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Just the one....

One of the candiates (Catherine Taylor-Dawson -Vote for Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket) in my constituency (Cardiff North) got a single vote. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/124.stm Is...

MargeB

Current Answerbank Problems

It would be nice if the Editor/s could post a notice somewhere conspicuous explaining that there are technical problems causing difficulties at the moment. What is so frustrating is the lack of...

Artful

I honestly thought this was going to be a fun site for sharing info and debating, discovering opinions and so on but the more I visit the more "closed shop" it appears to be. Messages going to and fro...

chrisandbex

children's SAFE chatrooms

hello , iam 12 years old and my mum lets me go on certain chatrooms if she thinks they are ok! But the chat place i have recently been using (paperdoll heaven) has ended up been not so...

pjm007

Paedophiles and Sex Offenders

I appreciate this is a touchy subject, but this a spin off from joules99's question about 'Hanging'. What do people (especially parents) think the fate of (forensically proved) paedophiles and...

graemer

Why keep it secret

So what DO you value the most in your home? (Non human or animal)

In A Pickle

Better things to do!

As I seem to have annoyed/upset Madge B,tanyavee and redshoot (in the Dwarf throwing thread) I have decided to leave AB. I have better things to do than be pilloried for giving a straight hearfelt...

dodgymanc

Lightbulb electricity usage

I've heard that switching a lightbulb on and off uses up 20 mins of electricity, so it is best leaving it on if you are only going to be out of a room for a short period. Is this true, and does it...

Madge.B

Dwarf throwing

Dwarf Dwarf throwing is being considered as an Olympic sport; whilst in France the sport has been banned one French Dwarf has even taken his case to the human rights committee at the U.N, do you think...

rich_ac_uk

Canned drinks

What is the plastic tie thing that holds a four or six pack of beers together called?

acw

Apostrophes

Again I have spotted runaway apostrophes arriving in plurals. Not just on this website, where opinions are FAR more important than grammatical accuracy anyway, but on TV, printed adverts and...

rod

Time we had compulsory voting?

Should we have a referendum on compulsory voting.

silly moo

? change of rule?

Is now the time to accept people 'engaging in dialogue'. It's obviously what so many would like, and it wouldn't detract from the main purposr of Q's and A's.

THECORBYLOON

AB Ed To save you some time-

This question is banned

THECORBYLOON

Is there a vendetta against me

or is it just Pick On THECORBYLOON Week and no-one telt me? Ma last four Questions have been pulled, threads I've been involved in are disappearing at a rate of knots and I'm still waiting on ma bit...

silly moo

Funerals

Has anyone else decided on hymns / readings for their own funerals? I like Christina Rosetti's When I am dead my dearest Sing no sad songs for me Plant thou no roses at my head Or shady cypress tree...

THECORBYLOON