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Shopping list

does anyone know a website where a full sho pping list can be downloaded and printed so one can tick off what you want before going shopping

marmaduke

How does a rubber do it so well?

How do pencil erasers take pencil marks off the paper so well? They are astonishing.

filanto

man holes / drain covers

why are some man hole covers round and some rectangular? is there any particular reason why they use one of the shapes to signify what is below

Loosehead

Caravan's clogging up the road

Further to Fairy's question below, one group only slightly removed from tractors are people towing caravans. Do they feel bad about holding up the traffic? They do seem to potter along, seemingly...

chickens

sad i know

Can i drive a three wheeler on a full bike license?

kags

Car Parking spaces

In our town centre there are loads of electronic signs telling you how many empty spaces are in the various town centre car parks. On Saturday, one of the car parks apparantly had 3 spaces in it...

mr. piper

irritating abrevs.

i am absolutely racked off at trying to decrypt some of my sons text messages, i know they are to save text space but give us a break. and while i am at it what does "LOL" mean.

libertie

After the tragic car accident here (Scotland) on Monday evening in which four teenagers lost their lives after the 17 year old driver (passed test in Nov) was involved in a collision with another car...

Andy008

Ken Bigley

Having only recently found this site, I will use it as an opportunity to ask a question which has been eating at me for ages. In October last year the British hostage Ken Bigley was murdered by...

timedragon

petrol engine cutting out at speed.....any ideas?????

im hoping someone can help me fix a problem on my F reg 1.6 cavalier. apart from a bit of 'mayonaise' in the oil filler cap, it seemed to be running sweet. it was fine until we opened it up a bit...

racros

Adding value or the opposite

I have a 4 bedroom housein Central Scotland but don't have an en-suite. I am thinking of converting the smallest bedroom into an en-suite but I am worried that this will reduce the value of the house....

dave_c

Driving Jobs

I taking a couple of years off from Higher Education simply to work full time. I quite bored with my current employment in an office environment. I'm feel in need of a change and I...

banana

Form filling as part of the job

My partner works for an offshoot of the NHS-as a driver. He has worked for them for 16months. Recently there has been an avalaunch of new paperwork for the drivers to fill in.These range from daily...

Hgrove

speeding

A friend told me she thinks her partner may be about to lose his driving licence because he was caught speeding twice in three weeks. The second time he was doing about 130 m.p.h. ...

georgeg

easter

when does easter next come in march after this year and how are the dates for easter decided for each year???

CGORST

How do I fill a Vaillant boiler with water?

I have been told my Vaillant Turbomax boiler needs to be filled with water as the reading is on 0. I haven't been shown how to do this and neither Vaillant or the installers are available. ...

ianess

Motorway speed limit signs

Why do we see the 70 max speed sign when joining a motorway? As different classes of vehicles have different speed limits [on all classes of roads] should the sign not just be the white circle with a...

Dom Tuk

Who has Right of way

Who has right of way at this type of roundabout. My first exit on the left is one way and i am not turning into it. Second exit (straight ahead) is 2 way and I am not turning into it. 3rd exit on the...

ktaylor

pepperoni

what meat is used to make pepperoni

Yai

Railways

How do they prevent railways in hot countries like in Africa from buckling in the constant heat ?

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