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In a world where nobody got married

  • 12-03-2011 01:43AM
    #1
    Ban Ki Moon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 319 ✭✭Ban Ki Moon


    Would you get married?


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 140 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You wouldn't?


  • #3
    SadieSue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭SadieSue


    No.. if nobody got married why would you? :pac:


  • #4
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Ban Ki Moon wrote: »
    Would you get married?

    I don't understand the question


  • #5
    Ban Ki Moon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 319 ✭✭Ban Ki Moon


    SadieSue wrote: »
    No.. if nobody got married why would you? :pac:
    maybe that explains why people actually do get married, because other people do.


  • #6
    Sir Gallagher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,836 ✭✭✭Sir Gallagher


    Surely the concept of marriage wouldn't exist in a world where people don't marry.


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  • #7
    Bog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭Bog


    The thread title sounds like the opening of a trailer to some crap Hollywood chick flick...


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 140 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bog wrote: »
    The thread title sounds like the opening of a trailer to some crap Hollywood chick flick...

    In a world where nobody got married, one man, tired with societies angst and problems with people's attitude towards marriage, does the unthinkable......

    AND PROPOSES!!!


  • #9
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,972 ✭✭✭amacca


    Ban Ki Moon wrote: »
    maybe that explains why people actually do get married, because other people do.

    A lot of customs/traditions/practices are adhered to solely due to conditioning.

    eating/drinking/breathing would not be among them but marriage possibly could.

    still there must be some underlying reasons that most cultures had something akin to marriage (albeit to more than one partner and one gender in some cases) - maybe these reasons are not as relevant now but it seems to have been almost universally desirable to have some sort of a formal arrangement and it seems it still is (cant all be due to blindly following tradition can it?)

    or am I incorrect?

    anyway - I suspect if I lived in world with no marriage then I myself would be unlikely to get married following instead the lead of every other member of my species.


  • #10
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    An ideal world where it would always be ok to leave the toilet seat up/:)


  • #11
    Daegerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    If my name was Nobody I would


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  • #12
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    Stupid stupid .Post doesnt even make sense .At all .Not at all.


  • #13
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,972 ✭✭✭amacca


    Bog wrote: »
    The thread title sounds like the opening of a trailer to some crap Hollywood chick flick...

    I think it could be a great film believe it or not

    sci-fi/rom com and action blockbuster all rolled into one genre blurring roller coaster ride.

    just on the strength of this thread alone Michael Bay is probably already intimidating some desperate media graduate into storyboarding a cyber highway chase scene involving lots of explosions and some tart in a latex wedding dress or something


  • #14
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    I'm confused, if nobody got married, then there would almost certainly be no marriage.

    So therefore I wouldn't get married because marriage wouldn't exist.
    If something is possible, then someone, somewhere has most likely done it.


  • #15
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,972 ✭✭✭amacca


    eternal wrote: »
    Stupid stupid .Post doesnt even make sense .At all .Not at all.

    don't judge yourself so harshly

    just type what you were going to type...it might not be as bad as you think.


  • #16
    Ban Ki Moon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 319 ✭✭Ban Ki Moon


    I think its funny that some cant even fathom the idea. Some people think they must marry another person.


  • #17
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Ban Ki Moon wrote: »
    I think its funny that some cant even fathom the idea. Some people think they must marry another person.

    you did say in a world where no one got married. That means no marriage.


  • #18
    EverEvolving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭EverEvolving


    In a world where nobody got married - would marrige exist?

    Nobody gets hung anymore so gallows aren't seen very often.


  • #19
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,972 ✭✭✭amacca


    Ban Ki Moon wrote: »
    I think its funny that some cant even fathom the idea. Some people think they must marry another person.

    AH yeah....but they probably think its funny that you asked if they would get married in a world where nobody gets married

    if you had proposed time travel to a world/parallel earth/other dimension where there is no marriage but you knew it...would you then get married even though no one else was.............................


  • #20
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    In a world where crisps didn't exist, would you eat crisps?


  • #21
    smk89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭smk89


    Deleted User wrote: »
    In a world where nobody got married, one man, tired with societies angst and problems with people's attitude towards marriage, does the unthinkable......

    AND PROPOSES!!!

    Adam Sandler stars in... The Proposal. Rated PG 13.


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  • #22
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    In a world where crisps didn't exist, would you eat crisps?

    I could not live in a world where crisps did not exist but marriage I'd survive!


  • #23
    Ban Ki Moon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 319 ✭✭Ban Ki Moon


    hondasam wrote: »
    you did say in a world where no one got married. That means no marriage.
    No, it means nobody gets married, the choice is there.


  • #24
    stevejr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭stevejr


    Although unmarried myself, I respect the institution of marriage...

    What's the reason for being reasonable?

    Is that an unreasonable question?



  • #25
    Daegerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    smk89 wrote: »
    Adam Sandler stars in... The Proposal. Rated PG 13.

    Don't forget that Gervais fecker, he'd be in it too


  • #26
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    EverEvolving wrote: »
    In a world where nobody got married - would marrige exist?

    Nobody gets hung anymore so gallows aren't seen very often.

    Saddam Hussein?


  • #27
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,972 ✭✭✭amacca


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    In a world where crisps didn't exist, would you eat crisps?

    does the humble potato, deep fat fryers and cheese and onion flavoring exist and do I bring the knowledge of what happens to thin slices of potato when fried in oil with with me?

    if yes...then yes I would eat crisps and attempt to sell them for a profit to my new parallel friends


  • #28
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    In a world where crisps didn't exist, would you eat crisps?

    What kind of crisps?

    I wouldn't eat bloody Tayto anyway, too salty.


  • #29
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Ban Ki Moon wrote: »
    No, it means nobody gets married, the choice is there.

    hang on I'm blonde but I ain't a dumb blonde, you did not mention a choice


  • #30
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,972 ✭✭✭amacca


    Ban Ki Moon wrote: »
    No, it means nobody gets married, the choice is there.

    If the choice was there then it would exist because someone would want to get married

    there's all sorts of nutters at large


    unless its not a human world ......are we talking giant squid monsters with no fallopian tubes or something?


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  • #31
    Ban Ki Moon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 319 ✭✭Ban Ki Moon


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    In a world where crisps didn't exist, would you eat crisps?
    Eat crisps, they exist. so does marriage


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