Random stuff - the anything else thread
Apr 20th 2018, 1:49 pm
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Now you're married with a kid, when you should be having fun
with me"
sang the Specials, while contemporaneously Squeeze lamented getting someone Up the Junction
"the Railway Arms went missing" they sobbed
Just two 1970s popular culture references to the wisdom of having children later in life.
There have always been lots of warnings not to have children too soon, more so than having them too late. What can you do though? Still people keep ****ing.
Apr 20th 2018, 2:02 pm
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
He's just a stereotype
He drinks his age in pints
He has girls every night
But he doesn't really exist
He spends his weekends with a load of blokes
He forgets the punchline when he tells a joke
He wants to stay out, he don't want to go home
'Til his nicotine fingers are stuffed down his throat
Apr 20th 2018, 2:06 pm
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
it might be true that people are having kids later, but that has come with plenty of publicity/ news reports/ studies published about the increased health risks, and decreasing fertility if you leave it till later in life. It must be just about impossible to claim to have been unaware.
I had my oldest, 20 years ago, at the age of 29 (far too young). My Mum had been telling me for at least a few years not to leave it too late.
Apr 20th 2018, 2:34 pm
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...recent wide-ranging studies have found significant long-term benefits in waiting to have babies....found that women who had their last child after the age of 33 are more likely to live to 95. In fact, researchers reported that these women had twice the chance of living to 95 or older than those who had their last child before their 30th birthday....Researchers at the University of Southern California found that women have “better brainpower after menopause” if they had their last baby after age 35....Children born to older mothers stayed in the educational system longer, did better on standardized tests, and were more likely to go to college than their peers who were born to younger mothers.
And a bit in the link I didn't paste - "Advances in fertility technology, such as in vitro fertilization, egg freezing, frozen embryos, donor eggs and surrogates, also make it more feasible for women to wait to become mothers until the time is right for them."
Apr 20th 2018, 2:49 pm
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Just to repeat a couple of parts of the research I linked to
It might be thought of as being different now.
And a bit in the link I didn't paste - "Advances in fertility technology, such as in vitro fertilization, egg freezing, frozen embryos, donor eggs and surrogates, also make it more feasible for women to wait to become mothers until the time is right for them."
It might be thought of as being different now.
And a bit in the link I didn't paste - "Advances in fertility technology, such as in vitro fertilization, egg freezing, frozen embryos, donor eggs and surrogates, also make it more feasible for women to wait to become mothers until the time is right for them."
- how much of the health/education benefits are due to the socio-economic groups more likely to leave pregnancy until later?
- health risks are not only to mothers but to babies, e.g. Down's
- I don't believe even the most money-grabbing fertility clinic would claim that any/all of the very expensive and onerous treatments available are a fail safe remedy for leaving it late. They have quite low success rates in a lot of cases.
Apr 20th 2018, 2:54 pm
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Apr 20th 2018, 3:07 pm
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Apr 20th 2018, 11:02 pm
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Apr 20th 2018, 11:06 pm
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They do all those things whatever age you have them. Who has done everything they want to do by their 30s? Or even 40s?
it might be true that people are having kids later, but that has come with plenty of publicity/ news reports/ studies published about the increased health risks, and decreasing fertility if you leave it till later in life. It must be just about impossible to claim to have been unaware.
I had my oldest, 20 years ago, at the age of 29 (far too young). My Mum had been telling me for at least a few years not to leave it too late.
it might be true that people are having kids later, but that has come with plenty of publicity/ news reports/ studies published about the increased health risks, and decreasing fertility if you leave it till later in life. It must be just about impossible to claim to have been unaware.
I had my oldest, 20 years ago, at the age of 29 (far too young). My Mum had been telling me for at least a few years not to leave it too late.
2 in my 20s and 2 in my 30s. So nearly made her happy.
Apr 21st 2018, 12:42 am
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Apr 21st 2018, 1:09 am
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
We had one for a couple of years who used to hammer on the cover of the chimney to our gas fireplace.
He also used to watch until the wife's car came down the laneway on her way home from work, and didn't stop hammering until she got home and went outside to feed him.
He liked nachos.
Not very originally, we called him Woody
Apr 21st 2018, 1:37 am
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It's a woodpecker. They do that to attract partners in the mating season.
We had one for a couple of years who used to hammer on the cover of the chimney to our gas fireplace.
He also used to watch until the wife's car came down the laneway on her way home from work, and didn't stop hammering until she got home and went outside to feed him.
He liked nachos.
Not very originally, we called him Woody
We had one for a couple of years who used to hammer on the cover of the chimney to our gas fireplace.
He also used to watch until the wife's car came down the laneway on her way home from work, and didn't stop hammering until she got home and went outside to feed him.
He liked nachos.
Not very originally, we called him Woody
I'll buy him some nachos tomorrow!
Apr 21st 2018, 12:24 pm
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Apr 21st 2018, 1:32 pm
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
For anyone interested, today's ManU-Spurs cup semi final isn't only on the subscription Sportsnet World, it's on the main Fox channel too. 
I had been expecting to stream from iPlayer, which I may still do, depending who's commentating for Fox and what version of English is used.
I had been expecting to stream from iPlayer, which I may still do, depending who's commentating for Fox and what version of English is used.