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Nov 9, 2013 1:12 PM #1104877
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Q: For countries with Gay Marriage (Please don't start a debate)
How does your country handle it?
Does it bother you?
Does it make anything different?
I'm asking this because one of the theories about gay marriage is it will ruin the country. So curiostity is killing me. No need to go into a is gay marriage right debate, it is irrelevant to what i'm asking.

In the UK, they've made it legal. It doesn't bother me one bit, because I don't give a shit whether the person is straight, gay, bisexual or anything else. I judge people by their personalities, It hasn't made much difference in my area. Most people in my area have always accepted gay marriage, and my parents, although they are Catholic and so am I, they accept gay marriage because they think it's not an excuse to discriminate against someone just because they are gay. The only thing that happens is that the word "gay" is described as anything negative (i.e: Call of Duty is gay, I hate maths. It's gay, what you are wearing is so gay etc).

I live in the ksa, there aren't even any gay people lol.
I just can't get the fact that people call anything they find bad gay. Doesn't that make the majority of people I don't know, homophobes?

Anyway, I'm from Egypt, and I live in Jeddah KSA. It's pretty hot here, and dusty, and moisture levels are crazy high since we're right next to the sea. How I view the majority of the world is just as some other human beings living a normal life. I don't really have any stereotypes in my head about others.
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Nov 9, 2013 1:29 PM #1104883
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I live in the ksa, there aren't even any gay people lol.
I just can't get the fact that people call anything they find bad gay. Doesn't that make the majority of people I don't know, homophobes?

Anyway, I'm from Egypt, and I live in Jeddah KSA. It's pretty hot here, and dusty, and moisture levels are crazy high since we're right next to the sea. How I view the majority of the world is just as some other human beings living a normal life. I don't really have any stereotypes in my head about others.


Oh wow I live in Jeddah as well. What school?

Concerning gay marriage, just because it does go against religion doesn't mean we are obliged to hate gays. It should be a motivator to guide them, especially if those people feel they need to change. So I could care less whether a couple wants to marry, as long as they're happy. It may bother me concerning my beliefs, but in a depressing way, not as hateful.

New question: Do you speak the native language of your country (I'm talking about non-English countries)? If so what is it? If not, why xD?
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Nov 9, 2013 2:10 PM #1104912
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The only controversy I can think of here is the fact that women can't drive. It's a law. It has nothing to do with sexist intentions and whatnot (we're the only country in the world with this law, meaning every other country in the Middle East allows women to drive). It's traffic. If women began driving we'd be cluttered with cars and way too many accidents. It's not like they're bad drivers, but just too many cars. Lol.


If traffic was the problem you could let women drive Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and let men drive on the other days. That's (very nearly) what they did to cut down on traffic during the Beijing olympics. "Too much traffic" is just people trying to find a rationale for their sexism.

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In the UK, they've made it legal. It doesn't bother me one bit, because I don't give a shit whether the person is straight, gay, bisexual or anything else. I judge people by their personalities, It hasn't made much difference in my area. Most people in my area have always accepted gay marriage, and my parents, although they are Catholic and so am I, they accept gay marriage because they think it's not an excuse to discriminate against someone just because they are gay.


They've passed the law but it won't be implemented until next year, so we can't give any empirical data about the collapse of society. I'm fairly sure we'll be fine though.

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I live in the ksa, there aren't even any gay people lol.


They will be there, they're probably just concerned that they'll be stoned to death if they come out.
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Nov 9, 2013 2:13 PM #1104915
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New question: Do you speak the native language of your country (I'm talking about non-English countries)? If so what is it? If not, why xD?


Why yes of course. In Philippines, there are tons of sub languages. In my place, we have Surigaonon, which is similar to Cebuano, and Surigaonon is a sub language to Visayan, since we got influenced by them. Most parts in Mindanao have a similar language to Visayan, and yet our vocal seems to make it different.
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Nov 9, 2013 5:02 PM #1105003
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They will be there, they're probably just concerned that they'll be stoned to death if they come out.

They don't even stone in KSA.
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Nov 9, 2013 5:09 PM #1105006
Lol, for non english speakers. Does your signs in your country come in 1 language, or in english, or in 1 language and english in small letters.
Alot of countries speak many languages, though in america, all of ours are in english, so if you don't know english, then you may not understand anything. And with some countries having no native language, and just lots of languages, do they choose 1 to put on signs, or what?

Also, i think i might just post all the questions on the front page, so people can pick one to answer, or all, whatever, so people don't get overlooked.
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Nov 10, 2013 4:38 AM #1105265
Always Korean, but you'll see a lot of places that are generous enough to have English on signs too.
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Nov 10, 2013 8:42 AM #1105337
I'm from Hong Kong, but feel nothing towards China, at all. I mean, I hate that place, where people blindly use Google Translate for all things English (Still hilarious, though. They have NO idea). At least the English here in Hong Kong is decent, but still bad enough my English sounds ultimately superior to them.
The English here in Hong Kong is British English, which is also why I always spell 'honour' instead of 'honor', and other stuff. I'm also practicing different accents of English (for fun).
Things here in Hong Kong are also heavily influenced by Britain. Double decker buses, driving on the right side of the road, blah blah blah. It's funny how this place is so similar to other countries, yet so different at the same time.
Oh, we also use metric units. I'm wondering how you guys switch to calculating using the American unit of measurements from metric units (Examples: Celsius to Fahrenheit, Metres to Yards)?
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Nov 10, 2013 9:39 AM #1105362
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how you guys switch to calculating using the American unit of measurements from metric units (Examples: Celsius to Fahrenheit, Metres to Yards)?


Never convert metric to imperial. That way lies madness. You must force your interlocutor to convert in the other direction.
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Nov 10, 2013 9:51 AM #1105367
Lol Hatchet wrote that post. Why'd you quote me?

Oh wait -_-
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Nov 10, 2013 11:11 AM #1105395
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Never convert metric to imperial. That way lies madness. You must force your interlocutor to convert in the other direction.

Tell me about it.
Imperial wasn't even based on regular scientific measurements, and when trying to convert them to exact meters you get crazy long decimals, sometimes irrational values.
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Nov 10, 2013 11:39 AM #1105406
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Lol Hatchet wrote that post. Why'd you quote me?

Oh wait -_-


I actually have no idea how that happened.
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Nov 10, 2013 1:56 PM #1105483


tldr; no attractions, shit version of Melbourne, expensive everything.
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Nov 10, 2013 2:02 PM #1105487
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tldr; no attractions, shit version of Melbourne, expensive everything.


Australia? Well you have the ferocious animals in there tho
Be happy for it
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Nov 11, 2013 1:12 AM #1105723
To the australians, why are ya'll presumably stereotypically racist? And if anything, why the chinese specifically? What's the real situation anyway.