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  1. EnglishLady

    Flipper Bridge Melds Left-Side Drivers With Right-Side Drivers

    :eek: Ingenious Flipper Bridge Melds Left-Side Drivers With Right-Side Drivers | Fast Company
  2. EnglishLady

    Arthur Conan Doyle's first novel hits shops

    BBC The previously unpublished first novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will finally be available to buy from Monday. Entitled The Narrative of John Smith, the novel - written between 1883 and 1884 - comprises the reflections of a man confined to his room by gout. Conan Doyle sent it to a...
  3. EnglishLady

    Breaking News: Women in Saudi Arabia 'to vote and run in elections'

    BBC Women in Saudi Arabia are to be given the right to vote and run in municipal elections, the Gulf Kingdom's King Abdullah has announced. He said they would also have the right to be appointed to the consultative Shura Council. The news will be welcomed by activists who have long...
  4. EnglishLady

    Bullfighting in Barcelona to end with Catalonia ban

    BBC Bullfighting fans in Catalonia will see the last fights before a ban on the age-old tradition comes into effect in Spain's north-eastern region. About 20,000 spectators are expected to fill Barcelona's Monumental arena, where top matadors will be performing. Catalonia's lawmakers...
  5. EnglishLady

    Triple facepalm not allowed anymore?

    It looks like they are having a nose bleed en masse :eek: :p:D
  6. EnglishLady

    Speed of Light tests which threatens to upend a century of physics

    LOL I thought the same thing when I read this .... give it a few years and they will change their minds again. :rolleyes: As for "Beam me up Scotty" - I once watched a documentary which discussed & basically took apart all the neat things on a Star Trek Starship, and explained why they...
  7. EnglishLady

    Canadian mum sues son for support

    BBC A Canadian man who is being sued by his estranged mother for financial support is trying to have the case thrown out. Ken Anderson, 47, says his parents left him when he was a teenager in the western province of British Columbia, according to Canadian media reports. Shirley...
  8. EnglishLady

    Speed of Light tests which threatens to upend a century of physics

    BBC Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern Puzzling results from Cern, home of the Large Hadron Collider, have confounded physicists because subatomic particles seem to have beaten the speed of light. Neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso...
  9. EnglishLady

    demaris

    Field of dreams came to mind when I read that LOL :p (For those that do not know .... line from the film is ... If you build it, they will come) :D
  10. EnglishLady

    September Banter & Location

    With their own parking spot LOL :D:p Big well done to both of them :)
  11. EnglishLady

    Show and Tell? Omy

    Can you imagine the next headline ...... Kindergarteners to be frisked before each Show & Tell :eek: "but an alert teacher" ..... Hey even I know what they look like .... I've watched Cops :p:D
  12. EnglishLady

    I Hops raided by F.B.I and Homeland Security

    LOL The pic and comments of the ppl who couldn't get their breakfast :rolleyes:
  13. EnglishLady

    Question of guilt shadow death row inmate

    I won't even pretend to know a whole lot about this story - but what I am seeing a lot is the line "reasonable doubt". So why did this latest (& apparently last) attempt, at stopping the death penalty tomorrow, fail? :confused: BBC News - Troy Davis: Georgia rejects final death row...
  14. EnglishLady

    What Carrier Really Cares about it O/O?

    I can assure you Dennis, that I am doing no such thing ! :mad: I answered in all honesty as to why I think Load 1 is ace -and nothing more. Greg has his opinion and we have ours, and it is what it is :)
  15. EnglishLady

    back on th road

    If you put the word Prestige into the search box and click posts - there seems to be quite a few posts on them :)
  16. EnglishLady

    Canada Fair Warning With An Advance Apology

    You have to take with a pinch of salt what the Telegraph prints ... I always wait to see if its backed up by the BBC. Lately there have been many stories in the Telegraph (Dennis used one recently in another thread) that go nowhere, without even a mention in any other paper or tv news. :)
  17. EnglishLady

    What Carrier Really Cares about it O/O?

    Hmmm one more thing I think .... to be treated like a human being, not a van/truck waiting on a corner ;)
  18. EnglishLady

    What Carrier Really Cares about it O/O?

    "I don't want a carrier to put such an effort into recruiting by caring as much as I want them to work finding work that I can produced revenue No recruiting needed .... cos no-one leaves :p and that is due to the amount of revenue that we make :D
  19. EnglishLady

    Italy scientists on trial over L'Aquila earthquake

    BBC The trial of six Italian scientists and a former government official for manslaughter over the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila has opened in the city. The 6.3 magnitude quake devastated the city and killed 309 people. Prosecutors allege the defendants gave a falsely reassuring statement...
  20. EnglishLady

    What Carrier Really Cares about it O/O?

    Maybe its just difficult for some to undertand that you can be independant and still be "cared for". "I Am Not A Number" :p (from The Prisoner staring Patrick Mcgoohan ..... no ..... ok, must have been just a UK TV show then :o) Anyhoo ..... I can only talk of experience from one...
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