General Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Do you have Scottish ancestors?

Perhaps you do and you just didn't know! Search our brand new Scottish census records today and discover if you have Scottish roots.

Search Scottish Census

New posts
No new posts
Thread closed
Stickied, new posts
Stickied, no new posts

Page 1 + 1 of 5

Profile	Posted by	Options	Post Date
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 5,212 Send Message	JohnLovesHorlicks	Report	4 Dec 2012 15:56
	AnnC You put the "it" in Whitchurch, The "Ann" in Llandaff. :-D :-D
	Researching: Bondi Beach, Kovalam, Maldives, Chamonix, Palm Springs, Leamore, Pleck, Groeswen, Bagillt, Splott and Gabalfa
Member Since: June 2008 Posts: 556 Send Message	Phyll	Report	4 Dec 2012 16:08
	'Lessons to be learnt' - if they haven't learnt the lesson by the time they are in tops jobs then they shouldn't be there at all!!!!
	Researching: Newman and West in Sussex, Latham in Herts, Sinden in Sussex, Pavey in Sussex/Surrey
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 4,413 Send Message	BrianW	Report	4 Dec 2012 16:52
	Why do people say "I'm all right" when you ask them if they want a drink, food etc.. What's wrong with "No thank you". I'm asking them if they would like a drink, not enquiring about their health !
	Researching: Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 56,476 Send Message	AnnCardiff	Report	4 Dec 2012 17:01
	actually Brian it's the saying "You're alright" - you hear it so often - "Can I offer you a lift?" - "No, you're alright" never understand that
	Researching: Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION DON'T SEND ME MESSAGES
Member Since: April 2008 Posts: 658 Send Message	Sylvia	Report	4 Dec 2012 17:07
Member Since: April 2008 Posts: 658 Send Message	Oh thats Awesome, is what I do not like to hear. Also "And he turned round and said"
Member Since: August 2009 Posts: 1,889 Send Message	Barbinsglos	Report	4 Dec 2012 17:09
	"If you ask me " Would love to say "nobody has so shut up"
	Researching: Harper, Norfolk Bristol Treorky & Exeter. Cole Bristol. Lane Chew Magna. Pinker, Bristol. Window Glos. Bell Bristol. Durrant Alverstoke Hampshire
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 5,212 Send Message	JohnLovesHorlicks	Report	4 Dec 2012 17:12
	We always ask "How Are You?" I always ask that of an 87yo uncle via email. Last time he replied with an attachment. A page and a half of hospital notes. And the answer to the greeting "How are You" and "Alright" is to say the same words back. Why don't we just mwah everybody instead? :-)
	Researching: Bondi Beach, Kovalam, Maldives, Chamonix, Palm Springs, Leamore, Pleck, Groeswen, Bagillt, Splott and Gabalfa
Member Since: April 2008 Posts: 658 Send Message	Sylvia	Report	4 Dec 2012 17:16
Member Since: April 2008 Posts: 658 Send Message	How many times have we asked someone we see in the doctors surgery "how are you " I have done this myself . Silly question really .
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 241 Send Message	Maryanna	Report	4 Dec 2012 17:19
	Not a phrase I know but the one that really annoys me is Haitch, instead of Aitch. M
	Researching: Devon, Somerset, Scotland, India, Essex, Surrey, London, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Dorset. McCausland, McCallum, Pallett, Brown, Cook, Cole, Pickles, Bentley, Whitley,Ridgley, Holden, Guppy, Hankin and all the Kings Horses and all the Kings Men.
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 5,212 Send Message	JohnLovesHorlicks	Report	4 Dec 2012 17:26
	Sylvia. Just thinking that my idea of mwahing everybody instead of saying "How Are You?" might not work so well in a doctor's surgery. Friendliness could really become contagious :-( :-(
	Researching: Bondi Beach, Kovalam, Maldives, Chamonix, Palm Springs, Leamore, Pleck, Groeswen, Bagillt, Splott and Gabalfa
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 2,354 Send Message	Cooper	Report	4 Dec 2012 17:27
	Whateverrrrrrr, from my Daughter when she was a teenager :-\| Teresa
	Researching: looking foward to FTEs return :0)
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 1,182 Send Message	BudgieRustler	Report	4 Dec 2012 17:36
	You wont get one much older than this one. "Ceteris paribus or caeteris paribus" and all things being equal .... wazzat all about then? :-S
	Researching: If my written words are not to your liking, then please dont read them.
Member Since: June 2007 Posts: 428 Send Message	Sue	Report	4 Dec 2012 18:07
Member Since: June 2007 Posts: 428 Send Message	The most recent i can think of is. - it was gifted to me not it was a gift to me Ive got a small window, i can fit you in!!! like
Member Since: June 2008 Posts: 1,107 Send Message	GlasgowLass	Report	4 Dec 2012 18:19
	Nothing more annoying than the incorrect use of the word ... LIKE. Point it out, and the response is usually "talk to the hand coz the face isn't listening" It gets me like,....so annoyed!!!!!
	Researching: Brannan/ McGrath/ Kerr/ Jordan/ Finnigan NI and Free State. Devlin/ Lamont /FYFE/ Pollock/ Johnston/ Smith... Scotland. Avitar: Pencil Drawing by my Youngest Daughter
Member Since: April 2006 Posts: 3,195 Send Message	David	Report	4 Dec 2012 18:34
Member Since: April 2006 Posts: 3,195 Send Message	All things considered
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 8,676 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	4 Dec 2012 18:36
	A few years back, managers at work kept talking about 'silo's' - silo thinking, silo mentality etc what was that about? I used to spend the rest of the meeting working out how a silo could possibly think or have a brain. Another bugbear, currently in use is starting the answer to a question with 'So'.
	Researching: Henry Floyd, my g x 4 grandfather
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 4,670 Send Message	Annx	Report	4 Dec 2012 18:53
	'No worries' and being called 'guys' and 'catch you later' from someone you will probably never meet again!!
	Researching: Staffordshire, Warwickshire
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 4,526 Send Message	Jenxx	Report	4 Dec 2012 19:24
	Lush and Basically my 2 pet hates
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 5,212 Send Message	JohnLovesHorlicks	Report	4 Dec 2012 19:34
	Maggie Never heard silos - perhaps more recent. But "let's brainstorm", "let's run it up the flagpole" were common expressions. :-)
	Researching: Bondi Beach, Kovalam, Maldives, Chamonix, Palm Springs, Leamore, Pleck, Groeswen, Bagillt, Splott and Gabalfa
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 14,810 Send Message	Bobtanian	Report	4 Dec 2012 19:34
	" Any road up"..............."run that by me again?"
	Researching: just give us the money........s*d the job!

General Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

Boards

Quick Search

Single word search

Tools

New Scottish Census

Do you have Scottish ancestors?

Icons

Over used phrases & cliches