Am I missing something but why are some of the players at the World Cup wearing one pink and one blue boot? Is it the position they are playing in? Some kind of statement? I was watching a junior...
Hi guys,
Just doing a quiz where the answers are fish. Examples are: "dance on blades - skate", "right in a chess piece - prawn"
One of the questions is
"a supertonic, we hear"
Any ideas?...
Here's one for you Trekkies out there. Does Captain Picard ever say something like "It's grand" meaning "it's great" in any of the Star Trek dialogue. My wife is convinced he does but i can't find any...
Some of you may remember that I dabble in Artificial Intelligence and in particular, chatbot technology. Some of you may have even talked to my Mitsuku creation. Well, I entered the equivalent of the...
I suffer from gout and get white spots on my ears called tophi. They look like big white spots ready to burst but have a white chalky substance in the rather than pus (sorry if you are eating!) My...
Just a heads up to the ed and techies - while checking out a few threads, answerbank forwarded me to a page stating Microsoft had detected spyware. This was a fake report and the site was based in...
I don't wish to alarm anyone but with all this end of the world stuff tomorrow, I just looked out of the window and can see a big bright ball. Can anyone else see this?
Anyone know of a parameter that will play a youtube video full screen. I don't mean just to fill the browser like fs=1 but to actually fill the whole screen like pressing the "full screen" button...
I am in the fortunate position of being offered a new PC but I have been out of the loop of PC specs for a while and wondered what other ABers use? I won't be playing games on it apart from silly...
A while ago, I posted that I had entered a competition to write a computer program that could create jokes and poems and asked if people could test it out for me:...
I've just been watching Masterchef and one of the chef's recipes included "picked peas". What else would you do with peas? I was waiting for one to say he was making "killed...
I just spent the last ten minutes on the phone to someone claiming to be from Microsoft. He claimed my computer was sending out error messages to Microsoft, so I played along pretending to go into the...
I removed your Strictly Come Dancing spoiler as you included who was knocked out in the main body of your message and so anyone who ventured into the TV section would see it regardless of whether they...
My apologies if you are having your lunch... For the last 2 days, I have pretty much been chained to the loo passing what can only bedescribed as "rusty water". I assume I have some kind of...
As some of you may know, I am quite into artificial intelligence and have recently entered a competition to write a computer program that can create original jokes and poems. I wondered if any of you...
These Z listers are getting harder to recognise. Does anyone know the guy hiding in the bushes in the latest one, who we are supposed to recognise without even a hint (unless the net is the hint).
All I know is that it was on SKY last week and was about a guy who went around fixing problems. He had a gruff voice and was possibly a computer geek type. We think it was a series and was along the...
A Yorkshireman takes his cat to the vet. Yorkshireman: "Ayup, lad, I need to talk to thee about me cat." Vet: "Is it a tom?" Yorkshireman: "Nay, I've browt it weh us."....