Things that you don't understand

[GWW]

I don't understand why anyone would ever get a pre-paid funeral.

What a rip-off.

It's bollocks. I hate those ads, too. I said to Mr McSpaz that when I died he could save on funeral expenses if he just put me in a boat and set me on fire and pushed me off down Myponga Creek. He said 'Settle down babe, you're not Boromir.'

I know, just so many ads for them these days, Life Insurance too.

Life Insurance may be fair enough, it may serve a purpose, I don't know enough that industry.

But prepaid funerals - the funeral should just get paid out of the estate, assuming the deceased person has some assets.

Its just one big con I reckon.

[Squids]

They are useful for perons with not many liquid assets.

[Footy Chick]

so we are on our high horse because we want the best possible care for the unborn child to be born fit and healthy?

No, put your listening ears on Johno,what I was trying to say was that the odd cigarette (not a pack a day) or a glass of wine per week with dinner is not going to make a child be born with 3 toes and 4 heads.

Chances are, if your parents smoked, they probably did right though our pregnancies (depending on how old your are) and we're not deformed or harmed in anyway.

I wouldnt encourage smoking and drinking during pregnancy, however I wouldn't begrudge myself or anyone else after the safe period.

[Johno6]

my mum smoked and drank for my siblings but not me...... imagine how bad they are then!


p.s sorry FC i am still having hearing problems, antibiotics arent working (true story)

[Booney]

so we are on our high horse because we want the best possible care for the unborn child to be born fit and healthy?

No, put your listening ears on Johno,what I was trying to say was that the odd cigarette (not a pack a day) or a glass of wine per week with dinner is not going to make a child be born with 3 toes and 4 heads.

Chances are, if your parents smoked, they probably did right though our pregnancies (depending on how old your are) and we're not deformed or harmed in anyway.

I wouldnt encourage smoking and drinking during pregnancy, however I wouldn't begrudge myself or anyone else after the safe period.

Well, thats how you see it.

[Booney]

why some females smoke whilst pregnant.....

My mate did that. I wasn't happy with her. Finally she said she'd given up - I was thinking, you're eight months pregnant, IT'S A BIT LATE NOW! Since then, she's taken it up again.

Effing do-gooders...seriously. ( I mean in life in general, not you Fisho )

My best mate has 3 kids, she smoked and drank (not to excess of course) right throughout her first pregnancy but not with her other 2.

CHild no 1. is fit and healthy while child 2 has had health issues all his life (including leukemia) and child 3 has an immune deficency.

While doctors recommend women give up smoking during pregnancy, it's quite often said it is better to have the odd one every now and again if the need arises to avoid unneccessary stress on the mother and baby.

Now taking drugs while pregnant... how about we get on our high horses about this subject...because THAT is despicable!

Tabacco and alcohol are not drugs?





*Just winding you up*

[mighty_tiger_79]

they arent drugs, the govt receive taxes, so that makes it ok!!

[Psyber]

they arent drugs, the govt receive taxes, so that makes it ok!!

During the financial crisis of the late 1980s one of my patients, who used to hallucinate regularly but was still very bright, suggested, jokingly, an economic solution that involved the government installing a running for profit Poker machines and Heroin dispensers mounted on every street corner. These days I guess they would have to add Coke, Meth, and E. dispensers too.

[fisho mcspaz]

why some females smoke whilst pregnant.....

My mate did that. I wasn't happy with her. Finally she said she'd given up - I was thinking, you're eight months pregnant, IT'S A BIT LATE NOW! Since then, she's taken it up again.

Effing do-gooders...seriously. ( I mean in life in general, not you Fisho )

My best mate has 3 kids, she smoked and drank (not to excess of course) right throughout her first pregnancy but not with her other 2.

CHild no 1. is fit and healthy while child 2 has had health issues all his life (including leukemia) and child 3 has an immune deficency.

While doctors recommend women give up smoking during pregnancy, it's quite often said it is better to have the odd one every now and again if the need arises to avoid unneccessary stress on the mother and baby.

Now taking drugs while pregnant... how about we get on our high horses about this subject...because THAT is despicable!

hehe all good FC

I smoked a couple of cigarettes when I was pregnant with my first, and had a few drinks throughout, as I did with my second. Didn't know I was pregnant either time initially - both were unplanned - so I reckon I had a couple of wild nights out on the piss before I found out. Luckily I found out quite early both times. And I was also lucky in that I found it easy to give up smoking because of the morning sickness - I couldn't even look at cigarettes, and secondhand smoke made me chuck. Both my kids were born healthy - definitely no issues there. They were both big boys as well - my eldest was 9lb 2oz. Couldn't walk for three weeks after I plopped him out.

