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In my son's bedroom is a dimmer switch, which I turn down low whilst he goes to sleep. However, he keeps on turning it up bright and keeping himself awake, and it is winding me up so, I have decided that what I need is some sort of key-switchable fixed dimmer, to set a (low) maximum brightness...

A few threads lately have mentioned the Chinese way of doing things, to limit each couple to having only one child, but this poses a problem. If you do it this way, then each generation can only be a maximum of half the size of the one before, which means that in two generations time, you...

Hull's great, so why has Channel 4 just named it Britain's Worst Place, and even declared it to be at least 100 miles from anywhere decent. Because their scoring criteria seems to involve how long it takes to travel to London, and how many Starbucks are in the area. What about The Deep. Or...

We need more of this sort of thing.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4133388.stm I would like to think they made their getaway on one of those train-truck things with the see-saw handles too....

My boiler is covered by British Gas's 3 Star Cover, and had its annual check last Monday. Since then, the auto-ignition has failed twice (for the first time ever, since I've been in the house), giving two mornings of cold water. I'm going to get them back to mend it, but like to know what...

Soemthing about the Labour government has obviously made me suspicious of Statistics these days, but there was an advert on for Ribena last night, which said that 95% of British Blackcurrants end up going into Ribena. Not Blackcurrant juice in general, but specifically Ribena. That can't...

I have a Vaillant something-or-other LPG boiler. It is part of a sealed system (where you top it up through a filling loop), with no other model names or numbers on it, but it must be at least middle-aged as all of the service numbers on the sticker inside are before the '01' dialling code...

Ok - Its been nearly ten weeks and no-one's mentioned it yet....... Craig in the Big Brother house would appear to suffer from some sort of mental illness and is what most people would describe as crazy. If he comes out of the house, sees the footage, and then hangs himself, who's responsible ?

Has anyone noticed that the ad break in a half-hour programme now seems to come very early on - maybe only 6 or 7 minutes in. Do you think they are trying to soften us up for 'going American' and slip another ad break in during the remaining two-thirds of the programme ? And secondly...

Sorry to mention it again, but I just found this transcript of a Panorama prgoramme that went out in May 2004. The idea was that they were dramatising how the news would look on a day of co-ordinated terrorist bombs on London...

OK - I kind of know what I'm doing, but am not an electrician and therefore not fully up on the regs. I've trawled through various threads, and think the following statements are true, but could someone just nod their head or otherwise for me, please. I want to stick a plug socket in my...

I am just moving my computer and need to run a telephone extension cable to its new location. The broadband revolution is yet to arrive in my village, but I figured I may as well be ready for it when it does. I think I'd heard that extension cables for broadband should be somehow fancier...

I've just come back from a week in America and, amongst other stories that I picked up whilst over there..... 1) Three people were killed when a light-aircraft crashed into a car 2) A greyhound bus flipped over, seriously injuring 34 3) Two American children are killed EVERY DAY by...

Now I don't know enough about money to fully flesh out this theory but, in the old days, up to Charles & Diana's wedding I think but maybe Andrew and Fergie, the Royal Mint would produce a commemorative crown with a face value of 25p. Nowadays, you have to buy a £5 commemorative coin...

Everyone I know thinks Jordan looks better when she is going for the natural look, and I haven't met anybody who likes Jodie Marsh, so why do 'models' like this cake it on so much ? Is the teenage-boy-w*nking market really so lucrative, or is there something else behind it ?

I've got a three year old who keeps climbing up on windowsills, and given that we like the windows open at this time of year, is there a good way of stopping him falling out ? Its a wooden window sill below, and (I guess) a metal lintel above. I could tyr making 'bars' out of shower curtain...

I've noticed a few people are selling New Iraqi Dinars on eBay - the thinking being that its going to start being traded internationally within the next year or so, and that the value can only go up. Now obviously, if it was that great a bet then why wouldn't the seller hang onto them, but...

I have just installed a ceiling fan and light in my conservatory, using existing wiring, though I think it is the first time it has actually been wired up to anything. I purchased the fan in France and, though it does not have any rating info on it, it is on a fused spur with a 3A fuse, and I...

When they print one of the Sudoku puzzles in the paper, or even the older Wordfit ones, how do they work out that the start they give you is sufficient to work out the one unique solution ?

My son has just been given a present of a dragon and a castle. The castle has a metal plate near the top of it. The dragon is holding a magnet, and has chains around its legs. The magnet is attracted to the metal plate, but the chains hold it back, giving the effect of the dragon floating...