Has Jeremy Irons always been this nuts?

[Richard Hakluyt]

Looks to me like a jet-lagged actor rambling on about stuff that he claims no special knowledge about 

[Martinus]

Stephen Colbert's rebuttal was hillarious by the way.

[Martinus]

I don't see anything here that a reasonable person would be offended by.  It certainly is rambling, but the idea of a father marrying a son for tax reasons isn't one I had thought of before, and is an amusing and clever hypothetical.

I know it is the HuffPost so we are supposed to sneer at the people the HuffPost writers sneer at, but this seems to be a innocuous stream-of-consciousness response to a fairly innocuous question.

He seems crazed but I don't think I could find fault if someone was offended by the early bit where he worries if gays fighting for the name debases what marriage is.

Or the part where he uses a marrying-a-dog analogy in a rambling rant about gay marriage.

[The Brain]

Dog marries man isn't news.

[Razgovory]

So, Marty you didn't a problem with the incest thing then?

[Martinus]

So, Marty you didn't a problem with the incest thing then?

Not really. He is right that the only reasonable justification against incest is a possibility of transmitting genetic disease to offspring - something absent in same sex relationships.

[Neil]

Or the part where he uses a marrying-a-dog analogy in a rambling rant about gay marriage.

Yeah, but that's not really offensive.  I mean, sure, it's not nice to ask those sorts of questions where perverts can hear, but it's a reasonable thing to wonder about.

[grumbler]

Or the part where he uses a marrying-a-dog analogy in a rambling rant about gay marriage.

I can see why you would be offended by your delusions about what he said, but in the actual interview he makes no such analogy and doesn't rant.  Maybe you should take your reactions to your delusions to some board that caters to deluded people.  Here, it just sounds pathetic.

[derspiess]

Thread over.

[Martinus]

Ok, I reconsidered my view and no longer think that what he said was offensive.

[Grallon]

Looking forward to season 3 of the Borgias.   

Indeed.  I've bee watching this non stop all weekend.  Primed for season3.  While they took liberties with History - it wasn't as glaring or jarring as in HBO's Rome.  And the one who plays Cesare is a Quebecer (and who would have thought - no accent whatsoever) - and hot as shit!  I rooted for the one who played Juan at first but the character became so thoroughly unpleasant, so quickly, I was praying for his demise - and it happened!

So returning to Irons - he did/does a great job with this character - sometimes commending - sometimes playful - sometimes ridiculous... definitely *not* a one-dimentional character.



G.

[citizen k]

Jeremy Irons Slams Bloomberg "Nanny State" | HPL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K6eESTwC9OQ

[Ideologue]

So, Marty you didn't a problem with the incest thing then?

Not really. He is right that the only reasonable justification against incest is a possibility of transmitting genetic disease to offspring - something absent in same sex relationships.

Wrong.