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A list of really irritating words and phrases - please add your most hated examples.

I'm feeling really grumpy, for some reason. Idly surfing the internet is proving more aggravating than stimulating. Whether it's something as harmless as a news site or as stimulating as a discussion board, everything I look at seems to include a wor...

Strange eBay virus

Sometimes when I'm browsing the eBay site using my PC, the page redirects to a page stating that I've won an Apple iPhone X. It only happens on eBay. The odd thing is, it also happens on my iPhone, only when browsing the eBay site. Pressing back up h...

Redirecting mail

I order a lot of parcels on eBay that are sent to me each day to my home address, but I work early in the morning. I usually go home to a 'we missed you' note. I get home between 1pm and 1:30pm and my Post Office depo shuts at 1pm. He's not amused wh...

Emotive subject, what say YOU?

Alfie Evans? What's your thoughts and opinions about what's transpired? Me? I think they should let go. Those "protesters" need taking in hand, trying to "storm the hospital" is just not on. Mind you, I think the whole issue around "protesters" or "a...

spoiler Alert Shock And Horror

Watch All The Video https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/spoiler-alert-humpty-dumpty-wasnt-an-egg/p0657q16

D I N G B A T S !!

Do you know what these 2 dingbats mean?  and . . . . 

does this skirt look ready for the Bin...

Do you remember

The BBC children’s series tales of the riverbank? Because believe it or not it’s subject matter the iconic watervole has become the latest to decline in numbers and is now officially the fastest declining mammal in the uk. I know when I first saw the...

Mo and the Marathon.

Watching the marathon this morning, I saw that Mo Farah was moaning and whinging and getting angry because he picked up the wrong water bottle. Can anyone tell me why 'his' water bottle is any different to any other runners bottle? Surely it's all wa...

Happy Birthday CD.

How much sleep do you get a day?

I sleep for 4 hours at night and get a 20 minute power nap during the day.

the pinsticker's guide

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/43607619                .   

Minor irritations

What things annoy you a little, or even a lot? I'll start with ................. I don't get the point of those video film clips that are divided into 3 with only the central part in focus and the two outer thirds are blurred. What's the point of it?...

The Future for Earth?

The Salisbury affair and all the idiotic terrorism and fighting gave me cause to think of the future. Will humankind survive? Is the following too far fetched to ever come true? If you like a read, carry on, if you don't, look away NOW? The Fleet Com...

Advice needed re mobility scooters please.

Does anyone know much about mobility scooters? Got a bit of a problem, I need to know whether it is a big job to fix or not. I have a second hand scooter I was wanting to sell on as OH has just bought a new one.The battery is fine and power going to ...

We are ALL going to live a lot longer

Butch Wilkins and Eric Bristows passing, reminded me Yes - We are ALL going to live a lot longer, according to Governments reasoning for raising Pension age. But Just look on 'Another One Gone' thread, shocking How many from 'Working Class' backgroun...

Hi I am goldjammer69 and would like to start a playlist of my favorite tunes and invite others find

Hi friends I have posted on the boards of ebay usa and Italy. Do you have a place here rto post music, and to converse, and where might I find that? I like to hear the poplular music from the U.K, Clash, Bowie ,Clapton , the Beatles and others. I am ...

Anyone Recognise this Actor

He is playing a young priest in Crown Court, episode Soldier Soldier from 1982He is not listed in the end credits, nor on the IMdb site. I am sure I have seen him somewhere, but possibly older

funny april fool

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Cambridge Analytica

I have watched with interest the kerfuffle surrounding Cambridge Analytica, what they have done has, imho, been going on in various forms for years, 35 years ago we would use Acorn analysis (a classification of residential neighbourhoods) which could...

£3 school shoes

Hi I resently bought my son some new plain black lace up plimsolls after his old ones were a bit worse for wear. He wears them as school shoes his school has a quite basic uniform school jumper school polo shirt black school trousers and school shoes...

£3 school shoes what was your cost ??

Hi I resently bought my son 12 some cheap plain black plimsolls he wears them as school shoes. What school shoes do your kids wear and how much did they cost ??,

Vernal Equinox

So first day of Spring today Yay!! Looking forward to warmer longer days and getting out and about more. Time to start planting in the allotment, but still have some back-achy digging to do. What are you lot looking forward to?

Seagulls?

OK, where are you birding types? Every afternoon I go for a walk round the lake and from October to March it's visited every day by varying numbers of Seagulls (I dunno which species). They don't seem to be finding any food, they seem to spend the da...

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Have PB already closed their free accounts?. I can't sign into mine.

Please remember the clocks go FORWARD....

One hour next Sunday 25th March

Is there as much

Poverty around these days as there was 50 years ago! I can remember the post war years when bread and dripping with salt and pepper was the order of the day, and yet these days with growing obesity among the young we are told that children are living...

There is a Yellow Snow Warning!!

Just heard this on the BBC !! Who writes this stuff

Can you see it? What can you see? Do you see what I see? xxx

Schoolwork?

It's occurred to me that schools are not really preparing kids for the Big Wide Wonderful World of (gonna say a naughty word now)...... WORK? Schools seem to concentrate on subjects surrounding academia and good exam results but not all kids are acad...