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Off Topic Thread 4.0

Zzippy

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sydthebeat

Buer wrote: »

Am I reading things right?

Syd, do you have 5 kids? Fix the TV for f*ck sake!

yep

from 24 to 9

Buer

sydthebeat wrote: »

yep from 24 to 9

Jesus.

Congratulations on all the riding!

thomond2006

Philip Rivers is a machine: https://www.chargers.com/news/a-family-affair-a-look-at-philip-rivers-through-the-eyes-of-his-children

stephen_n

Buer wrote: »

Jesus.

Congratulations on all the riding!

Could just be really unlucky and be 5 for 5

Zzippy

thomond2006 wrote: »

Philip Rivers is a machine: https://www.chargers.com/news/a-family-affair-a-look-at-philip-rivers-through-the-eyes-of-his-children

Ah them yankee football lads are all on the testosterone shtuff... no wonder they're mad for the ridin'!

swiwi_

Buer wrote: »

Am I reading things right?

Syd, do you have 5 kids? Fix the TV for f*ck sake!

Not his fault he ended up with quintuplets.

mfceiling

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I generally feel sorry for kids whose parents went out of their way to be different.

This times a million.

There are a couple of little African girls in my daughters class brilliantly named Twinkle and Cinderella!!

Squidgy Black

Zzippy wrote: »

Ah them yankee football lads are all on the testosterone shtuff... no wonder they're mad for the ridin'!

He's one of those ultra Catholics, he got married straight after high school, and doesn't believe in contraception.

Would've thought 8 kids would be considered contraception, but apparently not cause they've a ninth on the way.

swiwi_

Once looked after a lady who’d had 16 kids. That’s 12 years pregnant...

[Deleted User]

May suffers largest commons defeat since 1920.

Corbyn calls vote of no confidence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Nt-ByDGEM

Podge_irl

This genuinely comes across as pantomime.

[Deleted User]

Podge_irl wrote: »

This genuinely comes across as pantomime.

It's grotesque. People are losing their jobs daily over Brexit.

Squidgy Black

Yeah at the start I found it amusing, now it's just sort of sad to see how wrong things have turned.

I honestly have no idea what the whole outcome of this is, but it doesn't look good, because they won't back down and call it quits.

dregin

MaybeMaybe wrote: »

How did you all go about picking a name for your kids? My wife and I are having a really hard time of it and we only have a week to go.

My wife bought a few books of Irish names and came up with a shortlist, if it we had a girl. We ended up picking one from Irish mythology. A goddess of war, which suited as she had a serious battle during the labour.

I'm the 5th in a row of my name, so our first boy would just take that.

Our first is now three weeks old and if I had any advice it's to pack sandwiches for the labour. Loads of them. Mother gets fed in the hospital - fathers are second class citizens and no time to be running out for food

sydthebeat

Deleted User wrote: »

If our children want to be exceptional or unique they can decide that for themselves, we gave them both Irish names that will allow them to blend in. I generally feel sorry for kids whose parents went out of their way to be different.

I once stopped a toddler from walking out on the main road outside our estate..... Walked her back to her house and her mother exclaimed "thumbelina, where did you get to?".

I couldn't actually believe they named their child that..... Till my wife confirmed it... But, sure, tis their culture.

Zzippy

dregin wrote: »

My wife bought a few books of Irish names and came up with a shortlist, if it we had a girl. We ended up picking one from Irish mythology. A goddess of war, which suited as she had a serious battle during the labour.

I'm the 5th in a row of my name, so our first boy would just take that.

Our first is now three weeks old and if I had any advice it's to pack sandwiches for the labour. Loads of them. Mother gets fed in the hospital - fathers are second class citizens and no time to be running out for food

Congrats!

Re food - I was sent out to get myself some lunch. Pub across the road does decent grub and a nice pint. Even had dessert. I was not popular when I wandered back in... "Anything moving, hun?"

[Deleted User]

dregin wrote: »

Our first is now three weeks old and if I had any advice it's to pack sandwiches for the labour. Loads of them. Mother gets fed in the hospital - fathers are second class citizens and no time to be running out for food

Zzippy wrote: »

Congrats!

