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Listed below are comments made by CarolineMB between Friday, 27th June 2008 and Wednesday, 21st October 2009.

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Paper Monitor 2:22pm on 21 Oct 2009 I always assumed 'stand on the right' was because more people would prefer to hold on with their right hand.
Discuss our English quiz 2:42pm on 24 Jun 2009 As far as I can see, most of the questions are merely 'Do you remember this bit of the book or play'? No discussion required you either get it right, or wrong.

The Light Brigade question is an exception, but unfortunately I haven't read it.
David Bain's Brain Strain 12:16pm on 10 Jun 2009 wren10514 wrote: we have a biological imperative not to eat each other

Sorry Wren, I disagree. We have cultural and sociological imperatives against eating each other. Historically speaking there have been enough cannibals that I cannot agree it is biological. Even if the very idea makes me sick, that's nurture, not nature.

But the moment you say it's ok to eat anyone, who else is on the menu? Fatal accident victims? Suicides? Condemned criminals? If we allow human beings to get the taste for people, is anyone safe?
David Bain's Brain Strain 5:41pm on 08 Jun 2009 We need boundaries. Murdering humans has to be wrong for the sake of the suurvival of the species. And that boundary should really be when the human in question is recogniseably human. The moment youu make exceptions, the goalposts can be shifted at any time.

Pigs, as a different species, bred to be our food don't get the same protection.
Weekly Bonus Question 2:27pm on 08 May 2009 Who was charging £200 a week for cleaning MP's flats?
Could we save billions by legalising drugs? 09:19am on 09 Apr 2009 Drugs are controlled because they are harmful?

I nominate this for hypocritical statement of the year. Legal drugs are controlled. If you buy a legal prescription, Over-the-counter or recreational drug, such as alcohol or tobacco, you can see exactly what you're getting, if you bother to read the packaging.

Illegal drugs are not "controlled". A 10 year old could buy them if he had the money.
Paper Monitor 4:45pm on 08 Sep 2008 I think the ultimate has to be WAG.

WAGs, whilst also Journalese is, at least, a plural acronym of a plural phrase - ie Wives and Girlfriends.

To then use the acronym in the singular, as the red tops have been seen to do is just ridiculous.
Aisle be there 10:53am on 27 Aug 2008 You found naked cucumbers!

I didn't think that was possible in a supermarket, in England.

The French manage it perfectly well, but it's not exactly eco-friendly to go hopping over/under the channel for a weekly shop.
Have you got fleas? 10:24am on 04 Aug 2008 Argh! If record keeping started in 1964 that is NOT almost half a century thankyouverymuch.

I was born in 1964 - I have six years, SIX! to go before that milestone
Some Friday Fun? 4:30pm on 27 Jun 2008 Assuming my sums are correct, enough diesel to drive 4.5 miles in a Volvo V70

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