Hooray! The smallest country in the world now has same-sex marriage
Hooray! The smallest country in the world now has same-sex marriage
22nd June 2015, 7:52 AM, Joseph Patrick McCormick
The Pitcairn Island, which is home to 48 people, has passed a same-sex marriage law, despite there being no same-sex couples there waiting to wed.
Same-sex couples living on the island, the last remaining British Overseas Territory in the Pacific, can now marry.
The Pitcairn Island, which is sometimes considered the world’s smallest country by population, actually passed the law which came into effect on 15 May, but due to technical difficulties with its official website, it was not publicised online.
The Deputy Governor of Pitcairn, Kevin Lynch, said the change was suggested by British authorities, and was approved by the island’s local council.
Residents have said there have so-far not been any same-sex weddings, and that there are no gay couples currently planning to wed.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 63 | October 2, 2020 5:21 PM
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Wouldn't it be awesome to have a country where gay men made up the majority? If enough gay men moved to a small country like this, it could happen. I would say tops could immigrate for free, but bottoms would have to pay a fee to keep things equal.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 25, 2020 11:05 PM
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[quote] The smallest country in the world now has same-sex marriage
If only.
[quote] Wouldn't it be awesome to have a country where gay men made up the majority?
If a certain someone in a white beanie decreed it, it would be awesome, but noooooooooo.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 25, 2020 11:10 PM
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Was this to discourage the men from trying to marry their daughters? Pitcairn is nasty, seriously, go read about it.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 25, 2020 11:15 PM
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Its the thought that counts.
Hooray for Pitcairn Island! You have the respect of gays everywhere!
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 25, 2020 11:16 PM
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I thought they were all Seventh Day Adventists (because back in the 50s-60s this sect would sent them all their religious literature and the inhabitants were so bored with nothing to do—no tv or radio—that they read it all and converted.) (Not sure how their religion jibed with the gruesome incest and child porn scandals)
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 25, 2020 11:18 PM
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Except its not a country, bot OK.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 25, 2020 11:18 PM
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[quote] Not sure how their religion jibed with the gruesome incest and child porn scandals
Who needs to reconcile those two things? We can hold contradictory thoughts in our heads without compunction.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 25, 2020 11:21 PM
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Free land is offered to encourage immigration. Could this be the gays' Israel?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 9 | September 25, 2020 11:27 PM
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Ugh, it's all on Google Street View, go check it out. It's a filthpit. You have to bring the house with you.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 25, 2020 11:29 PM
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R10 Isn't this why we have tasteful friends threads? Maybe we can take a filthpit and turn it into something fabulous.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 25, 2020 11:30 PM
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They are more huts than houses. It is a dire place. I did rove around on street view once, and only saw one place I would want to live.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 25, 2020 11:32 PM
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There is definitely no Home Depot.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 25, 2020 11:33 PM
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You know what the say: where Pitcairn Island goes, so goes the world.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 25, 2020 11:33 PM
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Where on Street View? Searched in vain. Link puhlease. (We shouldn't have to ask for links on this site...)
by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 26, 2020 12:33 AM
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They're quite fussy about who they give permanent residence to and you have to pay a fortune to their colonial government. Then you have to live there. As the mists close in of an evening, the wife-swapping starts and you will be expected to take part.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 26, 2020 12:39 AM
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You normally would go to Google Maps and then search for Pitcairn.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 17 | September 26, 2020 12:39 AM
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Yeah, it's like moving into the smallest and most powerful old boys network ever.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 26, 2020 12:40 AM
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I take it this is their shopping center . . .
