General Chat

i wonder how many times in the last 8 years

that bikes been stolen???

It may be an old thread but it still has some valid points!


An annual charity bike rides comes through our area on this Sunday each year. They use a lot of main roads which are still carrying traffic - I know this because I have encountered them many times and did so this morning.....

I have no problem with this ride at all.......except.....


When the amateur cyclists stray all over the road regardless of cars and the dangers involved.


When the cyclists are riding 4-5-6 abreast and traffic can neither get up nor down the road, causing a lot of frustration.


When the 'wardens' take absolutely no notice of what is going on.

and finally,


When participating cyclists are caught using a graveyard and a school playground as a toilet.


It's just not on and gives the other cyclists a bad name.




Grrrrrr

8 years
i bet the bikes worn out by now or sat rusting in the old canal ;-)

Sue, I have my PC, Not a wand ;-)

Roy :-D

Took me a while too to realise it was an old thread.

Martyn it has nothing at all to do with genealogy..but this is the General Chat board..we dont' tend to talk much about genealogy on here :-D

Oh wow. I did as you suggested, Porkie Pie, typed 'cross' into 'Quick Search,' chose a post at random to open, used ctrl+f to find 'cross' and got 'to cross the Mersey'! How did it know my birthplace without me telling it?? Tell me the answer to that one! ;-)

I am lucky then to only have names that don't 'cross over'...but if your surname was Gordon you would presumably get threads re Gordon Higlanders, Gordon Brown, Gordon the gopher... doesn't bear thinking about for the poor people whose surname is Rose :-0

happens all the time on "Find Ancestors" and no way would I call a fellow member a knob!!! Bad form on your part Foggy - thought better of you

Thanks Roy - was slightly puzzled

Errol, loads of threads have been brought up that way on all boards but most don't understand why and just point out the age of the thread

Roy

In that case I am surprised that this is the only thread that brought up the result "cross"
That is a really good idea Sue but only works if people input the information correctly in the first place with upper and lower case letters

Sue, use the Quick search under tools,

then note the results,

then click on the discussions on the home page, they will return the same results/threads

use your own surname or birth place

Roy

I use CTRL + F to find info on any page or document whether online or in a word document

That's a good point about Martyn's surname being the same as one of the words used in this thread. I have just tried out Advanced Search and there is no option to make your search case-sensitive as in upper-case (=capital letters). If there had been, then Martyn would have been able to search just for Cross and not cross.

When you search a Word Document or an Adobe Document for a particular word (I use CTRL + F for this) you can ask for 'Match Case' so that it only looks for Castle not castle or Green not green etc. (I use this shortcut when I open up a census record that has loads of entries on it and I am only looking for one person).

Please can we have a Match Case option GR? :-D

Rose, as i said on the suggestions board the facility works the same as a word search so every thread that has a surname or place name is listed as a discussion,

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/suggestions/thread/1297810

Roy

Was Foggy referring to Martyn or the cyclist?

I agree with Sue Foggy, there is no need to be rude.

ah you might be right Roy, the word "cross" appears in the text of the first post... as per Martyn's surname. GR really need to think this one through.

Foggy, please apologise to Martin right now for calling him that horrible name. :-(
We must all be polite on here, even if we disagree with another person's point of view.
Ta very much. ;-)

Martyn, Probably found this thread through the discussion function on the home page and their for thought it would be a discussion about something relevant to either his surname or home location

I do wish GR would listen as is on the suggestions board about "discussions" being listed on the home page that are clearly not discussions about names or places

He also probably didn't no? that adding to the thread would bump it up

Roy

um Martyn - why have you bumped up such an old thread if you do not agree with it?
Incidentally I am an avid cyclist and cover over 300 miles a week yet agree that there are some out there who could do with a lesson of two. Similarly, there are motorists who need to understand that it is not funny "baiting" cyclists. Cycle lanes are there for a reason and if there is not a cycle lane then give them a wide berth - all it takes is one gust of wind and the cycle and its rider could be blown in your path.
Lots of strawberry jam