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Thanks! I just ordered a pizza, can I pay for it with my new CH Cash? Seriously, what can I do with it?

So what happens when the no-kill animal shelter is full and can't take any more animals? What fate awaits the animals whose owners can't cope with them when the shelters are full?

I'm not sure that's a fair comment. I don't doubt for a minute that some people will fake tongues, particularly if they are under pressure by a denomination that believes the only acceptable evidence of the Holy Spirit's indwelling is to speak in tongues. At the same time it's not an...

What is there to be sure about? It's usually easy enough to tell if what someone is saying has some form of structure or not. The same God who inspired Paul to write "test all things" and John to write "test the spirits" is unlikely to have issues with us testing things. The fact that tongues...

When I'm not on the mountain bike... Ha ha, in my dreams...

It's quite remarkable to see so many people walking past the homeless and how many people take a fairly sneery attitude to them as if their problems were entirely self-inflicted. Most people are one or two paychecks away from the street. A guy I knew years ago spent some years living on the...

That makes a lot of sense - you know people who show up get fed and you can interact with them. Even if it just shows the homeless that someone actually cares about them enough to do more than chuck a few coins their way without even slowing.

On another note, it seems odd to me that we've got so many ways to tag a post. We can "thank" for it, we can "like" it and we can give reps for it. Is there a purpose for having so many ways to give someone a pat on the back for a post they made? If it's considered useful to collect "likes"...

Another thing I remember seeing was a street beggar in London with his cap out on the floor to take coins. He had a few low-value coins in there, probably no more than 50 cents worth. Whenever someone gave him a higher value coin (in England the largest value coin is worth a little over $3) he...

I very seldom give cash to beggars. I remember one long weekend I took in Paris. On the Saturday I was walking down the Champs Elysees and saw a beggar in a horrible condition, so much so I was shocked. He was literally dressed in rags, barefoot, dirty, propped on a stick with his hand...

The user data must be stored in the back end, the system knows my user ID and so can look up my gender with the same query as it looks up everything else. To serve a list of forums or new posts it needs to know which forums I have access to already, so all it needs to do is add a user.gender...

When viewing the main list of forums presumably there's some kind of query that goes along the lines of "select f.name, f.description, f.postcount from forum f, forumaccess fa, user u where fa.forum=f.id and fa.user = u.id" (slightly more complex to take account of grouping and sequence but...

Where the denominational posts are concerned can I suggest there aren't too many of them? I can see how, for example, Catholics might want to discuss the Hail Mary without dealing with another round of people saying they are making an idol out of a human but at the same time if people get too...

Just one thought on having lots and lots of subforums. While the board is relatively small is it better to have a smaller number of forums with some activity in each, than to have dozens and dozens of forums that hardly ever see any posting? Just thinking if the threads are too spread out it...

Depends what I had for breakfast. One horsepower is 745 watts, so based on normal usage about 1/4hp. If I stand on the pedals and thump up a hill I can get to about 1.25hp but only for a few seconds. Not surprisingly I can't put out as much power as a horse for any length of time :) Coming...

It's really slow going up long hills but really fun coming down them.

Perhaps - I can see how it could - but a tattoo still isn't something I'd want for myself. It's probably just as easy, a lot cheaper, and a lot less painful, to wear a T-shirt with a Christian message on it :)

I got my kitten from a friend who found him abandoned in the middle of the road. She couldn't give him a long term home because she wants to move into a retirement home, so I took him off her hands.

That wasn't the question either, but never mind...

I'm not sure you've answered my question. I realise that some flags are offensive to some people. In the UK a few years ago there was a big fuss because some people were claiming that flying the Union Flag was a racist gesture because it was offensive to non-Britons who didn't identify with it...