Drugs when pregnant - hmmmm, I'm just trying to think if I DID take any. Not marijuana or anything, I mean prescription drugs. I reckon I did take a few Panadeine Forte in the week before Luke was born, but the head obstetrician at Flinders recommended it so I guess it was safe. I was in constant sharp pain - a physio told me it was something to do with how Angus was so big at birth, he'd done some permanent damage to my pelvis or something around that area - and I couldn't walk very well and I spent a lot of nights awake, biting a pillow so I wouldn't scream. The Panadeine Forte did bugger-all, though, so I might as well have not taken it. My mate's brother's missus took a s***load of drugs with all three of her pregnancies, bloody stupid selfish moll. Marijuana and opioids mainly, but I think she did a bit of smack too. Her eldest was born with cerebral palsy, although I don't know if that was related to her drug use; her second was born normal, and her youngest was born dead. Since then, my mate's brother has been diagnosed with Huntington's and has given up drugs completely so he can enjoy whatever time he's got left, but his missus still does the smack. When they have people around, she won't even come out of the bedroom because she'd rather be in there with her syringe than out entertaining her guests. But there's not a thing anyone can do to help her; she just doesn't believe that there's anything wrong with what she's doing.

[smac]

Why are they called cowboys when they ride horses? (from the littlest miss smac).

[Squids]

Why are they called cowboys when they ride horses? (from the littlest miss smac).

They ride horses on cattle drives.

[Pseudo]

Why are they called cowboys when they ride horses? (from the littlest miss smac).

'coz they shag cows.

[smac]

Why are they called cowboys when they ride horses? (from the littlest miss smac).

'coz they shag cows.

Sounds more plausible than the previous answer.

I'll tell her now.

[Psyber]

It's bollocks. I hate those ads, too. I said to Mr McSpaz that when I died he could save on funeral expenses if he just put me in a boat and set me on fire and pushed me off down Myponga Creek. He said 'Settle down babe, you're not Boromir.'

I know, just so many ads for them these days, Life Insurance too.
Life Insurance may be fair enough, it may serve a purpose, I don't know enough that industry.
But prepaid funerals - the funeral should just get paid out of the estate, assuming the deceased person has some assets.
Its just one big con I reckon.

These insurance ads are irritating but in my later life when I knew my wife was too ill to work I carried life insurance sufficient to leave her the house debt free.
(As much as I resented giving the money to the insurance company.)

However, I do see a case for a pre-paid funeral as you get older and death is potentially more imminent, especially if you know you and the family won't have an easy to release $5K or $6K on hand in the event of sudden death, but you may be better off just putting that much into a bank account designated a funeral account if you can trust yourself not to spend it, as your bank can release that for your personal expense of a funeral immediately and don't have to hold it for probate like money going to heirs.

[Mr66]

I don't understand people criticising freedom of speech.

[footy1992]

why some females smoke whilst pregnant.....

My mate did that. I wasn't happy with her. Finally she said she'd given up - I was thinking, you're eight months pregnant, IT'S A BIT LATE NOW! Since then, she's taken it up again.

Effing do-gooders...seriously. ( I mean in life in general, not you Fisho )

My best mate has 3 kids, she smoked and drank (not to excess of course) right throughout her first pregnancy but not with her other 2.

CHild no 1. is fit and healthy while child 2 has had health issues all his life (including leukemia) and child 3 has an immune deficency.

While doctors recommend women give up smoking during pregnancy, it's quite often said it is better to have the odd one every now and again if the need arises to avoid unneccessary stress on the mother and baby.

Now taking drugs while pregnant... how about we get on our high horses about this subject...because THAT is despicable!

hehe all good FC

I smoked a couple of cigarettes when I was pregnant with my first, and had a few drinks throughout, as I did with my second. Didn't know I was pregnant either time initially - both were unplanned - so I reckon I had a couple of wild nights out on the piss before I found out. Luckily I found out quite early both times. And I was also lucky in that I found it easy to give up smoking because of the morning sickness - I couldn't even look at cigarettes, and secondhand smoke made me chuck. Both my kids were born healthy - definitely no issues there. They were both big boys as well - my eldest was 9lb 2oz. Couldn't walk for three weeks after I plopped him out.

