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Snooki's new boyfriend looks kind of like Jensen Ackles from "Supernatural," if Jensen Ackles was covered in spray tan and Ed Hardy and stood less than five feet tall.

this just made my day

Ok I'm ALL FOR equal rights and I think it's disgusting that homosexuals cannot get married, but can you really equate marriage to joining a country club? I think it's admirable that a couple would wait to get married until gay marriage is legalized in the US, but I don't think it's fair to make every heterosexual couple feel guilty about being in love. But, then again I don't know. I've never been married.

I guess what I'm saying is what purpose does not getting married serve? It's not like a country club where the institution loses all its business because people don't join in protest, it's MARRIAGE. But she's right, it's just really fucking embarrassing.

Are those students native English speakers?!?!

Just on the marriage thing. I think it's awesome that all of these celebs are waiting to get married. But, some of us can't afford it. Some of us only have health insurance through a spouse. For tax purposes, for legal recognition. I really admire that they have the means to protest that way, but we all do not have those luxuries.

Reflections from the boredom of a college library:

1)Despite Lindsay Lohan's decision to take her career and throw it into oncoming traffic, I still maintain that if she came on to you at a club, you'd hit it. You'd feel bad, but you hit. (also I love heroin chic, I get this vivid image of a thin, heavily-mascara-ed girl jumping into the needle pit from Saw part Whatever and rolling around in ecstasy.

2) The same goes for JWoWW. In fact, most guys seek out that girl in the club. Sorry, ladies, we can't help it. Snookie is just what happens after unecessary shot intakes. Every guy has had a Snookie, most just don't make it on TV.

3) That comic is awesome. Thank you Stacy, it has been bookmarked :)

4) The biggest "noticeable mistake" from James Bond movies is that Roger Moore could beat up anyone with hands and an IQ over 15, and that Roger Moore does in fact have sex appeal to anyone under the age of 30.

5) Does Skywalker Ranch wine have a great early taste, and 15 seconds later you find yourself questioning your childhood, posting obscenity-laced youtube rants for your own pleasure, and inexplicably wanting to punch boxes of kittens with a roll of quarters in your hand?

Umm... if any of you straight people want to get married, please go ahead. As others have said, I don't really get the impact of that as a protest point.

Reading those film study notes makes me glad that I don't have access to the big, red, shiny button.

RE the film commentaries: Most younger people (and probably older people, too) can't write worth a shit. Shocking.

Am I still allowed to proceed with my wedding plans as I live in a country where any consenting adult can marry any (1) other consenting adult? (I really hate the phrase 'gay marriage'). I'll have to write to Sarah Silverman and see if she'll give me permission.

Perhaps it's because after almost 30 years of never expecting I'd marry I am now planning my wedding this summer (ak), but I find the idea of a 'marriage strike' as some kind of protest to be frankly, silly and pointless, and that I should feel guilted out of marrying who I want when I want as a result to be paternalistic and condescending.

It is also not even remotely like 'taking a seat at the segregated lunch counter'. If you have your marriage performed by a celebrant who opposes marriage between same-sex couples then yes, but if you choose one of the many members of the clergy or justices of the peace who are *not* homophobic assholes the analogy breaks down.

Oh well, as I said, I am fortunate enough to live in a country where I am allowed to marry anyone I damn well want to, male or female, so I suppose I don't need to lose too much sleep over the issue. (Full disclosure - I find Sarah Silverman obnoxious, offensive and un-funny, so am less likely to agree with everything she says than the adoring fanboys/fangirls who seem to make up the vast majority of the population of teh interwebs.)

I'm glad you have these options that others don't have, koj. And I'm glad you have absolutely zero empathy for the less fortunate. Perhaps you can finish this fine day in your charmed life by mocking the homeless because you have a house and food in the fridge! Wow, that significant other of yours managed to snag a keeper!

Note: I'm not saying you should give up your wedding plans to protest the situation in America. I'm just saying you came off as completely snotty and complacent, and it's attitudes here in the States like yours that ensure I'll never be able to marry. So, in conclusion, go fuck a beehive.

I'm uncertain how I came off as un-empathetic to those less fortunate, for what it's worth I spent several years campaigning for equal marriage rights here in Canada, organising letter writing campaigns and participating in protests against the inequality of disparate marriage laws (with signs. outside politicians' offices). And, for all my American friends, I hope very much that US lawmakers take their blindfolds off and stop being bigoted assholes as soon as possible. I simply fail to see how heteros refraining from getting married does anything to advance the cause of equal rights. Which is what I, perhaps clumsily, attempted to express.

Bottom line - write letters! make big colourful signs! be loud! Sitting around refraining from doing something simply does not strike me as a particularly effective piece of direct action.

That high school film studies thing made me weep for the future. The world is going to become such an inane and grammatically incorrect place.

