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Have I Ruined My Fridge Beyond Repair?

I have had temporary use of a new fridge in the empty flat adjoining mine, during substantial bathroom and kitchen repairs, but the ice build-up had been very considerable. The other day, I tried to...
08:27 Thu 28th Jun 20184 answers, last by rowanwitch 08:36 Thu 28th Jun 2018
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How Do I Get The Scottish 'mc...' Name Form Correctly On A Computer?

I was watching a scientific video on YouTube, which was narrated by a robotic voice. At one point, the script referred to 'Einstein's famous E=MC² formula' - but stupidly, the voice reinterpreted...
22:23 Thu 31st May 20185 answers, last by AndiFlatland 00:11 Fri 01st Jun 2018
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Gasbags!

I vaguely remember hearing, many years ago, that food manufacturers would put a quantity of an inert gas in bags of things like crisps, tortilla chips, sweets, etc. This was apparently (from what I...
23:45 Wed 30th May 201814 answers, last by theprof 11:47 Sat 02nd Jun 2018
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Why Can I No Longer Access Google?

A few months ago, I started the computer one morning, to find that Yahoo had hijacked virtually every single one of my tabs holding various Google searches that I wanted to refer to again. Although my...
21:38 Wed 30th May 20186 answers, last by Buenchico 02:04 Thu 31st May 2018
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Slow Release Of Bubbles In Carbonated Drinks

When you open a bottle or can of fizzy drink, the bubbles start rising quite fast at first. If you leave the container open for several hours, there will still be bubbles rising, although in fewer...
22:01 Thu 10th May 20182 answers, last by AndiFlatland 00:12 Fri 11th May 2018
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How Can I Stop One Of My Cats From Constant Howling? - Part 3 And Final

I'm not sure if any of you who responded to my previous postings (20.5.15 and 14.3.17) will be alerted to this message, but in case you are, I thought it only fair that I should give you a final, sad...
22:45 Thu 09th Nov 20174 answers, last by Islay 05:11 Fri 10th Nov 2017
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Cannabis In Antarctica

Are there laws covering the use of drugs in Antarctica? Presumably there would be a ban on smoking cannabis or using any other hallucinogenic or mind-altering substance in any of the bases, depending...
22:38 Fri 18th Aug 201712 answers, last by Togo 19:13 Tue 22nd Aug 2017
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Asteroid Impacts

We are increasingly concerned about what would happen to the Earth if an asteroid the size of the one that wiped out the dinosaurs hit the planet now. But I wonder what the implications for the Earth...
21:50 Fri 18th Aug 201721 answers, last by UzZiBiKeR 20:19 Tue 05th Sep 2017
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According To Internet Order Forms, My Country Doesn't Exist!

This has been bothering me for a long time: When I fill in an e-form on a site that I want to purchase something from, I have to choose my country from a drop-down box which doesn't list my country....
16:52 Wed 17th May 20176 answers, last by TheChair 06:23 Thu 18th May 2017
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Strange Outbreak Of Tiny White Crawling Creatures In Kitchen

A year or two back, I had an infestation of tiny white creatures, which were slowly crawling all over the dozens of bottles, jars and things which are stacked all over the top of the fridge (due to...
10:27 Sun 30th Apr 20174 answers, last by follyfancier 16:55 Sun 30th Apr 2017
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Lost My Pepper Shaker...

The other day, I accidentally dropped my pepper shaker in the kitchen. It rolled away into some dark corner where, no matter how hard I searched, I couldn't find it. A couple of days later, in another...
10:08 Sun 30th Apr 20172 answers, last by Chipchopper 20:07 Sun 30th Apr 2017
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How Can I Stop One Of My Cats From Constant Howling? - Part 2

If you can go back to my first posting under this heading, from 20th May 2015, you'll find the story of the 'new' cat who wouldn't stop howling, no matter what I did. As she seemed perfectly healthy,...
04:18 Tue 14th Mar 201710 answers, last by AndiFlatland 14:13 Sat 25th Mar 2017
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How Do I Clean The Internal Contacts Of A Vcr Remote Control?

I'm still in the land of the VCR, and still find it the best method of recording. At least, until the dwindling stocks of video tapes finally dry up. As I do a lot of recordings, I can often sit with...
03:05 Tue 14th Mar 201712 answers, last by Togo 10:10 Tue 14th Mar 2017
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Fish Sausages

Well... why doesn't anybody make them? I was just thinking about what sort of stuff goes into sausages, and it suddenly occurred to me... hey, why not fish? I mean, if you got some cod or haddock or...
14:15 Sun 12th Mar 20175 answers, last by EcclesCake 14:32 Sun 12th Mar 2017
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Sprouting Potatoes

I'm a pretty lazy cook, so often when I buy stuff, it can be several weeks before I get around to cooking it. If I buy a bag of potatoes, they can remain in the bag on the veg rack until I notice that...
09:48 Thu 23rd Feb 20177 answers, last by MallyJ 22:10 Thu 23rd Feb 2017
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Are We Just Evolutionarily Lucky?

This is intended as a serious question, although I'm sure it will inevitably attract some hilarious comments and levity (but that's alright). For many years I've wondered whether it's more than just...
00:04 Thu 23rd Feb 201717 answers, last by jno 01:31 Sun 05th Mar 2017
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Cat Food Makers' Cynical Deceit

When cat food pouches first came on to the market - maybe in the 90s? - I always bought my cats a selection of brands, usually Whiskas, Felix, or one of the supermarkets' own brands. The pouches were...
22:55 Wed 22nd Feb 201716 answers, last by Prudie 15:42 Thu 23rd Feb 2017
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A Cheesy Conundrum

My local branch of Lidl stocks Emmental cheese in 250g vacuum-wrapped blocks. Given that this cheese is full of holes, of widely varying size and distribution through the block, how do the...
21:40 Wed 22nd Feb 20176 answers, last by Old_Geezer 01:07 Thu 23rd Feb 2017
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What Do Fish Do That We Don't Know About?

Here's an interesting question - never come across the subject in any of the thousands of wildlife programmes I've seen: Do fish yawn? (And how would you know, since they mostly seem to go around with...
23:49 Sun 23rd Aug 201529 answers, last by Mosaic 06:00 Mon 24th Aug 2015

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