Gay marriage thread

[Beef Oven]

What's this got to do with the OP?

Why you getting tetchy Amsy?

[amateur51]

Why you getting tetchy Amsy?

As you will have read Beefy I'm trying to keep this thread on the rails without the assistance of the usually highly interventionist administrator so your post, 22 posts after MrGG's, seemed a bit too much

[Beef Oven]

As you will have read Beefy I'm trying to keep this thread on the rails without the assistance of the usually highly interventionist administrator so your post, 22 posts after MrGG's, seemed a bit too much

[MrGongGong]

Finally, someone on the left/sandal-wearer/Bennite, actually understands that Britain is NOT in Europe

Other myths are available
now back on task or it's under the bridge with the green clarinet

[ahinton]

What's this got to do with the OP?

Nothing - and it's not even as thought it's accurate!

[ahinton]

In spite of what Stephen Fry says on TV it's NOT a Theremin on Good Vibrations

Please leave Stephen Fry out of this; that is surely the very least that he deserves!...

[Mr Pee]

Other myths are available
now back on task or it's under the bridge with the green clarinet

We are not in Europe.

We are an island, adjacent to the continent of Europe.

Didn't you do Geography at school?

[Serial_Apologist]

We are not in Europe.

We are an island, adjacent to the continent of Europe.

Didn't you do Geography at school?

Incontinental drift.

[MrGongGong]

I'm really shocked
I went to Japan which I thought was in Asia but now find it isn't
Neither is Bali in Indonesia
Or Shetland in Scotland
And so on .........

[ahinton]

We are not in Europe.

We are an island, adjacent to the continent of Europe.

That adjacency is so great and the Channel Tunnel link does mean that we have a land connection with "mainland" Europe that your quibble does not justify the kind of "splendid isolationism" of which I take your comment to be indicative; Britain was once much more land-linked with "mainland" Europe - so much so, indeed, that the very expression "mainland Europe" would once have been en unarguable misnomer - but even that's hardly the point, given that, even before the Channel Tunnel's completion, the distance between south-east Kent and "mainland Europe" was less than that between north-east Scotland and the Shetlands or between south-west Cornwall and the Scillies. Britain has islands of its own, but what difference does that fact make to the fact that the entire nation is part of a Europe that extends well beyond current EU or even Council of Europe land mass?

Didn't you do Geography at school?

I did indeed, otherwise I'd not have written as I have here - but somehow I don't think that it's an actual geographical situation that you're endeavouring to assert! Cyprus, the Orkneys, the Isle of Man, Malta, the Balearics, Gran Canaria, the Isle of Wight, the many so many Greek islands, Sardegna and Corse and more and more - all islands and all part of EU (except the Isle of Man).

But never mind that; what's it all got to do with the acceptability or otherwise of same sex marriage legislation in Britain?

[Pabmusic]

...We are an island, adjacent to the continent of Europe. ...

Only by the happenstance of rising sea levels that cut us off as the ice melted. We still are part of continental Europe, it's just that the low-lying land (where people used to live) in now under the Channel and the North Sea.

[Flosshilde]

Didn't you do Geography at school?

Yes, & I learned about the continental shelf.

There was a land connection between England and France until 30,000 years ago, and what is now the North Sea was dry land - Doggerland - connecting the east coast of England with the Netherlands until about 6 - 7,000 years ago.

So yes, the land mass now called the UK is part of Europe. It's also part of Europe culturally, and has been for a good many years.

[MrGongGong]

Maybe we need an Abroath Annex for Kipper Myths ?

[Pabmusic]

In spite of what Stephen Fry says on TV it's NOT a Theremin on Good Vibrations

You're quite right, it's a Tannerin, invented in the 1950s by Paul Tanner and Bob Whitsell to produce a sound like a Theremin, and also called the Electro-Theremin. Important to get the distinction.

http://www.electrotheremin.com/PTE-TPage.html

[Beef Oven]

I'm really shocked
I went to Japan which I thought was in Asia but now find it isn't
Neither is Bali in Indonesia
Or Shetland in Scotland
And so on .........

Amazing innit!? I'm sure your fellow-traveller geo-leftypoliticos can arrange some counselling or similar Blairite support to get you through the trauma of the real-world

P.S. you forgot to tell us that Cyprus is in Greece