Do you know what ANZAC Day is? (We are celebrating it in Australia and New Zealand today)
on April 24th, 2009 | 6 answers | 5 people like this

Do you think that Phil Spector has gotten what he deserves?
on April 15th, 2009 | One answer

Adam Ant wants to make a comeback. Your thoughts?
on April 15th, 2009 | 10 answers | 6 people like this

"Your Doctor's Bad Handwriting Kills 7000 People a Year". Your thoughts? ...
on April 15th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Do you remember "dad jokes"? They were the type your dad told that made you flinch because they were so bad? What is your best...
on April 13th, 2009 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

PETA has asked Pet Shop Boys to change their name to something more animal friendly. What do you think?
on April 12th, 2009 | 52 answers | 29 people like this

Maryelen Loughran is a 15-yo British teenager who has been selected as one of the 50 finalists for the Miss Teen Princess UK competition....
on April 4th, 2009 | 15 answers | 9 people like this

Prax Sanchez took an MRI which showed a nail in his head. Right after the MRI, the 72 yo coughed it up. Have you ever swallowed something...
on April 4th, 2009 | no answers

Pakistan's top Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud has claimed responsibility for the shootings at an US immigration services centre...
on April 4th, 2009 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

The committee drawing up Australia's first childcare curriculum has been told that toddlers in daycare should be given early career...
on April 4th, 2009 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

A Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon is being investigated by US authorities after he bragged about using human fat removed during...
on December 23rd, 2008 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

An eight-year-old girl seeking divorce from a man about 50 years her senior will have to wait until February for a legal ruling after a...
on December 21st, 2008 | 9 answers | 5 people like this

Has anyone seen the film "Australia"? I just did and it is magnificent.
on December 5th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

The Ku Klux Klan has warned of a "race war" after the election of Barack Obama As an Aussie, I cannot believe that there are...
on November 5th, 2008 | 32 answers | 19 people like this

Police raided a wedding between a seven-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl in Pakistan's largest city, arresting the Muslim...
on October 31st, 2008 | 10 answers | 5 people like this

Male attractiveness is pot luck – but girl’s can thank fathers! Says a new study in "Animal Behaviour" magazines....
on October 30th, 2008 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

A Dutch court has convicted two youths of theft for stealing virtual items in a computer game and sentenced them to community service. Do...
on October 23rd, 2008 | 10 answers | 3 people like this

A 43-year-old player in a virtual game world became so angry about her sudden divorce from her online husband that she logged on with his...
on October 23rd, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

Did you know you can donate rice to the UN Food Programme by playing a vocabulary game on this site: http://www.freerice.com/index.php?...
on October 22nd, 2008 | 6 answers | 5 people like this

The Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla, plans to surprise her husband Prince Charles, with 60 different birthday gifts when he turn's 60...
on October 19th, 2008 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

A German woman has been fined for carrying her naked 11 mo on the back of her bike in 11deg C cold. Her excuse? He didn't want to...
on October 17th, 2008 | 6 answers | 6 people like this

Police have found out that tasers don't work on wild boars. What other interesting but essentially useless pieces of information...
on October 17th, 2008 | 10 answers | 6 people like this

US doctors have found the Bee Gees 1977 disco anthem, Stayin' Alive, provides an ideal beat to follow while performing chest...
on October 17th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

A seafood supplier (who delievers to top London restaurants) has been ordered to destroy 200 tonnes of fish, some of which was SEVEN...
on October 17th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Does anyone else here miss the Folk Era ? I am just listening to Peter Paul and Mary, Ian and Sylvia, Dylan Baez etc Fave songs?
on October 13th, 2008 | 14 answers | 14 people like this

What do you think of the Angelina Jolie breastfeeding pics? I think they are sweet, but am amazed that people are salivating over them....
on October 10th, 2008 | 8 answers | 5 people like this

Japanese scientists have unveiled what they claim to be the most life-like robot ever invented — an eerie android that looks like a...
on October 8th, 2008 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

Photographer Bill Henson caused an uproar earlier this year with an exhibition of his photographs of naked 12yo children.Primary School...
on October 6th, 2008 | 10 answers | 7 people like this

TOP 5 TRUE CONFESSIONS1.No one knows I'm a shoplifter2.Nobody knows I'm a prostitute3.I seduced my father-in-law4.My boyfriend...
on October 5th, 2008 | 9 answers | 3 people like this

What Indonesian words do you know? ( you might be surprised that you DO know some).
on October 5th, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

The shooting of a bear that attacked an Australian tourist in the Canadian ski resort village of Whistler has sparked outrage among...
on October 2nd, 2008 | 12 answers | 8 people like this

Onlookers goaded a teenager as he threatened to jump off a building and then took photos of his body, British newspapers reported. (full...
on October 2nd, 2008 | 6 answers | 1 person likes this

A women's shelter has cut headliner comedian Sandra Bernhard from its annual benefit after she said Republican vice presidential...
on October 1st, 2008 | 20 answers | 12 people like this

What is the weirdest convention you have ever attended/heard of? Here are some:World of Warcraft,Xena Warrior...
on October 1st, 2008 | One answer

Russell Crowe told Jay Leno the US government should give every American citizen a cash handout of $US1 million ($1.26 million). Despite...
on September 30th, 2008 | 6 answers | 4 people like this

A British businessman was arrested after parading an employee he suspected of stealing along a busy street with a sign saying...
on September 30th, 2008 | 7 answers | 1 person likes this

Should women soldiers serve on the front line?
on September 27th, 2008 | 25 answers | 13 people like this

71-year-old John Grady Pippen received surprising news in his hospital paperwork: "Based on your visit today, we know you are...
on September 26th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Two men who raped and robbed tourists on a week-long Sydney drink-spiking spree are pushing for their convictions to be overturned,...
on September 25th, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

The sale of bourbon whiskey-flavoured chips/crisps (Jim Beam Brand) to children has prompted outrage among parents and community groups,...
on September 25th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised." Do you...
on September 25th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Where is Jerusalem mentioned in the Quran as a city holy to Islam?
on September 25th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

An Argentine tourist got the city name right, but the continent wrong when she booked a vacation to (Sydney) Australia, and found herself...
on September 24th, 2008 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

Are you sick of the constant "break-up" rumours of Brangelina?
on September 24th, 2008 | 3 answers

Illusionist David Blaine has been accused of cheating in his latest death-defying stunt to hang upside down for almost three days. He was...
on September 24th, 2008 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

The family of a 75-year-old man were refused permission to bury him on a Saturday because he is not a Muslim. (Rest of article below)...
on September 24th, 2008 | One answer

Toilet facilities are being built at London's Olympic Park so Muslims will not have to face Mecca while sitting on the loo. The...
on September 24th, 2008 | 8 answers | 9 people like this

What is the Muslim view on cremation?
on September 24th, 2008 | 6 answers | 3 people like this

A man has been ordered to pay a fine of 1000s of dollars for having this sticker on his car: "Gay rights? The only rights gays have...
on September 23rd, 2008 | 42 answers | 24 people like this

A woman with a history of drinking and mental health problems was jailed for life on Tuesday for murdering her four-year-old disabled...
on September 23rd, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Paul McCartney discovered Mary Hopkin. Paul McCartney married Heather Mills. Look at the two of them. Do you think Paul might have been...
on September 23rd, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

What ONE question would you love to answer?
on September 21st, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

Uganda's Ethics and Integrity Minister, Nsaba Buturo, says short skirts cause traffic accidents, so he's calling for a a total...
on September 20th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Do you like the British bandStatus Quo? If so, what is your favourite song? (video if poss)
on September 20th, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

A man convicted of stealing $US20 ($A24.8) from a toddler's piggy bank has been sentenced to six years in prison. (It was his 4th...
on September 19th, 2008 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

How many languages can you say the Lord's Prayer in? Please write down. (I can say it in English, Italian and now Old English)
on September 19th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

A Sex and the City bit player has become the star attraction in New York for all the wrong reasons after beating his girlfriend's...
on September 19th, 2008 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

Liquor licensing officials have ordered a Melbourne (Australia) pub to cancel a planned promotion offering free alcohol to women who took...
on September 17th, 2008 | 2 answers

Islamist militants who attacked the US embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa with a car bomb and rockets, leaving 16 people dead, killed...
on September 17th, 2008 | 8 answers | 9 people like this

Who remembers the Hollies? Tell us your favourite song of theirs. (Mine is "I'm alive")
on September 16th, 2008 | 9 answers | 5 people like this

Has anyone seen the alternate plot to LOTR on youtube? Very funny. Your reaction?
on September 16th, 2008 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

I was just listening to "Cream" on youtube. What was your favourite Cream song?
on September 16th, 2008 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

