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Buzzfeed: 52 Heartwarming Pictures From The First Day Of Equal Marriage In The UK

ETA: From a report (by Camilla Long) about the first gay weddings. This part comes at the very end, focussing on Sandi Toksvik's ceremony:

The vows were conducted by her 19 year old son, who asked: "If anyone knows of any lawful impediment to this marriage, they should declare it now."

A man in the audience screamed: "It should have been me!" "Oh Jeremy," sighed Sandi. "If only you'd asked sooner."

She looked at the huge hall, the confetti, the hundred singing gay men in wedding outfits on stage, the conductor frantically searching for the music to River Deep, Mountain High, and added: "This is just a phase."

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I've not seen it, but I read the review in The Sunday Times, which was a) spoilery, and b) snarky, but fabulous. (Camilla Long is not a fangirl.) The relevant part:


'Credit to Chris [Evans] who does a good job of believing him [Arnim Zola], before discovering that the Winter Soldier is in fact his best friend. Cue lasers and bromance.'

I am now very, very tempted to change my title to 'Lasers and Bromance'.


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And then I thought I'd share some texts Miss M sent me recently. We were going to see The LEGO Movie, and we were running late. Except Miss M had been in town with some friends, so was waiting for us. For about half an hour or so...

Well it’s pretty quiet but getting busier and there are a /lot/ of kids

Please say we aren’t buying tickets at the till

*cries lonely tears*

Early
early
there is a queue already

Wow
such cold
very cinema
so alone
very wait
queueing
baddest music

Much hurry
so filling up
bring food?

Idk cinema food costs souls

Ok queue is gone now
still
i see families and they bring the required first born blood offerings xo

The fire alarm went off
wait no
just one direction
nevemind

Comments

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No, it's not an easy part. Did you like him in Avengers? I know a lot of people didn't like him that much and some people got the wrong idea about him being a stickler for rules, but it's very clever in that most people are so busy being annoyed with him for being wrong about Tony that they don't notice he's right about EVERYTHING ELSE. It's hard to play someone nowadays who is earnest and dedicated to what they do without any irony (though he actually has a great sense of humour) but Evans does it very well.

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Yes I liked him. (He was SO PLEASED to get the flying monkeys joke! ♥)

it's very clever in that most people are so busy being annoyed with him for being wrong about Tony that they don't notice he's right about EVERYTHING ELSE.
Tony is a jerk and goes out of his way to annoy people. (Which is why I love him. *g*) But I can perfectly well appreciate both characters at the same time.

It's hard to play someone nowadays who is earnest and dedicated to what they do without any irony (though he actually has a great sense of humour) but Evans does it very well.
*nods*