You can now marry your mother-in-law...
You can now marry your mother-in-law...
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srebbe64

Original Poster:

13,021 posts

267 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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...if you're so inclined!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4284974.stm

Suddenly the Government decide to back off from interfering with our lives by reducing legislation - and this is what they come up with. They're having a laugh at us pessants!

JagLover

46,779 posts

265 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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If they extend that to sisters it will bring great joy to Norfolk.

simpo two

92,829 posts

295 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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Well, you're not blood relatives, so if both of you are divorced, why not?

up-the-dubs

4,282 posts

259 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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[southerndrawl] If my maw and my paw git divorced, are they still brother and sister [/southerndrawl]


>> Edited by up-the-dubs on Tuesday 27th September 12:14

lazyitus

19,931 posts

296 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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"You can now marry your mother-in-law"

Doubtful, she's dead.

rude girl

6,937 posts

289 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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simpo two said:
Well, you're not blood relatives, so if both of you are divorced, why not?


Agreed - it may not be 'mainstream' but I can't see why it would be illegal.

I knew a bloke once who divorced his wife and married her twin sister.

Plotloss

67,280 posts

300 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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Well son, Daddy is now married to Granny and your new half brother is also your uncle.

Jesus wept.

srebbe64

Original Poster:

13,021 posts

267 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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Plotloss said:
Well son, Daddy is now married to Granny and your new half brother is also your uncle.

Jesus wept.

And grandpa's marrying mummy next week!

rude girl

6,937 posts

289 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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Plotloss said:
Well son, Daddy is now married to Granny and your new half brother is also your uncle.

Jesus wept.


ok, fair point. I hadn't considered that angle...

ErnestM

11,621 posts

297 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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What a staggeringly horrible thought this thread envisions...

...I thought this was the UK not Kentucky?

ErnestM

off_again

13,917 posts

264 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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Strangely, a friend of my wife has a husband (not unusual I hear you say). But her sister also married her husbands brother..... if you get what I mean. So both children have the same mother and father in law..... unusual to say the least!

rude girl

6,937 posts

289 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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ErnestM said:

...I thought this was the UK not Kentucky?
ErnestM


Don't you believe it mate - there are pools (very concentrated ones ) of the UK that would surprise you.

srebbe64

Original Poster:

13,021 posts

267 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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It's not all bad news - I reckon Hallmark Cards are rubbing their hands in glee.

anniesdad

14,589 posts

268 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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No thanks.

Egbert Nobacon

2,835 posts

273 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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ErnestM said:
What a staggeringly horrible thought this thread envisions...

...I thought this was the UK not Kentucky?

ErnestM



It would be like buying an older, uglier,worn out, poorer performing version of a car you once owned.....

Davel

8,982 posts

288 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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You've met mine then?

r988

7,496 posts

259 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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rude girl said:

I knew a bloke once who divorced his wife and married her twin sister.


seems kind of pointless, how would he know which one is which?

Mon Ami Mate

6,589 posts

298 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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Damn, read in a hurry and thought you said "murder".

off_again

13,917 posts

264 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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Mon Ami Mate said:
Damn, read in a hurry and thought you said "murder".


Do you wish that you read that correctly?

catso

16,461 posts

297 months

Tuesday 27th September 2005
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Why would you want to marry your Mother-in-Law, I mean just wait 30 years and your wife will turn into her anyway......