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What is your favourite home remedy for headaches? I'm just now recovering from a pretty bad one that started yesterday. I know some of you deal (or have dealt) with with much worse pain than that, though, so I'm hoping you'll have some advice.

Lots of greenery, in the garden or a park if you don't have one.
I often wind myself up over irrelevant things but I know "the cure" for that :)
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I just had to delete some photos from my tablet so I could add some more.Do you ever feel that no matter how fast technology advances, tech moves too fast for its own good, leaving day to day gadgets inefficient, as developers rush to move on to something else? Or are you happy with your appliances?

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Yes, I certainly agree that "planned obsolescence" is a thing and why do my devices have to soend more time on charge than they did 5 years ago? You'd have thought it would be less, especially given that I don't use most of the apps that are i installed.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160612-heres-the-truth-about-the-planned-obsolescence-of-tech
Not to sound like some old dodderer but why, for instance, do they not make the ipod classic any more? Audiophiles appreciate the fact that it focused solely on the music and not on pointless whizzy gadgets.
Also the time when, due to a load of pointless apps (that I later manually disabled) my phone ran out when it was on 59% charge (!) as I was talking to my girlfriend (!) I ran home to a load of furious texts about how she couldn't believe what I'd done to her and never wanted to see me again, we made up when I explained things but since then I've been glued to a charger for hours every day.
I accept I should have been more careful. Only why were all these apps installed in the first place when I never asked for them?

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Do you have a favorite type of tree? What is it and why? If not do you have a favorite flower or plant instead?

shehitsback’s Profile PhotoAllison
I like bluebells, I'm a bit sad at this time of year to see dead bluebells in the woods.
"I do not think that I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it. Its inscape is mixed of strength and grace, like an ash-tree” Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Bluebells at my old university. with student accomodation in the background
Do you have a favorite type of tree What is it and why If not do you have a
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When our city changed its ambulance fleet it realised only too late that they were too low to the ground to get over "sleeping soldiers" (traffic bumps), common on our residential roads. What's your least favourite traffic calming measure?Pic: a roundabout, south England https://goo.gl/images/jYwrx6

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That looks foul!
I hate those metal things that are intended to deter cars and motorbikes, they get in the way of my cycling horribly, and even worse they actually prevent wheelchair users from getting around my local beauty spot!?
I don't exactly relish the temporary traffic lights that are often used between Stoke and Crewe, but the metal cycling barriers are worse.
And
When our city changed its ambulance fleet it realised only too late that they
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What movie or TV show have you not seen that virtually everyone else has seen?

Anything Star Wars/Trek related, what's that all about?

The school holiday is coming closer and closer. What is your one great plan for summer holidays?

As a grown up I don't have long holidays the way children & student twats do, but I'm looking forward to this in September!
http://treesforlife.org.uk
It's very hard but the hardship (vegetarian diet, no electricity or running water, hard work, drink out of a stream) is what makes it so rewarding.
You can really see the results of your efforts in a way that doesn't happen in my office job.
For instance, when our predecessors came here 25 years ago and planted the first trees, they were enclosed and you can see the trees on one side and the barren ground on the other.
Planting those trees was some of the hardest work I've ever done but I have this to look forward to!
(And time in Edinburgh, one of my fave cities)
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/post/150320671394/in-the-midst-of-the-street-of-it-and-on-either

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Friends, have any of you ever used airbnb, or know someone who has? If so, how was the experience? If not, would you ever consider using it?

AmericanLass’s Profile PhotoC.
Sadly I can't say anything about it as I haven't used it, I'd rather stay in a hotel because I don't want to be bothered by the host interrupting my rest time :)
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How politically engaged are you?Do you vote?Do you campaign regarding your beliefs? (I don't need to know them!) Why not have a go at The Political Compass. The test shows you where you stand beyond just "left" & "right" and compares you with historical figures. https://www.politicalcompass.org/test

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I've dropped out of politics a bit since some arseholes voted us out of the EU!
But
How politically engaged are youDo you voteDo you campaign regarding your beliefs
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When is the last time you threw up?

When I ate too much at an Indian restaurant and thought it wasn't a very wise idea to have it all in my stomach the next day :)

(STAIF) I'm often unsure of how many out of you 50 to send questions to, and usually just pick about 20, so I'm just sending this to everyone to say feel free to let me know if you don't want them (or let me know that you do!) - I don't want to bother anybody :-) all the best - Doug

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I appreciate questions and yours are always good, I may not answer if I'm feeling uninspired and can't think of owt to say but you certainly should keep asking.
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Many years back I participated in a 72-hour D&D marathon for charity. Having to concentrate for 72 hours with limited breaks sent everyone a bit weird, plus the place we were doing it in was "haunted". We did make the local press though. Have you ever done a stunt for charity? What was it like?

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I haven't done a stunt but I will do this!
http://www.alstonefield.org/tourist-info/leaden-boot/
Sadly the organiser died but the event (which I've done every year since 2011) is going on in his memory.
It's very hard work but rewarding at the end. (And I'd consider it less effort than playing games for 72 hours!)
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Score this past week out of ten and explain your score. What were the highest and lowest points of the week for you? [Doug]

CactusDoug’s Profile PhotoDoug
I'd give this week a 7, I never get much higher than that but that's just me! I'm in Wales
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/wales
Lots more pictures when I get back!
I recommend this book that I read whever I come here.
http://www.walesartsreview.org/greatest-welsh-novel-13-on-the-black-hill-by-bruce-chatwin/
Here's the cottage I'm in
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your favorite local artist/youtuber/public figure?

The legend, Nello!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Baldwin_(Keele_University)
I was at Keele from 2003 to 2006 and Nello was a fixture, he would often talk to my mate but I never quite figured out who he was. When I asked my mate he didn't know either, Nello is just a random person who hangs round despite not being a student or working there.
When I saw the (highly recommended) film I said THAT'S who Neil Baldwin was!
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Have you ever fallen in love with a person who is in another relationship?

Because I liked you better
Than suits a man to say,
It irked you, and I promised
To throw the thought away.

To put the world between us
We parted, stiff and dry;
'Good-bye,' said you, 'forget me.'
'I will, no fear', said I.

If here, where clover whitens
The dead man's knoll, you pass,
And no tall flower to meet you
Starts in the trefoiled grass,

Halt by the headstone naming
The heart no longer stirred,
And say the lad that loved you
Was one that kept his word.
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Tell me about the last thing that made you feel old? I'm subbing for a 4th grade class today and one of the students turned in a permission slip with their birthday on it... 2007 babies are already almost in 5th grade! ?

AmericanLass’s Profile PhotoC.
This tends not to happen to me as, at the events I go to like
http://www.stokeliteraryfestival.org
And at the museum, I tend to be the youngest person there, I'm 32 and most people are over 50.
I saw this video and it struck me that, while people still listen to Pulp (I had a massive crush on Candida Doyle as a teenager and I still listen to their records because they're excellent, and I think young people today should listen to them too), a teenager would probably not have heard of most people here.
It's a parody of "contemporary" people but since it was 2002 many of them are almost forgotten now.
I always think of the 1990s and early 2000s as fairly recent even though they were decades ago.
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