MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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Teagirl - chapeau, fantastically put!
If nothing else I find your wife's writing style extremely grating. "Babe", "mummies", what the ****, is she 5 years old?
well, I'm not much given to oversentimentalism, but I have used similar launguage to my children. I believe there's some evidence that babies actually respond better to such treatment, and observation suggests that some parents find it hard to turn it off in other contexts.
I wonder if breach of trust is not a big issue here and what are suitable privacy boundaries? Were the others aware of the blog before this event, and the personal level of posting, that they might be included?
There is quite a lot of info about the other people present and anyone who is friends with this largish group can probabaly guess who was in attendance. I think if I had been one of the guests I would be unhappy about discussing anything openly with you or your partner from now on. I would not know how much of my own details would be publically posted / critised, because to me it does look critical of your friends choices in child rearing. It reads as if written by someone who feels a little superior and self rightous, but who is lacking in confidence. There are a lot of clingy statements, making her sound overdependent on her child and also childlike wording such as "other new mummies" and both of these would make me question her maturity of outlook - so just going from the single example post I would find it hard to trust her to judge what it is appropriate to extract and post from private conversations. But I dont know your partner or her personality and what you have quoted is out of any other context, so may be very misleading.
Nonk, colostrum tends to be the first production from breast feeding (with all the antibodies in it). After about 3/4 days it's just milk.
If nothing else I find your wife's writing style extremely grating. "Babe", "mummies", what the ****, is she 5 years old?
Yeah, I do know what you mean, surprisingly she is very down to earth verbally (she even has a singlespeed cross bike - v.niche) I blame it on the prevalence of baby talk in the baby forums on t'internet. If she starts talking like that we're gonna have words......
On the plus side, this thread might hit 200 posts, that's a first for me!
There are a lot of clingy statements, making her sound overdependent on her child
in fact surely the exact reverse is the case for all human babies ?
nonk - so you accuse me of talking 'shite' just because you disagree then?
yep.
she even has a singlespeed...
😯
(she even has a singlespeed cross bike - v.niche
You must be trolling surely? 😛
(she even has a singlespeed cross bike - v.niche)
oh, I think I've found her blog ...
[b]Hi bikey babes!
We were out riding with four other couples. Most of them did singlespeed for a little while.
'You're not still a singlespeeder are you?' in a disbelieving tone, and when I replied sheepishly, 'Well, yes, of course' the look of shock on their faces! It kind of made me laugh a little, 1 at me feeling sheepish in my answer, and 2 why would I singlespeed any other way?
I've recently completed my singlespeed training, and I'm eager to help other new singlespeedies out. And yet, a friend asking me if I'm still singlespeeding made me feel sheepish, and kind of like I'm being a bit weird to still be singlespeeding? I know it's thoroughly against the norm to still be singlespeeding at this age, and even more so that my bikey has never ever had a derailleur. It shouldn't be this way though.
My hubby and I were raised soley on singlespeed, and I wouldn't have it any other way for my bikey. Just think of all the money we've saved![/b]
lol @ mudsux
Loving this thread - there's something for everyone in here!
Eddie_fb did I miss it, did you phone mates and sort it?
Did I miss anything much?
Being slightly introverted when making new friends has its advantages sometimes...........
That way I have less chance of inadvertantly mixing with this thrilling circle of folk.
For the record when any of our group of mates piss each other off, we generally MTFU and sort it the next day, generally telling the other how much of a ****t they may have been and more often than not having a laugh about it. Or just ignore it and carry on being mates if it's as trivial as this load of bollox.
Oh, and our daughter wasn't breast fed, is ill no more than any other child, is top of her classes and at 9 years old, with 2 years left there is the fastest athlete in her school.
TAFKASTR - she sounds like a freak in that case!
Although i'm sure she's quite a nice little girl really, in the right light, etc! 😉
Coffeeking "A holey roof" you were lucky.....
🙂 Better late than never, good catch!
Blimey, Simon - that takes me back!
"Discuss the hypothesis Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny"
was an exam question in my finals
Blimey, Simon - that takes me back!"Discuss the hypothesis Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny"
was an exam question in my finals
B@stard. It has taken me nearly a lifetime to forget that.
Anyway - about blogs .. why bother? Well, a lot like a diary really, innit?
"Discuss the hypothesis Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny"
heh, I read it in a book by Piers Anthony - Macroscope 🙂
Since your wife's blog post was on 28 October I surely can't be the only one wondering why you waited 2 weeks to post this on a bike website.
A troll, and evidently a successful one.
allthepies - didn't deny google could find it, especially as I pasted the exact text, just not sure why you wanted to? You may notice it's only her second post, I'm guessing there won't be a third, after all this.....
mudsux - LMAO, not sure whether to show her that or not....
Tracker1972 - A simple phone call sorted it, was pretty sure it was a storm in a teacup, just wanted STW to tell me if I'd missed anything - as someone pointed out, a couple with twins on the way may just be wound up tight on all subjects.
johnners - no trolling, presume it took a week or so before one of my friends to find and read it?
And while I'm sure it will result in more people taking the piss, My wife currently has more working bikes than me, Stumpjumper, Spesh carbon Ruby and a Singlecross. Just so you don't think she spends all her days on twee baby forums!
Cheers for all your comments, cheered us up at least!
Eddie (and Saskia)
Is his wife hot?
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I mean if she looks like that then I would tell your mates to get stuffed.
But if she looks like this:
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Then ring your mates up now and ask for forgiveness.
Shallow me... 🙁
Breast is Best
Oh, looks like I missed the party.
I can open another bottle if you like Sidney, two bottles for £7 up the street.
Infantile insecure twittering skidmark-comparing "hello I'm Me!!!" cretins are responsible for this inglorious nation's demise into a third world shithole. The FACT that maturity has somehow escaped what appears to be the majority of the last three generations of parents has led to a nationscape littered by nappy slipping shit smeared self indulgence and Peter Mandelson to the time of three.
Saskia........
Hmmm - initial thoughts were that it's a hot girls moniker, but my second train of though leads me to bunny boiling, yoghurt knitting bint. Inconclusive evidence methinks.
BTW - my missus is Steph, but when she's naughty it's Stephanie. 😛