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Spaniel
09:20 / 05.09.07
When should we all start wanking?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
09:27 / 05.09.07
Puberty.

But it's never too late to start! Try my guide to sigil majick, sadly misposted here.
 
 
iamus
10:24 / 05.09.07
Well done Benny and congrats to Mrs. The Ball an' all!

Hrrmmmm... unsure of the etiquette here..... Haus, should me and you just wade back in? Marquis of Queensbury rules? I warn you, I throw a mean right spacebar.


Regardless... I think Barbelith needs another new forum.

The Créche, anyone?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
12:17 / 05.09.07
I just wanna know how your date with that goth girl went! Was she a suicidegirl lol? "Stupidity" sounds like a suicidegirl name

(Slightly more seriously, I'm not sure there's a lot of profit in revisiting it. I stated my basic point of complaint - that you stated that anyone who might want to ask questions of which you did not approve should admit to having "deep-seated issues", and that you subsequently failed to take responsibility for that statement, or indeed acknowledge that you had made it - at the time. We could reprint the PM exhange from days gone by, if would be gratifying, but I am hoping it is not necessary. The softer, gentler me would probably not have reacted so harshly, and perhaps iamus2007 would not have made such an appalling statement in the first place.)
 
 
*
13:58 / 05.09.07
Congratulations and best wishes to all three of you.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:06 / 05.09.07
Hoorah!
 
 
iamus
16:13 / 05.09.07
The softer, gentler me would probably not have reacted so harshly, and perhaps iamus2007 would not have made such an appalling statement in the first place.

Pretty much both counts I reckon. I still think that in my head there was the seed of a valid point there somewhere, just a particularly inept way of putting it across. Bothers me not a jot anymore though. It's all water under the bridge as far as I'm concerned big guy.
 
 
iamus
16:16 / 05.09.07
I was being entirely facetious in the post at the top of the page by the way. We're all smarter, nicer people since then.
 
 
iamus
17:05 / 05.09.07
Oh. And I do apologise for being a cock about it.

Sorry, back to normal service. Well done again, Benny. Best wishes to you all.
 
 
Triplets
17:52 / 05.09.07
How did your wife find the handling of her ring, in the end?
 
 
Benny the Ball
08:01 / 13.11.07
All good - had the 22 week scan yesterday, and it's a boy, all present and accounted for, he looks very healthy, very active and has great legs.

  
 
HCE
13:16 / 14.11.07
Congratulations, BTB! That's a good-looking tiny critter you've got brewing there.
 
 
Spaniel
16:50 / 15.11.07
Ah, none of that I don't want to know nonsense from your corner then, Benny. Knowing the sex helped me bond with the small person before he was born, and, well, birth is a big enough deal as it is. I didn't need any more new information that day, I can tell you.

Some people seem to get a kick out of it, though, so each to their own, I guess.

So, when are you going to start reading to it?
 
 
iamus
17:11 / 15.11.07
Congrats Benny!

You must be pretty bloody excited at the mo!
 
 
Alex's Grandma
18:32 / 15.11.07
Benny,

Congratulations.

Perrhaps everything will be all right.
 
 
The Falcon
21:00 / 15.11.07
Oi!

I like surprises, so - in addition to not wanting to pay the astronomical fee Glasgow hospitals charged for the baby-sexing - I was quite happy to leave it till the moment to find out. I hadn't perhaps factored in the eleven hours of adrenaline that made it quite hard to focus on the genital region of the progeny howevs.
 
 
Spaniel
08:01 / 16.11.07
Fee? Eeek. How much?

The sex business seems to be much more about the run up to baby than the birth itself. At least, that's how not knowing the sex would hold the potential to be entertaining to me, because, frankly, I can't imagine that being presented with the sex of my child would have made his birth any more earth shatteringly amazing. That's the kind of joycore that I can't imagine being bettered.

I suppose some people are very concerned about the sex of their children, but that way lies potentially worrying stuff.
 
 
The Falcon
10:51 / 16.11.07
It was about £200-300 as I recall - I think the city's likely overtaxed for scans, Dundee certainly didn't have the same problems; I wasn't personally very concerned about the gender, but did broadly possess preference for a boy (first, at least; I'd really like a girl if we do it again in the next few years) so I s'pose it was a minor additional bonus to finally after what seemed an age make out a wee tinkler and some frankly, oversized to the untrained eye, balls.
 
 
Spaniel
11:14 / 16.11.07
I was (and still am) determined not to vigorously police gender boundaries and all that, but for some strange reason I was convinced we were going to have a girl, and was ever-so-very slightly disappointed when the scan came back avec le penis.

People who care about this stuff probably should have a scan, imo, because, assuming they're not unhealthily attached to the idea of having a son (I use this example for the obvious reason historically many people have been), it'll give them time to adjust
 
 
Pingle!Pop
11:40 / 16.11.07
What would be really great would be crystal balls for parents. Give them 20 years or so to adjust to their child not being the gender they thought.
 
 
Spaniel
12:36 / 16.11.07
Indeed.
 
 
Benny the Ball
18:25 / 17.03.08
Dear all, Felix Patrick the Ball was born on Sunday the 16th, weighing in at 7lbs 1oz - all is well with baby and mum. He's a beautiful, sleepy, calm, wonderful little fellow!
 
 
Dead Megatron
18:31 / 17.03.08
YAY!!!!, to the Felix Patrick. Best wishes to the whole family

We expect super-cute pictures ASAP!
 
 
grant
18:37 / 17.03.08
Felicitations!
 
 
electric monk
18:42 / 17.03.08
Hey, congrats Benny! Get down with your dad self!
 
 
astrojax69
19:20 / 17.03.08
rock and / or roll. big it up to mr and mrs the ball and welcome to the world, felix THE ball! every good thing to all balls... ; ) you must all be in bliss land about now - long may it remain thus. btw, if he plays at central defence i advise emigrating to australia; we're in need at the moment.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
19:34 / 17.03.08
Congratulations!

This thread's starting to feel a bit like 7 Up, isn't it?
 
 
Dead Megatron
20:00 / 17.03.08
btw, if he plays at central defence i advise emigrating to australia; we're in need at the moment

I call dibs!!!!
 
 
Mistoffelees
20:58 / 17.03.08
Welcome to Earth, Felix!
 
 
Spaniel
21:33 / 17.03.08
Congratulwoots

It's quite a... well... I don't exactly have the words... those first few days had something approaching a dreamlike quality, I can't quite remember them. Magical in the true sense of the word, perhaps.
 
 
Spaniel
21:35 / 17.03.08
(Mine's just collided with his second birthday. Two-year-olds are cool, and very, very funny)
 
 
Benny the Ball
22:41 / 17.03.08
sssshhh! he's sleeping in my arms as i type!

here's a flickr shot of him a few hours old;

flickr felix

thanks all x
 
 
Dead Megatron
22:58 / 17.03.08
Is he doing a kung fu kick in shaolin monk suit???
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:27 / 17.03.08
ok. that kid has reached extreem levels of cute. But I wont tell him that as the flying leapkick pose is a warning to all.

Congrats to the parents!
 
 
Tsuga
01:30 / 18.03.08
Somebody with photoshop skills needs to be putting that baby in front of an appropriate backdrop.
Or maybe that would be disrespectful to the cute little bugger (I mean that in the non-British sense, by the way, or do you all say that innocently at times?). He really is cute, congratulations to the the Balls.
 
  

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