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The Forum Games Sheepish Advent Calendar 2020!

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    #1802
    tscul32
    Registered Users Posts: 2,560 ✭✭✭tscul32


    At least we can use maths on this one


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    #1803
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    Advent Sheep Q17: How many of those babies get a combined birthday-Christmas present every year from scabby relations who think you won't notice the difference as a child? :pac:



    *I am a Christmas baby


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    #1804
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,954 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    tscul32 wrote: »
    At least we can use maths on this one
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    #1805
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,954 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    Advent Sheep Q17: How many of those babies get a combined birthday-Christmas present every year from scabby relations who think you won't notice the difference as a child? :pac:



    *I am a Christmas baby
    I used to get that (and hate it) and I'm a January baby. I can only imagine how bad it was for you :(


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    #1806
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,305 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    tscul32 wrote: »
    At least we can use maths on this one

    Only if you have a rough idea how many babies were born in the whole year. That could be a few hundred or millions, who knows?


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    #1807
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    Zaph wrote: »
    Only if you have a rough idea how many babies were born in the whole year. That could be a few hundred or millions, who knows?

    Well given the population of Ireland, it's probably not millions :D


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    #1808
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,954 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Zaph wrote: »
    Only if you have a rough idea how many babies were born in the whole year. That could be a few hundred or millions, who knows?
    If there were millions born every year we'd be falling off the side of the country ;)
    You can make a well educated guess


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    #1809
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,434 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    But can everyone else?


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    #1810
    Collie D
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    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    If there were millions born every year we'd be falling off the side of the country ;)
    You can make a well educated guess

    No hints :pac:


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    #1811
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,954 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Collie D wrote: »
    No hints :pac:
    Does "I haven't been pushed off Howth Head by the sheer number of babies in the country" count as a hint? :D


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    #1812
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,344 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    Does "I haven't been pushed off Howth Head by the sheer number of babies in the country" count as a hint? :D

    You're talking to a forum where people eat their Santa letters here. :D


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    #1813
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,305 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    Well given the population of Ireland, it's probably not millions :D

    Your mind games won't work on me!


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    #1814
    khalessi
    Registered Users Posts: 6,215 ✭✭✭khalessi


    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    Advent Sheep Q17: How many of those babies get a combined birthday-Christmas present every year from scabby relations who think you won't notice the difference as a child? :pac:



    *I am a Christmas baby

    Happy Birthmas!!!!
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    #1815
    DvB
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    Are we talking all of Ireland or just the Republic?
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #1816
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,954 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    DvB wrote: »
    Are we talking all of Ireland or just the Republic?
    The "correct" answer I have is from the CSO, so just the Republic

    Who knows what everyone else is doing though? :p


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    #1817
    DvB
    Registered Users Posts: 10,287 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    The "correct" answer I have is from the CSO, so just the Republic

    Who knows what everyone else is doing though? :p

    good point, well made!
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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    #1818
    tscul32
    Registered Users Posts: 2,560 ✭✭✭tscul32


    Zaph wrote: »
    Only if you have a rough idea how many babies were born in the whole year. That could be a few hundred or millions, who knows?

    The news was full of how many were supposed to be doing the leaving cert in June. That's one year's worth of Irish babies.


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    #1819
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    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    I used to get that (and hate it) and I'm a January baby. I can only imagine how bad it was for you :(

    It helps having a parent whose birthday is closer to Christmas than your own. Mine is two weeks before Christmas but I was never fobbed off with the one 'joint' present because then Mammy Fong (whose birthday is today, in fact!) wouldn't get separate presents either. :cool:


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    #1820
    [Deleted User]
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    Collie D wrote: »
    You're talking to a forum where people eat their Santa letters here. :D

    :D


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    #1821
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    tscul32 wrote: »
    The news was full of how many were supposed to be doing the leaving cert in June. That's one year's worth of Irish babies.

    Ah ffs I’m way off so!


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    #1822
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,332 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Well... first thoughts are that that picture is very Disney-esque looking..... so I'm going to base my answer on that premise (and hope that I'm not about a century out). And this time I'm NOT going to google the answer straight away (whether I last till the reveal tonight, well, let's see!)

    Whoever wrote this. I had the same thought. Looked old school disney and I know mickey mouse was conceived at the end of the 20s so I went 30s.


    That was me!


    Much good it did me - by divine inspiration I somehow almost got the actual right answer, and still way off the median :rolleyes:


    Bah humbug :mad:


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    #1823
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    Zaph wrote: »
    Your mind games won't work on me!

    'The Journal reports that 25 million babies were born in Ireland in 2019. 19 million of those were born on Christmas Day' :D


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    #1824
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,305 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    tscul32 wrote: »
    The news was full of how many were supposed to be doing the leaving cert in June. That's one year's worth of Irish babies.

    Well that doesn't help me much!

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    #1825
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,332 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    If there were millions born every year we'd be falling off the side of the country ;)
    You can make a well educated guess
    looksee wrote: »
    But can everyone else?


    Eh..........

    Zaph wrote: »
    Your mind games won't work on me!


    Uh oh...... there goes the median, into the stratosphere.......


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    #1826
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It helps having a parent whose birthday is closer to Christmas than your own. Mine is two weeks before Christmas but I was never fobbed off with the one 'joint' present because then Mammy Fong (whose birthday is today, in fact!) wouldn't get separate presents either. :cool:

    The moral of the story is don't get too drunk on Paddy's Day.


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    #1827
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,305 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It helps having a parent whose birthday is closer to Christmas than your own. Mine is two weeks before Christmas but I was never fobbed off with the one 'joint' present because then Mammy Fong (whose birthday is today, in fact!) wouldn't get separate presents either. :cool:

    It's my father's birthday today as well. We have always made a point of getting him separate birthday and Christmas presents. The same for my grandmother whose birthday was on Christmas Day. Even as kids we knew that just giving one present was pretty crappy.


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    #1828
    [Deleted User]
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    Zaph wrote: »
    It's my father's birthday today as well. We have always made a point of getting him separate birthday and Christmas presents. The same for my grandmother whose birthday was on Christmas Day. Even as kids we knew that just giving one present was pretty crappy.

    It's my father's birthday today!!!
    Are you my brother?


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    #1829
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,954 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Happy Birthday Mama Fong and Daddy BuileZaph! :D


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    #1830
    tscul32
    Registered Users Posts: 2,560 ✭✭✭tscul32


    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    The moral of the story is don't get too drunk on Paddy's Day.

    I've 3 kids. Birthdays 3 weeks ago, last week and 2 weeks after Christmas. It's a busy 6 weeks in this house. Thankfully we don't do adult pressies any more cos my brother was last week, my sister in law is next week, as is my sister, and my other brother is the day before my son in early January. Not to mention two grannies in November!


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    #1831
    Irish Aris
    Registered Users Posts: 5,061 ✭✭✭Irish Aris


    Electric Nitwit wrote: »
    The "correct" answer I have is from the CSO, so just the Republic

    Who knows what everyone else is doing though? :p

    Well, I, for one, don't know what I'm doing :P
    Therefore I went with what I would consider a safe answer - to not get minus points :D


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