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OT: F*ck me!
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I'm married!
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Oh dear. It's back to spanking the monkey for you then.
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So is there any reason to get married at all?!
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Wedding presents. Of course their value won't cover 1% of the cost of
the wedding, never mind the divorce settlement. But at least you get a
few nice shiny things to play.
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Desire to procreate possibly? otherwise no
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As a divorce lawyer I know often says, if you're a bloke you'd be mad to
get married, if you're a woman you'd be mad not to.
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I'm pretty sure my wife can afford better divorce lawyers than I could
ever afford.
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To a woman?
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'No man, to the road...'
Or Sally - take yer pick.
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You're heartbroken, aren't you.
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Still, on the bright side, I got lots of pressies and the honeymoon was
nice.
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Y'know, I think the whole wedding present thing is a bit hypocritical
nowadays. It used to be to help the young couple set up house, but
yer typical marrying couple has been living together for a few years
now. Or, are on their 2nd or 3rd marriage and actually have two
houses between them.
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When my sister got married, my mate gave her a huge box of pregnancy
testers and fertility predictors as a wedding gift. He works for
Unipath, the firm that make them.
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I worked for them for a while some years back, when they were trying
to push a new device to be used as a contraceptive aid (sort of
reverse fertility predictor). Odd plcae, with desk space right next to
the lab benches, where white-coated chemists get to play with beakers
of urine all day...
no food or drink allowed in the office area, surprisingly enough.
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While this is undoubtedly true, Anya and I were very careful when
compiling our wedding list that everything on it was something we
actually needed.
Truly lazy ones are ones like my friends from last weekend which
comprised of "Argos vouchers".
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I've no problems with weddings and marriage, but expecting guests to
turn up with some gift that odds are you don't need seems pretty
pointless.
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When we got married, the only thing we lacked (we mostly had 2 of
everything, after all) was a dishwasher. So we asked everyone to put
money in the dishwasher fund. Neither of our families give expensive
presents, so we were pleased when the find yielded just enough for the
model we wanted.
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Or maybe I'm just feeling like I missed out cos when I got married it
was in secret?
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I'm getting married in April, and I share that feeling. However it was
pointed out to me by many that guests actually like buying gifts for the
wedding couple. We put a list together of mostly small items that will
be used to replace cheap and nasty stuff that I bought when I was a
first time buyer about 8 years ago, we've also tried to make it clear
that gifts are appreciated but not expected.
I wish I was getting married in secret!
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Nah. It's because nobody gave you the Jota you secretly wanted.
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As wedding presents go, that would have been a doozy.
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My ex-wife bought me a Yamaha RD400F as a wedding pressie. I found it
outside my front door on the morning of our wedding, with a big blue
ribbon round it and a card taped to the clocks. I haven't a clue how it
got there, and she never did tell me who delivered it in the middle of
the night.
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Pete Wood had it at the top of his list, the first time he got hitched.
Well, if you don't ask....
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Nah - I'm with you on that, at least partly. Sally and I have shared a house
for ages, so we already have pretty much everything we need - hence most of
the presents are better versions of things we have already. Thing is (and
I've heard this from several relatives and friends), people *want* to buy
you presents, and if you don't publish some sort of a list, you're risking
getting a bunch of duplicate items.
Personally, I like the Italian (?) tradition of giving money to help pay for
the wedding. I'd rather have my bank balance repaired than a nice set of
bone china.
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When I got married (snd time around) the in-laws had set aside a
certain sum for each child to be used when they married and/or bought
a house. This was far more than the cost of the wedding, but also
provided most of the new set of bone china and left some more to prop
up the old bank balance.
It was only 5 grand (plus interest), IIRC, but for the life of us we
couldn't work out how to spend that sort of money on a wedding. And we
didn't exactly stint on it, either.
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We've been living together for 11 years now, but when the toaster broke at
the weekend we did briefly discuss getting married. But then I mostly
mended the toaster, so we didn't.
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Congratulations to both of you.
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Better sell the bike now, I guess ;-)
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Congratulations, I hope you will both be very happy.
Don't sell the bike get another one and tell her it's for her.
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There must be a baby involved.
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Not yet, but the relatives have already started applying pressure to
procreate.
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Congratulations! Is she selling hers?
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Actually, yes she is - as soon as 'she' gets round to fixing it up and
MOT'ing it.
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