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  1. my ex travel agent buddy always advises to bounce around dates on travelstart.co.za - literally changing a date one day earlier or later can make up to 3 or 4k difference. 

     

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    emmirates and SAA look to be cheapest at just under 14k (excluding whatever reward partner doodabs you might have)

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    Feels valued? What does that mean to someone who earns less than R5k a month?

    it's like a Strava KOM - means **** all really - but it feels nice while it lasts. 

     

    Well done bud you did a great thing, choose someone else who we can give R500k to. 

    :thumbdown: depends who he chooses to give that 500k to - if it's a charity organisation that puts it to proper good use, then yay... we don't know I guess. Maybe it can be donated to his kid's school - we wait and see. 

  3. Maybe I'm a cynical old fart... But are we really in a state in this world of ours where people are being reveared and called "heros" for the same thing that was done naturally and regularly in years gone by? Is this really a reflection of how far society has fallen?

     

    Don't get me wrong.. It's a great story.. And for someone to give up a big chunk of their weekly income with no guarantee speaks volumes of the character.... But a roadshow as a shell ambassador... Seriously?

     

    Flame away if you want.... But It's a genuine question

    I think that's the point. We have become very selfish and narcissistic and are often too scared to get involved, or too pessimistic, assuming it's all a scam.

    For me the fact that he is a petrol attendant probably not earning much and willing to part with the R100 which is worth a lot more to him than the lady he helped - might not be a 'hero' - but he is to the lady he helped.

     

    The shell ambassador thing - that's corporate smarts - jumping on the bandwagon -but if the guy get's an opportunity to travel and he feels valued, even just briefly - i'm cool with that. And a charity gets money out of it - since this guy expressed his desire to help less fortunate than himself. 

  4. I've been ovolacto for over 15 years. 

    this year I started on the Keto journey and i started to reintroduce animal protein into my diet. 

    For what I wish to achieve right now, it works for me as it was impossible for me to get the protein intake without all the carbs just by eating eggs. 

    Might be an arse about way as the world seems to be moving towards plant based, I will still try be more plant based than not but i'm not restricting myself right now. 

  5. Ahh the rookie Facebook stalker error!

    there's also the little psychological game of ... I see what you're doing ... 

    women - don't try to understand them.

    my friend's ex - the mother of his child would not leave the social whatsapp group, and everyone felt too bad to kick her out, so she would see all the plans being made, and then come up with something that needed my mate to be around, or he'd be away for a camping trip and then he'd be called back because the child is sick and **** like that. 

  6. Very easily. The platform already exists - business accounts such as Bike Addict have to pay to advertise - you pay for credits and then use the credits to post adverts. Just roll this out to general users too. I would have no issue at all paying to use the platform, but obviously at a lesser rate than the business accounts. I can garruantee you even a R5 fee would stop time waster posting here.

    Good point. Would be interesting if people would be willing to pay to post.

    That said, majority of the traffic on the hub comes from the classifieds, would it be in the interest of BH to make changes that would impact that

  7. Due to my inability to try hard in my studies, I find it a mountain too high to read this entire thread.

    What is really making me angry at the moment is the inability of people to respond to adverisments that they have posted.

    Eg: I am looking for a set of rollers. I have responded to three advertisments. Two read my pm but did not respond at all. One did, three days after reading my pm. Bloke from Cape Town, I pm'ed him that I was interested in his rollers for sale. I was willing to transfer the funds at once and request the bank to make the funds available at once. I would then arrange with a friend in CT to collect at the sellers nearest convienience so that he would not have to bother with sending. Three days later received a pm from the seller. "cash only". Not a hello nothing. Just cash only.I come from the Free State, we have manners here, we greet each other here and if it is a pretty lady, we greet with a kiss.

    So here is how I see it. The Hub is a family. Like a family, we fight sometimes we stick together more often than not.. Each of these sellers had zero posts on the hub. A further investigation showed the items were also listed on Gumtree and OLX.

    So, these people are using our site to sell their crap. They are making no contribution at all to the site.

    I say, make them pay for the service. On Gumtree and OLX they are offering cycling related goods to the general public. Here you are offering cycling related goods to cyclists. A service that you should pay for IMO.

    It will also make Dr Zingo stop trying to sell his crap that will make your lost lover return or make you win the lottery from advertising here. The Dr doest like paying for advertisments.

    Hello.

    I think that's a great idea. How to implement though, would be tough.

     

    Due to my limited knowledge, buying stuff I'll simply only buy based on my own opinions of someone based on their behavior here.

     

    Selling, I've given away so much stuff for free, thinking they didn't have worth. Didn't even get a follow up thanks from any of them. Biggest school fees were replacement lenses for Oakleys. Only afterwards when I searched online and found out I could have got some moolas instead of giving them away.

     

    I'm not so nice anymore.

  8. I actually responded to the prediction of crucifixion already..

     

     

     

    since i'm bored and can't go home yet i decided to read some of the posts here. 

    earlier there was mention of a baby / foetus / zygote / whatever being sinless and thus, does not deserve to die ,but this says that we are all born sinners thanks to Adam and Eve. Do I understand that correctly? 

  9. Shu, you guys were right about the hateful messages eventually arriving. Seems there is a sudden upsurge since discovering that I am a very happy chappy with my lady. Nice to be in a happy place and able to ignore it all. Even after I had to give up the last of my furniture that I lost in the settlement and was eventually collected.[emoji1787]

    Women. Be afraid. Be very afraid. 

    Glad to hear things are going well with you otherwise. 

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