Drugs when pregnant - hmmmm, I'm just trying to think if I DID take any. Not marijuana or anything, I mean prescription drugs. I reckon I did take a few Panadeine Forte in the week before Luke was born, but the head obstetrician at Flinders recommended it so I guess it was safe. I was in constant sharp pain - a physio told me it was something to do with how Angus was so big at birth, he'd done some permanent damage to my pelvis or something around that area - and I couldn't walk very well and I spent a lot of nights awake, biting a pillow so I wouldn't scream. The Panadeine Forte did bugger-all, though, so I might as well have not taken it. My mate's brother's missus took a s***load of drugs with all three of her pregnancies, bloody stupid selfish moll. Marijuana and opioids mainly, but I think she did a bit of smack too. Her eldest was born with cerebral palsy, although I don't know if that was related to her drug use; her second was born normal, and her youngest was born dead. Since then, my mate's brother has been diagnosed with Huntington's and has given up drugs completely so he can enjoy whatever time he's got left, but his missus still does the smack. When they have people around, she won't even come out of the bedroom because she'd rather be in there with her syringe than out entertaining her guests. But there's not a thing anyone can do to help her; she just doesn't believe that there's anything wrong with what she's doing.

Big? My brother was 11pound 3 ounces and almost killed mum. I was the smallest of 3 coming in at 9 pound 2 ounces, both natural births also! My brother is 6foot 5 at 17 now though...

[fisho mcspaz]

Effing do-gooders...seriously. ( I mean in life in general, not you Fisho )

My best mate has 3 kids, she smoked and drank (not to excess of course) right throughout her first pregnancy but not with her other 2.

CHild no 1. is fit and healthy while child 2 has had health issues all his life (including leukemia) and child 3 has an immune deficency.

While doctors recommend women give up smoking during pregnancy, it's quite often said it is better to have the odd one every now and again if the need arises to avoid unneccessary stress on the mother and baby.

Now taking drugs while pregnant... how about we get on our high horses about this subject...because THAT is despicable!

hehe all good FC

I smoked a couple of cigarettes when I was pregnant with my first, and had a few drinks throughout, as I did with my second. Didn't know I was pregnant either time initially - both were unplanned - so I reckon I had a couple of wild nights out on the piss before I found out. Luckily I found out quite early both times. And I was also lucky in that I found it easy to give up smoking because of the morning sickness - I couldn't even look at cigarettes, and secondhand smoke made me chuck. Both my kids were born healthy - definitely no issues there. They were both big boys as well - my eldest was 9lb 2oz. Couldn't walk for three weeks after I plopped him out.

Drugs when pregnant - hmmmm, I'm just trying to think if I DID take any. Not marijuana or anything, I mean prescription drugs. I reckon I did take a few Panadeine Forte in the week before Luke was born, but the head obstetrician at Flinders recommended it so I guess it was safe. I was in constant sharp pain - a physio told me it was something to do with how Angus was so big at birth, he'd done some permanent damage to my pelvis or something around that area - and I couldn't walk very well and I spent a lot of nights awake, biting a pillow so I wouldn't scream. The Panadeine Forte did bugger-all, though, so I might as well have not taken it. My mate's brother's missus took a s***load of drugs with all three of her pregnancies, bloody stupid selfish moll. Marijuana and opioids mainly, but I think she did a bit of smack too. Her eldest was born with cerebral palsy, although I don't know if that was related to her drug use; her second was born normal, and her youngest was born dead. Since then, my mate's brother has been diagnosed with Huntington's and has given up drugs completely so he can enjoy whatever time he's got left, but his missus still does the smack. When they have people around, she won't even come out of the bedroom because she'd rather be in there with her syringe than out entertaining her guests. But there's not a thing anyone can do to help her; she just doesn't believe that there's anything wrong with what she's doing.

Big? My brother was 11pound 3 ounces and almost killed mum. I was the smallest of 3 coming in at 9 pound 2 ounces, both natural births also! My brother is 6foot 5 at 17 now though...

11 pounds 3 and a natural birth?! WHOA. And I thought I had it hard! Mine were both natural births and I couldn't walk for some time after Angus was born. And I had to sit on an inflatable ring for weeks. Had about thirty stitches and was on the oxycodone for a month. Couldn't take a piss unless I was sitting in a saline bath. I'm glad he wasn't 11 pounds - I'd probably be in a wheelchair still.

[dedja]

When my 2nd daughter was born (13 years ago) there was a polynesian baby born at the same hospital that weighed in at over 13 pounds.

We nicknamed him the King of Tonga.

[mighty_tiger_79]

When my 2nd daughter was born (13 years ago) there was a polynesian baby born at the same hospital that weighed in at over 13 pounds.

We nicknamed him the King of Tonga.

arranged marriage???

[mickey]

I know me math ain't that crash hot... but even I can do better than this...