The Good News Only - thread...

[AuroraSaab]

I've just read that it's currently legal in 34 states, and 4 U.S. states do not require any minimum age for marriage, with a parental or judicial waiver! So good news for paedos.

Yes, it's an anomaly people have been campaigning against for years there. I think it was partially defended as a way to allow underage girls who got pregnant to get married and avoid the stigma of illegitimacy. It has led to coerced marriages though, and in some cases girls being forced to marry their rapist.

Different eras, but Jerry Lee Lewis and Edgar Allan Poe both married 13 year olds. Depressing that it's still allowed anywhere in the world. If it's allowed, people will do it. Yes, it is a paedophiles charter.

 

[Pblakeney]

It's still 16 in Scotland.

The legal age of consent in the UK is 16.
Marriage is irrelevant to sexual activity.

 

[PurplePenguin]

The legal age of consent in the UK is 16.
Marriage is irrelevant to sexual activity.

The original post was about marriage in Bolivia.

 

[Pblakeney]

The original post was about marriage in Bolivia.

That's true but referring to legitimising paedos which has nothing to do with marriage in this country.

 

[briantrumpet]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro

 

[AuroraSaab]

That's phenomenal. A wonderful breakthrough. I wonder if it will lead to similar paths of treatment for other neurological illnesses.

 

[briantrumpet]

Who needs modern medicine anyway?

 

[briantrumpet]

Good news for UK and EU students looking to broaden their education.

 

[briantrumpet]

And amongst the other general doom and gloom:

 

[briantrumpet]

And there's more!

 

[Ian H]

And there's more!

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Now do vaping.

 

[briantrumpet]

Now do vaping.

I'd rather not.

But fair point, that'd be an interesting (and probably depressing) correlation. I find vaping one of the oddest things, and have no idea why people can't detach themselves from their mother's nipples and want to put strawberry-flavoured smoke deep into their lungs.

 

[Ian H]

I'd rather not.

But fair point, that'd be an interesting (and probably depressing) correlation. I find vaping one of the oddest things, and have no idea why people can't detach themselves from their mother's nipples and want to put strawberry-flavoured smoke deep into their lungs.

Back in the day, the weirdest thing was seeing a middle-aged bloke with a pipe stuck in his mouth and not being able to resist the image of him at breast.

 

[briantrumpet]

Back in the day, the weirdest thing was seeing a middle-aged bloke with a pipe stuck in his mouth and not being able to resist the image of him at breast.

Worst if they were frequently having to relight the pipe with vigorous sucking actions. I remember one chap I knew who talked so much he had to relight his pipe five times during the course of one brief post-bellringing-practice pub session (c.1981)

Oops, I might have been under-age drinking. Soz.

 

[Ian H]

Worst if they were frequently having to relight the pipe with vigorous sucking actions. I remember one chap I knew who talked so much he had to relight his pipe five times during the course of one brief post-bellringing-practice pub session (c.1981)

Oops, I might have been under-age drinking. Soz.

There's a clip from many years ago of someone talking about the then recently deceased Pablo Casals and his habit of constantly relighting his pipe. The opinion was that he basically 'smoked matches' and that most of the spent matches disappeared into the F-holes of his cello (which the same fellow said he'd tried to play and couldn't get any decent sound out of it at all).