All the single gamers, all the single gamers.

[Limewater]

Oh, I'm sorry. My math was wrong. Each marriage does not have a 50% chance of ending in divorce. What I should have said was that 50% of marriages have a 0% chance of ending in divorce and the other 50% of marriages have a 100% chance of ending in divorce.

As for how to tell what side your marriage is on, just use your time machine and check before you get married. How silly of me. I totally forgot that time machines existed.

It's not just some probability thing. There are active factors involved. Of folks I know who have gotten married 5-10 years ago, so far I've been right about 90% of the time on guessing if they would still be married five years later. It's not Russian roulette, where you just randomly pull the trigger and have no control after that point.

*note* I did a lot of other things while writing this reply. It looks like JT wrote something very similar, but with a lot more detail.

[Inazuma]

You are brilliant. Instead of explaining why men should get married, you insult me personally and act like that somehow makes marriage OK.

Stop acting like a victim. You either deliberately piss people off because that is the most exciting thing you have to do with your time. Or you really are so socially inept that you can't figure out why no one likes you. In that case, you should go outside and learn how to socialize.

And dude? Call you a 'poopie head'? Do you not take notice of the sheer amount of Citizen Kane's and MJ Popcorns I get when I call you out for your poor behavior? I put a LOT more effort into it than 'poopie head'.

It is OK for men to get married because Inazuma acts like a victim, deliberately pisses people off, is socially inept and doesn't know how to socialize. Makes perfect sense. You win.

It's not just some probability thing. There are active factors involved. Of folks I know who have gotten married 5-10 years ago, so far I've been right about 90% of the time on guessing if they would still be married five years later. It's not Russian roulette, where you just randomly pull the trigger and have no control after that point.

*note* I did a lot of other things while writing this reply. It looks like JT wrote something very similar, but with a lot more detail.

So there exists a method to accurately gauge if a particular marriage will end in divorce or not? That's great. Then maybe you can explain why half of all marriages end in divorce, despite such a thing being available.

[Flake]

It is OK for men to get married because Inazuma acts like a victim, deliberately pisses people off, is socially inept and doesn't know how to socialize. Makes perfect sense. You win.

You all read it here first, guys. Inazuma agrees that it is okay for men to choose for themselves if they should get married or not.

Any other requests?

[Limewater]

So if people know ahead of time that they are going to get divorced, wouldn't you agree that it would be foolish to get married? If what you said was actually true, the divorce rate wouldn't be anywhere near 50%.

Sure it would be. You of all people should know that people are not rational actors.

The list of benefits is mostly about money, so those don't matter much if you take into consideration all of the costs you will incur with marriage and divorce. The benefits that have nothing to do with money can be nice but it is nowhere near worth the costs and risks to obtain them.

I'm guessing he stuck mostly to monetary benefits because you can't really argue that those things do not exist/ would exist without legal marriage.

[Niode]

I was wondering how long it would take before somebody realised that this was a joke thread and wasn't to be taken seriously. Some people sort of got the idea. Then I just thought I'd leave it open as there was some good, valuable discussion occurring.

Now you've given me no choice. I know you don't get along with Inazuma, Flake, but I thought you were above this sort of thing. I'm very disappointed. Now am I going to have to sit you two at opposite sides of the class room or are we going to get along?

[Niode]

Due to request I've opened the thread back up. Play nice guys.

[alienjesus]

Due to request I've opened the thread back up. Play nice guys.

This can only end badly.

[Flake]

Due to request I've opened the thread back up. Play nice guys.

This can only end badly.

Yeah, that's what she said.

*crickets*

[YoshiEgg25]

Due to request I've opened the thread back up. Play nice guys.

Who could have possibly wanted this train wreck of a thread to stay open?

[Czernobog]

Due to request I've opened the thread back up. Play nice guys.

Who could have possibly wanted this train wreck of a thread to stay open?

(I actually have no idea who wanted it unlocked - but I am going to enjoy the popcorn)