Distance

[Huge_Vitae]

So I must have that gene you spoke of Huge. (Does that mean we're related? )

The point I was making, badly it seems, is that a gene which was once a neccesary part of our evolution can be negated by the technology we rely on now. My understanding is that it occurs as a straight 50% chance. Maybee people who feel 'uncomfortable' travelling long distances are exibiting the effect of this gene.

 

If you took for instance the England Cricket squad, purely by chance 6 or 7 of them would have the 'stay at home' gene (bad word, should be more 'settled or contented' gene) and would have stayed at home (actually I think that maybe most of them SHOULD have stayed home ) But with the lure of glory (money) they travel, you see what I mean.

 

As for being related, Gozzer, if only you knew but you can but wonder (wish)

 

As for your little riddle. Your not training to be a 'trolley dolly' are you?

 

That gave me a laugh, certainly be a shock to some passengers, do you think I would make it to First Class?

 

Or is your lad training to be a pilot? If so, why go to Spain? Don't they fly on the opposite side to us?

 

Give the man a goldfish in a bag.

[Zigs]

always wanted to live in the westcountry. now were living here, i found out our family lived here in the 1500s. i've come home.

[Huge_Vitae]

always wanted to live in the westcountry. now were living here, i found out our family lived here in the 1500s. i've come home.

That's another theory of mine Ziggy, now being researched. Genetic or Inherent Memory. Fascinating stuff if you look at your ancestors.

[chevin]

I was having a chat to Chris a local clairvoyant, herbal-therapist a grand lady and distance was brought up and I reflected on how things were sixty years ago.

 

Scotland was a far and distant place as was Wales, the rest of the world was seen on a globe.

 

I was born and lived in Hartlepool for 14 years and we couldn't understand what people over four miles up the road were saying! Mind you, that was over 50 years ago now.

[Zigs]

That's another theory of mine Ziggy, now being researched. Genetic or Inherent Memory. Fascinating stuff if you look at your ancestors.

 

 

I think there is something in that Huge, Mrs Becky said she knew i would end up working on churches as even at school she noticed i was always hanging around them ( mainly getting out of my face as i remember ) After our family tree had been traced back to Lydlynch in dorset & then on to the Codford area near Salisbury, I visited the area & found the grave of Thomas Searchfield (same name as my Dad) I found out he was a Victorian church carpenter. Before that, all living memory only traced us back to London, so like you say, it might be in the blood.

 

Mrs Becky thinks i'm mad to turn down the offer of work in New York, it's not the staying at home gene though, i just don't like doing cold turkey from fags or being a terrorist target. Was a bit worried, working for New York university in Turkey, load of americans & me, in a compound, only 1000km away from Iraq as the war was kicking off

[Tony U]

I was born and lived in Hartlepool for 14 years

 

Chevin

So that is why you moved to Wanneroo, Western Australia; No Monkeys :clap2:

[Ken Davison South Wales]

Was a bit worried, working for New York university in Turkey, load of americans & me, in a compound, only 1000km away from Iraq as the war was kicking off

 

You didn't get to close then

[peterpikefisher]

don't it scare you guys when you think back to how things used to be

it dose me some times ,

especially when i say to my 13 year old boy " i remember when i was your age ...Etc.Etc.

so long ago ,in the distant past.

Edited February 15, 2007 by pumphypete

[snotty]

I can remember following the Apollo 8 Christmas around the moon mission, and I was allowed to stay up to watch Apollo 11, I saw the first steps... awesome.

 

I had the Airfix models; Saturn V & lunar module, watched James Burke explaining the 'burn' for orbital entry.

 

Robbie the robot was about as weird as things got until the Daleks arrived. Ron Grainer and his radiophonic workshop ruled, it was still light years away from the mini-moog.

 

Summers lasted from late Spring until September, A car journey from my home in north lancashire to visit relatives in Liverpool took ages, no M6 then, you wouldn't dream of doing it as a day trip, it was planned with precision.

They were memorable times.

 

Life now is too stressful, too fast moving, we are too readily available, one click and you can buy, sell, trade, talk globally.

Were there almost instantaneous stock market highs and lows back then when communication was more leisurely? I was too young to bother with those things and we certainly didn't learn it at school, unlike todays budding young sixth formers.

The media didn't hype every story as if it were global news. There was a balance, an order of things, which somehow got lost along the way, together with 'common sense'.

Now we seem unwilling to wait until next week, everything is 'next-day delivery' broadband at only 1/2meg? huh too slow! Let me off this crazy planet, I'm feeling nauseous...

[Bobj]

Distance is relative..... The more distance between me and the relatives, especially the in-laws, the better!!