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Smash likes cooking most things more than I do, and I don't particularly mind cleaning. However, I think an arrangement based on that would be inequitable for our particular relationship because while he enjoys cooking, he also enjoys doing things like flipping stirfries a foot above the pan, or cracking eggs twelve feet from the trash can and then throwing the shells across the room to it. I would kill him if expected to clean up after that. It's bad enough that while cooking he never puts anything back into the refrigerator.

Oh and BD, husband = man, wife = woman...regardless of who is saying it...I'm not clear on the confusion.

Nexa

I can see that. Lucky for Mr. Ambrya, while I might sometimes be ambitious in my cooking and tackle foods that require a lot of dishes and mess, I'm not quite that flamboyant.



Mr. Ambrya is constitutionally incapable of closing cupboard doors and drawers. No idea why. It's like the part of the brain that typically handles "what is opened needs to be closed" is faulty.

We have nightlights in the kitchen now, to avoid any midnight water run resulting in broken toes and bruised shins.

One of my friends gives me organic eggs, telling me that I should leave them out at room temperature, like the Europeans and like her. I agree and then go home and put my eggs in the refrigerator.

I wonder what is better for the egg.

Um... Who's going to pay for the $1820/year the gay worker is no longer paying for medical care for his/her partner? Someone has to pay that, right? Does it just magically appear out of the social-engineering fairy's butt?


Do you understand that when you have a population of people all paying taxes into a pool of funds used by the government, and if one group of people pay less in taxes for some reason (like a tax break on their medical care), that this means that everyone else has to pay a bit more to make up the difference? I'm not presenting some wacky opinion here. It's kind of a mathematical fact.

Single people are subsidizing such benefits for married people. How else do you think the government can offer a tax break or interest rate break or enhanced pension benefits to married people? They have to collect a bit more to fund those things than they would otherwise. Married people gain the benefit of that extra cost, while single people don't. Thus, single people are paying for the benefits.


I'm really amazed that this is apparently such an incredibly difficult concept for so many people to grasp. Do you really not understand the math? Or are you just unwilling to do it because you don't want a political position you hold to be weakened? It's just that I can't believe so many people are so unable to get this pretty basic and simple idea.

gbaji, this discussion is now about room-temp eggs and open cabinets. Keep up.

My point was not the confusion over whether the wife was a man or a woman, but the oddity of a marriage with two "wives". Whether marriage is between a man and a woman, or two women or two men, my brain still thinks there should be a "husband" and a "wife". with each accepting a distinct role in the relationship (and no, I'm not implying the dishes and cooking are the sole responsibility of the "wife"). I'm aware this is not always the case; I was just commenting on how the arrangement seemed odd to me. Some of you are either incredibly dense or unreasonably resistant to outside views.

My point was not the confusion over whether the wife was a man or a woman, but the oddity of a marriage with two "wives". Whether marriage is between a man and a woman, or two women or two men, my brain still thinks there should be a "husband" and a "wife". with each accepting a distinct role in the relationship (and no, I'm not implying the dishes and cooking are the sole responsibility of the "wife"). I'm aware this is not always the case; I was just commenting on how the arrangement seemed odd to me. Some of you are either incredibly dense or unreasonably resistant to outside views.

No one is "resistant" to anything. Your "views" are idiotic and backward. It's essentially the same as you saying "I don't want Niggers to touch my food" followed by "What? I'm just saying it makes me uneasy to eat things that were handled by people that don't look me. Boy, people don't like to hear opinions that aren't their own!"

Eggs don't need to be put in a fridge. I don't know if it's really bad for an egg to be put in a fridge, tastewise like chocolate, though.



If it was a free range egg, it's quite natural for it to have a thicker shell and membrane. They're the easiest to separate the egg white and yolk too, just hold the yolk in your hand and let the white dripp off. That will never work with an industrial battery egg.

Edited, May 16th 2009 10:56am by Zieveraar

Edited, May 16th 2009 10:57am by Zieveraar

That's not the basis, though, is it? I don't disagree with Hitler's idea that Jews are subhuman because it's different to my own view, but because it's unfounded racism.

Edited, May 16th 2009 11:58am by Kavekk

You throw around words like idiot and moron and simultaneously fail to realize that rejecting someone else's views on the sole basis that they are not similar to your own is both idiotic and moronic.

Sure. Fortunately for me, I'm not doing that. I'm rejecting your views on the basis that they're childish and nonsensical. They have no foundation in fact, no relevance sociologically, and will be seen as shockingly antiquated and ignorant in ten years.


I don't respect you or your 8 layers of bullsh*t. Never have, and likely never will.


Who gives a fuck? We've had this discussion before, if I wanted you to respect or admire me, I'd manipulate you into doing so. You can't comprehend how trivial a thing that would be for me. I know you cling to this magical belief that you're a free thinking snowflake who makes internal decisions about what to believe based upon your life experiences.

It's not the case. You're a sucker. An easy demographic. I'm frankly unsure why you post, as nothing you've ever communicated has come as a surprise to anyone. Narcissism, I guess.

This other idea that you cling to that what you post affects me in any way at all is equally ludicrous. You haven't "struck a nerve!!!111!one!!" You're utterly meaningless to me. I remember things about your personal narrative because of the frequency of reference of them on this board, not because I care. Nothing you do impacts my life in any way. Is this sinking in yet? You're little people, one of the millions of meaningless cogs humming away in a machine happily being exploited by people who matter. If you die, no one cares. If you change your mind on some social issue, no one cares. If you don't no one cares.

If you want me to care about what you think, or what you think about me, accomplish something beyond not starving death with your life. When anything you do matters at all, what you do will matter to me.

No. I'm just saying that I find the situational use of the words "wife" or "husband" odd in this case. Never said it was stupid, wrong, or anything of the sort. Just not used to it, is all. I find the use of boyfriend and girlfriend in the similar situations perfectly normal, and I suspect it's due merely to continued exposure over time. No need to be so obtuse about it.

Everyone understands, idiot. What people don't understand is what your problem is. If someone told me school buses told him where to buy the best tuxedos, I wouldn't be confused by what he was saying, I would, however, wonder what the **** was wrong with him.


Furthermore, what's with the mandated LGBT support around here? The moment someone suggests anything other than unconditional support for the community, some of you foam at the mouth like rabid dogs.

Yeah, I don't know. It's amazing, huh? It's nothing like the open minded willingness to hear other people's views about Blacks being lazy and shiftless, Jews running the world banking system, or Asians being degenerate gamblers who can't drive cars. Ok, that last one's a bad example.

You're really *surprised* that people react badly to your decades gone unease with gender roles? Society has moved on. I'm sure there are other boards you could post on where people would support your fucked up personal hang ups without instantly realizing their genesis. Maybe you should post there.

Does this mean when they start cloneing people, someone could marry themselves? That would be odd to say the least.

Troglodyte!

Well, I suppose you could clone a troglodyte if you could recover an intact strand of DNA somehow, but i'm pretty sure they wouldn't let you marry one.

I think you're thinking trilobite. The only animals named Troglodyte are still alive.