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  1. Replied Well Tuzz hasn't messaged me in a month now so you can have it if you want, last offer I'm making on here before I put it on eBay, £8 including postage to you in the UK, but it'd have to be Paypal. It's only that I don't want to risk your money getting lost with "cash by post" as you suggest. Currently available on eBay, will take offers. Keep in mind shipping outside the UK is pretty expensive, even just to Europe is about £15 up. I can ship most things inside the UK for £3. Exo-Toa and Tahu - £50 ONO Takua & Pewku 8595 - £25 ONO Jaller & Gukko 8594 - £25 ONO Vakama Promotional (Woolworth's Exclusive) - £5 All 100% complete with instructions, Vakama Promotional is boxes, Exo-Toa and Tahu the exception with a few pieces replaced with those of a different colour, detailed fully here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lego-Bionicle-Lot-Exo-Toa-8557-Figure-Tahu-8534-w-instructions-Mata-Nui-Nuva/332372264856 Just going to list the six gold and silver Kanohi now, and probably a set of Vahkshi while I'm at it.
  2. Always wanted to read it myself rather than having to use the hearsay of others. ...I am like that with a lot of things. Don't know how you're finding it - I think it's one of the most overrated books of all time along with Lord of the Flies. I found it both boring as-well as simplistic and poorly written. Really? I'm surprised to find someone who dislikes both 1984 and Lord of the Flies. I'm not one to immediately accept a "classic" as an amazing book (I absolutely abhor The Scarlet Letter, for example), but I thought both of those were absolutely fantastic and poignant. Sure, characters are a bit lacking (seriously can't think of a character from either book except for the fat kid in Lord of the Flies), but the characters aren't really the point of those stories. With the former, they're just a means to demonstrate the world they're living in, and in the latter they're just a means to show the innate and unavoidable animalistic nature of humans. Have you read Animal Farm (also by Orwell)? I'd be curious to hear whether you like that one or not, especially because there really aren't any "characters" in that story to speak of, it's much more focused on its purpose. To be fair to Orwell and Golding, I never got more than about 50 pages into Lord of the Flies before deciding it wasn't going to get better and giving up, and it's been about four years since I read 1984, so I was younger and maybe missed the points - I should give both of them re-reads in the fullness of time, but I have about 50 books ahead of them in the queue for now so it won't be anytime soon. My opinions should be taken with a pinch of salt until I've returned to them again. I understand your point, and perhaps I'm judging them on the wrong merits if I expected multidimensional characters etc, but I didn't find the world itself that Orwell created in that book intriguing, immersive, or insightful at-all - honestly I thought it was really simplistic, like the sort of thing a child would come up with if you gave them the task of imagining a big-brother state. (Of course, the book's influence on literary themes and concepts has been massive: Orwellian dystopia, big-brother, doublespeak, thought-crime, etc...) It's been six or seven years since I read Animal Farm, back when I was in school, so I can't really comment on it, although I think both the concept and execution were clever. Still about halfway through Tess of the D'Urbervilles, which I'm now reading exclusively until I've finished it - I've been reading it very-on-off and completed a few other books during that time, because it's very dense and I'm not used to reading classics. When I've finished it I'm going to go on to Voltaire's Candide, and next in line as far as Discworld is concerned will be The Light Fantastic and Guards! Guards!. In the near future I want to get through Polya's How To Solve It, since it's quite well regarded as a maths book and I've had it sitting there waiting for a few months. Within the next year I want to get hold of copies of Pascal's Pensees and Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy.
  3. Keen on Akercocke myself. They're cheesy but who cares. Haven't heard either of the last two albums you mentioned though. Soulfly - Enslaved and Pink Floyd - Meddle.
  4. Yet their cashflow increased massively. It looks like they killed their profit margin. That's a serious problem.
  5. Deathwhite are great. Surprised to see them mentioned. They definitely deserve more attention. Just ordered Black Sessions ~ Katatonia. Been after that one for a while, mostly because I want to watch the live DVD. I can complete my digital library now with the Black Sessions Live at Krakow tracks and some high quality versions of Fractured and No Devotion. I love both those songs. Well, technically I'm still going to be missing Rehearsal 92 and Rehearsal 91, and I still need Brave Yesterdays to get Untrue... Gah. It's never gonna stop. I wanna see 'em again live so bad, Jonas' voice is amazing.
