Padded Cell

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There are number of situations that will always arise in any (usually) North American police procedural series. It doesn't matter how long the series runs for, each one of these will occur, not maybe, they will, sometimes more than once. You can count...

My son sent an application to Gonville & Caius College at Cambridge. He likes math and science and that is what they specialize in. They have invited him over to an interview. He is pretty excited. I know little about it. As I understand it, college in the UK costs about half what it costs in the US per year and you can get out in three years. Seems like it is worth checking out even though it is a transatlantic hike in an impossibly busy week for us...

If we're lucky we could see one of the best comet viewing for many years. It’s hoped Comet Ison will make its appearance from 3 December It’s a northern hemisphere morning comet – seen toward the eastern horizon in the early hours & during dawn. Ison is a bit special is that it is a "sungrazer" passing thru the suns corona. It's not known exactly what effect the great heat and gravitational force of our Sun will have on the comet & it might be destroyed, or it might make it &...

Hi Chaps, my DVD drive has stopped working so I'm after buying a replacement. I've never replaced such a device before so maybe I could get a separate drive but I want to get the best quality drive that will give me high quality rips. There are...

I declare a dual interest. How about you? Survey time: time to do the official poll to work out if Naim ownership coincides with following Dr Who... 

Question Time: Eddie Reader is telling the people of Scotland  how to vote; Good luck!"It's got to be perrrrrrrrfect!!  

Since my last frustrating Microsoft windows update I now keep getting an alert message whenever I visit the Daily Telegraph web site. The alert message say's 'Scanstyles does nothing in webkit/firefox/opera' which I then have to 'ok'. and it...

We're awaiting the birth of grandchild #4, and SWMBO b*gg*red off to Wimbledon because Rowena thought she was in labour (I had an appointment so couldn't go immediately).  All turned out to be a false alarm, but she stayed there 3 days and then...

So, progressive new currency ultimately able to take on world economies and become the penny for the people and a global means of trade, or a bunch of scheisters flogging invisible tulip bulbs..?

........or are you checking and responding to emails in your 'own time'?  G

Despite the bleak name, Black Friday in the US is the day after the Thanksgiving national holiday and the commercial start of the Xmas shopping season. Most have the day off work and it's very important economically. I occasionally view vinyl...

..... a trip to the emergency room. With everyone cleaning up the kitchen after dinner, my wife, at the sink, suddenly shrieked. Sliced the tip of her middle finger open while cleaning the carving knife. Off we skedaddled to the ER next own over...

Probably a  diversion from domestic problems but is spain(sic) taking too much of a risk by really getting on the wrong side of Downing Street?Discuss...

My wife's gone to bed and I just sneaked a slice of the apple pie she'd baked earlier this evening. I'm going to be in trouble in the morning. I did, however, leave the pumpkin pie intact . Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating tomorrow.

Things will get interesting now with China trying to challenge the international law.

Ceramic cookers/smokers. Does anyone here use these? I know serious fora exist for them. Just wondering if anyone would like to share recipes. I'm into veggies and seafood, but make ribs for my kids.

I need a new A4 printer for my desk-top [budget around £50 - £150] Don't need anything special - just an ordinary A4 printer for letters, occasion photo print, return prints for Amazon, etc My present hp printer is 14 years old, and has worked okay over the years but always guzzled ink, and the last black ink cartridge has leaked it's load into the workings : ( So may as well buy a brand new up to date one that costs less to run - but which one? Any suggestions for a reliable, economical,...

Having created my latest thread on the American President's Health Care law, I did some searching for nostalgia purposes and found the thread from 2009 titled as above.  I wanted to revive it but found it was no longer possible to do that--I...

Hi On tv best doc for years 33000 years ago a 6 foot man with a bent finger draw paintings on a cave wall,Better than all the crap you see nowadays andy Warhol  etc get your straight fingers out, 

Following on from the Doctor Who thread..... What musical events/period would you travel back to if you had the Tardis for a day. Mine would be Hamburg, circa 1961 to see the formation of the fab four. Followed closely by London mid-60's to...

Today, for the first time in weeks, I tried to use iTunes to download "The Dead Daisies" album, as it doesn't seem to be available other than as a download iTunes won't access the store, saying 'check your internet connection'.  Needless to...

It's just a casual observation, but with regard to avatars, I seem to notice more cats in the UK/Europe and more dogs in the US. And there has been a recent topic here on cats that originated in the UK. Maybe it's a matter of open space....

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The Gettysburg Address is one of the most revered presidential speeches in US history and it was delivered by Abraham Lincoln, likely the most beloved of US presidents, on November 19, 1863. The speech is eloquent, moving, and concise. It is inscribed on the walls of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC and rare is the visitor to that city has not looked upon it. The speech was given by Lincoln, during the height of the Civil War, to dedicate a battlefield become national cemetery that...