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 19 | September 26, 2020 12:59 AM
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Okay got it. Street View is a separate site. Looking at Google Maps: it looks like a shithole. Where is the built up area?
by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 26, 2020 12:59 AM
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Adamstown is a shanty place.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 21 | September 26, 2020 1:00 AM
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What was the movie, was it Deliverance? You don't want to be a home-grown homo there: one less man is a threat to the survival of the community so you would have to fuck your girl and beget at least five kids. Anyone from DL who moves there will be the only gay in the village.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 26, 2020 1:06 AM
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R17, thanks a bunch. You dropped us off in the middle of nowhere and I went miles in the wrong direction looking for the town.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 26, 2020 1:40 AM
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R23 I posted a picture of the 'town' at R23, with the QE2 in the background. There is no town as we know it, apparently. What the QE2 visitors did there is a question.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 26, 2020 1:44 AM
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[bold]Wouldn't it be awesome if R1 Bump Troll just gags and dies!!! Fuck her and her hideous mom![/bold]
[bold]Wouldn't it be awesome if R1 Bump Troll just gags and dies!!! Fuck her and her hideous mom![/bold]
[bold]Wouldn't it be awesome if R1 Bump Troll just gags and dies!!! Fuck her and her hideous mom![/bold]
[bold]Wouldn't it be awesome if R1 Bump Troll just gags and dies!!! Fuck her and her hideous mom![/bold]
[bold]Wouldn't it be awesome if R1 Bump Troll just gags and dies!!! Fuck her and her hideous mom![/bold]
[bold]Wouldn't it be awesome if R1 Bump Troll just gags and dies!!! Fuck her and her hideous mom![/bold]
[bold]Wouldn't it be awesome if R1 Bump Troll just gags and dies!!! Fuck her and her hideous mom![/bold]
[bold]Wouldn't it be awesome if R1 Bump Troll just gags and dies!!! Fuck her and her hideous mom![/bold]
[bold]Wouldn't it be awesome if R1 Bump Troll just gags and dies!!! Fuck her and her hideous mom![/bold]
[bold]Wouldn't it be awesome if R1 Bump Troll just gags and dies!!! Fuck her and her hideous mom![/bold]
by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 26, 2020 2:04 AM
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R23, I am not used to retards who don't know how to use Google Maps. You go to Google Maps. You navigate to wherever. There's a little yellow person icon in the corner of the screen. You drag that person onto a street. If the street has been photographed, it will be blue, and street view will open up when you drop the yellow guy. This has been around for like 10 years.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 26, 2020 2:10 AM
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R25 is a well known eccentric, children.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 26, 2020 2:11 AM
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Is there a full moon tonight or something?
by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 26, 2020 2:11 AM
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Google Maps is not the same as Google View. You mentioned Google View and have cause a great deal of consternation.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 26, 2020 2:12 AM
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I just grabbed a link from the street view app on my phone. Trying to be helpful. Usually DL is not such a screaming nursing home, technology-wise.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | September 26, 2020 2:16 AM
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I mean, what kind of world are we living in where we can sit on our couch and see what's on every road on Pitcairn fucking island and we are complaining about it?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 26, 2020 2:19 AM
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The road to Hell is paved with good intentions R30. Thank you for destroying this thread which might have been very interesting but for you.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 26, 2020 2:20 AM
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Here is a picture of Pitcairn Islanders, about two-thirds of the population is in this photograph. Britain gave them self-government, so the UN considers them to be a separate unit from any other territory.
Most of them are descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty and their Tahitian captors. They are all related.
They have a very interesting story on Wikipedia.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 33 | September 26, 2020 2:21 AM
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Go choke on your dentures, R32.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 26, 2020 2:23 AM
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Well R33 they got some blacks in there so that must have exploded the gene pool. They only want the gays for the pink £. (They do still use the NZ£ over there, right?)
by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 26, 2020 2:25 AM
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The gene pool was already black. Do you think the mutineers brought white ladies with them?
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 26, 2020 2:27 AM
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There were lots of white women on board. Look at the pic: lots of whities.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 26, 2020 2:28 AM
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But did they drain their pasta??????
by Anonymous | reply 38 | September 26, 2020 2:31 AM
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Pitcairn Island is a pedophile island. It's a very creepy terrible place.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 26, 2020 2:34 AM
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[quote] But did they drain their pasta??????
No, that's Norfolk Island
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 26, 2020 2:34 AM
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10 gays would make this place fabulous in 6 months.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | September 26, 2020 2:37 AM
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I can't believe no one here knows this.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 42 | September 26, 2020 2:37 AM
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R41, it’s been mentioned several times in this thread already. Do keep up.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | September 26, 2020 2:43 AM
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Colleen McCullough, said, “It’s Polynesian to break your girls in at 12.”
