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...
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...
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...
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?.
.....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...
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 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 ...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Well I say, b,ugger it.. Out Crimbo shopping and have managed to trip
and fall into the buy one get one free cocktail bar so have ordered 2x
champagne cocktails... On an empty stomach good kuch with Christmas
shopping!!! Merry Christmas to one and al...
This dog was happy to see Santa.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/shiba-inu-meets-santa-and-looks-thrilled_uk_58370d28e4b0ddedcf5c7ce8?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Crelated_lnk2%26pLid%3D564289123_uk
So I see outside a sign for a waste disposal company espousing the
virtue of taking nothing to landfill; so my question is what's the big
deal about land-fill, what's the fuss about filling up some holes with
waste? What's the problem. Also, I hear p...
Ironically where I filmed a quadcopter flight back in september,the town
of Tewkesbury,has made the news in the last few days.Due to a burst
mains water pipe,leaving the town and surrounding area without water for
2-3 days.The source of the leak was ...
Godless UK: A quarter of Britons have no religion with Christians
increasingly likely to be retired peopleOne in four people in Britain no
longer believes in any religionFigure rises to more than a third of
under 25s2011 census shows number of Christ...
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