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Forced to be Religious

If you were forced to adopt any religion, under threat of death, which would be the LAST ONE you would choose and why ?

France - Grasping The Veil Nettle Firmly, That The UK Never Will

http://news.bbc.co.uk...ld/europe/8494860.stm Well done France. I particularly like the paragraph: Later, the minister stressed that French law required anyone seeking naturalisation to demonstrate...

R1Geezer

cost of smoking to the nation?

With the estimated costs to the nation of around 20 billion (that's direct and indirect) and tax receipts of around £6billion, can we dispense with the myth that smoking is a next contributor to...

AB Editor

Shoot-out

http://www.telegraph....n-his-shoot-outs.html "Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr, who died in 1962 aged 77, first suggested the intentional act of drawing and shooting is slower to execute...

rov1200

Is Afghanistan the right target?

http://news.bbc.co.uk...ld/africa/8491329.stm Now that Islamic extremists linked to Al Qaeda are flourishing in Somalia couple this with the same fanatics in Yemen they will be able to form a pincer...

tamborine

Sky News: Chandlers

What can be done for this distressed aged couple; they were captured by somali pirates. The pirates want £million ransom.....no human rights there.

mollykins

mri scan on head, zip on trouser

i'm having a mri scan, on my head and have made sure i havent got any metal on my top half, but my zip on my school tousers are metal, will i have to take them off?

Aquagility

Can this be true?

Pope Tell's Africa That Condoms Take Away All the Feeling ...18 Mar 2009 ... Pope Tell's Africa That Condoms Take Away All the Feeling. ... Whilst HIV infection in some African countries has soared to...

traclenin

how do i calculate the energy required to heat a room

Is there a calculation i can use to work out the cost of energy needed to heat a room to a comfortable room temperature for 8 hours /day please.Obviously it would depend on the number of cubic metres...

Sandy-Wroe

Blair now seems to be saying he would have invaded Iraq because of his fear ...

...of an alliance between a rogue state and a terrorist group. Would he have ordered an invasion if America wasn't interested?

anotheoldgit

UK, BRITAIN, doesn't England exist?

http://www.express.co...e-all-want-to-end-up- It would appear that the immigrants know exactly where they want to go but our media and politicians seem to think ENGLAND doesn't exist and it is BRITAIN...

Gromit

Togo banned from next two African cup tournaments

After two of their party were killed in a terrorist ambush in Angola, the team withdrew from the tournament. Now they have been banned from the next two tournaments....

birdie1971

Sceptics 'overdose' on homeopathic remedies!

Very amusing story about a mass 'overdoes' on homeopathic remedies - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8489019.stm I loved the quote from the The Society of Homeopaths, “... [we do not] expect the...

AB Editor

Will Tony Blair and Gordon Brown tell the truth at the Chilcot enquiry?

With both the current and former Prime Ministers intending to give evidence at the Chilcot enquiry, do you think they will be truthful?

rov1200

Nuclear Fusion a reality

http://news.bbc.co.uk.../sci/tech/8485669.stm With the rapid progress in this field could we expect Nuclear Fusion to be reality within 20 years? How would this affect the oil industry? How would it...

secsee1

Build a web site

I would like to have a go at building a web site but haven't the first idea how to do it, so is there a computer program for idiots that will let you build one page by page and let you upload it to a...

chakka35

What would be the new clockwise?

This may be an old chestnut; I have certainly thought about it for years: If analogue clocks and watches, and all memory of them, disappeared, how would one define clockwise? Unlike north, south, east...

Bobbisox

following your thread ED, Just what will the Chilcot enquiry achieve ?

Having watched various key players retract their belief on the legality of the war with Iraq, I think the whole debacle is a huge waste of tax payers money, If it is found it was illegal to attack...

joe1

Maths question

I am told that when spinning a coin there is always a 50/50 chance of a head or tail . So in 1000 spins there will be approx 500 of each. If there has been 500 spins and all are heads is the...