Too much informationRakky writes "A friend of mine, when quizzed why she was late to the pub, announced 'I was at accident and emergency, having a stuck tampon removed. They had to have a right old dig around for it.' Suffice to say, no one was interested in their Scampi Fries after that."
When have you shared just that little too much?
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chthonic, Thu 6 Sep 2007, 10:09)
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More advice for Dads-to-beFurther to this...
What is going to happen to you is very exciting. You'll see things that you never have before, and experience intense emotions.
However, you must remember that much of what to you seems amazing, miraculous, unique and so forth is, for most other men either a) old hat (if they've been through it themselves) and/or b) gross (whether they have or not).
Things that other men want to know about the arrival of your 'little miracle':
1) Is it a boy or a girl and (if they're a close friend) what you're thinking about calling it
2) Is it, and the mother, healthy
3) When are you going to get another round in
Things that other men most certainly don't want to know:
1) Anything that 'went wrong' or was in any way abnormal (e.g. anything regarding excess blood, placenta, the womb...)
2) How long it took and what pain relief your partner required
3) Any surgical procedures that were necessary before, during or after birth
4) What meconium is, or what it looks or smells like
If you're talking to a woman, then you can however disregard all of the above and go into as much detail as you can possibly recall -- they love it!
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reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Fri 7 Sep 2007, 14:55,
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