desire68
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Anyone riding in Northampton today and want to teach an old dog some tricks??
I really want to learn how to ride properly befor we loose the summer completely.
Cheers,
Mike
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Is he someone that would have expected you to ask his permission before you proposed to her? If so and you didn't, maybe that's what narked him.
Hey dude,I just suggested that lol!! :$
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Dude,i'm married and have been for eight years now,all of them happy ones so far.My brother's a Taurus and i know just how stubborn you guys are but you do need to sort this out for your bride to be and your own sake.How do your parents feel about this?? May be try to have a family meeting including both sets of parents to clear the air prior to the wedding day(you don't want any upsets on the day,it will spoil everything!!)
Good call for your brother in law to be to support you and his sister,and he could help further by trying to talk to his dad! Sounds like there is obviously something other than not being asked to his daughters wedding,or you only being concerned about what he's going to wear bothering him.
My mother in law used to embarrass me at every opportunity,sometimes,in front of my Mother,this really wound me up so we had a family meeting and i told her straight that i don't appreciate the way she treats me especially in front of my Mum.I found out that it was just her nature and that's the way she was dealing with the whole wedding thing(It can be quite a trauma to some parents!!) after that meeting,she couldn't do enough for me,My Mum has passed on now and my mother in law has assumed the role of mum,i feel like she was testing me to see if i was strong enough to be a good husband for her "Rose" and i feel that i proved myself that night we had the family meeting!
Did you go to your bride to be's father and let him know your intentions for his daughter?? Seriously dude,it could be something as simple as that and may be he feels that you have been disrespectful in some way,but do your best to find out what the problem is and rectify it,because it's hard enough to be married with the support of both sides of family.much less than having on side of family that doesn't want to know,you just don't need the added pressure.
Well congrats and blessings on your day,and most importantly,ENJOY IT!!
Mike.
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Anyone know what would cause an intermitant odometer on a mk2 golf? Mine stops counting after drving for 30 mins, very strange.
Check the speedo cable connection at both the gearbox end and at the rear of the clocks.Also check your ecu (passenger side scuttle panel!) it's really prone to getting wet on Mk2's and corrosion in the connecting pins can cause some strange symptoms!!
Mike.
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AIDAN REPLYING,
Shalom my brother. OK,I now realise what you need to do to get onto the trials forum, and seeing as I don't ride trials (like I said) I'll continue to post through you, if you dont mind Cheers man. Just a few things I want to say...
Hey again everyone. Sheesh, you guys have posted loads since I last looked (before I went off to Israel 2 weeks ago, that was). I just want to know, if you are adamant that GOD does not exist, why are you still posting? It seems to me that deep, deep, DEEP down inside you, you know there is a GOD, but you don't want to believe because you know if you do you will have to change the way you live your lives (perhaps) and you don't want to. So while you're posting to try and 'prove' to me and Mike how GOD isn't real, you are actually trying to convince yourselves that He isn't real at the same time.
This is the work of the Devil, to be completely blunt with you. And that should make you feel scared, cos the Devil ain't nice, I think we all know that (even if you don't believe Heaven or Hell exist) He doesn't want you knowing GOD, so he tricks you into making you not believe and making you convince yourself GOD isn't real.
There's a fundamental mistake/misconception that's being said at the moment. The fact that GOD created everything so He created sin, right? WRONG! Read carefully, GOD made the world in 6 'days' (or periods, or whatever) but then on the 7th day, GOD RESTED! I.e. He stopped creating the world, it was all done, and "He saw that it was good". And sin came into the world after the 7th day, because the Satan worked his 'charm' onto mankind, and they, using their FREEWILL, choose to fall into temptation.
Mike has answered all the other stuff, just cos he got there before me! I just felt I needed to point that out.
Cheers man.
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some real nice golfs you've had esire68
Cheers dude!
Mike
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Would be rude not to add a few of mine really,(coppied from Terror-Error's thread!) I do miss my dubs from time to time!
Have a look at a couple of my X Golfs
Mike
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Hhhhmmm maybe it's just me but with exactly the same setup just bamming some heatsinks on they nearly threw me off the front.....and this is a back brake!
With the 1x4's you could push them and they would slip. Meh...Max
Not being funny dude,but did you fit them with the lead edge of the pad angled slightly so that it contacts the rim first(sorry if this is obvious,not teaching you to suck eggs) it makes a big difference!
Mike.
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The odyssey 1x4's are the ones that come stock with the evolvers yeah? I didn't think they were up to much on my chrome rim to be honest.
Max
I didn't know that Max,they seem to work well on my chrome rim!
Mike
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G LO was ALL done by Awesome GTi store in stoke-on-trent,the interior was done by Andy from Snappy Gaitors(the first cream leather interior on the VW scean!!) and the engin was done by SLS in Germany!
Later on,i had an accident and Premier Vehicle services(steve Denton and crew) repaired her for me!
Mike.
