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to want to be allowed to make by own choices about what to eat and drink

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witchandchips · 18/07/2007 12:21

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bellabelly · 18/07/2007 17:27

I am very disappointed at the lack of evidence from google on this thread. Where are your statistics?

Bouncingturtle · 18/07/2007 17:41

Oh God help me, I accidently ate some blue stilton now the health police are going to put my unborn baby into care!!!!!
I've told I can't even look at it when I go for my scan because my baby will have 3 heads and a tail. I'm so ashamed....

Katy44 · 18/07/2007 18:34

? 0.3 per cent of all road accidents in Canada involve a moose.
? 13 people a year are killed by vending machines falling on them.
? 4 per cent of the U.S. population are vegetarians.
? 40 per cent of cat and dog owners carry pictures of their pets in their wallets.
? 40 per cent of women have hurled footwear at a man.
? 50 per cent of bank robberies take place on Fridays.
? 70 per cent of all boats sold are used in fishing.
? 90 per cent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
? A car is stolen every 30 seconds in the U.S.
? About 200 babies are born worldwide every minute.
? Approximately 97.3978271128 per cent of all statistics are made up.
? Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40,320 ways to rearrange the other eight reindeer.
? August is the month when most babies are born.
? The average 4-year-old asks over 400 questions a day.
? The average adult spends about 12 minutes in the shower per day.
? The average person keeps old magazines for 29 weeks before they throw them out.
? The average person speaks about 31,500 words per day.
? The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.
? The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic lights to change.
? Children between the ages of two and seven, on average, colour for 28 minutes every day.
? Couples who marry in January, February and March tend to have the highest divorce rates.
? Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada has the largest number of bars per capita than anywhere else in the world.
? In Calcutta, 79 per cent of the population live in one-room houses.
? It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
? The longest kiss on record lasted 130 hours and two minutes.
? Married men tip better than unmarried men.
? Men are 1.6 times more likely to undergo by-pass heart surgery than women.
? The most hazardous season: summer.
? Odds of being killed by a dog: one in 700,000.
? Odds of being killed by a tornado: one in 2,000,000.
? Odds of being killed by falling out of bed: one in 2,000,000.
? Odds of being killed in a car crash: one in 5,000.
? Odds of being murdered: one in 20,000.
? Odds of dying in the bathtub: one in 1,000,000.
? Qatar has the lowest death rate in the world at 1.6 deaths for every 1,000 persons.
? The record for the world?s worst driver is shared by (1) a 75-year old man who received 10 traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road 4 times, committed 4 hit-and-run offences and caused 6 accidents, all within 20 minutes on 15 Oct 1966; and (2) a 62-year-old woman who failed her driving test 40 times before passing it in August 1970 (by that time she had spent over $1,000 in lessons and could no longer afford to buy a car).
? The safest age of life is 10 years old.
? Sweden has the least number of murders annually.
? Women shoplift more than men ? the statistics are four to one.
? You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.

Katy44 · 18/07/2007 18:34

Just for you bellabelly
So there you go - point proved I think

Katy44 · 18/07/2007 18:35

Wow the average person has been busy recently

bellabelly · 19/07/2007 15:36

I actually quite enjoyed reading all of those even if 97% of them were made up, thanks Katy44!

Katy44 · 19/07/2007 16:59

Made up!!!
They are straight from the Katy44 Institute of Pointless Statistics - what more do you want!

Katy44 · 19/07/2007 17:00

Oh sorry I see

ladylush · 20/07/2007 13:52

Wisteria, I bought My Sisters Keeper. Looking forward to reading it tonight when ds is in bed and dh is at the pub

Wisteria · 20/07/2007 16:07

Hi LL - I'm very envious then! I hope you enjoy it as you have a treat in store if you do, just make sure you have some man-size tissues to hand as you may need them (I've got a heart of stone normally but was left a quivering, snivelling wretch in the corner because of that!). I will probably be on here later if you need any post traumatic stress counselling .
I am reading the Memory Keepers Daughter tonight as DP is on an all nighter and my children have about 12 friends over [God help me emoticon].

ladylush · 20/07/2007 21:45

Good luck then - maybe luck will be more helpful than God?

Wisteria · 20/07/2007 21:46

Certainly, especially as I've not believed in God for quite some considerable time!

ladylush · 20/07/2007 21:48

Much as I wanted to as a child, I never have which gets me into a lot of trouble at work as most of my colleagues are deeply religious!

Wisteria · 20/07/2007 21:50

well I was brought up staunch RC so obviously am complete atheist now!

ladylush · 20/07/2007 21:54

Me too (mum from Irish RC stock)but mum was the black sheep of the family and stopped going to Mass after she ran away from home at 16. She only got us baptised to enable us to go to a RC school. Dunno why she bothered - it was dire with terrible discipline.

ladylush · 20/07/2007 21:55

I do guilt quite well, but I get very indignant when someone else tells me to feel guilty

Wisteria · 20/07/2007 21:58

I think catholicism is responsible for the majority of my issues .
Your Mum sounds like me - don't think I've ever been forgiven...... 'specially now I've finally got divorced

ladylush · 20/07/2007 22:03

Ooh you rebel [mock shock] I lived in sin for 10 years before getting married - it was great

Wisteria · 20/07/2007 23:16

Sorry I'm still darker shade of black than you my dd1 was born

Wisteria · 20/07/2007 23:16

the funniest thing was that me and dp at the time still had to sleep in separate beds at dear papa's house!

ladylush · 20/07/2007 23:25

I remember dh's mum asking him (when he was dp) "so you're going to live in sin then?" Dp said "Yep" End of conversation. My mum was more pragmatic "What will happen with the flat when you split up?" !

Wisteria · 20/07/2007 23:27

ROFL - aren't parents bloody hysterical - it was the fact that whilst my dp and I were in separate beds, my Dad could fool himself that we were both good virgins when in actual fact the fruit of my womb was asleep in the next room!

ladylush · 20/07/2007 23:30

Perhaps he thought your lo was an immacuate conception. Mary managed it, so why not

Wisteria · 21/07/2007 01:36

Ah well I always thought I was special!

ladylush · 21/07/2007 12:22

How did the s/o go? Evidently you survived. Read a couple of chapters of the Jodi Picoult book and like it. Just got to the point where she goes to the lawyer to sue her parents for the rights to her body. It does make you think doesn't it. Lots of parents have had a child to "save" a sibling and I wonder if this angle has been approached before.