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I don't really see how anyone can develop a plausible conspiracy theory to this. These were cars traveling speeds upwards of 100 MPH, how can they have it so perfect that a tyre comes off, kills another driver and a spring comes off, severely injuring another driver. I personally think it's nothing more than a coincidence, it's just a very sad weekend for the Motor racing world.

Hahahaha, emotionally harming someone by recklessly riding a bike? Maybe a little adrenaline got leaked into the driver's veins but jeeze, that's about it. If people want to ride their bikes in an unconventional manner, what's it to you? They have just as many rights on the road as moronic drivers do. Let's say that the driver hits and kills the cyclist, through no fault of his own, the cyclist cuts them up, pulls out in front of them. If I were that driver I reckon I'd feel pretty guilty. I've no problem with them killing themselves, but just don't do it off someone else's car. Even if the driver had no chance to save them the guilt would still be pretty crippling. Reading between the lines here I'm gonna say that you think it's okay for cyclists to ride dangerously, with the reasoning: "they'll only kill/hurt themselves" but don't think it's okay for drivers to drive dangerously. Everyone using the road has a responsibility: to think about the safety of themselves and others and try their very best to keep everyone using the road safe. I don't want to sound negative, but your point is very clear, we know what you're getting at, it's been 1 page of basically saying you don't like fixies and you don't like reckless cyclists. Now can we please leave this topic to the talk about the positive sides of cycling instead of pointless arguments? Same goes to those continuing this argument.

Refusing service to a overly-drinking teenager? My kind of hospital. :thumbsup: Letting him die though is......somewhat inhumane? He brought it upon himself, but that doesn't mean they essentially let him die.

I'm rather confused. I haven't gotten a PM yet saying Yes or No, so does that mean I've been forgotten about or I'm still in the running for a wave 2 type thing?

Where's the fun in life if every activity is about being padded up and taking care? Some people like being careless, some people like a bit of danger, these cyclists are extremely experienced and a handful of them are professional cyclists. They're not mounting the paths within the video, if a car was to hit them, it's the cyclists fault for reckless use, if a pedestrian was to be hit, well then it's the pedestrians fault for not paying due attention to the traffic use. All bike products sold to the general public undergo strict and strenuous quality and safety testing, products which fail aren't sold on to the general public legally. These guys aren't harming you and haven't come close to harming anyone else as of yet, so what's the big deal. This topic was created to discuss cycling as a hobby, questions, advice etc, all you've done now is turn this into a rant and all though still related to cycling, this current topic were speaking of (cycling safety) wasn't intended for this actual topic.

Couple of options. 1. Be honest, when you return the book explain that a page ripped out, explain the book is in poor condition and you think it would be unfair if they charged you 10$ for it as this wouldn't occur at your fault with a newer book in good condition. 2. Sellotape it back in, hopefully they wont notice. 3. Use a Stanley knife, crafting knife or a scalpel to cut out the remainder of the page so it's not noticeable it's never been there. I shall let your principles decide what route you want to take.

Although it's not what you want to hear, working in a bikeshop I can tell you this. Cheap products in the cycling industry are nothing more than a false economy. If you spend double that, you will get a bike that will cost you less in maintenance costs within 2 years than the actual value of the bike. For now, it might only cost 150$, in the long run it will cost quite a bit more than that.

Not quite. Mountain bikes are only very rarely 24", and almost always 26". 24" are usually just upscaled BMXs designed for dirt jumps. Wrong on both accounts. Street bikes/dedicated dirt jump bikes are often 24", a couple of my mates have them. And what you are thinking of is not a BMX, but a mountain bike with rigid forks. In saying this, there are some 24" BMXes, but they are very uncommon. And that sucks, but it also cool Craig ;) Alright, i looked it up and it is 20" and weighs freakin 42 pounds! I can j-hop pretty high atm on it, and I have been saving up for a new bike lately, so I might get an Eastern. They any good? Eastern come with a good spec for the money, but the frames the Eastern parts are pretty weak and prone to cracking. Personally, you get a lesser spec but a stronger bike, I'd go for any of the http://www.wethepeople.de, they make some very solid bikes and parts, all the way from 18' kids bike to pro level frames, forks, bars etc. My personal recommendation WTP Crysis, pretty decently priced, good quality parts with a reasonable spec for the price. Avoid anything with Gyros if they're not marketed at park riding, usually very bad bikes, avoid anything that doesn't have a 4130 Frame and Fork.

