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Arachnophobia

Speaking to a fool who is scared of spiders and he states he is not arachnophobic he is spider-phobic. The argument is he is not scared of arachnids but spiders!!!! My point is one is not scared of...

redalertking

Owed Debt

I am owed over 2k for working for a company for a month b4 they let me go and i have phoned and sent e-mails ect to try and recover this money but the response has not been welcoming. Is there a debt...

R1Geezer

Motoring Myths

What are your favourite motoring myths? Things that are belived by a lot of people but are in fact untrue, wrong or non existant, eg the concept of "Right or way"

homerbart

credit crucnch

what is this credit crunch

WeAreBongo

LHC and Associated Gubbins

Folks, we all know that the LHC is attemping to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang in order to prove the existence of the Higgs Bosun, amongst other potential exotic particles (not to...

terambulan

Highway hazards

Motoring into town, a car pulled into my right of way and I swerved to avoid it. Avoidance forced me to drive onto a central road partition that was made of flint bricks but at a steep angle (inverted...

anotheoldgit

Squatters, allow them to stay?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-104963 1/Families-1million-homes-tell-nightmare-300-s quatters-entire-housing-estate.html Knowing the majority of posters on this site tend to lean over to the...

Gromit

Anger at scruffy Boris!

Thousands of people have contacted the Daily Mail website to complain about bubbling toff Boris Johnson's scruffy appearance at the Olympic closing ceremony....

flip_flop

Fat People

With the exception of those with a medical condition, fat people are fat because they eat too much and exercise too little. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/aug/27 /conservatives.health1 True...

drummo

sesede from the united states

is it possible for a state to secede from the United States and join Canada. Just curious

birdbath

Body art.

This is a question for both males and females, do you find tattoos attractive on the opposite sex?

R1Geezer

What annoys you on the road?

Now I know all the common stuff like tailgating, middle lane hogging etc etc. What I mean is what really annoys you that is really fairly harmeless but winds you up none the less. What really gets me...

Lakitu

Merging for roadworks

Here's the scenario, the 2 lane road you are travelling on had been getting dug up, forcing the outside lane to be closed. Motorists are made aware of the fact that the outside lane will be closed by...

cassa333

Dropped curbs

Hi, I was reading another post on someone putting cones outside there gate and wondered about dropped curbs. If you had a dropped curb no one is supposed to park in front of it or block it. If you...

sammmo

electricity flow

In an electrical wire is there any electricity actually in the wire if the final circuit is not connected.? IE if you touched a "live" wire you would get a shock because you have...

skilliyay

speed of like

why is it not possible to break the speed of light using a series of gears. I calculated that a motor spinning at 5k rpm, would need a ration of 1:60K to do it

fluffsri

Licence revoke

My Mate has been caught speeding at over 100mph. I have heard that if he doesnt attend court and doesnt send his licence in to the court he cant have his licence revoked, is this true??

Meg888

Guarantor

A friend of mine has asked me to stand as a guarantor to a rented property he is about to take on. He's had some problems in the past, and I've helped him financially and he has always paid me back. I...

dannyday5821

circles and squares

why does nature like nice rounded curves so much? why doesnt it like right angles or sharp angles? i mean, if nature caught onto the idea of something like triangulation - then it could grow into huge...

fishyredhead

150 dead

I find this very disturbing because I hate flying. Do you think they had quick deaths or slow lingering burning ones? It just reinforces my fear of flying. I really feel for the everyone involved. I...

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