I've never understood why any service should need my card details if I'm signing up for a free trial. I now don't sign up to free trials that require payment details up front because, often, there isn't any warning before the trial period ends and a large charge can then get taken.
If I like your service and it's useful to me after the free trial ends I'll sign up and add my payment details.
I'm probably just cynical before my time but I see it as preying on people who are forgetful, to take their money.
In answer to your question though. I'd send a reminder it's polite.
"Anal" on it's own isn't that bad, although you will be excluding everyone who doesn't know the Freudian term. Juxtaposing it with "sloppy" is going too far. Even if you're not offended by it, being slapped in the brain with that much graphic imagery when you're not expecting it stops you from engaging with the website.
I also cycle my commute. When I used to cycle to the old office this was 14 mile commute on a variety of surfaces. When I initially rode on the road I would gutter crawl; cars would pass real close.
Then I read a few tips on cycling safer and realised that my gutter crawling was actually very dangerous as cars will try to squeeze past to overtake. I don't know how confident you are but for me, riding a third into the lane at all times has improved my safety as cars will now only overtake if they have a ton of room and they'll always go way over into the other lane to do it. I will also take the full lane if I feel I need to. I essentially just needed to be more confident. YMMV
I've actually started moving further out and establishing my area on the road, and it has helped, but I'll often have to slow down and move in. Without typecasting it's often people in 4x4's (Range Rovers, X5s etc), I don't believe it's always down to the person driving it being, well, an asshat but due to the size of the vehicle changing your perspective.
Thankfully a lot of my commute is on cycle paths, but the quality level of road surfaces is some what variable.
At first I thought it was a site encouraging people to buy up foreclosed homes on the cheap. I don't think it was just you confused by the slightly misleading domain name.
However if there is a logical connection between content and domain, I'd also like to know it.
Sorry, I was not talking about your own sidebar... nobody knows about yours... it is our secret :).
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DM has been receiving some flack from their readers for it (the sidebar) so I suspect they are trying to make up for it but ultimately knowing it draws eyeballs.
It's almost like you didn't read the words the parent wrote, he never advocated sailing on over and starting tours...
These people want to be left alone and should be left alone. They've survived for 65000 years on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. I'd say the rest of the "developed" world has something to learn from the way these people sustain themselves without, looking from the outside in, destroying a beautiful tropical island.
