Off Topic Thread 4.0

Top Halloween Tip....

If you run out of sweets but still have kids calling at the door just clear out the contents of the 2nd drawer down in the kitchen. As the hall is in darkness and there's very little light outside you can get rid of old batteries, indicator bulbs, spare keys and loose screws by dropping them into the little feckers bags.

dregin wrote: »

Any recommendations for baby monitors?

Turn them off and you’ll get a better nights sleep.

dregin wrote: »

Any recommendations for baby monitors?

I'm not being smart but they're a bit of a gimmick. We had one for a few weeks for the 1st little lady. Problem is you could hear her crying from the room anyway. The monitor just amplified it. Ended up throwing it in the attic with another half ton of unused "must have" items.

Squidgy Black wrote: »

Anyone suggest a decent place to park near Ulster Hall for a couple hours tomorrow morning?

Johnny Marr?

Eir Engineer came over to "install" my broadband as I move from sky.

Pretty sure he's the same eircom networks guy or whatever who installed the Sky last year. Seems his job basically consisted of unplugging the sky router, plugging in the eir one, putting a powerline adapter in to ethernet the internet connection to the eirbox by the TV. Cable Management is not a service rendered.

Paying for that. Sound.

On the plus side I got two powerline adapters out of it which probably would have cost more than the call out anyway.

Zzippy wrote: »

We got the angel monitor, which sets off an alarm if the baby stops breathing. Wife insisted on it as she knows someone who lost a baby to cot death. Now we have a toddler who thinks it's a sport to wedge himself into the corner of his cot, in just the right position so the monitor thinks he's not breathing. It's a very close-run thing that it hasn't met the wall with extreme velocity yet...

On the plus side, I have a recently-discovered talent for sleeping through a crying baby waking up everyone else in the house.

My wife was insisting on that as well, but we didn't get it right away and eventually didn't see the need for it. I suppose I can understand why some would be set on it, but we just use a standard monitor now. Some Motorola model or other. Camera, microphone and night vision is really all you need. Enough to keep an eye and ear out when they've gone down, day or night.

Zzippy wrote: »

We got the angel monitor, which sets off an alarm if the baby stops breathing. Wife insisted on it as she knows someone who lost a baby to cot death. Now we have a toddler who thinks it's a sport to wedge himself into the corner of his cot, in just the right position so the monitor thinks he's not breathing. It's a very close-run thing that it hasn't met the wall with extreme velocity yet...

On the plus side, I have a recently-discovered talent for sleeping through a crying baby waking up everyone else in the house.

Didnt bother with the body sensor as it kept going off, but we do use and have used the monitors on our first and now on our second. They are worth it.

Buer wrote: »

If we needed another monitor for another kid I wouldn't get anything more than an audio monitor. Pretty much all you need is to know if they're crying. Anything else just means you're continually checking a monitor for no reason.

We got a Motorola video monitor and I reckon it was mostly a waste of money. Can't fathom the monitors which have an app. Have friends that sit in the cinema checking their child sleeping every 2 minutes.

Yeah, the app thing is too invasive. No point in even going to the cinema in that case.

We use the video to decide whether we can ignore the crying or not. She's going through her sleep regression at the moment so at times when she's down she'll cry a little and go back to sleep after a minute or so. We know by looking at her whether we need to go up to her or not when she kicks off. It's been handy for that. And as she's our first it was useful when we moved her into her own room for the first time just to give us peace of mind (and without meaning to sound callous, by us I mean my wife).

Zzippy wrote: »

Now we have a toddler who thinks it's a sport to wedge himself into the corner of his cot, in just the right position so the monitor thinks he's not breathing.

This is a good summation of my argument style

Yeah_Right wrote: »

All this talk of kids is making me really look forward to a drink tonight ðŸ˜

On my way back from one. Always knew the aussies and me were on the same wavelength

pickarooney wrote: »

My kid just handed me one. It takes some training but eventually it pays off.

Fake news!

awec wrote: »

If they are kicking and thrashing about they are properly annoyed.

Sometimes they will lie totally still, as if they are sleeping, but just crying. These times you can generally ignore it cause they'll be fast asleep in a minute or two.

Yeah, with ours she also sucks on the end of her blanket for comfort when she's still half asleep. She'll move around a lot more when she's awake. So it's generally easy to tell.

Yeah_Right wrote: »

All this talk of kids is making me really look forward to a drink tonight ðŸ˜

I enjoyed mine last night.

mfceiling wrote: »

Blackadder on bbc4 tonight. I'd forgotten how funny it was.

Which one? Class show. Haven't seen it in ages.