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Food & Drink > Cuisine & Food (Other) Store reviews: ALDI food store: 1 of 28
Shopping in Aldi is a much more pleasurable experience than it used to be. When the stores first opened in the UK 1990 I remember them being sawdust-filled, warehouses full of strange continental foodstuffs. However, I also remember them being a major part of the "bean war" on which tins of beans dropped to 3p! Aldi stores ha... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Constitutional & Contract Law Should a woman have the right to choose abortion?: 12 of 313
Abortion is such an emotive topic and my strong and admittedly old-fashioned views are likely to provoke a response. However, I do hold a belief that abortion is ethically and morally wrong. This belief does not come from any religious zealotry, I am a man of no faith that I could mention unless you count Jedi. Neither does i... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Incredible Hulk: 1 of 18
Bruce Banner is in hiding and desperately seeking a cure for the gamma mutation that turns him into "The Incredible Hulk". Managing to keep his anger in check with a combination of meditation, self-control and science, Bruce is heading towards a potential cure. Unfortunately, all this changes when he is attacked by a group of... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: I Am Legend: 5 of 70
Robert Neville thinks he is the last human survivor of a catastrophic virus that has wiped out the earth's human inhabitants. With 90% of the population killed outright and the rest killed by the vicious and bloodythirsty "Dark Seekers", Neville is left alone to inhabit a World were the days are empty and the nights deadly."I... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Caring: 3 of 30
The CarerHow can we manage with three of us on?There are forty-four residents and they all want one on one,You will have to hold it till I get someone else,Sweet Jesus, you're wet, why don't you ask for some help?Another fourteen hour shift with a ten minute break,Still the buzzers are going but sod them they can wait.I give ... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Mist: 2 of 19
In a small town an unwitting group of shoppers are trapped in a Supermarket as an unusual Mist descends. When one of the townspeople runs in bloody and claiming there is "something in the mist" people start to panic. Unfortunately, things are about to get a lot worse as the shops inhabitants start to get picked off one by one... More..
Computers & Technology > Internet Search Issues Google Earth explained: 1 of 9
The concept*Imagine a globe of the Earth. What if you could take that globe and spin it in any direction to look at it at any angle. Now imagine you can zoom in and out as you please surveying the seas and continents. Take things one step further and imagine being able to zoom right down into the Grand Canyon, get a birds-eye... More..
Hobbies & Games > Video Game Consoles & Accessories Console reviews: The Nintendo DS: 1 of 9
Nintendo are the original hand-held gaming giant. From the popular Game and Watch series of the 1980's to the global phenomena of the Game Boy Nintendo have always dominated and even destroyed the opposition. More powerful hand held gaming devices with better graphics such as the Sega Game Gear and ill-fated Atari Lynx have f... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Snakes on a Plane: 2 of 17
When Sean Jones witnesses the murder of an American prosecutor by gang leader Eddie Kim it is up to FBI agent Neville Flynn to protect him and convince him to testify against Kim's crimes. Unable to trust local Police, Flynn takes Jones onto a plane headed for LA. Unfortunately, Kim catches wind of this and loads the plan wit... More..
Hobbies & Games > Kids Games & Toys Before PlayStation: The toys I grew up with: 16 of 135
In no particular order...Transformers"Robots in disguise". I remember when toys were made of metal. They had sharp pointy bits that could take an eye out and were built to last millenia. Transformers were such toys. The cartoon series was one of the first created to sell the inevitable toys that would follow but when the toys... More..