An HIV-positive man jailed for 9 years for having unprotected sex with three Adelaide women has lost a bid to have his case reopened....
on September 16th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Pink Floyd keyboard player and founding member Richard Wright has died at the age of 65 after a short cancer illness. Your thoughts?
on September 16th, 2008 | 20 answers | 15 people like this

When buyers spent more than £3 million on Australian art at an auction in London last December, the artists and their families did...
on September 16th, 2008 | 3 answers | 4 people like this

"Mickey mouse must die for the good of Islam" according to a prominent Muslim spokesman Sheikh Muhammad Al-Munajid (A former...
on September 15th, 2008 | 4 answers | 5 people like this

"Man's best friend" doesn't go far enough for Buddy - a German shepherd who remembered his training and saved his...
on September 15th, 2008 | One answer | 3 people like this

What is your funniest definition eg "Deja moo: the feeling you've heard all this bull before."
on September 14th, 2008 | One answer

Have you ever wondered: what if the hokey pokey IS what it is all about? LOL
on September 14th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

Hackers have broken into the computer system of the Large Hadron Collider, the mega-machine designed to expose secrets of the cosmos....
on September 14th, 2008 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

Is anyone worried that Prince Charles wants to make Camilla Queen? (I'm not. Worse things happened in history and those women became...
on September 14th, 2008 | 6 answers | 4 people like this

How are our Texas ABers going after hurricane Ike?
on September 14th, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

What did women do for depression before chocolate was discovered?
on September 11th, 2008 | 3 answers | 4 people like this

Fashion identity Charlotte Dawson has defended 17 yo "Make Me A Supermodel" contestant Sara Longman for refusing to model...
on September 11th, 2008 | no answers

A critic wrote of The Ring 2 "On the plus side, there's really nothing to be said, except that Naomi Watts has her hair long...
on September 7th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

While watching football, a little girl asks "Daddy, why can't they have a ball each so they don't have to fight over...
on September 7th, 2008 | 4 answers | 5 people like this

This is a true complaint re a holiday: "No one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled." What funny...
on September 7th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

I just found this on a Muslim site "We do have an islamic/arabic environment at home. We are not very strict but we do want the kids...
on September 6th, 2008 | 7 answers | 4 people like this

What would you think/say if someone seriously told you not to sleep on your stomach because it is "how the people of Hell lie.”?
on September 6th, 2008 | 12 answers | 5 people like this

I have just discovered Tom Lehrer. Do you like his satirical songs?
on September 6th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

I am just listening to Peter Paul and Mary on youtube....I just loved them. They were formative in my singing career. What are your...
on September 6th, 2008 | 5 answers | 5 people like this

Armenia and Turkey pledged to overcome decades of enmity over the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces after Turkish President...
on September 6th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Greek anarchists stormed a supermarket and handed out food for free in the latest of a wave of raids provoked by soaring consumer prices....
on September 4th, 2008 | 6 answers | 3 people like this

Did you hear the rumours that Michael Jackson and Pamela Anderson are an item? Your thoughts on even the possibility?
on September 3rd, 2008 | 8 answers | 5 people like this

Men tend to wind up with life partners who look like their mother, while a woman is lured to a partner who looks like her father,...
on September 3rd, 2008 | 29 answers | 15 people like this

Does anyone here remember "Yes"? IF so, what is your favourite "Yes" song?
on September 3rd, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

Police have branded a Victorian mother "irresponsible" after officers were attacked at her teenage son's birthday party,...
on September 2nd, 2008 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

It has been determined that the 2 premmie babies found in King Tut's tomb were probably twins, and his children. The Egyptians are...
on September 1st, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

An 84-year-old Nigerian man with 86 wives and 170 children has accepted a decree issued by Islamic authorities that he must divorce 82 of...
on September 1st, 2008 | 8 answers | 6 people like this

Australian Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has come to the defence of Australian soldiers accused of mistreating Taliban prisoners in...
on September 1st, 2008 | 3 answers

And now for the "nut" of the week:A Malaysian welder had to have a nut removed from around his penis after an attempt to...
on September 1st, 2008 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

Two parents have been charged with child neglect after police removed six young children from a home in Sydney's west. Four of the...
on August 31st, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Fuel prices are now so high even hip-hop moguls like Sean "Diddy" Combs can no longer afford a private jet. He's pleaded...
on August 29th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

How is it, at this late stage in the US election campaign, that there are still Americans who know nothing about Barack Obama? We, in...
on August 28th, 2008 | 9 answers | 7 people like this

A British court has found a devout Muslim guilty of cruelty for forcing two teenagers to flog themselves until their backs bled during a...
on August 27th, 2008 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

What Eric Carmen song do you like best? Mine is "Lose Control". See below.
on August 27th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Did you see the pics of the two-headed baby born in Bangladesh? It is having to be protected from the locals....
on August 27th, 2008 | One answer

According to Islam, why have all the other revelations to the thousands of former prophets disappeared?
on August 25th, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

I was just reading an article on the differences in facial features between Neanderthals and modern humans, entitled "Handsome by...
on August 25th, 2008 | 3 answers | 4 people like this

London's tourism body has come under fire for featuring a painting of Moors murderer Myra Hindley(created with children's...
on August 24th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Why was softball dropped from the Olympics?
on August 24th, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Do you think golf should be in the Olympics?
on August 24th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Cuban taekwondo fighter Matos kicked Swedish referee Chakir Chelbat as soon as he was sent off for taking too much injury time in the...
on August 24th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Jacques Rogge has criticised Usain Bolt saying that he was disrespectful to his rivals by spreading his hands at the end of the race and...
on August 22nd, 2008 | 2 answers | 4 people like this

Australian pole-vaulter Steve Hooker says he believes he has what it takes to win gold in tonight's Olympic final — thanks to...
on August 21st, 2008 | 5 answers | 4 people like this

Who would like to say farewell to Colin the baby whale who is about to be put down in Sydney, because of his injuries? He has stolen...
on August 21st, 2008 | 5 answers | 6 people like this

What is the major news in your area, outside of the Olympics? We have a baby whale abandoned by its mother in Pittwater Sydney, that will...
on August 21st, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Do you agree with millions of Chinese that this ad should have been taken off TV? (you don't have to understand what it's about...
on August 18th, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

A kindergarten disco in New Zealand has been shut after a neighbour complained that it was playing Bob the Builder too loud, a newspaper...
on August 18th, 2008 | 4 answers | 7 people like this

The characters in Cluedo will be renamed in a new version (Col. Mustard, Prof Plum Rev Green and Miss Scarlet are now former soccer star...
on August 17th, 2008 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

Lotto winners are more likely to share amongs relatives than donate to charities, a survey shows. (But only 14%say they would share with...
on August 17th, 2008 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

A baby has been removed from a Michigan couple after police found the 4 week old baby unsecured in a car's back seat with a dummy...
on August 17th, 2008 | One answer | 3 people like this

A daily does of fish and chips has worked wonders- a loss of 44.5 kg over 10 years- for Ermis Nicholas, 71, who is recovering from a...
on August 17th, 2008 | no answers | 2 people like this

Skeletal remains have been found of a tiny woman and two children laid to rest on a bed of flowers 5000 years ago in a moist green...
on August 17th, 2008 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

What is the worst line/passage you have ever read in a novel? Here is the passage that won the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest this year:...
on August 17th, 2008 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

How do you feel about chocolate? (see the video)
on August 15th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

Two Bigfoot hunters who claim to have captured the mythical creature in the US state of Georgia have admitted to filming an interview...
on August 14th, 2008 | 8 answers | 2 people like this

Greco-Roman wrestler Ara Abrahamian of Sweden has refused to receive his bronze medal as the Beijing Olympics was treated to a...
on August 14th, 2008 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

An Aussie Primary teacher has appeared in "raunchy" photos for a reality show. The school supports him. What are your thoughts?
on August 12th, 2008 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

Spain's basketball squad has attracted scorn with a new advertisement that shows its players making slit-eye gestures behind the...
on August 12th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Swedish parents can now name their newborns "Budweiser" or "Metallica". Sweden had banned parents from naming their...
on August 12th, 2008 | 9 answers | 8 people like this

I am changing computers today and will probably be offline for a few days while file transferring goes on. Will anyone miss me?
on August 12th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

A sculpture in the form of a giant doggie-doo, flew off, bringing down power lines and smashing a greenhouse. What would you have said if...
on August 12th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Don't you hate all these "Who is the most famous person from (fill in US state " questions? (I just sent them up by doing...
on August 9th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

Who is the most famous person from the Northern Territory of Australia?
on August 9th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Who is the most famous person from Tasmania?
on August 9th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Who is the most famous person from Western Australia?
on August 9th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Who is the most famous person from South Australia?
on August 9th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Who is the most famous person from Queensland, Australia?
on August 9th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

