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Award for attempted suicide

Reported today, the case of a young fellow in a Young Offender's Institute, who attempted suicide, but was saved by the action of prison officers. He sued, and was awarded ?560,000. What is the...
18:25 Fri 12th Jan 20079 answers, last by Gmcd01 18:30 Sat 13th Jan 2007
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Storm damage

A section of fascia-board, about 10 feet long, has been dislodged entirely from a typical 60s-built semi, due to gales. I need someone to get up there and nail it back into place. What would be a...
18:04 Fri 12th Jan 20073 answers, last by buildersmate 22:32 Sat 13th Jan 2007
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Whitehaven Hospital (again)

Does anyone recall an incident in the early / mid 50s. when a hospital in Whitehaven suffered from a real or threatened disaster ? Many elderly patients were evacuated to other hospitals as a result....
17:30 Mon 18th Dec 2006
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That Urang Utan opening again

Have now tried this several times on my chess programme, all with disastrous results. Is there some continuation which will give White the edge? 'Tis obviously a very clever monkey which can recover...
17:58 Fri 15th Dec 20066 answers, last by Scylax 15:55 Sat 16th Dec 2006
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Rudyard Kipling's verse

Does anyone today commit vast tracts of Kipling's poetry to memory, as I did as a boy and young adult ?
17:19 Wed 13th Dec 20063 answers, last by Scylax 16:25 Mon 25th Dec 2006
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Numbering of questions

I would find it most helpful if each question in a category were to be numbered. Trawling through a long succession of questions to find the original target Q. is a long-winded business, especially...
13:53 Mon 11th Dec 200613 answers, last by Scylax 13:37 Tue 12th Dec 2006
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Chess openings

It seems that there is a chess opening which has been titled the 'Orang Utan'. Can't find it in my chess literature - can anyone help, please ?
18:08 Sun 10th Dec 20064 answers, last by Scylax 13:33 Mon 11th Dec 2006
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Mobile phones

It is hard for me to believe that I am the only person in the Universe that doesn't have a mobile phone - aren't I ?
16:53 Sun 10th Dec 20065 answers, last by Scylax 16:30 Mon 11th Dec 2006
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Fireworks tragedy

Can we assume that the recent explosion at a fireworks factory will galvanise the government into banning the manufacture and sale of fireworks ? These things are explosives, and have been used as...
13:15 Tue 05th Dec 200620 answers, last by Scylax 17:52 Wed 06th Dec 2006
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MAN Diesel and the 3rd. Reich

Vaguely, I seem to recall that the directors/managers of MAN Diesel were, in Germany, strongly opposed to the Nazi regime, and thus formed part of the opposition to the 3rd. Reich, when it was very...
16:38 Sun 03rd Dec 2006
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Super-Max prisons, USA

A current series from the USA purports to show, on TV, the reality of life inside U.S 'toughest prisons'. These do not show my conception of 'Super-Max' institutions. Am I watching pure Hollywood ?
17:54 Thu 30th Nov 2006
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Magical place-names

Some places seem to have magic entwined in their very names. For me, these include : Samarkand, Bokhara, Biarritz, Isandhlwana, Lake Louise, Katzenelnbogen, Surabaya, Zanzibar and Valparaiso. Not...
17:41 Fri 24th Nov 20061 answer, last by Boo Boo 19:51 Sat 25th Nov 2006
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Excellent adverts

Is there anyone else who, like me, bemoans the demise of entertaining, effective adverts on TV, such as those for Hamlet cigars ? No-one muted the sound, no-one turned them off. Come back, Hamlet,...
17:00 Fri 24th Nov 200632 answers, last by Baby Jane 10:30 Fri 22nd Dec 2006
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Olympic Games

Last year the cost of the forthcoming London Olympic Games was estimated as ?3.4 billions. This year it has reached ?8 billions. By 2012 the estimate is ?10 billions - that is ?1 million repeated...
17:42 Wed 22nd Nov 200611 answers, last by willowman 09:32 Fri 24th Nov 2006
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Language-learning in schools

Is there any educationally sound reason why languages are taught in secondary schools ? Noam Chomsky pointed out that the LAD (Language Acquisition Device) is innate in all children, but fades to...
18:04 Tue 21st Nov 20066 answers, last by teddybon 20:03 Wed 22nd Nov 2006
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Sir John French

Was this WW1 Field Marshall elevated to the peerage? If so, what was his title ?
17:38 Sun 19th Nov 20061 answer, last by blackandtan 18:47 Sun 19th Nov 2006
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Lynx antiperspirant

Can anyone stomach the recent Lynx antiperspirant advert ? Squirting armpits appear to have hit a new low in the annals of bad taste. My suggestion ? : Lynx stinx.
17:23 Sat 18th Nov 20062 answers, last by Kathyan 11:07 Sun 19th Nov 2006
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Serviceman's rank

Daily Telegraph photo today of 6 soldiers bearing the coffin of a colleague killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. The Staff Sergeants and the CSM badges of rank I recognise, but one soldier has 3 stripes...
16:18 Fri 17th Nov 200615 answers, last by kempie 14:49 Tue 05th Dec 2006
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Whitehaven hospital

Anyone with any knowledge of a disaster (real or threatened) which affected a hospital in Whitehaven during the early/mid Fifties ? A largish number of elderly patients were transferred elsewhere,...
18:12 Mon 13th Nov 2006
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Rowing-boat's forward gear

Any information please on a mechanism which converts the normal rowing action into forward thrust ?. The boat moves forward in the direction of the rower's vision ; is this mechanism energy efficient...
13:17 Thu 19th Oct 20066 answers, last by markja 00:49 Tue 24th Oct 2006

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