re: #99 Jebediah, RBG

Yeah, the way people typically cite that case makes me nuts. Really severe burns, coffee way hotter than industry standard, previous injuries from too-hot coffee, warnings that it shouldn’t be that hot went ignored by McDonalds.
There wasn’t a dawg-damn thing frivolous about her lawsuit.

I’ve used that example in English lessons here - the case is known by Czechs, but they typically don’t know the details involved in the case - they usually joke about as an example of frivolous lawsuits. When the case details are pointed out, that there had been previous injuries, that they were serving coffee that was far too hot, that McDonald’s basically blew the plaintiff off….then they change their minds.