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Are you a twin?

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  • #32
    Thomas828
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Thomas828


    I'm an only child but my name is the same as Thomas the Apostle which means "twin". So, for all I know, there could be a Thomas829 out there.


  • #33
    Little Acorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭Little Acorn


    No, but I always wished I had a twin.


  • #34
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    I had a lovely neighbour a few years ago and two of her siblings were twins. She envied them because they were so close together. And she told me, friends come and go, families separate as they grow but with twins there is such a special bond that you always have a friend there in times of need and that you're never lonely.

    What I hate the most is peoples attitudes towards twins. They are two separate individuals and people have a belief because one twin has an interest in such a thing and does such a such thing, the other twin must follow. Having said there have been times where we would scaringly match. Like years ago we were in town separately. Neither of us knew the other was in town. In the evening at home it turned out that we bought the exact same music cd that day. It wasnt a new release or anything and had been out for years and neither of us talked about it beforehand.

    Then there was the time when our CAO form almost matched and she flew off her head shouting I copied her courses which I didnt


  • #35
    Jay Pentatonic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 485 ✭✭Jay Pentatonic


    Doolee wrote: »

    Jay do you two get on? or do ye do much together? Do you find you have changed alot since growing up or how do ye deal with eachothers differences...if you know what I mean. ?

    Hi doolee, we've always gotten on well:), I suppose you have to get along well, since twins are almost forced to be with each other all of the time, same home, school etc.

    I think we were definitely similar in our younger years, both in apperance and personality, but I think now we've changed a bit and seem a bit different now, especially since we go to different colleges:) we pretty much have our own lives now, since we left school.

    Having said that, whenever I introduce someone new to my brother they always say how exactly the same we are!!!:(

    Oh well, I see him as a permanent friend, as well as a brother :)


  • #36
    Kojak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    No, I'm not a twin and I wouldn't have wanted to be one part of a set of twins.

    I am unique.

    Any quintuplets around?


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  • #37
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    We're almost identical, almost.


  • #38
    Jaxxy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,297 ✭✭✭Jaxxy


    Andy-Pandy wrote: »
    I was, but the world was not ready for two of us. RIP

    Same here. I often wonder what it would be like now.


  • #39
    Scarydoll
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭Scarydoll


    I'm a twin and have a twin sister. I'm the left handed one. So that makes her the evil one.....:pac:


  • #40
    rmchmufc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 170 ✭✭rmchmufc


    ive a twin and when we were school we were in nearly all the same subjects at the same level, so when we had homework we would each concentrate on one subject and then give each other the answers. never had the guts to try what the op did though!!


  • #41
    m-a-i-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭m-a-i-


    amdublin wrote: »
    You were done for plagiarism because the lecturer found you (well he or she thought it was you) hanging out with a guy doing a phd :confused:

    Surely they needed proof of plagiarism to "do you for plagiarism" :confused:

    This "story" makes no sense to me whatsoever.

    Please explain.


    I shall clarify :)

    I was in fourth year doing a final year thesis and my sister was friends with a guy doing a phd in my course,
    My supervisor would see my sister and her friend on a daily basis at computers and whatever and put two and two together and got 5
    When I got my initial results for the thesis I was given plagirisim citations and was told that my work was not my own ( meaning that *sarcasm font* obviously the phd did it)
    I discussed this with my supervisor and he said that he was suspicious that I was spending time with the phd...I was gobsmacked and stated that I had a twin. I had a further interview with supervisor and other person to show that I knew what I was talking about in the thesis and got my marks increased

    I hope that clarifys :)


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  • #42
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    I've got a twin. She's a parasite though. Couldn't let me live my own life. Was jealous of me getting on with my life. Used to blame me for all sorts that went on in her life. Wished me dead and split my head open. Hit the animals to get to me. She's very childish, so to fk with that. Dont need that crap in life. Moved away and for the first time ever im known for who i am, couldn't be happier away from her.


  • #43
    Karona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Karona


    There are 7 years between my mam and her sister but they are the spitting image of each other and always end up wearing the same clothes as each other, one lives in dublin the other in louth. very very strange.


  • #44
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    I've got a twin. She's a parasite though. Couldn't let me live my own life. Was jealous of me getting on with my life. Used to blame me for all sorts that went on in her life. Wished me dead and split my head open. Hit the animals to get to me. She's very childish, so to fk with that. Dont need that crap in life. Moved away and for the first time ever im known for who i am, couldn't be happier away from her.

    Jaysis you're username matches your outlook


  • #45
    The Paws
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭The Paws


    I have a twin sister....I wonder how many twins are actually in Ireland?!!


  • #46
    reap-a-rat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭reap-a-rat


    I never really appreciated how special twins were because all my life I've known loads of them! Right now in my life I would know both twins of 10 sets well, and one twin of another 4 sets well. In my class of twenty-four in National School there were two sets of twins, one mixed :)! The mixed set had a brother and a sister, another older set of twins!

    My granny is a twin, and I have twin cousins and second cousins, I'm afraid I might have twins because they're on both sides of the family :O :)

    My Dad had a story about twins he knew, they were both in a snooker competition and the worse one got to the final. He wasn't doing well so at the mid-session interval they switched places, and of course the other lad managed to win it :)! I think they split the prize! Unfortunately one of them was in a car accident and is now paralysed in a wheelchair, but they're still identical besides!

