JT!

The seller gets charged and most sellers know and expect this.

I used to ride with some people from Northalterton but can't for the life of me remember any of their names. Are they still riding?

It's been freakishly warm over here, it has snowed but non lasted on the ground. Unusual not to have snow on the ground this late into November.

Generally paypal default is to charge the seller, hence him having the issue. However I think they have started offering you the option as to whether you want to pay the fees or not, although it's very rare that that comes up. So yeah you're perfectly in your right to ask for the money back as he mentioned nothing about you paying paypal fees previous to all this, if he refuses until you pay the taxes and fees report him to paypal (unless you don't mind paying the fees). Do not send any money by gift that isn't a gift (unless it's just a few pounds to cover fees). Anyway, I still think they change you fees for sending it as a gift anyway.

Well the Hopes are made for trials, don't know much about the shimano, but most people either go with the avid bb7's or the hope trial. I personally prefer the hopes as I never really got along with the avids. But people prefer the avids as they're easy to fix being cable instead of hydraulic. The avids can be seriously powerful too if you have the right conditions, but the hopes have more consistency.

That seriously can't be a week's growth can it?

X Y 1 2 2 5 3 10 4 17 This is comparatively how easy I thought it would be from the first post.

Joe Rogan and Karl Pilkington. Yeah I'm jumping on the bandwagon but, who wouldn't?

Just OTN.

Right in the pubis.

But yeah when I went to the optitions the guy spent ages getting my first contacts in, I'm guessing Ali C had the similar issue. The idea of me trying not to blink when putting my contacts in just doesn't seem like it's ever going to be possible, and I wore them for 3-4 years.

You're never going to overcome the blinking reflex, ever. If you think you're going to be able to manage it that way, you're going to have to at least hold down the top lid if you can't hold it up. You must have really tight eyelids.

Rather than just posting a reply I did read what you wrote a few times and slept on it a couple of nights... Firstly. That's totally illogical. That's like me saying every decision in my life is ultimately a function of evolution, therefor evolution is the only reference point because I use nothing else. Just because you use something else to guide you through life doesn't make it true. I'd certainly argue that Christianity has had only a slight effect on our moral framework compared to our instinctual morals. And still to this day we hear things like gay marriage is immoral (which by definition of a moral it isn't), so not only has Christianity only played a slight role it's played a much bigger one creating immoral ideals. I wouldn't particularly say that Christianity has produced compassionate, nice people relative to people from any other religion and people on no religion and atheists. Look at the population of the prison inmates here in the US, there's more Christians in there per capita than living free. Also, a great number of Christians compassion stems from the idea of heaven and hell. Ray Comfort said it himself, if there was no such place as heaven or hell, he's spend the rest of his life having fun on his boat in the ocean. Much more selfish than an atheist's compassion. At that's talking about todays Christians, they become even more immoral the further you go back. And the pretty much from that point on went over my head.

Well, personally I use 2011 CE. Oh and I drive my wife nuts with all this stuff. It certainly has played a significant role in humanity. But this all got started when Ben referred to science being as significant as religion when having an outlook on life relative to things like evolution, when evolution has pretty much everything to do with life. If everyone suddenly became atheist on the planet, it'd be a better world to live in and we'd lose nothing. If we did that with science our technology would flat line and we'd be stuck with what we have now until some super virus or metier took us all out.

Yeah, but that's a secular event these days. 2011

But relative to Science and everything that falls under that huge umbrella makes anything positive to come from religion look like an ant compared to a sky scraper.

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/emachines-eme732z-08702365-pdt.html Something like that?

Has religion ever contributed to anything really? Can you give an example of a limitation of evolution? Limits of Science? Example of how religion offers any kind of viewpoint on reality? Why can't we idolize one over the other if one is more beneficial and the other is useless?

Ben, you type so much but say so little. "Potentiality for the formation of life", water, atmosphere, gravity and heat from the sun? I don't really know too much about abiogenesis, and I also believe we as a whole don't know much about it either. However, evolution is a clear cut undeniable system of facts to how we became what we are today from basic life - which is what evolution is defined as, evolution has nothing to do with non-life becoming life. Why does there have to be a why? It seems that you're just after some kind of religious/spiritual answer and you'll happily ignore the science and facts and wait for that to come along. I agree with what you're saying about doing things for pleasure and non for survival, we've evolved to the point where we don't need to worry too much about surviving, but we still have plenty of residual elements left over from that. Condoms do exactly what you say, but the urge to have sex isn't really for the pleasure, it's instinctual. To prove this, think about how you feel about the porn your watching before you ejaculate, and how you feel about it afterwards. As soon as you're done, it's straight to the X at the top right. You're essentially tricking your body that you've just taken a step to have offspring, and therefore you body doesn't need to tell you to do this again for a few hours or a day. If you're considering getting rid of the feeling of 'being horny' as a pleasure than I agree with you. Homosexuality is a means to stop an animal or human in having a child so that they can help raise their nephew or neither. It's important to note that this makes homosexuality natural, normal and decided from birth for all the anti-homosexual people out there. I've already been over the extreme sports thing in a earlier post. It's true we have healthcare and food shelters etc, but put back in where we where 15,000 years ago I'm sure we would revert quickly back to what we were, fighting to the death over a dead deer. Look at the guy who sawed his leg off to survive, look at people physically fighting over females, children fighting over sweets, these instincts are still with us. They just lay dormant. What you said at the very last point could be true. It could be a means of 'showing off' as much as non of us would like to admit it, or to be admired for the act. It could be because it makes you feel good, you maybe can sympathize with the cause. If you got nothing out of it what so ever, you wouldn't do it. The real question is why do you feel sympathy, why does giving make you feel good, it's because it's wired into us from long before we were even humans.

Same hairline, hair cut, facial hair, eyes. Might just me be!

Precisely, and this is the main reason why people are theists, they don't understand and/or comprehend that we get everything from evolution so they believe our compassion, sympathy, love etc must come from a divine being. (Not saying you are, I get you were joking, but many people actually believe that).