I'm going to be an uncle!

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My brother's wife is pregnant! I can bore the child in years to come by telling him/her that his/her daddy told me his/her mummy was pregnant in the middle of a detroit techno set by DJ Clandestine!

An uncle!

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 22 December 2002 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

i remember when this first happened to me when i was 15. it makes u feel older and more responsible for like a week, then unless u live near your sibling u almost forget about it - well i did!

congrats ronan

― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 22 December 2002 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been uncle for a few months now...but it's nice and interesting to see a person growing up from zero start. Most of time I forget all abt it too. I can't relate really too being Uncle Erik. That's because for my cousin I'm for the time being just another face to remember, nameless, not knowing yet if you will like each other or not(she's sending signs of approval though). While for me she's just a funny (mostly laughing)character and object of study.

Now her teeth are coming through now. Better be careful.

http://members.rott.chello.nl/e.visser25/KladderBlauweDeur2.jpg

Congratulations!

― erik, Sunday, 22 December 2002 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Congratulations, Ronan!

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Sunday, 22 December 2002 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks, I'm still really shocked by this, it's brilliant! Lovely news for parents and all before Christmas too.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 22 December 2002 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

congrats d00d! I think that's a nice Xmas surprise...

― DG (D_To_The_G), Sunday, 22 December 2002 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

bawwww that's so cute! CONGRATS :)

― katie (katie), Sunday, 22 December 2002 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Many congratulations, Uncle Ronan!

― C J (C J), Sunday, 22 December 2002 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

congrats uncle ro! i've been an aunt for 3 years or so now and it's "ace" as yall would say.

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 22 December 2002 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

oops i meant 5 years or so! haha i hope my brother isn't reading. i'm an aunt to two little terrors, not just one. both boys and both 'bundles of energy' (ie 'completely fucking out of control')

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 22 December 2002 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm an aunt to two little terrors, not just one. both boys and both 'bundles of energy'

http://members.rott.chello.nl/e.visser25/Kladder4.jpg

― erik, Sunday, 22 December 2002 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Being an uncle can be great. I think I was an uncle at about 15 too, or thereabouts. I was most lenient with my brother's first daughter. I used to let her push all my books toward the back of the shelves.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 22 December 2002 21:55 (twenty-three years ago)

hip hip hooray for Ronan! On his magical learning that's he gonna be an uncle day!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 22 December 2002 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

the littlest uncle; YES!! play it tim deluxe in the womb!!!!!!1 congratulations ronan: you are a rock god.

― dwh (dwh), Sunday, 22 December 2002 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

My sister is pregnant too.
It's pretty cool.

― webber (webber), Sunday, 22 December 2002 22:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been an uncle since I was nine years old, so the novelty has kind of worn off now. I am currently an uncle to 3, it's great!

― DavidM (DavidM), Sunday, 22 December 2002 23:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Congrats Ronan! I've been an uncle for a year and a half. I wuv my nephew Ciaran vewy, vewy much.

― Michael Bourke, Monday, 23 December 2002 03:39 (twenty-three years ago)

congratulations to your bother and his wife as well.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 23 December 2002 05:12 (twenty-three years ago)

hey yeah ronan, congrats, you will love it. my niece is the best thing in the world!

― di smith (lucylurex), Monday, 23 December 2002 05:46 (twenty-three years ago)

congratulations, ronan.
i've been an uncle for a week now, and it's amazing how you see new changes every day.
my little niece is called claudia, and is the most beautiful, smallest, cutest thing in the world. :-)

― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 23 December 2002 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Congrats Uncle Ro!

― smee (smee), Monday, 23 December 2002 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Congrats Ronan!

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 23 December 2002 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going to be an uncle too.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 23 December 2002 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

What wonderful news, Ronan! Just think: you can be the first to take the little lad/ladess to their first rave....complete with shiny hot-pants.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 23 December 2002 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...

