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Fed up of Britain ... grrrrr!

I would just like to say thank you to all you criminals and illegal immigrants who have just made my week worse! 1. Apparently I can't go and pick up my husband's new transponder key up for his car...

anotheoldgit

Brown is absent yet again.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/arti cle-1175351/Exit-Iraq-British-troops-honour-17 9-fallen-comrades-prepare-fly-home.html Why wasn't Brown at this service to honour the 179 British...

warpig3

Weight

If you were to take a 10kg bag into a pressurised aeroplane cabin would it weigh more in that cabin than in the non-pressurised hold? Yes or no answers would be fine. many thanks warpig

Gromit

Financial Times headlines

It might be fun if AB readers could suggest funny or apt headlines that might have appeared in the FT through the ages...

warpig3

Headphones

Why are headphones marked L and R, does it make a difference if you put them in the wrong ear, does each ear 'hear' differently? Just wondering. Warpig

Leo-Bloom

Earth in the Goldilocks position.

Clearly the Earth is just in the right orbit, neither too hot or too cold, for life to have developed. How much nearer to the Sun, or further out, would have meant no life on Earth?

wasp

Swine flu

Another lie from Gordon Brown. He told us that the government had banned swine flu from Britain just in case it offended Muslims.

dragonsmrs

maths quiz

help needed please two circles with the same centre point are said to be ???????

The Sherman

one for you Naomi!........if you wouldn't mind

Well actually anyone but i have heard Naomi talk about this quite a bit. am gonna start with please theorise and in your opinion so that it is known that I just want someones opinion who is more...

brionon

Pessimism

Why does the BBC tell us how many have died from the Pig 'Flu but don't tell us what the survival chances are ? NO MENTION of Survivors.

lilsecret

Well

Innocent until proven guilty I guess . . . but sickening if true. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090429/tuk-polic eman-on-child-grooming-charge-6323e80.html

Oneeyedvic

Question for Question Time

I may be on Question Time this week - I need to come up with a question (20-30 words) which is topical (probably about Swine Flu) to ask the panel. Not sure who the politicians will be, but I do know...

clydeserani

Government Srappage Incentive

Hi. I am having difficulty finding out if the buyer must take the car on an HP agreement to be eligible to take advantage of the Scrappage Incentive... Does anyone know.??

Nosha123

How much do we really need to worry? Swine Flu in london

News just announced swine flu case being examined in Isleworth - 10 mins down the road from me! How much do we really need to worry and should I be buying tinned food and staying home for a week???...

Kimbles20

Why is it that 'wedding' rings are so much more expensive than normal rings?

My fiance and I are currently looking for wedding rings and I budgetted ?200 in total for them, thinking that we would easily be able to get a ring for under ?100 each. I have noticed that even though...

christina64

xmas day stabbings

my son and his friends were all stabbed on xmas day, my son was stabbed in his face,his friend in the abdomen and the other friend was stabbed 3 times piercing his liver, this was a unprovoked attack,...

VHG

What is happening to this country ?

Makes you wonder what is happening to this country. Is it drugs, drink, boredom or what ? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8022 545.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8022 709.stm...

Miss Chief

Affair with a married man/woman

Do you think there are any circumstances under which the above is acceptable/excusable?

shaking

Swine Flu

Does anyone believe that if the swine flu becomes pandemic that it is mother nature's way of controlling an over populated world?