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If God did not exist...

Suppose athiests like myself were right and the Universe were not created by God, if we did not have immortal souls and all the religious people were continuing on under a mistaken misaprehension. How...
17:06 Thu 06th Mar 200846 answers, last by naomi24 17:37 Tue 11th Mar 2008
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For Sale: baby shoes never worn

The above won Hemmingway a bet of $10 that he couldn't write a complete story in 6 words. A publisher issued the challenge to people to write their life stories in 6 words. Some of the results on...
09:53 Tue 05th Feb 200819 answers, last by JUNKMAN 12:21 Thu 14th Feb 2008
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Abolition of the crime of blasphemy

Today a cross party group are seeking the abolition of the crime of blasphemy. This crime only protects Christianity and signatories calling for it's abolition bizzarrely include Richard Dawkins and...
09:33 Wed 09th Jan 200884 answers, last by naomi24 14:56 Mon 21st Jan 2008
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Double points

Is the proposal to give 6 points to people caught doing above 45 in a 30 zone a good idea? http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_ style/driving/article2836449.ece 57 or above on a 40mph road,...
09:56 Fri 09th Nov 200729 answers, last by brionon 13:33 Sat 10th Nov 2007
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What is good taste?

Not examples but a definition And where does the idea come from?
17:39 Thu 01st Nov 200732 answers, last by infundibulum 05:16 Mon 25th May 2009
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Is everybody's opinion equally valuable?

In our idea of democracy we have one person one vote. A professor of political science or economics has the same vote as a 18 year old apprentice. Say your vote depended on your level of education. 1...
16:13 Tue 16th Oct 200714 answers, last by Mr Chipps 23:41 Thu 06th Mar 2008
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Ban the Brand

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6977844.st m Neil Boorman has spent a year without buying a single branded item Could you do the same? Easy? Rember - no Heinz Ketchup, unbranded washing powder in...
16:57 Tue 04th Sep 200723 answers, last by weeal 00:15 Sat 08th Sep 2007
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Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

If you've ever watched the Christmas Lectures after turkey and stuffing over the Christmas period and fancied taking the family one year then now's the time....
11:41 Mon 03rd Sep 20075 answers, last by jake-the-peg 16:40 Fri 07th Sep 2007
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Mindless destruction?

If you watched an episode of Antiques roadshow where, after a steep valuation was placed on a piece of ancient china, the owner deliberately smashed it, and said it was because he'd become too...
14:33 Fri 10th Aug 20078 answers, last by styley 22:41 Wed 15th Aug 2007
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Migrant workers are benefitting the economy

http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/12014 A TUC study says that migrant workers far from being a drain on the country's economy are a financial asset paying more in taxes than the value of the public...
18:20 Tue 19th Jun 200714 answers, last by helpmetoo 12:25 Mon 25th Jun 2007
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And then there was life....

Craig Ventner has applied for a patent on a method to create a life form from scratch http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6733797.st m He created a virus from scratch 4 years ago but that's not...
17:13 Fri 08th Jun 20074 answers, last by jake-the-peg 23:23 Sat 09th Jun 2007
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How's your maths?

Apparently Chinese maths questions are way harder than those we give our kids. I have to say I don't buy the article at all because my 14 year old son was able to do the so called "diagnostic test"...
10:37 Fri 27th Apr 20075 answers, last by fo3nix 20:52 Fri 27th Apr 2007
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Golden age?

Following on from Theland's "Everything's breaking down" thread, which age would anyone like to return to? No cheating now, values are a "job lot" if you want the thirties you get 30's attitudes to...
09:57 Mon 19th Feb 200719 answers, last by naomi24 13:10 Wed 21st Feb 2007
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How far would you go?

When driving and someone annoys you how far up this list would you go? 1. Mentally condemning other drivers. 2. Verbally denigrating other drivers to a passenger in your vehicle. 3. Closing ranks to...
09:33 Tue 30th Jan 200715 answers, last by williaid 22:13 Tue 06th Feb 2007
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Have we had a timewarp?

The questions in Science seem to date from 2005! and body and soul is 2002! Is anybody else seeing this - or is it me! I knew I shouldn't have replied to that relativity question!
14:38 Thu 18th Jan 20071 answer, last by A Chill Wind 01:33 Sat 20th Jan 2007
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story id blocked

Is the 'Asterixing' out of ******* in links deliberate? as in http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article. aspx?*******=43737 that poped up in the news forum I can't see how it could be seen as...
15:58 Fri 08th Dec 20068 answers, last by ummmm 17:08 Fri 08th Dec 2006
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What is it with celebrity gossip?

We've got a thread going in News about this gagging order some celebrity has got to stop the newspapers printing lots of lurid details about the married woman he's been sleeping with. Apparently this...
20:58 Wed 06th Dec 200611 answers, last by snotneck 21:21 Sun 07th Jan 2007
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Have Threshers "done a Hoover"

Does this remind anybody of Hoover's Flights to America? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6198828.st m or is it just a pre-Christmas stunt? Has anyone actually got 40% off with one of these...
18:06 Fri 01st Dec 20067 answers, last by dannydingbat 13:51 Mon 04th Dec 2006
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Time to dis-establish the Church of England?

Church attendance is now 6.5% and whilst 70% of the UK Claim to be Christian 40% of those confess to not actually believing in God at all! We have an heir to the thone who has said he wants to be...
17:02 Fri 24th Nov 20067 answers, last by gizmo1 19:34 Thu 11th Jan 2007
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Cheap booze from Europe

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2451 928,00.html Do people think this would be a good or a bad thing if the EU force the Government to let us order cheap beer and cigarettes over the...
16:44 Mon 13th Nov 200630 answers, last by likecamel 14:10 Thu 13th Feb 2014

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