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Michael,
I feel qualified to answer here as i went through this two weeks ago.I know Mason who owns Custom Riders and so i feel his advice can be taken as very good advice.He recommended the Odyssey 1x4 for my chrome rim and the Tektro 2 for the front black rim.
They feel very good with plenty of modulation on the rear but still locking up when you need to.Give them a shout on 0870 3308460!
Mike.
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Bruntingthorp in Leicestershire has what your looking for dude but there are a few others around the country aswell,Took my R6 around Mallory last year,awesome!
Mike
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Yeah,the tailpipes were an American style thing of less is more,they tend to stay away from the big bore tail pipes and go for the more flush look! Thats an uprated back box on the 20vT made to the oe spec back box style!,
Yep,i'm deffo not making this all up,i've spent a fortune on moddin VW's,been in to them since 1986,my Dad was a VW technician for 30+ years,been to Germany,and Belgium to show the G60 and i imported the Rallye personally(what a fantastic couple of days that was!!) Unfortunately i don't own a VW at the moment,i took a break from them last September when i sold the VR6 Highline and tried my hand at a completely standard and mint example of a Renault 5GTT in silver,this thin is an 18year old brand new car,totally awesome and a nice break from my German cars,but i'm sure my next car will be a VW again when i've finished the R5!
Mike.
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and according to your profile your also 38! so that explains a lot....
AWESOME cars mate.....
is that last green mk4 an oil burner?
Lol at telling everyone my age dude
(well not till December anyway!) The Green Mk4 is a 20v Turbo modified with APR turbo conversion! she was well quick,upset a few unsuspecting drivers on the road!Mike.
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This Mk4!!! was also a German import,imported by Awesome Gti store and had a full APR turbo conversion (305bhp) yum yum!
Mike
you lucky b*****d. id like to squirt on both your mk1 and mk2 the ones with rallye front ends
wheres all the money coming from?!?!?!
Dude,i do work you know! Seriously though,i'm an electronics/electrical engineer and at the moment i work for Xerox on colour printers and the pay's ok,but i don't smoke or go out drinking so the added pennies fund the toys!!
Mike
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Yeah, I'm not saying they've gotta be The Answer or anything, just giving me a better understanding or something would be enough I suppose. What I mean is that I'm probably being incorrect/naive in some stuff, so... f**k, I don't know. 4:51am. Not good. In 6 hours, I'm going to be in a darkroom
EDIT: I'm not being disrespectful to you here, btw Mike. I can see how it might come across like that, but I don't mean it in that way
No disrespect taken Mark,these discussions cause somone like me to have a good look at myself to access if i know all that i think i know,or should know about being a christian.I'm allways left feeling that i need to constantly be on top of my game and if i slacken one bit,there will be somone to pick up on it!! It's all good though!
Mike.
Why are you up at almost 5am?!?! hahaha
I can't answer for Mark, Noz,but i'm on a 12hr night shift for two weeks
,and this is my first week 
lol!Mike.
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Mark nobody knows all the answers,most religions rely on a constant teaching of some shape or form,My father in-law is 65 years old and he admits he's still learning and he has a wealth of knowledge whit regards to his Christian faith!
Mike.
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Seriously Mark,do you think that you will ever be satisfied with any explanation to your questions??
Mike.
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Right, I don't have the book I got all the info from with me. I've been waiting to have it back for some time. When I get it, I'll "research" the matter more so I can point out what I mean if that's any better
"God didn't commit genocide,i don't know what killing your talking about exactly but i do know this,a lot of the killing by God was done in the old testament,this was a time with out any rules"
Why does there not being any 'rules' mean anything? If God is perfect and all-loving blah blah blah, why would 'rules' matter? He still killed? On a mass scale (e.g. genocide, especially seeing as each time it was because it was believed God was just?)? Doesn't sound like the sort of father figure I'd want
"A small example of how God is with his children can be found in the book of Judges in the bible,the Iseralites were being ruled by a king appointed by God,then they would do wrong in the eyes of God so he would cause a ruler to put them in to slavery and ill treat them.then the Iseralites would remember the God that they serve and cry out to him for deliverance,and this would move Gods hart so he would allow them to be delivered from the slavery and ill treatment,and they would be thankful but only for a while.Soon after being delivered they forgot about god and started to worship other evil gods and sin in the eyes of God and the whole process would start again This went on for a LONG time If you want to know how long then read Judges The point here is that the Isralites never lost their right of choice to go back and sin again,when they sinned they were punished,when they cried out to God they were delivered,but don't confuse the fact that they didn't just stop believing in God they sinned against God and thats why they were punished! "
Again, the whole arguement that he lets them do wrong and harms them seems a bit odd? You keep refering to God as a father and us as his children, yet no parents claims to be a perfect, omniscient being that can alter the fabric of the world? Slight difference there, which takes it into a completely different context? Parents aren't trying to get their kids into their own happy, joyful afterlife, in spite of the fact that the parent (if it's true to the God/human context) created them and their environment in such a way that it made it natural for them to sin?
