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Goose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I would say that most (but not all) would like to > see a M+S food in East Dulwich. xxxxxx What evidence do you base that statement on? Have you done a survey? :)

That's very annoying, but anything could have happened. I have learned from past experience always to get a seller's mobile number and confirm by phone or text before setting off that they will be in. Did she actually reply to your email confirming the time etc?

Pickle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Not sure how accessible it is by public transport > though, there might be buses that go that way, but > I'm not sure. xxxxxxx Train goes direct from ED to CP I believe, and CP station is just by the sports centre.

That is a big jump. What sort of actual numbers are we talking about? Not saying they are in this case, but percentages can be misleading. 50% of 2 is 1, for example ..... but it sounds a lot if you only know the percentage.

PleaseHelp Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > He has now been found. Thanks to all for your help > and concern. xxxxxxx That's brilliant. Is he OK? ETA: If you have a moment, maybe you could edit your thread title to say he's been found?

The customer reviews for the item give you this information I think? But you always have the option on Amazon of asking the supplier a question .....

Post boxes often have a little brass (?) plate stating when the next collection is. This is changed at each collection, so that if you go to post a letter you can tell if you have missed the collection. If there isn't one at Beauval Road, or if it is obviously giving a wrong day, then it's more likely the box is out of use. But I'm sure, as e-dealer says, that the box would be sealed up if it was not in use, for very obvious reasons .....

JT76 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > the latest Police stats are out - > http://www.police.uk/crime/?q=London%2C+Greater+Lo > ndon+SE22%2C+UK#crimetypes/2013-01 it depends on > where you live but within a mile radius of my > address burglaries were up 50% in January on > December xxxxxx Hos does that compare month on month with the last couple of years? I'd expect burglaries to be up in January, because burglars will be trawling for new and expensive items bought for Christmas.

Thanks Rianoo, we are already looking into this option which was suggested in a PM by another forum member. Yes it's a good idea :)

Thanks chambers but we haven't got anything to decorate yet! We're on the case ....

Anybody else see a brilliant American Dad episode the other night about the Rapture? :))

Yeh the Incredible String Band knew what it was all about :) You shall have liberty It always was yours anyway .... :)

WorkingMummy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > So which bit do you disagree with? > > > That we can recognise anything with something > other than our brains. > xxxxxxxxxx This could run and run ...... :)

SallyBeck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sorry to hear that Sue. What is wrong with some > people hiding behind a keyboard? They should > really get a life! xxxxx No problem with hiding behind a keyboard, it's what they type and to whom that's the issue. Keyboards are part of life these days, after all. Anyway I decided life was indeed too short to bother with somebody who's clearly either eaten a swarm of wasps or is two sandwiches short of a picnic. He or she has probably moved on to insult somebody else.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Those sorts of crypticisms are probably better > continued in the "is there a god?" thread! xxxxxxx Yeh I gave up on that thread quite early :)) Different paradigms. You can't use logical or scientific reasoning to prove or disprove something which is outwith a paradigm based around scientific method. I'm not even sure the words "prove" and "disprove" make any sense in the context of God. Sorry, I'm rusty on the terminology so that all probably sounds completely wrong, but I know what I mean :)) In any case, how are we defining "God"? Religion, however, is something else completely. And Bible preaching people coming to your door are something else again :))

Enormous thanks to the people who have offered to help with donations towards the cost, however there are organisational problems with that. Enormous thanks also to the people who have suggested possible avenues to investigate, all of which we are following up.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I actually think that logical flaws in his > arguments are very rare. His points are often > simplistic and obvious, but I don't think it takes > particularly sophisticated thinking to argue > against something that doesn't have a shred of > evidence. xxxxxxx I don't have the book any more because I gave it to a charity shop, but there is no way he disproves the existence of God. But hey, Descartes didn't succeed despite two good tries, so why should Richard Dawkins? ETA: Oh, actually it's just occurred to me that Descartes was trying to prove that God exists. Long time since I studied philosophy :)) All I recall is the ontological argument, which others disproved :)) As you were ..... ETA: Sorry I seem to have succeeded in getting this lounged. Apologies.

If the scam was carried out as described by Jimmyv, presumably there would need to be at least two people involved - one to distract and one to take the card (and to advise you to re-enter your pin). Because I can't see how the distracter (word?!) could lean across and take the card at the same time as distracting you, unless he was David Blaine :))

Unfortunately I think Richard Dawkins has some very flawed arguments in "The God Delusion". I found the book extremely disappointing. Though I suppose he has some fair points about "religion", which is probably what we are discussing here. It's just he confuses arguments about "religion" with arguments about the existence of God - totally different things. But I'm not sure this is the thread to discuss it :)) In fact I'm sure it isn't :)) There is a thread somewhere else. Lounge? But never the twain will meet, because people arguing for and against the existence of God are in my experience arguing from (?wrong word?) different paradigms, so it's a totally pointless discussion ...... As you were .... ETA: The meme idea is interesting, but just because something is evolutionarily advantageous doesn't necessarily make it untrue! So again I think his reasoning is flawed.

If there are any, I'm sure the wool shop in Lordship Lane (previously Moo Too) would know about them. You could ask in there?

mashcov Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I find > it highly suspicious that the posters at this > forum see fit to report the minutae of the tiniest > real or imagined offences in this area but have > nothing to say on this shocking subject. xxxxxxxxx "Suspicious"? In what way, exactly? Probably they, like me, have not heard anything about it. Can we have a link to the news report please?

The trouble is, they ALL seem to SINCERELY believe a) that they and only they are right and b) that anybody who does not share their beliefs will go to hell. It is virtually impossible to argue with them, for example some Christians I have met, who are otherwise lovely people, believe that you will go to hell if you don't believe in Jesus - even if you are born and brought up in an environment where you have no opportunity to even hear of Jesus (hence the missionaries, I suppose). Others just cannot apparently see even very basic contradictions in the way they live their lives, eg a Christian I met who had fought in WW2 but did not seem to understand that by so doing he had broken various commandments eg "Thou shalt not kill" and "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself". Or whatever they are. And when you ask why a supposedly all-loving, all-merciful God of the "God Is Love" variety should see fit to condemn large numbers of people including young babies to eternal hell because they don't happen to have had the opportunity to take Jesus into their lives, or however they term it, they can't give any kind of reasonable answer.

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Only 144,000 of the believers will be saved xxxxxx What are the criteria for choosing the 144,000, then?! Belief is a very strange thing. Why do (some) people believe something just because somebody else tells them it's true? I've never understood this about religion. Personal experience of God (or whatever you wish to call it) - yes, I can understand that. Belief based on no personal experience whatsoever - WHY???

At least if they come to your door you can tell them you're not interested. I was once on a 176 and there were two of them (if memory serves) preaching at us ON THE BUS!! VERY VERY LOUDLY!! They started off at the bus stop at the Elephant, then they got on the BLOODY BUS!! A captive audience is really unfair. My ex used to ask them in. On one occasion it was the ones who believe that come judgment day all the dead believers will be bodily brought back to life on earth, or something. He asked them where all these people would stand, as there wouldn't physically be enough space. They went away and never came back :))

I don't understand this, surely you only put your pin in once the card is actually in the machine, so at what point did this guy steal the card? He must have seen the pin being entered otherwise he wouldn't have been able to use the card down the road?