What is marriage? | 276 comments (275 topical, 1 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: What is marriage? (4.00 / 2)

... but you've got to wonder what he'd been smoking.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Thu Nov 8th, 2012 at 10:39:48 AM EST
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What he'd been smoking (4.00 / 2)

Nothing too potent, given that lots of people reason in the frame in which they can tell their son "if you had been a girl we would have called you victoria" without blinking.

I distribute. You re-distribute. He gives your hard-earned money to lazy scroungers. -- JakeS

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 8th, 2012 at 10:49:30 AM EST
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There's an expression in French (none / 0)

which summarises my thinking on the matter :

"Si ma tante en avait, on l'appelerait Tonton"

(If my aunt had balls, we'd call her Uncle)

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Thu Nov 8th, 2012 at 11:17:40 AM EST
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Re: What he'd been smoking (4.00 / 2)

But he'd have had to be smoking something to not tell them to go talk with a psychologist about their issues and stop wasting the court's time.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Nov 8th, 2012 at 03:36:40 PM EST
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What is marriage? | 276 comments (275 topical, 1 editorial, 0 hidden)

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