Posts by Emma Hart
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I don't get any serving platters or salad tongs or money towards overseas trips.
Isabel? Where are you?
She has this theory that you should be able to have the big party, the fancy dress, and get all the presents, but not actually get married. A sort of Wedding-less Reception.
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Can we please have a post on why it's not ok to beat your children next?
Ohhh no, that's Haywood's job.
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isn't getting married a bit like owning someone else?
No. Not even a tiny bit. You're thinking of slavery.
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Do you use tonic? Water? Limes or lemons?
Tonic, I like it realllllly dry, and lots of lime. Though bruised mint is also nice, especially on really hot summer days.
End of rant -- apologies Emma.
Don't apologise, I heartily agree. The fact that I've supported and personally chosen CU doesn't mean I don't completely support the right of every person to choose what works for them. Their reasons, their level of emotional investment, all that shit? None of my damn business.
(It may be worth noting that I also come from a family that's suffered some deep shit over inter-faith marriage and people not being able to mind their own damn business when it comes to other people's relationships.)
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I am clearly the only non-religious person in New Zealand who really liked getting (non-religiously) married.
My actually wedding was a blast . You'd have loved it. Here's one of the official pictures.
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This test is robust and will give you the results you are looking for.
Okay, at this level I'm going to insist that the tasting include some Tanqueray and Bombay Sapphire as well. <wank>They have different botanicals, so you end up with quite a different flavour. South actually isn't my favourite, but it's the smoothest, and so the easiest way to highlight the taste difference between different gins.</wank>
Vodka is vile.
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I might be a whisky snob, but I have yet to get into a gin-tasting and develop a passion for 1 brand over another. Is it cos I don't drink it neat?
This isn't really a side-track, I owe my refined gin tastes entirely to gay/bi men.
I don't dare go down the whisky-snob path because of how much my gin-snobbery is costing me. But if you want to ruin your life, make yourself two g&ts (your existing method meets with approval) - one with Gordon's, and one with South. Drink some of the South first.
If this doesn't make the Gordon's taste like second-hand lighter fluid, you're probably okay and you don't need to worry about gin snobbery.
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OTOH, I have seen a situation where a friend had an affair, got caught, and was eventually forgiven by her partner -- but not by one of their mutual friends, who went to war about it. That was bizarre.
*cough*
It may be bizarre, but it's apparently not all that uncommon.
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the Church is still the originator ("tangata whenua"?) of marriage
Which church? Marriage in some Mediterannean societies pre-dates Christianity by thousands of years. In many societies marriage pre-dates contact by Christians by centuries. The idea of publicly tying two (or more) people together in a relationship that's formally recognised by others has NOTHING to do with the church, it's almost universal.
Also, most modern Christians would find the Old Testament model of marriage (wives, concubines, sexually-available slaves, forced marriage to your brother-in-law) absolutely repulsive. It's already changed hugely, it can change a little bit more.
The only argument against I have any time for is "faggots and dykes together, ewwww!" because its at least honest
At the risk of sounding ironic, amen. I do wish more people would just say 'okay, it's because I think it's icky!'. Stop all this bullshit spurious justification and blaming gay people for hurricanes*.
Or am I going to be seeing Gordon again?
Dude, friends don't let friends drink Gordon's.
*Not The Hurricanes. Although...
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I have to say but just what is the big deal about anybody getting married, as compared with just living together
I really identified with Gio's counter to this. If marriage matters so much to me that I would never, ever re-marry, then it could matter that much to someone else in the positive sense.
Particularly the idea that homosexuals morph into paedophiles if they are given anything other than a sound thrashing.
Which would morph them into something completely different...