My nephew, Sam, was born at around 7 o clock today!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

omnipotent nephew!! congrats ro. i've been an uncle for, oh, 12 years now, and i gotta say its been thoroughly rewarding. i think.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

pictures please.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

congrats ronan :-)

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

No pics yet I guess since he is 6 hours old, but I will do my best in time. The name came out of leftfield a bit, but I like it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Congrats, Ronan and Sibling-of-Ronan :)

I join unclehood in a couple months. I already have the little tyke's Red Sox pajamas picked out and have made a note to be sure to visit five springs from now so I can take her to her first game at Fenway. How old do they have to be before it's safe to give them a baseball cap?

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

haha yeah I was kind of thinking today I should try and not become a fat slob so that I can play football with him at some point.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

check it out tep!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd say "Congratulations" but that would infer that you were somehow involved in bringing this child into the world. And you weren't. Were you? Oh, say you weren't?

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Ronan, congrats! Bet the little lad will grow to be a heart-breaker;> Now, just wait til he grows into his first footie jersey....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Lara!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Young Sam will grow up to be a golf-rave scenester like his uncle.

― Larcole (Nicole), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

we can only hope.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

He will listen in awe to your stories about the Summer of Davis Love.

― Larcole (Nicole), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Hurrah for Ronan and nephew and all!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 August 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

check it out tep!

Wanna guess how many of those things are on my wishlist? :)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 4 August 2003 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Congrats Ronan, I hope all is well!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

advise pls. how to do?

― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 18:03 (sixteen years ago)

set em against their parents

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 18:05 (sixteen years ago)

*takes notes*

― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 18:06 (sixteen years ago)

enjoy being able to hand it back when it's being unreasonable

― Jesse James Woods (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 18:16 (sixteen years ago)

congratulations, you are about to be the cool uncle. Maintain your status wisely, as it is a position of considerable influence.

btw, last week I officially became a "great uncle." That I am a "great" anything is a total anomaly (I'm 32), but yeah I'm feeling the oldness. My family breeds prolifically.

― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:10 (sixteen years ago)

baby-sized anže kopitar sweater imo

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:41 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

Is there another thread for uncling and aunting advice? If not, has parenthood turned anyone's sibling into an emotionally fragile, tantrum-throwing mess?

(Don't get me wrong, that's what parenthood would do to me. So I bypassed it.)

― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 14:12 (fifteen years ago)

I became an uncle about fifteen months ago. So far it's the all the benefits of having children (I'm told) without the attachments.

― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 14:13 (fifteen years ago)

The parent is the tantrum-throwing mess?

― WmC, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 14:15 (fifteen years ago)

well, I'm grading the kid on a curve -- she's overattached to mommy and has two therapists already -- so, yes.

― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 14:17 (fifteen years ago)

Little kids' neediness is unbearable. Man up and dress yourself.

― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 14:19 (fifteen years ago)

uncling is the best, parenthood didnt change my brother an iota - for better or worse

― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 14:23 (fifteen years ago)

I have three nephews now...here I am with two...

http://i53.tinypic.com/10or6ex.jpg

― Phelan Nulty (Local Garda), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 14:23 (fifteen years ago)

Morbs, I wish I had some advice but I don't. I read once upon a time that whatever the parents are like isn't reflected in their kids, but amplified in their kids, and it's totally true. Calm, chill parents will have calm, chill kids; highstrung parents will have highstrung kids...etc etc, but moreso.

― WmC, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 14:36 (fifteen years ago)

has parenthood turned anyone's sibling into an emotionally fragile, tantrum-throwing mess?

my sister actually is a lot more highly strung since she had kids, and kinda has that thing where she's incapable of thinking about anything that isn't the kids, eg if somebody laughs at christmas and they're in bed etc there's a civil war. or just generally sometimes her behaviour is a bit wild, one time recently she was staying with me in london and went mental because of sleeping arrangements, with not even a whit of "i'm staying in someone else's flat" reserve. i do think it's a thing for some people when they have kids that they suddenly are appalled if others have a life that does not revolve around the kids, and i love my sister and the kids, but my brother isn't like this at all...massive difference.

no prizes for guessing whose kids are better behaved.

― Phelan Nulty (Local Garda), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 14:44 (fifteen years ago)

― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 14:52 (fifteen years ago)

non fretting parents kids always better behaved ime..

― Phelan Nulty (Local Garda), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 15:18 (fifteen years ago)

advise pls. how to do?

