I was very surprised to meet a 9 year old who cannot tell the time by a traditional clock face. He had no idea of 'quarter past' or 'ten to' but could tell and understand the time by his digital...
A year ago, I took acting classes at John Casablancas Modeling and Career Center. On my final day; Graduation, one of the agencies that my school works with sent someone down, so that we could...
Has this ever been done successfully? I don't mean the scammers who talk to large crowds and pick people to say generic things like they feel a man in a blue jumper who loves dogs wants to to say he's...
This was mentioned on an episode of Big Bang Theory and I wanted to look into it more but cannot remember much about it. It is a human condition, named after the person who described it, and...
Which modern phrases annoy you the most. I personally can't stand it when people say "simples" like that meerkat advert a few years back or "end of" when discussing something... I...
In his new book of this title (Hamish Hamilton), Alain de Botton writes that 'atheism should not hector people about the error of super-natural belief: this is "boring". The real task is to...
If anyone can help with my last assignment question please. A car accelerates along a straight road with a uniform acceleration when it passes A it has a speed of 12m/s and when it passes B it has a...
About 2 years ago a fox killed all the ducks on our village pond. Now we have a common or garden duck and drake who look very contented and a Mor Hen family with 4 (or maybe 5) chicks. They're little...
Now stop laughing, this is no longer funny. For the third time this week I have had a complaint that my cat has attacked someone's dog. We get a lot of dog walkers round here. Last night apparently he...
my gripe for the day. call me old fashioned - but i was brought up to be well mannered and respectful. i always wipe my feet, when entering a premesis, wherever and whenever i go, regardless of the...
cassie will be 11 years old this year and today she has learnt to open the fridge eaten half a loaf of bread , a tub of flora , 3 buns with the papers on and 6 eggs i suppose to get a beagle to that...
Can you shoot them? One squirrel in the garden is driving me nuts!!!! Theres always only one, and he sits there looking at you and I'm sure he is smirking at me, staring me out. Help --can I buy an...
My rather old cordless twin-phones have given a lot of trouble lately and I intend to replace them. Most of the adverts include answering machines, but what is the point of them? If I'm not available...
The High Court of Australia has upheld a complaint that the Chaplaincy Program introduced into Australian public (government) schools was outside of the government's constitutional powers to provide...
I suspect my PC is infected by a virus which is not being picked up by a full scan by my F Secure Anti Virus. Each time I switch on the PC, the Desktop appears with all the icons bundled together down...