# I'm not getting married!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 25, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732 "2010-05-25T19:08:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/61 "2010-05-26T01:21:10Z")
Maybe in the version they’re sending YOU. 😉
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/62 "2010-05-26T01:21:39Z")
Just for the record, I’m not married.
I was riffing on a line from _Mony Pythons_ **Life of Brian** , I played the same card in the **Coldfire** thread earlier today.
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### Author:  [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/63 "2010-05-26T01:36:30Z")
I’m not geting married again, though in the interest of efficiency, I am looking to find a woman I truly dislike and buy her a house.
(credit Pat Paulsen.)
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### Author:  [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/64 "2010-05-26T01:41:35Z")
Not getting married. (check)
No significant other. (check)
Not even casually dating. (check)
No children. (check)
Not pregnant (check)
Not moving. (check)
Still adjusting to new job. (check)
4 dogs, 2 cats, largely driving me up the wall, tho arguably very cute. (check)
Shall we all wallow together?
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### Author:  [@Shawn\_K\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn_K_1)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/65 "2010-05-26T02:01:50Z")
I’m not getting married, never been married, have been single again for a few months, no kids, no casual dating or casual sex either despite my best half hearted efforts.
I’m thinking I should start going to the bar wearing the “Hopeless Romantic Seeks Filthy Whore” t shirt, around here that would probably guarantee some action.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/66 "2010-05-26T03:15:33Z")
Apparently all this wallowing brings out my [humorous side](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=564555).
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/67 "2010-05-26T03:21:24Z")
> [@Barrett\_Bonden](#):
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> But I’ve been to Oklahoma.
Hey, me too! Have the T-shirt and everything!
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### Author:  [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/68 "2010-05-26T03:26:53Z")
Me neither.
But a small, mean, petty part of me wishes that I could register. Very small, very mean, and very petty.
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/69 "2010-05-26T06:51:06Z")
Shall we wallow at the river
the single solitary river
wallow with nobody else at the river
that flows by something but I can’t really be bothered find out what.
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### Author:  [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/70 "2010-05-26T06:53:15Z")
I’m not getting married either, and am not planning on kids.
Haven’t had to buy any presents lately, but i can’t help think it’s weird that everyone else i know has gotten married or is engaged or something.
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### Author:  [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/71 "2010-05-26T13:15:11Z")
So where was everyone last night? I vacuumed and everything. I guess the no presents thing must have discouraged you all.
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### Author:  [@SecondJudith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecondJudith)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/72 "2010-05-26T13:32:25Z")
> [@kushiel](#):
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> Whoa, whoa, wait. You’re a guy?
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> Now I’m not getting married, divorced, a pet, or a house AND I can’t get Doper genders right.
Although **outlierrn** is evidently a man, I’m not sure why you assumed anyone married to a woman must be.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/73 "2010-05-26T13:35:03Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#):
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> So where was everyone last night? I vacuumed and everything. I guess the no presents thing must have discouraged you all.
Hey. . .in a year, you should start an “I’m not celebrating my anniversary” thread!
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### Author:  [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/74 "2010-05-26T13:45:41Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#):
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> Not getting married, not having a baby, and not getting a damned job either!~
> Nor am I vacationing, don’t have cute pet pics, don’t have a graduate in the family, and I am not currently losing weight or considering weight loss surgery.
I’m not getting married and it seems unlikely that I will have a baby, though I’d not mind either. But I am vacationing, starting this weekend, and my pet is highly adorable in person and in photographs. No one in the family is graduating, I am a vocal opponent of weight loss dieting and surgeries, and I have a bothersome tooth.
I will gladly accept “I’m sorry about your tooth” offerings, especially gift certificates for soft foods. Ouch.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/75 "2010-05-26T13:54:30Z")
Mazel Tov, not-engaged Dopers!
Not only am I not getting married - I didn’t sleep in a Holiday Inn last night!
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/76 "2010-05-26T14:04:47Z")
Well, I didn’t sleep at a Holiday Inn, either. In fact I am boycotting the entire IC Hotel Group Chain.
And I’m not getting married, either. Too much drama.
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### Author:  [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/77 "2010-05-26T14:19:14Z")
Just for the record, some of us wallow in our non-aloneness.
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### Author:  [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/78 "2010-05-26T14:34:25Z")
> [@lost4life](#):
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> Just for the record, some of us wallow in our non-aloneness.
Your kind are not welcome here. 😛
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### Author:  [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/79 "2010-05-26T19:06:37Z")
> [@outlierrn](#):
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> um, lots of people are, it’s not a crime.
No, it’s just that I thought you were female for the longest time.
> [@SecondJudith](#):
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> Although **outlierrn** is evidently a man, I’m not sure why you assumed anyone married to a woman must be.
I am sorry the heterocentrist USA exists. There were [2,162,000](http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/divorce.htm) marriages in 2008. According to [this article](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/census-gay-marriages-numb_n_294322.html) there were approximately 100,000 official same-sex weddings, civil unions and domestic partnerships in 2008. That’s still 2 million heterosexual marriages, and 20x more heterosexual marriages.
Would it be awesome to have a world where you couldn’t assume gender by marriage? Sure. Does it exist? No.
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### Author:  [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-not-getting-married/540732/80 "2010-05-26T19:56:04Z")
Whoa! Whoa! Waaaaaaaaaay too serious for this thread. Hey, there’s a new discussion of cattle mutes in **MPSIMS**. Who’s with me???!
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