We didn’t have those when I was a child

The saying goes that kids say the funniest things, but the majority of us would say this also applies to parents. We have all had our parents at some time coming out with things such as “when I was little all I got for Christmas was an orange and a bit of coal” or you [...]

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The Royal Society of Chemistry comes up with Britain’s cheapest, nutritional lunch

Their recipe for the ‘toast sandwich’ was lifted from the famous ‘Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management’, and it consists of a slice of thin white bread toasted, sprinkled with pepper and salt and then sandwiched between another two slices of white bread.

Dr John Emsley is a chemist at the RSC and says that it [...]

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Daylight savings pain

Once summer becomes a distant memory and the end of October rolls around, you will start to see a lot of people walking around doing their best zombie impressions. Dark shadows under the eyes, unintelligible mutterings and the sound of everyone’s body clocks being out of kilter is almost audible. There is just one thing [...]

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The big holiday con

We all love our holidays, and one of the most exciting bits is trawling through holiday websites or, if you are over a certain age, travel brochures. So you know roughly where you want to go its time to find that fab hotel. There’s one jumps out at you immediately, and there’s a great picture [...]

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Why does it take so long to move money around?

Today’s technology would have our ancestors’ completely bemused, and it is moving at such a speed that even we have to stop to get our breath now and again. The last decade has seen us logging onto a games console and talking to someone at the other side of the world through a simple headset, [...]

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Leicestershire Council are simply not prepared for a full scale zombie attack

Leicestershire Council are simply not prepared for a full scale zombie attack

A concerned citizen took it into his own hands to send the Leicestershire Council a Freedom of Information request requesting asking the Council how they would be prepared in case of a zombie attack. . The letter’s author, who may have watched one [...]

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Stephen Hawking does not believe there is an afterlife

Professor Stephen Hawking may very well be “the smartest man in the world”.  Certainly he ranks up there with the greatest minds in history, including Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, and let’s not forget the ancient Greek and Chinese philosophers and scientists whose works have left indelible imprints in those infamous sands of time.

Professor [...]

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Three-inch plastic replica gun airport terror problem

Yes, airport security is unfortunately necessary, and hopefully we all feel safer knowing that every body and every scrap of baggage is scrupulously examined for possible weapons of destruction.  However, many of us thought there might be some level of common sense expected of the examiners.  Guess not, a three-inch plastic replica of an SA80 [...]

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Do we spend as much as half the day just daydreaming?

If you want to be a happier person, get your head out of the clouds and pay attention.  That’s right: “listen up”, “pay attention”, “quit daydreaming”, “watch what you’re doing”, all those phrases you’ve probably heard at some point, usually spoken or shouted with sharp emphasis to remind you to keep your mind on the [...]

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Marijuana Is Legal..If You’re A Shepherd

Italy’s highest court had given his verdict that an Italian shepherd can take marijuana since he has sheep as his only company. So marijuana had received an unexpected endorsement for recreational purposes.

It is fine to use for medicinal purposes but it is quite surprising that the verdict has been passed to use the drug for [...]

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