  6. I don't deal with Bionicles much these days, but I buy and sell frequently, so my answer comes from an equally valid perspective. It depends on who the seller is as to how willing I am to underpay for an item - I will fleece professional traders all day long, many of them deserve it, but obviously never a single mother, etc. In answer to the OP, I think it's fair enough. It's a win-win: the seller has an item and wants the money more; the buyer has money and wants the item more. It's not like the seller is being forced to sell an item for less than they want to; where they have priced the item at and agreed on a sale is a price where both parties are happy.. If I want an item personally I think it's more fair to pay low, but less so for something that I'm intending to profit on, unless it's from a professional trader, in which case they had their chance. Perhaps that's illogical because the gain in personal wealth is the same either way, regardless of if one keeps or sells the item, but it's a natural sentiment that I expect most people would agree with me on. As a side note, depending on the situation, sellers knowingly underprice items for all kinds of different reasons. Sometimes they want space, or money quickly. Others don't need the money at-all and just want to pass the items on to a new home. Sometimes they take a liking to the buyer and offer an item cheaply because they want someone who will appreciate it to enjoy it. I've seen all these things happen. It's not always about the money. The issue is extremely multi-faceted from a moral point of view. As I keep saying, fair exchange of money isn't the only issue. What about preserving valuable items for maximum human utility? If a seller doesn't know the value of something, they are unlikely to respect it either. Often the good done by rescuing an item matches the evil of undercutting the seller on its value. I agree that boasting about your bargains on Facebook is pretty low. I think if you've gotten a good deal you should be grateful for your luck, not arrogant about it. I don't think it's bad to enjoy getting a good deal though. It's all part of the fun.
  7. I believe Tuzmond is having it but I'll let you know if that changes. I wouldn't take cash by post, sounds too dodgy and risks going missing, it would have to be paypal.
  8. Always wanted to read it myself rather than having to use the hearsay of others. ...I am like that with a lot of things.Don't know how you're finding it - I think it's one of the most overrated books of all time along with Lord of the Flies. I found it both boring as-well as simplistic and poorly written.Funny you should mention that I just started reading Lord of the flies.1984 I think was written very well and was interesting to see a author think so far ahead of his time but the story is so depressing making me not care for it that much. Fair enough, each to their own. Be interested to hear what you think of LotF. Hm, I didn't think it was depressing at-all, but mainly maybe because the writing didn't make me care about the characters a smudge. Now for depressing, you really gotta read The Book Thief, Norwegian Wood, Never Let Me Go, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles; even The Godfather is pretty downbeat in its own way. Always wanted to read it myself rather than having to use the hearsay of others. ...I am like that with a lot of things.Don't know how you're finding it - I think it's one of the most overrated books of all time along with Lord of the Flies. I found it both boring as-well as simplistic and poorly written.While I have not read either, perhaps they were acclaimed at the time of their inscription due to the writing standards of their time, so while they hold their place in literary history and their simplicity can be absorbed by more people than other books with more guile of pen, they being outdated cannot be a fault as we have advanced or changed our standards. Just a cranial poot, don't know if any of that is entirely true or not, but I know we have changed styles since the highlight years of H.G. Wells. I don't believe your hypothesis can be true if you mean that standards have increased. Writing standards were probably higher in the past. There's a reasons there are so many formidable classics. For some reason, these days poop like Dan Brown and James Patterson is popular, along with the plague that is YA novels. Their books should all be thrown in a pile and burnt, preferably with the authors tied to them. Although if I've misunderstood you, you'd certainly be right to say that the context of the era was crucial to Orwell's works.
  9. Hi Slifer, are you UK based? £10 for the 6 posted within UK. Hi jc, I'm reluctant to split kraata until I've sold my Rahkshi to be honest, but I'll put a picture up. I don't have the Tarakava. Sure I'd be willing to build combiners if I have the parts. As regards Krahka, I need to check if I still have a full set of Metru or not, I can't remember if I sold them. I know I have a few still. I doubt I can build Protodax but I have about 70% of the green, white and brown piraka. I can take a picture if they might be useful to you. As regards Zyglak I have Kalmah and Pridak but not Takadox. I've put some sets on eBay. They are priced according to the UK market which differs from the US one. Of those that haven't sold yet, available are: - Takua & Pewku - £25 + p&p or best offer - Jaller & Gukko 8594 - £25 + p&p or best offer - Woolworth's exclusive - bidding starts at £10 - Rahaga set of 6 - bidding is at £10 - Visorak lot of 4 - bidding starts at £10 - Tuma - bidding starts at £13 I haven't added international postage being UK based, but if you are willing to pay the extra postage then I am happy to post to the USA. http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/georgverno_3 The next sets to be made available once I've checked they're complete will be Makuta, Takanuva & Ussanui, and the Exo-Toa, in no particular order. The Bahraq are currently spoken for. I have a set of Vahki that I'm currently holding back in-case I find the ko-metru disc which is the only thing missing.
  10. Have you any complete runs of comics? Ignite, Metru Nui, etc, any series would be fine, but I'm only after complete series. I'm also UK (South England) situated and can pay with paypal.
  11. Always wanted to read it myself rather than having to use the hearsay of others. ...I am like that with a lot of things. Don't know how you're finding it - I think it's one of the most overrated books of all time along with Lord of the Flies. I found it both boring as-well as simplistic and poorly written.
  12. Small Gods - Terry Pratchett Immensely enjoying Discworld now. From Mort: “It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?” “Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
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