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Should I Be Worried In Light Of Carney's Worst Case Scenario?

Long-winded question alert - there are cleverer people on AB than me so I'm interested in opinions! I'm in my mid(ish) 40s with a wife and two school age children. This is my second marriage and...
21:39 Fri 14th Sep 201833 answers, last by gulliver1 09:48 Tue 18th Sep 2018
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Racist Poster?

Hot off the back of the bedwetters at Manchester University last week, we now have Wolverhampton yanking a 'Racist and Colonialist' poster, with one student commenting "It's just an awful poster and...
14:12 Thu 26th Jul 201841 answers, last by naomi24 22:19 Fri 27th Jul 2018
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£1,850 School Trip

This is becoming silly, isn't it? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5908197/Single-mother-32-asked-pay-1-850-school-trip.html I suspect there are many parents in the area concerned who would be...
07:53 Tue 03rd Jul 201860 answers, last by youngmafbog 12:53 Tue 03rd Jul 2018
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It Would Appear Millenials Are Not The Only Snowflakes.

Sidebar - I Love the word snowflake to describe the delicate flowers that roam around us. Granted we don't know the joke the academic cracked, but if it was of an 'Are you being served' nature, should...
20:39 Fri 11th May 201817 answers, last by ToraToraTora 14:33 Sat 12th May 2018
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A Bad Night For Labour

Oh Dear. Despite the vote for any mid-term election usually going against the incumbent Government, despite the bad couple of weeks with Windrush, despite the (so we are being told by the Remain camp)...
07:46 Fri 04th May 201835 answers, last by Ellipsis 13:18 Fri 04th May 2018
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Help Please - Motorbike Battery.

I am a total moron when it comes to anything mechanical.... I took the battery out of my bike a while ago. I should have taken a photo so that I knew how to reinstall it (stupid mistake). I have just...
19:33 Tue 17th Apr 20188 answers, last by Togo 07:47 Wed 18th Apr 2018
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Does Ab Have A Watershed?

I heard a joke today that is really really dark, which I have no doubt will offend some people, but it made me laugh - although I have yet to hear a joke that did offend me. Happy to share.........
21:09 Sat 24th Mar 201840 answers, last by spathiphyllum 23:31 Sat 24th Mar 2018
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Corbyn's Response To May's Statement.

An utterly fatuous response from COB? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43380217...
08:56 Tue 13th Mar 201837 answers, last by sevenOP 13:00 Wed 14th Mar 2018
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Should Women Disclose If They Are Pregnant During Job Interviews?

Personally I think yes. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/19/uk-bosses-believe-women-should-say-at-interview-if-they-are-pregnant-report How frustrating would it be to have a job offer...
09:16 Tue 20th Feb 2018114 answers, last by fender62 17:36 Wed 21st Feb 2018
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Traffic Signs In Welsh

I travel to Haverfordwest two or three times a year to visit relatives, and when you go over the Severn Bridge the signs are in English first with Welsh below - this continues until about Port...
08:59 Thu 15th Feb 201824 answers, last by languageexpert 05:19 Tue 25th Dec 2018
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Jump Starting - Probably A Stupid Question.

My ignorance of all things mechanical knows no bounds. It's a nice day where I am so quite fancy a run on my bike, but the battery is flat. I live in a bowl so can't bump it (it's uphill either side...
13:57 Sat 27th Jan 201812 answers, last by Hopkirk 21:29 Mon 29th Jan 2018
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Should We Be Surprised That Corbyn Encouraged Labour Mps Not To Make Hamas A Proscribed Group?

Corbyn's support of the IRA is well known, and in the past he has called Hamas and Hezbollah friends, so should we be surprised he doesn't want this misogynist, homophobic, terrorist organisation who...
08:40 Fri 26th Jan 201815 answers, last by Deskdiary 15:27 Fri 26th Jan 2018
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John Mcdonnell And Esther Mcvey

Given Jeremy Corbyn has said in the past he stands for "kinder, gentler politics", why did he refuse to condemn McDonnell's statement that Esther McVey is a "stain of inhumanity".?...
09:53 Mon 15th Jan 201820 answers, last by Spicerack 22:56 Mon 15th Jan 2018
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent?

I cannot imagine the mental anguish this poor young man has had to endure for the past two years following an entirely made-up and malicious accusation of rape....
08:51 Fri 15th Dec 201768 answers, last by EDDIE51 22:43 Fri 15th Dec 2017
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Dropping Kids Off At Nursery For A Full Day - Is This Right?

Whilst I think it's none of the business of the woman who left the note in the link for parents dumping their kids off at nursery, is she correct?...
08:51 Wed 06th Dec 201724 answers, last by atalanta 12:15 Wed 06th Dec 2017
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Piers Morgan Article On 'gender Fluidity'

I know I'm giving a link to a Daily Mail piece written by Piers Morgan (probably the two worse unofficial crimes that can be committed on Answerbank), but he's right, isn't he?...
08:45 Thu 23rd Nov 201734 answers, last by ToraToraTora 21:23 Fri 24th Nov 2017
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Pesky Blinders.

On a scale of 1 to 10, just how utterly brilliant was last night's opening episode? Easily the best thing to have graced our screens since Aug Wiedersehn....
19:05 Thu 16th Nov 201732 answers, last by rockyracoon 16:35 Sat 18th Nov 2017
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People Being Lambasted For Reducing Their Tax Burden.

Why all the pious posturing from the likes of Corbyn and McDonnell? Is it now a crime in this country to save money? As it stands the people named in the Paradise Papers have done nothing wrong - they...
08:47 Tue 07th Nov 201783 answers, last by ludwig 13:30 Wed 08th Nov 2017
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Engine Oil - Help Please

I know nothing about mechanics so this question is probably stupid...... My car takes 5W/30 engine oil. I've just been to Halfords and the own brand 5W/30 for my make of car is almost double the price...
12:32 Sat 04th Nov 201735 answers, last by raisik 19:41 Mon 13th Nov 2017
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Should Prisoners Be Allowed To Vote?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/29/government-planning-to-allow-some-prisoners-to-vote-european-court-human-rights If the voting rights remain limited to prisoners with less than a year...
14:30 Mon 30th Oct 201768 answers, last by Caran 21:39 Mon 30th Oct 2017

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