Another Irish blogger’s book
Posted on | April 22, 2008 | 58 Comments
Fiona’s book – Trying to Conceive: The Irish Couple’s Guide and is being launched tonight at 6.30pm at the Dublin Bookshop on Grafton St.
It’s all about making babies. I once made a baby out of plasteceine. It got eaten by my dog. Don’t let it happen to you.
Best of luck, Fiona.
On that note if you haven’t already got a copy of The Order of the Phoenix Park (RTE review), head along to Crime Always Pays where the Grand Viz is giving away some copies.
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April 22nd, 2008 @ 12:26 pm
Trying to conceive? Try sex. It’s worked awfully well for me.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 12:36 pm
How is the new arrival?
April 22nd, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
Wouldnt a 14 year old girl called Sharon etc be the best person to write a a book about trying to concieve?
Sure they just have to look at a Hoodied Joyrider and there’s Babies flying out of them….
April 22nd, 2008 @ 1:11 pm
I think I’ll buy this book. Sounds funnier than your one anyway.
Does it have pictures?
April 22nd, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
why the fuck bother wasting money on ivf when there are millions of pre made children in need of a home? people usually prefer the convenience of buying something mass produced in another country by underpaid workers, especially considering the quality of materials (gene puddle) and workmanship in ireland, so why not adopt? people waste thousands upon thousands of euros on fertility treatment just so they can say “i made this”. big fucking deal, give them a medal. if you are so interested in children, stop being a selfish cunt, give some poor unfortunate who is already here a chance at a good life and donate money to an orphanage. for once have to agree with the catholic church that fertility treatment is a grave evil, although not for the wanky “only we are allowed play god” reasons they give.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 1:23 pm
Come off it, Porridge, people want their own kids, not some kind of reject or orphan that you pick up from the pound.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 1:35 pm
I love Chapter 3 entitled
“The 20 bacardi Breezers down the Park Method”
April 22nd, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
not having been a parent, and having no interest in being one either, i just don’t see what attraction of being able to say “i made that, so i did” is in relation to kids. if i were to go the parent route, would definitely be on for adoption. should children stay unloved and unwanted just cos someone else made them? think is selfish and typical of “i want, fuck everyone else” attitude prevalent in the celtic tigger and other “developed” countries. and bastardface seems to have been a reject far as i can remebember…
April 22nd, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
Thanks for the mention Twenty!
Organ Donor – I’m not sure Sharon and Hoodied Joyrider actually understand the mechanics of babymaking, I think that is the problem.
porridge – if you’re so concerned about poor unfortunate orphans, why don’t you adopt? It only takes 5 years and tens of thousands of euro.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
shite.
remember…
need to get a western european fat bastard keyboard or an electric pencil/fingertip sharpener
April 22nd, 2008 @ 1:44 pm
They definitely, dont but maybe if childless couples adopted their approch methods then maybe it would mean some babies being born that are actually wanted and cared for..
April 22nd, 2008 @ 1:45 pm
Porridge, you’ve made me care. You’re a twat. Having your own kid will turn your thoughts upside down. You either don’t have any kids because you are twelve, or you can’t find a woman because your acne is too bad.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
“not having been a parent, and having no interest in being one either…”
doesn’t stop me having an opinion. and maybe you can explain what makes a child you make so much more special and worthy of love than someone else’s.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 1:51 pm
Sure they just have to look at a Hoodied Joyrider and there’s Babies flying out of them….
Speaking of which – just saw this – what a dirtbag.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7360239.stm
April 22nd, 2008 @ 1:53 pm
#12: i’m so glad you care and am really glad you explained why having your own child is so special. having your thoughts turned upside down really sounds like what i’ve been missing in my life. if only i’d known before this…
April 22nd, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
Jesus Christ. The signal to noise ratio on this blog is something else. Starts off well and then you get to the comments. Sometimes if you know absolutely nothing about a subject, it might be wiser to just try and keep schtum for once. Unless you’re the slightest bit funny or amusing with it. I think I better not follow this one. It can only get worse.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 2:05 pm
Porridge – Celtic Tigger?
John B – you might be onto something with this one. Enjoy the evening…
April 22nd, 2008 @ 2:14 pm
very good twenty. not feeling very child/parent friendly right now. going to lie down somewhere for a while.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 2:17 pm
I am a parent and I can kind of see porridges point. There are so many children born into homes of neglect it seems a shame that adoption is not more of an option. It does seem to be to be ultimately selfish that you demand it be of your gene pool. I also don’t see procreation being your god given right. I do understand that the adoption process is certainly laborious but this has got to be to protect the children.
When I lived in the UK I must say I resented taxpayers money being spent on IVF, but if its your own cash, there’s no argument.
Good Luck with the book Fiona!!!
April 22nd, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/modest.html
April 22nd, 2008 @ 2:29 pm
Well, Jo, if that doesn’t cause people to regurgitate nothing will (shit, Nora’ll be after me now…)
April 22nd, 2008 @ 2:50 pm
satire – noun 1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 3:00 pm
Speaking from experience, children are a pain in the hole but in the same way that queueing for pints, getting stuck in traffic and having to go to work are a pain in the hole. It’s just a case of putting up with them until they’re old enough to cut the grass or paint the house.
