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Everyone I've met in art/design that's wearing an expensive watch is wearing a Panerai. I recently discussed a Panerai with one of our designers. It was an automatic, but it still looked nice.

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The Aquatimer is the most accurate rep there.

eBay fees are paid on the price without postage. If he charged $50 with free delivery, he'd pay fees on $50. If he charged $20 and $30 delivery, he'd pay fees on $20.

Ok, so your 100% accurate is only really 99% accurate. You may want to clarify this in the thread title. Don't use the term 100% accurate unless you mean it.

Never a truer word.

There's only one reason to hide serial numbers.

Don't Canadians spell it Tyre instead of Tire?

What about that "special level of hell" reserved for child molesters and people who talk in theatres?

I'm not going to defend Neil as he simply shouldn't have made that threat. However, in his position, I'd be ranting as well. I never for one minute thought Neil would actually follow through on his threat. Did you? He'd be arrested at the post office for a start.

Your rights to buy counterfeit goods are outweighed by the state of your dealer's health. Them's the breaks.

Sure there are, but they are in the minority. Almost every bloke would want to[1] unquestioningly defend women against an unknown assailant as it's hardwired into our brains. It takes a bloke with a strong sense of justice to defend men against unknown assailants, unless of course it's his job. Oh, and firemen don't sacrifice their lives to save others per se. They are trained to judge the safety of a situation and assess the danger before taking calculated risks. When a fireman dies saving someone else, he's doing his job badly. I'm sure they try to seek out the over-heroic or suicidal trainees and fail them because the last thing you want is a member of your team to knowingly endanger your lives by willingly getting themselves killed. [1] I say "want to" as these instincts can be over-ridden by further risk assessment.

Risk assessment. He made a snap decision based on the risk to himself (with possibly not enough information to make a fully informed decision) versus the benefits of having "less crime". His value judgement was also based on some pretty primordial instinctive reactions to protecting those who can procreate the species. Would he have done it if it were two men instead of two women? Simple answer, no he wouldn't. So, yes, it does come down to thinking with his genitals, just on a level he probably didn't realise. Oh, and one more thing in the risk/reward. How good do you think he felt, walking away with the adrenaline rushing through his veins and feeling of chivalrous heroism in his heart. Subconsciously, we men live for moments like this in our imagination, but don't often get the chance to see them through.

I found a really good book on dealing with procrastination, but I've not got round to reading it yet.

To go back to the original question, yes. We all weigh up consequences and make value judgements with every large decision we make. If we didn't, society would be different. Every time someone thinks "I hope she won't tell my wife", a balance of risk/reward is made and that's what value judgements are. Your friendship has a value and you have to work out how much that value is. "A friend helps you move house. A true friend helps you move a body."

Good luck. If I ever come into a lot of money, I'll be writing the same post - I may even copy/paste chunks of this one.

Sure, but in theory, you have to be psychic to know all of a person's failings before you know the person. ps. None of this answers the question as to whether or not this would force people to reconsider their 'never dob in a mate' stance.

How would you know? Are you saying some people are pre-destined to be rapists or that we should abandon our friends when they travel a dark path?

Let's say the friend is a rapist. You catch him in the act. The girl wants you to be a witness at the trial. Never dob in a mate?

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Get well soon. The forums are quieter without you.

I think you're right. Google got it wrong.

Google says PAM009

Did we establish whether or not Panera did actually PM him? Or did he make even that bit up?