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computer hard drive

I hope someone out there can help with this question. The hard drive to our desk top computer is completely cream-crackered now (we've had it 8 years now) and we've been advised to replace it - it's...

oldnitro

Non believers

Those people on here who are non believers, if you were true believers previously, what caused you to reject the notion of God and religion

icemaiden

Memory loss...

I know as you get older (I'm early 40's) your memory will waiver but I seem to be forgetting a lot more than normal of late. It really hit me yesterday when I had an argument with a Tesco worker,...

Elderman

Do You Have Time?

According to a survey, the average man in the spends twenty years working, twenty years sleeping, five years shaving and dressing, five years eating, one year telephoning, three years just waiting and...

crisgal

where would you apostrophise?

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Onwards and Downwards September 2011

Onwards and Downwards Continues With the start of autumn comes the craving for hearty food and winter warmers, while summer salads are out of favour. How are you going to fulfill your need for warming...

sandyRoe

What is 'Santini LG' sold in M&S?

It costs £2.99 and is listed among the shopping on my receipt today. What have I bought? And where is it?

moiflan

Mental Illness

Can anyone explain to me about mental illnesses?I have recently heard of an old friend who has been sectioned for six years now.How many patients are in full time institutions?Is it physiological or...

lidlicker

Baking blind

I am going to make a quiche and I read on the internet that somone reccomended that to bake blind instead of using baking beads is to use coins. Something to do with the metal flan tin and the coins...

rov1100

Life on Earth Originated from the Sun?

Would it be even remotely possible that life came from solar flares or other fission material from the sun? That is not to say evolution occured but even that needed a starting point and nourishment...

flobadob

Could 2012 be the year that.....?

If you had said a few months ago that something could travel faster than the speed of light you would have been shouted down and swamped with so-called conclusive proof that this would be impossible....

oldnitro

Fundamental

Is there any field of science more fascinating and thought provoking than that of quantum physics? the fact that I can hold a billiard ball in my hand and if all the space between the atoms was...

Dee Sa

Jim Davidson

Iwent to see hm last night only because I won the tickets in a local rag comp, well I laughed my socks of for hour and a half and a lot of what he said in jokes made sense, I think he would make a...

Dee Sa

yes r no ?

firstly let me explain I am73 years young, have all my marbles but no nowt about computers ........ I keep getting a pop up from PC POWER SPEED it states .... Warning YOUR SYSTEM REGISTRY contains...

bertiemje

How to blank a plug socket

Hi. I'm coverting a bedroom into a bathroom. The only thing I am unsure of is how to blank the old sockets. Before it is said it will be checked by an electrician and signed off after. Please help

Tolsty

Problem with BT landline.

When we dial a number we have a strange interference noise on the line, like many pulse tones. It takes over 30 seconds to actually connect and for the line at the other end to ring. We can also not...

jan1ne

Shrieking pet birds in neighbors garden

This morning i was woken up at the crack of dawn by a weird screaming sound and on further investigation i noticed that the neighbor had a flock of roughly 7 peacocks strutting around her garden...

what..the?

Kleeneze catalogue to your door (home shopping)

I just had one delivered in a resealable bag with a note to say it will be collected next week, I noticed the catalogue was ever so slightly creased and what with me not being able to keep the...

joggerjayne

Surprisingly Good Tips

I don't mean tips like Stokey's. I mean little ideas. But only ones that cast iron guarantee work. None of this "white wine is the best thing to clean up red wine" nonsense. Here's mine ......

carlton23

Space debrie

Has anyone heard where the space station as bid as a bus finally landed?

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