Re food - I was sent out to get myself some lunch. Pub across the road does decent grub and a nice pint. Even had dessert. I was not popular when I wandered back in... "Anything moving, hun?"

Ah lads - ye really missed out. Bit of hot sauce on the placenta, full of iron.

irishbucsfan

Can’t wait to wake up tomorrow morning and read how radically things have not changed

[Deleted User]

Deleted User wrote: »

Ah lads - ye really missed out. Bit of hot sauce on the placenta, full of iron.

I'm bringing a hot plate with me and a bottle of tabasco chipotle sauce!

on the name, we have a short list at the ready and will see how it goes when he arrives

troyzer

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Can’t wait to wake up tomorrow morning and read how radically things have not changed

It's a bit anticlimactic because this confidence vote is obviously going to fail tomorrow night and then she'll probably jet off to Brussels, have the same old ****, be told no and come back again to lose the revote on Monday.

Can we get to the part where something actually happens?

It's like watching the Two Towers and skipping all of the Frodo and Sam scenes so you can just watch the Battle of Helm's Deep.

[Deleted User]

troyzer wrote: »

It's like watching the Two Towers and skipping all of the Frodo and Sam scenes so you can just watch the Battle of Helm's Deep.

troyzer

Deleted User wrote: »

troyzer wrote: »

It's like watching the Two Towers and skipping all of the Frodo and Sam scenes so you can just watch the Battle of Helm's Deep.

Was I the only one who did this?

Podge_irl

troyzer wrote: »

Was I the only one who did this?

Does anyone not do that!?

troyzer

Podge_irl wrote: »

troyzer wrote: »

Was I the only one who did this?

Does anyone not do that!?

Cheers, thought I was going mad for a second.

Who the **** cares about Frodo?

i WaNt 2 c De BaTlE

Zzippy

Deleted User wrote: »

Ah lads - ye really missed out. Bit of hot sauce on the placenta, full of iron.

The midwife was asking us, all polite, if we wanted the placenta. When we looked at her like she had two heads, she laughed - clearly relieved we weren't one of those nutjob couples. She'd had one woman in previously who brought a blender and made a smoothie from it... I nearly hurled.

[Deleted User]

Zzippy wrote: »

The midwife was asking us, all polite, if we wanted the placenta. When we looked at her like she had two heads, she laughed - clearly relieved we weren't one of those nutjob couples. She'd had one woman in previously who brought a blender and made a smoothie from it... I nearly hurled.

Well that's enough internet for the day!

mfceiling

Zzippy wrote: »

The midwife was asking us, all polite, if we wanted the placenta. When we looked at her like she had two heads, she laughed - clearly relieved we weren't one of those nutjob couples. She'd had one woman in previously who brought a blender and made a smoothie from it... I nearly hurled.

And there was me heading for a lovely nights sleep....cheers Zzippy!!

molloyjh

Talking about kids names, we were in the States a few years back. Herself went into a shoe shop so I was sitting outside waiting for her. These two kids came running out with their mother behind chasing after them.

“Dale, Chip, get back here!”

No word of a lie. You know that moment when you’re looking around for someone else who heard it too. Nobody did sadly.

As for our little one, we had a few names in mind but weren’t able to settle on anything until after she was born. It was tough. But as others have said, their name becomes their name. It’ll be grand.

mfceiling

molloyjh wrote: »

Talking about kids names, we were in the States a few years back. Herself went into a shoe shop so I was sitting outside waiting for her. These two kids came running out with their mother behind chasing after them.

“Dale, Chip, get back here!”

No word of a lie. You know that moment when you’re looking around for someone else who heard it too. Nobody did sadly.

As for our little one, we had a few names in mind but weren’t able to settle on anything until after she was born. It was tough. But as others have said, their name becomes their name. It’ll be grand.

So....chip 'an dale.

Anyone?

Buer

Deleted User wrote: »

Ah lads - ye really missed out. Bit of hot sauce on the placenta, full of iron.

There is a serious appetite (for want of a better phrase) for freeze drying and keeping the placenta in other countries; it's only a matter of time before it becomes something here. They're now being made into face creams, health pills and artwork.

An extended family member is a midwife and does it in Australia. Makes about $10k on the side from it. Didn't believe it for a second when she told me.