Huge anti-gay marriage protest march in Paris

Originally posted by stellspalfie
okaaaay.

do you think statistics can be used to tell lies?


is that better?

i dont know, maybe.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
i dont know, maybe.

so we come full circle and back to your personality. rather than me criticize by jumping to conclusions and accusing you of acting like a child, maybe you could explain why the vague, illogical response (as we know a grown man is more than capable of understanding how statistics can be uses).

Originally posted by stellspalfie
so we come full circle and back to your personality. rather than me criticize by jumping to conclusions and accusing you of acting like a child, maybe you could explain why the vague, illogical response (as we know a grown man is more than capable of understanding how statistics can be uses).

i dont know, maybe, can you repeat the question,

you're not the boss of me now
you're not the boss of me now
and you're not so big

sorry dude, been watching Malcolm in the middle.

ask rank outsider, hes a chartered accountant, he cooks books for a living or more probably tries to catch those that cook the books.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
probably window lickers and young men, old men whose wives have died, dude there are billions of people in India.

You're so naive it's almost painful to read.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
i dont know, maybe, can you repeat the question,

you're not the boss of me now
you're not the boss of me now
and you're not so big

sorry dude, been watching Malcolm in the middle.

ask rank outsider, hes a chartered accountant, he cooks books for a living.

Now, now.

However, can I add my perspective?

I have never been unfaithful to my wife. The only Indian person I know closely has admitted to me that he was once unfaithful.

Theses are not opinions, they are empirical facts.

So it seems to me clear that western fidelity is better than Indian fidelity.

Please don't try and pick apart this conclusion on spurious grounds about whether my statistical sampling technique is valid, as that would be mere opinion masquerading as fact. You will not allow us to do this to your 'evidence', so you must be consistent.

I am only dealing in facts, and they point to an inevitable conclusion that western fidelity is superior.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
i dont know, maybe, can you repeat the question,

you're not the boss of me now
you're not the boss of me now
and you're not so big

sorry dude, been watching Malcolm in the middle.

ask rank outsider, hes a chartered accountant, he cooks books for a living or more probably tries to catch those that cook the books.

i bet you were the kid at school that would take his ball in when he was loosing.

fair enough. i declare myself the winner and you a dishonest, sulky doowally.

Originally posted by Proper Knob
You're so naive it's almost painful to read.

sigh didn't Graham Greene right an excellent paragraph or two on innocence in the celebrated The Quiet American? I remember reading it.

Originally posted by Rank outsider
Now, now.

However, can I add my perspective?

I have never been unfaithful to my wife. The only Indian person I know closely has admitted to me that he was once unfaithful.

Theses are not opinions, they are empirical facts.

So it seems to me clear that western fidelity is better than Indian fidelity.

Please don't try and pick apart this ...[text shortened]... aling in facts, and they point to an inevitable conclusion that western fidelity is superior.

Your marriage in the UK has a fifty/fifty chance of survival, your marriage in India, an almost ninety percent chance of survival. I rest my case.

Originally posted by stellspalfie
i bet you were the kid at school that would take his ball in when he was loosing.

fair enough. i declare myself the winner and you a dishonest, sulky doowally.

you're not the boss of me now and you're not so big!

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
you're not the boss of me now and you're not so big!

which one are you? im guessing francis? im obviously malcolm.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Your marriage in the UK has a fifty/fifty chance of survival, your marriage in India, an almost ninety percent chance of survival. I rest my case.

India has a shockingly high rate of domestic violence, a bride is burnt on average every hour, husbands can rape their wives without fear of prosecution.

How you, as someone who has a daughter, can just glibly dismiss the above as 'a minor setback' just so you can champion the low divorce rate whilst ignoring the high rates of violence is beyond me.

Originally posted by stellspalfie
which one are you? im guessing francis? im obviously malcolm.

I see you more as Reese an amiable airhead and me as Malcolm the somewhat neurotic genius.

Originally posted by Proper Knob
India has a shockingly high rate of domestic violence, a bride is burnt on average every hour, husbands can rape their wives without fear of prosecution.

How you, as someone who has a daughter, can just glibly dismiss the above as 'a minor setback' just so you can champion the low divorce rate whilst ignoring the high rates of violence is beyond me.

I have not ignored them, have i not stated that i think there are certain aspects that are deplorable, clearly there is something other than mere fear holding the fabric of society together.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
I have not ignored them, have i not stated that i think there are certain aspects that are deplorable, clearly there is something other than mere fear holding the fabric of society together.

I never said you 'ignored' anything, 'glibly dismissed' was my exact phrase. By the same token you have not mentioned the word 'deplorable' until now.

The exact word you used to describe the catalogue of abuse suffered by Indian women was 'minor'. If your daughter was raped or was a victim of some form of domestic violence would you term that 'minor'?

Originally posted by Proper Knob
I never said you 'ignored' anything, 'glibly dismissed' was my exact phrase. By the same token you have not mentioned the word 'deplorable' until now.

The exact word you used to describe the catalogue of abuse suffered by Indian women was 'minor'. If you're daughter was raped or was a victim of some form of domestic violence would you term that 'minor'?

a minor setback in the context of the debate not in the context of India as a whole nation, and you are quite wrong, i stated that the abortion of children was deplorable or words to that effect. I have hardly condoned or ignored violence or marital rape either and once again, sigh, the debate comes down to personalities rather than the evaluation of data. Its almost inevitable.