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My girlfriend's pregnant.

Congratulations!  That's awesome! 

Thanks. It was unexpected, but you know... these things happen. This isn't actually news, since she's 7 months pregnant, but we didn't know until a few months ago (it's complicated).

is it gonna be a shot gun wedding?

Ironically, this will push wedding plans off to the distant future instead of within 2 years like previously envisioned. Weddings cost money; so do babies.

NOOOO. You should have a major earth-shattering wedding like BushOK.

Seriously, congratulations on becoming a daddy.

[Countess Anya of the North Parish]

My girlfriend's pregnant.

Congratulations!  That's awesome! 

Thanks. It was unexpected, but you know... these things happen. This isn't actually news, since she's 7 months pregnant, but we didn't know until a few months ago (it's complicated).

is it gonna be a shot gun wedding?

Ironically, this will push wedding plans off to the distant future instead of within 2 years like previously envisioned. Weddings cost money; so do babies.

oh makes sense. never thought of that before. hmmm.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

My girlfriend's pregnant.

Congratulations!  That's awesome!  I'm sorry. That's horrible

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

My girlfriend's pregnant.

Congrats and wish you the best (really really wish you the best, you'll need it)

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Also, while swimming I was attacked by a damn tern

[J. J.]

Also, while swimming I was attacked by a damn tern

What did you do to him?

[Hatman 🍁]

My girlfriend's pregnant.

Congratulations!  That's awesome! 

Thanks. It was unexpected, but you know... these things happen. This isn't actually news, since she's 7 months pregnant, but we didn't know until a few months ago (it's complicated).

is it gonna be a shot gun wedding?

Ironically, this will push wedding plans off to the distant future instead of within 2 years like previously envisioned. Weddings cost money; so do babies.

There's no real reason why you should get married just because of the circumstances.  Unless of course marriage in Canada carries significant economic benefits.

Well, coming from a family with two loving parents, I have seen marriage work. It's not for everyone, but I value the institution. It's why I support gay marriage so much. It's true, I would have preferred to be married before having a baby, but sometimes life doesn't work out like that. And I am glad my parents weren't that judgmental. What's important now is that my girlfriend and I will be great parents, and someday when we can afford it, we'll have an awesome "Oklahoma style" wedding

[Ban my account ffs!]

My girlfriend's pregnant.

YAY

Boy?  Girl?  Gonna be a surprise?  Any names?  DETAILS EARL.  DETAILS.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Ah, time passes. Congratulations

[Хahar 🤔]

Hopefully it doesn't get taken by the police the way the cat did.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Jesus Martha the flies were TURRRIble outside... you know.. the deer flies that buzz around your head and constantly land in your hair and buzz in your ear.  And then it feels like you're being sliced open with a dull knife when they bite...

DOn't let the small size fool you... they're way worse than horse flies

[Hatman 🍁]

Hopefully it doesn't get taken by the police the way the cat did.

lol. That was an idle threat. The cat is fine at our new place.

My girlfriend's pregnant.

YAY

Boy?  Girl?  Gonna be a surprise?  Any names?  DETAILS EARL.  DETAILS.

It's a girl. Name will be Jennifer Beryl Eisner-Washburn

[Хahar 🤔]

You're giving her a hyphenated name?

[Hatman 🍁]

You're giving her a hyphenated name?

Yes, I am a feminist after all

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You're giving her a hyphenated name?

Yes, I am a feminist after all

I find giving a child a long hyphenated last name is just evil on them, forcing them to write out the whole shazam the whole time. I carry my mother's family name as my middle name instead.

[Free Palestine]

You're giving her a hyphenated name?

Yes, I am a feminist after all

Good for you. 

[Хahar 🤔]

Braces are off.

[Hatman 🍁]

You're giving her a hyphenated name?

Yes, I am a feminist after all

I find giving a child a long hyphenated last name is just evil on them, forcing them to write out the whole shazam the whole time. I carry my mother's family name as my middle name instead.

To each their own, I guess. She certainly won't be raised in a way that she would think it's evil, though. She could rebel, though.

[Lunar]

Interesting walk home today from work...  (downtown Manhattan).  Saw multiple people on stretchers, yet I saw an AP story saying there were no injuries?   Those people looked injured, and there were over a dozen ambulances.  

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/08/houston-street-fire-massi_n_640068.html






If you count ambiguous helicopters and news vans, pretty sure there may have been around 100 emergency vehicles without much exaggeration

[Хahar 🤔]

You're giving her a hyphenated name?

Yes, I am a feminist after all

I find giving a child a long hyphenated last name is just evil on them, forcing them to write out the whole shazam the whole time. I carry my mother's family name as my middle name instead.

To each their own, I guess. She certainly won't be raised in a way that she would think it's evil, though. She could rebel, though.

The idea is admirable, but it's just really inconvenient, from what I've heard.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Well, you can always have that official last name but casually use one of them.  I had a friend who had a hyphenated last name.. Risch-Jansen... everybody just called him Risch... but Risch-Jansen isn't that long.  It'd be worse if it was like Oppenheimer-Bromenschenkel or something ridiculous like that.

[Free Palestine]

You're giving her a hyphenated name?

Yes, I am a feminist after all

I find giving a child a long hyphenated last name is just evil on them, forcing them to write out the whole shazam the whole time. I carry my mother's family name as my middle name instead.

To each their own, I guess. She certainly won't be raised in a way that she would think it's evil, though. She could rebel, though.

I don't think the kid would rebel and turn towards meaningless tradition, especially if you raise him or her to question those norms.  If the child is a girl, for example, and she has always used a hyphenated name, she may find it absurd, the notion that she'd have to take someone else's name and have children with a different name.

Well, you can always have that official last name but casually use one of them.  I had a friend who had a hyphenated last name.. Risch-Jansen... everybody just called him Risch... but Risch-Jansen isn't that long.  It'd be worse if it was like Oppenheimer-Bromenschenkel or something ridiculous like that.

That's how it works in the story I'm working on.  Everyone has a dual surname, but in casual usage, they typically just use the name of their same-sex parent.

[Lunar]

Interesting walk home today from work...  (downtown Manhattan).  Saw multiple people on stretchers, yet I saw an AP story saying there were no injuries?   Those people looked injured, and there were over a dozen ambulances.  

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/08/houston-street-fire-massi_n_640068.html



If you count ambiguous helicopters and news vans, pretty sure there may have been around 100 emergency vehicles without much exaggeration

As a side-note, despite living on the top floor of a six-story walk-up [making escape very difficult should a fire occur], I'm much less worried about fires here in NYC than my old haunting grounds in California.  Not much danger of a fire sweeping 500,000 acres here, or -- because my parents' house in California was on a steep hill -- the firefighters deciding to let your house burn because there's a more convenient defensive line that can be drawn uphill from your house.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Your parents live in one of the worst places on earth for forest fires, Lunar.. on a hill, in the forest, in a climate that gets a sh**t ton of rain all winter and then doesn't see any for 3-4 months during the hottest time of year.  sh**t burns.

[Lunar]

Your parents live in one of the worst places on earth for forest fires, Lunar.. on a hill, in the forest, in a climate that gets a sh**t ton of rain all winter and then doesn't see any for 3-4 months during the hottest time of year.  sh**t burns.

Well, it's where I grew up.  I like the wet winters [beats the hell out of humid summers], but yeah, we live in a timber box.  Fire marshals regularly show up to tell us to clean the pine needles out of our gutters or to store our wood farther away from the house

Fires are pretty much the only natural disaster I've been raised to remotely car about.