In a way, I'm in a similar situation :lol: . I'm 6'3 and of a "Rugby" build so very few will actually try and start on me and I wont start on someone smaller than me so few fights occur. My friend though, he's 5'7 and loves to screw around with people but difference is he's pretty strong for his size so he has no problem throwing a punch if someone screws with him. So whenever he starts a fight, me and my other friend, 6'2, same build are always beside him to make sure nothing bad happens to him. Which ultimately means all the bad stuff happens to us :lol:

Technically he could and he couldn't. Quite a lot of Racing BMXs (What BMX originally was, Bicycle Motocross) are still 24's. There are also what's called "cruisers" designed by many BMX companies who don't even associate themselves with the MTB industry. The WeThePeople Avenue is a 24' cruisers, basically a hybrid of a BMX and MTB. Then again as you said, there is also many 24' MTB's, either way 24' MTB or BMXs are often designed for Dirt or Street.

I used to do Judo, I do boxing know as I don't like it fighting with grapples / throws as I see it as somewhat cowardly. Boxing is my favorite of fighting methods, I view it as the fairest and most honorable methods of fighting. Everyone has an idea of how to throw a punch and how to deal with them, very few have enough experience to deal with / combat a grapple or lock.

"If you're ever in Dublin, you absolutely Have to see Phoenix park!" It's the biggest enclosed park within a city in Western Europe, it's pretty cool to walk through for a couple of hours. "If you're ever in Dublin, you absolutely Have to see a Gaelic game". Whether it's a U12's game all the way up to a inter-county seniors game, they're all great to watch, and as it's unprofessional it's all down to passion to win. . If you can, try to see a game in Croke park, the stadium is amazing and has so much history to it.

Well done, it always feels good to beat a jump/s that was (were) challenging you. You'll progress a lot quicker with your attitude, safe to say landing in the nettles wasn't the most pleasent :lol: To further progress my street riding I've decided on getting a BMX, looking at the WTP Envy as my sponsor (the shop) can hook me up pretty nicely WTP Envy Bike comes pretty dialed for a complete, nice amount of Eclat on it and according the the BMX guy in the shop the 2010 model coming out in September will be even more dialed. I'm getting it at trade price, only condition is any BMX event I enter I wear the shops t-shirts, sweet deal if you ask me. EDIT: Craig, you think those guys are good? Watch this :lol: [hide=Couriers][yt]KrPOKNU5Ds4[/yt][/hide]

How far down are you going? To get the maximum effect on the chest during Push ups you need to get as low as possible, if you're stopping when you're arms are at a right angle for example, you're doing more of your triceps than your chest. During push ups always try to touch your nose against the floor and make sure you keep your pelvic area rigid, I.e. keep your body flat, do not sag or extend in the middle. flat push ups only do the mid of your pecs (chest muscles), try to do them on an incline and decline to also work your upper and lower pecs. I find using a chair or stairs good, try for a 30 degree angle. I've put on a 8 kilos over the last 6 weeks while my BMI has remained the same, god bless you BSN supplements, I've plateaued pretty much for the last 4 months before I switched from ON to BSN.

I find a lot of tattoos pretty stupid, especially if there's no meaning to it. My Uncle fought in the British army up until last year, while he was in the army he lost 11 friends so he has each name tattooed in order from the top of his right shoulder to just below he right elbow. A lot would say it looks very stupid, but I think it has an actual meaning to it unlike most others.

