Interesting Links for 11-06-2012
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andrewducker- Various animals riding tortoises. Anyone know what the one at the top left is?
- Hamlet the Mini Pig Goes Down the Stairs - an adorable video
- The Real UK Citizenship Test - I got 9/10, how do you score?
- “Run,” Bakri Says. A powerful short story of save points, lost lives, and the consequences of technology and war.
- Majority of MSPs back gay marriage. (69 pro, 9 against, 51 undeclared)
- The Pixar story rules (or, at least, a version thereof)
- 8 Tiny Things That Stopped Suicides (The moral being that some people just need a tiny ray of light to grab on to)
- How Inglourious Basterds links to the other Tarantino movies
- 6 Movie and TV Universes That Overlap in Mind-blowing Ways
- David Cameron decides children should earn their keep, puts eight-year-old daughter to work in local pub.
- The sexual depravity of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal
- Betteridge's Law of Headlines - is it true?
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Date: 2012-06-11 02:16 pm (UTC)That’s quite funny. (Although 40 years on perhaps not as much racial equality as they prophesised.)
And I guess that’s what lies at the root of some of the objections to marriage reform. That if we allow marriage between homosexual couples then it will be seen as acceptable and more people will become homosexual. Or as my granddad used to say with heavy irony – they’ll be making it compulsory next, which was his standard mockery of any slippery slope arguments he disagreed with.
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Date: 2012-06-11 06:33 pm (UTC)Personally, I've been waiting for the legalisation of gay marriage for me to find the right man. Julie's in for a massive surprise.
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Date: 2012-06-12 11:27 am (UTC)I'd book early if I were you - there's going to be a hella of a rush once those floodgates open.