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Straw Dogs v. The Wicker Man

Settle a domestic argument: which of these films is fab and which is a load of old pants?

I wonder if someone could kindly help an IT ludite? Is there an easy way to keep multiple, well, two or three, web pages open simultaniously? Every time I try to equate information with more than one...

Dazz

The Selfish Giant- Oscar Wilde.

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of this beautiful animated story, which used to be on the telly before Xmas in the 70's ? Please help !!

Wispy68

Middle age

When do you become 'middle aged' and when are you classed as 'elderly'?

Napoleon

Boring expressions

Never mind those irritating sayings - what about the really boring ones. Such as? My own unfavourites include 'personal fitness trainer' ... 'singer-songwriter' ... 'peace process' ......

kpcurry

golden wonder

Lyrics of 1970's ad for Golden Wonder. Begins 'Now I'm a Golden Wonder crisp I'm happy as can be, I met a pickled onion and she wants to marry me.'

trickykid

How do I get a girlfriend?

I'm a 36 year old man and I've never had a girlfriend. How do I get one?

snotmonkey

Work

A lot has been made about human rights in the work place, and everybody has the right not to be mistreated or bullied. but say there are a small group who constantly cause trouble, if you and most of...

Birchy

How Answerbank DOESN'T work

The Spurious Answerbank, yes. But what constitutes an 'answer'? People simply replying with guff means that the question has been answered!??!! It would appear so, since the original question becomes...

nykkieberry

Diesel cars/vegetable oil

Is it true that you can run a diesel car on vegetable oil? And if so, how??

Obo

Music that changed the world!

Ok here's one for you all, list 10 albums (any era) which you feel changed the music world... seminal albums that broke the mold and had an effect on subsequent artists and bands......

xyzzyplugh

Old Woman

Is 'Old Woman' on Steve Wright show Wendy Richard?

FTVS

Written phoenetic Language

How did we develop symbols for specific sounds (which seems to me quite a leap from the hieorpgyphic form of written language)? Having devloped this system, how was it spread/imposed?

keitra

Wall

What does 'throw everything against the wall to see what sticks' mean?

xyzzyplugh

What's behind the code bars?

How does the EPOS gizmo read the barcode? because the stripes have no correlation to the numbers, there aren't 10 different thicknesses, only 3 and only 3 different spacings. Does the laser 'slide'...

aceizace

Creatures from myths and legends

I'm looking for a book on creatures from myths and legends, like a specialist encylopoida. I searched amazon etc but the best result I got made them out to be real things. So if someone could point me...

ChickLittle

Layout of telephone / computer keypads

Why do telephone keypads begin with 1, 2, 3 at the top, while computer and calculator keypads begin 7, 8, 9 ? At work i use both the telephone and a calculator a great deal and it really throws me...