Silly nicknames and the comfiest seat in the house
Judge Bex

Silly nicknames and the comfiest seat in the house

B1IntermediateSeptember 20, 202620 min
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Judge Bex is halfway through watching Coco with the telly on very loud, Connor has some worrying questions about turnips, and there are two brand new cases for the court. Zosha is nearly eight, and she feels so strongly about her case that she’s calling in from her holiday in Turkey. She’s taking Uncle Ben to court because he keeps calling her “Babies”. Uncle Ben says it’s a term of endearment, that she’ll always be a baby to him even when she’s a hundred, and that Zosha is very happy to hand out nicknames...

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I'm a bit of a improvement.

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and insist that Zosha's debarred from physical violence against her uncle going forward.

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This is Judge Bex. The cases and people are all real. Judge Bex's judgments are final. Zosia's done worse than ignore me. She's a proponent of physical violence. I'm a bit of a improvement. I was in extreme use of crocodile tears as well, so I think personally I would be entitled to pursue a counterclaim here

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and insist that Zosha's debarred from physical violence against her uncle going forward. But I wouldn't I wouldn't pursue that if she was willing to get ground on the nickname. Yeah, I think she's taken advantage of the fact she's had exams. I mean, she's had exams for like the past four years,

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but she's just been using that as an excuse now. Get ready to enter the court of Judge Bex. Hello and welcome to Judge Bex, I'm Lauren. And I'm Conor.

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