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Sandy asks…
Ok so I’m moving into a dorm room and I want to put up curtains?
I want to hang curtains in my dorm room but we’re not allowed to put screws in the wall or damage a wall in anyway. So foes anyone know if there is another way to hang curtains, maybe like a pole that sticks to the wall, if you have an idea do you know where I can buy it, stores or web links. Thanks, oh and curtains are allowed in the dorms
Aaron answers:
Yes ! There are curtain rods that are telescopic, it’s like one tube, with another tube set on a spring inside. If you twist the smaller tube a bit, you can adjust the length. The ends of the pole are non slip, and so if you adjust it to a nice tight fit between the 2 sides of the window, it will stay nicely in place.
I would recommend light weight curtains with that though, not the real heavy ones.
Check these rods :
http://www.terrysfabrics.co.uk/prod/curtain-poles/Net-rails/Tension-Rods-white
Lisa asks…
Why the Koran stated that the earth is flat and its mountains are like poles which create a balance?
so that the Earth does not tilt. See Qur’an, Suras 79:30 (And the Earth after that He(Allah) FLATTENED it.; and 18:47 (and you will see the earth a leveled plain).
The Jewish/Christian Bible revealed that the earth is round in Isaiah 40:22 and via Job (26:7). Speaking of God in Isaiah 40:22, the Jewish/Christian Bible says; “It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. Funny isn’t it, that the Bible said the earth was a “circle”, even when everyone believed the earth was flat”. Job 26:7 says, “He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing”.
Aaron answers:
Well maybe the author of koran did not accompany Magellan
Susan asks…
Panel style curtains – look ok on a plastic rail?
Hello
I am going to make curtains to cover the fronts of some open clothes shelves. The areas to cover are about shoulder high and 40″ wide.
My plan is to make panels in a pale cream colour (I know, boring! but it’s a very small room) and my question is this -
Will the panels look odd hung on a plastic rail, being as they will be flat, without the usual gathers that curtains normally have?
I would have liked to use a wooden pole, but it would have to be a really small version, ie as thick as your thumb and not the usual size. I don’t think they come that narrow (not where I live anyway!).
Aaron answers:
If the shelves are set into a space with a wall either side, you could buy white extending tension rods which are thin like you want, but they have to be extended to the width of the walls and then tensed to fit. Easy to fit too. But if you don’t have a wall either side I would perhaps do away with the pole all together and I would use velcro. You can buy velcro which has sticky self adhesive on one side, and the other side is to sew onto your material. Velcro is great for something like you want. Stick it on the shelf, sew it on the curtain and hey presto!! Quick removal too if you want a change.
As long as you weight the bottom of the material it will look great, otherwise it could end up looking scruffy if it doesn’t hang flat. You can buy the weights by the yard at any good fabric store, they are really thin like a string of plastic coated bobbles.
Good luck.
Paul asks…
An Iron curtain has descended over my town. What should be done?
I am a councillor for a fairly big working class town in England. Until the turn of the century, it was a rather quiet place to life, but ever since the EU regulations of 2004, a tidal of wave of Eastern European immigration to my town has left it like, well, Berlin for most of the 20th century.
In the much wealthy West side lives the English, whilst the increasingly deprived East side is populated almost entirely by Eastern Europeans, including such stock as Poles, Lithuanians, Romanians, Czechs, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Russians and even some Albanians and Greeks.
This has unfortunately led to a worryingly growing sense of segregation and animosity amongst the town’s populace. Relations between the English and mostly Slavic immigrants are getting worse in recent years and gangs are forming and street battles are becoming more and more commonplace.
Some people, English AND immigrants, are turning it into a joke and treating it like the former divided Berlin, referring to their homes in the town in either “East ———” or “West ———” and even put up signs saying “You are now entering East/West ———”.
When I was elected, I promised to try and tackle the issue of informal segregation in the town, but so far, most progress has been piecemeal. What do you think should be done?
Aaron answers:
Yes. New Labour let them all in in the belief that they will all vote the nearest thing to Communist that we have in the UK. Labour.
It should also be noted that the present leader of the labour party is the child of eastern European socialist immigrants.
John asks…
An Iron curtain has descended over my town. What are your stories and suggestions?
I am a prominent community figure in a fairly big working class town in England. Until the turn of the century, it was a rather quiet place to life, but ever since the EU regulations of 2004, a tidal wave of Eastern European immigration to my town has unfortunately left it like, well, Berlin for most of the 20th century.
In the much wealthy West side lives the English, whilst the increasingly deprived East side is populated almost entirely by Eastern Europeans, including such stock as Poles, Lithuanians, Romanians, Czechs, Hungarians, Bulgarians, Russians and even some Albanians and Greeks.
This has unfortunately led to a worryingly growing sense of segregation and almost animosity amongst the town’s populace. Relations between the English and mostly Slavic immigrants are getting worse in recent years and gangs are forming and street battles are becoming more and more commonplace. That’s not to say it’s all bad; a lot of people get on, but the once ‘isolated incidents’ are becoming less, well, “isolated”.
Some people, English AND immigrants, are turning the situation into a joke and treating the town like the former divided Berlin, referring to their homes in the town in either “East ———” or “West ———” and even put up signs saying “You are now entering East/West ———”.
I’m planning to run for council in the next election. I’m running on a platform focused on the issue of immigration and informal segregation in the town.
What I’m asking is what you, the people think should be done, as well as your own stories, so that I can further build up my platform and hopefully get some change done in my town and help make it a better place to live in once again.
Aaron answers:
It’s a shame you don’t tell us which town this is, so that we could find evidence for this dramatic division. There’s no doubt that immigration can cause tensions, especially at times of unemployment, which can be exploited by groups who don’t really care about any community, and instead have an agenda of racism and thuggery. Hopefully you’re not one of those, as your activity here is private we also can’t get a picture of where you’re coming from.
The answer really is for people, native and newcomer, to make efforts to accommodate, respect, and understand each other; most people do, but there’s always a few idiots in any group who stir things up. We should remember that years ago the Irish were blamed for everything from crime to drunkenness to stealing jobs and women, but in time they blended in, and now only the hard core racist nutters ever think about it; it will be the same with other immigrant groups, and it will happen the sooner if we all work together to create an environment that’s safe and respectful for everyone.
Migration – including all the Brits living and working abroad – is not going to go away no matter how much some people wish it so. It brings both benefits and challenges. Rather than trying to turn back the clock to a mythical harmonious past, we need to face the future bravely. If our people can’t get jobs, instead of blaming immigrants, we need, really need, to focus on education and attitudes of some of our young people. If we have too many people on benefits, we need to set about reforming the whole welfare system, to stop our people becoming dependant, instead of worrying about the small part of benefits going to foreign residents. If people can’t get housing, instead of blaming immigrants (and forgetting the equal number of natives that have left), we need to think about replacing the social housing sold off under right-to-buy, and asking what we can do about the huge numbers of family houses occupied by single people…….
In other words, focussing on immigration just stops us from finding the real answers to our problems.
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