Interesting Links for 07-02-2013

[andrewducker]

• 20 reasons why it can take 20 years to build a railway (HS2 in this case)
  (tags: uk railways construction )
• Is The Avenging Unicorn the best toy ever?
  (tags: toys unicorns )
• What specs are the next generation of games consoles going to have?
  (tags: games consoles technology )
• An explanation of why Plate Mail armour in breasts is such a stupid idea

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

I think it’s way too early to tell if marriage has collapsed and society has been destroyed.

I was watching detective programmes with MLW last night and you know, I felt we could survive it, could hang on in there. For the kids.

[steer]

Now to be fair, it's not clear whether marriage should collapse now, after the close line-by-line third reading or after it goes through the upper house. I'm staying single to be safe.

[danieldwilliam]

I agree. I think we’re likely to see a staged decline in the quality of marriages as the bill goes through Parliament leading to a steady but inexorable decline in society. It won’t happen over night but sometime in the near future we’ll be driving souped up Holdens, totting shotguns full of used condoms and eating dead dog testicles just to stay alive.

I think staying single if you can is the best plan.

I wish I’d known, on that drunken, sunny early autumn day nearly 8 years ago when I proposed to My Lovely Wife that this nightmare was coming.

I think I might move to France. They know about the sanctity of marriage there.

[skington]

Less than you might think.

And that's before mentioning e.g. François Mitterrand, twice elected President, who had a daughter out of wedlock during his terms in office.

[danieldwilliam]

The world has gone mad, mad I say, mad.

If you can’t rely on the French, who can you rely on?

[skington]

The Russians.

[danieldwilliam]

Oh yes. You can count on the Russians.

[steer]

Heh... or Utah perhaps... those Mormons are very keen on the man woman aspect of marriage -- so much so they parallelise the processing.

[danieldwilliam]

Utah here I come.