Ze burkini is a problem with Ze France

[Iormlund]

People that use pools are retards.
People pee, spit, blow their nose, jerk off, and even shit, in public pools.

That's what chlorine is for.

[garbon]

Also, is it really common for people to shit in pools?

[Eddie Teach]

Also, is it really common for people to shit in pools?

Only after drinking half a can of Coors Light.

[swallow]

I've actually been looking for something similar to the top (no hood) for ages, to stop sunburn on the beech - I wonder if speedo will bring out a version that actually fits?

They actually exists I have them for my kids for the very same reason, to avoid sunburn. They are Aussie and called IIRC sun block and or shark skin

V

Thats great - I've had a look and they have adult sizes - Thanks Valdemar

[merithyn]

As Sheilb points out, it is their secularism at work. Just think of the fact that church weddings of any kinds are for show and not legally biding, only City hall weddings have legal significance.

I want this in the U.S. I really truly do.

[Neil]

No.  There's a difference between gender and sexuality.  Also there are practical problems in determining whether someone is straight or homosexual for the purpose of going for a swim.

[Sheilbh]

People that use pools are retards.
People pee, spit, blow their nose, jerk off, and even shit, in public pools.

That's what chlorine is for.

My psoriasis reacts badly to chlorine so I have to use salt-water or oxygenated swimming pools, which are standard in some places, but not the UK

[Valmy]

I want this in the U.S. I really truly do.

Um...isn't it like that already?  Without the marriage license you can have marriages all day in a church and nobody cares.

[merithyn]

Um...isn't it like that already?  Without the marriage license you can have marriages all day in a church and nobody cares.

But a minister or priest can do the "legal" bit. I want them completely separate. If you want to get married, you go down to the courthouse, sign the paperwork, and ta-da! you're married. A civil union. Then, if you want, you go to the church and do that bit.

If everyone had to have a civil union and left the "marriage" bit to the religious types, same-sex marriage would come about much quicker nationwide, I think. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking, but regardless, I don't think the state should be involved except at the most business-end of things, i.e. the contract merging two households into one.

[Malthus]

Um...isn't it like that already?  Without the marriage license you can have marriages all day in a church and nobody cares.

But a minister or priest can do the "legal" bit. I want them completely separate. If you want to get married, you go down to the courthouse, sign the paperwork, and ta-da! you're married. A civil union. Then, if you want, you go to the church and do that bit.

If everyone had to have a civil union and left the "marriage" bit to the religious types, same-sex marriage would come about much quicker nationwide, I think. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking, but regardless, I don't think the state should be involved except at the most business-end of things, i.e. the contract merging two households into one.

I don't think that follows at all. Here in Canada we've had gay marriage a while, and priests and the like can officiate at weddings.

[Valmy]

But a minister or priest can do the "legal" bit. I want them completely separate. If you want to get married, you go down to the courthouse, sign the paperwork, and ta-da! you're married. A civil union. Then, if you want, you go to the church and do that bit.

A minister or priest or guy-who-was-ordained-on-the-internet can marry anybody they want.  Indeed religious types have been marrying gay people for decades.  The state has to ok it so it is in effect precisely the same as going down to the court house and getting married.

The minister or priest or internet guy has zero say in who the state allows to get married.

[Josephus]

This thread is seven years old....where else we talking about this?

[Valmy]

Wow. It is amazing how little this place has changed 

[Josephus]

Wow. It is amazing how little this place has changed 

Place needs new blood.