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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by DandNHill
(Post 12485679)
Must be male!
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 12485683)
Because he's hard working and determined?:lol:
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by bats
(Post 12485368)
I remember hearing stuff about not having kids when you are young, they tie you down, stop you travelling, doing things, use up all your money, drain the life out of, wait until you've done everything you want to do, and so on.
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. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 12485723)
"You've done too much, much too young,
Now you're married with a kid, when you should be having fun with me" sang the Specials, 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 |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by bats
(Post 12485368)
I remember hearing stuff about not having kids when you are young, they tie you down, stop you travelling, doing things, use up all your money, drain the life out of, wait until you've done everything you want to do, and so on.
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. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Teaandtoday5
(Post 12485732)
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...
...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." |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 12485747)
Just to repeat a couple of parts of the research I linked to
It might be thought of as being different now. :unsure: 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. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Teaandtoday5
(Post 12485757)
I cba to google atm but a couple of thoughts....
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 12485763)
All good points. I'm not arguing either way, just picking up the point made by Js about whether there's any encouragement to wait and there does appear to be some.
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 12485683)
Because he's hard working and determined?:lol:
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Teaandtoday5
(Post 12485732)
They do all those things whatever age you have them. Who has done everything they want to do by their 30s? Or even 40s?:lol:
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. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by DandNHill
(Post 12486037)
Funny but I’m afraid more because he can’t figure out what he’s doing wrong and won’t read the manual 🤣
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Teaandtoday5
(Post 12485673)
This guy has been tap-tapping away st my downspout for the last two days. There is obviously no grip so he bounces backwards as he pecks, like one of those wind-up toys, until he reaches the bend. He falls/flies off, but comes back for another try a bit later.
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 |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by daveincolchester
(Post 12486073)
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 |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Teaandtoday5
(Post 12486089)
We had speculated about some sort of territory signalling thing, but hadn't clicked it might be mating season.:o I'll buy him some nachos tomorrow!
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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. :thumbup:
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. :sneaky: |
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