Can you imagine how terrified (and I mean truly terrified, not just a little perturbed) people would be if they knew there was no form of afterlife, and that everything they were and had been would be snuffed out?
The thought that this living, thinking being sat expressing his opinion at a keyboard might just cease to be one day scares the hell out of me. And no amount of rational philosophising can change that. The thought that people I care about might just cease is very saddenning too.
I do have my own beliefs about what happens to the person (soul/ spirit/ mind, whatever you want to call that which makes you you) but they're quite muddy - I'm more agnositcally clinging onto the need for there to be something after the fleshy bits have packed in than holding a firm belief.
And aside from the concerns about just ceasing to be, how would society really be if people thought/ believed this was it? No judgement, no everlasting guilt, just there here and now. How does that effect consience? If I am just a bag of loosely coherent cells acting on chemical reactions I call instinct and thought, then what does it matter how I effect other bags of cells that are nothing more than chemical reactions that give an illusion of person? So is there a need for an afterlife to keep society together and functional?
As far as I know the V5 still says somewhere that it is not a proof of ownership - The registered keeper is not necessarily the owner, but in reality whoevers name is on the logbook is considered the owner by buyers, police etc.
However, if the person who bought the car kept the payment details, had the invoice or other paperwork in their name etc, then it should be proveable that they are in fact the owner. In other words she is entitled to the car under law but will need help from a solicitor to confirm that and be able to take possession.
It has a habit of talking to you in the middle of the night, but other than that it's quite light on resources (far better than any Norton post 2002) and seems to work better for me than AVG.
Of course, just because it's as good (if not better) than Norton doesn't mean Norton will let go of your system willingly. If you do change AV, it's best to run one of the Norton AV cleaners first as the damned thing leaves traces in every nook and cranny.
I'm not sure I'd go along with the place being rife with cliques, but it's certainly easy to think it is. It seems to me there's a core group who have a similar mindset and so are drawn to each other whilst seeming unapproachable by those who don't share that mindset. That core group make up most of the posts, probably as a result of the "outsiders" not knowing or maybe even wanting to fit in, thereby making the forum seem very cliquey indeed.
Now, that may mean that actually, yes, there is a clique, or it may simply be a fact that like minded people are going to become more established. I know from mainly lurking that there's less obvious seperate cliques now than a couple of years ago (which makes fitting into a comfortable one much harder) but as a perpetual outsider I definitely feel there is an unwritten code of conduct which has to be followed to be accepted - Ie there is very much a clique of sorts.
More importantly, does it matter if there's a clique? To me, yes and no. On the one hand feeling more comfortable interacting in the forums might (on a wannashag level) help in meeting and undressing people, as well as generally being pleasant simply to have a laugh. But on the other hand, not fitting right in might make any friendships/ meetings that do arise from the forum more meaningful as to not be part of the clique suggest at least common not shared mindsets, if that makes sense?
Having said all that, if there is a screwed up sleep pattern insomniac perv clique looking for new recruits, point me in the right direction!
The blue is just samey and really quite dull to me - Looks like every standard Invision forum (even though this appears to be a phpbb) IMO.
But aside from that, the forum just looks wrong to me. Too narrow with too much going on either side. And the white spaces between post boxes doesn't help, makes it look broken up and half finished. I think the blue might be tolerable (if boring) if the white spaces were removed and the whole thing was just wider - Maybe have a little bit of code that allows users to hide and unhide the left and right blocks to allow the content (you know, the important stuff...) to stretch across more of the screen, and look less cramped.
I also have the moving text on the button problem - Are the buttons CSS by any chance? And if so, why? A normal gif works just fine...
And as a full time gutless lurker, I like to be able to search for ads in the local area to then not reply to, not have a page full of ads from all dates and locations no matter what I do!
It could be worse, it could be lime green and red on black with no Firefox functionality, but I have a feeling it could have been better by just being left alone. Maybe it's a bit of the Vista thing: "We must update, new but knackered is good, old but working is bad" ;)
First, I want to say that I'm very good at being nervous and not getting to the point. And not only did I want to say that, but I now have. So that's all good then.
Secondly, I've been a member for quite a while now, but other than some avoiding the whole sex thing posts on the general board once in a mauve moon, and perving over the cams, I really haven't done much to make use of this site. So I'm fairly oblivious to how to write a successful ad. In fact, consider this more or a plea for editing and constructive criticism than an ad, because I suspect it will greatly need it!
And without futher ado, the advert. In a probably very loose definition of the word advert.
