Why does ITV keep inventing nuns and inserting them into Agatha Christie adaptations?

More specifically, women aged 18-30 who are willing spend 5 minutes filling in anonymous online survey about altruism.  It asks you to rate how altruistic you think 20 different activities are, and is preliminary work for a new research project. If you fulfil the criteria and can spare a few minutes, I would be very, very grateful for your time : ( Read more... )

So according to WikiDot's web stats, the most common phrases that people typed into search engines in order to click through to my wiki is as follows:
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I loved these maps, which show literal translations of place names from around the world.

It seems the caudacity of verbiage is apodeictic. The people at Collins want to extuviate twenty-four words from their dictionary in an abstergent attempt to fit in two thousand new ones. Mathematical issues aside, is this a niddering strategy to purge difficult words from the English langugae, or will it act as a roborant ( Read more... )

Meme from
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If I seem to be ignoring you, it's because I haven't looked at FaceBook in a very long time (i.e. bloody ages) and probably won't look at it again for the foreseeable future (i.e. bloody ages).  And I just remembered that my LJ automatically imports to my FB notes so I can tell everyone that I'm not being antisocial (well, no more than usual), I ( Read more... )

New Viking saga discovered: read it and be moved.

I had a lovely day yesterday.
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Real-life FaceBook (video  from BBC Three)