[Vivienne]

The pink loo roll is nice on your bum... the more expensive one.

[MK Chris]

I don't get why people pay more for different coloured toilet paper. It's there to do a job, making it pink doesn't make it do the job any better.

[Vivienne]

Yeh, but it does feel nicer... than, for example, that terrible paper stuff you get in public loos.

[Ballbag]

I don't get why people pay more for different coloured toilet paper. It's there to do a job, making it pink doesn't make it do the job any better.

Yeah, I don't get why people pay more for different coloured cars, they're just there to do a job. Or clothes for that matter, why not just get everything undyed. You're really onto something here Topher the Bopher.

[MK Chris]

It's not the pink colour that does that, it's because they make it more cushioned as well as a different colour. You can get that in white as well.

P.S. Paper stuff?! To wipe your arse?? Outrageous!

[Yudster]

I preferred the "two-bit celebrity" discussion. And I use a baby wipe followed by a couple of sheets of ordinary paper.

[claradooblue]

but the quality of baby wipes can vary enormously. I can't bear the scented variety. Somerfield's unperfumed in the purple packet are the best for bum hygiene in my opinion.

[Yudster]

Sainsburys unperfumed in the white packet with the little pink elephant logo, not the economy ones. Dry paper simply doesn't do the job well enough.

[Nicola_Red]

sorry, tophs.... it's just I find the tracing of family history "mental". I find my current family bad enough, let alone digging up a lot of people from the past.

It's huge business tho. My dad is always busy with work and all he has is a fairly amateurish website (http://www.lancashireorigins.co.uk if anyone is interested...) and a classified ad in some of the family history magazines. Older people are crazy for it. I think it's nice to preserve people's memories and the way they lived their lives, altho I find the administrative side (certificates, parish records, censuses etc) tedious. My dad even tried to persuade me to learn some Latin to help him. I declined.

[Ballbag]

I think half of Britain could probably link them selves to some famous person from the past. It's being bothered to do it and actually proving it is an arse.

Apparently if you can find a "gateway" in your family, then it's pretty easy. (A gateway being some form of noble, or prominent person) They usually have their family histories well documented. 4 or 5 generations back we had an archbishop of Liverpool in the family, the rest was easy.

[MK Chris]

Last Saturday (i think) I saw Jilly Goolden come into Paperchase and set the alarm off. She wasn't happy.

Who?

I think half of Britain could probably link them selves to some famous person from the past. It's being bothered to do it and actually proving it is an arse.

Apparently if you can find a "gateway" in your family, then it's pretty easy. (A gateway being some form of noble, or prominent person) They usually have their family histories well documented. 4 or 5 generations back we had an archbishop of Liverpool in the family, the rest was easy.

I was going to say that I'm intrigued how anyone can go back to the 1000s; surely records haven't been kept that long and the ones that have are pretty unreliable?

[Bruvva]

Apparently if you can find a "gateway" in your family, then it's pretty easy. (A gateway being some form of noble, or prominent person) They usually have their family histories well documented. 4 or 5 generations back we had an archbishop of Liverpool in the family, the rest was easy.

I was going to say that I'm intrigued how anyone can go back to the 1000s; surely records haven't been kept that long and the ones that have are pretty unreliable?

My parents are doing the family tree thing at the moment and they've got back to the 1600s relatively easily but it gets more and more difficult as the spelling of surnames varies from place to place and generation to generation so at one point it does become educated guesswork. Unfortunately they've not dug up anyone interesting, most of my ancestors were farm labourers from Kidderminster or its surroundings although there was a confectioner from Birmingham. Oh and some welsh types but we don't mention them.

[MK Chris]

relatively easily

I see what you did there...

[Yudster]

although there was a confectioner from Birmingham

Chocolate? Cadbury? Bournville?!

[Bruvva]

although there was a confectioner from Birmingham

Chocolate? Cadbury? Bournville?!

They had their own shop I think.

[Sunny So Cal]

My 23rd great grandfather was King Edward I.

I'm sorry.

And I agree wholeheartedly with Footsy's comment: drink sunscreen.

[kendra k]

this thread is pretty funny. thanks, y'all.

i'm my family's gateway because i'm a star! (or not.)

i've touched tony blair.
i've touched gordon brown.
i've touched ray davies.
i've partied with neil hannon.
last night i partied with richard hawley.
see? i'm a * rock star!

or just really sad.
(like my good buddy- the guy who discovered green day. ha!)

[Boboff]

My surname is derived from the Disciple Mark, and although I am of relatively distant Jewish Origin, ( 4 greats Grampa's was a Jewish Boat Carpenter in Falmouth) I still think that beats William the Frog.

[claradooblue]

Ah well.My surname is the same as that Duke of Lancaster from yesteryear who directly carried on the royal line. Am i related to him though, who can say?

[Zoot]

My surname is the same as a very, very famous American actor, Am I related to him?

[claradooblue]

Jack Nicholson?

[Zoot]

nope

[MK Chris]

I know, I know!

I'll keep quiet.

[catherine]

My first name and second name is the name of a main character in a book by Elizabeth Thornton, I just had to buy it.

[Yudster]

Did you feel compelled to read it too Cat?