Most of the worldwide production of illegal heroin, the drug refined from opium, comes from Afghanistan, and the then Prime Minister Tony Blair cited this as a reason for the war in 2001, calling the...
I have just watched the above, and thought it was a very poor and chauvinistic programme. Newton was a great genius and indubitably altered the course of scientific knowledge, but it portrayed him as...
theres this really hot teacher at my school. she doesnt teach me but i see her a lot. when i see her she smiles in a seductive way. i think shes in her 30s and single. what should i do?
i am always amazes that they have stopped a widespread past practice of interviewing wives when the husband is applying for a prestigious post. To me, the wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons,...
First day out on the bike for a while - so I was just poodling along, getting back into the groove. Which was a good job, because at my usual (moderate but not slow) speed I'd have been lucky to still...
went to a car boot sale yesterday and one of the items i picked up was a rather unusual toby jug with his legs up in the air also a lovely wooden ornament for the garden which the stall holder makes...
Just done an AB search for Dr. Who and was reminded that originally he had his grand daughter Susan travelling with him. Has there ever been any mention of Mrs. Who, or indeed Susan's parents ?
So - the Cap on Benefits will commence, along with a chorus of moaning minnies who say they can't possibly manage and will have to cut down on food and heating -so bloody what!!! If two working people...
Last year I went to hospital for routine eye test whereby the nurse doing the test said I had funny shaped eyeballs and a bit of pressure behind the eye and sent for the consultant who said they were...
My daughter needs help with an IGCSE biology question! Obviously, in the dark photosynthesis cannot occur as there is no light. Plants do use oxygen too, through the hairs on the roots, which is why a...
As his paranoia deepened Harold Wilson famously came to believe that spies from both left and right were watching his every move. Thatcher inadvertantly betrayed her megalomania when she grandly...
Some of the roads in our town have been given 20mph speed limits. Yeah yeah, I know. I've just been looking through some copies of the ArseGas from last week. There was a survey, carried out with a...
As benefits are being hit hard isn't it time to question the pension? Here I am paying large amounts of money to provide for my retirement whilst others are not making provision and intending to throw...
If you believe in God, do you not think s/he is a bit of a bighead expecting everyone to pray to him, some five times per day, when the omnipotent One knows what you are thinking at all times anyway?
After the question about The Shawshank Redemption, I got thinking about my favourite films ( serious ones, not comedies, I have a whole list of those as well). What are yours? 10. Pi 9. The English...
people like blair depart this mortal coil ? look at the damage him and his mob did/have done to the country judging by the animosity to MT, like the roman games there could be days of non stop...
An Oxford student plans a protest of getting people to turn their backs on Lady Thatcher's cortege. The Mail sees this as "disrupting". Do you? Should it be stopped? Should he not live in a £700,000...
Front page of the Sunday Times today. Sally Bercow won't be attending the Thatcher funeral next week, as she believes that she ushered in a "very greedy and selfish society" Bit of an embarrassment...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22140716 the BBC seem to have provoked a degree of criticism from their use of subrerfuge in getting a report from North Korea. Since the way the report was produced may...
"This woman is headstrong, obstinate, and dangerously self-opinionated " Those are the notes of the interviewer who interviewed a candidate for a job with ICI, in 1948. [Quoted in The Times] No prize...