ZombieNurse I agree with you. I support everyone's right to be married, but Sarah Silverman can suck my enormous dick, then choke on it, fuck off, and die.

am I the only one who thinks the marriage protest thing is really fucking ridiculous?

No, not really.

A Japanese woman raised by wolves who learned English over the Christmas holiday is writing those high school movie reviews. It is the ONLY explanation.

That, or all high school movie class students are complete retards.

"Or do they just heard all the idiots into the movie class and make the smart kids read Dickens and Steinbeck." - Yossarian

This mistake ("heard") is hilarious given the context of illiteracy-bashing.

You know, I've lived with the same guy for almost 15 years now and never got married. Not out of protest, you understand; more out of sheer laziness than anything else*. But I haven't needed a bajillion dollars to do that. Or, you know, not do that. Actually, if I married him and one of us went on the other's health insurance, it would cost us more than each of us having our own, single health insurance through our jobs (true story: at every job I've had, and every insurance company I've been through, the "spouse" option is actually more than double the "single" option. Like, WAY more). As far as I've been able to glean, the tax breaks ain't that great either. I'm just not really understanding how it's costing people so much money to not be married. Not that if people want to get married they shouldn't have the right to, I just don't see why you'd want to. This country seems to revolve around the idea that marriage is the ultimate state to be in, while denying that to certain of its residents, and I disagree.

*Actually, it's really more because I believe it's a ridiculous, pointless, outdated institution that seems to exist solely to encourage people to spend bajillions of dollars on a wedding, which I can't afford, and to procreate, which I can't afford and don't want.

AvB - As soon as gay marriage is officially legal in your state, I'm coming down to NJ to marry you. That is, if I had any interest in getting married myself. Two peas in a pod, we are.

Hee! Tamatha. (That posted while I was looking up the literacy volunteering information for my county.) If I could get off the couch or muster the energy to care about marriage, I'd TOTALLY marry you.

true story: at every job I've had, and every insurance company I've been through, the "spouse" option is actually more than double the "single" option. Like, WAY more.

AvB, it is almost as if they are suggesting marriage is unhealthy, if it costs more to care for a spouse than a single lady (I JUST got that song out of my head!)

For the most part I disagree with Sarah Silverman (and pretty much all of pajibaland) on gay marriage. But for an off the cuff remark she makes a lot of sense.

But may favorite part was when the interview mentioned looking back on this time in 50 years and she says, "Fifty years? This is embarrassing. It’s embarrassing.” I've often had the same thought when wondering how history will look back on the use of abortions as birth control.

Dear Johnny Depp,
Please peel yourself off of that crack-whore.
Thank you.

Lwa'e'

Yeah, becks, some of us are actually pretty surprised about that too. (Um, I just realized that sounds like a Canadia-slur, and it's not.)

Also, I just had 3 abortions last week, so yeah, I'm pretty glad for that too. No, wait: I just realized what I meant to say is that using phrases like "use of abortions as birth control" seriously discounts the agony most women face when making that decision. Also, my making that decision would be none of anybody else's fucking business.

I see what you mean about the phrase "using abortions as birth control" AvB. I was literally talking about the women who go in for quite a few of them without feeling much emotional impact from it, because that's how I've always interpreted the phrase but I can understand how it could be used to describe any woman having an abortion and it shouldn't be. Oops! Totally my bad and an insensitive use of the language. Striking it from my vocabulary.

I'm sure the US will catch up with us very soon on the marriage rights.

Aw, becks, you're too sweet. I totally wasn't referring to you at all! I accidentally took the troll bait, and then I decided that I didn't want to engage. I'm sorry!

Sorry, koj, I blew a gasket there. I interpreted your post as, "I live somewhere else, so I don't care about the struggles of gay people in America, fiddle-de-dee."

The effectiveness of a boycott is questionable, at best. Weddings may be a multimillion dollar industry, but the cost is spread over a host of different services, so the impact of a boycott would be diffused anyway. And for every celebrity that is "boycotting" marriage (a more cynical part of me thinks "protecting assets" rather than "protesting civil rights"), about a million regular people are going through the system.

The only way gay marriage will become legal in America will be if enough people get off their asses and vote to outnumber the conservative morons who want to preserve the "sanctity" of marriage (and quickie divorces) for themselves.

That does it. I refuse to eat Brussels sprouts until all the hungry people of the world are adequately fed.

*Takes another bite of Thickburger*

Right. Marriage is more of a condition than a disease.

women who go in for quite a few of them without feeling much emotional impact from it

How do you know what they're feeling?

MOUTHY, UNINFORMED COMMENT:
Posted by: Kballs at February 9, 2010 3:54 PM

EPIC BEATDOWN FULL OF SHAMING:
Posted by: Chris P. at February 9, 2010 4:12 PM

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I am sufficiently chastised. Keep fighting the good fight, Chris P.!!!