Marry your ma-in-law?

[Hagar]

Cop a load of this headline news. http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/46964.html
The world is rapidly going mad. I would have thought these interfering Eurocrats would have more important things to worry about.

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[Saitek]

Weird, but that is where things are going. I saw this on the news already.

Basically the Human Rights Act 1998 allows almost anything to happen. Things like this are loose ends being tidied up. It takes ages for them to come up and because they are such old laws the courts have to give their approval.

[Sytse]

D'oh! If they want to marry, fine! Let them do it! What's with all the hassle?  ::)

[Hagar]

Weird, but that is where things are going. I saw this on the news already.

Basically the Human Rights Act 1998 allows almost anything to happen. Things like this are loose ends being tidied up. It takes ages for them to come up and because they are such old laws the courts have to give their approval.

That Human Rights Act is causing all sorts of problems & signing up to it was the worse thing we ever did. IMHO

[quote]D'oh! If they want to marry, fine! Let them do it! What's with all the hassle?

[Saitek]

That Human Rights Act is causing all sorts of problems & signing up to it was the worse thing we ever did. IMHO.

There is an awful lot of good things about it, but at the same time there is an awful lot of bad stuff too. It also has contradictions, allows loopholes to get around it, and it is unfair in places. Worse still it allows things to go on when it is downright defiance to it. Basically it works when they want it to work. I won't start going down here as it is too political, but a few examples.

Article 10: Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

What about this detention without trial buisness then?

Article 18: Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

So why is religous fundamentalism attacked by the government? Why is the religous Hatred Bill being passed when it basically goes against freedom of speech?

Article 3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Why is it then that in several countries, such as Germany and Holland it is illegal (with heavy consequences) to Homeschool?

I could go on. Law is so annoying. Why do I study it?

I hope this isn't counted as being political as I am not intending any political wars.

[Romulus111VADT]

Heck, I knew a guy that married his step-mom. He was fussing because his step-brothers and sisters became his step-children and they would listen to him at all. Dah, wonder why....

I can't imagine what the poor father must have felt like knowing his son had married his ex-wife.....

[Craig.]

While this topic has quickly gone into areas of stupidity, it is nice to know the EU is doing something. I mean sure there are pleanty of important things they could be doing, but it gives me a warm feeling knowing they take time out of their busy day to deal with stuff like this.

[Hagar]

I think this says it all.

"I'm My Own Grandpa" sung by Ray Stevens  Click the Wav link at the bottom to hear the song.

Many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three,

I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be
this widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
my father fell in love with her, and soon they  too were wed.

This made my dad my son-in-law and really changed my  life,
now my daughter was my mother, cause she was my father's wife.
to complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad,
and so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.
for if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
of the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my stepmother.


?? (Are we confused YET???) ??
LOL

Father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run,
and he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son.
my wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue,
because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother, too.

Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild,
and every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild,
cause now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
as husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!

Oh, I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
it sounds funny I know  but it really is so,
oh, I'm my own grandpa

I'm my own grandpa
I'm my own grandpa...
it sounds funny I know
but it really is so

[ATI_7500]

So why is religous fundamentalism attacked by the government?

Because it leads to terrorism.

Why is it then that in several countries, such as Germany and Holland it is illegal (with heavy consequences) to Homeschool?

Because you can be thought all kinds of nonsense (dangerous religious and political attitudes) when being homeschooled. The state can't have control over that, so I think it's fine to make homeschooling illegal.

[Saitek]

You missed my point Hereitc. It is in breach of human rights (well according to that) what ever the reason.

Because you can be thought all kinds of nonsense (dangerous religious and political attitudes) when being homeschooled. The state can't have control over that, so I think it's fine to make homeschooling illegal.

No, it is in serious breach of it. The worst and most evil men in history were not homeschooled such as Hitler and Stalin and the most radical religous terrorists you can get these days would go through school.

Most folk that homeschool do so because of the rubbish taught in schools and the distasteful environment that kids have to face there. Others do it for practical reasons.

A number of folk here have been homeschooled, including myself, and none of our parents would agree with your proposed reasons for teaching us at home in preference to school!

[Craig.]

Depends on whos doing the home schooling really. I need to shut-up now as my views could get me in trouble. I walk a thin line continually as it is, here.

[beaky]

Shut up everybody, and let's sing along with Ray Stevens....LOL!!!
Thanx, Hagar...

[Saitek]

lol.... I guess so.  :-X

[Hagar]

All together now. One, two, three.....!

[color=Blue]Oh, I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
it sounds funny I know but it really is so,
oh, I'm my own grandpa

[Katahu]

*Adam Sandler Impersonation - from the movie Anger Management*

"I feel pretty, oh so pretty.
I feel pretty and witty and GAAAYYYYY!!!
And I pitty, any girl who isn't me today."

That movie cracked me up so much.