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Vietnam War.

During the Vietnam war the Americans used to spray the jungle with "agent orange". This chemical was sprayed from aircraft . The next morning the trees would be bare and the Viet-con snipers...

Gromit

More ex-servicemen in prison than there are troops in Afghanistan

The proportion of veterans in the prison population has more than doubled in six years, according to a report published today highlighting the hidden cost of recent military action. About 12,000...

Dodger666

Lost the will to live!

Alistair Darling today claims the Labour Party hierarchy is like a football team that has "lost the will to live". If that's true, then they must know how the majority of the population must...

anotheoldgit

Stand up and salute our heroes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215612/Pictured-Heartbreaking-courage-injured-soldier-pays-respects-bravest-brave-killed-Afghanistan.html I say to those on this site who have no respect for...

anotheoldgit

Re-Tune day

I had a message pop up on my television, saying I should re-tune my channels on the 30th September. What does all this mean? Will it only apply to freeview set top boxes, or those with built in...

Oneeyedvic

Realistic or a pipe dream

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8269837.stm Nick Clegg has shunned talk of deals with other parties in a keynote conference speech and instead told Lib Dems: "I want to be prime...

Young Foster

TV Magazine

Hi Can anyone please advise me as to which television magazine has Freesat listings in it. Thanks for your help....

brionon

Ideas for New Stricktly ?

''Stricktly come Boxing.'' Any ideas ?

shivvy

Has Answerbank stopped its prompts?

Has answerbank stopped sending emails to say that someone had answered your question? (I haven't been on the site for a while.) Thanks...

Hugh Spencer

printer inks

The cost of cartridges is expensive but I am using compatible ones for my Epson printrer. They are 100% guaranteed to work and are returnable if not. I started getting them from Inksmart for...

MalcolmY

Where can I buy a sensibly priced copy of MS Office 2007?

It appears that the only way I can get MS Office 2007 Home and Student Edition is to buy the 3 User Licence version. I only have one computer so two thirds of the licence would be redundant. Is there...

Bobbisox

Clearing the Immigrants in Calaise

There is something very wrong when camps are being set up and people with small children, are prepared to live in such squalor, to get to the UK, The Le gendarmre are flexing their muscles once again...

dothawkes31

If I had employed someone

and not passed their ID and proof of right to work onto my HR department, i would have been disciplined, but I would never have done that, I am not that thick. If my HR department had accepted the...

sp1814

Only whites are ever accused of racism

Will this story finally put to rest the assertion that the 'authorities' are only ever interested in pursuing race hate crimes when the perpetrator is white and the victim is non-white?...

anotheoldgit

Should she be allowed to wear the cross?

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/128816/NHS-nurse-faces-the-sack-for-wearing-her-crucifix An health and safety issue or just another example of her employers being frightened in case the cross...

chas2008

banned-taking-pictures-grandson

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214990/Detective-led-Soham-murder-probe-banned-taking-pictures-grandson-playing-football-case-paedophile.html this is just getting beyond a joke now, my son in...

grasscarp

Italian Soldiers from Afghanistan

My (Italian) husband is watching the Italian tv which has extensive coverage of the return of the six soldiers, killed in Afghanistan. As you probably heard on the news they are having a day of...

anotheoldgit

Race Card again?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213788/You-lie-outburst-Obama-racist-says-president-Jimmy-Carter.html I was wondering how long it would be before someone said something that the...

anotheoldgit

Where to now?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1214161/French-Jungle-razed-week-immigrants-told-You-England-anymore-Calais.html Mr Besson said Britain's generous welfare benefits encourage people...

anotheoldgit

Should politicians show a certain amount of decorum?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213788/You-lie-outburst-Obama-racist-says-president-Jimmy-Carter.html Is this behaviour fitting for a man who governs over the most powerful nation...

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Vietnam War.

More ex-servicemen in prison than there are troops in Afghanistan

Lost the will to live!

Stand up and salute our heroes.

Re-Tune day

Realistic or a pipe dream

TV Magazine

Ideas for New Stricktly ?

Has Answerbank stopped its prompts?

printer inks

Where can I buy a sensibly priced copy of MS Office 2007?

Clearing the Immigrants in Calaise

If I had employed someone

Only whites are ever accused of racism

Should she be allowed to wear the cross?

banned-taking-pictures-grandson

Italian Soldiers from Afghanistan

Race Card again?

Where to now?

Should politicians show a certain amount of decorum?

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