    One of the sets I know look very different. One is blonde and pale, the other is dark-haired and sallow! So many teachers wouldn't believe them when they said they were twins! It is hard to believe though, as they've got older their faces are more similar but you still wouldn't think they were related :)!

    I do think it'd be cool to be a twin, all the twins I know are so close its lovely, they're each others best friend! Its hard to be that close to a regular sibling I think!:(


  • #47
    The Agogo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭The Agogo


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    I've an identical twin but as we got older we looked less like each other. Turns out everyone thinks i'm an ignorant bastard as friends always see "me" in Dublin and apparently "I" ignore the sh1te out of them.

    Same thing happens to me in UCD when I was a student there. Bloody annoying


    In the end I just started waving back to the people I didn't know


  • #48
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    My twin died before birth. Didn't find out until a few years ago.


  • #49
    m-a-i-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭m-a-i-


    apparently from what I head in the d'arcy show..2% of the worlds population are twins and 8% of that two percent are unidentical


  • #50
    CHealy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭CHealy


    starviewadams wrote: »
    My dad and my uncle are twins.


    Im sure they would have some great twin stories if they were on boards


  • #51
    reap-a-rat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭reap-a-rat


    m-a-i- wrote: »
    apparently from what I head in the d'arcy show..2% of the worlds population are twins and 8% of that two percent are unidentical

    So 92% of the twins in the world are identical?? (Obviously when they are the same sex!) More of the twins I know are from a mixed set! I've added up properly how many I know and so far I can think of 22 sets, 9 are mixed and of the other 13, 6 are identical! Its very interesting really! I know no triplets though :(


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  • #52
    m-a-i-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭m-a-i-


    reap-a-rat wrote: »
    So 92% of the twins in the world are identical?? (Obviously when they are the same sex!) More of the twins I know are from a mixed set! I've added up properly how many I know and so far I can think of 22 sets, 9 are mixed and of the other 13, 6 are identical! Its very interesting really! I know no triplets though :(

    woops sorry I meant identical :S had to recheck the podcast again :S


  • #53
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    MarkR wrote: »
    Me and my brother are identical twins. I went looking for him one day, had a bad feeling, couldn't say why. He'd been hit by a car. Smashed his leg, but ok in the end.

    We've also turned up to family outings in nearly the same clothes.

    you're so unoriginal.

    :cool:
    Dean0088 wrote: »
    Yeah I'm a twin.

    :eek: there's two Emporers!? ;)
    DeVore wrote: »
    Twins.

    Giggity! :)

    DeV.

    That's made so much less dirty by you signing your post for some reason.


  • #54
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    I am a twin as is my dad. Twins are great. The best way of explaining twins for me is that you never have to do anything by yourself when you are a kid eg first day of school. Has many advantages like nobody will ever try bully you and disadvantages like you have to share absolutely bloody everything.


  • #55
    Niall Twin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭Niall Twin


    I hope all you twins,triplets and quads out there are planning to join us at the Carrickmacross Twin(s) + Parade on June 4th 2011 as part of the Carrickmacross Festival Weekend. It will be the lardest gathering of twins and multiples in the same place at the same time. We are going to set a new Irish Record, have a bit of craic and raise a few euro for charity.
    To register and for more details log on to www.carrickmacross.ie


  • #56
    phill106
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,838 ✭✭✭phill106


    MarkR wrote: »
    Me and my brother are identical twins. I went looking for him one day, had a bad feeling, couldn't say why. He'd been hit by a car. Smashed his leg, but ok in the end.

    We've also turned up to family outings in nearly the same clothes.

    Marks brother here.



    He pushed me!


  • #57
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    Niall Twin wrote: »
    I hope all you twins,triplets and quads out there are planning to join us at the Carrickmacross Twin(s) + Parade on June 4th 2011 as part of the Carrickmacross Festival Weekend. It will be the lardest gathering of twins and multiples in the same place at the same time. We are going to set a new Irish Record, have a bit of craic and raise a few euro for charity.
    To register and for more details log on to www.carrickmacross.ie

    Where is carrickmaccross? doubt my twin will go with me


  • #58
    cassid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 811 ✭✭✭cassid


    The hubby is a twin but lost his sister at birth, she was the bigger baby, apparently he was tiny. Our first pregnancy were twins but we sadly lost them, not a good history of twins with us.


  • #59
    Niall Twin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭Niall Twin


    It's in Co. Monaghan only an hour from Dublin, home of the 30 year old Duffy quads who were on the late late show last friday and Irish Eurovision winner Eimear Quinn ( no relation to me )


  • #60
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    Niall Twin wrote: »
    It's in Co. Monaghan only an hour from Dublin, home of the 30 year old Duffy quads who were on the late late show last friday and Irish Eurovision winner Eimear Quinn ( no relation to me )

    Wow home of a 90's eurovision winner.
    And home to 4 people who were on the Late late show once.
    Wow you're selling it so well, Carrickmacross sounds amazing

    :rolleyes:


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  • #61
    Niall Twin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭Niall Twin


    It sure is


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