Would clapping really induce anxiety? Really?. https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/02/union-bans-clapping-to-avoid-anxiety-as-students-are-told-use-jazz-hands-instead-7996892/ I Note Sara Khan quoted in the...
Is the world going mad? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6195853/Credit-Suisse-boss-dresses-woman-slammed-appearing-100-women-list.html I suspect I'm going to be lambasted by some, but this is...
I always had a feeling this was going to catch some people out. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-6182141/Hard-working-families-hounded-pay-thousands-falling-foul-child-benefit-rules.html...
Long-winded question alert - there are cleverer people on AB than me so I'm interested in opinions! I'm in my mid(ish) 40s with a wife and two school age children. This is my second marriage and...
Hot off the back of the bedwetters at Manchester University last week, we now have Wolverhampton yanking a 'Racist and Colonialist' poster, with one student commenting "It's just an awful poster and...
This is becoming silly, isn't it? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5908197/Single-mother-32-asked-pay-1-850-school-trip.html I suspect there are many parents in the area concerned who would be...
Sidebar - I Love the word snowflake to describe the delicate flowers that roam around us. Granted we don't know the joke the academic cracked, but if it was of an 'Are you being served' nature, should...
Oh Dear. Despite the vote for any mid-term election usually going against the incumbent Government, despite the bad couple of weeks with Windrush, despite the (so we are being told by the Remain camp)...
I am a total moron when it comes to anything mechanical.... I took the battery out of my bike a while ago. I should have taken a photo so that I knew how to reinstall it (stupid mistake). I have just...
I heard a joke today that is really really dark, which I have no doubt will offend some people, but it made me laugh - although I have yet to hear a joke that did offend me.
Happy to share.........
Personally I think yes. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/19/uk-bosses-believe-women-should-say-at-interview-if-they-are-pregnant-report How frustrating would it be to have a job offer...
I travel to Haverfordwest two or three times a year to visit relatives, and when you go over the Severn Bridge the signs are in English first with Welsh below - this continues until about Port...
My ignorance of all things mechanical knows no bounds. It's a nice day where I am so quite fancy a run on my bike, but the battery is flat. I live in a bowl so can't bump it (it's uphill either side...
Corbyn's support of the IRA is well known, and in the past he has called Hamas and Hezbollah friends, so should we be surprised he doesn't want this misogynist, homophobic, terrorist organisation who...
Given Jeremy Corbyn has said in the past he stands for "kinder, gentler politics", why did he refuse to condemn McDonnell's statement that Esther McVey is a "stain of inhumanity".?...
I cannot imagine the mental anguish this poor young man has had to endure for the past two years following an entirely made-up and malicious accusation of rape....
I know I'm giving a link to a Daily Mail piece written by Piers Morgan (probably the two worse unofficial crimes that can be committed on Answerbank), but he's right, isn't he?...