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Learning Times Tables

Had the grandchildren here for a few days and noticed that they did not have a grasp of the times table. As it is now a few years since I learnt them but it was by rote. Every morning we would sing...

Stephen_G

Happy International Left-Handers Day

to all the Lefties of AB (Of which I am a proud member) http://www.lefthandersday.com/wp-content/uploads/keep-left-slide.png...

youngmafbog

Ban Smoking In Pub Gardens ?

Seems like a reasonable thing to me. Smokers dont care about who they upset so something needs to be done if they wont act reasonably....

idiosyncrasy

Do We Need God?

The Bible tells us that man has an inborn spiritual yearning. - Matthew 5 v 3. But some people feel that they have no need for God because they find many puzzling issues in life incompatible with...

anotheoldgit

British Police Patrol The Streets Of Magaluf

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3192142/I-worried-women-Former-policeman-spends-night-Magaluf-British-officers-begin-patrolling-warns-work-cut-out.html Have we that many police...

gness

I Would Like To Experience....

but just for one hour and no longer.......how it feels to be a ninety two year old alzheimer's sufferer.....long after the confusion and memories only of long ago have gone..... To lie in a bed year...

ToraToraTora

Clause 4 Anyone?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33839819 I agree with nationalizing some things, eg the railways but I don't agree with a blanket rule. What do you think?...

anotheoldgit

Cilla Black On The Sixties.

Saw a recent TV snippet of a Cilla Black programme, all about the sixties. I was surprised it showed a lengthy section regarding the Black & White Minstrel Show, and no one seems to have gone on...

Bouncer33

Channel Tunnel.

The Government is considering closing the Channel Tunnel at night, after a migrant walked the entire length of the tunnel. OMG. What next ???...

nailit

Give Me Just One

piece of evidence that God exists...just one! Have just been reading through the posts here on R&S and all I see are (tortuous) apologetics for ones own belief system. We have Theland who pleads with...

follyfancier

Jigzone Jigsaw

http://www.jigzone.com/puzzles/daily-jigsaw can someone please check and see if you can get on this site, I normally like to do the daily jigsaw but I have tried 3 different browsers and still have...

sandyRoe

What Reason Would A Pilot Have To Turn Off The Transponder In The Plane He Was Flying?

If there's no g9d reason why have a switch to do it?

sunny-dave

I've Seen Some Daft Drivers Out There ...

... but this one took the whole tin of biscuits http://tinyurl.com/qy93ny2 Blaming poor old TomTom seems a bit of a feeble excuse...

TWR

6 Am Bbc News

HGV Drivers Fines for having Illegals in their trailers, I do not condone the Illegal carrying of these people, I do feel for the Innocent Driver who is threatened by some of these people, it is not...

weecalf

Just Wondering

Was offered a book singed by J Enoch Powell biography of a nation for £30 would it be worth that ?...

trt

Free Access To All World Newspapers

All you have to do is put in a nine digital number, where it says enter your library number. http://library.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx...

delboy3

What Were Those Things??

Visiting Ireland several times in the 1970s & 80s, I regularly saw these strange wooden blocks (usually painted white) sitting on peoples' front lawns. Exactly what their purpose was (apart from...

mikey4444

In Praise Of Ebay !

On Saturday morning, a small plastic clip that stops the trays from falling out of the runners on my dishwasher broke. I went straight onto ebay, found a pair of replacements in about 30 seconds,...

fiction-factory

Does Anyone Know What's Going On Here?

Answers and new questions are still coming in on this April 2013 Crosswords thread http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1237973-7.html...

Svejk

Answerbank. Becoming A Joke?

What you having for breakfast? Do you prefer rabbits or guinea pigs? (not for breakfast, obviously) The way the moderation on here is going, this will be the only sort of discussion allowed....

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