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In a world where nobody got married

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  • #32
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,971 ✭✭✭amacca


    Ban Ki Moon wrote: »
    Eat crisps, they exist. so does marriage

    I preferred Kofi Annan.....he was slightly easier to understand.


  • #33
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    The fact is that if marriage did exist, people would want to get married.

    In a world where abortion exists, people want to get abortions.

    In a world where murder exists, people get murdered.

    This thread is nonsense.


  • #34
    Ban Ki Moon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 319 ✭✭Ban Ki Moon


    hondasam wrote: »
    hang on I'm blonde but I ain't a dumb blonde, you did not mention a choice
    Did I say marriage is illegal?


  • #35
    Metallitroll
    Closed Accounts Posts: 558 ✭✭✭Metallitroll


    whats that.. smells like.. opportunity.

    in a world where nobody drove each other crazy, i'd drive. them all to suicide!


  • #36
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Ban Ki Moon wrote: »
    Did I say marriage is illegal?

    do you not understand your own question ?

    you did not say it was legal

    there was no choice


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  • #37
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    Jake, is that you?


  • #38
    Ban Ki Moon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 319 ✭✭Ban Ki Moon


    Yea some people can not see what the question is actually about so I will spell it out for those few

    (Do you think its a trend that people get married)


  • #39
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    I have wasted to much time on this pointless thread all ready. marriage is not a trend OP.


  • #40
    Ban Ki Moon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 319 ✭✭Ban Ki Moon


    hondasam wrote: »
    I have wasted to much time on this pointless thread all ready. marriage is not a trend OP.
    FACT


  • #41
    Metallitroll
    Closed Accounts Posts: 558 ✭✭✭Metallitroll


    yeah it is. its a fad :/


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  • #42
    EverEvolving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭EverEvolving


    Hank_Jones wrote: »
    Saddam Hussein?


    Been keepin' it Irish, didn't pay particular attention to the 'world' part of the title, oh well, I sit corrected, but in the mainstream, hanging isn't popular.

    Marriage is a contract between a man and a woman whereby they legally commit to spend their lives together. The rest of it is socially implied. In different countries it means different things. In a lot of countries there remains arranged marriages, here luckily both parties agree and they get hitched. I’m really a romantic at heart.


  • #43
    amacca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,971 ✭✭✭amacca


    Ban Ki Moon wrote: »
    (Do you think its a trend that people get married)

    No I don't anyway

    I don't think its solely down to conditioning or a fad

    I think that certain types of marriage (ceremonies etc) are a trend but that marriages of one type or another (not just christian) are also in part to do with a lot of peoples(psychological) need to have some sort of stable formalized arrangement when it comes to this part of their lives

    does that answer your question?


  • #44
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Ban Ki Moon wrote: »
    FACT

    I'm happy you agree with me !

    marriage is not a trend.


  • #45
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    Ban Ki Moon wrote: »
    Yea some people can not see what the question is actually about so I will spell it out for those few

    (Do you think its a trend that people get married)
    Ban Ki Moon wrote: »
    FACT

    I know these responses were supposed to clear everything up for people.
    Just made it more convoluted tbh.


  • #46
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Another Ban Ki Mon conundrum.

    Ah... we're all in a tissy.

    If marriage didn't exist, then most likely, no-one would get married.

    But then someone would invent it & it would become an "institution" and we "all" would.

    The real question is -if it didn't exist, would there be a need to invent it?


  • #47
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound?


  • #48
    ascanbe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


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

    :D I read it in the voice of that guy that used to be on every trailer. In the 80's and early 90's, practically every trailer started..'In a world where..'.


  • #49
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


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

    It must be really nice to be you. Laughing at the stupidity you see in others.

    If you found someone who could share your time with & enjoy your mutual feelings of superior intellectual musings over others... would you marry her?

    Even if marriage didn't exist? Would you?

    Or are you sooo cool that you think that you'd be the one to invent it?

    Oh what a tissy.

    It's one thing being an amateur philosopher.It's another thing being an amateur.


  • #50
    frecklier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75 ✭✭frecklier


    Do you mean in a world where marriage doesn't exist, so is therefore not the expected norm, would you commit to stay with the same one person for the rest of your life? Something I've often thought about. I'm not sure many people would.


  • #51
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,372 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    So basically the op is asking if you are in Ireland and are gay?
    Juici Luci says no!


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  • #52
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    I think it's safe to say that this thread has blown up in the OP's face.

    A bit like most marriages....


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Thread had potential and it was interesting question. The collective stupidity of After Hours ruined it though.


  • #54
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    well i think what the OP was getting at is - If it was standard procedure not to get married in this world, though still a choice, would you get married?

    I myself probably would




    * Reasons thread fail = Cryptic manner of thread posted at 00.43 on a Friday night/(Saturday morning for the pedantics)

    * Insulting manner of this post "I think its funny that some cant even fathom the idea. Some people think they must marry another person."

    * Thirdly = Terrible thread with not so disguised anti-religion element!


    Seems like all the political threads have been replace with religion ones these days - boring - Can't wait for the next general election


  • #55
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The collective stupidity of After Hours ruined it though.

    The implication there is that all After Hours users are stupid, including you.


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    stovelid wrote: »
    The implication there is that all After Hours users are stupid, including you.
    I'm fine with that.


  • #57
    Alaia Victorious Timekeeper
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Alaia Victorious Timekeeper


    If nobody got married what about the legal rights?


  • #58
    tan11ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭tan11ie


    I'd get married.....just to be different like....:D


  • #59
    seafood dunleavy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 760 ✭✭✭seafood dunleavy


    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!!!

    Would have to star Rob Schneider.


  • #60
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    If you lived in a world where nobody died... would you kill yourself?


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  • #61
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    So in a world where no-one gets married the concept of marriage exists anyway?
    If so can I get bjurtengent?


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