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Ok, not just Coronation Street but also East Enders and no doubt other soaps. I don't watch them. Occasionally I see trailers or bits of an episode before another programme when I switch on a bit early. But is the current Coronation Street a...

Hi everybody. Just started my long bank holiday weekend ,not back at work until Tues. Looking at the weather forecast it looks like yet another washout. Just intrested what other people might have planed. Happy holiday Graham.

I've just posted in the HiFi Corner, and the post hasn't appeared yet. When looking at the list of forums, my post seemed to be there as the last one in HiFi Corner, but here we are ten minutes later and it's still not there. Is this due to my 'past...

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Whats your fav real ale?Stu.

Not sure how far Jim's  fame has spread around here.He was a stalwart of our local music scene. Even having some chart success with Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts, AKA Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs. Seen all around the pubs and...

One of four is going on sale. They think it will hit 4 million?I think it will hit double that and a bit more??Munch.

Hi all, And I am fascinated here, so I will stress that it has to be in English (or recognised in the English language) and any word that is created from combining two will be counted as one.  For instance "do not" would be two and "don't"...

This is a whole hearted endorsement for the work force of O2.2 weeks ago my youngest's phone came up for upgrade so she got a iPhone 4S and bequeathed her 3G to me. So far so good. I'm on Orange so Hannah fills in the online form to free my...

Hi all Have just bought a couple of window boxes for the front of the flat. Knowing very little about plants/flowers, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to what to put in them. We're on the 2nd floor, south facing (so get lots...

Not sure which forum to post this, but ... LSO Live.  What a misleading name for a record label.  It implies that the recordings are live, but I seriously doubt it.  Currently I'm listening to their box set of Sibelius symphonies,...

Steve,You have 5 stickies  up on all rooms, and yet  you still look like this man . Why?  Stu

...decanter or not? If yes, any recommendations for a decanter please?

It's two and a half years (time flies) since I posted on the subject of a proposed bridge over the river Mosel in Germany that was set to do much aesthetic and actual damage to one of the most beautiful parts of the world, seemingly to the advantage of no-one other than Ryanair and the people building it (original post below). Well, it now appears that the architecturally valueless design actually doesn't stand up - literally - and the whole project may (hopefully will) not happen. Info...

Most of the time it simply accesses the digital text feature, so why display it for that purpose? I have to keep turning it off with the green button on my remote control. I wrote to Auntie Beeb stating that anyone who cannot find the 'Text'...

Hi   I have noticed over the years how much less telly I watch than I used too, which seems to be at odds with the populous where some reports would have you believe 4hrs a day is common.   I am lucky [unlucky] if I spend more than 15mins a week watching something, keeping up to date with news via the radio in my car and the www.   How much [and what] do you watch?   Cheers

Sammie Galaxy S2 running Opera browser. All has been well until today and then... phut! I can get the main page but when I select a forum it displays a completely blank page (no topics). No error message just nothing there to...

I just tried to access the forum using the iPhone app. Ooo, update, I need to sign in again. Email address not recognised. I've used the same addy for nearly 13 years. Start a new profile? Ok. Try to sign in again...... Not recognised. How about I...

I finished updating the antivirus after a few days away, did a quick scan, and turned the ol machine off. Except it wouldn't turn off. This appeared on the screen. I've tried rebooting into safe mode and into Administrator, but no, it's still there....

Is life too short? On Friday afternoon, I had to go into the town on business. After that I wandered into Greggs for one of their delightful 66 pence sausage rolls! One lady was loading the shelves with cakes and things, while the young girl also...

Professor Dawkins doesn’t seem to know much about Darwin: either what his masterpiece is actually called, or even what he believed about God (he wasn’t an atheist) There is, Darwin said, an ‘impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe … as the result of blind chance or necessity…. I deserve to be called a Theist’ By William Oddie www.catholicherald.co.uk on Wednesday, 18 April 2012 D awkins: not as much of an expert on Charles Darwin as he thinks Professor Dawkins has...

I can't decide if the latest tax payer funded MoD fiasco is modeled on Fred Karno's or Monty Python's versions of a Flying Circus. The new fleet of RAF air-to-air tankers don’t work on British jets. Tests have shown the fuel transfer system is not compatible with RAF Tornado's. The couplings which connect to the recipient aircraft leak. But - wait for it - they work on US airplanes !!! The Voyager is a military version of the Airbus 330 and is a dual role as a troop carrier capable of...

While checking out what's happening around my version of the world on my iPad this morning, an email arrived from Microsoft to tell me about their new MSN for iPad app.  Ooo, I thought, I'll check this out. So, I tapped the Find out More button,...

Was sent out shopping this a.m. by SWMBO.  Instruction "get yourself a new coat and some new shorts"  (yes dear, I said). Couldn't find one pair of shorts I liked in Burton-On-Trent.  They all seem to be these long shorts these...

Hi all, I have been spurred to ask this question as no one has and it feeds off the thread 'What are you presently reading?'.... My answer to this thread title is: "Extraordinary popular delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay I am...