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David Blaine

Good Morning, Does anyone know how David Blaine did that trick in London where he stayed in that box? Thanks

Will the West Iran get the bomb?

http://tinyurl.com/ybnyo5v How far will the West let DinnerJacket go before they reign him in? Obvious BGB opportunities here!...

pirwany

Eclipses

Why is it that a total solar eclipse occurs at new moon and a lunar eclipse occurs at full moon?

jake-the-peg

How can we punish public bodies better

Last year Thames valley Police allowed an officer to continue working with firearms despite having failed a firearms course. He mistakenly loaded a pistol with live ammunition from an old Quality...

rov1200

Obama snubs Brown 5 times in succession

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8272061.stm Does it matter if Brown is snubbed by Obama? The American president has had face to face talks with Japan, China and Russia but the overtures from...

TWR

To assit the police / Traffic wardens Re/ Car Insurance

Cars have the Indication they have Road Tax by displaying the disk in the N/S Front of their windscreen, surely this could be sorted in an easy way by the same issued by the Insurance Companies in...

R1Geezer

Cyclists, you know who you are....

Do you do any of these? own up, explain why: 1. Ride on any pedestrianised area, footpaths etc? 2. Ride through red lights? 3. Ride without lights? 4. Roundabout cutter? and 5. Would your bike pass an...

Oneeyedvic

Realistic or a pipe dream

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8269837.stm Nick Clegg has shunned talk of deals with other parties in a keynote conference speech and instead told Lib Dems: "I want to be prime...

Whickerman

Wind direction

Can you help with a question regarding wind direction? This is nothing important, just want to be able to answer a pedant. This came up the other day in conversation with a workmate who sails as a...

OllyOxenfree

What ridiculous/unfair taxes are we currently paying?

I'm doing a research paper on this and would like opinions other than mine. I'll start us off with: Television Licence...

wizard66

smoking and nicotine replacement therapy v hypnotherapy

Does anyone know of any studies that have been done comparing the success rates of NRT verses hypnotherapy for smokers. thanks....

OllyOxenfree

How many ridiculous taxes are we currently paying?

I'm doing a research paper on this and would like a common opinion rather than just mine. I'll start us off with this lovely: Television Licence...

TWR

Should they?

Its getting to the stage that cyclists have as much rights as a motorist! Why? do they have the the right to go through red lights? do they pay for cycle lanes? although not fuel propelled some of...

R1Geezer

Why's it all so slow again?

Selection a category takes about 2 minutes, selecting a question twice that, what's happenning? The new Ab was fast to start with, it's becomming unusable/

SHALOM

In 2008

1) What became Absolute? 2) Which world cup did England unexpectantly win in September 2008? Would it be cricket, or football?...

Bobbisox

Clearing the Immigrants in Calaise

There is something very wrong when camps are being set up and people with small children, are prepared to live in such squalor, to get to the UK, The Le gendarmre are flexing their muscles once again...

beso

Star Names

Sometime in the next thousand years Alpha Orionis (aka Betelgeuse) is expected to explode. Its diameter already collapses under gravitation at a rate approaching 1000 km per second and is...