I run Outlook Express and Windows XP. I belong to my local Freecycle group and receive a very large number of e-mails as a result. Freecycle recommend that we filter their e-mails and divert them into...
Since the total smoking ban my local pub is allowing children into any part of it. But I thought that the restriction on where children can be in a pub was a question of where alcohol was being served...
I know some people agree with the death penalty and others don't, but the American way of keeping criminals on 'death row', sometimes for very many years, seems like gruesome mental torture. Life...
A family debate - not sure which category to list it in! Is there a 'rule' about the different sides on which a male / female has his / her buttons? My clothes seem to all fasten left over right...
A teacher of mine once had a large cubical block of wood (10" x 10" x 10") with a notch -- four inches long and spanning its width -- cut into the top it. A hole had been drilled from the inside of...
I have no objection to anyone wanting to be religious. Whatever religion they want to follow. But why do we have to have religion in the school curriculum? Why do we have to give people time off work...
Looking ahead to Twelfth Night, does anybody know whether any retailers will be having recycling boxes for Christmas cards? . Believe last year Tesco & WH Smith had them and were donating the proceeds...
I've just finished reading Alister McGrath's 'The Twilight of Atheism' and found it really fascinating and evenhanded. McGrath charts the rise of atheism in the atheist critique of the oppressive...
I have read quite a lot of WW2 history and keep coming across some common themes among US historians. There is one which occurs not just in history but in popular film too ( Band of Brothers , Private...
For nearly 40 years we have had the technical know how and ability to get to the moon and return safely to earth .We have come a long way scientifically since 1968.My question is this ....why did...
Now then, S&C-ers, I have three very difficult questions for you to ponder over the holiday. Yes, yes, I know that you want to relax but it's a good thing to exercise the brain after all that food. So...
Do we all share a common gene pool which can be traced back to Adam and Eve regardless of race and nationality. Also in view of our intelligence are we a different species to Apes.
I have been invited to a black tie event at the end of January. I have bought a black dinner suit, bow tie and black braces. I was going to buy a black silk cummerband but am not sure whether you...
Got my quiz back - and have done your favourite trick - written a wrong letter down in one of the more obscure words - so ninety-nine and a half. Grrrrr. I see you're not in the 100 per cent list...
I thought my incredibly intelligent and literate friends on R&S might appreciate this - but sorry guys, the only connection I can make between religion and the joke is that I was once acquainted with...