I think it's up to your brother/sister to fuck, really.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 15:23 (fifteen years ago)

well, I don't think my sister's easily tripped panic mode was helped by her daughter having a breathing emergency when she was two; she nearly died. So she can freak out at the drop of a hat now.

― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 15:25 (fifteen years ago)

Oh no! What was the reason? That must be so frightening!

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 15:25 (fifteen years ago)

xp was hopin that was yr answer, cos it was my guess tbh

My niece is the chillest kid, she p much leaves us alone unless she wants to read s/thing to one of us

― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 15:26 (fifteen years ago)

It was just an anomalous thing, nothing similar since. xp

― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 15:27 (fifteen years ago)

I am an uncle and cannot see myself becoming a dad. But since I walked out of my job, i fear I am becoming this uncle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC4qCIgMIy4

― Proger, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:22 (fifteen years ago)

just caught that pick now ronan, is the kid on the right crying for mum/dad, or are they actually throwing a very early westlife shape?

― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:24 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQaTSJqUHv0

Ha, even the drink problem seems about right, but I do not gamble

― Proger, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:25 (fifteen years ago)

I love being an uncle -- those lil dudes are so damn cute and they really seem to like me even though (maybe because?) they hardly ever see me.

Another plus: the doting grandparents aren't coming over to my house all the time.

― Brad C., Wednesday, 18 May 2011 16:38 (fifteen years ago)

ten months pass...

visiting.... 5-year-old girl just never... stops. 40 choruses of "Peter Cottontail" at breakfast.

apparently I've gotten her hooked on Meet Me in St Louis tho

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 7 April 2012 14:10 (fourteen years ago)

Ha ha ha. I feel like Morbs and the Kid would make for an ace, Odd Couple-esque sitcom.

― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 7 April 2012 14:23 (fourteen years ago)

Yes!

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 7 April 2012 15:05 (fourteen years ago)

Being an uncle is one sweet gig.

― Aimless, Saturday, 7 April 2012 17:19 (fourteen years ago)

the cutest!

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 April 2012 17:40 (fourteen years ago)

I bought my two-year-old niece an Easter basket. Instead of candies and bunny, I stuffed it with plastic grass and copies of The Berenstein Bears New Baby, Goodnight Moon, and To the Lighthouse

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 April 2012 17:45 (fourteen years ago)

four months pass...

FUCK YEAH TODAY I'M A D'AI (aka a maternal uncle)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OGhOuLij_y0/R45o9RHjEsI/AAAAAAAAAIE/SIEL3Ur6PFc/s1600/Uncle%2Bmaternal.bmp

unfortunately unless my mom or dad had a secret affair i will never ben an AMOO (paternal uncle)

― the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:39 (thirteen years ago)

i finally get to be the hairy freak bachelor weirdo uncle everyone deserves

― the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:39 (thirteen years ago)

time to get some weird hats and ugly sandals WELCOME TO UNCLETOWN

congrats!!

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:41 (thirteen years ago)

time to borrow that speedo my d'ai used to wear to the beach when i was in high school.

unlike him though i won't appear as though i'm wearing a brown wool wetsuit

― the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:43 (thirteen years ago)

Being an uncle is one of the things that makes me happiest these days. I love my nephew and talking Yoda, Chewbacca, dinosaurs and stuff with him (he's 3).

― Loo Reading (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:45 (thirteen years ago)

xpost dying over here

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:46 (thirteen years ago)

got a girl, hopefully will be around when she's dating to smoke those potential suitors up and then scare them off

my buddy used to know a girl whose dad was a fucking hardcore NY state trooper (ie gunfights with mobsters and shit) and an MP for like 10 years in vietnam before that

he used to greet dates at the door with his service revolver right by his belt buckle.

― the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:02 (thirteen years ago)

taht will be me except i'll have nunchucks

― the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:03 (thirteen years ago)

i have four nephews now. about to become godfather to one of them for the first time, next week. this is after my sister established i'd keep my atheism to myself and we both agreed i wasn't evil and could play the role of moral guardian that a godfather must theoretically be able for.

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:22 (thirteen years ago)

The Atheist Godfather, not by Sofia Coppola

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:36 (thirteen years ago)

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