No yellow cards in the game. Three questions: When did that last happen in the Premiership? Is this a sign of good refereeing? Or is it just a sign that the players were behaving themselves? I've no...
Hi, I have my late father's camera. I'm unlikely to ever use it. It's a Rolleiflex TLR with a 2.8 Zeiss lens. Seems to work properly. I'm thinking of putting it on ebay, but there is a huge difference...
Hi, I'm running IE8 on an XP machine. It's a six year old Dell and has never given me a problem. Recently it has started running slowly intermittently. If I open Task Manager and look at the list of...
This is doing my head in. While cricket was being watched in my local this afternoon, somebody with nothing better on his mind started talking about a player who signed for Chelsea, was with them for...
Does anybody know whether there is an agreement between all commercial TV stations as to the time of their ad breaks? It just seems that when one goes to one and you flip through the others they're...
OK, I know it was years ago, but who were the major players in the notorious so-called 'pizzagate' incident after Man U beat Arsenal in October 2004, ending their 49-match unbeaten run? Especially,...
Anybody any idea what the music used in the current Kindle TV advert is? Sounds like Weather Report or somebody like that. I know I've heard it before, but just can't place it.
Hi, I downloaded some programmes from BBC4 last night. Two of them gove me until 18th April to watch them, the other one only gives me six days for some bizarre reason. This is the first time I've...
Anybody, like me, miss the time when the programme was a review of the year's sport with the SPOTY bit tagged on at the end? This year, more than ever, it was about the 'personality' rather than the...
If this is true, it's a great fact. But:- I've just been asked to name the five players who have taken part in a Manchester derby, a Liverpool derby and who have also won the European Cup/Champions'...
Hi, I'm looking for suggestions for songs that were written about real people. Examples I already have are Man on the Moon by REM is about Andy Kaufman and Killing Me Softly, the Roberta Flack hit, is...
Hi, I have a load of cooking apples and want to use them over the winter for the likes of crumbles and pies. Can I stew them now and freeze the result? If so, any good ideas for recipes?
I keep getting loads of posts on Facebook from people who are playing the likes of Mafia Wars. I know there is a means of stopping them, but can't remember how. Any ideas?
With due deference to propergomper whose post started me off It really gets up my nose that the FA and the RFU etc use God Save The Queen as the English National Anthem. It's not. There actually isn't...