Eh

[liadnan]

Current BBC News rolling headline: For the first time, more women after having babies in their 30s than younger. Copied and pasted.

Country, ---> hell, handbasket.

Comments

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Can't see why - bringing up the babies will give them something to do in their middle-youth..

I wonder how long until starting a family in your 40's will be the norm?

Drat, they've taken down the headline. "After having" indeed...

[liadnan]

I wasn't particularly concerned by the substance... (actually inasmuch as I thought about it I assumed that was already true)

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Yes, took me a moment to realise it was their typo, and not yours. Of course, by then I'd gone to all the bother of writing a sensible reply.

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

Yes, I read it and thought "liadnan isn't being his usual eloquent self today, perhaps he is drunk?", then read it again and realised you were quoting. Still had to read it a third time to make sense of it, though!

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

I am beginning to think that one should have kids when one is still in one's teens - it must help in keeping up with the kids.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

My dad was moaning about the fickleness of modern youth last night, and I pointed out that he was 21 when I was born. My mum was 20.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

My mum was 18 when she had me...

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'd want to have a baby in its 30s. Not without an epidural, anyway.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I thought it was having 30 babies at a time...

[chiller.livejournal.com]

Other scrolling BBC headline reads:

An inquest jury records verdict of unlawful killing on Briton in Israel. More soon.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

15 men on a dead man's chest?

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

*swigs rum*

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Yo-ho-ho, Merry Christmas!

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Jeez! No need to fabricate such morbid tales. All that happened was that someone blew up the ladies straddling the Briton.

[chiller.livejournal.com]

What about the "more soon"? ;o)

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Was that "ladies" or "laddies"?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

And it wasn't even in Israel (the killing or the inquest). Standard BBC level of accuracy.

[deililly.livejournal.com]

I wish I had something witty to add but laughing too hard at post and comments. That made my afternoon!

[liadnan]

Frankly I wasn't really expecting that many comments on a one-liner...

[deililly.livejournal.com]

Obviously everyone has been waiting for a post of yours to stretch their wit on :P

(You have been a quiet boy lately. Oddly even though she is a new addition I have been missing Frankie as well on my friends list)

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Just wait until she gets a new computer...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

And you didn't even mention cats...

[owl]

Obviously that headline was written by an Irish(wo)man. (Although 'She's after giving birth on the bathroom floor!' would be better use of the construction.) That doesn't excuse the misplaced modifier, though.

[liadnan]

The Irishism did cross my mind

[fi.livejournal.com]

And mine!