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You Thought Our Politicians Were Bad? (Adoption Horrorshow)

What do you make of this American one? http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/arkansas-republican-dodges-blame-for-giving-adopted-daughters-to-rapist-im-a-victim-here/ Bad actor -and- dissembler in one....
00:05 Wed 11th Mar 20159 answers, last by Hypognosis 17:21 Thu 12th Mar 2015
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Election Turnout Decline And Immigration?

Am I imagining it or has election turnout diminished to below 40% in the past couple of decades? Might this be in proportion to the cumulative total of migrants? I have had no luck finding studies or...
13:56 Thu 05th Mar 201548 answers, last by Hypognosis 18:41 Sat 07th Mar 2015
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Self-Assembling Objects

Did any of you watch the full version of this week's Click (technology show on BBC News Channel)? The self assembling objects (most were the work of MIT) were fun to watch and I've been hoping to see...
14:22 Sat 21st Feb 20157 answers, last by Hypognosis 02:09 Sat 04th Jun 2016
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Is The Universe Entirely Electrostatically Balanced?

Astronomers observe that the universe is not just expanding but that the expansion is accelerating. Frustratingly, the TV shows which try to popularise science among the masses have to stop short of...
06:45 Wed 18th Feb 201533 answers, last by Hypognosis 18:38 Fri 06th Mar 2015
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Why Doesn't Benefits Agency Keep Score On Claimants' Rejected Applications?

So, there are no shortage of sanctions on benefit claimants. Why can't we have sanctions on employers who fail to hire a claimant who has already clocked up a nationally-agreed "excessive number" of...
01:24 Mon 16th Feb 201518 answers, last by Hypognosis 03:50 Tue 17th Feb 2015
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What's The Right Diet For You?

How many of you watched this? (3 x 1hour programmes, available on iPlayer for a few weeks, at time of writing) What did you learn which really surprised you? Are you concerned about the challenges...
23:24 Thu 15th Jan 20157 answers, last by Hypognosis 03:43 Sat 17th Jan 2015
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Male, 47…

Is it my imagination or is this is the prefix to an unusually high number of bad news stories? (I'm thinking local-newspaper crime stories, mainly) What goes wrong with men, at this age?...
21:40 Thu 15th Jan 20151 answer, last by Hypognosis 23:57 Sat 17th Jan 2015
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Home Network Issue

This problem developed in the past week or two and I cannot identify the trigger. Description 1. The network is running fine. An old PC; an iPhone; a Win7(HomePremium) Laptop 2. At end of day the PC...
21:52 Wed 10th Dec 20149 answers, last by methyl 15:10 Thu 11th Dec 2014
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What If There Was A Law Which Could Silence Anyone The Government Didn't Like?

I'm referring to this as the STFU law, for short. http://bit.ly/1wuROVu Do you ever express views which are slightly un-PC? Are you religious and getting shouted down because your religion insists on...
02:03 Sun 16th Nov 201420 answers, last by Hypognosis 18:34 Mon 24th Nov 2014
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A Bad Blow For Virgin Galactic

I spotted this story as a link on the spaceweather.com website. http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/31/us/spaceshiptwo-incident/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 It says Virgin Galactic gas already received money for...
06:55 Sat 01st Nov 201415 answers, last by Hypognosis 02:30 Wed 05th Nov 2014
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Decade-Class Sunspot, Partial Eclipse And More

There's a nice photo montage of major sunspots (1947, 2001, 2014), all of which are wider than Jupiter; partial eclipse sunset; AR2192 solar flare close-up taken by someone from Corona CA (geddit?)....
17:33 Sat 25th Oct 201414 answers, last by Hypognosis 20:23 Thu 13th Nov 2014
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Russian Spy Plane Intercepted By 3 Air Forces

Predictably, they claim it was "on a training exercise", used "neutral airspace" and complied with all other applicable rules. So what do you think they were hoping to see? Can we send them the bill...
19:55 Thu 23rd Oct 201425 answers, last by EDDIE51 21:51 Sun 02nd Nov 2014
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Isp Sharp Practice?

Twice in the past week, I've had my internet download speed cut to below 0.05 Mb/s, forcing me to ring my ISP to complain. It is an 0870 number. They keep telling me it is a freephone number. This...
06:36 Fri 10th Oct 201418 answers, last by HansUrbancka 15:00 Thu 16th Oct 2014
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Derby Phone Exchange Fire

My internet connection was knobbled this morning. It's working again now but my ISP mentioned a fire at the Derby phone exchange. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-29517570 For reasons...
23:48 Tue 07th Oct 2014
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What Do Hypochondriacs Die Of?

Serious question! Presumably, once marked down as a hypochondriac, even changing GPs does them no good, because it's there in their notes. Or is it? Would a FOI request reveal it or merely trigger...
04:50 Tue 07th Oct 201425 answers, last by 1ozzy 08:41 Fri 10th Oct 2014
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Soak The Rich?

On BBC Breakfast this morning, they showed a story on the right edge of the page of some broadsheet, with the headline (paraphrasing) "We should Soak the Rich to solve the deficit." It's something...
07:19 Mon 06th Oct 201423 answers, last by Hypognosis 00:05 Wed 08th Oct 2014
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What's The Name Of The Music…

…being used for the recent One Man and His Dog segment on Countryfile? There are no lyrics so I can't Google this one for myself. The Beeb have used this music before, as the theme tune for...
11:59 Thu 25th Sep 201417 answers, last by Hypognosis 07:55 Tue 27th Oct 2015
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If 5 Nations Lay Claim To The Same Territory…

…then, surely, none of them should be allowed sovereignty and they should go into ownership of -every- country? Interactive exhibit regarding the Spratly Islands, South China Sea...
05:57 Tue 09th Sep 201410 answers, last by Hypognosis 00:58 Thu 11th Sep 2014
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Music On Bbc Dramas Trailer (September 2014)

Already found this one so this is a JFYI thread :- The trailer uses the vocal intro, then jumps to about 3:00 for the synth break. The bulk of the track got edited out and it's a fairly conventional...
23:34 Sun 07th Sep 2014
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Why Was Manston Airport Closed?

The Boris Island story was featured on BBC today. Well done to Mary Creagh MP for managing to give the bird strike hazard a mention, during her interview. Boris has previously been dismissive about...
14:46 Tue 02nd Sep 201432 answers, last by New Judge 14:57 Wed 03rd Sep 2014

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