Suggestion

[Trey]

hey guys, loving the site, its top...just one thing...

I just feel we might have too many topics...

like general, entertainment and music could probably just go into a "everything non bball related" category.

I think for sale, and for trade could become "for sale/trade" heaps of people dont really observe the rules, and post whatever in both, and sometimes someone will say for sale, but get a good trade offer and consider it...so why not merge the two?

and with the deals, we have the agreements, the completed deals, and then the feedback...but we could dump the feedback and just have more info in the completed deals...like usually it goes

trey posts the agreement
magicman agrees
trey says money received, thanks mate your a champion
magicman 3 days later says treys an australian post god.

it then gets moved to completed deals

and then we write the same thing again in feedback.

With my suggestion, people see your a good trader, but they can also see the types of deals you pull down.

just thoughts anyways...

oh and same with the "other" section it could probably just have one, instead of both for sale, and a for trade.

 

[graham]

Personally I agree with you .. come in Magicman

 

[Magicman]

i agree with the top lot there, i got rid of music and chucked em in with Entertainment, but as for the rest just leave it now. We never had a problem in the past so why change it

 

[Trey]

not so much a problem, just a "browse-ability" thing

 

[clarkescards]

We never had a problem in the past so why change it

A joke about this ...

THE WONDERS OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY

Does the statement, "We've always done it that way" ring any bells?

The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.

That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used?

Because that's the way they built them in England, and English
expatriates built the US Railroads.

Why did the English build them like that?

Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did "they" use that gauge then?

Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?

Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's
the spacing of the wheel ruts.

So who built those old rutted roads?

Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions.

The roads have been used ever since

And the ruts in the roads?

Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels.

Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing..

The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot.

And bureaucracies live forever.

So the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's
ass came up with it, you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war horses.

Now the twist to the story

When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These
are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs.

The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory at Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch
site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in
the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is
slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.

So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's
most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass.

... and you thought being a HORSE'S A$$ wasn't important!