go through.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 1 November 2004 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I could be, absolutely. I'm fair to an extent that astonishes people who know me when I have to be.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 November 2004 14:24 (twenty years ago)

RP, that's not biased in the slightest - looks are one of the key criteria they're looking for!!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 November 2004 14:24 (twenty years ago)

True Markelby, but one mans totty is another mans turn off!

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 1 November 2004 14:31 (twenty years ago)

I've never been a judge, but I was an editor, which meant judging people's work and giving a verdict, sometimes by mail, sometimes face to face. I think I handled it pretty well.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 1 November 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago)

I judged a battle of the bands once, and, aside from the free booze, it was terrible.

― Huk-L, Monday, 1 November 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

My poor, poor thread.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

I am toying with becoming a magistrate, seriously.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

I often think about it when I see those tube ads for becoming a magistrate. In some ways I think I would be an excellent judge. But I would agonise over my decisions for weeks afterwards and probably have a nervous breakdown, so in that way, not so much. My mum sits on employment tribunals and that's traumatic enough.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

The judges on programmes like Pop Idol, or X-Factor or shit like that are biased as well - a lot of the entrants sound identical, so the best looking ones go through

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― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

The judges on programmes like Pop Idol, or X-Factor or shit like that are biased as well - a lot of the entrants sound identical, so the best looking ones go through

erm...
http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/Y/yawye/images/mcmanus2.jpg
&
http://newsfeed.tcm.ie/images/people/rikwallerPA.jpg

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Fairness/objectivity is hardly the sole quality required of a judge

(and no, probably not. I've been told I might make a ood one but it wasn't necessarily a compliment)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

haha, markelby "yes, I could be, absolutely"

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

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