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Ever met someone that was a triplet?

Lucien [Edit] [Delete] 62 replies 10:44, 30 July '13

I haven't.

Apparently roughly 0.15% of births are triplets, which is a very small amount but then I've also met a lot of people in my time. I've travelled boy.

And if you've got some information about what it's like to live in Streatham, then all the better - you can do that here too

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You probably haven't been auditing during your travels tho - take a leaf out of Roy's book

Smee | 30 Jul '13, 10:46 | X

Royter-Hatfood and Oissin_ this'd this
With the increase in IVF soon everyone will be a triplet.

Balonz | 30 Jul '13, 10:47 | X

PickledOeuf this'd this
- Not true
  
  The survival rate of IVF fetuses has increased so they no longer need to implant multiple embryos, so in fact there won't be ANY triplets through IVF as they're not allowed to implant more than 2.
  
  golden_blue @Balonz | 30 Jul '13, 10:48 | X
  - You could triplet your post by saying it once again.
    
    Balonz @golden_blue | 30 Jul '13, 10:50 | X
  - ha ha
    
    Balonz knows nothing of IVF. How will he be able to show his face in Dadsnet again?
    
    Lucien @golden_blue | 30 Jul '13, 10:55 | X
    
    meths this'd this
    - My sperm is ABOVE average in ALL categories (FACT)
      
      so there was no need for me to know (me wife's eggs are fine too, thanks for asking)
      
      Balonz @Lucien | 30 Jul '13, 10:56 | X
Streatham is the setting for one of my favourite ever childhood novels - Chartbreak by Gillian Cross.

Read that for a full lowdown (and also a powerful story of ambition, fame, love and guilt).

hip_young_gunslinger | 30 Jul '13, 10:47 | X
Yep

I have friends who are triplets. They were IVF babies (multiple births were more common with IVf in the eighties because they used to implant multiple embryos, whereas now they only implant 2).

They're super close and all have matching venn diagram tattoos (3 interlocking circles).

golden_blue | 30 Jul '13, 10:47 | X
Petr Cech is a triplet

#tripletfacts

Steved | 30 Jul '13, 10:47 | X
- ooh
  
  good fact.
  
  Lucien @Steved | 30 Jul '13, 10:54 | X
  - I saw Petr Cech turn on the Xmas lights in Weybridge
    
    Can that count as knowing a triplet?
    
    Balonz @Lucien | 30 Jul '13, 10:57 | X
    - Were they his own Christmas lights in his house?
      
      SenorDingDong @Balonz | 30 Jul '13, 11:01 | X
I know some triplets

Also, my parents who some people who have three sets of twins (they only had the third set recently).

I really hope I don't have twins- so much hard work.

PickledOeuf | 30 Jul '13, 10:48 | X
- Conversely
  
  my girlfriend would rather have twins because you get 2 kids but only have to go through pregnancy and labour once. I see the logic.
  
  I'm a twin.
  
  GetOffMyLawn @PickledOeuf | 30 Jul '13, 10:51 | X
  - Is you twin a boy?
    
    If so did you suck each other off in your adolescence? Not sure on the rules of that and meths wanted me to check.
    
    Balonz @GetOffMyLawn | 30 Jul '13, 10:54 | X
    - Nope.
      
      GetOffMyLawn @Balonz | 30 Jul '13, 11:15 | X
  - I would ike to be a twin
    
    I'd rather have two lots of mat leave though.
    
    PickledOeuf @GetOffMyLawn | 30 Jul '13, 11:21 | X
Lucien | 30 Jul '13, 10:53 | X

ohgood this'd this
I know someone who's a quadruplet so...

All girls too. Must've been fun.

GetOffMyLawn | 30 Jul '13, 11:01 | X
Oh, at a wedding last year I met a couple who had a two-year-old son and were trying for another,

and have now found out they're having triplets. I can't imagine it - imagine the money it costs, especially in the US, in terms of health insurance and eventual college fees.

hip_young_gunslinger | 30 Jul '13, 11:04 | X
i'm glad you asked

i don't think so, no

andyvine | 30 Jul '13, 11:09 | X
I think there are trams in Streatham

I've never seen a tram in London. Or a triplet.

ohgood | 30 Jul '13, 11:09 | X
- we have trams in manchester
  
  i was in sheffield last week and they had them there too
  
  andyvine @ohgood | 30 Jul '13, 11:24 | X
  - They've got them in Croydon too
    
    all the shit places have them
    
    Balonz @andyvine | 30 Jul '13, 11:25 | X
    
    meths this'd this
    - Nottingham - the theory holds.
      
      hip_young_gunslinger @Balonz | 30 Jul '13, 11:26 | X
      - Edinburgh will too
        
        Breaks the theory.
        
        That and Nottingham's great
        
        oojimaflop @hip_young_gunslinger | 30 Jul '13, 11:39 | X
        
        Everything about the Edinburgh tram project
        
        has been an unmitigated disaster though.
        
        SenorDingDong @oojimaflop | 30 Jul '13, 11:44 | X
        
        PickledOeuf this'd this
- There's no Trams in Streatham
  
  That's Croydon
  
  outspaced @ohgood | 30 Jul '13, 12:10 | X
no

japes | 30 Jul '13, 11:10 | X
my cousins are triplets

2 boys and a girl.
Hi

inside-outside | 30 Jul '13, 11:10 | X
Streatham is a kiwi ghetto

You'd like it

Royter-Hatfood | 30 Jul '13, 11:17 | X
PS How do you know if someone is a triplet?

