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The Best Way To Learn Guitar

I was given a guitar as a birthday present, and I want to play, but am an absolute 100% beginner. Can anyone recommend the best way to go about learning? I was thinking of picking up the basics with a...

Shadow Man

A song about 1973.

There is a song in the hit parade at the moment (heard it on the wireless, so it must be!) that goes on about a disco or something in 1973?? "You and me in 1973" Any ideas? Thank you

Latchibeach

What does a newsreader do?

Can anyone tell me what a newsreader and weatherperson do in between their hourly or sometimes longer appearances on the tv please

kwicky

Cameron proposes a form of military service for 16 year olds

Today it has been announced that 16 year olds can take part in a form of military service for a period of 6 weeks. Do you agree with this and should it be compulsory?...

NJOK

Moral dilemma (shamelessly nicked from the BBC)

A victim of a paedophile teacher has asked for his music textbooks for children to be banned. Brian Davey wrote books on the recorder that many tutors regard as among the best textbooks for children....

4gottenabout

Pavarotti

RIP. I've never really liked classical music, but I do always remember being in a trance watching him sing. Great voice and what seemed like a great person.

helpmetoo

ken, you'ver got a bus passenger!

good old red ken, tube strike for three days now at least i wont have to stand under a sweaty armpit! anyway after swamping the roads of london with so many buses thay run around even at rush hour...

Ghost~Rider

Kill a hoodie?

I am getting more and more apalled every time I hear of another innocent death at the hands of Yobs or Hoodies. I know it isn`t legal, but why can`t we all go out and kill one hoodie each, thus...

rojash

Who shall we hate today?

Isn't it time for a bit more originality here in the Hatred section of AB?

sweet~teen

I'm ashamed of my country after reading this story

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070822/tod-uk- russia-crime-penis-b7e5c6f_1.html What has my country come to!

10ClarionSt

Has David Attenborough got Roy Castle syndrome?

Roy Castle said he contracted lung cancer through passive smoking, even though he couldn't prove it, and even though no-one, even now, can be proven to have contracted lung cancer through passive...

Dom Tuk

Anyone remember me

Back after a while. Are the regulars still here. Is it worth coming back?

sp1814

When a is a noun not a noun?

What is correct: "I Googled the title of the film..." or "I googled the title of the film..." We use the word 'hoover' with a lower case 'h', but Google always seems to be capitalised. Which is right?

IanLawlessex

Nothing compares to you by sinead/prince

Prince wrote "nothing compares to you" and sinead o'connor sung it. Why did she cry in the video. Its confusing as to whether she was grieving about her partner (I could put my arms...

sp1814

Big Number Twos

Which songs kept Pulp's 'Common People' and The Verve's 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' off the number one spot in the UK singles charts?

whiffey

Why did Nelson Mandela say....

This is the first statue of a black person in London ? (It won't be the last, not by a long chalk) Why did he not say Freedom Fighter instead ? Why did he have to introduce skin colour ?

Man in Black

Missing Madeleine

I don`t buy the Daily Express but am often drawn the the Front Page Headlines while waiting in a queue etc. Just about every day they seem to have a new disclosure in the case of missing Madeleine,...

abstibus

Tarring and feathering

What do you think of this? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/69 66493.stm

Loosehead

Why is Mandella the liberator?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6967927.stm The real liberator was DeClerk who had the courage to realise the system for SA was wrong and to allow change even though it meant his own deposition. He...

MrBen5

Prison officers strike

Do you agree with the prison officer strike today? I never knew they were allowed to strike. Apparently, there are hundreds of human rights protesters no their way to parliament to hold a protest...

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