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Celebrity Quiz Shows

They do it in aid of a charity. With shows where there is a cash prize, OK, the winnings go to the charity But what about programmes like Celebrity Mastermind, where there is no cash prize. How does that work, and how do the charities benefit.

Here's something for you to cogitate on.

This has nothing to do with any Rape trial. Let's say that a person did something 50 years ago which, at the time, wasn't a crime. Let's also say that the very thing that the person did 50 years ago DID become a crime 10 years ago. To make this easie...

7 teen suicides. 1 website. Amazon could shut it down but won't

Summary: A North Wales father and Internet Safety trainer has issued a challenge to online giant Amazon.com to shut down cyberbullying website ask.fm Anonymous ‘question and answer’ website ask.fm has been linked to the suicide of at least seven teen...

Cannot "Reunite" so can't be bothered.

I used to be on Friends re and sent off emails to various people I knew - not many. After five years and six one-liner replies I gave it a miss. Just went back to try to my luck and found seemingly endless sites suggesting I join Facebook - why shoul...

Grammar? Are you good, bad or indifferent?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22484415 I'm not so sure that placing a lot of emphasis on nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs and the like is a good idea for 11 year olds? I think good spelling and punctuation is far more important than the technica...

FREE WEEKEND TOMORROW

Lest anybody didn't notice, it's a free weekend tomorroe.

How can this sort of thing be made to work properly?

http://tinyurl.com/csw7nqv The link will take you to a MailOnline website (don't all shout at once) showing that there are 84 schools with zero white British pupils at all. So the link isn't even showing schools with only 5 - 10 white British pupils ...

Can anyone identify these two Hollywood Greats actresses?

Hi not posted on here in years and not sure if I have come to the right board. Does anyone know who these old actresses are? They are hand made and unsure how old they are, but they are old. I think the one with the big hat may be Mae West? No idea o...

Deputy Speaker Arrested.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22414334 What's the matter with people?

new ebayers

i don`t understand people who open an ebay account purchase items and don`t read the listing properly

Vicky Pryce Guilty.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21496566 It took them long enough, two days. Although she was clearly guilty of perverting the course of justice, do you think she should have been "let off" due to the Law on Marital Coercion?

How long do you wait before you...........

.........open an unpaid item case? Just asking as I've had one opened against me by a seller 2.5 days after the sale. Yet not long after the sale I received an email from the seller asking me to pay off ebay, and directly into their bank account, to ...

Grandmother kills Herself after Bedroom tax demand

Ten days ago Stephanie Bottrill sat in the redbrick terrace house which had been home for 18 years to write notes to her loved ones, She ripped the pages from a spiral-bound notebook and placed them neatly in little brown envelopes. There was one for...

Death wish?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2322679/Russian-daredevil-takes-life-hands-hangs-like-monkey-1-000ft-crane.html You tell me.:-(

OH,! NO,

:_| Sir Alex Ferguson has resigned from Man' utd :_| I know he wants to retire, BUT where do we find someone good enough to replace him.

Only in America... 5-year-old gets a rifle as birthday present... then...

Only in America... 5-year-old shoots his 2-year-old baby sister with his new birthday present - a rifle... "In this part of the country, it's not uncommon for a 5-year-old to have a gun... "It's just tragic... It's something that you can't prepare fo...

A question for you Jaguar owners

My dear old Alfa is now 13 years old and although I love it to bits I feel it may need replacing soon-ish. It's a 166, 3 ltre V6 with 230 BHP and the engine is wonderful, just the bodywork and transmission may fail soon-ish. I'm looking around and fa...

Free listing True or Not true

I was looking when or if theres a free listing day coming up and found this EBAY FREE LISTING 11TH AND 12TH MAY 2013 on http://community.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?threadID=1700129807&rw=true&anticache=1368196102780 Does anyone know how or if true?

the blue box of current or past etc viewers.

I am I the only person that finds this an intrusion and no spur to buy ? Can it be dissabaled as it is shortening my searching time and my patience... please let it stop!

Any car buffs about? Name this part!

I can't drive my old car for the want of a small piece of plastic - but I don't know what the part is called to search for it! It is a plastic piece, open at both ends and which has two small rectangular 'bars' sticking out. It fits over the fan swit...

Will you be paying?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22474715 Is this the thin end of the web wedge?

WPC Kelly Jones want's £50,000 for tripping over a curb.

What do you think? Sorry I cant do a 'mail link' (tommy;-) or anyone, thanks).

Take heed!!

"er indoors was going over our bank account online over the weekend and she found 3 transactions that she didn't recognise. They were all in relation to Direct Debits being paid to mobile phone companies, to be specific, O2, Vodafone and Orange. What...

Microsoft admit Windows 8 is not PC

Microsoft, at last admitting introducing Windows 8 onto the PC market was a mistake ?? Well thats not the way they're putting it, but it's true, They are saying 'Consumers found it to complicated' No, they didn't want touch screens in the first place...

Jimmy Tarbuck, ??????????

Now Jimmy Tarbuck's been arrested on "sex charges" :_| "WHEN IS ALL THIS CRAP GOING TO END",???????? Its gettin worse, and worse, IF your a celebrity, your a sex offender, or so it would seem. X-(

There's good news and then there's really good news

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22430145 Can you even begin to wonder how delighted the families are?

Ebay makes me laugh sometimes.

Just try the following ..... Do a search in All Categories for "Kitchen knives". You will find lots of fish knives and other non-sharp stuff but even the blocks of kitchen knives have the disclaimer, "Knives and scissors not included". This is obviou...

merehazle - just for you :)

You asked about my sig line, and I didn't want to clutter up the other thread, so here it is. The slogan is from the Kurd Men for Equality, group It stems from a case in Kurdish Iran, where a mans punichment via the courts, was to dress as a woman, a...

Please help!!!

Hello thanks for taking the time to read this post, now I'm gonna jump straight into the problem I'm having about 2 years ago my dad set me a eBay and PayPal accounts, sadly due to family issues Im no longer in contact with him, so in turn i can no l...

The Story of Adam & Eve's Pets

Adam and Eve said, 'Lord, when we were in the garden, you walked with us every day. Now we do not see you anymore. We are lonesome here, and it is difficult for us to remember how much you love us.' And God said, I will create a companion for you tha...

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