How respectful of you, runner, to the Governor General of Australia.

But judging from the rants on this thread, those who pretend to be pillars of society, are nothing of the sort.

You must be aware that this govt has enjoyed "no" honeymoon period. They have been woeful so far. I challenged you to name a govt that has exposed its ineptitude with the speed of this one?

http://m.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/voter-mood-turns-on-coalition-20131124-2y436.html?skin=iphone

".....This is the quickest poll lead achieved by any federal opposition after losing an election."

So you can thumb yer nose all you like....it's obvious that the Abbott govt is a dud writ bigtime.

They are making fools of themselves - and Australia.

Come off it Poirot.

I have as much respect for the current office holder, as you lefties have for John Kerr.

In fact I always found it rather amusing to see the bottle redhead, & the peroxide blond together. You could see they were trying to help each other reinforce some hope that they were other than a couple of grey headed old harpies, who had to dye their hair to appear what they were not, useful.

The immaturity of those who have to dye their hair to feel virile was screaming from both of them.

Dear Hasbeen,

Do you even have any hair?

Because it sounds like a bit of envy you're espousing
here. ;-)

Perhaps I should start my own political party and call it, we don't recognize gay marriage party.

At least then, the gays can get hitched, have their little gatherings, and the rest of us, those who either don't care, or don't accept them as married, can continue with our day to day lives that don't include caring about two of the same sex wanting to get married.

If you think about it, when the celebrent says, We now pronounce you husband and wife, No! That doesnt work.

We now pronounce you husband and husband, No! That doesn't work.

We now pronounce you wife and wife, No! That doesn't work either.

Now if you can't be pronounce husband and wife, how on earth do you officiate the marriage?

Confusing isn't it!

Of cause, finding another word will work, but hey, that's too easy.

Foxy you can be 93 and have hair. Hasbeen will prove it to us one day, maybe with a happy snap from his 94th birthday bash, down at the retirement village. Now if you had asked; can you have hair and be perceptive at the same time, please don't ask Hasbeen to prove that, you would be asking too much. LOL.
Since when have the royal family and or their representatives not been "political". King Edward VIII was pro Nazi. It's my opinion that Australia's 2 greatest statesman were both sacked by unelected monarchists Jack Lang and Gough Whitlam. If they were not acts of political bastardry, what is?

Dear rehctub,

From your post it sounds like
you need to actually attend a marriage ceremony
performed by a marriage celebrant because you
certainly seem to have an outmoded idea of the vows and
procedures involved. The vows these days are usually
written by the couples and are quite personal
and beautiful. And they and the celebrant address
each by name not gender.

"I cannot promise you a life of sunshine;
I cannot promise riches, wealth or gold;
I cannot promise you an easy pathway
That leads away from change or growing old.

But I can promise all my heart's devotion
A smile to chase away your tears of sorrow;
A love that's ever true and ever growing;
A hand to hold in yours through each tomorrow."
(Mark Twain - 1835-1910).