My Dell with Vista can take a long time to power off; it doesn't always depend on the number of sites visited or facilities uesd. Is there any way of shortcutting by not logging on as I am the sole...
Bombarded daily by ca. 20 spam mails every day, I'm thinking of changing my address. Apart from the bother of notifying friends and risk of losing contacts and so on, is this an easy change to make -...
Can anyone explain why, when inputting a hyphen, a long one appears on screen, but if it later deleted, then replaced by depressing the same key, a shorter one appears?
I have often wondered about the stance Catholics take over doctrine laid down by their church if that doctrine changes. Should the Holy Father decide, for example, that the bodily assumption into...
Can anyone please explain, definitively, how relationships between cousins are described? I understand that second cousins are the children of first cousins but from that point on I get extremely...
A window appeared headed Windows Security, with a flower picture, asking me to verify U/N and P/W. It was impossible to get rid of it but Virgin onilne Help took over my computer and deleted it. It...
Having a badly cut leg, treatment has been given at both A&E and the local surgery. The surgery nurse wrote me a prescription and I collected it from the chemist before going back to her for a second...
Why don't they just stick a limpet mine on this scum? Why do the froggy authorites let them bring ports to a standstill? Surely the mass hassle they are causing warrents action by the French.
A police sergeant seen in video footage hitting a woman during the G20 protest in London has been suspended, Scotland Yard has said. He is shown hitting the woman in the face with his hand and her leg...
In the heyday of the Technicolor Western an above average height, longish black-haired man was usually cast as a cynical rascal with a villainous sarcastic look. Any ideas for a name please?
I'm sometimes confused over the use of the above phrase. What does it mean without making clear which century is involved? From a written BBC flyer:- Jonathan Miller discusses the relationship between...
Language changes; it can't be stopped but are there others like me who rail against change when it seems to be for the worse? 'Fewer' seems to be going out of use. 'Gender' has almost universally...
From listening to Russians speaking Engish it seems they do not have or don't use the definite or indefinite article, How do they cope with this when a distinction is needed?
Watching a programme on political correctness last night brought it home to me how restricted we've become in the way we express ourselves. Nothing is exempt from extremely detailed criticism and...
OK, Ed Balls has been highlighted a couple of questions ago as a bad name to have as a public figure for obvious pun-opportunities. D i c k Spring was another obvious one (I'm not sure that is allowed...