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Domestic appliances are becoming less reliable. Washing machines last on average 7 years when they used to last 10. Other things are also moving backwards – like human health, as people become fatter. We are coming up against the limits … Continue reading →

One of my students walked into a physics class with a very good calculator – a casio 991 es plus – and walked out with two. When he asked whose calculator he walked out with at the next lesson, noone … Continue reading →

to aqa I sent an email ie please use the formula Area=1/2ab sin C to mean you can label the triangle in the same way as for the cosine rule a^2 =b^2 +c^2 -2bc con A. I’m sorry I don’t … Continue reading →

Just got a cheque for £280 from cpp limited.

That’s how they were avertised anyway. The postage is £2.80 per book – 280 times the value of the book. Not cheap paperbacks either but a level statistics textbooks.

There you go again talking about how Muslims are going to kill us all. Don’t you realise you sound like a nutter? Someone should tell you.

While the Korean ferry was capsizing and sinking, it seems the crew wailed and talked amongst themselves about what to do next. The passengers hardly figured in their conversation at all, until eventually the crew escaped and left the passengers … Continue reading →

This time at virgin. I transferred phone and broadband to virgin in February. Things went badly from the start. They processed a payment of mine to someone else’s account, and added the amount of that payment to someone else’s account, … Continue reading →

So the government is to send a counter terrorism expert from Scotland yard to root them out. I can imagine the interrogations that will take place in the classrooms – along with the usual interrogation tools of bright lights and … Continue reading →

The goblins in Brussels have decreed that drugs and prostitution make a positive contribution to a country’s economy. In a move that will make the Albanians very very angry, all centres of vice and crack houses are to be vaulted … Continue reading →