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Water Carriers

Why do people feel the need to be hauling a bottle of water or a huge coffee around everywhere? - it seems that to be "right on" you have to do the "coffee walk" into work each day looking like a...

modeller

What Is The Point Of Existance ?

Only we humans think we are special, and we have only existed for a few hundred thousand years. All other organisms have an unaware finite existence. Even the Universe has a finite existence. So...

vetuste_ennemi

"all 75 High-Rises Tested So Far Have Failed Fire Safety Regulations In England"

Reported on tonight's CNN. [i]All?[i] I can think of only two plausible explanations for this. One (the charitable version) is that today's standards are more rigorous than those applied at the time...

cassa333

How Many Don't Believe In Evolution?

Apparently it is a controversial theory in Turkey so has been taken out of the curriculum. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40384471...

scooping

Corbyn At Glastonbury

Goes down a storm on the Pyramid Stage. Largest crowd since Stones in 2013, claims Independent. God help us.

mikey4444

Boys At Exeter Academy Wear Skirts In Uniform Protest

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-40364632 Why on earth shouldn't these boys school allow them to wear shorts in this very hot weather. When I was younger, most boys of this age still wore...

modeller

What Should Be Done With Northern Ireland ? Any Ideas ?

I was watching a debate coming from the Northern Ireland Assembly where most speakers were saying NI should remain a part of the UK. and , that was the general opinion of the rest of the UK. ! It is...

marval

My Friend

A friend of mine was killed in a freak accident after tripping over a jigsaw. The cause of death is unconfirmed as police are still piecing together the evidence....

KARL

Churchill - Part 2

Having been one of a handful of men who are taken to have been the ultimate decision makers in WW2, just over a year after the war finished the experience must have been fresh in his mind. The "bottom...

mikey4444

Policing 'at Risk' As Officers Deal With Terror

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40350748 Successive Police Chiefs have been complaining for a long time now, about Police numbers, so does sacking those 20,000 Police staff seem like a good idea any more...

atalanta

Wallpaper Disaster

Today someone someone helping me to put up shelves was using sticky tape ( sort of parcel tape ) and got a bit of it stuck on the ( quite recently hung ) wallpaper. (Vinyl, actually.) He tore it off...

sandwich

Gardening Quiz

Engaged it enrages heaven He sounds like an amusing bloke In the 49th state we hear Thanks for help...

anotheoldgit

Should We Be Showing Extreme Concern, As Armed Migrants Gather In Calais?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4599108/Armed-migrants-set-burning-road-blocks-Calais.html...

gness

I Know It's A Bit Breezy Here....

....but driving slowly round and round the big green with your dog running on the grass beside the car is a really lazy way to exercise your dog.... :-)

vetuste_ennemi

No Intelligence Failure...

...says Dick: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40232140...

jim360

Theresa May's Top Two Aides Resign

Live on the BBC now: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/election-2017-40231623 Interesting to note, further down the feed, that May was "told" by the 1922 Committee to go on TV and apologise to MPs who...

Georgiesmum

Another Election This Autumn?

Ive heard people saying they expect we will have another election this Autumn. Do you think this is likely to happen?

-SharonA-

Why Dup

Trying to follow the election results and know it is a hung government, why are the Tories getting in bed with DUP? Can someone explain in English. The news here in the U.S. don't know what they're...

TWR

Well, To The People On This Site That Give J.c. Some Stick.

Who's now running with their tail between their legs, ha ha ha ha ha...

nailit

Koran Burning

Cant find an online link but just watching Midlands Today news. Its reporting that a man has been arrested on suspicion of hate crime after posting a vid to Facebook of himself burning a copy of the...

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