I'm fairly sure that some people in North Ireland love Great Britain and wish to stay with it. On the other hand, I also think that many of them are Irish nationalists and want independence. Britain's really not a bad country at all, you know. It has nothing to do with the status of Britain and how "good" it is. Simple fact is, 400 years ago that land was seized from the Irish and they placed Scottish and English settlers there. Since then, Catholics and native Irish have been treated as second class citizens well up to the 70's. During the highest of the troubles, Catholic men could be arrested and placed in prison without trial for an indefinite period of time if they were taught to be affiliated with the IRA. There is still many nationalistic and Republican people in Northern Ireland who hate the British "empire". Remember anyone over the age of say 50 will still remember the troubles well and how they were treated under the British rule. The British army, the RUC (The Northern Ireland police force of the time) and the Protestant citizens all treated the native Irish terribly. That is mostly the reason why they want independence.

Do you just attract misfortune? Wouldn't say that, the second was just unfortunate and the first and third paragraph, well Dublin has just turned into a scumhole within the last decade. I don't have a source on this, but from 2005-2008 we were the gang related murder capital of Europe per capita. Having a knife pulled on me three times isn't ordinary, but nothing extraordinary either, getting stabbed, well that was my own stupidity.

I was reading about the riots today. I'm all for the peace in Northern Ireland, but allowing the Orange Men to march through nationalistic areas, especially the Ardoyne region is incredibly stupid, they should have learned that from the 2006 Dublin riots. Being from the Republic I will admit I do have a slightly biased view but this is my view, I give no sympathy to the Orange men, if you're going to deliberately march through nationalistic areas then you're going to get trouble, and evidently enough....quite a lot of it. If Sinn Fein marched through Unionist areas of Belfast or other regions of Northern Ireland, there would be hell to pay. Zierro, riots like this happen quite often in Northern Ireland, usually once every year or so, this isn't an amazing outbreak in the recently "peaceful" Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is never going to peaceful if idiots like this are allowed march through their "opponents" area. It would be the Crips having a "peaceful" march through the middle of a Bloods area to give Americans a comparison if they weren't aware of the whole situation. The fact that 10 years were involved in the rioting is evident that there is still much hate, even in the youngest of generations.

Well if it's anything like CoD4 all the guns available first will still arguably the best. In CoD4, in the AR, SMG, Sniper, Shotgun options, the first choices IMO and by popular consensus seemingly were the best I.e M16, M5, M40, Pump action shotgun. The only class that differs to that IMO would be the LMG's, where the RPD was best but it was accessed pretty quickly. I played SnD HC most, M16, M40 or MP5 always did the jobs fine. LMG's were rarely needed for HC modes, I only used them for clan games Ray, 5 customizable classes was more than enough for me, one Ghost class (Silenced MP5), one "normal" class (M16, triple frag), Sniper class (M40, Claymores), hybrid class (M21, MP5), LMG class (RPD with Bandolier). All classes other than the Hybrid class I used UAV jammer, were great for HC modes.

This completely. This will just take valuable resources away from dealing with many serious "internet" crimes such as producing or holding Child pornography, dealing with pedophile rings (Most operate throughout the internet), child grooming etc. I really don't see a problem with the production of pornography as long as it's two (or more) consenting adults par taking for a fair wage. I'm not entirely sure about this and could be incredibly wrong, but I remember reading an article before stating that apparently when pornography became well spread and easy to obtain rape figures fell noticeably. I could be very wrong on this as I said though.

Couple, I got caught in the middle of an armed robbery when I was 14, as they ran in they fired a shot towards the roof (about 5 foot above my head) so needless to say I was very scared, I knew it would work out ok though since the vast majority of armed robberies do. I was in a car crash before, my dads car hit some black ice at 60mph, it slid into a wall, back across the road and the back hit a lampost, it then spun 4 times and finally wrapped itself around a tree. We were incredibly lucky, he was able to get out but I was on the tree side of the car, I broke an arm and had to be cut out but it could have been a lot worse. Had a knife pulled on me 3 times before, they weren't too scary, more WTF type moments. I got stabbed once, wasn't that scary, I just got incredibly angry and was going crazy about it till the cops arrived (Was in center of Dublin so only took about 3 minutes. The accidents weren't scary after, it was just during.

