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venator

Is Gravatar working for anyone?

The title says it all... I'm getting fed up being blue with one big yellow eye......

somerandomguy

What relation?

Hi, new here, first question. If someone is my Dad's cousins son. What does that make him to me?

has

I am really interested in trying to face my family tree but I have no idea how to start. I am only able to go back to my grandparents era. Are the genealogy sites easy to use for novices? Which is the...

TTG

Has Iceland produce finally gone through the "incredible shrinking ray"?

1kg veg now down to 900g but same price!

blackeyed

Crying

Why does our voice choke and goes weak when we cry?

flobadob

What would happen if EVERYONE stopped paying their mortgage?

I don't claim to know all the details of why the world appears to have financial problems. Every country seems to owe some other country money. That in itself seems a strange scenario. A lot of banks...

flobadob

Genius?

http://xaxor.com/funn...-a-zipper-up-tip.html...

factor-fiction

The two envelopes problem

The Deal or No Deal thread reminded me of two tricky probability/choice problems. One is the Monty Hall goat and cars problem which has been covered on here several times before so I'll leave that...

Captain Spod

A comic's Target Market

Happened to be discussing kids' comics with Mrs Spod today and I asked if she remembered Beano. 'Never read it, it was a boys' comic'. I could not have been more surprised. There were, of course,...

brenda

Is it a wise move to

remove a chimney stack, which is unused from the roof of a house? Am asking this question for yet another elderly neighbour. The chimney is connected to a room in the property in which there is no...

MJFan101

Probability

What can you do to get the experimental probability to be closer to the theoretical probability?

sandyRoe

Hasn't this poor old chap been through enough?

Does he really need to be wearing a tag and observing a curfew ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15690654...

Oleanda

Not So Much "How" but "Why"?

When Google Street View went live, they had filmed our street early in the morning when nobody was about, our car was on the drive and our bedroom curtains were closed. I just looked at it again and...

marval

Gin

A barman looks out the window of his bar and sees a guy riding a horse dressed in a hunting outfit with a rifle over one arm and a hound running along beside him. He dismounts and comes walking into...

DrFilth

Hang all these savages

upside down by their goolies and give a them a bit of their own medicine http://www.telegraph....eleased-by-RSPCA.html...

madmaggot

Can someone enlighten me please?

Why is it that so many people start their query with 'OK, so..............'?

Bbbananas

Copywrite

If you are, for instance, writing an article for a magazine etc, and you want to use a phrase you have read describing a building or some such thing - surely if you put the phrase in quotation marks,...

David H

OK, how many people missed Big Brother last night?

I've got cable so had the repeat this afternoon but I suppose as we're all on the internet we could have seen it on 5OD. But who missed it first time round like I did?

mumsie_wumsie

deal or no deal

Did anyone watch this program yesterday(wed.9th) ? The chap that was playing had a really good board left, £15,000 upwards and he was offered £15,000. Noel Edmonds made such a big deal...

browndmb

Telephone

I have a cordless BT studio3500 and as soon as I want to use it there is such a racket and cannot here anything above it. I have n extension phone upstairs and this is OK so am wondering if it is the...

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