General Chat

Well there are only two locked threads on there now.

I agree with you Andysmum, I find it very offputting too! You look at the first page that is 'dominated' as you say and think that is what the rest will be on other pages as well. There should be a seperate 'book board' if that is how they want to do things. How would it be if all the other threads on there did the same.....eg all look at some art and have different threads for commenting on each painting each month! It would end up a right muddle and be hard to find things.

John, you must be really upset then!! Perhaps you should go back on the cocoa!! :-)

CAROL

YOUR FREEZER NEARLY EMPTY,,HARD TO BELIEVE IN ALL
THE YEARS I HAVE KNOWN YOU THIS IS A FIRST;;

GOT TO BE A SHINGLES FAULT,,,

I haven´t read the other comments but I will say that some of the funny and interesting threads drop off the boards because ?! nor would I want to

I do occasionally try to put amusing things up ..see it could only happen to me.. but I can´t make people answer nor would I want to.

You obviously had a warm glow from your bowl of soup.

I drove the 8 miles down to Sainsbury's the sun shone down from a lovely blue sky, so I did not worry about taking a coat in with me, or changing out of my driving sandals.

Having eaten a tasty bowl of soup I took my time wandering round looking at the items on offer this week ( large beef joints were a third off :-D ).

Struggling with a large trolley, piled high with bags, I stepped out into the car park, it was raining slightly but not enough that I was tempted to hide over a cup of coffee whilst it lessoned. Head down I made my way across to bay C, when I was midway between the shop & my car the sky opened, sleet & hailstones shot down soaking me through to the skin. :-( I must have looked a sorry sight to those who had retreated to people watch over a hot cup of coffee.

I am now home, warm from a bath, hair washed & dried, cupboards, fridges & freezers now well stocked. :-D

I get upset when someone says "Sorry if I upset You"
I get upset when my posts are ignored.
I get upset when I am off topic on a thread.
I get upset when I am on topic and the Opening Poster is too dense to realise I am on topic.
I get upset when someone says I am goading them.
I get upset when I think someone is goading me.

But on Jeremy Bentham's felicific calculus, Genes chat is quite high for me. Thank you, all you lovely felicific ones.

AndysMum, you personally have not upset me but I have been targetted about this before and it is a bit dispiriting when you try and keep something going. By the way yes it was Mersey who said it and she belongs to Greaders :-) I think the problem lies with all the locked threads on the Genes book club, theya re often left up there too long. However, I have a suspicion that the book club was the reason that the board was started and they are in charge!!!

My view remains that, if people don't want to see threads about reading because they are not interested in books, no problem, if they add the interests that they are interested in I will read them happily.

I am so glad you post this thread Carol, as I have the familiar taste of an undercurrent developing.

OFITG I do hope I haven’t offended you in any way I certainly did not aim too, I know you love to discuss or debate news worthy thought provoking issues, even thought I don’t take part I do often read you threads.
:-D

I'm sorry Ann, I didn't mean to upset you. All I meant was that there are so many posts about books that you have to hunt to find anything else.

Actually I get quite annoyed about this because Greaders, which is totally different to Genes book club, has been running for about 8/9 years on the General board, with no complaints from anyone. The three threads go up once every 6 weeks and are usually then just dormant until the next review thread is put up. They are not added to to keep them on the first page. The only reason they don't sink. (Unlike Genes book club threads they are not locked) is because only a few add threads or add to other threads.

I spend quite a lot of time every six weeks organising Greaders and the people who enjoy reading and commenting on books look forward to the threads. I don't see why we should be held up as a reason for people not adding to the other threads on the hobbies board.

I also like the Hobbies Board but don't look at it much because it is dominated by Genes Book Club posts. I have just had a look at it and 12 out of 20 posts on the first page are for GReaders (or similar).

Someone - was it Mersey? - commented on this a while back, but it made no difference.

No it is better if you can choose who you watch!! :-D :-D

Like Tec, I love "people watching", though not as a captive audience as he was :-D

Hello Carol, good to see you posting. It is sad that some people have left us, preferring to 'chat' on FB where the so unpopular RR person can't get at them. Well I also chat on facebook but I still feel more at home here. Part of the problem has been the confusing way that GR Admin have dealt with RRing. Sometimes there is no obvious reason for a post being RRd but the person only has to say that it upsets them and it can be removed.

If I am interested in a thread I will post on it, I have found that, even if I don't know people on there I am usually made welcome (this actually refers to the long running threads like the aussie thread). I don't think anyone needs to feel shy about adding. I also enjoy many of the longer running threads because they make you feel like part of a well known group, but again, anyone is welcome.

I find it disappointing that more use isn't made of the hobbies board. Surely it is not because people on here don't have other interests to share with us. I have learnt quite a bit from posts on that board.

Tec, you could have written a book while in hospital, you had the characters all in front of you.

Agree with Carol, John, and OFITG. I read lots of different threads but don't like to comment on them, as I don't ' know ' some of the posters. I tend to keep to the threads I am use to.

Tec, I love your post on here, it gave me a good chuckle. I know you have so many interesting stories of places that you have visited, it would be lovely if we were all able to read more of them.

Love, Sallie.x

Tec

You do make me laugh. :-D :-D :-D :-D

I hope that if you managed to get a word in edgewise you

also managed to talk about all the interesting places you have visited
Take care
Von

Generally speaking, I find people funny and interesting, with the exception of the odd obnoxious one, who is best ignored.

I've been in hospital for nearly eight weeks now. There is no better place for people watching. Such a varied collection of people, and their visitors, all in one room.

Being in hospital for that time you see people come and go. Beds get filled again within a short time of the last occupant being discharged.

I've met some fascinating people these last few weeks. The elderly man who gave a lecture every day on pig rearing, and how no part of the pig need be wasted. If you had poor appetite before, then you had none at all by the time he'd finished.
:-(

Then there was the very important Town Councillor, Chairman of the local PTA, Church Warden, etc etc, who knew everything about everything, and reminded us all of that every day :-D.

The bloke who thought he was the reincarnation of Tommy Cooper, complete with his joke book, that he felt obliged to share all day, every day.

Now I've been moved onto another hospital nearer home. Sharing a two bed ward with a poor old chap who never speaks.

So all the above, and others, have helped to make the past few weeks interesting.
People can be fun.
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It's a peculiarity of this island (which includes Scotland for now), hanging down as it is with exquisite wordsmiths of prose & poetry, that we produce so few gifted orators - political or otherwise.

How often in our recent history has the nation paused in unison, swept away, not just by the recent storms & floods, but by an outpouring of passionate eloquence from someone taking a stand against injustice or inequality, or giving voice to the disadvantaged or dispossessed? Pipe dreams you might think!

Lo and behold! Along comes the young benign Nigel Farage, him of that up & coming self-proclaimed patriotic party, a pint of bitter in hand, to grace our TV screens & national press with his electrifying eloquence. A saviour at last perhaps.

We've never had it so good. Let’s all vote for insanity.

the other great thing about that store is you can park beneath it and not get wet