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It's official. After weeks of anti-goverment riots in the capital, Parliament has been dissolved, Cameron and Clegg have fled and London is, to all intents and purposes part of the Arab League. There are fears that Birmingham and Bradford might follow. The BBC, operating from its new...

Does anybody else think this is the cheapest, nastiest version of a reality TV show yet? :evil: :evil: :evil: I stumbled upon an episode by accident. Two unfortunate souls, suffering from an inability to form complete sentences but still desperate for somebody to love, paraded in front of...

So a certain Professor Ashton (whom I'd never heard of until two days ago) has suggested we lower the age of consent to fifteen. And so the topic was all over The Wright Stuff on Monday - with almost everybody being against. Well I did a quick bit of digging around and discovered that in...

Hi everybody, I hope one of you can help. I have a LEC IT6079R fridge/freezer built into a static caravan (so I don't get many opportunities to work on it). Late last year, the fridge section started freezing everything. :shock: :shock: :shock: It just ran on and on, only stopping if the...

Hi everybody. Hoping one of you can help. This trusty machine has just failed at some point in its cycle and taken out a 32 amp MCB in the process (though not its own plug fuse). There's no RCD in the circuit. The exact point at which it failed is not known, except that the clothes are...

You wake up in the middle of the night. It's dark; so dark that you can't make out the shadowy figure of an intruder in your bedroom. Maybe you're still half asleep too. You live in a country where violence is commonplace and burglars regularly carry knives or guns or both. This is no time...

I don't normally watch this but it was on yesterday and one of the questions caught my attention. Just for a moment, imagine that you're in it. It's finger on the button so you have no time to think; just post the first answer that comes into your head: "Name something women have that can...

In a different post, I proposed the idea of an artificial womb and suggested that it might be possible to construct such a device in the not too distant future. The concept is simple enough: a membrane or substrate of some sort into which a placenta will attach itself as if it was the real...

I heard this on the news this morning. The rules for adoption are, apparently, different in Northern Ireland than they are in the rest of the UK. Only married couples and single people are allowed to adopt. Am I missing something here? What is the difference in law between an unmarried...

I need a bit of help here. Very soon - probably tomorrow - we might be buying a new QashQai. Now the choice of car is more or less settled but I know that the salesman is going to try and get an extra £300 out of us for some kind of special coating that prolongs the life of the paintwork and...

I've been watching Andrew Marr's History of the World. For the benefit of those who haven't, here's a very brief rundown: 1) In the beginning, life was a risky business. We had to contend with cold, famine, drought, disease, predators, etc, etc. Then -- 2) Civilization began, except...

Can anybody help here? I've got a W-reg Renault Scenic 1.6 RT (year 2000 model) with a broken window regulator on the driver's door. As you might imagine, the local Renault dealer wants an arm and a leg (£250 :shock: :shock: :shock: ) for a new one so I followed the advice given in an...

This might not be the best place to post but the alternatives are Tools and Materials or General DIY, neither of which is any better, so here goes: The grouting in the tiles around our bath is decidedly grubby and the silicone around the bath edge has gone black in places. Nothing new there...

When I clicked on the Watched Topics link a few days ago, I was surprized to find that some were missing from the list. I quickly checked the topics in question (all of which were in Word Games) and was relieved to see that they still existed. I also noticed that each one had the option to...

I hope I'm in the right forum here. Our other half has recently acquired a kindle and I've been loading it with (free) books. I've discovered that you can transfer books directly from Amazon onto the kindle and you don't even have to be on your home computer to do it. 8) 8) 8) But now...

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Quite apart from the age issue, does anybody think pharmacists should be able to 'prescribe' the contraceptive pill at all? I know they're a knowledgable lot but they don't have access to your medical history. Your GP does. Is this not one step away from buying them off the supermarket shelf...

I know there's a thread open on Sport Relief already but this is rather different. On Radio Newcastle yesterday morning I heard the news reader/disc jockey/presenter person bragging about how her children went to bed traumatised after watching Sport Relief. Time out here! Is that anything to...

-- to legalise same-sex marriage." So says the Archbishop of Canterbury. Well that's a good one! Since when was the C of E above the law? :shock: :shock: :shock: Listen up Dr Rowan, I'm not anti-Christian but you and your church have no more right to tell our elected politicians what...

Hi everybody; this one is weird. I'm using IE7 with XP Pro SP3 and every time I try to open this website: www(dot)walter-fendt(dot)de/ph14e/bohrh(dot)htm internet explorer shuts down instantly. No error messages, nothing. :? :? :? I had to put the dots in brackets because even copy...