. . . we've traditionally made jokes about the intelligence (or lack of it) of the Irish. However much of the rest of Europe has traditionally made similar jokes about the Belgians. I wonder why?...
Horse riders (if we've got any on Answerbank...)
What are the terms for pulling up a horse? I mean when you're riding, and stop, is there a term like 'reining in' or similar?
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Is there something about a certain kind of product that always annoys you, or always causes problems? Is there an object that you wish was designed differently? (For example, I use water bottles a...
On another thread I tentatively tried to imagine what the EU would do if we stayed a member. I said something like:- 2021 - EU army or something like that. Would you try to guess seriously what...
Isn't it child cruelty to force Shakespeare on kids who have no time for it, struggle with it, fail it, and after leaving school never revisit it.
Why?...
Can you believe she has been signed up for, Im a Celebrity? Just the thought of her doing some of the challenges has me in hysterics. Imagine her crawling along an animal/ insect strewn passage! Can...
It's been asked many times I'm sure... but when selecting a film or tv do you select something based on the actor or actress and have an opinion before watching, I'll give three ideas of what I mean...
...settle a bit of fun banter between me and our old caretaker......
Painting.....do you buy cheap brushes and bin them after the job is done or really good brushes and look after them well?...
Off to Valencia next month for a week. Prefer an apartment but like the backup of a hotel, ie when the wi-fi doesn’t work, it’s nice to get fairly quick attention. Prefer to be central, rather...
Is there any correlation between the inexplicable nature of Black Holes in outer space and the fact that Pi is a seemingly never ending number? If a star (which we'll assume is spherical) implodes,...
I recently started a thread which reached the dizzy heights of 727 answers before it was closed down for some reason. Does anyone know what is the record number of answers in a News section thread and...