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And apparently it's not an April fool: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/7975700.stm It's not going to be pretty.

I don't watch it regularly and wasn't concentrating tonight. Why are the theatres locked down? Why are the two locked in with the one who's being electroded all sweaty and white faced?

Hundreds of millions of people around the world will turn their lights off for one hour to show global leaders that they want strong action to tackle climate change. http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/

It's taken a letter out of our house name. All the houses in our street have a name carved above the door - ours is "Eastwood" but on Google street view it's "Estwood". Weirder still, it's blurred a...

Has this been posted yet? An 18-year-old has secretly painted a 60ft drawing of a phallus on the roof of his parents' £1million mansion in Berkshire. It was there for a year before his parents found...

I missed out on a promotion at work. I would initially have had a really good chance, but then just before it was advertised there was a restructure that takes my current role out of that role's...

I've just sliced my thumb chopping butter in a reallt stupid way. I'm on my own but MrH on way home. It's quite deep but a clean cut and I'm not in danger of massive blood loss - am applying pressure...

We're having (yet another) restructure at work which means that my job is being moved to a new team. It's a major PITA because we've only just got the team together that we need to do the job. The...

"Prince Charles has been accused of exploiting the public in times of hardship by launching what a leading scientist calls a "dodgy" detox mix. Edzard Ernst, the UK's first professor of complementary...

Obama has lifted restrictions on stem cell research, thereby bringing US science back into the 21st century. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7929690.stm There are still plenty of ethical...

Am fully prepared for this to be irresponsible tosh. Any other curmudgeons planning to watch it and grumble?

Or is it a repeat?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7889302.stm What do we think of this? "Mark and Nicky Webster have lost a bid to overturn adoption orders on three of their children. The children were...

I have two pages for a personal statement about why I want the job and why I'd be so damned good at it ? I think I can say what I need to say clearly and elegantly in less but my PhD supervisor...

A petition has just been posted on another site I use calling for a formal enquiry into the "Wakefield witchhunt" http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/wakefield/ Fark me.

Help me oh fashionable ones! I see it is 'all the rage' (TM Hazel's mum) to wear black leggings with tunics/longer tops and/or miniskirts. Is it still acceptable to wear opaque tights in these...

Http://www.mcwade.com/DesignTalk/ Discussing the new Pepsi logo

My knee has started hurting - it doesn't hurt most of the time, it's fine to walk on etc, but occasionally if it's bent, just something brushing against my kneecap is excruciatingly painful. Sort of...

Http://watermarksproject.org/ This is going on in Bristol just now - basically they're projecting onto buildings the level that water will rise to if certain events happen as a result of climate...

Here are some points I have put together. The first section is about the nature of the broadcast, the second addresses specific myths she perpetuates. A blogger on Ben Goldacre's site has suggested...

Is this the best ever headline? ? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7875271.stm We used to have a squirrel in our garden that did exactly this. We called him mad squirrel.

Http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/health/newsid_7874000/7874798.stm "A website offering the chance to get a tan from computer screens has been revealed as a hoax." No shit! ? I hope it makes some...

There must be such a thing right? I know there's a risk my arse will look the size of a small planet, but I really need higher waisted jeans to deal with the post-section overhang. I've found some...

I've just cleaned the fluff filter on my washing machine. I know, I know, I should do it after every wash but surely noone does that? It's such a grim job, up there with cleaning out the plughole of...

It looks surprisingly good and there are some cracking deals at the moment but I'm struggling to get my head round the idea of having a Vauxhall again ? Has anyone driven it? They've sold all the...

Anyone watched this? Am laughing.

My Macbook died on Wednesday night. I took it into the Apple store yesterday morning, where they found an appointment for me despite being fully booked, found the problem and then offered to fix it...

Am in a holiday cottage with only plain flour and no baking powder. Is there anyway I can make dumplings with plain or will they be beyond mank?

Does anyone else have trouble getting the dough hook to click into place? All the other attachments are fine but for some reason it just won't go. I've checked that it's the same size/shape as the...

This is about as boring as it gets, but MrH wants a new stapler for Christmas. Rock n roll eh? ? He's fed up of staplers not really stapling things properly. I thought my old work one was the bee's...

Whilst I'm glad that this case has finally been solved I'm utterly horrified at the measures that were taken to try to prove Colin Stagg was guilty. Even with today's conviction, it seems unliekly...

So Baron is suggesting everyone with a cold should stay at home, but if your reports did this for "just" a cold, wouldn't you be cross?