It’s not a good idea to plug them in on the same circuit and use them at the same time. Heating appliances draw a lot of current.
If we have SSM, there will be more two-toaster-oven households. More people will plug two toaster ovens in on the same circuit and attempt to use them at the same time, which will cause fires.
There will also be more toaster ovens with crumbs in the crumb trays. Those crumbs can catch on fire, too (Mr. Neville managed to do this once).
There will be more weddings. People eat and drink a lot at weddings, so more people will be overweight or obese.
If SSM was legal in Virginia the lesbian couple from across the street might move back. Then they might fight with the couple that owns the house now. This is terrible - two couples I both like fighting with each other. The three women might start rolling in the mud and tearing each others’ clothes …
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Allowing Same-Sex Marriages to become legal and commonplace will cause the population to shift towards being more liberal-leaning, cosmopolitan, progressive, etc. These kinds of people tend to have a more prudent and foresighted attitude towards birth control and starting families, meaning they tend to have less children than their sociological competitors.
This will, naturally, lead to them being out-bred by said competitors, particularly the lesser races, perhaps to the point of extinction. And if the castes being outbred were the ones controlling the engine of western civilization, the future of humanity will be damned to centuries of darkness, barbarism, and insanity. A world in flames, with only a shroud of ash to mark the spot where it climbed onto it’s own ghat.
Half of this was an actual argument I found through the FRC. If gay marriage, then less association of marriage with birth, then lower birth rates, then . . . well the end of civilization somehow. I know that a shrinking population would pose some challenges, but fewer, better-planned residents on this rock would be a net benefit, wouldn’t it?
Oh wait - these people probably think global warming and other population-related ills are a liberal hoax. Never mind . . .
If gays are allowed to marry, social conservatives will have to find a new minority to oppress and strip rights away from. It could be you, pal. Think about it.
If gays are allowed to marry, there’ll be a shortage of wedding gowns and cummerbunds. Wedding dresses already cost half your savings, you want they should cost even more ?
If gays are allowed to marry, there’ll always be a doubt when someone says “my husband and I” or “my wife and I” on the interwebs. Is the poster male or female ? Thus, communication starts to break down. Soon enough, we’ll only speak gibberish, and the Communists will have won.
If gays are allowed to marry, male and female jacks & sockets will make no sense any more. We’ll have to redesign our entire electrical and information network from the ground up. Electronics engineers will have to go back to college to learn the new conventions. Who’s going to pay for all this ?
If you like, I could cook up an argument saying that SSM would be a good thing because, if the reproduction issues I mentioned are managed (or countered) correctly, they can be used to force civilization into a genocidal war over food and resources, eventually leading to institutionalized cannibalism and a glorious neurological purification campaign. (That’s the pro SSM plan, remember)
Smiles, ev’ry body!
(That last one’s inspired mostly by Philip K. Dick. I think the first argument was mostly Cyril Kornbluth. With some Goebbels.)
Let’s not forget the perfectly serious article on beliefnet.com a while back explaining SSM is harmful to straight women, because it lowers the bar; young boys are going to look around as they grow up and see men marrying men, and they’re going to realize: ANYTHING GOES! They will spurn women and just get it on with each other! Sex with anyone and anything will be perfectly acceptable! Why go through all that dating, wooing, getting-to-know-you bullcrap, trying to get married to some picky woman? This was so ludicrously hilarious, the author of that little fantasy got a zillion scornful responses from every combination of humans out there!
LOL. I usually date guys shorter than me (I consider it a novelty to “kiss up”) but I usually only end up with some souvenir undies (from the guys - for some reason with the girls I would take a hat instead).
Why, thank you!
That post was actually written right after I’d cleaned up the living room and picked up about 90 Bazillion of those fucking Silly Bandz! :eek:
I am damned certain they are reproducing!
Slight hijack: A 70 year old man I knew once said “I don’t like what gays do.”
I rplied “What do you mean, what gays do? Doyou mean pay taxes, go to the movies, raise children, bake cakes,” and went on for about five minutes listing mundane tasks. Then I said “Do you want to be judged for something you do one hour a week?”
He replied “One hour a week if I’m lucky.” Later he told me that completely changed his mind on the subject.