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Gay marriage officially legal in Canada! (pg. 4)
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| Tordan |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
Actually I dont smoke but smokers do pay my salary. |
Did you quit recently? I saw you smoking couple months ago while I was standing outside guv. |
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| trancechaos |
| quote: | Originally posted by torontobarfly
in an effort to ad some humour to the thread...an oldie but a goldie;)
Wedding Etiquette
1) On the day of a gay wedding, it's bad luck for the two grooms to see each other at the gym.
2) Superstition suggests that for good luck the couple should have: Something bold, something fierce, Something trashy, something dirty.
3) It's customary at gay and lesbian nuptials for the parents to have an open bar during the ceremony.
4) Gay wedding tradition dictates that both grooms refrain from eating wedding cake because it's all carbs.
5) It's considered bad luck for either of the grooms to have dated the priest.
6) During the first dance, it's considered unlucky to use glow sticks, flags, whistles or handheld lasers.
7) For good luck at the union of a drag queen, the bouquet is always thrown in the face of a hated rival drag queen.
8) A local saying from colonial Northampton: A lesbian who owns a horse will never tell a lie, But a lesbian who votes Republican will leave you for a guy.
9) The wedding singer is not allowed to play/sing Let's hear it for the boy, YMCA or I will Survive.
10) The father of the Bottom pays for everything! |
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA:stongue: :stongue: :stongue: :stongue: :stongue: :stongue: |
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| trancechaos |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
Im happy and all but itsnt it wierd how we are supposedly a "liberal" country yet the common guy cant even enjoy a beer in most public areas for example? (among many others)
For a Liberal country we sure are conservative. |
DAMMIT, you are soo right, when will the day come when i can sit the park drinking a 24 and smoking a joint with my boys?? dreams |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tordan
Did you quit recently? I saw you smoking couple months ago while I was standing outside guv. |
Wasnt me... perhaps you have me confused with someone else? |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
Another stupid thing about our country. On one hand they are decriminalizing marijuana and on the other they are trying to get people to stop smoking tobacco.
Make up your minds. Its one or the other. Personally i think allowing people to do what they want after providing them with the right education is the way to go instead of our current course which is basically government sponsored behavioural modification. |
well then legalizing marijuana should be going along those lines or? the governemt does allow people to smoke (as long as it doesnt hurt anyone else), but try to get them to stop. thats the way to go imo.
anyway, go Canada for legalising same sex marriages :) |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
well then legalizing marijuana should be going along those lines or? the governemt does allow people to smoke (as long as it doesnt hurt anyone else), but try to get them to stop. thats the way to go imo.
anyway, go Canada for legalising same sex marriages :) |
All im saying is that we are a nation of conservatives who really really believe that we are liberal. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
All im saying is that we are a nation of conservatives who really really believe that we are liberal. |
Hahahaha, that's a good one.
If you want to call oppressive Leftism something other than "liberal" then that's fine and dandy, but don't call it "conservative"! |
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| MarkT |
| In my mind, this is still progress...so I find it encouraging. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by MarkT
In my mind, this is still progress...so I find it encouraging. |
Extending a bunch of silly antiquated laws to apply to a broader range of social groups is not progress. Progress would be rewriting the whole system from scratch. |
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| MarkT |
| I understand what you mean...and see that although the results are essentially the same, your approach would be preferable in theory...but how practical and easily applied would that be? Let's rewrite our entire legal system? or do away with marriage as a legal institution and revert soley to contract law? That might be overly ambitious ;) |
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| dEsidEL |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
You're grouping the christian churches together - which shouldn't be done. |
how did i group them ? i said "sects" ..
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by MarkT
I understand what you mean...and see that although the results are essentially the same, your approach would be preferable in theory...but how practical and easily applied would that be? Let's rewrite our entire legal system? or do away with marriage as a legal institution and revert soley to contract law? That might be overly ambitious ;) |
Marriage survived for thousands of years as a religious institution operating within the state based on contracts; now, after just a couple of centuries of being run by the State, it is falling apart. It was only after many centuries of society being dominated by Christianity that it became part of State law in the first place - it can and has existed outside that context.
I made reference to this in the first post... obviously it wouldn't be practical to scrap marriage overnight and tell people to do it themselves, but instead of the government wasting our time tinkering with the dying system we have now in a vain attempt to sustain it for a few more decades, they should be going back to the drawing board and drawing up a blueprint for something that actually makes sense for modern society. Once they've come up with it, THEN they can scrap the present system.
I don't think the results would be essentially the same... the system we have is inefficient, wasteful, unfair, easily abused, and doesn't even seem to have much of a purpose anymore other than to make a public statement (and what good is that when half the marriages end up in divorce?). It can't be THAT hard for a group of legislators to come up with something a little more bulletproof. But instead they waste our precious time and tax money appeasing lobby groups who don't understand the real problem... |
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