Just noticed this:
"I still don't know which part of the bible your talking about when you mention God having let things get to a state of affairs he had to kill people to make it right! Tell me which bible story your commenting on and i'll answer your question here!"
The story you even mentioned yourself suggests that people lead a terrible life of slavery, which God forced them into? That wasn't what I was refering to, but most of the stories (similarly to the one you put up) in which God kills are because people are doing what God wants? Isn't that a bit selfish? I mean, I know you're going to say "Yes, but he gave us the world", but if he's perfect, all-loving, benevolent, etc., why does he get so moved by people not worshipping him? Seems a bit odd to create people and then make them do what you want, then when they don't you make their life Hell (even literally?
)? There are character flaws like this in God that no-one seems to explain adequately?"Ofcourse God is altering things all the time,he wouldn't be able to answer the requests of those in need with out changing things,but this is us requesting things to be changed,God doesn't just alter things for the sake of it."
And you criticised ME for being vague?
"Remember sin is our choice,God has put provision in place for us to be forgiven for our sins by Christ dying on the cross for us,he want's us to turn from sin but again this is our choice."
Sin is a choice forced upon us though. E.g. in the Garden of Eden, it is God's fault that the apple that they ate was there, isn't it? And if he created those two "images" of himself in such a way that they were tempted, what does that say about him?
"Ok,God is simply doing what any parent who loves their child would do! The fact that a child has free will doesn't stop them from being naughty and punished for doing wrong!!"
"Man takes God out of the equation in the same way a disobedient child refuses to do what has been set out by his parents,doesn't stop the parents from being in charge though and definitely doesn't make them any weaker than the child either!"
This is all disjointed 'cos I'm just replying as and when, but this relates to the point I made before about the "parent/child" metaphor being completely wrong. It isn't anything like God and "his creations", as you'd see us.
"Yes we can bring back people who have just died with the use of ,defibrilators but not after three days,or any length of time where the body has started to decompose,and NO we are not being God in this sense as i feel that even the invention of equipment like the defibrilators has been attained by the knowledg,wisdom and understanding that God has bledssed the minds of medical science with.In the book of Daniel it talks about there being an increase of knowledg in the times to come,i believe that those times are here."
This is what really pisses me off about stuff like this - comments like the one you made where you're in essence talking about how the research and hours and hours of effort that medical researchers go to are because God let them or whatever. Cheapening people's life-work like that really, really f**ks me off. If they're spending days of their lives trying to work something out, that's THEM doing it? It's the same as the free-will, they're able to do it and they do it themselves, yet you're claiming it's God doing it, basically? So the accountability of God is only acceptable is the outcome is good? Anyway, re: that "book of Daniel" stuff - it's not like you need a bible to tell you that people will become more intelligent than their predecessors? Standing on the shoulders of giants? etc.? Simple logic giving us that answer? Don't need a holy book for that sort of thing, and it doesn't validate it at all.
"Instead of arguing half thought out points why don't you ask direct questions to which you might get direct answers,i feel you have a lot on your mind which comes out in the confusion of some of your questions,i could be wrong though!"
Tried that, it didn't work.
"The reason that i can say that God helps us when we pray is because i have a personal relationship with God and my belief in him,he helps me when i pray so why wouldn't he help others.Mark this personal relationship that i mentioned can only come when your totally committed to believing in God,you don't believe in God or the bible"
Like I said - if I made something up, and then told you that to see that it was true you had to believe in it too, you'd understandably be sceptical. Like I said before, I have never ever been given any real reason to believe that any of it is at all real, which is why I don't place any faith in it at all. That's largely why I'm replying here - to try and get some idea as to where you're coming from, but in the past 3 or 4 posts I've made virtually none of the points have been answered. You asked me to go back through and post all the questions again, but I don't really feel - having looked at the few replies you've given me - that it would change anything.
Sorry you feel that way Mark,didn't think i was going to change such a negitive point of view.Very early on i did mention that the difference between me and you is my total belief in the Holy Spirit and your total disbelief in the same we simply wouldn't ever see things even remotely the same because we are worlds apart in our views,I've tried to meet every argument with what i considered to be a christian point of view but your never going to understand that because you don't believe in what i believe in! and i'm not saying you should either,afterall nobody forced me and i'm totally comfortable with my belief,Seems to me like you would rather pick holes in christianity than actually discuss points with a positive frame of mind,the point i made about the doctors being blessed by God to do the work they do is something i really believe in,but you just rubbished it with no regard for it being my point of view,Thats all good though, I'm never going to change your mind,and i'm definitely going to worship God till i die so i guess thats that!
Mike.
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Just wondering, does the bible agree with theories of the big bang and the expansion of the universe?
Never looked into it man,so i can't realy comment!
Mike.
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Good to meet you guys today and it was great to finally get to see some trials riding for real. Now i need to pratice,pratice,pratice. Hope you sorted your tensioner problem out Lee!
Pm me when your going riding in Northampton next time Adam!
Cheers,
Mike.