Who is the most famous person from Victoria, Australia?
on August 9th, 2008 | 2 answers

Who is the most famous person from New South Wales, Australia?
on August 9th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

The rumour is that Johnny Depp is going to be offered the part of the Riddler in the next Batman movie. Your opinion?
on August 3rd, 2008 | 14 answers | 11 people like this

Saudi Arabia's Islamic religious police have banned selling dogs and cats as pets, as well as walking them in public because of...
on August 3rd, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died. Have you read his works? What impact do you think he had on history?
on August 3rd, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Colombian designer Carlos Valenzuela had his male models wear fake beards on the catwalk. Would you wear a fake beard if it were the...
on August 1st, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

An English mother was horrified by a 1.2 m snake in her loo. Apart from the obvious, what is the strangest thing you have ever seen in a...
on August 1st, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

A US gambler is demanding an apology after an Atlantic City casino asked him to leave- because he stank. What is the worst case of B.O...
on August 1st, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Iran is just about to have its first pop concert since the Islamic revolution since 1979...guess who's playing? CHRIS DE BURGH. Who...
on August 1st, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

OOps. "Police in Saudi Arabia have arrested a man working for the country's vice squad who is accused of having 6 wives- two...
on August 1st, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

"Married, and divorced, at the ripe old age of eight". These girls were married at 8 & 9 in Yemen, to men much older (one...
on August 1st, 2008 | 5 answers | 5 people like this

Are you happy that Radovan Karadzic has finally been caught?
on July 22nd, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

The old adage "use it or lose it" is literally true, according to Australian research showing the brain shrinks faster if it is...
on July 13th, 2008 | 8 answers | 10 people like this

When all the questions have run out, what do you think will be the last one asked on AB? (Humour encouraged)
on June 28th, 2008 | 9 answers | 5 people like this

Does anybody know what happened to Brian Welch ("Head") from Korn? I just found this video. (see below)
on June 27th, 2008 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

A 60cm (2ft long) saltwater crocodile was found outside the front of the pub in Noonamah, Northern Territory (AUST) on Sunday night. What...
on June 26th, 2008 | no answers

Around 3/4 of Americans believe in miracles, more believe in heaven than in hell, and nearly 6 in 10 pray every day, a report based on a...
on June 23rd, 2008 | 7 answers | 5 people like this

Police have charged a mother of six with criminal neglect after 20 children from two families were removed from two houses in Adelaide....
on June 23rd, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

A Japanese animal-lover on welfare provided for his many pets by robbing convenience stores while wearing the mask of a dog. He is...
on June 23rd, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Why do some questions never make it onto the front page but go straight to "unanswered questions"?
on June 21st, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

Aussies:A guard has reportedly smuggled banned series Underbelly into Victoria's biggest youth prison. What do you think should be...
on June 21st, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

Aussies: Schapelle Corby, who is in hospital battling depression, has been unable to eat or sleep since losing her final appeal, a prison...
on June 21st, 2008 | One answer

Cyd Charisse died yesterday. Without googling, can anyone tell me her real name? (I know) Oh, ok, you can look it up and have a...
on June 19th, 2008 | One answer | 3 people like this

Am I the only person who hasn't seen Sex and the City and has no wish to?
on June 13th, 2008 | 15 answers | 10 people like this

Do you think that PETA has gone too far?
on June 12th, 2008 | 7 answers | 2 people like this

An obese 18mo i n the UK weighs as much as a 4yo, after being fed a diet of mainly chips/fries. Your thoughts? ( She also eats chocolate,...
on June 12th, 2008 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

A pig in England has developed mud-phobia and been fitted with gumboots to help it adjust. Is this the strangest phobia you have ever...
on June 12th, 2008 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

Sienna Miller wears a pair of Heath Ledger's PJS to bed. What mementos of past loves do you have?
on June 12th, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

An animated and live-action Smurfs movie is on the way. Would you go and see it?
on June 12th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Who am I? I first appeared on the sitcom Benson, and even though my mother said I would never be as funny as my father, I have won Golden...
on June 12th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Prince Charles has just paid a debt made by his ancestor "Charles I", 400 years ago. Have you ever had someone pay you back...
on June 12th, 2008 | no answers

I read in the paper today that 1/4 of New Yorkers have the genital herpes virus. If this is true, what is NY doing to stop the spread?
on June 11th, 2008 | 7 answers | 1 person likes this

Russian police have arrested a car driver after he beat a teenage pedestrian to death for delaying traffic for a few seconds on a major...
on June 11th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

The real "Mr Darcy",Irishman Tom Lefroy, has been described by the press as "wimpy" and "pasty". What do...
on June 11th, 2008 | One answer

A Polish mother who was intoxicated during labour gave birth to a baby girl who was almost 15 times over the adult drink-driving limit,...
on June 10th, 2008 | 12 answers | 8 people like this

A million dollar Sydney drugs trial has been aborted after several jurors confessed they were playing the puzzle game sudoku while...
on June 10th, 2008 | 2 answers

Animal welfare groups have slammed Chinese traders who are selling live goldfish trapped inside unofficial Olympic key rings. Your thoughts?
on June 10th, 2008 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

Did you like what Jessica ALba called her newborn daughter? Honor Marie. I like it. Your thoughts?
on June 9th, 2008 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

Is it just me, but does this scene of a schizophrenic from SVU remind you of Tom Cruise in that Scientology video? Compare.
on June 9th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

The Northern Territory government is facing opposition demands to sack an Aboriginal police officer who sanctioned a traditional marriage...
on June 8th, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Dob in a celebrity environmental dunce. JAY KAY sings about environmental issues but has 25 deluxe cars....who is your fave celebrity dunce?
on June 6th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Who am I? I am an Oscar-nominated director. I acted in uni productions alongsie Ron Livingstone and Paul Giamatti. Former girlfriends...
on June 6th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Who am I? I have been described at America's funniest man by Life magazine. In my new film, I play a secret agent.
on June 6th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Turkey's top court has annulled a law allowing women to wear Islamic headscarves in universities on grounds it violates secularism,...
on June 5th, 2008 | 5 answers | 1 person likes this

Al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, has called for Muslims to recover the Spanish possessions of Ceuta and Melilla in...
on June 5th, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Angelina Jolie is "offended" that Disney has no black heroines.What is your opinion of the Disney princesses?
on June 5th, 2008 | 20 answers | 11 people like this

Hundreds of women have written love letters to 'misunderstood' incest rape fiend Josef Fritzl. Can you understand this?
on June 3rd, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Lawyers for a Muslim couple whose marriage was annulled over her lie about being a virgin have rapped the French government for deciding...
on June 3rd, 2008 | 3 answers

Since singwell is a vocalist, (and has just dissed drummers by telling drummer jokes on AB), do you know any vocalist jokes?
on June 3rd, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

How many famous songs can you think of that use the Bo Diddley beat?
on June 2nd, 2008 | One answer

How many songs with the word "angel" in the title do you know?
on May 29th, 2008 | 6 answers | 3 people like this

What songs do you know that talk about the music industry itself? eg Heart's "Barracuda". (see below)
on May 29th, 2008 | 12 answers | 9 people like this

I just did an hour's work in the garden. When was the last time you did gardening?
on May 28th, 2008 | 18 answers | 12 people like this

The origin of the potato has become, well, a "hot potato" between neighbors Peru and Chile. Does your country have something...
on May 28th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) The Somerset County Jail in downtown Skowhegan is for sale. It has a price tag of $200,000. Would you buy this...
on May 28th, 2008 | One answer

A Detroit construction company hopes to use empty shipping containers to build a condominium project. They would stack them four high,...
on May 28th, 2008 | 7 answers | 4 people like this

"In yummy news, a trailer loaded with 14 tons of double-stuffed Oreos has overturned, spilling the cookies still in their plastic...
on May 28th, 2008 | 3 answers | 4 people like this

What are the best things to do in your city/town?
on May 28th, 2008 | 17 answers | 10 people like this

I just saw a headline "Oprah: the woman who has everything? " Do you think she has everything?
on May 28th, 2008 | 7 answers | 5 people like this

Five heritage-listed headstones and a tombstone have been knocked down and smashed by vandals at a Sydney graveyard. Why do you think...
on May 26th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

A woman has come back from the dead after she had been clinically brain dead for 17 hours. "Her skin had already started hardening,...
on May 26th, 2008 | One answer

German police are investigating a couple after they offered their eight-month-old son for sale on internet auction site eBay. The mother...
on May 25th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Do you agree with Fergie telling the press to lay off her daughter? (I think she looks fine in her bikini.)
on May 22nd, 2008 | 5 answers | 4 people like this

