...so said Cornelius (Roddy McDowall) in Planet of the Apes.
Two prime examples of this: at Liverpool Street station at the weekend, three middle aged blokes just stepped over a limp (possibly pregnant) pigeon after some ginger footwork. One of them however, took it upon himself to stamp on the poor creature.
Almost as moronic and even more violent, an American soldier in Afghanistan has also now mown down 16 civilians, to whatever reprisals the Taliban may well inflict.
Monday 12 March 2012
Monday 5 March 2012
"I now pronounce you man and ... ?"
Or, as two women at a wedding in The Birdcage ask each other, "Which one's the mother?", "I don't know!"
The term 'gay marriage' seems rather an anachronism - particularly as in many of these couples there is usually the one who is the more fastidious and takes on the attributes of a female and the other the more aggressive male-asserted partner. There is also the simple matter of biological reproduction, which is only possible through adoption or the further dabbling into science.
The legality for this kind of union already exists in the form of civil partnerships: to extend it further to actual legal marriage is less a campaign for gay rights than another attempt by the opportunistic David Cameron to make his mark over his predecessors.
The term 'gay marriage' seems rather an anachronism - particularly as in many of these couples there is usually the one who is the more fastidious and takes on the attributes of a female and the other the more aggressive male-asserted partner. There is also the simple matter of biological reproduction, which is only possible through adoption or the further dabbling into science.
The legality for this kind of union already exists in the form of civil partnerships: to extend it further to actual legal marriage is less a campaign for gay rights than another attempt by the opportunistic David Cameron to make his mark over his predecessors.
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