How has mankind managed to perform world-changing feats of engineering and yet not be able to

[Monty91]

find a solution to stop babies pissing all over you when you change their nappy?

Prior to becoming a father, I'd heard it happens occasionally enough for it to be quite funny when it does.

It happens way, way too often to be even remotely funny :-|

[Gunner Since Time Began - born to moan]

[redgunamo]

general idea is that they're to have already done their business when you go to change them. The thingummy is probably on too tight.

You don't know what you're doing basically. Übung macht den Meister.

[Gunner Since Time Began - born to moan]

[Monty91]

[Monty91]

what are you to do? Throw into the equation some hormonal bitch shouting at you and you may as well just bite the bullet and accept your piss-drenched fate.

[redgunamo]

[redgunamo]

Essentially, the arrangement is for your convenience, not your son's.

Have you considered a different hobby?

[Ashberto]

problem?

I could have told you - and probably did - without ever even doing it myself. :shrug:

[redgunamo]

Just like anything, I suppose.

[Classic Jorge]

Ten minutes before you have to be there

[Classic Jorge]

[Monty91]

[redgunamo]

Anything to get them out of the house basically.

[Monty91]

which when there's a pissing baby around is a very bad idea :-(

Of course I was aware. I'm just playing up to the "oh it's so tough" martrydom role that new parents do so well and that non-parents find an endless source of tedium.

[Classic Jorge]

That said, I don't envy you. It was nigh on impossible to find a decent place in london a decade ago.

[Ashberto]

on their own, though. Bolshy middle-class feminism it might be, but I can't help feeling that they have a point.

Anyway, isn't hiring a full-time professional mum rather expensive?

[Classic Jorge]

or something like this, i would imagine.

[redgunamo]

Although blokes were always too slow-witted to realise this.

Anyway, you can't take it with you.

[Ashberto]

In my day we did what we were told, got what we were given, or got a slap. Rightly so.

[Classic Jorge]

[Ashberto]

A modest one-bed in North Islington and a season ticket to the local Carlos-kickaball team is quite enough expense as it is. Worth every penny, of course.

[Ashberto]

to keep up with whatever tyrannical collective fashion demands are being imposed?

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

We've basically gone back to the Edwardian age, when there was no such thing a "young people" or "youth", just mini-adults.

[Ashberto]

Lower Highgate, doncha know.

Or Highgate Newtown as it tried to call itself in the 19th century. Maybe it's because I have a historical perspective, but Holloway is Islington imo. Technically I live within the old manor of Barnsbury which stretches all the way up to the north of the old parish. The manor house was by the site of the Odeon.

[redgunamo]

Those that can help out those that cannot etc.

[Ashberto]

We do still have chimneys? And mines?

[redgunamo]

We are all rolling in it nowadays.

[Ashberto]

is probably one of the finest achievements an individual can make, philosophically.

I'm weird like that. Yet happier perhaps than a footballer who is still not satisfied with a million quid a month. :shrug:

[redgunamo]

[Ashberto]

[redgunamo]

[Peter]

:hehe: