Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]
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P-Jay said:
You may not be a million miles away from the truth there.
They've invariably got a Pet they love too much, which gets treated like a baby when it suits them but I also know they think about out chaotic lives,
WELL! It's funny you should say that.They've invariably got a Pet they love too much, which gets treated like a baby when it suits them but I also know they think about out chaotic lives,
I work a night shift so our 2 aren't sat in the house alone all day.
They're no bother, don't get anxiety/tear the house up etc but I just prefer it this way.
That's our house rabbit, Roger, on the sofa, too.
I'd literally do anything for this dog.
Tyre Tread said:
SilverSixer said:
... If I'd have been told about the first 7 years before it happened, I'd have smashed my own knackers flat with a meat tenderiser. ...
Geuine 
ThanksFew have mentioned how tired they were. I thought I knew what tired meant. In the 70s I had competed internationally in rallying. Those days were not the sprint events of today. You were going, and really going, day and night. 36 hour sessions, few hours sleep then another 36 hours non stop.
Work wise I'd pulled a couple of 48 hour jobs, even one 72 hour one with the opportunity for a few hours kip.
Oh yes I knew what being tired was all about.
So wrong. Never been so tired in my life. It's the unremitting broken night after night, 3 years of it till we fathomed it out.
We considered ourselves a pair of reasonably intelligent sensible adults. Gibbering wrecks in 48 hours from bringing her home.
You have all the books, this works, that works, midwife days this, health visitor says no that's rubbish, this is what you do. Nobody bloody knows. You have to work it out for yourself.
Yep, knackers, meat tenderiser, good advice.
Edited by FiF on Tuesday 20th June 07:15
glazbagun said:
Are the Daimler of Daimler Benz in any way related to the company that made the Dart and became badge engineered Jaguars?
the British company licensed the name way back in the beginning from Gottlieb Daimler's company, they were later bought by BSA then later again bought by Jaguar German Daimler merged with Karl Benz's company after that original deal
TheLordJohn said:
Thanks for the Dads honesty - i don't want kids (I'm 29 and wife is 33) and we're sick to death of our peer group telling us our life won't be complete until we've had them.
I think they know they've ruined their life and wish us to follow suit.
Well. I wouldn't say they've "ruined" my life. My life is what it is and I love the children dearly.I think they know they've ruined their life and wish us to follow suit.
But nobody should have any regrets, either way. Do what you like, let the dice fall as they may. The only people I really feel sorry for are those who want to have children and try, but fail. I know a few of those, it's hard.
SilverSixer said:
TheLordJohn said:
Thanks for the Dads honesty - i don't want kids (I'm 29 and wife is 33) and we're sick to death of our peer group telling us our life won't be complete until we've had them.
I think they know they've ruined their life and wish us to follow suit.
Well. I wouldn't say they've "ruined" my life. My life is what it is and I love the children dearly.I think they know they've ruined their life and wish us to follow suit.
But nobody should have any regrets, either way. Do what you like, let the dice fall as they may. The only people I really feel sorry for are those who want to have children and try, but fail. I know a few of those, it's hard.
schmunk said:
FiF said:
SilverSixer said:
The only people I really feel sorry for are those who want to have children and try, but fail.
Seconded, and it's something that's inadvertently shoved in their face repeatedly. sorry...
FiF said:
schmunk said:
FiF said:
SilverSixer said:
The only people I really feel sorry for are those who want to have children and try, but fail.
Seconded, and it's something that's inadvertently shoved in their face repeatedly. sorry...
