... get drawn into AOG's threads? I don't read the Daily Mail. I deplore it. I know it's a load of tabloid rubbish and I know AOG is just, welll, another old g.i.t., and I've known plenty of those in...
Last June we had a break in and some items stolen. I've just received a letter from the police to say the offender has been charged and is now serving a 5 year sentence for mine and several other...
Watching it now and thinking, once again, that if you're going to present a show that's going to have lots of close-ups of you putting food into your mouth, you'd make the effort to get your teeth...
I have a bit of a weakness for the sweets that my Indian friends often bring into work, especially all the different varieties of Birfi and Laddu. I'd like to have a go at making some of my own, but...
Last night, on 'The One Show', Michael Winner expressed (possibly faux) surprise that Wanda Ventham is Benedict Cumberbatch's mother. Am I right in thinking that Wanda Ventham was the actress he...
I have Dell Latitude laptop that I bought secondhand/refurbished from the local green shop. It came with Windows 2K installed even though the label on it says it was designed for XP. The other week,...
OK - I'm 50, menopausal. I keep getting a recurrent, mild burning in my right groin, just below where I believe my appendix to be. It's not painful at all, just weird. I do have a condition where my...
If an atheist dies and discovers that, after all, there is a heaven and a hell, and if the only thing he's ever done wrong is not believe in God (if indeed non-belief is a sin), where does he end up?...
Any Tarot/card readers out there?
If someone's dealt two playing cards for a reading, what could be read into a ten of hearts and a king of spades - in that order?...
My Indian colleague reckons that if we trace our ancestry back far enough, there's a little bit of black or Asian blood in all of us. If that's the case, it includes Nick Griffin. Has anyone ever...
My employer has offered all of us the chance to take the ITQ at level 2. This is to become the mandatory minimum standard for admin staff which was previously the ECDL. I was exempted from ECDL when I...
Does anyone remember this 1976 book about Jack and Ivy Hodges' autistic daughter, Anne? Anne was born in 1952 and her parents refused to accept the doctors' advice to put Anne into a home, choosing...
I'm seriously thinking of facing up to the inevitable and going for dentures. I have two post crowns at the front/top of my mouth, as well as two jacket crowns, one of which is on a tooth that,...
... when you post to forums like this? I pride myself on spelling and punctuating correctly in whatever I write. I have a certificate that says I can type at 90wpm (and that includes spelling...
Like sending dogs into a stable to savage a defenceless pony: http://news.bbc.co.uk...erbyshire/8569017.stm They haven't got any photos on the this link, but they're horrific. The poor animal has a...
Please help me. I'm writing a book about a lad whose father is a (fictional) premiership manager. I need the father to say he's away on business and that business is possibly going to be to do with...
I've had a rotten cough for the last couple of weeks, which came on the back of a cold. I've seen my GP and she's confirmed my chest is clear, my throat isn't inflamed and I don't have a temperature....
On TV the other night, Tony Robinson was making 'Humble Pie'. It looked quite tasty and I wouldn't mind trying it. Can anyone direct me to a decent, practical recipe for it? I'm thinking of something...
