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Stick thin models.

The recent 'size zero' phenomenon has struck fear into many people. Mothers are worried their daughters will end up anorexic in the quest to be thin, women worry that being emaciated is now beautiful....

Lonnie

Biggest threat to Global Warming

On the radio to day, a chap came on with figures from the UN, and said that the biggest threat is Methane, this apparently is the biggest cause of Global Warming, caused by intensive farming of Beef....

pmorgan14

charon

Charon always stays in the same place in Plutos sky, but the moon always moves across the sky, what causes the differences?

naomi24

Whatever happened to the British notion of right and wrong?

Whatever happened to the British notion of right and wrong? Is this country sinking ever more swiftly into the mire? Every day we open our newspapers to find accounts of criminals receiving...

jg96

parking fine

My daughter got a parking ticket whilst parked on my driveway the problem was that the back end of the car was protruding about 2 feet on to the pavement altthough I know this was wrong and the fine...

littleone85

Sex Education in schools

Taking inspiration from Sonak's question, I wanted to ask your views on sex education in religious schools. I went to a R.C High School and I found the sex education were recieved very lacking. The...

Kathyan

Looks like he is going ahead no matter what!

In the Mirror today http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=blair %2D-we-can%2Dt-go-on-without-toll-tax%26method =full%26objectid=18586574%26siteid=94762-name_ page.html How arrogant is this man?

sunflower68

London Science Museum

Anyone been recently? We fancy popping in one saturday but wondered what the queues were like now it's free. Whilst on the subject, any other cheap recommendations for under 10s, over 5s. ?

army_lad

joining the police

I am in the armed forces, and have been for the last 2 years..As i dont like it i would like to join the police force.Maybe something like armed police, but i have a criminal record from about 5 years...

the_bebe_

favourite quotes

what are peoples favourite quotes?

AVVA

Drink Driving Arrest

My husband was arrested at home for drink driving. He drank one pint of lager during the day and went out to drop some empty bottles at the local bottle bank then went to Tesco early evening. The...

mrnice

GBH With Intent Sentence?

Hi all, I am trying to find out the sentence that someone would get for GBH with intent? My cousin was attacked for no reason and had his throat slit as he tried to walk away from the attacker, (this...

Theland

Your Stars

Do you read your stars in the papers? Do you take any notice of them? Or do you regard the whole astrology thing as utter rubbish?

wendyl

What would you do?

Back in October 06 whilst my husband was driving my car with me as passenger he was flashed at traffic lights doing 13mph (40mph) limit crossing red light after amber on 3 secs! He has a clean licence...

seethrusoul

physics -using sound to calculate depth

you toss a stone into a well and hear a splash in 2.5 seconds. the speed of sound is 340 meters/second. how deep is the well?

craigiep

What do you think of this then?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-200706010 6,00.html

SurreyGuy

Which TV should I get - LCD or plasma?

I'm going to be buying a new TV soon. I've already worked out that I'm best getting an HD-ready one (I think!) and i'm probably gonna get a 32 inch one (as it said on a prgramme last night that a...

battersby

Alternative King

Did anyone watch this programme last night on Discovery with Tony Robinson? He traced the Plantagent family to the present day and ended up in Australia meeting who could have been the King today had...

cjrisk

Speeding Advice

driving...