As I said all stereotypes, how often do people actually end up in hospital because of Alcohol abuse? I've been drinking the last 2 years weekly, I'm 16 now so it's safe to say I've seen quite a popular age group in term of hospitalization due to alcohol abuse. In 2 years, roughly 74 weeks, roughly 730 days etc, I've only had 1 friend who has been hospitalized, he had to have his stomach pumped. The fact is, alcohol tax and cigarette tax take in a lot more money than the health costs add up to, creating an overall profit for the government. And as you said earlier on about George Best, I've always said and held the view, Alcohol doesn't ruin people, break families apart etc, a person's lack of control over Alcohol does. [/hide] Ah, yes the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument. If alcohol wasn't there do you think person would still be ruined? Yes, he would. Theres plenty of ways to ruin yourself, drugs abuse for example. Instead of hitting the bottle this weekend pop down to the local hospital on friday or saturday night and see the who turns up in A&E. I have watched a few programmes (granted these are edited to look really bad) on binge drinking on these programmes I have seen things from girls taking a whizz on the streets infront of a butt load of people and a film crew to girls drinking stuff that they say they hate the taste of but they drink it to get drunk to people getting in cars and killing themselvs and people walking down the road. Not 1 time have I seen people have nothing but a good time. you wanted a link, here ya go: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_alco ... _each_year That is per year remember. What exactly are the arguments for alcohol? Its fun? Its relaxing? It makes you forget? It eases the pain of whatever? Seriously, I want to know. I think I have listed enough times the bad points of it. If I have just listed what I think are the reason for alcohol consumption but can't you get those exact same things from weed or any other drug? But the only reason you don't do them cos there against the law? If it was ok to do it would you? You get the same effect as alcohol so why not? Cos it was against the law before? If thats true you shouldn't drink alcohol either. (then again this is all hypothetical) : Perfetc, the things is, every Saturday and Sunday afternoon I do charity work with the homeless, who the vast majority of are either on drugs or alcoholics. I know how destructive it is, and that's why I'll always be in control of my alcohol consumption, I've seen the devastating effects of it. Those shows you mentioned are purely bias Perfetc, they only show the badside of alcohol, when it is abused. I've seen plenty of those shows, they're all biased towards showing people so drunk they don't know what's going on or even have control of themselves. You suggested I go to a hospital and see the effects of it this weekend, well I personally recommend to you to go into your local town this Friday or Saturday night and see how many people are enjoying alcohol without being a danger to themselves or others. Alcohol is fun, it is relaxing, it can ease pain and for a short while it can make you forget. Personally, I love going out with my friends and having a couple of cans / pints, it makes the night more enjoyable and people become more open with you and you become more open with them, there's a lot of good things that have happened to me while I've been under the effects of alcohol. Alcohol is how I found the confidence to ask my current Girlfriend out, I wouldn't be with her to this day if I wasn't under the influence that night. And I smoke Marijuana regardless of the law, I wont mention the effects or personal experiences of it though as that goes against the forum rules. A quick note on your "factual" link, Wikianswers isn't considered a reliable source at all, I find it odd every figure that guy mentioned either ended in 5' or 0's, sounds like something made up to me. If you find a government source or a independent unbiased source, that's is always considered a reliable source. If your source is right then let's do the maths. The 2009 estimate of the USA population is 306,500,000 people roughly. Not if 100,000 died in your source: 100,000 / 306,500,000 = 0.000325% of the estimated American population died of Alcohol, now, is that as bad as you make it out to be?

