Topic: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread (Read 934697 times)

Vespertine · « **Reply #3850 on:** November 17, 2008, 01:43:49 PM »

Quote from: ihatecliches on November 16, 2008, 12:13:50 PM

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Until then, though, yes. They can void marriages, take away your benefits, etc.
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Did you get a graduate degree in Constitutional law while you were away? At the moment, what happens to the people who were legally married (in the legal window) is totally up in the air. The California AG (I think) has offered the legal opinion that those marriages will stand, but until it goes to court no one can say for sure.

Scheherazade · « **Reply #3851 on:** November 17, 2008, 02:20:08 PM »

Quote from: Vespertine on November 17, 2008, 01:43:49 PM

Did you get a graduate degree in Constitutional law while you were away? At the moment, what happens to the people who were legally married (in the legal window) is totally up in the air. The California AG (I think) has offered the legal opinion that those marriages will stand, but until it goes to court no one can say for sure.

No, I'm just going by A) what my poli sci professor has said and B) information from articles and news reports I've read. I'm sorry if I've misrepresented the situation (which, if I did, was a simple mistake), but everything I've read and watched on the news about this has suggested that the marriages can and will be voided, according to the wording of the Proposition.

Joe Sixpack · « **Reply #3852 on:** November 17, 2008, 02:45:59 PM »

You're on drugs, dude.
The wording of the proposition does not mention previously existing unions whatsoever. It almost assumes that they will be void, but that's no given.
The prevailing sentiment, for whatever that's worth, seems to be that courts would hold that previously existing unions are not affected by the propositions passage, and that it would take a new one to dissolve them. You might think that it'd be pretty spiteful to go to all that trouble again just to make sure that some homos don't have a government-sanctioned married, and, well... you'd be right.
It'll be in court forever, and one would think that, being California, the whole thing will be found to be unconstitutional and it'll go back to how it was before - Gay Marriages for some! Miniature American flags for others!

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3853 on:** November 17, 2008, 09:42:58 PM »

this thread's getting too serious, so i decided to try and lighten the mood.

kanca mosan · « **Reply #3854 on:** November 18, 2008, 09:51:54 AM »

Quote from: ydnamtnediserp on November 17, 2008, 09:42:58 PM

this thread's getting too serious, so i decided to try and lighten the mood.

LMFAO that was hilarious.

Thank you so very, very much.

Min · « **Reply #3855 on:** November 19, 2008, 06:02:00 PM »

So here's my latest proposal on donorschoose.org. It's for batteries. The County requires us to provide a calculator for every student to use at school and then they school cut the budget in half for the batteries! Yes!! So I'm trying to get them donated. I sent this to all of the parents of my students and asked the other math teachers to do the same.

The most awesomest part is that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is matching our donations dollar for dollar!!

Min · « **Reply #3856 on:** November 19, 2008, 06:03:16 PM »

Oh yeah, my awesome quote of the week:

"When you're done with the first side of the quiz, don't forget to turn it over and do the other side because...THIS BABY'S GOT BACK!!"

BizB · « **Reply #3857 on:** November 20, 2008, 09:18:14 AM »

Lame jokes aren't made funnier by using the word fuck as an adjective more frequently.

You're going to spend $20 a month on paper towels any way!

RelandR · « **Reply #3858 on:** November 20, 2008, 10:21:36 PM »

Anybody who spends $20 a month on paper towels deserves to be wowshamed.

Wunderkind · « **Reply #3859 on:** November 21, 2008, 07:00:37 AM »

Oh. My. God.

There's snow in central NC before Thanksgiving.

Everyone run screaming in circles, the world is ending.

ivan · « **Reply #3860 on:** November 21, 2008, 03:41:16 PM »

Our harvest season ends in November.

When does the Canadian harvest season end?

kanca mosan · « **Reply #3861 on:** November 21, 2008, 03:48:52 PM »

Different locations. Angles to sun, rotation of the earth, etc.

kanca mosan · « **Reply #3862 on:** November 21, 2008, 03:49:52 PM »

True, but they do not farm.

BizB · « **Reply #3863 on:** November 21, 2008, 04:43:12 PM »

Canadia LOL.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3864 on:** November 21, 2008, 05:04:47 PM »

Quote from: ydnamtnediserp on November 17, 2008, 09:42:58 PM

this thread's getting too serious, so i decided to try and lighten the mood.

and there you have it.

ivan · « **Reply #3865 on:** November 21, 2008, 05:56:46 PM »

Our plants grow slower.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3866 on:** November 21, 2008, 07:38:52 PM »

so i went to this crappy little store in town to pick up some dog and cat food an hour ago. the total was $3.68. i handed the cashier my mastercard check card. she handed it back to me, saying there was a minimum transaction amount of $5. i normally correct a merchant when they attempt to impose this "rule" on their customers, as they're in violation of their merchant card agreement with visa and mastercard international, but this girl was super nice and there were people in line behind me, so i quietly ran to grab another item to bring me above the $5 mark and paid for my items (i happened to have no cash on me at the time).

upon returning home (and only after feeding my pets!), i looked up the rules and regulations and printed off rule 5.9.3 of the mastercard rules regarding merchants and sales transactions, then composed a letter (which i will send certified mail) to the owners of the store. i will be stopping back in a week or two to attempt a similar purchase. if i am still rejected, i am reporting them, which will result in anywhere from $10-25k in fines for the first reported offsense.

i'm such a bitch. also, i hate the owners of this store. ha.

RelandR · « **Reply #3867 on:** November 21, 2008, 08:17:46 PM »

Get 'em Tigrrrr ...

You scare me.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3868 on:** November 22, 2008, 12:04:05 PM »

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3869 on:** November 23, 2008, 08:54:44 PM »

so i somehow managed to lose my GPS thingamajig after only a few months. only i could lose something designed to keep one from getting lost.

kanca mosan · « **Reply #3870 on:** November 24, 2008, 09:26:05 AM »

That's when you get another GPS to find the GPS you lost. Assuming you know where the first one is...

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3871 on:** November 24, 2008, 08:40:12 PM »

if i knew where the first one was, why would i not be able to find it? silly.

kanca mosan · « **Reply #3872 on:** November 25, 2008, 10:55:09 AM »

Quote from: ydnamtnediserp on November 24, 2008, 08:40:12 PM

if i knew where the first one was, why would i not be able to find it? silly.

Hence the blatantly stupid humor.

Bloodsau Sage · « **Reply #3873 on:** November 26, 2008, 04:55:07 AM »

They make technology so smart nowadays. It wouldn't surprise me if you found it by calling its name.
You DID name it right?

The tiny high pitched noise of a location device is calling you. Listen to it damn it!

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3874 on:** November 26, 2008, 07:49:36 AM »

found it!

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