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Two Grand A Week Per Diem?

Jimmy Nail was offered "two thousand dollars a week" to play a role in Evita. He was "just about to moan" when the offer was clarified "per diem". According to Jimmy, this means that the expenses an...

allenlondon

Definitions

Can we have a definitions corner please? One I’d explored is misogynist, which some simple-minded round here bandy about like ‘fascist’ (or indeed lefty). Thinking some Answerbanker is an idiot...

Bobbisox1

What's One Of The First Things You Will Do When We Are Free ( And We Will Be)

For me, me and my husband will go to our friends house who lost their son age 53 to Covid, to give them both a bear hug, to cry with them and to relive memories of Michael...

ToraToraTora

Come To U K For A Better Life.......

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-55545669 ....why not do a bit of jihad once here? Damn savage should never see the light of day again but some of the "mitigation" is bizarre.... "As...

annaneedsanswers

Platonic Or Romantic

Me and my best friend have been friends for almost 2 years. Lately I've been feeling really lonely and really wanna have a relationship. I've been thinking about one with my best friend. One time I...

Canary42

Supermarket Sexism.

While compiling my supermarket online shopping order this morning I checked out the full description of one item. It included the phrase :- "Voted No.1 Laundry Brand for Sensitive Skin (online panel...

Theblip

Did You Go To School With Someone Famous?

They probably weren’t famous when at school, but what were they like then?...

allenlondon

Apple Laptops

Why, given their outrageous price, are Apple portables the machine of choice for so many in the media and indeed elsewhere? Very often when some ordinary person pops up on screen, they’re using an...

Paigntonian

Marsden

Sadly it will give Jimmy Tarbuck yet another chance to 'pay tribute'. It seems to me he's said nothing remotely funny for fifty years and earns his living 'paying tribute' to the recently deceased....

Bobbisox1

What's Your Favourite Instrumental Piece Of Music?

I have two, Acker Bilks Stranger on the Shore and Fleetwood Mac's Albatross...

HappyPriya

Confused With Decision

I brokeup with my boyfriend as my parents were not accepting our marriage But deep inside I had a thought that he was not responsible as partner to get married. He loves me and we were having plans...

soliloquy

Mrs. Brown's Boys

There must be thousands of viewers who watch this programme. I switched it off after less than five minutes. When I was about 10, I might have found the vulgarity and the rude words funny - but that...

Vagus

Pointless

Alexander Armstrong has just sung the programme out at the end. Am I missing something, I don’t think he can sing at all, seems very self indulgent as he appears to think he’s wonderful....

eleanor2

70S Jackie Mag!

Murray, thought of you when I watched both these links. I never knew it was actually published in Dundee, not London!! Two links on the history of Jackie, and another with original staff that worked...

Ben1996

Getting A Loan

Which website can I get a loan when unemployed and without putting down monthly outgoings and without it searching for lenders...

rowanwitch

It's A Wonderful Life

It wasnt, I hadn't seen it before I just don't get how everyone thinks it's so brilliant. It was too long, and hammy as heck. I kept watching to be able to say I had.... Life's too short.

andy-hughes

Ho Ho Ho - Not!!

My lovely wife and I have just had our Covid test results back - we are both positive. Hardly surprising, we live in Stoke, one of the higest infection areas in the country, but to say I am not...

exarmy448

Our Friends

Whenever Boris appears on TV to talk about Brexit he always refers to the EU as 'our friends'. When will he realise that the French and Germans have never been , or ever likely to be 'our friends'....

10ClarionSt

Removed Op Today, Monday.

Hello Ed. One of your mods removed a post of mine today which I posted at approx 07.15 in CB entitled "Hands, Face, Waste of Space". I don't know why this was removed. There was nothing about it that...

emeritus

Vigilante Manslaughter.

I would be interested in your views of this case, and the sentence of 10 years. Some people say they got what they deserved. ? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-55345638...

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