4/5 people will not understand how hard quitting smoking is, because simply they don't smoke or they haven't tried giving up as of yet. For OP: Slowly ween yourself off them, quitting out right is close to impossible. Instead of going from say 10 a day to 0 and hoping it works, cut back to 8 a day for the first week, 6 a day for the second week, 4 a day for the third week etc till you hit 0. It's much easier to quit this way as there's a slowly diminishing amount of Nicotine in the system, while Nicotine still remains to a point where a craving wont exist. Alternatively, you could go with Nicorette patches, personally though I've tried them and I didn't like them, they work on the same principal as I just mentioned, slowly lowering the levels of Nicotine in the system till no craving exists. Problem is, I always found myself wanting a smoke even while on these patches, as they're nothing like smoking and a craving can still exist.

Perfetc, although you've had a harder life than average so far due to Alcohol abuse, your attitude on it is full of stereotypes and bias, which is understandable though. As I said all stereotypes, how often do people actually end up in hospital because of Alcohol abuse? I've been drinking the last 2 years weekly, I'm 16 now so it's safe to say I've seen quite a popular age group in term of hospitalization due to alcohol abuse. In 2 years, roughly 74 weeks, roughly 730 days etc, I've only had 1 friend who has been hospitalized, he had to have his stomach pumped. The fact is, alcohol tax and cigarette tax take in a lot more money than the health costs add up to, creating an overall profit for the government. And as you said earlier on about George Best, I've always said and held the view, Alcohol doesn't ruin people, break families apart etc, a person's lack of control over Alcohol does.