A conman in Egypt has been given a total sentence of 1000 years. Can anyone explain to me the purpose of such a sentence?
on May 22nd, 2008 | 2 answers

Commuters spend up to 16 years of their working life getting to work. Isn't it time we rethought our ideas on the workplace?
on May 22nd, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

On one page of the newspaper: the Burma cyclone, the Chinese earthquake, Ethopian drought. On the other a NY restaurant serves $187...
on May 22nd, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Angelina Jolie's muumuu at Cannes has irked some fashion critis. I think she looks fine. (And I am not a fan) Your thoughts?
on May 22nd, 2008 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

At least 150 people have died in southern India after drinking bootleg liquor. What is the worst thing you know has happened to someone...
on May 22nd, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

A loaf of bread in Zimbabwe now costs as much as a dozen new cars did 10 years ago. Do you think it is time that the UN stepped in?
on May 22nd, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Colombian Vice president Calderon has said that Cocaine is destroying the rainforests, because drug lords have cut down 2.2million...
on May 22nd, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

The European Court of Human Rights has agreed to hear a plea for a chimpanzee to be declared a person. Not a human, but a person. Do you...
on May 22nd, 2008 | 5 answers | 1 person likes this

The man who put together Backstreet Boys and N Sync has been jailed for 25 years for tax fraud. IYO, was this his biggest crime? (humour...
on May 22nd, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

A British judge has reprimanded a pensioner who repeatedly played "Born in the USA" at high volume, angering his neighbours....
on May 22nd, 2008 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

A wild squirrel has bonded with a UK park ranger, just jumped on his arm and looked at him lovingly. Have you ever had an...
on May 22nd, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

If you take the number of points you have left to the next level as a year in history, what interesting thing happened that year? eg I...
on May 21st, 2008 | 5 answers | 7 people like this

I love the new song by Duffy (Mercy) but I can't help thinking it is such a rip off of Aretha Franklin's "Chain of...
on May 19th, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Are fraternities/sororities as immoral as they are portrayed on TV? I am an Aussie and I wouldn't let my children go to university...
on May 19th, 2008 | no answers

Do you think this is weird? Barack Obama looks like the Egyptian Pharaoh Ahenaton. (see pics below)
on May 18th, 2008 | 7 answers | 8 people like this

Do you know anything about the role of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, in the Holocaust? It's frightening how...
on May 16th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

A flight attendant angry about his work route set a fire in an aeroplane bathroom, forcing an emergency landing, US authorities said....
on May 16th, 2008 | 4 answers | 5 people like this

A father-of-two who suspected his wife was having an affair with another man exacted his revenge by trying to sell her on eBay. What are...
on May 14th, 2008 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

A family boarded a flight on Monday in westernmost Canada, and forgot their tot at the Vancouver international airport, media are...
on May 13th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Britain's top judges are to get a new outfit, doing away with their traditional wigs and introducing colour-coded robes which one...
on May 13th, 2008 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

More than 1800 men and women have posed for the latest nude photo shot for Spencer Tunick. What would persuade you to pose nude?
on May 12th, 2008 | 9 answers | 3 people like this

A new species of trapdoor spider has been named after singer Neil Young. (The scientist is a great fan). What plant/animal would you like...
on May 12th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

It is claimed that Heather Mills has failed to fulfil her promise to look after a Moscow double-amputee. Another couple picked up the...
on May 12th, 2008 | 2 answers

Dennis Farina was arrested after he tried to take a loaded, unlicensed semi-automatic pistol onto a plane. He said he forgot it was...
on May 12th, 2008 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

A blind man in the US has scored a perfect 300 in tenpin bowling. Would you like to congratulate him and/or feel very small because you...
on May 12th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Who do you think is the politest ABer? My vote goes to keithold. He always says thanks to answers.
on May 8th, 2008 | 22 answers | 22 people like this

Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter and raped her over 18 years, has claimed credit for having saved their lives "I could have...
on May 7th, 2008 | 11 answers | 8 people like this

What do you think of a 16yo Angelina Jolie in this 1991 Italian video clip? (see below)
on May 7th, 2008 | 6 answers | 5 people like this

What do you think of this quote? "Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton." Dean Koontz.
on May 4th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What do you think of this quote? "Once you've seen your face on a bottle of salad dressing, it's hard to take yourself...
on May 4th, 2008 | One answer | 3 people like this

What are your thoughts on this quote? "If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You're a leaf that...
on May 4th, 2008 | One answer | 3 people like this

I was surprised to find that so many Australians said no to the question: Should the Pope be in Time's influential person list? What...
on May 3rd, 2008 | 3 answers

Have any Americans heard of Aussie band Cold Chisel? See below for some of their work.
on May 3rd, 2008 | One answer

Some residents on the Greek island of Lesvos say they are the only true Lesbians and they want gay groups to stop using the word. What...
on May 2nd, 2008 | 8 answers | 4 people like this

Apart from the psychological problems, what PHYSICAL problems will the children kept in the cellar in Austria have? They have never seen...
on May 1st, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Men in Saudi Arabia who publicly flirt with women are to be punished by being given haircuts. Do you think it would work in your country?...
on May 1st, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Is it a good idea to raise taxes on alcopops?
on April 27th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

An Austrian woman has told police she was held captive in a cellar for almost 24 years by her father and that she gave birth to at least...
on April 27th, 2008 | 8 answers | 3 people like this

American actor Wesley Snipes has been sentenced to three years in prison for failing to file his federal income tax returns. I am...
on April 24th, 2008 | 9 answers | 5 people like this

Foreign cheerleaders have been imported to India for the inauguration of the India Premier League. Some Indians love the...
on April 24th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

"Crockery-smashing gator invades kitchen." What is the strangest living thing you have ever found in your kitchen?
on April 23rd, 2008 | 6 answers | 7 people like this

Mariah Carey has revealed she doesn't plan on having children because the experience would leave her feeling "violated"....
on April 22nd, 2008 | 10 answers | 6 people like this

A Roman Catholic priest who floated off under hundreds of helium party balloons is missing off the southern coast of Brazil. (He was...
on April 22nd, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

I just saw a video on a girl who is allergic to water (she comes out in painful rashes). What would you hate to be allergic to?
on April 21st, 2008 | 8 answers | 2 people like this

In 1836, Charles Darwin wrote in his diary of Sydney Aust, that there were a lot of new houses, rents were uproariously high, and there...
on April 21st, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Victorian police have been criticised after Canadian singer KD Lang received a motorcycle escort to make it to a television program. Do...
on April 21st, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Karen Matthews is one of the most hated mums in the UK. (She knew that her dau. was being held by her boyfriend's uncle, a...
on April 21st, 2008 | 8 answers | 3 people like this

Aussies specifically, though others are free to answer: should we change our National Anthem, as some have suggested?
on April 21st, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

Today, my husband and I had to do the funeral of a stillborn baby boy. It was devastating. What is the worst thing you have ever had to do?
on April 21st, 2008 | 9 answers | 9 people like this

Top 5 bizarre pilgrimages:1. The Mystery Spot 2.Voyage to the hollow Earth 3. The Bermuda Triangle 4. Roswell 5. Crop circles Can you add...
on April 18th, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

A drunk Russian man rode home on a bus, slept like a log and ate breakfast before his wife alerted him to a 15cm knife in his back....
on April 18th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Women in a Spanish village who posed almost naked for a calendar they hoped would fund a leisure centre for their children have been left...
on April 18th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

A Texas cop who pulled over an erratic driver was shocked to find one very cool-blooded customer riding shotgun — a 1.8m alligator....
on April 18th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

Aust. Olympic swimmer Nick D'arcy was involved in a drunken brawl just after he qualified. He beat another swimmer so badly, the man...
on April 18th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Latest computer tests on Neanderthal larynxes show that they were capable of speech, and probably had deep voices. What would you want to...
on April 18th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will." -- Mahatma Gandhi What are your thoughts on...
on April 18th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

"Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it goes on flying...
on April 18th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

"Those blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who...
on April 18th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body." – Joseph Addison Do you agree?
on April 18th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Irish airline Aer Lingus is refusing to honour an online offer which mistakenly sold business class transatlantic flights for five euros...
on April 18th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

A 21-year-old NSW mother has admitted injecting contaminated water into the intravenous drip of her hospitalised six-month-old son with...
on April 16th, 2008 | 15 answers | 8 people like this

Teachers are being urged to stop using terms such as husband and wife and the words boyfriend, girlfriend and spouse are to be replaced...
on April 16th, 2008 | 8 answers | 5 people like this

A celebrity former Scientologist in the US has blasted the religion in an internet video as "a rip off" that destroys...
on April 16th, 2008 | 10 answers | 8 people like this

