One of the ways in which Martin Luther broke from the Catholic church was by not seeing marriage as sacramental: he wanted to be able to acknowledge marriage between non-Christians rather than just marriage between Christians. Thus, from the perspective of Protestant theology, it's not clear that the church should have much to do with marriage. (This was most succinctly summarised for me thus: have a civil wedding, and then come back to the church for potato salad and a party.)

What about the civil arrangement, then? For me, the clearest argument for a non-paternalistic state granting some people preferable treatment (e.g. untaxed inheritance, etc.) is that those people are reducing the burden on the state somehow. In the 'traditional marriage', they do this partly by providing (on average) a more stable environment in which to raise children (thus, raising somehow more productive - on average - citizens for the state), and partly by caring for each other in their old age (thus, saving the state costs). From this point of view, whether or not they have sex, on whatever basis, with each other is irrelevant: an adult son living with and caring for his elderly mother is saving the state in the same way that an wife caring for her husband is. Thus, when France introduced its 'pacte civil', I thought that they missed the opportunity to get right out of the bedroom.

Up vote for hidden potato salad anecdote.

I love potato salad!!

Next time they should use long tongs instead of the flipper. Whatever they do don't put potatoes on that... even if they are poked... boom... hot potato salad.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^Gutspiller:
I wish all photographers were this dedicated.
We'd have a lot less, but the images would be pretty sweet.

She deserves her untimely death.


She is probably just ignorant to the dangers of what can happen in that situation, and probably a little stunted as the whole thing unfolded.

Most people when they see a large vehicle driving towards them, would move, and I doubt she had a death wish. It did seem like she was trying to play it a bit cool after falling and rolling, instead actually getting more out of the way. Seemed like "I gotta look cool" out weighed her view on her own well being (which is a little crazy in itself that someone can have that type of thinking or brainwashing to think more about what others care then what their safety is).

>> ^Gutspiller:

I wish all photographers were this dedicated.
We'd have a lot less, but the images would be pretty sweet.


She deserves her untimely death.

>> ^Payback:

The "Green Stuff" was probably Chives. Potato salad need Chives.

The mention of marshmallows makes me think it's green jello, or something like that.

The "Green Stuff" was probably Chives. Potato salad need Chives.

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I was going to say that sounds absolutely disgusting, but after hearing its a different beast than the stuff I'm used to I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Still hot mayo... ugh.


Disgusting? Really?

Isn't Shrimp Salad the same exact thing? Or at least it does here in America. Come to think of it, potato salad, chicken salad, tuna salad, coleslaw, egg salad and fruit salad all contain mayonnaise.

Or perhaps you were only referring to mayo being served in hot temperature. Then sure, it's kinda gross.

But even still, we eat lots of dishes that contains with mayo in hot temperature without even realizing it. If your hamburgers have hot-off-the-grill beef paddies and you eat it with mayo, then you've got yourself hot mayo.

Yeah, you could call Obama a corporatist and I'm sure the republicans would love that. Though, Republicans are mainly the ones who have created this shit monster we have here. They were the OG corporatists - corrupting everything including your grandma's potato salad. I'm sure they love hearing this new vocab word "corporatist" as another word to toss at the "opposing side" and get all high and mighty about Jesus Christ, protesting scientific FACTS, humanist goals, healthcare and letting the top 1% take everything from their pea brained families and everyone elses.

But, one cannot proclaim anyone else is a corporatist unless that person tossing around the term acknowledges that this is NOT a democracy that we live in. It's completely misleading to toss around new "gotcha moments" and not put that out into the open. So, since this is NOT a democracy what difference does it make? If Obama is a corporatist what does that make the Republican party? Megalithic Elephant Testicle Sack Corporate Dingbats & complacent globalist murderers? Seriously, don't even listen to Ron Paul he is a Pro-life, Christian nutcase...

and I cannot even stop with that thought, here is the rest of my rant: everyone in that party needs to shut their huge gaping lie spreading mouths and open up their assholes to receive their nightly $10000000 fistful of cash up into there from good ol' Captain America (Enron, Bechtel, Lockheed, industry lobbyists, the couple of corporate media conglomerates showering the country with bullshit ideas, the insurance companies, big oil, etc etc etc) Open up, piggies! Eat your shit inorganic food, here's some shitty tuna and some shitty fries don't forget to chug it down with some high fructose corn syrup so you can get diabetes, let's watch your brains decay but only after you hand over your wallet to the top 1% who already own everything.

>> ^Payback:
I may never look at potato salad the same way again...


Why? How many unicorns do you know?

I may never look at potato salad the same way again...