TBW

I'm just dreading the "equal pay" debate to pop up again after the tournament if England win it.

I'm gunna break the mould and say tablets ******* suck. You've specifically said "not phone" above and a tablet is just a big phone without a SIM card. My nan told me a few years ago she wanted a new device and I told her again and again GET A LAPTOP and she's regretted ignoring me ever since. Typing emails on a touchscreen, typing anything in a word document or if she ever wants the flexibility to use Excel or anything the user experience on a tablet is poor at best. If she wants a laptop, get her a laptop. Nothing beats using a mouse and having an actual keyboard. That said, for a laptop you probably don't need to worry too much on requirements as she won't be using it for big things like gaming so getting advice at Currys will probably do the job. Usual thing, don't go too expensive, don't go too cheap. Pick a brand you trust the name of. You're probably good. Additionally... I'm not sure you realise what a Fire Stick is. Or, you maybe got the name wrong and mean Fire Tab. A Fire STICK plugs into your TV to watch Prime Video and such.

I simply get the link to the video and then Google Search 'download youtube video' and there are a number of websites that'll help you out. Same for 'download facebook video' or 'download twitter video'. You get the idea.

So Nathan Baker counts as one of the 17...

You saying it's okay to not?

Go Germany!

As long as you can love them EQUALLY to your bio-kid, good stuff. If you don't think that's possible, don't.

So, if you'd had to adopt you would have told the kid they were your very last option and you had to settle too? I've seen adopted kids post about it online before about how they never felt good enough and were a last option or they never wanted to go to a family who tried IVF because of it. It's a pretty common thing. So again, what's so great about your own genetics? Are you Usain Bolt? If so, fair enough. His genetics are probably pretty superior. Also, having a baby isn't an accomplishment. It's a pretty normal thing people do. Running a marathon is an accomplishment, writing a play is an accomplishment, getting a promotion at work is an accomplishment, being five years sober is an accomplishment. Having a baby... That's just a thing humans do. Not sure if you know about how babies are made but doing it into a tissue and stuffing it inside the mother isn't how it works, so leaving me on the tissue? I was never on it. I was an accident though so there's that, if you wanna play with that fact for lolz. ANYWAY, I feel we've got very side-tracked from the original topic and have very different values guys so, feel free to DM if you wish instead ?? It's not a dig purely at IVF, just the excess of people the world has in general. IVF was just an easy way of thinking about people going to a business to have children. So felt like it could be, in a dystopian future, be massively commercialised for profit.

Think our media team have done just fine...

Why one or the other? Why not both? What's so great about your genetics that the world needs them? If the IVF would have failed would you have had adopted? If so, that adopted child would've known that you tried everything possible not to have to resort to taking them home because they weren't good enough due to not having your genetics inside of them. It's weird people feel the need to force their genetics out and pay a premium to do it. I've had family do it too and happily tell them they're selfish and self-obsessed for it.

Nice. So you agree that I'm right in the rest of it then. Glad we cleared that up.

Agreed. Ultimately more and more births means a higher likelihood of seeing that suffering sooner so I'm all for at least recognising that point and the selfishness of having large families. For me, a kid would be cool, sure. But there's a good chance things get pretty shit in the next 50-70 years and knowing that and having them anyway seems a bit ****** up. The most unselfish thing you can do for your kids at this point is to never have them in the first place. I do recognise the huge companies causing a lot of issue too though, but... we keep buying from them and birthing more customers for them so good luck turning that around.

Focus only on the twins part then. Not the actual point I've made throughout, only the side note.

Have since spotted this which makes it not quite so bad but, still...

Stupid idea but the "away" kit is way better than the home.

Ticket to the game for the kid and three extra tickets included though. Take that off of the total and it's not so bad as long as you're not a STH.

It absolutely makes sense. Creating an extra person who is going to live 70-100 years is a much bigger burden on the Earth than someone using a car. Promoting IVF promotes having children where there would otherwise be no children, thus increasing the population and adding to emissions to a much harsher degree... especially if the child goes on to have kids, and they do, and they do and so on. I believe it's a 40-60% likelihood that a successful IVF pregnancy results in twins too, so double the emissions.

Haha think my dad told me about that before. For me the worst I had it was hearing the scores over the PA and having to check out the league tables in the programme.

Read the first bullet-point.

Because some people are old... see below. You're both old.

Could be worse. They could be advertising IVF. Via Wynes & Nicholas, Environmental Research Letters the below would (per person taking action) save the specified number of tonnes of CO2 per year... Have one less child, 58.6 Live car free, 2.4 Avoid one transatlantic flight, 1.6 Buy green energy, 1.47 Switch electric car to car free, 1.15 Eat a plant based diet, 0.82 Replace typical car with hybrid, 0.52 Wash clothes in cold water, 0.25 Hang dry clothes, 0.21 Recycle, 0.21 Upgrade light bulbs, 0.1

Yeah, still doubt they're going to hand out a ban to the ten year old kids running on the pitch begging for shirts.

I stopped changing my team around November last season. See how long I last this time...