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• 1. At 5:38pm on 11 Apr 2009, Frankacne wrote:

  If our ideas for polling don't have to be serious, what is the point of wasting time and licence payers money on it. Wouldn't it be much better to use the resource to poll the nation on something which causes concern such as Government spending on adverts, or fluoridation of drinking water. Its not as if there is a shortage of serious topics is it ?

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• 2. At 5:47pm on 11 Apr 2009, smartannew wrote:

  I diligently pick up rubber bands because I'm sure I read somewhere of a dog which had eaten a discarded rubber band and subsequently died.
  Surely this would apply not only to domestic animals but wildlife, too. Therefore I hope that postmen can be encouraged not to discard these bands in case they cause harm to animals, and that anyone finding one will remove it to a safe place.

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• 3. At 6:53pm on 11 Apr 2009, Pyskador wrote:

  I'm sure that Simon Jeffs, the founder and inspirational leader of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, is up there somewhere chuckling down at us for trying to find useful things to do with discarded rubber bands. He beat us all to it back in 1981 when he wrote and recorded his tune Telephone and Rubber Band, (listen to it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZygIVDql8Bk ). Nice one Simon, I always knew you were years ahead of your time.

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• 4. At 11:01am on 14 Apr 2009, wendamum wrote:

  I collect up the red rubber bands and post them back to the sorting office with a note saying "I think you dropped these"
  

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• 5. At 1:25pm on 14 Apr 2009, sirtifficate wrote:

  In the Iraq war Ministers were quick
  to hold and prosecute Senior Army Officers
  for any misdeeds of foot soldiers
  under their command. That not being
  aware was no excuse. Is not our
  Prime Minister in the same frame ?

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• 6. At 12:40pm on 17 Apr 2009, JohnEGreen wrote:

  With the NMC (Nursing and Midwivery Council) being so quick to once again punish a nurse for bringing to the publics attention the poor conditions that patients were forced to endure, we are thinking of setting up a British Nursing Association, modeled on the BMA to wrestle governing of nurses in Britian form the ineffectual NMC. It is time the professional body for nurses was more tuned in to helping develop nursing and helping to improve healthcare for patients rather than a body which just take £85 year from nurses just register and does nothing to improve either patient care or nursing.
  
  It is time nurses had a professional body which represented them not repremaded them.
  
  

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• 7. At 10:58am on 18 Apr 2009, common_sense_suggest wrote:

  Idea #1:
  Do you really know what compounds are in your computer keyboard? Some people spend most of their waking hours with their hands on the keyboard. The paint and plastic slowly rub off and mix with the oils on the skin, and perhaps get absorbed into your body. Mmm... carcinogens.
  
  Idea #2:
  Mad cow disease: fertilizer (which has bone meal from downer cows, doesn't it?) gets shoveled on the plants you eat. Granted, proteins might not taken up through the roots, but the protein never breaks down. It could easily stay on the outside of the vegetables. And aren't trace amounts of the prion are all it takes to get infected?
  
  Also, see gelatin... how much of it nowadays is made from animal bones?
  
  Idea #3:
  It would be pretty simple to get a scientist at a local university to get some distilled water, test it for substances, put it in a styrofoam cup, test it for substances, then heat it up to steaming hot in the microwave, then test it for substances. Does the styrofoam leak toxic substances into the water? Let's find out...

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