Bad grammar in headlines: "Diaz thanks fans over father's death" Over his death? Did they kill him? Can you give some...
on April 16th, 2008 | One answer | 3 people like this

A Victorian (AUST) burglar fell asleep in the house he was robbing (Goldilocks style) has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years jail....
on April 16th, 2008 | 3 answers | 6 people like this

An Australian Muslim terrorist claimed to have received an assurance in the form of a "fatwah" from his imam that stealing from...
on April 16th, 2008 | 5 answers | 4 people like this

A Yemeni court has granted a divorce to an eight-year-old girl whose unemployed father forced her into an arranged marriage this year,...
on April 15th, 2008 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

The Wiggles are in the middle of a ticketing scandal, with scalpers charging as much as $2,000 for a ticket to one of the children's...
on April 14th, 2008 | 13 answers | 6 people like this

The look of Sydney women is "cheap and nasty" according to the head of a top Australian fashion school. Do overseas ABers agree?
on April 14th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Was it an achievement that a girl with cerebral palsy made it to the Miss USA competition IYO?
on April 12th, 2008 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

Internet search giant Google has been accused of ignoring people's privacy while taking photos for a new online mapping project....
on April 12th, 2008 | One answer | 3 people like this

A baby in Switzerland that was blown onto railroad tracks and run over by a train survived with little more than a bump. What amazing...
on April 12th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

A routine screening test for pregnant women is inaccurate and results in the termination of three healthy babies for every Down syndrome...
on April 12th, 2008 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

Is 14 too young to be a catwalk model? ( a Polish girl has been banned this week and the age has been raised to 16) Give reasons why or...
on April 11th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Is the Olympic torch relay becoming absurd? (It is said it is a unifying symbol, but all it is causing is disunity!)
on April 10th, 2008 | 5 answers | 1 person likes this

Muslims convicted of sex offences in the UK could opt out of treatment programmes intended to stop them offending because open discussion...
on April 9th, 2008 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

International research shows antisocial behaviour in young adults is genetic, and made worse by bad parenting. Indicators that an...
on April 9th, 2008 | 6 answers | 4 people like this

Homosexuals have been designated an area in a Copenhagen cemetery. Do you think this is wise? Could it be just an opportunity for...
on April 8th, 2008 | 13 answers | 10 people like this

It's Senior's Week in Sydney. What is your fave "senior" story (either a grandparent story or a "senior...
on April 7th, 2008 | 3 answers | 5 people like this

"Rockstars have kidnapped my son" said the mother in "Almost Famous". Who would or wouldn't you like to be...
on April 7th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Scientists have designed a super-fast information network capable of downloading data at 10,000 times the speed of a typical broadband...
on April 7th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

A team of Australian researchers has discovered that the Milky Way galaxy has been eating its neighbours. Should it be charged? (humour...
on April 7th, 2008 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

A South Australian woman has given birth to her father's daughter. "John and I are in this relationship as consenting...
on April 6th, 2008 | 19 answers | 7 people like this

Do you think that laser pointers should be restricted after a number of attempts to bring down aeroplanes in Sydney?
on April 6th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Mariah Carey says:"I don't think I'm demanding enough." Does this square with a woman who flew in a $108,000 antique...
on April 6th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

The recently discovered HMAS Sydney wreck shows that all lifeboats had been deployed. The German soldiers from the Kormoran, which sank...
on April 5th, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

The son of a retired widower has placed an advertisement looking for someone to have a few drinks with his father at a local pub for $15...
on April 4th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Amy Rice feared for her dog's life when a pit bull jumped over a fence into her yard and attacked him. So she bit the pit bull on...
on April 4th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

A British grandmother has resorted to pulling out her own front teeth after she was turned away from 12 different dentists(none were...
on April 4th, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Do you think that Mugabe will hand over power peacefully, now that he has lost the election in Zimbabwe?
on April 3rd, 2008 | 3 answers | 5 people like this

Half the public patients in NSW are malnourished, because they cannot open the food containers given to them at meals, or cannot feed...
on April 2nd, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

A Northern Territory man jumped on the back of a crocodile to save his wife when the croc attacked her at a creek crossing in the Top...
on April 2nd, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

The Australian government gives a one off payment when a woman has a baby. In your opinion, is it ok to spend this baby bonus on a new...
on April 2nd, 2008 | 5 answers | 5 people like this

A Dutch politician posted an anti-Islamic film online. The film, uses shocking images of terrorist attacks and the words of Muslim...
on March 27th, 2008 | 14 answers | 3 people like this

Amsterdam has announced plans to clean up its "red light" district to fight forced prostitution, money laundering and drug...
on March 27th, 2008 | 6 answers | 3 people like this

Thomas Beatie and his wife are expecting their first child in July, . Beatie was born a woman but had a sex change in which he had chest...
on March 27th, 2008 | 2 answers

Priscilla Presley was treated with industrial, low-grade silicone - the substance used to lubricate car parts(supp. a special substance...
on March 27th, 2008 | 7 answers | 6 people like this

Police rescued two teenage Bulgarian sisters from a circus in southern Italy which forced one of them to swim with flesh-eating piranhas...
on March 27th, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

A US jury has sentenced a young father to 25 years in prison for severely burning his infant daughter when he put her in a microwave and...
on March 26th, 2008 | no answers | 7 people like this

What Gladiator would you not like to see? (My choice is "Flatulence: He blows you away" LOL)
on March 26th, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

An internet game which encourages young girls to mould their own virtual "bimbo" doll using diet pills and plastic surgery has...
on March 25th, 2008 | 5 answers | 1 person likes this

People called James or Elizabeth are perceived as likely to be the most successful, while Ryan and Sophie are seen as the most...
on March 25th, 2008 | 6 answers | 3 people like this

An 11-year-old boy has married his 10-year-old cousin in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported....
on March 19th, 2008 | 19 answers | 5 people like this

Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Langka. How will he be remembered- brilliant writer and scientist, or closet pedophile?
on March 18th, 2008 | 10 answers | 7 people like this

If you were Paul McCartney's solicitor, would you be sueing Heather Mills (say for $50 million!) for tipping water over her head in...
on March 18th, 2008 | 5 answers | 5 people like this

Sean 'Diddy' Combs has been linked publicly in an article in the Los Angeles Times to a shooting ambush on Tupac Shakur in...
on March 17th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

A British brain surgeon has used a backyard drill to successfully remove a brain tumour from a fully conscious patient in the Ukraine. He...
on March 17th, 2008 | 4 answers | 5 people like this

What do you think of the probability that more human graves may be at the Charles Manson ranch?
on March 17th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Should the Beijing Olympics be boycotted because of the human rights abuses in Tibet right now?
on March 17th, 2008 | 16 answers | 7 people like this

Elton John is to raise funds for Hillary Clinton by way of a concert. Would you go? As a fan, would you go, even if you don't...
on March 17th, 2008 | 3 answers | 4 people like this

Commuting time spent on public transport or battling through road traffic should be included in the official working day, an Aussie union...
on March 17th, 2008 | 11 answers | 7 people like this

What do you think should be done to a man who uses his own children in porn films to be spread by...
on March 16th, 2008 | 29 answers | 16 people like this

What do you actually know about St Patrick?
on March 16th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What do you think about the claims that Katie Holmes was "auditioned" by Scientologist leaders to be Tom's...
on March 16th, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

A Finnish library-goer apparently thought 'better late than never' and quietly returned a book on loan for more than 100 years...
on March 11th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

Oscar Trivia:What was the last essentially black and white movie to win a Best Picture Award?
on February 24th, 2008 | 2 answers | 4 people like this

Oscar Trivia:"Titanic" tied what movie as the most honored motion picture in Academy Awards® history by winning 11...
on February 24th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Oscar Trivia: Whose foreign-language performance was the first to win an Academy Award® and in what motion picture?
on February 24th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

CS Lewis' classic tale of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has been voted the best children's book of all time by British...
on February 24th, 2008 | 9 answers | 9 people like this

I was just watching a performance of "Tin Soldier" by The Small Faces on youtube. Does anyone agree with me that they were...
on February 23rd, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

According to reports in the US, Tori Spelling is to inherit just $260,000 in cash from the Dynasty creator's $656m estate. Should...
on February 22nd, 2008 | 3 answers | 4 people like this

New calculations by University of Sussex astronomers predict that the earth will not only be burnt to a cinder, but will also be...
on February 22nd, 2008 | 9 answers | 7 people like this

"Nicole and Keith know the sex of their unborn child" says the headline. Do you really think this is important news?
on February 22nd, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

A New Zealand heart surgery patient got another shock when his boss visited him as he recovered and sacked him. The boss thought that the...
on February 22nd, 2008 | 4 answers | 6 people like this

Headline on NineMSN: J-Lo in Labor. Does anyone really care?
on February 21st, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

