Off Topic Thread too point uh

Pink Fairy

mfceiling wrote: »

Then when you have kids, and a dog, and a goldfish and a hamster you will have watched every cartoon under the sun.
You will arrive home and find her watching the kardashians and Geordie Shore. At this stage you will start to wonder how many years you will have left until you die.
By the way...do you know how much it costs to have a kid and send them to school....and that gets more expensive every year.

Good luck with everything though....

Makes me kinda glad I'm firing blanks and only had 1 kid

Yeah_Right

mfceiling wrote: »

Then when you have kids, and a dog, and a goldfish and a hamster you will have watched every cartoon under the sun.
You will arrive home and find her watching the kardashians and Geordie Shore. At this stage you will start to wonder how many years you will have left until you die.
By the way...do you know how much it costs to have a kid and send them to school....and that gets more expensive every year.

Good luck with everything though....

You can always go and play with the neighbours' kids though. Only after you've eaten all your veges and done your chores though. Leave her to watch her rubbish tv and look after the kids.

mfceiling

Pink Fairy wrote: »

Makes me kinda glad I'm firing blanks and only had 1 kid

I'm a disaster...wife's sister told me to be careful not to bump into anyone in the supermarket or they could end up pregnant!!
Most couples end up trying for months and sure as a man there's a bonus with that.

Not MF....oh no, bullseye every fcuking time!!

Stheno

mfceiling wrote: »

Then when you have kids, and a dog, and a goldfish and a hamster you will have watched every cartoon under the sun.
You will arrive home and find her watching the kardashians and Geordie Shore. At this stage you will start to wonder how many years you will have left until you die.
By the way...do you know how much it costs to have a kid and send them to school....and that gets more expensive every year.

Good luck with everything though....

Makes me glad I never had kids, and when I met my OH his kids were old enough to grasp the concept of "I Stheno, own the remote control "

There was a brief transitional period where I watched way too much of two and a half men and futurama (I think?)

Podge_irl

Stheno wrote: »

I watched way too much futurama

Literally no such thing

awec

mfceiling wrote: »

Then when you have kids, and a dog, and a goldfish and a hamster you will have watched every cartoon under the sun.
You will arrive home and find her watching the kardashians and Geordie Shore. At this stage you will start to wonder how many years you will have left until you die.
By the way...do you know how much it costs to have a kid and send them to school....and that gets more expensive every year.

Good luck with everything though....

Thanks mate, you make it all sound so wonderful. :pac:

awec

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/469452/Handjob-Cabin-trailer-Bennet-Silverman

Probably win an oscar. NSFW.

mfceiling

awec wrote: »

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/469452/Handjob-Cabin-trailer-Bennet-Silverman

Probably win an oscar. NSFW.

Where in the name of jesus do you find these things!!

mfceiling

You need to be watching don't tell the bride now on bbc3 awec

awec

mfceiling wrote: »

Where in the name of jesus do you find these things!!

It popped up on my facebook feed!

mfceiling wrote: »

You need to be watching don't tell the bride now on bbc3 awec

Yea that's not happening. More to the point why are you watching it?

Stheno

awec wrote: »

Yea that's not happening. More to the point why are you watching it?

It makes for an easier life if you just give in to the other half.

Else you need two telly rooms, I've mine and the Oh has his, two of our couple friends are the same, it's deadly.

Now none of us have children, but I'd imagine at this hour most children would be in bed.

My OH is due home soon, off up he'll to go his telly, and I will happily sit here watching what I want

He watches some weird ****.

We might be a bit extreme though, he works from home permanently and I work from home a lot, so we text each other from our respective offices in the house when we have conference calls and the likes so we are not disturbed.

awec

Mark Zuckerberg is giving 99% of his Facebook shares to charity.

That is a lot of monies! $45 billion.

Billion! American billion but still.

Stheno

awec wrote: »

Mark Zuckerberg is giving 99% of his Facebook shares to charity.

That is a lot of monies! $45 billion.

Billion! American billion but still.

You could apply to cover the cost of the wedding?

irishbucsfan

Not to diminish the importance of what he's done, but from a selfish perspective Id actually imagine donating that money is probably more fulfilling than anything else you can do with it!

awec

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Not to diminish the importance of what he's done, but from a selfish perspective Id actually imagine donating that money is probably more fulfilling than anything else you can do with it!

I'd like to be given the opportunity to find out if you're right!

CatFromHue

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Not to diminish the importance of what he's done, but from a selfish perspective Id actually imagine donating that money is probably more fulfilling than anything else you can do with it!

yo must have never had a money fight so :pac:

Not sure what else you could do with the money tbh.

