Re: on awards

On 30/07/2012 07:55, Ellen Rawson wrote:
>
> --- On Mon, 7/30/12, bardi <bardichaun@gmail.com> wrote:
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> SO I feel bad a bit, and am ever so glad I am
> just one person out of hundreds..so it is the other guys fault if the
> nice person loses to ...well...a nice person. Although one of the
> writers has exposed himself as being an anti-semite. Alas, he was also
> arguably the best writer in his category. Sometimes it is just so
> confusing.
> ***
>
> All right, I'm a bit out of it when it comes to sf/f fandom... Which writer is this? I've just glanced at the nominees and I don't know which person you mean nor which category. Wow, I am out of it!
>
> Ellen, who hopes to attend Worldcon in London in 2014 or at least a day or two of it, but for now has to finish breakfast and get going for Week 2 of jury duty. Yes, jury duty lasts two weeks in the UK.
>
I didn't realise England was so different in that respect. Unless you
actually get a trial, jury duty lasts one week in Scotland - and if you
do get a trial and it ends in less than a week, you have finished your
duty when it ends.

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Jette Goldie
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