I used this term to describe the music of band I cannot stand (Guns 'Un Roses) but I was met with the look of "what is he on about?".
Has anybody else heard this term before?...
I remember a few years ago watching a documentary about how much more money goes from the Treasury to Scotland per capita than England and that this was called The Barnett formula. Mr Barnett was...
Is it possible to use Italics on AB? Sometimes a word highlighted in italics can slightly change the context and much better than using capitals but I can't find a way to do it.
It would appear that there is a very real possibility that the General Election planned for May 2015 would have to be postponed for a year if the Scottish people vote "Yes" next week.As there are...
Many years ago a man called Joe worked in the coal mines. He would go to work early in the morning, go down the mine to the coal face and do his eight hour stint, then come back to the surface to get...
There is an appeal on tv for funds for Sudan, and the doctor who is making the appeal tells us to text 70800 but he says 'text seventy eight hundred' - surely that would be 7800 and if anyone had...
And yet another interesting piece of history: In 1272, the Arabic Islamic Muslims invented the condom, using a goat's lower intestine. In 1873, the British somewhat refined the idea by taking the...
Heywood and Middleton, a seat once held by Jim Callaghan. 6,000 Labour Majority in 2010. UKIP came 5th, behind he BNP in 4th. On the face of it, not UKIP territory, but anything can happen?...