Apparently today is National Poetry Day. I'm not massively into poetry but have loved "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noye since I was a child. I won't post it here because it does go one quite a... ...
Just thinking out loud, and briefly. Heads of State who were lawyers. Most Presidents of the USA?, Castro, Ghandi, Thatcher, Blair etc. Is there any other profession that contributes so many people to...
The film of this book ended with the schoolteacher setting off a suicide bomb which blew up the 'cuckoos'. But I recall a story in which the cuckoos set up a sort of parallel universe which was a...
My Son in Law's gone to Thailand for a few weeks. I want to charge his car battery. How do I open the bonnet of a VW GTI 02 model? Sitting in the car is a lever just below the right knee,which I...
i'm thinking about getting my 1st smartphone but i can only afford at the moment £10 a month pay monthly any ideas please don't know where to start and what phone is half decent! thx for any...
I wonder if anyone can help with this question. I seem to go through sets of in ear earphones very quickly. Each set will work fine for a while then the sound will go in the right one followed some...
Do you think that like sleep you just slip into a peaceful darkness? Do you believe that somehow and somewhere we are resurrected in a new shape and form? Do you believe that as the books have said we...
Hi. I registered as self employed earlier this year (worse move ever, but that's a different story). Since I started my job my employer has, in the last few days implemented a new 'points and fines'...
The Anglican and Roman Catholic churches have been getting a rather bad press of late, at best confused, and at worst corrupt. Meanwhile atheism pursues its bloodless purity. The most determined...
My wife is working freelance as a nurse advisor available to the NHS and privately. She has been advised to set herself up as a limited company, by an agency that finds her such work. Is there any...
Instead of people paying more income tax as they earn more money why not charge everybody £3,000 regardless of their income.
Everybody uses the services so everybody should pay the same amount....
My boyfriend is a private hire driver. He is being forces to work stupidly long hours without breaks, For example this weekend hes been forced to work from 05.30 untill 01.00 on the saturday and then...
After a recent trip to Paris to visit family I returned pretty frustrated at not being able to speak French very well. I am well aware that the best way to learn is to go and live there but...
Greetings each.
Can any genius please tell me exactly why it is impossible to fold even the thinnest sheet of paper in half, in half, in half more than eight times?
Be good!
Cheers....
I can't think of mine. Maybe "This is not for you" printed on a blank page at the beginning of Mark Z Danielewski's "House of Leaves"? Or maybe any of McCarthy's run-on lines, like...
We've recently laid a new carpet and our two cats are exercising their claws on it - just in one spot, so far. What's a good way to stop them? They desist when we shout but even a few seconds of...