Having recently joined here I was looking for a thread regarding tips tweaks or problems with the website and couldn't find one. Sooo.....
So far I'm impressed and have been happily reading through the threads, however I have a problem that although it may be local to me, may in fact be general ie Firefox, my browser of preference, finds the site very hard going and struggles. mouse action ...

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It seems, from a report in the Guardian today that almost all of the best places in our top universities are already gone and that is just a week or so after the highers and "A" grades have been awarded to the brightest of our pupils.

If this story is true then there has to be something wrong with our university clearing system as if all the places are already gone there i...

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So last friday I got my matching orders. My office hasn't made money for 2 months and they needed to chuck out the sandbags and quick.. so i was one of them sandbags. But its quite crazy, I am 30.. and in my life I have been made redundant Twice. The got into deep water as they decided to focus on new business and not focus on the accounts they had that was low in margin but good business none the...

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I am sure that most of you will agree that the latest plans for immigrants being allowed to stay permanently in Britain are basically a good idea. ( Migrants who choose to come to Scotland will get extra "points" for making this choice ).

Here is the full story from the Online Scottish Daily Record:

Boost for migrants who choose to come to Scotland
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I spotted a new TV advert last night about a car insurance company that especially caters for the older and safer driver and I thought that as I am one of them I might have a look and even get a quote.

Boy but I wished I hadn't !

The RIAS quotation website has to be the least user-friendly website that I have EVER seen as after filling in pages full of unnecessary inf...

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A leading doctor has called for a ban on smoking in private cars when children are present as the concentration of smoke in a closed vehicle is much worse than it might be at home or anywhere else.

Professor Terence Stephenson, head of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has said that as we have already banned smoking in front of collegues at work he sees no reason why...

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A guy from Carfin, Lanarkshire, who phoned the police and told them he had a gun was eventually cornered on a rail-yard and shot by the cops. It seems that after this shooting had taken place it was found that the "gun" was in fact a piece of wood. ( No gun has been found after a massive search !).

If this is the case then I find it astounding that armed police are unable ...

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I am sure that we all think about 7/7 amd 9/11 as we go about our daily lives in the West and with these thoughts in mind I was wondering why and how the Muslim clerics do not keep a tighter watch on the people who are radicalising our teenage Muslims ?

A report in the Sunday Times shows that ordinary Mosques are breeding grounds for fundamentalist jehadis and while the hate-filled ...

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Here is an amusing look at what went wrong with the banks all those months ago. It was sent to me by my son who found it on the internet:


Derivative markets..... An understandable explanation:


> Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Kansas City . In order to increase
> sales, she decides to allow her loyal customers - most of whom are ...

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