"ONE of evolution's missing links has been found lurking in Sydney Harbour." Have you ever looked at someone and thought...
on February 20th, 2008 | 2 answers | 4 people like this

Castro has resigned as President of Cuba. Do you think this will change Cuba's attitude to the rest of the world?
on February 19th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

"Lindsay Lohan poses nude as Marilyn Monroe" . Tribute or insult?
on February 19th, 2008 | 14 answers | 4 people like this

Do you think that the new Republic of Kosovo has a chance, when Serbia is so against its existence?
on February 18th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife Heather Mills have finally agreed on a $120 million divorce settlement, a British newspaper...
on February 16th, 2008 | 6 answers | 3 people like this

Two cousins have been found hanged in Bridgend, the south Wales town rocked by a spate of teenage suicides in the past year-16 in all....
on February 16th, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Bowral/Sydney:Two small boys and their mum were badly hurt by an unlicensed 16yo who was blind drunk and driving an unregistered car....
on February 16th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Several dozen people protested outside a theatre in the Netherlands on Saturday where a singer who once performed for Adolf Hitler took...
on February 16th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks could be paid up to $1 million for his story in a major test of proceeds of crime laws. Do you...
on January 31st, 2008 | 6 answers | 1 person likes this

A shopping list written around 300 years ago has been discovered in an 18th-century Chinese vase in Britain, the cleaner who found it...
on January 31st, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

Would anyone like to wish me a Happy Holiday/Vacation? I am off to Bali for 2 weeks. Will be visiting orphanages and friends, and...
on January 31st, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Has anyone noticed that there are a lot of negative people online at the moment? I am getting -5s, -2s and the like on answers I thought...
on January 30th, 2008 | 8 answers | 11 people like this

A lonely Japanese man has been arrested for allegedly calling directory assistance thousands of times because he liked to be scolded by...
on January 30th, 2008 | 14 answers | 5 people like this

Is child care good for your child? Or do we just tell ourselves that because it is what we have been told?
on January 30th, 2008 | 12 answers | 7 people like this

According to the Aussie Telstra ad, the Great Wall was built because of too many rabbits in China. We know that wasn't the reason,...
on January 30th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

The Australian federal government will formally say sorry to members of the "stolen generation" of Aborigines when parliament...
on January 29th, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Has world cricket been hijacked by the Indians?
on January 29th, 2008 | 7 answers | 2 people like this

I am not a Kylie fan, nor do I often comment on celeb clothing, but British tabloids said she looked awful, and the bow at the back was...
on January 29th, 2008 | 9 answers | 4 people like this

Professional and amateur astronomers took their best look at a huge asteroid as it zoomed past Earth yesterday at a little more than half...
on January 29th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

An ex-tax inspector who taped dead spiders inside bomb-threat letters in a bid to extort $2.2 million from UK retail giant Tesco was...
on January 29th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Art worth millions, some of it thought lost for all time, has been found in the modest home of an English spinster, once curator of mss...
on January 29th, 2008 | 7 answers | 4 people like this

Is there anyone on AB who has never bought or sold on ebay?
on January 29th, 2008 | 23 answers | 15 people like this

An 100yo Macedonian woman has just got her 1st passport, because it took years to find out officially when she was born. Now she is...
on January 29th, 2008 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

Cheeta the Chimp (of Tarzan fame) is about to publish his memoirs. He is 75. What other animal star would you like to see write its...
on January 29th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Up to 80% of all NY resolutions are broken by Jan 31, and if they have something to do with health and fitness, c 90% end by Jan 15. So...
on January 29th, 2008 | 6 answers | 5 people like this

Did you hear that Jacko is going to remake the Thriller album for its 25th anniversary? Good idea or lame?
on January 29th, 2008 | 7 answers | 5 people like this

A former top Hollywood studio lawyer and his wife were on Monday sentenced by a Los Angeles judge after admitting to mistreating their...
on January 28th, 2008 | 2 answers

The widow of the late Steve Irwin has everyone talking about her new look. Casting off her trademark khakis,she entered the swanky...
on January 28th, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

A Welsh boy who was half-deaf is enjoying full hearing after a fossilised cotton wool bud popped out of his ear. He has been taken to...
on January 28th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Did you hear that New Kids on the Block are reuniting for a tour? Would you go?
on January 28th, 2008 | 14 answers | 8 people like this

New Zealand cops have slapped a ban on Borat fans wearing his trademark 'mankini' to a rugby competition in a bid to protect...
on January 28th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Lego turns 50 on Sunday. Can you tell us your experiences with Lego?
on January 28th, 2008 | 18 answers | 12 people like this

Afghanistan's traditional fortune tellers are under fire from religious elders who have branded their ancient practice as backward...
on January 28th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Spain: A speeding motorist who killed a teenage cyclist is suing the boy's parents over damage to his luxury car. The court found...
on January 27th, 2008 | no answers | 1 person likes this

I had connection probs Sorry. Here is the questionThe mother of late rock star Michael Hutchence says she has "shed tears" for...
on January 27th, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

The mother of late rock star Michael Hutchence says she has "shed tears" for Health Ledger's daughter, who will never know...
on January 27th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Farmers can breathe easy after scientists discovered that working with manure can drastically reduce chances of developing lung cancer....
on January 27th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

It seems that Britain's Prime Minister is pretty unique - after a search for his doppelganger proved futile. Do you know anyone who...
on January 26th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

"Russian Woman Finds Her Home Completely Gone, Torn Down By Mistake By Construction Workers." What would you say if it happened...
on January 26th, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

Did you know that selling Authentic Sangria is illegal In Virginia? (the law could soon change, though) Do you have any strange laws on...
on January 26th, 2008 | no answers | 2 people like this

A letter that a young girl in Japan sent into the sky in a balloon some 15 years ago has been found on a fish hauled from 1000 metres...
on January 26th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

An English farmer who tried to bypass planning laws by building a castle and hiding it under hay bales may have to pull it down. He...
on January 26th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Will the planned Iraq pullout harm Australia-US ties?
on January 25th, 2008 | 6 answers | 3 people like this

What are some of the bands that have made the music of your homeland great? Please provide vids if possible. I am going to play some of...
on January 25th, 2008 | 11 answers | 4 people like this

An Indiana anger management teacher has resigned after breaking a student's finger. They were roughousing and it went too far. What...
on January 25th, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

A "heartless" Melbourne landlord has taken a grieving woman to court to recover $600 from her deceased father. Apparently, the...
on January 25th, 2008 | 9 answers | 4 people like this

John Travolta's emotional tribute to Heath Ledger has many in the showbiz media accusing him of being "creepy" and...
on January 25th, 2008 | 9 answers | 7 people like this

What do you think of the title of the new James Bond film: A Quantum of Solace?
on January 25th, 2008 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

The average woman spends $62 000 on her hair in her adult life, rising to $123,000 in big cities, a UK study says. Do you spend a lot on...
on January 24th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

It's happened again: A story based on the Three Little Pigs has been rejected by an annual awards event in Britain because it could...
on January 24th, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Almost two dozen Romanians have been arrested after police swooped on a child slave gang operating in Britain. Romanian authorities...
on January 24th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Heath Ledger jokes are turning up all over the internet. Is this bad taste?
on January 24th, 2008 | 22 answers | 12 people like this

Rottentomatoes.com has given the Diane Keaton movie "Because I said so" its mouldy tomato award. Do you agree?
on January 24th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Rapper Busta Rhymes has avoided jail after a judge handed him a fine and 3 years probabtion on assault charges and DUI. Is this another...
on January 24th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

A taxi driver charged with several counts of raping passengers has been set free on bail "because he is a family man with a...
on January 24th, 2008 | 7 answers | 2 people like this

An eyeball sent from Queensland for a transplant operation in Hobart went astray, arriving at a pub instead. What would you do if you...
on January 24th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

A priest who continued saying Mass while the body of a man who died of a heart attack during the service was still on the church floor...
on January 24th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

The world's hairiest man is looking for a new love on the internet after breaking up with his girlfriend? Is there anyone on AB...
on January 24th, 2008 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

A Hi-tech theft-proof $160 000 police car was stolen in Berlin- after officers left it unlocked with the key in it. What other...
on January 24th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

When faced with pork chops for her school lunch, 3 yo Leonie Terry decided she preferred to go home, so walked out (she lived 1km away...
on January 24th, 2008 | 6 answers | 2 people like this

Which is the cooler-sounding Battle in History? The Boston Tea Party or the Australian Rum Rebellion?
on January 24th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Did you see the supposed "Man on Mars " photo? (shown below) If it is a humanoid, what do you suppose he is pointing at?...
on January 24th, 2008 | 5 answers | 4 people like this

