. . . last night's AB Awards Ceremony, here are the few details that I can remember: Moderator of the Year was, as always, awarded to one of the moderators who prefers to remain anonymous, fuelling...
On Wednesday of this week all of the shops will be closed. That's A WHOLE DAY without being able to go shopping. I repeat, A WHOLE DAY! How the hell can anyone be expected to last that long??? I've...
Can you identify the following ABers? 1. Whose username is defined in the dictionary as 'an aquatic bug of genus Notonecta'? 2. Who went from shoes to news? 3. Who splits logs and blows up toasters?...
I was looking forward to my weekly evening visit to the pub tonight so, knowing how my cat likes to follow me (with the possibility of her getting lost or run over), I tried to sneak out without her...
AB's server seems to have thrown a wobbly. Your question in Home & Garden has lost its title so there's nothing to click on, meaning that people can't answer it. (Weird!). I suggest posting it again....
1. Finally get the badges sorted out. (Lots of people have the '10 year' badge, for example, despite having been members for a far shorter time). 2. Ensure that there's at least one badge available...
If the English Baccalaureate had gone ahead, job application forms would soon have been asking "Have you obtained the English Baccalaureate [i]or equivalent[i]?". To lawfully answer 'Yes', you'd need...
. . . who saw a thread called 'Bedroom Tax' and thought that it referred to a tax on bedroom [i]activities[i]?
I was hoping for a job as a tax inspector!...
I used to post this link every weekend but I've not done so for ages. I still seem to achieving my regular score of 4 though. Anyone else fancy a go?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21066857...
January: The Times celebrates the new year by publishing the biggest, and hardest, cryptic crossword in its history. It appears on the newspaper's website at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve....
While there are a few individual posts on the subject, I can't see a thread suggesting names which were missing from the line-up last night. Here's a few that I think should have been considered:...
Last month I spotted the first 'Book now for Christmas' signs outside a restaurants in Diss. Last week I saw that a 99p shop in Ipswich had just filled a large area of the store with Christmas...
Well, several actually:
http://www.guardian.c...-abroad?newsfeed=true
(I just thought that it might interest some of the people who've been posting during the ceremony)...