Would you have trusted your parents to make an arranged marriage for you?

[garbon]

Well I would need a good reason to defy norms.

Any reason is a good reason.

No, defying societal norms requires effort and sometimes sacrifice.  I would rather be using my efforts to do something more interesting and important.

I run around shouting every time I speak. Has not caused me any problems.

[viper37]

I find the concept of a Quebecker lumberjill intriguing.

How big was she Veep?

not huge, just big, not terribly pretty, total lack of class, kept drinking&smoking&gambling.  But her father had a sawmill, wich would have served our interests.  He made a few attemps, than decided I wasn't a real man because I wasn't married at 30, so things ended there.

[Admiral Yi]

Ah, aiming for a dynastic arrangement. 

[Barrister]

Yeah I think my parents would have done a decent job.

Yeah.  I mean, if this sort of thing were done, while I don't think they'd have picked out the exact girl I married, I'm sure they would have picked out someone nice.

[Ideologue]

My parents would have picked a wealthy and well-connected woman I would almost certainly have disliked. So option 2.

Apropos of nothing, I thought it was the funniest thing in the world when it was revealed that Malthus made like the present-day equivalent of $40,000 a year in his bohemian pottery studio.

[merithyn]

No, defying societal norms requires effort and sometimes sacrifice.  I would rather be using my efforts to do something more interesting and important.

The societal norms that you live in aren't constrictive. What if those "norms" required you to dress a certain way, act a certain way, learn only that which is approved, marry only someone who is just like you, and limited the careers that you could do?

[garbon]

My parents would have picked a wealthy and well-connected woman I would almost certainly have disliked. So option 2.

Apropos of nothing, I thought it was the funniest thing in the world when it was revealed that Malthus made like the present-day equivalent of $40,000 a year in his bohemian pottery studio.

[Malthus]

My parents would have picked a wealthy and well-connected woman I would almost certainly have disliked. So option 2.

Apropos of nothing, I thought it was the funniest thing in the world when it was revealed that Malthus made like the present-day equivalent of $40,000 a year in his bohemian pottery studio.

$10 an hour?  Hilarious.   

[Ideologue]

I surrender whatever point I was making.  I just woke up.  Apologies.

[crazy canuck]

All the guys I know who had arranged marriages (within the Sihk community) are all still happily married (although admittedly the sample size is small).  Over half the guys I know who married for love are now divorced - some of them multiple times.

Given divorce rates in Western countries where most people make their own choice and marry for love it seems that if live long marriage is the measure of success then arranged marriages have merit.

Having said all that, there is no way in hell I would have trust my parent's judgment.

[Admiral Yi]

keep in mind Ide that back then the Loonie was worth a nickel in real money.

[Eddie Teach]

My parents would have picked a wealthy and well-connected woman I would almost certainly have disliked. So option 2.

Apropos of nothing, I thought it was the funniest thing in the world when it was revealed that Malthus made like the present-day equivalent of $40,000 a year in his bohemian pottery studio.

$10 an hour?  Hilarious.   

I believe my parents' first jobs paid around $2.

[crazy canuck]

Rich kid Malthus complains about getting well above the then minimum wage.

[Malthus]

My parents would have picked a wealthy and well-connected woman I would almost certainly have disliked. So option 2.

Apropos of nothing, I thought it was the funniest thing in the world when it was revealed that Malthus made like the present-day equivalent of $40,000 a year in his bohemian pottery studio.

$10 an hour?  Hilarious.   

I believe my parents' first jobs paid around $2.

I'm not Grumbler's age yet, you know. 

[Razgovory]

Noted that a lot of the guys who said aren't actually married.