Consider that the 1% 'left' is $450m, which is probably enough for early retirement and a life of doing whatever you wanted anyway, making the other 99 of those seem pretty irrelevant or at the very least unnecessary.

molloyjh

Deleted User wrote: »

Not sure what else you could do with the money tbh.

Consider that the 1% 'left' is $450m, which is probably enough for early retirement and a life of doing whatever you wanted anyway, making the other 99 of those seem pretty irrelevant or at the very least unnecessary.

I can't imagine he was penniless beforehand either in fairness. It's easy to give away lots of money when you have lots of money.

That said there are still plenty of people out there who have lots and give little so I suppose credit where it's due....

b.gud

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Not sure what else you could do with the money tbh.

Consider that the 1% 'left' is $450m, which is probably enough for early retirement and a life of doing whatever you wanted anyway, making the other 99 of those seem pretty irrelevant or at the very least unnecessary.

That $450 just applies to his Facebook shares he also has other mone. Apparently his total worth after giving away the 99% will be in the region of $3bn

Triumvirate

I'm no fan of his but credit where it is due. It's a massive gesture and one that the vast majority of the 1% would never give any consideration to. People here seem to be very dismissive of his plans or quite begrudging in their praise of them.

swiwi_

https://www.ipsos-mori.com/_assets/sri/perils/quiz/

What I learnt: in comparison to NZ, people living in Ireland are more religious, more rural, mostly born in Ireland. Oh and you have a bit less internet access. And hardly any women in parliament.

I kind of knew all that already, but still...

Podge_irl

Alas, Suisse isn't there to compare

CatFromHue

The religious thing could be a red herring as I'm sure the numbers baptised is still quite high but that's mainly so they can get the kid into a school. The numbers actually going to mass are way way down even though I'm sure on the census people still say they're Catholics.

I can't find the article now but there was one I was reading saying that most Catholics are actually protestants in that they believe what the protestants believe instead of the catholic dogma.

Have a look through these differences and see how many you think most Catholics would actually believe

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/naturalwonderers/catholics-protestants/

swiwi_

CatFromHue wrote: »

The religious thing could be a red herring as I'm sure the numbers baptised is still quite high but that's mainly so they can get the kid into a school. The numbers actually going to mass are way way down even though I'm sure on the census people still say they're Catholics.

I can't find the article now but there was one I was reading saying that most Catholics are actually protestants in that they believe what the protestants believe instead of the catholic dogma.

Have a look through these differences and see how many you think most Catholics would actually believe

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/naturalwonderers/catholics-protestants/

If there is one place Irish people definitely say they are Catholic it's when they come to hospital. Have no real idea why that question is needed, but it's just about the first thing asked. In NZ that sort of Q will get a fair chunk of the population in a tizz. Letters to the paper, people ringing up NZs version of Joe Duffy etc.

1 in 4 of NZs population born outside NZ. It's the new America of immigration...

Podge_irl

swiwi_ wrote: »

If there is one place Irish people definitely say they are Catholic it's when they come to hospital. Have no real idea why that question is needed, but it's just about the first thing asked. In NZ that sort of Q will get a fair chunk of the population in a tizz. Letters to the paper, people ringing up NZs version of Joe Duffy etc.

1 in 4 of NZs population born outside NZ. It's the new America of immigration...

Yeah, I found that super weird when I was in A&E in the Mater years ago. I was vaguely worried that the wrong answer would see me thrown out.

Pink Fairy

By the way...if awec decides to get married im Chicago, I am certified to marry in the states as I am a Dudeism minister, the church of the latter day dude
Just throwing it out there, marriage, honeymoon and pay the minister in match day tickets

Bazzo

swiwi_ wrote: »

If there is one place Irish people definitely say they are Catholic it's when they come to hospital. Have no real idea why that question is needed, but it's just about the first thing asked. In NZ that sort of Q will get a fair chunk of the population in a tizz. Letters to the paper, people ringing up NZs version of Joe Duffy etc.

1 in 4 of NZs population born outside NZ. It's the new America of immigration...

I didn't even know this was a thing. I've had my share of trips to A&E and never been asked my religion.

sullivlo

Bazzo wrote: »

I didn't even know this was a thing. I've had my share of trips to A&E and never been asked my religion.

I had surgery in a private hospital a few weeks ago and was asked my religion on admission. I've never been asked on just presenting to a&e, but when admitted through a&e it's a question on the form.

It's so that they can provide pastoral care or chaplains or whatever.

In the mater the priest goes around daily offering you communion. Was glad to be nil by mouth those days.

Journeyman_1

I assume you can just ignore that field?

Or have some fun, pretend you worship the almighty Savior and Destructor, Cthulhu!

molloyjh

Journeyman_1 wrote: »

I assume you can just ignore that field?

Or have some fun, pretend you worship the almighty Savior and Destructor, Cthulhu!

Jedi.