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  • This House Believes That Marriges of Convenience (i.e your families/ beliefs are compatible, your work schedule fits together) are preferrable to marriages of "true love".

    TNDC 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-05-31

  • This house would choose to be a hopeless romantic, instead of adopting a more reserved and realistic approach

    Infoslide

    A hopeless romantic is someone who continues to believe in love, no matter the struggles they might have experienced in the past

    Papillon IV WSDC · U16 Final · 2024-05-24

  • This House, as Hercules, Would stay in the human world.

    Infoslide

    Hercules is the mortal son of Zeus who grew up with some superhuman abilities (eg strength) in the human world. He fought against evil powers in the form of trials set by the gods. He fell in love with a human, Megara. After being deemed worthy by the gods and achieving the status of a hero he was invited to live forever on the Olympus among the Gods. No human is allowed to join him, and he will not be able to return to the human world."

    Athens IV 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-05-17

  • This house regrets the narrative of "if he wanted to he would"

    Infoslide

    The phrase "if he wanted to he would," implies that if a partner is interested or wants to be with you, they will put effort into taking actions for you, and when they do not, you should move one from them. The phrase initially became popular as a trend on TikTok where users, mostly women, shared videos of their partners doing nice things for them (e.g. buying flowers, planning extravagant dates) with this caption.

    Diliman Pre-UADC 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-05-17

  • That we prefer a world where humans reproduced by laying eggs

    Infoslide

    In a world where humans laid eggs, it would replace monthly menstrual periods. Eggs would be approximately chicken sized and would be laid monthly, regardless of whether they had been fertilised by a sperm. Fertilised eggs would be a noticeably different colour. Non-fertilised eggs would not grow or hatch into a human. Fertilised eggs would grow gradually if tended to by human contact, and eventually hatch into a human baby.

    University of Sydney Union Grandslam 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-05-12

  • That we would enter into a showmance

    Infoslide

    Operación Triunfo (English: Operation Triumph) is a Spanish singing contest. Contestants (generally in their late teens and early twenties) are selected from around Spain through a series of nationwide auditions to enter into and live at an academy where they learn to sing, dance and perform. Every week there is a live gala where the weakest contestant is eliminated by public vote. The daily goings on in the academy are livestreamed to the public. You are a 19 year old from rural Spain who is a very talented performer. You are gay but have not publically admitted this yet. One of your fellow contestants in the academy is an 18 year old openly gay man from the Basque country who has showed some obvious signs of interest in you. He is very conventionally attractive but is somewhat less talented than you. You believe you might like him (romantically) back.

    University of Sydney Union Grandslam 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-05-12

  • This house, as a young woman in South Korea, would engage in 4B

    Infoslide

    As a response to patriarchy, the 4B movement in South Korea stands for bihon, bichulsan, biyeonae, bisekseu: no marriage, childbirth, romance or sex with men."

    Vienna IV 2024 · ESL Semifinals · 2024-05-10

  • This house, as a young woman in South Korea, would engage in 4B

    Infoslide

    As a response to patriarchy, the 4B movement in South Korea stands for bihon, bichulsan, biyeonae, bisekseu: no marriage, childbirth, romance or sex with men."

    Vienna IV 2024 · Quarterfinals · 2024-05-10

  • That, as Olivia Rodrigo, we regret stopping the hand-out of safe-sex products.

    Infoslide

    Olivia Rodrigo has been handing out safe-sex products (e.g. condoms and morning-after pills) as part of her GUTS World Tour. After receiving significant backlash, she stopped handing out these products, and her press team afterwards said it was due to concerns about minors potentially obtaining the products.

    Sorensen's 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-05-07