//I suppose time has ensured that, like it or not, I have become an old prick.//

No, it has just ensured that you have become old. Whether or not you're a prick is up to you.

//So put it all to a vote for all Australians. Then we'll see.//

I believe that is currently the plan. It's called a 'plebiscite' and the pollies have been banging on it about for months. It is almost a certainty.

My prediction of the result will be approximately a 80-20 split in favour of gay marriage. The government, with a clear mandate from the public, will propose a bill which will be passed in both houses. The 20% who voted no will be somewhat put out, which is usually the case when things don't go your way. The world will not be overturned and perish in fire and water, the reds under the bed won't come out of hiding and complete their wicked plans for world domination, and the kids won't all turn into poofters.

This is conjecture, of course, but I'm confident enough in most of those predictions to wager my hard-earned on the outcome: are you as prepared to put your money where your mouth is?

//I haven’t seen such fire and brimstone since I read the bible!//

I take it you don't read runner's posts.

//What pedophile dreamt this up ?//

Paedophilia? Really? Now you're just clutching at straws. Poor form, old man.

Toni Lavis "We are younger, fitter and more vital than the geriatric brigade. If they want to make it a fight then I'm prepared to join the fray, because I know that the younger folk will win this one ... But none of my peers - straight males in the 30-40 age bracket - have the patience to wait for all of you old pricks to shuffle off the mortal coil."

Such anger. And all over the desire to sexualise children: "I can't wait for you to all die so we can continue to sexualise children". You sound unhinged. I hope you have no access to children.

Another excellent article exposing the deviants in the education system.

Toni,

//What pedophile dreamt this up ?//

I rest my case.

That plebiscite result will be much closer than you think. 50-50 if you're lucky. And I don't think you will be, kid.

Joe

//I rest my case.//

Case? What case? You haven't presented a case, Jo(k)e.

Typing the word 'pedophile' [sic] and hoping that some people will leap to dodgy conclusions based on guilt by word-association is about as far removed from presenting a case it is possible to get without just typing gibberish, and it won't persuade anybody whose IQ is larger than their shoe size.

//That plebiscite result will be much closer than you think. 50-50 if you're lucky.//

Possibly. Such is the nature of gambling. But I wouldn't have wagered $100 on it if I wasn't reasonably confident in the outcome. Just out of interest, how confident in your predictions are you?

The odds are ridiculously short - when it comes to my winnings there will be very little money, but a lot of satisfaction from watching the sour grapes suddenly sprouting in the mental vineyards of certain cranky old men.

//Such anger. And all over the desire to sexualise children: "I can't wait for you to all die so we can continue to sexualise children".//

Yeah, of course, Aristocrat. What I'm really angry about isn't sad old tory pricks trying to impose moral censorship in classrooms, I'm just mad because I'm a dirty old man (sarcasm).

I identify as heterosexual, but my libido is so low (probably linked to my low testosterone levels) that for a long time I seriously considered the possibility that I might be asexual. Women don't interest me much sexually: kids, blokes, animals, corpses or whatever unusual orientation/weird sick paraphilia you want to try and ascribe to me is fine, because I've given a lot of thought to the matter and I know which way I swing (as limp as a windsock in a Beaufort scale 0 breeze - not because I lack the ability, just the inclination).

I don't care about kids. I know that makes me sound like some sort of monster, but I don't have any and I don't like kids unless they are seen and not heard - and not only are they too noisy, everybody else is too noisy on their behalf.

What raises my ire is sad old tory pricks decreeing that kids shouldn't be educated about homosexuality because homosexuality offends them. Football offends me, but I don't argue that kids shouldn't be taught to play football. Moral censorship has no place in the classroom - it is one short step away from indoctrinating children with propaganda. Isn't that what the Muslims do?