20 – The new fella is doing great. He just wants to be fed and cleaned which isn’t too much to ask in my book. He’s my current favourite. Everyone thinks that parents don’t have favourites but they do.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
Matt, you should make your children vie for your affection with amusing tricks.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 3:28 pm
Congratulations Fiona, I hope the evening is a great success.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
Fiona, best of luck with the new book. Porridge – you have a legitimate point of view and have obviously made the decision to remain childless (and sane and have retained your ability to do things on the spur of the moment!!). However, in the same way as I’d imagine you have your chair, your parking spot, your TV or your DVD selection of Porridge us people who decided to have our own kids wanted something of ours- our own kids made up of mostly our DNA- largely to call them “our kids”. I have no objection to adoption but my own preference is to see my own two children grow up and see which one is like my missus and which one is like me.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 3:41 pm
if it was easier to adopt how would Twenty feed bastardface? He’d have to move to Portugal.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 3:42 pm
Incidentally – joking aside , Good luck with the book Fiona – it’s an important issue for many thousands of people.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
Well for what it’s worth, not that anyone gives a toss, I’m willing to spend every last penny I have to start our family, and if that’s not enough I’ll start robbing everyone else.
I wish these treatments were not needed but they ,may well be, and I’m as grateful as bejesus that they are available to us should they be needed.
Well done Fiona, I’ll be checking out your site and book a bit later when there a lesser chance of getting fired for doing it…after all, I need the money…
April 22nd, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
Porridge, you’re an eejit. Having yourown kid is very. very special. But hey, I don’t expect you to understand that. yes theer are millions of orphans but I can’t do much about that. Maybe you could help by adopting them or sterlilising yourself
April 22nd, 2008 @ 4:15 pm
“Matt, you should make your children vie for your affection with amusing tricks.”
I’ve been warned off that by the missus ever since I tried to sell them to Fossett’s Circus.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 4:40 pm
went off on a bit of a rant but is touchy subject with me. member of family decided to go fertility route and was complete disaster. stress, money, extreme highs and lows affected everyone in both families involved. maybe not as bad with more self reliant (mentally and emotionally, more than physically or fiscally) couples.
pp – you said it the way i would have if had been all nice and zenlike
anto – fair enough, but i don’t insist on making all my own chairs, parking spot or dvds
fiona – might not agree with fertility treatment, but good luck with the book
going back out to sit in the sun. might be all the summer we get
April 22nd, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
Good luck with the book, Fiona, & more importantly good luck with the baby.
Best of luck to you too Xbox. I’d say your site and Fiona’s have made some of us appreciate how lucky we are.
Matt, never tell you kids that any of them is your favourite. I annoy my sons by referring to Ronaldo as “the son I never had”, and tell my daughter that I’m lucky she’s the ten-year old I’ve to be smarter than.
I may regret this later in life when one of them is on a rooftop polishing their rifle collection…
April 22nd, 2008 @ 4:56 pm
Ronaldo is a total and utter wanker. Your kids must be terrible
April 22nd, 2008 @ 4:58 pm
I’m hoping he means older, fatter, broken kneed Ronaldo and not that other despicable chinless cunt.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 5:02 pm
They don’t fall down as often as he does – not even when they were toddlers.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 5:03 pm
Congratulations on the book, Fiona! I wish you the best of luck with it.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 5:06 pm
Hope you’re reading all this, Nora-from-last-post, sometimes we’re actually very nice people.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 5:19 pm
Best of luck with the book, and the whole messy baby-making thing….
(see, we are nice people)
April 22nd, 2008 @ 5:19 pm
Where is Nora when you need her!! The cunt, wnaker and fucker count is actually quite low today due to the nature of the subject.
Porridge…enjoy the sun in what I’m sure is your garden…
April 22nd, 2008 @ 5:20 pm
Off to watch Chelski v the scum. I don’t know who I want to lose more as long as there are five red cards and a broken leg or four…
April 22nd, 2008 @ 5:21 pm
Give me a puppy any day.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 5:34 pm
Fuck you Anto ya cunt.
Comon the Pool
April 22nd, 2008 @ 5:45 pm
I have to agree with Peadar, C’mon the ‘Pool.
Regarding the other semi-final, I actually have no bias against Man Utd.
I just hate their fans, who are mostly cunts
April 22nd, 2008 @ 5:59 pm
I fucking hate united because of their arsehole fans.
Barca will destroy them.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 7:03 pm
Don’t you Irish have your own football teams to call “cunts.”
April 22nd, 2008 @ 7:07 pm
i was really hoping chelsea’d win the league in the last few games, but that big bastard heskey ruined it.
hate liverpool most though.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 7:08 pm
I’m a neutral but usually in games like this I cheer for Liverpool because I don’t want to think of John Peel being disappointed.
Same as when he was alive really.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 7:09 pm
Did I ever mention that soccer is for latent homosexuals?
Well I won’t bother then.
Morris dancing, now there’s a mans sport.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 7:09 pm
Anyone see that in today’s news about that priest in Brazil who has vanished out into the Atlantic under a very large bunch of helium party balloons. I am sorry but you couldn’t fuckin’ invent it. I pissed myself. It was to raise money for a “spititual” rest stop for truckers. “Up, up and awayyyyyy……” My ribs are fuckin’ aching.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 7:21 pm
Cheers Tinman18.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 7:21 pm
Don’t you Irish have your own football teams to call “cunts.”
We don’t need them. We can adopt them from across the sea, where they’ve been world leaders in creating cunts for centuries.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 7:35 pm
I hate Manchestr United mainly because of arseface Rooney and Liverpool because I hate scousers – they should be shipped to Limerick where they belong.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 8:02 pm
I don’t think having an arse face should detract from a players football.
Unless of course you judge players by their looks.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 8:40 pm
C’mon now, if we’re going to judge footballers by their looks, that makes me the greatest footballer of all time.
-And I haven’t kicked a ball in over 20 years.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 8:54 pm
Well shaddup then.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 9:20 pm
Do you have mirrors in your place monkey balls?
The one behind the optics can be a flatterer.
April 22nd, 2008 @ 11:42 pm
best of luck to her n that…….