Twins unknowingly marry one another

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 3:11pm

LONDON, England (CNN) -- British twins who had been separated at birth learned they were related only after they had become husband and wife, a senior British lawmaker said. The marriage has been annulled.
God, I hope the marriage wasn't consummated.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 3:13pm

Ewww.

AND:

O.J. Simpson is in custody in Florida and faces allegations he violated his bail, a court official says, according to The Associated Press.

Oh my!

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 3:26pm

Yeeeeeeeeesh.

[AudreyTwoTwo]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 3:32pm

that's really sad. I feel bad for them.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 3:33pm

BWW - Gay Incest - Good. Straight Incest - Bad.

[Craww]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 3:41pm

Well. I don't know about good, but Gay Incest doesn't yield any flipper babies.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 3:46pm

There was a thread, which seems to have been deleted, about Gay Incest a while back. I find it no less skeevy than straight incest.

[blueroses]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 3:53pm

"I find it no less skeevy than straight incest."

Neither do I! Why would that even be an issue of contention? It's INCEST.
Updated On: 1/11/08 at 03:53 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 4:01pm

That's what I'm saying, but you'd be surprised at how many people came out in favor of it in the gay thread.

[Craww]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 4:01pm

Infinitesimally less skeevy by virtue of not creating children with birth defects. Unequivocally skeevy, though.

I just think it's pointless to turn this thread into an excuse to shame people's moral codes when this case has absolutely nothing to do with a gay vs straight incest debate.

This is a sad story. Knowing that they probably feel incredibly shameful, though they didn't knowingly do anything wrong.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 4:04pm

Oh, Craaw, you'd counter me even if I said the sky was blue, but your wisdom is noted. I'll make a point from now on not to reference any other threads on thread I think you might stick your head in.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 4:14pm

They were probably attracted to each other like magnets.


Isn't that what happens after they get separated?


"When I'm with you, I no longer have that 'phantom itch'."

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 4:18pm

If one is infertile does that cut the skeeviness?

[Craww]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 4:21pm

Oh, Craaw, you'd counter me even if I said the sky was blue

I can't argue you on the sky, but I can note that it's double-w and not double-a.

They were probably attracted to each other like magnets.

I wonder if they finished eachother's -

- sentences!

[blueroses]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 4:27pm

Craww, if I came across as trying to shame your moral code, I wasn't. It's just that I think it's dangerous to say things like it would be "less skeevy" if it were gay incest, because it's inferring that homosexuality is abberant anyway, so by association the behavior is more acceptable. I mean, how many times have the family values people lumped in homosexuality with pedophilia, incest, etc?

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 4:27pm

Can't get enough of incest and marriage?

Check this out:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jQp0KowG67A

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 4:32pm

It doesn't mention how they found out they were related.

[Craww]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 4:36pm

Craww, if I came across as trying to shame your moral code, I wasn't.

Well, it's not specifically my moral code, I don't really remember the previous thread that was mentioned. I wasn't really upset over what you'd said, or even the assertion itself, so much as PRS bringing it up randomly to assert a little moral superiority over some of the posters here.

Your point is completely valid. That wasn't really the perspective I was viewing it from.

[mauriposa]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 4:58pm

BWW - Gay Incest - Good. Straight Incest - Bad.

My thoughts exactly, Phyll. And yikes!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 5:04pm

Bringing up something that's similar to the topic at hand isn't random at all. It's kind of the opposite of random.

[Craww]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 5:09pm

It's only similar to the topic at hand in BroadwayWorld land, where everyone has some sort of unresolved issue involving some old forgotten thread.

See, for example, my unresolved issue with finding everything you say intrinsically annoying.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 5:23pm

It's only similar to the topic at hand in BroadwayWorld land

Mea culpa! Next time I'll only refer to things on BWW when I'm on BWW!

Look out, Mauriposa, you're gonna be next! Whatever you do, don't criticize RENT!

[wexy]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 7:28pm

But isn't Philadelphia the city of brotherly love?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 7:30pm

That's it. Alton doesn't name the people, he doesn't name the high court judge involved in their subsequent divorce, he doesn't give a timeframe when this happened. He's also a politician pushing a pet issue through a lawmaking body of government.

Politicians lie to get laws passed, folks. Yes shocking I know. This "news" story is complete crap.

Judging from the article CNN ran, the big media folks think so too. CNN's article pins all the details on the UK Press Association. The CNN article in it's distilled basic form is: "UK Press Association says stuff." The UK Press Association's information, distilled to basic form, is: "David Alton says stuff." Both articles are therefore factually correct, these things were said. It's a hedge used often by media companies use to get around taking blame later on for accidentally reporting unsubstantiated facts as news. You see it fairly often in gossip articles, quoting unnamed sources for juicy celebrity details.

I have yet to see any article about these supposed married twins that did any fact checking to see if there was any truth to this story. No one bothered. Why? Because it's sensational. Brother and Sister Hardcore Action. It's a top story on every major international news outlet today.

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3322665

[dramarama2]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 7:44pm

That's ewww. I'm talking like Batboy ewww