From R42
Nice one.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | September 26, 2020 2:46 AM
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The gays need to move there and gentrify it!
by Anonymous | reply 45 | September 26, 2020 2:47 AM
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The gays who move there better be ready to fuck a She-Deplorable from time to time or no dice, you can't stay, we keep you money, bye.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | September 26, 2020 2:51 AM
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That Vanity Fair article claims that outhouses are the favored location for illicit sex - we ought to fit right in!
by Anonymous | reply 47 | September 26, 2020 2:54 AM
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This hot guy did the streetview for a lot of the island...
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 49 | September 26, 2020 2:58 AM
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I thought Pitcairns only fucked their own or washed up sailors with the same ethic about fucking their own.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | September 26, 2020 3:02 AM
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[Quote]early sexual (manipulation for comforting babies)
I need to see SNL's treatment of this material. .
by Anonymous | reply 51 | September 26, 2020 3:07 AM
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This tattooed souvenir seller is probably the only fuckable male on the whole island (and even he's nothing to write home about).
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 52 | September 26, 2020 3:13 AM
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[quote]There is definitely no Home Depot.
Ergo, no lesbians.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | September 26, 2020 3:43 AM
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R52 Tourists off the boat buying crap for what? Better that woman gets fucked by the guido and takes back a Pitcairn baby to Atlantic City.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | September 26, 2020 3:44 AM
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Was Fletcher Christian a datalounger?:
Christian had not found his paradise. He had three children by his Tahitian wife but was one of the first to die, less than three years after arriving. While he was tending yams in his garden, according to Adams’s story, one of the Polynesian men shot him in the back. His last words were “Oh, dear.”
by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 26, 2020 3:57 AM
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Finally! The professor can marry them.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 57 | September 26, 2020 4:06 AM
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thanks OP from 5 yrs ago-- I wasted many hours of my day reading about this. I never heard of this but I think you have buried the lede. grotesque and horrifying story but now I can't stop reading about it.
not a single person has filed an actual application to move there
the residents are obsessed with the clark gable rendering of their ancestor and when that film came out, it changed the social hierarchy on the island (th emutineers descendents got to sit in the front pews at church.) idiots.
also, you are not allowed to bring children under the age of 16 --?!?
jesus fuck. I mean if that doesn't tell you something about what these fuckers are like, nothing will. There's currently only one single child living there, a girl age 10 (and a couple of other temporary residents). she is never allowed to be alone and has a specific short list of adults she is allowed to interact with--all the rest are off limits
that vanity fair article is not great--"husband and wife team" who wrote it have a weirdly defensive perspective. Like, yeah, every single man on the island has raped a child, or just an adolescent--but in their defense, the British government was really slow to fix their road. I mean like that's the real story here, the poor condition of the island's roads
by Anonymous | reply 58 | September 27, 2020 4:57 AM
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Immigrants/settlers need to get special permission to (from the British?) to bring minors under the age of 16, presumably if they agree to the restrictions the 10 year old deals with.
The first part sounds like Trump Country, the second what our U.S. legal system is in danger of becoming for the uber wealthy who commit crimes.
[Quote]But they developed other concerns—over a worrisome combination of firearms and booze, and a rudimentary island legal system that would be useless in the event of any serious crime.
I do have to say it's remarkable that with such a heady mix of rampant fucking, sexual jealousy, alcohol and guns, no one has been killed on the island since the last mutineer over two centuries ago.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | October 1, 2020 10:09 PM
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Sounds like Pirates if Caribbean rude come to life.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | October 2, 2020 1:03 AM
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It IS impressive that nobody's been murdered in so long. A testament to some fundamental self control, because they have to know that a murder is going to lead to a lot more work for everyone else. And I'm sure they aren't going to reduce the pussy pool either.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | October 2, 2020 2:59 PM
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I don’t really understand why these islanders claim to be Seventh Day Adventists.
Does that church support the libertine lifestyle?
Aren’t these the people who don’t celebrate birthdays and Christmas?
by Anonymous | reply 63 | October 2, 2020 5:21 PM
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