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Insurance

Yes, I know there's a Finance category on AB and that websites such as moneysupermarket exist, but I was hoping for a more personal response. I wondered whether anyone could recommend a specific...
10:42 Tue 09th Aug 20113 answers, last by Quizmonster 14:31 Tue 09th Aug 2011
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Washington's Woes

American politicians seem to have agreed a (temporary?) solution to their financial default problems. One can't help wondering, though...what if they hadn't? Meltdown there would certainly have had a...
16:34 Tue 02nd Aug 201118 answers, last by R1Geezer 12:28 Thu 04th Aug 2011
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Money

"There's no country, really, that can afford another fiscal stimulus. They've all run out of money." (David Cameron) Good grief! If Gordon Brown - rather than the casino bankers - was...
17:53 Mon 25th Jul 201120 answers, last by Quizmonster 16:34 Tue 26th Jul 2011
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Good old Boris!

Boris Johnson wrote in the Evening Standard recently about stopping (quote) “…the outrage of Scottish MPs voting on London matters when London MPs have no such say in Scotland. There are...
09:45 Sun 08th May 20117 answers, last by Quizmonster 17:35 Sun 08th May 2011
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For R1G

Here's one for you, then...Remember how right-wingers used to whine on about Gordon Brown being "an unelected prime minister", despite the fact that John Major held that office for about a...
17:58 Thu 28th Oct 201031 answers, last by Quizmonster 10:02 Sat 30th Oct 2010
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Tromso

I posted this question in the TV category but got no reply, so I wondered whether anyone here might be able to help. My apologies if it is misplaced. We watched a documentary on Monday called Back...
08:10 Thu 30th Sep 20105 answers, last by Quizmonster 11:58 Thu 30th Sep 2010
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Tromso

Watched a documentary on Monday called Back From the Dead about a method of extreme cooling as treatment for apparent heart and brain death. At one point, the doctor presenting the programme was...
10:59 Wed 29th Sep 20102 answers, last by Quizmonster 17:40 Sun 03rd Oct 2010
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Ink Cartridges

A short time ago, we bought a new Epson printer and just a few days back my partner fitted a (supposedly) "compatible" black ink cartridge. Now any request to print anything gets the...
09:45 Sun 19th Sep 201019 answers, last by Quizmonster 19:39 Mon 20th Sep 2010
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Taps

As I'm the world's worst handyman, would some kind plumber tell me whether taps, as in bath, sink etc, are universal...ie can they be fitted to ANY such thing? I wouldn't dream of trying to fit new...
08:16 Mon 13th Sep 201020 answers, last by Quizmonster 16:06 Tue 14th Sep 2010
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Laptop

Hoping to get rid of desk and desktop, so need a laptop. Must have 17"+ screen (eyesight!); weight (of no consequence...it's going nowhere!); able to cope with basic computing only...e-mailing,...
15:31 Wed 04th Aug 20102 answers, last by Quizmonster 09:26 Thu 05th Aug 2010
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John Bull

The figure, John Bull, was created in 1712 by Dr John Arbuthnot - a Scotsman - and he wears a waistcoat consisting of the Union Flag, originally commissioned just over a century earlier by King James...
06:46 Mon 26th Apr 201035 answers, last by Quizmonster 06:39 Thu 29th Apr 2010
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Taste Buds

Recently, a friend and I - with over a century's-worth of real ale drinking experience between us - were told by a barmaid of around 22 that the reason we thought the ale she'd poured us was off was...
10:39 Fri 05th Mar 20105 answers, last by redman41 10:47 Fri 05th Mar 2010
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Can I get...?

I stand at a bar and a young person appears, saying to the barmaid, "Can I get a pint of Stella, please?" I think, "You're obviously over 18, you're in a British pub, there's a Stella...
11:40 Tue 29th Dec 200918 answers, last by boxtops 19:21 Sat 02nd Jan 2010
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Oxford

We're spending a few days in Oxford in early December. We've done some of the obvious things previously, such as a tour of Christ Church, a few beers in The Bird and Bairn - yes, I know, but that's MY...
09:06 Wed 18th Nov 20096 answers, last by Quizmonster 09:34 Thu 19th Nov 2009
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For AB Ed

<i>Sorry</i>, <u>just</u> <b>testing</b>. I understand that none of the html instructions for the three words above - italics, underlining or bold - will take...
09:36 Tue 10th Nov 200911 answers, last by Sparkles62 10:30 Tue 09th Apr 2013
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American pronunciation

Can any of our cousins across the Pond comment on the following quirk in (some) Americans' pronunciation of words containing an 'r' sound with a vowel immediately before and after it? In Britain, for...
08:29 Fri 11th Sep 200911 answers, last by Quizmonster 09:03 Sat 19th Sep 2009
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Extremely slow boot up

Our Windows XP PC can take in excess of 15 minutes to boot up these days. The system was defragged last week and I've run disk cleanup. I've cleaned and defragged the registry using UniBlue Registry...
20:37 Sun 19th Jul 20099 answers, last by rcmzz 07:38 Wed 28th Jul 2010
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Party Fence Wall

I understand that the legal name for a garden wall between terraced houses is a Party Fence Wall. Having read bits of the relevant Act plus some appropriate websites and previous AnswerBank queries, I...
17:49 Mon 23rd Jun 20084 answers, last by Quizmonster 10:13 Tue 24th Jun 2008
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Mobile

Is there a web-site where you can enter the features you want in a mobile phone and it shows which phones have these? Failing that, does anyone know which phones are pay-as-you-go with a decent camera...
16:24 Tue 26th Feb 20081 answer, last by Postdog 17:48 Tue 26th Feb 2008
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Azed errors

The print version of the crossword may be OK, but the online version isn't. 15a starts one cell further to the right and consists of six letters. 26a, the matching clue, ends one cell further to the...
14:04 Sun 17th Feb 20081 answer, last by mahonia 14:39 Sun 17th Feb 2008

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