Be nice. That can feel very threatening. If you're a power hungry sociopath intent on using others for your ugly narcissisitc needs.

And a bit of bum-love, perhaps.

Somebody gave the monkey his cymbals again today:

Marriage will ONLY remain the bedrock of a society if it is between a man and a woman
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... woman.html

Predictably, very thin on actual logic. He waffles on about why marriage and stable couples are good for society, without giving any reason why this is exclusive to mixed-sex marriages. Eventually, after labouring the point, he rears his sock-puppet bogie man:

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Soppy anti-British, pro-crime, anti-education, pro-immigration, anti-family nonentity

There's no evidence the B&B owners turned away unmarried straight couples. Gay customers would have been refused even if they were married. Whether they believed in not-as-traditional-as-all-that marriage or not, it wasn't the basis of their discriminatory action.


Schools don't teach marriage. The archie's definition displeases plenty of parents itself. Here's a revolutionary idea: why don't we stop defining it at all? Let marriage mean what the spouses want it to mean. Discard tired old bollocks about it being the bedrock of anything. Judge not same-sex couples, unmarried couples, polyamory, singles — and thou shalt not be judged for writing reactionary crap in the Daily Mail.

'Religious discrimination' is a euphemism for equality. Giving up the power to discriminate is discrimination? Not big on reason these faith heads.

Anyway, is it 'an euphemism' or 'a euphemism'?

a

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Is it 'a hotel' or 'an hotel'. I say 'a'.

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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.

So the rule is the sound of the following word and not the letter it begins with? I think I subconsciously know this but you could confirm, please?

Is that a answer looking for an question?

Yes, but it also depends on the donor language.

For example, hospice, hospital and hotel all share a root but come into English from different languages. So there is a full aspirant on hospital and hospice, but only a semi* on hotel (which would have no aspirant at all in French).

So a hospital, and an hotel. In speech. Different rules in written English where pronunciation doesn't much matter.



*fill in your own jokes, I've got a headache.

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I note that Carey was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991-2002. He's no-nonsense and rightwing, the sort of leader we're always told the C of E needs instead of this wishy-washy tendency that thinks the enemy's war dead matter too.

So must have been a real golden age of full pews. Not my memory of that era, to say the least.

I remember him always looking like he had piles.

Carey has form. This from 15 years ago :

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I'm a nasty, violent lefty. You cunt.

To risk cross-threading, I think Dawkins has been dead on with regard to the church trying to claim people as Christian who don't go to church or know anything about the Bible. You often hear that there are people who say they want something spiritual. So the church claims to speak for them.

I call them hippies. (no insult intended at all).

Heavy-handed courts are persecuting Christians and driving them underground, says Lord Carey

Persecuted?

What with christianity being the UK state religion after all?

My view is that christians should not be persecuted and that includes you Stalin. By persecuting them you are only giving the sanctimonious fucks what they want.

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