the Australian Bureau of Statistics has sent out 16+ million surveys eliciting australians’ view on legalising same-sex marriage – someone forgot, however, to check the barcode on the forms . . .
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either someone’s been a bit naughty or computers are more sentient than we give them credit for and have a hitherto unsuspected sense of humour – http://tinyurl.com/y9t8o3fn
let’s talk this over, eh ?
guy picked a shopping mall in brazil to pop the question to his girlfriend but . . .
villagers in the Indian states of Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh have adopted a drastic measure in a bid to curb the widespread practice of ‘open defecation’ due to lack of indoor toilets . . .
[in other news, weddings in these states are going to be a lot less fun due to other cost-cutting measures announced at the same meeting]
full details – http://tinyurl.com/jpd8pp4
something to do with marshmallows, apparently, according to this video . . .
the average age at which a woman gets married varies from country to country and historically over time within the same country
as economic prosperity of a country increases and the status of women within that country improves, e.g., equal access to education and employment opportunities, equal social and political rights, greater economic independence, the age at which women chose to get married has increased
in some cultures, however, a woman is still regarded as ‘incomplete’ unless she has a man
in China, for instance, a woman who has not married by the time she is . . .
pre-nuptial agreements have always seemed to me to indicate a certain degree of pessimism about the permanence – despite the ’till death do us part’ bit – of the marriage about to be entered into
makes me wonder why bother if you harbour the least doubt that the marriage is going to be a success ?
a pre-nuptial agreement must also . . .
it is 6 years to the day since I lost my wife to lung cancer
the pain of that loss has lessened over the years since she died – I no longer cry every day – but it has not entirely disappeared (and it never will !)
there are times, since she died, that I wish I wasn’t an atheist – because I’d sorely love to believe that our parting is just temporary !
https://lifewithmrsd.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/goodbye-my-love/