Great topic, took me 30 minutes to fill out these answers. Haven't really reflected on these type of questions in a while. [hide=My answers]Polling: Forum Username: Kranked1 Age: 16 State (US only, do not give a city): ~~~~ Nation (do not give a city): Republic Of Ireland Educational level: -if secondary or below, what level? Currently in Secondary, will go onto University. -If at a university/college, what level and what is your major/minor course of study? ~~~ 1. Have you ever attended a worship of any religion? Yes -by choice? Sometimes I wanted to, others I didn't. I don't like attending standard Sunday mass, but I wont mind attending Christmas Eve mass and Christmas day mass as it's more of a family event (whole extended family attends the same church) than a day of religious celebration. -What kind of worship? Catholicism. -Did you regularly attend this worship, by choice or parental guidance? No, I never regularly attended it. 2. Do you consider yourself religious? No. -Please explain in two or three sentences. I've explored the thought of being religious, and religions are either to contradicting or to hateful for me to follow them. Christianity preaches "Love thy neighbor" yet shuns Homosexuality, Islam preaches a higher plain of "Paradise" if you die protecting the stature of Islam. 3. Is there a god, gods, or a supreme deity? I don't know, my opinion is, either way something came out of nowhere, a God or the material required for the big bang. -Did said god, gods, or supreme being create the Universe, according to your belief? I don't hold a specific belief, I just have a few "rational" ideas. 4. Is there an afterlife? Possibly, I think there is a "spiritual paradise", where you live on Earth eternally where you want, you can experience whatever you want for free, you live a life where you dictate what occurs. The only people present on this "Earth", are those who you choose, your friends and family. Personally till this point, my Heaven would be my life right now, without the education aspect, or the control of parents. Essentially, living your Summer holidays year round, without having a form of supervision telling you what to do. Yet though, my parents would still exist obviously enough, I just have the freedom to dictate my own life on "paradise". 5. How do you believe that existence came about? (in a nutshell) Honestly, I don't know, and I'd rather not voice an opinion on something if I'm not educated on it, personally though, if asked, I'll usually follow the theories of Evolution and the Big Bang. 6. Have you ever attended a worship of any religion that you do not consider yourself a part of? No. -What? ~~~ -Your thoughts on the experience ~~~~ 7. What are your thoughts on non Judeo-Christian Western religions? Remember that religion is a broad term so please be specific. I view them as all other religions, a group of people lead to believe there religion is somehow the "right" religion and their "God" is the one true god, while other religions are people lead astray. I think Islam, is seriously portrayed in a Negative light though, yes it has a lot of Extremists, but it also has many many good people. The people who seem to voice the most hate against them, probably couldn't count the amount of Muslims they know personally on one hand. 8. What are your thoughts on Judeo-Christian religions? Remember that religion is a broad term and that both of these groups have many subdivisions that have radically different beliefs and practices. The same as the above, without the paragraph on the negative portrayal of Islam. 9. What are your thoughts on Asian religions? Remember that religion is a broad term so please be specific. Although I don't know much about it, I find the main principles of Buddhism interesting, I know nothing though about the Chinese religion and any of their beliefs. 10. What are your thoughts on African religions? Remember that religion is a broad term, so please be specific. Well, I seem to get a lot of Jehovah's witnesses knocking on my door, and I find what they preach not only extremely logic defying, but irritating to listen to. I know very little of tribal religions, some of their practices are interesting though, praising their own forms of gods for different things, protection for "Evil spirits", for rain, for a good harvest, for a good hunt etc. 11. What are your thoughts on South American religions? Remember that religion is a broad term, so please be specific. Other than Catholicism, I don't know of any major religion in South America. So it would be the same view as Judeo-Christian religions. 12. What are your thoughts on Aboriginal religions (any native group that was displaced, such as Native Americans, Maori, Aborigines, etc)? Remember that religion is a broad term, so please be specific. I know nothing of Aboriginal religions other than some of the Inca ceremonies, although very bloody and wasteful, their ceremonies and practices were interesting none the less. 13. What are your thoughts on pagan religions (Wiccan, alternative, Satanic, and other non-traditional forms of worship)? Remember that religion is a broad term, so please be specific. Also note that many alternative and pagan practices are not affiliated with Satanic worship. I know very little of these as well, so I wont voice an opinion on it. 14. What are your thoughts on atheism, the belief that there is no supreme being(s)? Please remember that there are degrees to this belief, and that not all share the same thoughts. I view Atheism as harmless, as long as it's not enforced on other people, like I view many religions. Although I'm not religious, I don't have a problem with religions, I don't like religious people who try to force their beliefs on me, the same as how a Christian wouldn't like to have Atheism forced on them. What I do like about Atheism is, I think it's roughly 15-20% (But I could be completely wrong) of the world are Atheist, yet can even 2% of civil wars, military coups, full fledged wars etc of the last say, 100 years, be contributed to Atheism? 15. What are your thoughts on agnosticism, the belief that a supreme being(s) exists, but the individual chooses not to worship it/them? I think it's a wise decision, as it harms no one and leaves a person open to belief. Personally, I'd view myself as an Agnostic, I think there is some form of a higher power or a supreme being exists, yet there is no religion that rationally explains this "God". 