Okay...if you look through the last few dozen posts, all it's been are gripes and groans. I would like to challenge you all to state which piece of recent news has made you smile. And by that, I mean...
There's a long running campaign on television for a product called Actimel, described as"a delicious probiotic drinking yogurt which contains the unique culture L.casei Imunitass?" My quesrtion is -...
So the new Heinz mayonnaise advert has been banned after ITV received 200 complaints. Viewers said the commercial was "offensive", "inappropriate" and "unsuitable to be seen by children". Whilst the...
There have recently been a spate of posts decrying the 'ghettoizing' of inner city areas by immigrants and thier (British) descendents. Therefore, is the following story cause for concern:...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1939201 /Rough-Guide-to-England,-an-irritating-place.h tml It sounds vaguely accurate, but is this really Britain 2008???
In an interview, actor and theatre director Kevin Spacey criticised the BBC for airing talent shows such as Any Dream Will Do and I'd Do Anything He said "I felt that was essentially a 13-week...
Every time we read a story about a young black man arrested and convicted of a gang crime (shooting or stabbing), we here people stating that it's a problem specific to ('naturally' more violent)...
From the BBC website today: Robbie Williams has apologised to the ex-manager of Take That and has agreed to pay undisclosed damages over an allegation he made about him in a song. In the lyrics of a...
All, This isn't a question, so much as a request. As you may be aware, Kylie releases her new CD on Monday. I've heard it, and it's only average, but I would like the regular posters on the News...
Surely if they were doing it in the privacy of his own room, and they were both consenting, no crime was commited? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_an d_west/7095134.stm
There was a recent thread where someone asked who sang the song on the new Bailey's advert. The answer given was Chica Chica Boom by Carmen Miranda. However, in the advert, the singer performs the...
You know we use the phrase 10BC and 650AD Well, before the birth of Christ, how were dates expressed? I know there are very few people around now who were alive in the BC era (apart from a couple of...
Which great Briton, who hasn't been represented with a major statue or monument, should be honoured? Doesn't matter if they're alive or dead, but they have to be British either born, by marriage or a...
The other night, I watched The Butterfly Effect, and whilst I enjoyed it, I realised at the end, that I'd got it confused, at least in part, with another film. I remembered a scene which I thought was...