Why must an insect bite itch? Why can't they just have their bit of blood without injecting something which irritates the bitee? Surely this is contrary to evolution and survival of the fittest, as those of use who get bitten actively look to kill the creatures which bite, because being bitten is unpleasant. Surely if they left a gentle scent of lavender or bought us an ice cream or half a lager or something, we wouldn't try to kill them?
b
ds seem particularly keen on my feet and ankles at the moment.
b
ds seem particularly keen on my feet and ankles at the moment.SilverSixer said:
Why must an insect bite itch? Why can't they just have their bit of blood without injecting something which irritates the bitee? Surely this is contrary to evolution and survival of the fittest, as those of use who get bitten actively look to kill the creatures which bite, because being bitten is unpleasant. Surely if they left a gentle scent of lavender or bought us an ice cream or half a lager or something, we wouldn't try to kill them?
bds seem particularly keen on my feet and ankles at the moment.
The itch is the after effect. The insects which bite most commonly, such as mosquitoes, will give you a small amount of anesthetic so that you don't feel them biting you at all. b
ds seem particularly keen on my feet and ankles at the moment.What you are itching is the after effect of that anesthetic because you now have broken skin which is inflamed by the presence of whatever crap the mosquito gives you.
It doesn't have enough anesthetic to stop you feeling it forever, that would potentially kill you and starve them of their host altogether
SilverSixer said:
But this is my point. They are injecting something which is causing a reaction and likely to make us want to kill them. and I do, When I can catch the fkers, with great glee.
Surely nature should be finding a better arrangement for both sides?
Well no - we have developed the itching as much as they have developed the taste for blood. but clearly evolution hasn't got far enough yet to work the itching out, or to get rid of mosquitoes...kers, with great glee.Surely nature should be finding a better arrangement for both sides?
TheLordJohn said:
WELL! It's funny you should say that.
I work a night shift so our 2 aren't sat in the house alone all day.
They're no bother, don't get anxiety/tear the house up etc but I just prefer it this way.
That's our house rabbit, Roger, on the sofa, too.
This picture leads me onto another question, how the heck do you train a rabbit not to crap in the house or do they just pick a corner?I work a night shift so our 2 aren't sat in the house alone all day.
They're no bother, don't get anxiety/tear the house up etc but I just prefer it this way.
That's our house rabbit, Roger, on the sofa, too.
Something I've wondered for a long time, why do foreign drains smell?
As a kid my abiding memory of stopping in a Brittany on the way back to the ferry was the aroma of the drains. Then last week I was in the Czech Republic in a town north west of Prague and the drains were whiffing there too.
Do we just have superior Roman plumbing to our European brothers, or is their poo just more potent than ours?
As a kid my abiding memory of stopping in a Brittany on the way back to the ferry was the aroma of the drains. Then last week I was in the Czech Republic in a town north west of Prague and the drains were whiffing there too.
Do we just have superior Roman plumbing to our European brothers, or is their poo just more potent than ours?
Cyder said:
Something I've wondered for a long time, why do foreign drains smell?
As a kid my abiding memory of stopping in a Brittany on the way back to the ferry was the aroma of the drains. Then last week I was in the Czech Republic in a town north west of Prague and the drains were whiffing there too.
Do we just have superior Roman plumbing to our European brothers, or is their poo just more potent than ours?
I was told in Barca anyway it's not drains per-se, they use grey water to hose down the streets in the morning - well that's what I took from the conversation anyway - I was drunk and my Spanish isn't very good. As a kid my abiding memory of stopping in a Brittany on the way back to the ferry was the aroma of the drains. Then last week I was in the Czech Republic in a town north west of Prague and the drains were whiffing there too.
Do we just have superior Roman plumbing to our European brothers, or is their poo just more potent than ours?
TheLordJohn said:
WELL! It's funny you should say that.
I work a night shift so our 2 aren't sat in the house alone all day.
They're no bother, don't get anxiety/tear the house up etc but I just prefer it this way.
That's our house rabbit, Roger, on the sofa, too.
This picture leads me onto another question, how the heck do you train a rabbit not to crap in the house or do they just pick a corner?I work a night shift so our 2 aren't sat in the house alone all day.
They're no bother, don't get anxiety/tear the house up etc but I just prefer it this way.
That's our house rabbit, Roger, on the sofa, too.
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