The Round Table

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PayPal problem

I have a problem which I hope someone may be able to help with. I am trying to buy something online..not from EBay..and pay by PayPal. I go through the whole process until I get to the last step which is to click on the button to pay. When I click on...

Potholes.

After the Winter weather, lots of roads have potholes. Round here I've noticed that when some are "repaired" they seem sunken, not level with the road surface and wondered why that was. Today, I found out. At half past eight I was startled by a sudde...

This Oxfam Scandal

Over the years Oxfam has been at the forefront of disaster response throughout the world, Now its very existence is under threat due to the inappropriate behaviour of a few individuals. I doubt that there is a company or charity anywheee in the world...

Testing.

Times tables?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-43046142 Do you remenber your times tables? Remember having to recite the tables out loud? Do they still print the tables on the back cover of excercise books? I think kids should be taught the tables, once learned...

Love Letters.

Over the weekend, my newspaper reported that Joan Bakewell had donated a collection of love letters to an archive where they will be in the public domain, for anyone to read. The letters were written to her by Harold Pinter, with whom she conducted a...

Gumtree - As there are no forums (and it's owned by ebay)

I (like thousands of others) have just been ripped off on Gumtree. For some reason I broke every rule I know and paid by bank transfer, didn't get proof of I.D. etc etc. I have no idea why but there you go. My point here though is that Gumtree have n...

Born evil?.

Nature or nurture?. The past history of Jon Venables and his recent arrests made me think evil was ingrained in him, hard to believe such young children would think of torturing and killing a toddler, so is it in them from birth?.

As yet 'Seller Central' haven't responded to my recent query.....

.....perhaps this board can help?: Does selecting: 'Additional eBay site' ebay US & Canada at extra cost offer a larger market place/& or better visibility? What's the advantage when International Dispatch to both these Countries has already been sel...

Is this right?

This afternoon I chatted with a chap I sometimes see out walking and during conversation he said that now he was 75 he didn't have to buy a TV licence. I said he was lucky not to have to do so but that it was a nuisance that as he was over 70, he had...

Katie Hopkins detained in SA

Katie Hopkins has been prevented from leaving South Africa for spreading racial hatred in the country. Now I’m no fan but why is it that in a country where as she puts it Police cannot respond to the intimidation of white farmers because they are at ...

Where do you stand

Just watched a debate on veganism, featuring a couple of dairy farmers and a vegan activist. The latter believed that we have no right or need to eat meat in any form and that all our food should be plant based, the dairy farmers had posted a picture...

Why are sellers allowed to list items for a low price that does not match item price

HiWhy can sellers list an item for a low price which shows up on Ebay's "People who viewed this item also viewed" search results.You see a XXL Dog bed priced below all the others but when you clickthe item that price is only for a small bed the XXL i...

Why are items allowed to be listed 1000 times instead of having a WIL FIT list in the order

Why are items allowed to be listed 1000 times instead of having a will fit list in the order, I just found a car tyre inflator that has been repeated 1357 times as they have listed it for every car type in the world rather than fits all cars? Just th...

Jealousy ..

Sexual Jealousy A lot of people get jealous and possessive in relationships. They don’t like their partner talking with someone else, or hanging out with members of the opposite sex without them. Some people get even crazier. They get jealous about t...

Applying for Passport

I am hoping to go on holiday abroad later in the year, but having problems with passport application.I have my old one that expired in 1996, I have the completed form, birth and marriage certificates and new photos. Problem is finding someone to coun...

Rabbit Rabbit

Anyone got a friend like mine who never stops talking. I phoned her an hour ago to give her a quick message, and she is still yapping awayBefore now I have laid the phone down on the table, gone into kitchen and made tea, came back and she was still ...

UKIP - will the last one to leave please turn out the lights

With so many resigning it’s time for UKIPto shut up shop. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42770361

Married Men,Watch This !! Pub Escape Tunnel

Funny local news story,a 200 year old Pub escape tunnel for when the wife comes looking for hubby lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXszpgMDnc0

Ebay are recruiting! Fancy a job as a product manager?

https://tamebay.com/2018/01/ebay-to-recruit-product-manger-to-build-new-selling-guidance-tools.html eBay are advertising a job vacancy for a Senior Product Manager who will build the next generation of their Selling Guidance Delivery Platform. They s...

Does Britain Owe India Reparations

Just came across an interesting old video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4

Just had a shock !!!

The strangest thing has just happened to me. I opened the kitchen cupboard to get a cup out, and as reached in for a cup, a glass on the shelf above exploded. It made a huge bang, and shattered into tiny pieces no bigger than peas. It blew right acro...

IDK W T efff is happening today with the internet...

but all I did was click on seller central and I am presented with a page to post in... Yahoo.co.uk does not show up and on investigation theirs plenty of people unable to get emails yet I can get my emails, but not the .co.uk tld, I have to inpyt uk....

The RT Weasel strikes again - Hadron shut down

Large Hadron Collider: Weasel causes shutdown The Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at Cern is offline after a short circuit - caused by a weasel.The unfortunate creature did not survive the encounter with a high-voltage transformer at the s...

Would you find this offensive

North Wales police have been criticised for showing a full fry up breakfastThe story in the Evening standard and available through google news highlights how an offended vegan could be at the sight of bacon and sausage on a plate, do you find this of...

The NHS?

How about we have a thread to put a cat amongst the pigeons? The news headlines are full of criticisms about chaos in the A & E and about ambulance waiting times but have a think about what the cause of the problems really are? The long and the short...

Youtubers?

Just lately there has been criticism of things posted on youtube and the latest is about someone posting pics of a dead suicider. I was looking for the old Blubells hit "Young at heart" and I found someone had posted a (very poor) version of it with ...