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My baby sister (early 30s, diabetic) has been taken into hospital because she was having trouble swallowing. They've diagnosed her with vocal chord palsy and now she can't swallow solid food at all. To top it off, they've diagnosed her with sarcoidosis. The same disease that a couple of...

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The series is coming to a close, so if you've not seen it, do yourself a favour. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/feb/23/naysayers-be-damned-tom-hardys-taboo-is-a-work-of-wicker-man-genius?CMP=fb_gu Or to put it in the words of Frankie Boyle..

So we got the flat, and we headed down today to see what work we want to do first. The main job is painting. The flat's been let out as a rental property for a decade so there are a lot of marks and dings in pretty much all the paintwork. On top of that, it looks like all of the walls have...

4 years ago I left my job of 10 years because I couldn't increase my salary there. I moved, and over 3-4 years and working myself into an early grave got promoted to 63k + bonuses (which puts me at the top end for my role) and got a 200k share payout which we're in the process of using to buy a...

My better half put a bottle of https://www.masterofmalt.com/whiskies/the-snow-grouse-whisky/ (40% alcohol) into our (very normal) freezer. She's just gone to use it and it's frozen solid. Any clever bods want to weigh in on how a 40% alcohol could freeze in a domestic freezer?

2016 just won't quit. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38432862

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38373867 Edit: Attacker confirmed to be a 23yr old Pakistani/Afghan asylum seeker. Looks like the other person in the cab was the original truck driver who he murdered.

Is it me, or is someone ****ing with the simulation? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38252457

We've just had our offer accepted, and pending surveyors report, we're going to own our own home! I am going to cook the **** out of that kitchen!

As the nation mourns ridiculously, photos of their new deity are leaked. :lol: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3702849/Thai-police-detain-British-writers-wife-royal-photos.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/27/bbc-remake-watership-down-with-less-violence-to-avoid-scarring-c/

Not sure how practical it is, but maybe a step in the right direction. http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/11/news/economy/cash-only-doctors/index.html

Lately I've noticed that google is going nuts with adverts. E.g. I searched 'selenium grid' and didn't even get a single result on the visible pane. At this point I was considering hardcoding bing or god knows what search engine as my default. Then today, wondering how much pipe they're...

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