This is why I never rented - I didn't want to be paying someone else's mortgage, and getting stuck in this rental loop.

I stayed at home longer, putting up with living longer with my parents, in order to get the down-payment and buy my own place. It was worth a few short years.

So just move back home (assuming it's possible), and then move out again the right way in a few years.

So we need to get Michael J. Fox on this thing, wearing a pair of these: http://www.independent.co.uk/l... (Nike self-lacing trainers)

We have 4 months to make this happen, people. chop chop!

(Anyone got a spare DeLorean parked in their garage?!)

Mount the drive-storage solution 'normally', and use it as a local git repository.
If you use something like https://github.com/shadowhand/... you can encrypt all files that you store in git, hence on the cloud. There are likely similar solutions for svn, and cross platform solutions.

Just use Gmail. The SPAM filter there is quite good. Yes, on occasion something gets through when they haven't learned it yet. Yes, on rare occasions something gets put into Spam that shouldn't (so just check your spam folder every week or so). But overall I can't complain

Which church? Which religion?
One religion's rules have no binding any anyone not in that religion, especially other religions.
Of someone founds the Church of Homosexual Christians and decide to marry same sex couples, they are as within their right to do that as your church is to deny these unions.

A lot of nerds care about this stuff...

The law effectively defines the terms of the contract. It's actually easier that way.

If you like, you can enter into a contract with your partner and leave the state out of it. But you'll run into issues with, for the sake of example, of your other half is incapacitated - the hospital solicitor/lawyer would need a copy of your contact to see what agreement is in place with regard to your next of kin rights, and your rights to make decisions about their treatment.
Having a state defined contract means that everyone already knows what rights you have, this speeding up access to treatment.

But plenty of reasons why you _shouldn't_

That was also put to a referendum, and the people overwhelmingly stopped it. So it's the will of the people.

A new referendum may come around in time. In the interim, there are laws allowing abortion in cases where the life of the mother is at risk.

Amazingly, there's no "gay agenda", except for the one that people like yourself appear to see...

Goats are not legal entities, don't have the capacity to understand marriage, don't have the capacity to comprehend the (do you take this person) question, don't have the ability to answer the question.
Marriage is a contract that is entered into willingly by both partners. A goat cannot willingly enter into a contract (lack of comprehension. etc), this cannot get married.

Maybe, one day, when goats evolve sufficiently... But certainly not today.

Single people have the right to marry...
Now, in Ireland, so do gay people.

Once married, these additional legal rights and protections are also theirs.

Some people choose not to marry, but they still have the right - nothing is stopping them.

(Expect, maybe, lack of a partner...)

Actually, there was no mention of marriage being between a man and a woman in either our constitution or our laws. However, the vote was needed in order to protect the rights of same sex couples to marry, and prevent possible future reinterpretations or changes in law from denying them the right.

The gay aspect doesn't come into it. The age limit for marriage is set in law (as is the whole legal definition of marriage). And there are 0 reasons not to let any gay person get married, in accordance with law.

Unfortunately for you a goat is not a legal entity, and also doesn't have the ability to understand the question (do you take this person?), nor answer it.
So, sorry, you won't be able to do that. At least not until goats evolve sufficiently.