Are you the judge or am I?

Chinese judges given 50 Dos and Donts

[Habtom]

Judges must not dye their hair, wear heavy make-up, tattoos or painted nails. Male judges must not grow long hair, beards or shave their heads

. . .the top judicial authority in the heartland province, also banned judges using certain phrases in the courtroom, including: "Are you the judge or am I?" -- and "You will certainly lose this case."

Tattoos, shaved heads out for judges [reuters.com]

[edited by: encyclo at 1:49 pm (utc) on Nov. 13, 2007]
[edit reason] fixed formatting [/edit]

[Dabrowski]

I agree that certain members of authority should set a good example. You wouldn't expect a copper to do his beat dressed as a chav would you?

But by the same virtue, you would expect said members of authority to set a good example without having to be told!

As for blokes not having long hair, do they make them wear the long curly wigs in China? If so that would seem to be a bit hypocrytical!

Whoa man! I'm really 'thinking outside the box' now, how did that happen?!

[edited by: Dabrowski at 12:43 pm (utc) on Nov. 13, 2007]

[Habtom]

Whoa man! I'm really 'thinking outside the box' now, how did that happen?!

I have reported this, don't you worry, you will soon be back in the box.

<edit> Hey, I am out of the box too :) </edit>

[edited by: Habtom at 12:57 pm (utc) on Nov. 13, 2007]

[Habtom]

For the record, 'out of the box' in the above two posts is due to our posts being out of the box, which happens very rarely in WebmasterWorld.com (kind of a solar eclipse) which the two of us witnessed :)