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"Does Theresa May know what day it is?" That's today's headline over the Times Online's article about the latest Abu Q farce. (I've decided to call him A Book At Bedtime from now on.) Well,...
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It has disappeared now, but there was a question here about a child in Birmingham fetching drinks and having to ask for a "three-out". I seem to remember that it got only one answer which...
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Bearing in mind that I am a total illiterate in computing matters, does anyone know of a program I could download that will reverse-spell a list of words? For example, if I input house, picnic and...
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Of all the printed TV guides/listings/magazines, which is the most comprehensive? I ask because - having bought a variety of them - each seems to miss some of the channels we occasionally watch.
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Two days ago, I lifted something awkwardly. There was a loud crack from my lower back area and I finished up in a crumpled heap on the floor. Throughout the day yesterday, I was convinced the pain was...
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His appeal against extradition to Sweden has been lost after nine months of consideration of it. Time for him to face the music at least and, if proven innocent, be released...otherwise, appropriately...
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Yes, I know there's a Finance category on AB and that websites such as moneysupermarket exist, but I was hoping for a more personal response. I wondered whether anyone could recommend a specific...
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American politicians seem to have agreed a (temporary?) solution to their financial default problems. One can't help wondering, though...what if they hadn't? Meltdown there would certainly have had a...
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"There's no country, really, that can afford another fiscal stimulus. They've all run out of money." (David Cameron) Good grief! If Gordon Brown - rather than the casino bankers - was...
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Boris Johnson wrote in the Evening Standard recently about stopping (quote) “…the outrage of Scottish MPs voting on London matters when London MPs have no such say in Scotland. There are...
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Here's one for you, then...Remember how right-wingers used to whine on about Gordon Brown being "an unelected prime minister", despite the fact that John Major held that office for about a...
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I posted this question in the TV category but got no reply, so I wondered whether anyone here might be able to help. My apologies if it is misplaced. We watched a documentary on Monday called Back...
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Watched a documentary on Monday called Back From the Dead about a method of extreme cooling as treatment for apparent heart and brain death. At one point, the doctor presenting the programme was...
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A short time ago, we bought a new Epson printer and just a few days back my partner fitted a (supposedly) "compatible" black ink cartridge. Now any request to print anything gets the...
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As I'm the world's worst handyman, would some kind plumber tell me whether taps, as in bath, sink etc, are universal...ie can they be fitted to ANY such thing? I wouldn't dream of trying to fit new...
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Hoping to get rid of desk and desktop, so need a laptop. Must have 17"+ screen (eyesight!); weight (of no consequence...it's going nowhere!); able to cope with basic computing only...e-mailing,...
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The figure, John Bull, was created in 1712 by Dr John Arbuthnot - a Scotsman - and he wears a waistcoat consisting of the Union Flag, originally commissioned just over a century earlier by King James...
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Recently, a friend and I - with over a century's-worth of real ale drinking experience between us - were told by a barmaid of around 22 that the reason we thought the ale she'd poured us was off was...
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I stand at a bar and a young person appears, saying to the barmaid, "Can I get a pint of Stella, please?" I think, "You're obviously over 18, you're in a British pub, there's a Stella...
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We're spending a few days in Oxford in early December. We've done some of the obvious things previously, such as a tour of Christ Church, a few beers in The Bird and Bairn - yes, I know, but that's MY...
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