Can you believe how stupid people are? The woman who found Heath Ledger unresponsive waited 15 mins THEN called Mary Kate Olsen (who owns...
on January 23rd, 2008 | 5 answers | 5 people like this

Have you heard the news that Heath Ledger has been found dead? What is your reaction?
on January 22nd, 2008 | no answers | 2 people like this

Disgraced British pop singer Gary Glitter has suffered a heart attack in the Vietnam jail where he is serving a three-year sentence for...
on January 21st, 2008 | 15 answers | 9 people like this

Britney Spears has beaten out Delta Goodrem to claim the title of Most Attractive Woman in a British magazine poll. Do you concur with this?
on January 21st, 2008 | 10 answers | 9 people like this

Turkmenistan will end its seven-year ban on opera and the circus introduced by the Caspian nation's former eccentric leader. It...
on January 21st, 2008 | no answers

A man and a woman who drowned in a Sydney stormwater drain were spraypainting graffiti and/or swimming inside at the time, police say....
on January 20th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

A man who booby-trapped a cycle path to take revenge on bikers has been arrested. Just how mad do cyclists make you?
on January 19th, 2008 | 7 answers | 2 people like this

A 70ft-tall plant that commits suicide when it blooms has been discovered in a remote region of Madagascar. Scientists are planning to...
on January 19th, 2008 | 2 answers | 4 people like this

Almost half of young adults in Britain don't know how to boil an egg, according to a new survey. How do you go with boiling eggs?
on January 19th, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Vietnam authorities have seized more than a tonne of live snakes discovered on a flight from Bangkok, the second such find in a month at...
on January 18th, 2008 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

When you travel, do you go with "green" or humanitarian goals or just to enjoy yourself?
on January 18th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

An Indonesian fisherman who is called"half man half tree" has been offered new hope of recovery by an American doctor - and...
on January 18th, 2008 | 3 answers

The loser of a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling in December that sought to suppress child pornography found on his computer by a Circuit...
on January 18th, 2008 | One answer

Passport-application officials single women out in Uganda to verify their Ugandan nationality based on the whether their derrieres and...
on January 18th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

It's not often that a person orders a plate of fried oysters and walks away with a souvenir- a pearl! What is the best thing that...
on January 18th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

A German man threw himself out of a third storey window along with a Christmas tree during a late-night attempt to dispose of his festive...
on January 18th, 2008 | 5 answers | 9 people like this

A court security deputy was fired and two others suspended after an inmate was left in a holding cell for more than two days without...
on January 18th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

U.S. researchers said on Tuesday they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 percent of...
on January 18th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Melbourne's Turkish Cypriot community wantOpen tennis star Marcos Baghdatis kicked out over YouTube video. Baghdatis was chanting...
on January 18th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Were you aware that for Wall Street gurus behind subprime mortgage crisis have been awarded big bonuses ? Is this right? What should be...
on January 18th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

The two protesters held by Japanese whalers for 2 days have been released finally. Should the captain of the ship be punished, when he...
on January 17th, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Fashion retailer Jays Jays will remove its Miss Bitch, Miss Wasted, Miss Floozy Mr Pimp, Mr Asshole and Mr Well-hung T-Shirts from window...
on January 17th, 2008 | no answers | 2 people like this

An Australian who claimed to be a passenger on board a British Airways flight that crashed at London's Heathrow Airport was a...
on January 17th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

India's first female president has urged women to learn martial arts such as karate for self-defence, a week after new figures...
on January 17th, 2008 | 7 answers | 14 people like this

Disgraced NSW crown prosecutor Patrick Power, released from jail after serving six months solitary confinement for possessing child...
on January 17th, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

A South African teenager suspected of killing four people in a shooting spree at a black settlement has appeared in court as angry...
on January 17th, 2008 | 6 answers | 5 people like this

Saudi Arabia beheaded a couple convicted of torturing to death a nine-year-old girl (the man's daughter) including burning her with...
on January 17th, 2008 | 12 answers | 2 people like this

500 000 brightly coloured plastic balls bounced down the Spanish Steps in Rome in a stunt by anarchic artist. Graziano Cecchini. Each of...
on January 17th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Upset that his 7-year-old son wouldn't wear a Green Bay Packers jersey during the team's playoff victory Saturday, a man...
on January 17th, 2008 | 20 answers | 12 people like this

A 39-year-old Perth man has reportedly been caught by police in Bali in possession of 3.5 grams of hashish. Are some people just born...
on January 17th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Should the controversial new Tom Cruise book be available in Australia? Why do you think major book chains are refusing to sell it?
on January 17th, 2008 | One answer

Did you know there actually was a survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn? (This is one funny...
on January 16th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Two activists, who boarded a Japanese whaling ship peacefully, continue to be held on board as protesters and Japanese authorities argue...
on January 16th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Has anyone seen the latest Tom Cruise video? What do you think? (I know it's been edited, but is he raving or what?)...
on January 15th, 2008 | 4 answers | 7 people like this

Sir Roger Moore, the handsome British actor known for playing James Bond in such films as Live and Let Die and The Spy Who Loved Me, has...
on January 15th, 2008 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

A Cambodian family thought they had seen a ghost when the husband and father they believed they were cremating turned up alive and well...
on January 15th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

We all know about Fawlty Towers. Have you had a "Fawlty" hotel experience?
on January 15th, 2008 | no answers | 2 people like this

A female dating coach says the key to avoid being alone this Valentine's Day is to weed out every unsuitable man until you find...
on January 14th, 2008 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

The Federal Court has ordered a Japanese whaling company to stop killing whales in Australian Antarctic waters. Good decision (even...
on January 14th, 2008 | 7 answers | 5 people like this

The ex-wife of underworld killer Carl Williams has escaped jail after a magistrate found her guilty of a swag of driving charges. Her...
on January 14th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

According to her butler, Princess Diana's mother ""called the Princess a whore and she said that she was messing around...
on January 14th, 2008 | 12 answers | 2 people like this

Courtney love wants Scarlett Johnannson to play her in a biopic about the life of Kurt Cobain. What is your opinion?
on January 14th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

16yo boy invited people on MySpace to a party while his parents were away. 500 came, fights broke out, neighbours were terrorised. He is...
on January 14th, 2008 | 9 answers | 8 people like this

The last time Anna Kozlov saw her husband Boris was three days after their wedding in 1946. Then,over 60 years later, they met again...
on January 13th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

Do you believe the apology of a failed businessman who went to jail after transferring $18 million into his wife's name, and is now...
on January 13th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

A plot by terrorist group al-Qaeda to kill the Queen during a state visit to Uganda was foiled late last year by security services. Does...
on January 13th, 2008 | One answer | 3 people like this

A man was convicted of invasion of privacy after his wife discovered a hidden-camera video of two girls disrobing in a bedroom in the...
on January 13th, 2008 | One answer | 4 people like this

In October in West Palm Beach, Fla., Jacqueline Holmes filed a lawsuit against a nightclub named Coco Bongo for injuries after a disco...
on January 13th, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

A warehouse on Chicago's West Side is "the world capital of fake (latex) vomit, where it's still made the old-fashioned...
on January 13th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

A woman who allegedly stuffed her seven-year-old son in an oven and burned him as a punishment has been arrested in New York. A day-care...
on January 13th, 2008 | 11 answers | 5 people like this

A German expert has confirmed the real identity of Mona Lisa, having found a reference to the Mona Lisa's identity in a handwritten...
on January 13th, 2008 | 8 answers | 6 people like this

An Australian student has died from a mosquito bite (dengue fever), after spending her holidays in the Philippines. Sad as this is, why...
on January 13th, 2008 | 2 answers | 4 people like this

Would you attend a "look-out loo"? It has walls made of one-way glass, meaning you can watch others while you go. All passers...
on January 11th, 2008 | 6 answers | 1 person likes this

Http://things.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=265557 talks about the best loos in the world. What is the best loo you have ever been to?...
on January 11th, 2008 | 6 answers | 6 people like this

A girl who looks strikingly similar to Madeleine McCann is being touted by a London casting agency as a $1300–an-hour lookalike. Is...
on January 11th, 2008 | 11 answers | 6 people like this

The federal government will spend $20 million on high-tech security measures for Jewish, Muslim and other schools that are potential...
on January 10th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

A Canadian woman won a civil suit against her drug dealer for selling her addictive street drugs that landed her in hospital after an...
on January 9th, 2008 | 9 answers | 6 people like this

The Australian government is considering a ban on plastic bags. Good idea or not?
on January 9th, 2008 | 9 answers | 8 people like this

A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment's employees. What are...
on January 9th, 2008 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

An Alabama father was charged with four counts of murder after he confessed to throwing four young children into the water from a...
on January 9th, 2008 | 9 answers | 3 people like this