Royter-Hatfood | 30 Jul '13, 11:18 | X
- check to see if they have two siblings born at the same time as them
  
  dead giveaway
  
  ohgood @Royter-Hatfood | 30 Jul '13, 11:27 | X
  
  Lucien this'd this
  - Worst punchline ever.
    
    marckee @ohgood | 30 Jul '13, 11:30 | X
    
    berksy this'd this
  - Do you have two siblings that were born at the same time as you?
    
    Royter-Hatfood @ohgood | 30 Jul '13, 11:34 | X
    - no sir
      
      ohgood @Royter-Hatfood | 30 Jul '13, 11:35 | X
      - you?
        
        ohgood @ohgood | 30 Jul '13, 11:36 | X
        
        nope
        
        Royter-Hatfood @ohgood | 30 Jul '13, 11:50 | X
    - define "have"
      
      Smee @Royter-Hatfood | 30 Jul '13, 11:49 | X
yeah loads

probably about a dozen sets

cat_race | 30 Jul '13, 11:22 | X
- Personally, or professionally?
  
  marckee @cat_race | 30 Jul '13, 11:30 | X
  - a bit of both
    
    cat_race @marckee | 30 Jul '13, 11:43 | X
    - rate them
      
      in order of rambunctiousness
      
      inside-outside @cat_race | 30 Jul '13, 14:10 | X
i do not.

streatham is boring and miles away from anywhere.

meths | 30 Jul '13, 11:30 | X
- so are you
  
  (Not really)
  
  ohgood @meths | 30 Jul '13, 11:36 | X
  - no, it's quite true.
    
    meths @ohgood | 30 Jul '13, 11:36 | X
    
    Royter-Hatfood this'd this
I thinly veiled a triplet once

or at least she said she was. She was small and a bit weird. I wouldn't have been able to thinly veil her if she was otherwise.

Parsefone | 30 Jul '13, 11:32 | X
- it'd be kind of fun going out with someone knowing you've got two backups if anything happened
  
  you could go skydiving and stuff like that
  
  japes @Parsefone | 30 Jul '13, 11:35 | X
  - "Joke's on you, I quicksaved"
    
    Parsefone @japes | 30 Jul '13, 11:38 | X
  - I've often wondered about what it would be like to be the girlfriend of an identical twin/ triplet
    
    It would be dead awkward meeting his borthers, who would know DE FACTO that you pure fancy them (in terms of outward appearances anyway.)
    
    PickledOeuf @japes | 30 Jul '13, 11:38 | X
    - I've not actually wondered this very often
      
      Maybe like twice.
      
      PickledOeuf @PickledOeuf | 30 Jul '13, 11:39 | X
Yes

Someone at work had triplets about 18 months ago, and has brought them into the office on Christmas Eve. They were ugly and cried a lot.

aboynamedgoo | 30 Jul '13, 11:35 | X
yeah I met some non identical triplets in at school

2 guys one girl

That said I never actually met the girl so it could have just been an elaborate joke.

wewerewerewolvesonce | 30 Jul '13, 11:36 | X
- they weren't even siblings
  
  oojimaflop @wewerewerewolvesonce | 30 Jul '13, 11:37 | X
My girlfriend is

two girls and a boy. She couldn't be more different from her siblings though, they're both straight up engineering/science types, she's a bit wilder and more black sheep-y.

She explained to my parents (bear in mind she is French here) that she is a triplet because her mother 'took fertilisers'. Apparently triplets are much more common for IVF and HRT births.

lemonbrickcombo | 30 Jul '13, 11:43 | X
I know one set

Three girls, two identical the other, not. Odd that I thought.

I live in Streatham. Hate it. I liked it when I was younger though. But I hate pretty much all of London nowadays.
Decent transport links into town from Streatham Hill (four trains an hour to Victoria, another four to London Bridge) plus a whole load of bus. Some very nice buildings. Comparatively cheap. A few decent-ish pubs.

AcceptanceIII | 30 Jul '13, 11:58 | X
I dated a triplet once.

They were all so different to be honest (for a start, the other two had dicks).

Ichor | 30 Jul '13, 12:05 | X
i've seen some about the place

shrewbie | 30 Jul '13, 12:07 | X
Never met a triplet

But I've been living in Streatham for the last few months. I can only really describe it with "s'alright" - got some decent pubs within short walking distance, and the common is nice enough for an evening stroll.

TBH the best thing about it is the good transport links to Proper London. I do really miss living close to Camden, but it costs a small fraction of the price to be here.

outspaced | 30 Jul '13, 12:19 | X
quite stabby in streatham, no?

PickledOeuf | 30 Jul '13, 12:20 | X
- how come every place I've enquired about is stabby?
  
  I want to live somewhere not stabby
  
  Lucien @PickledOeuf | 30 Jul '13, 12:25 | X
- Nah
  
  outspaced @PickledOeuf | 30 Jul '13, 12:34 | X
I said some people were twins the other day who clearly weren't

It was funnnnyyy

fluffybum | 30 Jul '13, 12:57 | X

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