good morning all the picture today is taken from 'the muppets as a tribute to Buenchico, who celebrated 8 years on AB yesterday enjoy yourselves thinking up captions - and i shall decide on the winner...
Three things have prompted this question. Firstly a middle-aged man in front of me in the Co-op the conversation went ' a lottery ticket for tonight' checkout 'girl £2 please' man throws £2 on...
There's always an argument for immigrants / visitors etc to the UK to adapt to our culture, but with such diversity do we even have a defined way of doing things that should be adhered to? How many of...
http://news.sky.com/story/1139547/david-attenborough-dont-have-large-families This is a subject I feel strongly about. All the 'green' policies in the world will be of no use whilst the worlds...
"A ‘normal’ working week of 21 hours could help to address a range of urgent, interlinked problems: overwork, unemployment, over-consumption, high carbon emissions, low well-being, entrenched...
Morning all, I wondered where you might look to find very long range forecasts - for example, if I want to know if this December is likely to be very cold, or just cold? Is there anywhere online which...
I have personal experience of this feeling of dread and being a fully rational person cannot explain what it is or what causes it. My particular experience was in an old house. Mooching the lower...
I have several very good friends of the opposite sex (all married) and that is all we are - friends. A comment on another post made me realise that not all women would be happy for their husbands to...
A lot of these shops have sprung up lately and I was just wondering why they would pay for unwanted clothes and who do they sell them on to? Anyone had any bad experiences with them because we are...
i have tried 4 plumbers in my area to do a small 10 min job (blanking off a very accessible pipe)
"no job too small" they advertise... not one has replied !...
Has anyone else noticed how the young ones of today mumble when speaking.hardly moving their mouths.Plus,no intonation just one long stream of "mm.mm.mm." Maybe,I notice it more as I was an English...
Last week I went to visit one of my oldest friends (male) who was unwell. When I visit people I don't like to go empty handed - it is the way I was brought up. I took with me six iced buns I had made...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24013824 So it was someone else's fault that he tried to bully his Mrs Into taking his points was it? Then got caught playing away! Typical "right on" liberal...
Although I am a music and culture writer, I am perfectly willing to accept that there are vast swathes of youth culture that do not apear on my radar, and that i am unlikely to understand. Hence my...