The Chatterbank posts have been going a few years now but when I first saw it about 6 to 7 years ago it was called something else then it was taken off the answerbank for awhile as some people abused...
I am driving myself mad, trying to remember a song our sales manager used to play as the "sales team warm up song". I think the song was a eurovision entry (not sure if it was a winner...
Hi, Someone said early today that there was a show on TV over last two weeks all about the New Forest in Hampshire. They think it was on BBC and might have been called OUT AND ABOUT BRITAIN. I can't...
I was arguing with a friend today who said that the average STEP length for a man was 600mm. I disagreed and said he meant STRIDE length. He was an engineer and maintained that 600mm was the...
My friend says she watched a story last week about the law being possibly changed so that resident parents who continually hinder/stop contact with non resident parent will then not be able to take...
http://www.telegraph....nger-for-pension.html During these times of austerity we have seen public sector workers strike, the Police protest on the streets, and on Thursday doctors go on strike, with...
As our colonial are never satisfied with what we gave them, they inevitably re-invent nouns for everyday objects. This may make the simplest tasks more interesting but it does cause for some mighty...
Seen this referred to but no explanation of original acronym, modern ideas relate to special forces etc but this was radio deception in Second World War, possibly part of Operation Fortitude. Any...
Hi, we travelled to France via Brittany ferries last week, but due to the weather, the ferry could not dock for 7 hours past our eta. We had booked a night in a treehouse. Fully paid for and also paid...
As above - One of the Irish women was dating one of the garage mechanics, her friend was a woman that was very strict and was engaged to someone called Dermot (Diarmuid?). One of the garage mechanics...
3 Call them women??? you cannot tell can you? arrived in C.D.A. In Paris, came up to Passport Control would not remove their Masks, BYE BYE they were on the next plane out, was the French right in...
The little green man disappears before you're across the road and the waiting drivers are revving their engines and glaring as thought they'd like to run you down. I thought it was just me but this...
My friend has received a demand from HM Revenue for the repayment of £1200 in tax credits which the dept. alleges have been overpaid to her and husband. My friend says that she provided all...