I'm 30, single, male, straight and not entirely sure what I'm looking for. There, that's a great start isn't it? I know that as I'm really still unsure about taking my socks off, let alone dipping my toes in, I'd rather not be involved with a couple or attached female. So I guess that narrows it down to I'm looking for single women. I don't currently accom and am not a fan of hotels, but I'm happy to travel up to 45 minutes or so (possibly more depending). I also don't have a mobile - Best to get that out the way now, as I was accused of being married because I didn't have a brain frying need to always be contactable wherever I am.
One offs are fine, in fact more than fine at times, but if the chemistry is there then multiple offs and maybe even an element of conversation and friendship wouldn't go amiss. I'm not looking for a relationship, and nor would I appreciate finding myself sneakily placed in one. So a fuck buddy or two (or more if I have the stamina and immense good fortune) is probably my ideal situation. Oh, it should go without saying, but after a recent experience (elsewhere) I feel the need to say it - I'm not interested in drawn out msn, phone or email contact, especially not if it's then revealed that there never was any intention to meet from the very outset.
Right, so that's sort of what I might want and not want, I suppose I ought to now amaze with my physical details. Imagine Hercules and Adonis had a Twins (the movie) style mating (could be an interesting Hollywood prequel). I'd be the Danny Devito. OK, that's not entirely true, I have much more hair and I'm a fair bit taller, but I would consider myself average. Not bad looking apparently, but I'm not entirely sure whether "Oh, you're lovely and soft" was a compliment or not last time someone hugged me! Though by the time I've finished typing this Ill probably have also finished the diet, and have the body of an Olympian sex god. Or that could be me thinking of the prequel idea again.
So, if there's any single women in the area who have managed to read all that and think I might be worth a try, can I suggest you contact me before your next therepy session?
Well, I still lurk and pop in once in a while to see what's going on in the forums but post once every sixth or seventh blue moon, same as ever.
And I still haven't quite sorted out how to word an ad and actually use this site for what most of it is designed for either, but I am actually thinking about it at (very) long last..
What is wrong with shite posts? I have limited interests (the ones I have, I am passionate about), so I usually pop into the cafe once every few days, have a cursory glance at the more promising threads, and 99% of the time go away again. This isn't because the threads aren't interesting, it's because they aren't interesting to me.
A thread only becomes a thread when people reply, until then it's just a post. So if people are replying, on the topic of the original post, they're interested. Which means it can't be shite to them, even if it's shite to someone else (and this thread is shite to some, I'm sure).
If the long term posters want to close their little corner of the net off to anyone who doesn't fit their particular brand of clique, then fair enough, this is theirs to do with as they wish after all. Part of the reason I've become less interested is the hand of the mods seemed to be getting heavier, and the "search button is your friend" comment thrown about far too often for my liking (so something's been discussed months or years ago. Does that mean people cannot change their minds, and newbies can't have their say?). This thread just seems to be a natural progression from that attitude.
As I said, the admin and mods of this board can do with it what they want, but I'd like to hope they'd be accepting that not everyone thinks like them, and some actually like to talk about how many waffles they had, or would like a bit of support cause their goldfish is ill.
Long live the shite, if you don't like the thread just move on, how hard can that be?
/ rant
Seeing as the moral majority have decided to inflame this thread, here's my take.
I have done 135, 143, 128, 101, 98, all indicated (so probably 10 - 15mph less in most instances). I am either a patchwork Frankenstien creation, or I managed not to crash on any of those occassions. 143 was done in a large executive car perfectly balanced and braked to maintain those sorts of speeds if conditions allowed. In fact, 70 in some of the cars I've owned has been far closer to the danger point of their chassis than 143 in that car!
There is no reason why 70mph is automatically safer than 150mph, weather, visibility, amount of traffic, nature of the road, car design, car condition, driver condition all come into play. It is far safer to do 103 in a "fast" car on a clear dry wide straight empty road with no junctions or other hazards, than it is to do 50mph on a wet motorway in rush hour in a Herald or Imp. In fact, in all my driving experience, doing anything over 45mph in one of my 60s cars was a far more frightening experience than any of the times I approached or went over three figures on dry straight wide empty roads (see the figures above). Speed limits are an arbitrary figure based on out of date average car capability and very out of date road layouts and so on.
I am not for one moment advocating dangerous use of speed, I'm just sick of people automatically hurling abuse at the "evil" speeders without taking any other circumstance than a number on a dial into account.
If you two must fight, can you do it in a paddling pool full of strawberry jelly, wearing nothing but red leather skimpy underwear please?
And maybe video the event for anyone who can't witness it live.
I actually quite fancied the old version
