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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2gl2n2n14o Congratulations on taking on the cheating scum that are online bookies and winning. For those unfamiliar, this relates to the case where she had won a million, fair and square on an online app, and Paddy Power tried to worm their way out of...

Asking for a friend (seriously). A friend of mine was receiving tax credits and then, towards the end of last year, they insisted that she switched over to universal credit. She always received free prescriptions under tax credits, but it turns out that under universal credit, not only does...

Having just made it through Prison Break season one, I need an argument settled please. Someone died of a 'massive cardiac arrest'. Cardiac arrest means that someones heart has stopped - right? How can one persons heart stop more massively than another? Googling it to try and win the...

This has really pissed me off! I parked in a Reading car park from 9pm Sunday night to 8:15am on Monday morning. How much would you expect to pay according to these published parking rates?

Utter bilge. How can something this staggeringly bad make it into production? The acting is ok, main characters quite likeable, but a quite ridiculous story and scene after scene of things that just wouldn’t happen.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-66154244 :facepalm: For heavens sake - This suffolk village plans to rid itself of poisonous plants. Why not just educate your children not to eat them?

I'm going for three...

Why do they have to make them one at a time? Can they really not build an electronic board that can handle 3 on and 3 off simultaneously? It seems like an unnecessary waste of time.

Question for someone who might know about these things... My partner was divorced a few years ago and the arrangement with her house was settled on the basis of what I've discovered is known as a 'Mesher Order'. In other words, she gets to live in the property until her youngest child is 17...

Someone mentioned on another thread but thought it could do with one of its own. Just how the hell do you defend against those kicks? Easy answer is to not give away free kicks in the first place, but its unavoidable sometimes. I think some sort of radical tactic is required. Not sure what...

As a starter I give you Sussudio by Phil Collins. However, I think there is a clear winner in this category. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0qBaBb1Y-U

What is NSC's favourite lettuce? I'm rather partial to a Romaine myself.

Following on from the success of the bodmas thread. Here's a probability problem for the maths geniuses. The solution is on the face of it, surprising, and when it first came out, baffled many a statistical brain even though its very simple. It's quite famous so if you know it, please don't...

Anyone use them? I'll be undertaking a fairly serious week's walking tour later in the year. I'm generally fairly fit but I'm slightly concerned about the ability of my increasingly arthritic frame to make it. Now I fully understand that walking poles make you look a right knob, but that...

We're setting the line too high and remaining static when the kick is taken. Its costing us a goal a game at the moment. It just seems to be an obvious error in our tactics. Looking at all the similar free kicks on MOTD tonight, the defenders must be mobile and already on the move as the kick...

This is scary as hell. These smart motorways need to be got rid of now. They are lethal.

Interested to know why the FA changed their mind on the Sterling / Jesus goal yesterday. Although the goal was undoubtedly Jesus's from a 'moral' standpoint, I'd be mightily p**d off if I'd had money on a Sterling hatrick, when the goal-line shot (which was hardly shown on TV) clearly shows it...

Its the same year after year for them... Just before Christmas - playoffs an absolute certainty, but going for the automatics. January - looks like we've blown the automatics, but at least the playoffs are still a certainty. March - we're on a bad run but at least we should be fine for the...

Every year we have a story like this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42445966 - predicting doom and chaos on the roads on the last working day before the Christmas break. It is then followed by shock and surprise when it turns out to be quieter than a usual Friday. Why are these organisations...

The clowns Audi advert which is all over the telly at the moment, bothers me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSUF7-xQHrA The theme is that the road is full of clowns and that Audi's are supposed to be clown-proof. In the ad we see an Audi driver reversing out of a garage onto a main road...