Fewer Bachelors

faceman · 21-01-2008 11:26PM

I always preferred heinz over batchelors. Not sure what that has to be with being married though.

Capt'n Midnight · 22-01-2008 12:12AM

faceman wrote: »

I always preferred heinz over batchelors. Not sure what that has to be with being married though.

are there more than 57 types of bachelors

faceman · 22-01-2008 12:26AM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

are there more than 57 types of bachelors

I thought that was heinz?

rubadub · 22-01-2008 12:27AM

Moonbaby wrote: »

Not if your going to marry me or a hot foreign chick. (btw I think your safe where I am concerned)
Living together for up on a decade for the sake of being able to afford the helicopter, chocolate fountain and the chair covers is not for me.

i think he's more worried about losing his gaff and/or everything he's ever bought in his life

exactly, nothing to do with saving for a good wedding, just preventing the hassle of a bad divorce.

Do "hot foreign chicks" like to marry soon after meeting people? or somehow opposed to moving in to live with a man? news to me, and I take it the ugly ones do the opposite?

I cannot understand why more people do not live together longer before marrying, very few go on about "living in sin" anymore, there is no real stigma about an unmarried couple raising kids these days.

If you are planning on living together forever what is 5-10years? unless you are planning to cash in of course...

22-01-2008 12:43AM

constitutionus wrote: »

i think he's more worried about losing his gaff and/or everything he's ever bought in his life

guys do NOT do well in divorce in this country.

in fact i have to say i only know ONE guy in my generation whos happily married. everyone else is seperated or divorced. thems bad odds

I do not know anyone personally who has divorced, I don't use this data to form an assumption that it is unlikely to happen.

From this years census 1,565,016 are married...1,523,527 are on their first marraige. 59,534 are divorced and a furthur 107,263 are separated.

That would be a 90% success rate. Thems bad odds?

rubadub · 22-01-2008 12:48AM

Moonbaby wrote: »

That would be a 90% success rate. Thems bad odds?

In my mind yeah, didnt know it was so bad! now I think people not living with each other first are even crazier. I wonder how much hassle & heartache would have been saved if they had just moved in first and found out they were incompatible. I bet many more are just suffering each other for the sake of keeping up appearances.

sdanseo · 22-01-2008 12:50AM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

are there more than 57 types of bachelors

faceman wrote: »

I thought that was heinz?

It is. That's why he asked I presume.

22-01-2008 05:44AM

rubadub wrote: »

exactly, nothing to do with saving for a good wedding, just preventing the hassle of a bad divorce.

Do "hot foreign chicks" like to marry soon after meeting people? or somehow opposed to moving in to live with a man? news to me, and I take it the ugly ones do the opposite?

I cannot understand why more people do not live together longer before marrying, very few go on about "living in sin" anymore, there is no real stigma about an unmarried couple raising kids these days.

If you are planning on living together forever what is 5-10years? unless you are planning to cash in of course...

Did you ever hear of a thing called a self fulfilling professy?

And I cannot understand why anyone would purposefully tie themselves financially or heaven forbid biologically :eek: to someone, without knowing for certain that they were building their lives on solid base.

I'm a catch. If it going to take some fella the best part of a decade to figure that out, decide that he trusts me and probably won't get bored me. Well thanks, but no thanks. I'd rather be Single, focusing my time and energy on myself, and kissing lot of different species of frogs rather than the one dud.

Have you got any property to protect? I have, would you be quicker to commit if you thought you might get your mitts on half of it?
Do you believe in equal division of property amassed together and child maintance?

As for foreign women, its a completely groundless theory.
My friends central european gf's seem to be more family orientated, have stronger catholic values, are less materialistic and really love their home and miss their families.
For them to stay in Ireland, I think they would need commitment.

juuge · 22-01-2008 04:29PM

In a great majority of cases, country men (farmers) remain bachelors for fear of sharing their farms/ holdings etc. and as the years roll on they become more stubburn in their ways. Shame really as after they die, invariably the farms go to the state or some distant cousin who never gave a toss about them in the first place.

22-01-2008 09:47PM

Or 22 distant and brawling cousins who never gave a ****.
When there is a piece of dirt at stake there is always lots around to have pity on you and keep you company. No matter how cantankerous you are.

Jackz · 22-01-2008 09:55PM

My field.

Susannahmia · 23-01-2008 03:00PM

Well according to Finola Kennedy in the book Cottage to crèche:

“Until 1980 marriage rates in Ireland were relatively low, and there were huge numbers of bachelors or spinsters. This pattern was due to the legacy of the famine, whereby land was so scarce that only one child could inherit the smallholding in each family; the others had to emigrate, enter religious orders, or remain single. It was also due to economic conditions generally, as nobody got married unless they could afford to.”

I’m a social scientist me.:)

Dickie10 · 29-09-2015 12:42PM

wow interesting topic this, in a two mile radius of me there are 8 bachelor farmers rangeing in age from 38-65. there were ten up to a few years ago but these two men met women and had children at age 38 and 47 respectivley. Im just wondering when does one reach bachelor age? when do u go from being a single guy to a bachelor? im 32 and part time farming, im single or am i a bachelor? i suppose i will have to include myself among these 8 men now, is this a very high rate for a two mile radius? i have been getting suspicous looks lately as to my sexual preference because i havent been ever in a relationship with a girl, i think this is quite unfair, i never imagined people would ever even think this way, i wonder why people think this? its usually people who are married or settled with a partner, its very rare that a single person asks me if im single or not?

KERSPLAT! · 29-09-2015 12:44PM

Maybe open up a new thread, this one is about 7 years old, cheers

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