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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.

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'!

stephen_n

Buer wrote: »

Jesus.

Congratulations on all the riding!

Could just be really unlucky and be 5 for 5

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

Buer

sydthebeat wrote: »

yep from 24 to 9

Jesus.

Congratulations on all the riding!

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

Rigor Mortis

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.

On child one, we decided wife picks girls name and husband picks boys.

One child two, We each made a list of names. Went for dinner the night before the due date and swapped lists. We had two names in common on the lists.

Buer

Am I reading things right?

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

[Deleted User]

We spent very little time picking names we both liked that were relatively straight forward.

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.

sydthebeat

no 3 was named after a grandparent
no 4 was named after a drive in rural parts of galway and we came across the the name in a few different areas and liked it
no 5 was discovered reading old irish mytholoy stories

all three names are simple 4 lettered names

Zzippy

mfceiling wrote: »

First one I liked a girl's name from a Beatles song so that was easy.
Second was a name I liked after a very elderly neighbour lady who lived beside us years ago and also a very famous Tom Waits song. People always comment on it being a lovely name (very old fashioned but I liked it).
Third....I'm not pushed as I got my choices for the 1st two.

As the lads have said you will pick the name and it will be the right one.

If you are a teacher you must name your child a ridiculous irish name meaning "valley of the beautiful angels"....with extra fadas.

Martha? Great tune...

We narrowed it down to 4/5 boys names and the same for girls, while in the labour room we narrowed it down again, and when baby was born (a boy) one just seemed right. Second baby we did the same but couldn't agree until the following day on one.

mfceiling

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.

First one I liked a girl's name from a Beatles song so that was easy.
Second was a name I liked after a very elderly neighbour lady who lived beside us years ago and also a very famous Tom Waits song. People always comment on it being a lovely name (very old fashioned but I liked it).
Third....I'm not pushed as I got my choices for the 1st two.

As the lads have said you will pick the name and it will be the right one.

If you are a teacher you must name your child a ridiculous irish name meaning "valley of the beautiful angels"....with extra fadas.

thomond2006

awec wrote: »

I am not an expert in this area.

Nothing is your area, awec. You do not have an area. Unless it is some sort of play area, with sandcastles, and buckets, and spades! Now do what you're told, right?!

troyzer

awec wrote: »

I am not an expert in this area.

I've always wondered this.

Paul Smeenus

We came up with the name for the first one, changed it the day after they were born. By the time we'd a third, we just let the eldest one pick a name.

awec

troyzer wrote: »

Isn't a baby name book just a name book?

I am not an expert in this area.

troyzer

awec wrote: »

We bought a baby name book and narrowed it down to 2 or 3 names for each gender.

Then when our daughter was born we felt one was just right.

We thought it was relatively unique, but it seems it was one of the most popular names last year.

Isn't a baby name book just a name book?

awec

We bought a baby name book and narrowed it down to 2 or 3 names for each gender.

Then when our daughter was born we felt one was just right.

We thought it was relatively unique, but it seems it was one of the most popular names last year.

swiwi_

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.

Your username doesn’t really inspire confidence when it comes to making a decision...

[Deleted User]

We have an added complication of wanting a name that sound mostly the same in her native language as it does in English. There are a good few to pick from but nothing that we really want.

We have a short list from that. But nothing is really a firm yes yet

Buer

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.

An angel appeared and spoke "Hark, you shall sire a son. He shall be loud and defiant. He shall refute all logic. You shall name him after the mod....the one you call awec".

True story.

We had two names for our daughter...when she arrived we felt one was more suitable than the other.

I think we made a shortlist of our preferred names, compared them, revised our lists and then saw which ones were common to the two lists. Things got narrowed down pretty rapidly. You will love a name which your other half will think is f*cking ridicuolous.

You won't be sure about the names either when you give them but a month later, you won't be able to imagine them being called anything else.

b.gud

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.

We a picked a name after she was born and then changed it the next morning to one we felt worked better

[Deleted User]

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.

Buer

thomond2006 wrote: »

Was she always like this? I only heard of her in the last year.

She was strongly opinionated and forthright in her journalism but she didn't come up with the madness that she has spouted over the past 1-2 years. That could be down to the fact that she was operating within a national publication who would have kept her on a leash and steered her towards the more palatable and reasonable stories/approaches. She did have the opinion that fluoride in the water was causing cancer whilst she was still with INM but that pales in comparison to what she has come out with since.

She has completely gone off script in the past few years. Aside from the nationalistic, right wing rhetoric that she has come up with of late, she has questioned vaccines and made some very serious claims about multiple murder cases involving the state and cover ups. I'm sure there are a number of of other claims that aren't as fresh in my mind.

thomond2006

Buer wrote: »

Anyone with half a brain can look at Gemma O'Doherty's Twitter feed and make up their own mind, though.

Was she always like this? I only heard of her in the last year.

Buer

I've no doubt there was some form of communication from a legal representative within a few hours yesterday. Newstalk just covering themselves which is fair enough.

Anyone with half a brain can look at Gemma O'Doherty's Twitter feed and make up their own mind, though.

Squidgy Black

The Luas website is still down and hasn't been fully restored, two weeks after the initial attack.

I feel bad for the poor intern who must be stuck with it.

Dave_The_Sheep

Snivelling is the word I'd use.

sydthebeat

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I doubt anything will come of it either. O'Doherty deserves it all and more so a part of me hopes she pipes up and makes things worse for herself.

Watters though whilst detestable is clearly in a diminished mental state and I think a responsible media would deny him any platform for his own sake.

They already have in many ways.

Newstalk just broadcasted a strong apology to waters and o doherty

[Deleted User]

Buer wrote: »

I wouldn't have thought Newstalk would be in any trouble at all. They can't control a one off inverviewee and made immediate attempts to defuse the situation. If anything, I'd have thought that the accused would seek legal input for any potential recourse against the individual.

I don't think anything will come of it, noise at most. It was just humourous to see Newstalk squirm so quickly with the bonus of GOD/Waters getting called out publicly for their actions.

I doubt anything will come of it either. O'Doherty deserves it all and more so a part of me hopes she pipes up and makes things worse for herself.

Watters though whilst detestable is clearly in a diminished mental state and I think a responsible media would deny him any platform for his own sake.

They already have in many ways.