If there is a "to-do" list, does that mean there is a "to-don't" list as well?
on January 8th, 2008 | 3 answers | 4 people like this

A man's badly decomposed body has been found in his Sydney unit over a year after he is believed to have died. Why does this keep...
on January 8th, 2008 | One answer | 4 people like this

Four Texas teens were suspended from school for refusing to get their hair cut (shorter than the collar) over the Christmas break, school...
on January 8th, 2008 | 13 answers | 9 people like this

Pop diva Mariah Carey has blasted rumours about a possible duet with Jennifer Lopez, saying she would rather perform with a pig. What can...
on January 8th, 2008 | 9 answers | 6 people like this

An overexcited dog accidentally shot and killed its owner on a goose hunting trip in Texas, authorities said. Have you heard any other...
on January 8th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Unlike the case of Knut, who was rescued , another German zoo has refused to intervene on behalf of polar bear cubs ignored by the...
on January 8th, 2008 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has electrocuted a chicken and suffocated male chicks on television, apparently to highlight the brutality of...
on January 8th, 2008 | 9 answers | 3 people like this

A 10-year-old Mexican boy glued his hand to his bed to avoid going back to school after the Christmas break. What did you do to get out...
on January 8th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Kiwis:An Australian is adamant the moa is alive and well in remote North Island bush and aims to prove it with photographic evidence next...
on January 8th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Patrick Dempsey: McDreamy or McBoring?
on January 8th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Cher is presenting a reality show with her daughter on how to come to terms with having a homosexual child. Do you think you would watch it?
on January 8th, 2008 | 8 answers | 5 people like this

An Australian woman has trained and succeeded in becoming a geisha. Would you like to train to be a geisha?
on January 8th, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

Why do we let OPEC take us to the cleaners? Why don't we stand up and demand cheaper alternatives?
on January 3rd, 2008 | 2 answers | 4 people like this

An Egyptian woman is seeking clarification from a court on whether her husband's declaration of divorce by text message is legally...
on January 3rd, 2008 | 5 answers | 1 person likes this

Do you return unwanted Christmas gifts? Have you ever given one back to the giver and said "I don't like this."
on January 3rd, 2008 | 11 answers | 7 people like this

Are petrol prices a rip-off?
on January 3rd, 2008 | 18 answers | 12 people like this

Kidnapping of children and women is a growing problem in China. Is this further proof that China's one child per family law has gone...
on January 3rd, 2008 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

Heath Ledger and Gemma Ward are 'dating'. What is the most uninteresting headline from your part of the world today?
on January 2nd, 2008 | 4 answers

An exploding frozen dog has been blamed for sparking a fire scare at a pet crematorium in the Northern Territory. What is the strangest...
on January 2nd, 2008 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

What song do you wish you could hear that is NEVER played anymore?
on January 2nd, 2008 | 9 answers | 5 people like this

A former US beauty queen and promising law student is being investigated for the alleged kidnap and torture of her ex-boyfriend. Do you...
on January 2nd, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

The news business remained a dangerous profession last year with 171 journalists killed while pursuing their work, nearing the record 177...
on January 2nd, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

One of the Northern Territory's top cops has admitted things "look bad" for the force following the eighth death in...
on January 2nd, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

Ethnic groups have backed an overhaul of Australia's new citizenship test after reports that one in five applicants are failing it....
on January 1st, 2008 | 8 answers | 5 people like this

British actress Keira Knightley's green gown in her latest flick Atonement has nabbed the title of the best film costume of all time...
on January 1st, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Have you been through the desert on a horse with no name? Was it good to be out of the rain?
on December 31st, 2007 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

IYO, what was the worst movie sequel ever made? (eg Grease 2)
on December 31st, 2007 | no answers | 9 people like this

Former talk show host Rosie O'Donnell has been named the most annoying celebrity of 2007 by taking almost 50 per cent of the votes...
on December 31st, 2007 | 8 answers | 4 people like this

Rock star Sting has been photographed sucking on wife Trudie Styler's toes while on their yacht in Sydney Harbour. Does this news...
on December 31st, 2007 | 12 answers | 7 people like this

Has anyone ever read the original "Beofwulf"? Did you like it and how did the movie compare?
on December 31st, 2007 | 2 answers

Author JK Rowling could be tempted to give in to her "weak moments" and write an eighth Harry Potter book. What are your thoughts?
on December 31st, 2007 | 17 answers | 11 people like this

Do you think New Year's Eve celebrations live up to all the hype?
on December 31st, 2007 | 7 answers | 6 people like this

Do you think Imran Khan will step up to the mark to lead Pakistan? Should he?
on December 30th, 2007 | One answer | 2 people like this

A customer who was upset over his bill fired several shots into a Hooters restaurant in Knoxville Tennessee, killing one person and...
on December 30th, 2007 | 13 answers | 8 people like this

Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son Bilawal, a student at Oxford University, is the front-runner to take over the leadership of...
on December 30th, 2007 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Newlyweds were forced to hitch a ride home with police after their chauffeur was pulled over for street racing and their hire car...
on December 29th, 2007 | 6 answers | 4 people like this

Hollywood is famous for brief marriages. Do you personally know of any very brief marriages? (friends, relatives etc)
on December 29th, 2007 | 12 answers | 8 people like this

This question got rejected as Profane/Suggestive/Abusive. Why?Did you know that Pedophiles are using secret symbols on personal jewellery...
on December 28th, 2007 | 2 answers | 4 people like this

Did you know that Pedophiles are using secret symbols on personal jewellery to broadcast their sexual preferences? If this worries you,...
on December 28th, 2007 | One answer

What is your best chocolate experience?
on December 28th, 2007 | 11 answers | 5 people like this

A tourist locked a pizza in a New Zealand hotel room safe that she thought was a microwave oven. Have you ever done anything funny while...
on December 26th, 2007 | 3 answers

Which news story touched you most this year?
on December 26th, 2007 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

A 70-year-old man has forked out $29,000 for a new pickup truck — and paid for it entirely with spare change. Have you ever paid...
on December 26th, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

US hotel heiress Paris Hilton's potential inheritance dramatically diminished after her grandfather Barron Hilton announced plans to...
on December 26th, 2007 | 7 answers | 4 people like this

Is the double demerit system working to cut road fatalities?
on December 26th, 2007 | One answer | 3 people like this

Everyone's got a story about giving or receiving a Christmas gift that at best was totally inappropriate and at worst caused a...
on December 26th, 2007 | One answer | 2 people like this

Regardless of your feelings towards Posh Spice, do you feel sorry for her as a performer, after hearing all her one-off costumes have...
on December 23rd, 2007 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

"Drunk gang of Kiwi Santas go on rampage"...Have you any other examples of when Santa goes bad?
on December 23rd, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Santa Claus has been nailed to a crucifix outside a suburban US home in a bizarre protest against the commercialisation of Christmas....
on December 23rd, 2007 | 6 answers | 2 people like this

A competitive eater who has already triumphed at a famous hot dog eating contest swallowed 103 small hamburgers in 8 minutes Sunday to...
on December 23rd, 2007 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

How do you get along with your in-laws, especially at Christmas or significant holidays?
on December 23rd, 2007 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

This is Zhen Zhen, the new panda cub at San Diego Zoo. San Diego wants to know: is Zhen Zhen cuter than Knut, the polar bear cub at a...
on December 23rd, 2007 | One answer

Do you think this joke is funny? (see below)
on December 21st, 2007 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

At least 100 people have been arrested in Uganda for not building toilets in their homes, reports say. Authorities have demanded better...
on December 21st, 2007 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

A male swan who was shunned by females due to his oddly deformed neck may finally have found a girlfriend after seven years of waiting....
on December 21st, 2007 | 9 answers | 8 people like this

"Animal Control Officers Remove 237 Dogs From Home Of 70-Year-Old Texas Woman". What is your reaction to this news? I am...
on December 21st, 2007 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

"Customer Finds $5,200 In Toe Of Reebok Sneaker At Florida Mall". What would you do, if this were you?
on December 21st, 2007 | 5 answers | 4 people like this

N.J. Family Finds Burial Plot Occupied . What would you do if you found your burial plot occupied? (humour acceptable).
on December 21st, 2007 | 3 answers | 5 people like this

Thieves Sawed Off More Than 500 Parking Meters in Atlanta GA. What do you suppose they are doing with them?(humour encouraged)
on December 21st, 2007 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

A Croatian rock star accused of anti-Semitism will be forced to undergo tolerance counselling as a condition of entry to Australia. Do...
on December 21st, 2007 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

Sacha Baron Cohen has told Britain's The Daily Telegraph that he is retiring the clueless Kazakh journalist Borat, as well as his...
on December 21st, 2007 | 5 answers | 3 people like this