General Chat

I have just had a large Baileys and I love everyone:-)) lol BC XX

My OH cant stand Robson Green, dont know what puts him against him, but we cant watch anything with him in! Mind, he has always been a bit like that, not very tolerant. OK when he gets to know people.

I hate Stacey Solomon.

Although regarding troublemakers, if you want loads, go to Facebook.

Hi

I am not worried about the troublemakers but more surprised as to how they seem to get away with it yet more civil members post a joke or a retaliation to a nasty comment and get the third degree for it.

Its the same when you criticise a celebrity, which most people do, and some people accuse you of being mean or jealous. What for? Posting an opinion? Most people will point out flaws that celebs have. I loathe Eamonn Holmes with a passion and will not be afraid to say that.

Ben

No, you havent killed the thread, Catherine. Some come to a natural end. Nice to see you anyway, keep adding and put a topic on sometime, even a daft one will get things going.

Hello Ann - and everyone else! I rarely come on here now. As you've said, in the past there have been so many arguments etc. that I just had enough and stopped posting. I often "pop in" and read threads, but rarely post.
It's a shame, as most of the people on here are really nice.
Anyway, hope everyone's keeping well. Take care.
x

Goodnight Cath...night night John John XXX BC

ps...Them Saga forums are scarey!! lol

Night Cath xxx

Night to all

Cath xx (thread killer) lol.

Hello everyone, can I jump in and say that finally I'm getting a little more confident about joining threads although I sometimes seem to kill them off. I have only been a member since February this year and I have found the majority of people to be very warm and welcoming. I don't get out much in the evenings and these boards have become a kind of social life for me. (Hope that doesn't make me sound like a sad individual). I have made great progress with my family tree thanks to so many on here and enjoy reading all the boards.

Cath xx

Been on Sagazone...some very nice people ( some from here ;) ) but also the same small minority of rascist, bigoted, sleazy types lol ( "do I want to get naked"? ermm nooooo lol)

Take it from me the debates there get just as heated! There are as many boring threads, as many interesting, as much trivia, as much intellectual conversation :)

It IS quiet on here at the moment, but it is pretty much the same everywhere...except money saving expert.com ...which has some very busy forums ( craft etc) .

For Ann in Glos - Try Saga Zone, far more interesting than this part of Genes. Everytime I log on here (at most once a week) there's the same old topics in the same old order and the same old people.. Far better debate on the Zone

Benjamin, the best way to deal with these people is to ignore them, or say to yourself that they must be very unhappy people with no friends Please dont let them put you off posting as we need more men in the mix for proper debate. You have a different viewpoint which is often relevant.

I'm sorry to hear that Benjamin. Please keep posting after all you're a paying member too. I'm sure there are people who you will enjoy talking to on other threads here :)

I have been a member of GR since 2004 and I think the heart has gone out of these boards in the past year or two. I agree with the OP who I talk to regularly on another thread. Although there always seem to have been a few troublemakers on GR.

I recently had an argument with a jumped up GR member who acted like a self appointed moderator. I do not like being told what to do by someone who has not authority to do so.

The thing is these troublemakers like to cause trouble but if you retaliate they report you for it. I only post on 1 thread mainly now.

Oh my goodness the costs are astronomical in Canada for higher education. When I trained as a nurse, we lived in residence and were fed and housed. Had to buy our own uniforms, thanks to my parents I survived on about $100 a month for 3 years.
Now my daughter, the costs for her to complete her degree were unbelievable, mercifully as she has dependents and has a learning disability, she has received some assistance. She's now enrolled part-time in the Masters progrmme for Applied Disabilities Studies, by the time she is finished, her debt load will be over $30,000.
A higher income should result, but she has yet to find a full-time job.
We had snow on Wednesday and now it's sunny and all the snow has gone. The ground is frozen solid I think, temps are pretty low. Across the Nigara river, in Buffalo, they have been hit hard and many motorists stranded for over 12 hours on a busy section of one of the highways.
One of my friends and her husband have a landscaping business here, and have a truck with big snow plow on the front (his winter job). They drove to the border to volunteer to help clearing snow in Buffalo, were in an interview room for 1/2 hour before being sent home. I am absolutely floored that volunteers cannot show their (extended) community spirit without being suspected of ulterior motives. They were apparently told that there was concern that someone might offer to pay them, and that would detract from local workers. Well, where were the workers? The snow was still sitting there.
I found this really sad, they gratefully accepted lots of volunteers from here in the aftermath of 9/11. Now they are a threat?
I fear it will be a long time before my friends offer to help again.
Mary

sorry Bridget
cant find your message
what did you say?

but off to do jobs now Ill check in tomorrow
Annette

I posted on this thread this morning thinking that it was a new message!! My eyes must be frozen together not to have noticed ,,,,I wonder if anyone read it,???

actually what got to my friend was not the inability to climb the rock

but the sheer numbers of people there.


It was all so commercialized


She said it was row after row of big coaches, hundreds of people, folding chairs being brought out, glass of champagne served as the sun rose or sun went down ......... very much to rote!


They did just take a day trip out from Alice, didn't stay out there.


But it was so very different from what she experienced back in 1972.



The cousins took me along the Great Ocean Road in 2000 ........ I can't remember whether we did it in out little VW Beetle back in 1975 / 76 ............ we did drive all the way across the Nullarbor to Perht and back in that little white car, with an 18 month old perched on sleeping bags in the back seat!



yes, lots of memories and photos.



sylvia

wow Sylvia, you have got around our big wide land. Im sure you have got lots of photos memories.

we have been living near Albury/Wodonga which is on the Murray river for the past 17 years. My OH family is from this area, and when his father was very ill we moved here from Sydney to help out. our first 2 children were born in Sydney.

However, joy oh joy , I grew up in Qld Hervey Bay, and that's where my sister still lives.
I really hope your rellies enjoy living there. Have they moved into one of the many retirement villages that are there?
My sister said it is teeming with rain there too this week.

We have taken a few trips, one I fondly remember was a road trip along the great Ocean road from Geelong to Portland. We did this in May when it wasn't too cold yet. But our visit to Bendigo was so cold, still the boys had fun panning for gold at the historical village.

Yes I have heard that visiting Uluru isn't so great these days, as the Aboriginal Trust has now forbidden anyone entering or climbing on the rock.
When my uncle did a trip many years ago, people were still able to climb up with the aide of the chain rope. Not so any more.
But as you say Kakadu is a tourist friendly place and my parents really enjoyed the boat trips in the gorge on the very last trip that they ever did.

Best wishes
Annette
in Albury AUS