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All for sobriety testing. After all it's not just alcohol that impairs your ability to drive. It needs to be backed up with objective measures to determine levels above a threshold especially in the cases of drugs misuse. The trouble is that some of these tests are quite difficult and very...

I've driven quite a bit in the States and pretty much all the cars had cruise control and the majority were automatic. Can't say I've ever had a problem with gradients especially as I only ever used to use it on their motorways anyway. I found them fantastic, very useful on long journeys. I...

I have a solution. Trade in girlie for a younger model and dye your hair. Apparently older virile men are the must have fashion accessory for the girl about town these days 8)

ohmygod... I haven't even reached 30 (although v. v. close) and I'm doing all those things.................. :shock: I guess I'm a geek too :cry:

Gosh how did he manage to pull that off with the CSA??? I can't believe that some judge awarded that stipulation. European court of human rights appeal me thinks......

pre-nups sort of take the romance out of marriage don't they? Although Ray Parlour wishes he'd had one....... I suppose if you make a lot of money then you might think that someone is just marrying you for the cash. However if you are incredibly successful and your wife enables you to...

couples living together have less rights legally than married couples so for example if your partner owned the house you were living in and then passed away the house would then go to her closest relative and not you...unless she had drawn up a will. If you owned the property and she was...

I'm not sure we need to worry too much about oestrogen in the drinking water. There are plenty of other sources of oestrogen in our environment especially in some plants. This may not be a bad thing as these do tend to reduce one's risk of dying from coronary heart disease. Also if there were...

I'm not sure if there are any other London cyclists out there but can I recommend that some of you just try getting on your bicycle to see how bad the driving is from the viewpoint of a vulnerable road user. Despite having flourescent stickers, a bright jersey and no end of lights, the most...

I find that if you use your umbrella at an angle, sort of like a shield, then the other umbrellas bounce off of yours. Doesn't make you very popular on the daily commute though.

Tex Mex , Kvorkian aside, you wouldn't normally get a medical practitioner administering drugs at an execution. Classically the Hippocratic oath forbids it exclusively. So he would have a hard time arguing as to why he was there to the regulators in the US. I wonder what would happen if as a...

I seem to recall that there was a solution to the rising council tax problem. Wasn't it called the..................."poll tax"

I had a similar problem to Diyisfun, in that I suspect I had had a nest behind an air brick. I used the powder from bandq and a wasp spray which I used to spray any excess powder into the area. I repeated it the following night. Since then I have had no wasps but that was about a year and a...

I might be wrong about this but along the lines of what oilman said aren't baking potatoes o.k. for making chips? Don't they just have to have a high starch and low water content which baking potatoes do.

It's typical of insurance companies to stick together at the expense of their customers. Great business to be in (although some of Lloyds' names might not have agreed a few years back), if you find that you are paying out a lot then just increase the premium on renewal. But what can you do -...

Fascinating thing cervical mucous! :lol: I am suprised that it increases the perception of attractiveness. It usually acts as a barrier to sperm (and has antibodies to them) so you might expect it to be a turn off. It probably has quite high levels of oestrogen especially after ovulation...

It's quite common for women to have a better sense of smell than men. :o You guys knew that already didn't you? :wink: It's thought to be because of oestrogen. Interesting that Adam's mother seemed to lose her sense of smell after birth. Oestrogen levels usually fall after birth and during...

D&J Has your wife's case been settled in her favour? Because if it is still outstanding then they presume that its your fault until the other insurer admits full liability. This happened to me recently as I had an accident which wasn't my fault but the other party contested it. Eventually...

I would have to agree that it's probably better for him to have the insurance in his own name as then he can accrue his NCB. Premiums don't really go down all that much until he's 25. And by then he'll want a higher group car anyway and without any NCB it's really pricey. If you are thinking...

Whilst you're both right, nowadays there are more efficient methods of obtaining iron than having to resort to downing pints of guiness! Although possible not as pleasurable :D Years ago Guinness might have been recommended but nowadays the effect of the alcohol outweighs the effect of iron...