16. Have you ever publicly chastised someone who believes in a religion/school of thought different than yours? Yes -elaborate: A Catholic preacher started ranting at me and question me aggressively as to why I was an agnostic on Dublin's mainstreet, so I destroyed any points he had with counter arguments. If you're going to argue religious beliefs, I hold the view that you should at least be aware of what you're mention, and if you're going to quote something, you might as well include the points I.e Leviticus 18:22 -what group were they? what group were you? As I mentioned, I was an Agnostic, he was a Catholic preacher. 17. If you belong to a religion or non-religion, please identify. No, I'm not a member of a religion. -Did you consciously choose to follow this belief? ~~~~~ -Did you belong to another belief, by choice or force, before following this belief? ~~~~~~ -Did you personally research (as in personally in the first person) options before coming to this belief? ~~~~~~ 18. Is intelligence (not IQ, but actual intelligence) correlated to one's belief in a religion or non-religion? Keep in mind that intelligence can not be measured by any science, this is simply your judgment call. Well personally, main religious people I know have never explored their faith or developed their own opinion differing from the church, while many of the more "intelligent" people seem to be Atheist. Intelligence is only a measure of good test results, but doesn't make a person any better than another person. 19. Does religion, in your observation, do good in the world? Please cite specific groups or denominations. It does good and it does bad, when it preaches love and affection for others it does good, when it preaches against others and others belief, it does bad. It is fair to say, religious beliefs and clashes have caused a vast amount of wars. 20. Does non-religion, in your observation, do good in the world? Please cite specific groups or denominations. I generally see two types of Atheists, the egotistic who lives to amass material possessions and is very intelligent but inconsiderate to others. Then there is also the modest Atheist, one who simply can't follow the teachings of a religion, yet lives a gentle and modest lifestlye, like that of many religious believers. 21. Does religion, in your observation, do bad in the world? Please cite specific groups or denominations. I answered this in question 19. 22. Does non-religion, in your observation, do bad in the world? Please cite specific groups or denominations. Well, two of the most evil men in history were Atheist, Stalin and Hitler. Although, it's safe to say Atheistic beliefs lead to them becoming what they were. So no, I'd say it does very little damage if it does any significant damage at all. 23. Please list your experience with sexual education, including but not limited to: lectures by parents, schools, religion, or non-education. Please do not list your sexual experiences. I received the full story school education at 12, religion up until then never even mentioned it to me (in the form of priests etc), by the time I was 10, thanks to the internet and late night TV, I knew how to do it and to wear a condom for when I eventually did do it. I knew most of what I needed to know before any form of Adult ever discussed it with me. 24. Have you engaged in sexual intercourse of any kind? Please do not list your sexual experiences. A yes or no will suffice. Yes. 25. What, in your opinion, defines "love?". I don't know, it's hard to opinionate it. I'm only 16, I've felt very little of what's called "Love", one moment your "Loved", next week you're watching your "Love" with someone else, as if your relationship and "Love" never existed. I think love though, is the feeling a couple will get, when they realise how right for each other they are. 26. Have you ever been in, or are now in, a relationship? Yes, I've been in couple. -Is sex involved? Yes it was. 27. Are you single/committed relationship/married? Single as of now. 28. What, in your opinion, is sex's place in a relationship (or lack of relationship)? I don't feel it has a specific place, I feel once a couple is ready they'll usually have sex, and after that it's just a "fun thing" two people who like each other will do. 29. Have you ever partaken in an illicit substance (excluding alcohol or marijuana)? Yes -if so, what? BZP, MDMA, Ketamine. -Have you ever lost control of your actions while under the influence of an illicit substance? No, as none cause those type of reactions from personal experience, although I did lose track of time on BZP. If used responsibly and is sourced from a reliable source, recreational drugs in my view can be used safely for enjoyment. I haven't had a bad experience with them as of yet. 30. Have you ever partaken in marijuana? Yes -Do you habitually use this substance? I did when I was 15 -Have you ever been "stoned?" Yes -Have you ever lost control of your actions while under the influence of marijuana? No, I've felt very "chilled" and relaxed on it to a point where I just lied in silence with my friends for 3 hours, randomly laughing, but I've never lost control of my actions where I was a danger to myself or others. I've personally never seen that reaction occur with Marijuana use. 31. Have you ever partaken in the consumption of alcohol? Yes -Do you drink socially or alone? Or both? Socially, never alone. -Have you ever been drunk? Yes. -Have you ever lost control of your actions while under the influence of alcohol? I've been "drunk" many times, where I've swayed, been more open and willing to try things, talked crap etc, but I've never been "out of control" of myself due to it, I've always been in a position to get home safely without assistance etc. 32. Have you ever regretted a sexual encounter? No. 33. Have you ever regretted using an illicit substance? (excluding hangovers) No, I've voiced my opinion already on responsible use. 34. Have you ever regretted using alcohol? (excluding hangovers) I've talked crap and done things where the next morning I've thought 'damn that was pretty stupid', but I haven't done anything I hugely regret. 35. Have you ever given serious thought (longer than 30 minutes in a year) to the existence of a supreme being(s)? Yes, many times, no point in turning Agnostic / Atheist if you wont give it some serious thought first.[/hide]