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Indecent Proposal?

southsiderosie

Apparently February 29th is the one time every four years when it is acceptable for a woman to ask a man to marry her.*

Fellas, would you be put off if your girlfriend proposed to you? Or would you be delighted (assuming you wanted to get married, lol

).

Ladies, would you ask your man to marry you, or would you prefer for him to ask you?

As for me, well, the OH and I were joking on the couch one day about why one should marry the other, and then we both popped the question at the same time. But I couldn't really imagine myself getting down on one knee or anything like that.

*This, of course, if you live in Daily Mail land

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Pacifist Pigeon

starbelgrade wrote: »

Only in the same way that the Lesbian & Gay forum discriminates against straight people, ie. not at all.

So apparently gay people should be segregated to be LGBTQ forum, right? (by the way, the 'Q' means questioning - they welcome contribution from straight people). Highly shortsighted of the OP, methinks.

southsiderosie

Pacifist Pigeon wrote: »

So apparently gay people should be segregated to be LGBTQ forum, right? (by the way, the 'Q' means questioning - they welcome contribution from straight people). Highly shortsighted of the OP, methinks.

Are you serious? My sarcasm meter is broken today.

Pacifist Pigeon

southsiderosie wrote: »

Are you serious? My sarcasm meter is broken today.

Seriously, yes. Why didn't you include a "I'm a guy, and I'd prefer ....

Damn it!! I've been downgraded a few points on my IQ score.

Wedgie

southsiderosie wrote: »

:eek:

Did you have any say in this at all, or did you just show up at the appointed time?

She promised me a good party afterwards, with lots of drink, so, naturally, I went along with it!

She was good to her word too!

saa

Either person proposing is fine, its just a tradition, there are plenty we don't uphold anyway.

Its better for a person to ask than trying to drop hints, my god if you have to remind your partner that they want to propose to you there is something wrong. It's fine to drop hints for a present but not a marriage proposal.

Its good to get a feeling of your partners view on marriage in general but certainly not during the honeymoon period.

Jesus Wept

Marriage is a lot like an orange.

Raditub

its deffo him who has to get on his knees :P Old fashioned style!

Jesus Wept

Raditub wrote: »

its deffo him who has to get on his knees :P Old fashioned style!

How much is your dowry?

Katgurl

Nothing wrong with a girl proposing, we don't to sit and wait, if the answer is no I'd rather know where I stand.

I'm not crazy about mariage anyway so I might be commenting in an extremely hypothetical way,

I find engagement ring tradition really bizarre though - for the duration of the engagement the girl publicises the fac she is 'promised' but he doesn't?! WTF is that about - him keeping his opions open till sh gets him up the aisle and seals the deal? I think the polish have a tradition where they both wear rings on their right hands then transfer to left, sounds better. Or no rings, just a genuine commitment.

southsiderosie

The-Rigger wrote: »

Marriage is a lot like an orange.

Maawidge.

Maawidge is what bwings us togevva today.

kraggy

southsiderosie wrote: »

Maawidge.

Maawidge is what bwings us togevva today.

My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

Jesus Wept

southsiderosie wrote: »

Maawidge.

Maawidge is what bwings us togevva today.

That one went over my head, google helped!

TheZohanS

Wouldn't mind either way.

starbelgrade

Pacifist Pigeon wrote: »

So apparently gay people should be segregated to be LGBTQ forum, right? (by the way, the 'Q' means questioning - they welcome contribution from straight people). Highly shortsighted of the OP, methinks.

Says who?

My point was that it entirely reasonable to ask a question to straight people which excludes gay people without it being an act of discrimination.

It is also entirely reasonable for a question to be posed to just gay or lesbian people without it being misconstrued as being discriminatory towards straight people.

As soon as people like you start shouting about 'discrimination' and 'segregation' for absolutely no reason at all & for completely unfounded and pointless reasons, it really pisses me off. You're trying to create a problem where there simply isn't one at all.

counterlock

starbelgrade wrote: »

As soon as people like you start shouting about 'discrimination' and 'segregation' for absolutely no reason at all & for completely unfounded and pointless reasons, it really pisses me off. You're trying to create a problem where there simply isn't one at all.

Short sighted of pacifist pigeon me thinks, how can you tell the difference between two guys/girls in this situation when the whole survey is the opinion of one sex's actions over another??

starbelgrade

counterlock wrote: »

Short sighted of pacifist pigeon me thinks, how can you tell the difference between two guys/girls in this situation when the whole survey is the opinion of one sex's actions over another??

I don't understand your question.

counterlock

Three out of the five options are applicable to LGBT. The other two are based on going against the usual tradition. I'm just confused as to what he expects the OP to add to the survey to satisfy the faux outrage

I'm a guy and I would prefer to propose
I'm a guy and I'm open to her proposing
I'm a girl, and I would prefer for him to propose
I'm a girl, and I'm open to proposing
Marriage is for chumps!

Pacifist Pigeon

starbelgrade wrote: »

Says who?

My point was that it entirely reasonable to ask a question to straight people which excludes gay people without it being an act of discrimination.

It is also entirely reasonable for a question to be posed to just gay or lesbian people without it being misconstrued as being discriminatory towards straight people.

As soon as people like you start shouting about 'discrimination' and 'segregation' for absolutely no reason at all & for completely unfounded and pointless reasons, it really pisses me off. You're trying to create a problem where there simply isn't one at all.

Have you read the entire thread yet, perhaps go to my latest reply here.

Pacifist Pigeon

counterlock wrote: »

Short sighted of pacifist pigeon me thinks, how can you tell the difference between two guys/girls in this situation when the whole survey is the opinion of one sex's actions over another??

Now you're discriminating against transgender people and those who are gender-queer.

counterlock

I am of course :rolleyes:

UglyBolloxFace

dr.bollocko wrote: »

If there's BJs steak and beer involved I'll pretty much say yes to anything.

Miller Immense Pet wrote: »

Blow me and I'll give you a steak and a beer.

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Where's my ring?
This milk ain't free.

Miller Immense Pet wrote: »

*sigh*

This better be some BJ.

*bends over*

Jesus...seriously cringeworthy.

strobe

I would loathe it with the intensity of a hundred thousand suns.