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Taking Kids Out of School

In the news today are parents in court due to the absense of their children from school. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-33861985 I heard a man interviewed on the radio this morning saying he had taken his children out of school during term time ...

Facebook selling groups...why do the admins bother

Hi, can anybody enlighten me on this....Ive bought and sold a few items on a local facebook group. The one Ive recenty used has got loads and loads of members and the admins are seemingly quite busy with ensuring people keep to their terms and condit...

I just don't beliieve this ..........

,,,,,,,,,, but I guess i'll just have to 'cos it's there in black and white.I'm looking at adverts for mobile phone numbers 'cos my youngest grandson stole my last one. It was a good one too. something along the lines of (0702) 5567 2345. That's not ...

The world was his 'lobster'...

...now sadly no more. Actor George Cole has passed away, aged 90. Best known for his role as Arthur Daley in 'Minder', him and Dennis Waterman were the best comedy duo since Laurel & Hardy. The phrase that he coined 'Er indoors', winning a place in t...

They drive among us

Glad I didn't end up behind this numpty on the motorway http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-33608816

How to change my home country

I need to see the prices in euros € , but I don't know where to change it, my home country is now UK, and prices in pounds. Even though my address is purely Finland, and we don't use pounds here

Global Warming.

Another question for the smart guys and gals

OK, imagine the situation.My youngest boy (37) won a box of bric a brac at a local auction for £3. When he got it nome there was a mobile phone sat at the bottom of the box and this is what he told me happened after that. He found a lead for it and p...

Is It Ever OK To Shout At Someone Else's Child?

I heard this question asked on the radio today in the wake of an incident in a restaurant in USA where a cafe owner shouted at a child after the parents had failed to keep them quiet. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3168500/Diner-owner-defend...

Welcome to the Great British Underclass

I was chatting to a young lady who recently completed her teacher training and this week was inducted into the new Primary School where she will commence her chosen career. The school is multi cultural and located in West Yorkshire, it is a deprived ...

Can you translate this quiz?.

http://www.quizfreak.co.uk/can-you-understand-these-12-geordie-slang-terms/results.html Not surprisingly I got this, but there were a couple of questions I wasn't too sure of the meaning. YOU GOT True Geordie!Purely belta performance, well done! Mayb...

Is it time that our laws and sentences relating to treason were reviewed?

Wel I doubt some would want it. Alaa Abdullah Esayed, 22, posted 45,600 tweets in just under a year and used photo-sharing site to post picture's of corpses and prisoners being beheaded. A Muslim woman who called for Muslims everywhere in the world t...

It's all Greek to me?

So Greece owes billions of €uro to several lenders, it didn't make it's June payment of €1.6 billion to the IMF and it now expects to be lent more money? What have they done with all that money? Frittered it away on........ what? Where's it gone? If ...

Where did it all start?

Religion that is? I was prompted to think of this by a post on the "artifacts" thread with a word that jumped out..... Satan. Religions often seem connected with the sky, sensational natural events or "something up there" so did it all begin with Man...

Would you Adam & Eve it ?

First it was the Robertson's Marmalade Golly that caused some people to be mortally offended, now poor old Betty Boop has come in for criticism. Every one has a right to be offended, but for such a simple thing as a cartoon character, why can't they ...

Fox attacks people

Interesting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-33360817 From the article: A "vicious" fox trapped eight people inside a sports club for three hours as it stalked them from the car park.The animal appeared as people were preparing to...

Off with their Heads

What a sensational scoop by the SUN newspaper, Yes that Bastion of British Journalism has done it again. Somehow they managed to obtain a film of the Queen with her parents and sister at Balmoral more than 80 years ago. They are shown briefly doing a...

Time for some Community Spirit

In years gone by the Q&A boards used to be frequented by many posters who no longer show their faces for various reasons. There used to be bun fights and arguments on a regular basis back then, even more than now, but there was also a community spiri...

Crime, punishment and re-offending.

It seems that the Justice Secretary is considering the issue of "earned release" for offenders and is thinking about teaching them "a proper lesson" to help prevent re-offending. http://news.sky.com/story/1520431/gove-wants-to-teach-prisoners-a-prope...

Anyone want to bet on this..

Britain will NOT foot the bill for rescuing Greece, Osborne warns after Brussels threatens to hit UK with 1BILLION bill for emergency loans British public could be forced to contribute £1billion towards Greek bailout Government to fight European bid ...

Can anyone tell me what is the time limit for giving & receiving feedback, thank you.

There may be trouble ahead......

Trouble within UKIP that is. Farage "resigns". Other members of UKIP have their eyes on the job of leader. THEN, the ruling board refuse to accept his resignation. The only UKIP MP, Douglas Carswell has repeatedly refused to endorse Farage as leader ...

Blindness Is No Barrier To Selling On Ebay

Blindness Is No Barrier I climbed into bed with Ebay in the hope of reaping a dividend or two to subsidise my income. Perhaps I ought to mention at this stage that I am registered blind. I have a condition by the name of bilateral optic nerve hypopla...

MANY MANY THANKS TO UK AND USA EBAY MEMBERS!

I'm Apostolos (apostolos72 ebay member), a seller from Greece and would like to thank all the ebay members/buyers located especially in UK and USA for their support during these days of crisis in my country. Their trust brought me a lot of courage! G...

Destruction of Ancient Ruins and Artifacts.

Did anyone see the programme on BBC4 on Tuesday night with Dan Cruickshank? It was showing the way in which ISIS are destroying ancient ruins and artifacts in Iraq and Syria. It really was shocking...and poor Dan was beside himself while watching the...

Why are so many middle-aged men committing suicide?

I recently attended a meeting at the local University, During this the topic turned to the growing problem of Male suicide. I was shocked to learn that the ratio of male to female suicide had reached 4:1 and that there was an alarming increase in men...