radish

was this a common response in families at that time ,,or was it just my mum's idea of humour?

to the point of speaking the language ..what a pip....upsy daisy

is it safe to remove rust and then repaint the inside of a microwave oven? are there any special rust removers and paints for doing this?

Usually Christmas decorations are dominated by red and white , but this Christmas the features in shop windows were dominated by pink decorations. Why has this occurred

what are the charges that the NSW gvoernment places on people selling their homes?

... where ever your are , whatever belief or non belief you share, whether you are questionnners, answerers, or administraters on Yahoo Answers it's great to have one day a year in which we share our sense of community ...Happiness, everyone ..

when was the last time that people stood to attention in cinemas for the British anthem God Save the Queen in cinemas in either the UK , Australia, New Zealand or Canada?

pressed the wrong button to a perfectly good question

We didnt have much of a garden nor much money but Mum always planted 'love in the mist' every year.. I still prefer it to most other flowers

He was a dominant figure in the UK BBC TV scene of the 1950/60s yet now ...????

If Hamlet, Macbeth and Lear were the central figures of tragedy in the 16th century whereas, today, Tiger Woods is our compelling tragic figure ... what insights does this give us into the values of contemporary Western soceity?

ps. I'm a sociologist asking this question ... not a sociolgy student, trying to answer it . In other worlds I thin I've got some idea but I'm really interested in your ideas about it.

it seems to be an abuse of Y.A.

Two opposing views:

1.Anthropologist Audrey Roberts works for Human Terrain System (HTS), a Pentagon program. Referring to the information produced by HTS scholars, she says, "If it's going to inform how targeting is done - whether that targeting is bad guys, development or governance - how our information is used is how it's going to be used. All I'm concerned about is pushing our information to as many soldiers as possible. The reality is there are people out there who are looking for bad guys to kill. I'd rather they did not operate in a vacuum

2. HTS ignores basic anthropological principles of ethics, such as voluntary informed consent, issues of secrecy, and doing no harm, among others. ... .The two highest ethical principles of anthropology are protection of the interests of studied populations, and their safety. All anthropological studies consequently are premised on the consent of the subject society. Clearly, the HTS anthropologists have thrown these ethical guidelines out the window

These two paragraphs are extracts from this article

http://www.truthout.org/051609Z?n

If, as sociologists, we use the concept of social knowledge as only being falsifiable, never verifiable, and we also use different perspectives to interpret the social world, then what should we do if we ever have to take the oath of truthfulness in a court of law?

nb this isnt a class project - just a puzzle that's perplexed me for some time.

.... downturn. What advise would you give them?

My family like everyone else, kept and reused everything - paper, string. my dad didnt buy but made our Christmas presents out of odds and ends he picked up throughout the year. My house now is full to bursting of things I'm keeping 'in case they might come in handy'

I clench up in fury if someone tells me:

'dont worry about it'

because what they usually mean is:

1. your judgement of the situation is wrong

2. don't worry ME about it

for example whenever we used to ask Mum 'Whats for dinner' she'd reply ,especially if she was in the middle of cooking in a hot kitchen and feeling a bit peevish: 'Plate and find it'

Now,, 60 years later, I often Isay that when my partner asks about dinner ..and he gets so mad with me. lol

My Mum in the 1940s always used to sing the song that began

'If I was a blackbird, I'd whistle and sing' but for some reason only when we were making the beds.

So now, nearly 70 years later, I remember that song every day when I'm making my bed.

We tend to believe that the 'White Christmas' of the Northern Europeans and North Americans is the appropriate weather for celebrating Christmas. During the Sydney summers, for example, we have images of snowmen, and snow sleighs, to represent the season. But was it cold and snowing in Bethlehem at the time?