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Women's dress sizes should be limited by law
As those gentlemen who are regularly out on the pull in the pubs and clubs of Britain will readily testify, there is an increasingly desperate shortage of attractive women to choose from in this country. Yes, there are a few girls with attractive personalities (which is very important of course), but you would have a hard job finding one that didn't also have a dirty great toilet on her. For those of you lucky enough to live in countries where most girls do not fall into the category of...
Normal people should not be forced to subsidise the overweight on scheduled flights
Consider if you will the following festive hypothesis: A Floridian gentleman called Hank has two friends in London, England, and he decides to airfreight them each a Christmas present. The first friend is a keen collector of antiques and Hank plans send him a delicate porcelain figurine, which he packs in a shoebox filled with polystyrene balls in order to protect it. He takes it to his nearest UPS location, it weighs in at 1ilb and they quote him $161.46 to deliver it. Hank's second fr...
The Ecology Movement Has Become a Religion
(Definitions) It is good to want clean water and clean air. Most religions contain beneficial beliefs like "love thy neighbor" that are reasonable and practical guidelines for living. What distinguishes religion from ordinary social beliefs is an irrational component based upon faith. There are distinctive religious practices that only serve to please the gods of the religion or to increase the social binding of the group. For example, religious believers are called upon to perform certain cerem...
Compulsory Abortion Orders should be imposed on pregnant women deemed unsuitable for motherhood
The tragic reality is that while you need a licence to keep a dog, feral scum like Karen Matthews was allowed to give birth to child after child, even though the authorities were fully aware that she was totally unfit to be a mother. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/dec/04/profile-shannon-karen-matthews-michael-donovan-guilty http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5293517.ece Thankfully, very few women are as criminally unsuitable to be a mother as Karen Matthews, but ther...
Traffic lights either need to be replaced with humans, or manually operated.
I say that traffic lights (you know, those annoying things with the green, yellow and red changing lights on street intersections) need to be replaced, either with the old fashion rent-a-cop in the middle of the street to intelligently direct traffic, or an office were people manually operate the lights. This means my esteemed opponent thinks that street lights need to be kept the way they are: annoying and inefficient, although they'll probably say otherwise. By now, most of us should be abl...
Ban all illustrated Bibles now!
According to all the popes and archbishops and that, all the people who lived wholesome, blameless lives (and who were born since the Bible was written and who lived in countries where Christianity was practiced) were sent to Heaven. Now, please imagine one day in the afterlife where the innocents are lawfully going about their celestial business when one of them pops into a hallowed hostelry for a sacramental scotch and soda. Well, this beatified boozer has a couple. Actually, he has a f...
The clergy should keep their beaky noses out of our Yuletide celebrations
What's it got to do with the church, eh? This is our festival, not theirs. On December the 25th Europeans celebrated the winter solstice, as they had done for time immemorial. That was until the 4th Century when a bunch of religious crackpots turned up with their book of Middle Eastern folk tales and hijacked the celebrations for themselves. They reckoned a character from their book called Mr. Christ was born on the 25th December and they renamed Yuletide "Christ's Mass" in his honour. What a ch...
The U.S. Government Should Allow the Big Three Automakers to Go Bankrupt
1. Definitions. For the purposes of this debate, the "Big Three" are General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. "Bankrupt" is a legal state of financial insolvency whereby (a) stockholders lose all of their equity investment, (b) future contract obligations of the corporation are voided, and (c) creditors are apportioned the corporate assets under court supervision. It is within the scope of the debate to permit modifications to the existing law, a "special" bankruptcy, so long as the three provisions...
It's time to crackdown on misleading theme park advertisements
"Come and visit {insert name of theme park here}" they say "there's fun for all the family". Is there? Is there really? Well yes, there are rides and parades and shows and stuff for the kids, I've seen those. And true, there are shops and tearooms and flower gardens and stuff for the mums and aunties, fair enough, I've seen those as well. But that's not "all the family" is it? What about the dads and uncles, eh? Aren't they part of the family? Of course they are! But have the theme parks laid...
That this house would ban all blood sports as a means of entertainment
I oppose that this house would ban all blood sports as a means of entertainment. It's clear to me that this topic raises the issue of morales and much deeper than just being about hunting or dog fighting, it causes us to ask questions about human nature, and indeed, the nature of other animals with whom we share the world. Being Irish, the first things to come into my mind when i think about blood sports are fox hunting, hare coursing, dog fighting, and deer poaching. Each of these blood sports...