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Which spelling do you typically use:
@#$
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If you were stripped naked and forced to parade down Main Street (or the main street) of your home town, how would you pull it off?
I actually just don't have humble genes. I'd probably be making fun of the CROWD.
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When nobody knows and it doesn't make sense, who do you go to?
You're in the right place! The internet in general, and Answerbag specifically. Where else can you get so many people in one place. A lot of brains to tap at one time. Before the internet to get access to this many opinions, you would probably have to commission a university survey. Be glad that you were born into the techno age!
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When you hear the word "dungeon" what comes to mind?
...and Dragons.
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Do you personally find that straightening your hair is bad for your hairs health?
Hair has no health. If you can see it...and it's left your scalp, it is dead. The concept of "hair health" was created by the beauty industry.
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What is the word that is used when a word is misused?
Actually a "malapropism."
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What is the word that is used when a word is misused?
"Bushism." http://www.slate.com/id/2101282/
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Can I just let you know that Jodie44 has been placed in the Penalty Box until 2036? :(
I wonder if the staff realizes that they can conduct surgery with scalpels instead of with meat cleavers.
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If you were one of the the town hall audience members and had about what...20 seconds with Obama, what would you say? To McCain?
Obama: I would tell him that my father marched with Dr. King on Washington and if he were alive today, he would be so happy that this time has come to our country!
McCain: Good evening Mr. McCain.
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What is your favorite conspiracy theory ? Do you believe it?
I recently developed a Britney Spears conspiracy-type theory. I think it's immensely funny because, like so many good C.T.'s, all the pieces really DO fit in place.
I've theorized that Britney's dad demanded that she take a hair test*, to check for historical drug use, and that if she didn't pass, that he threatened to make a legal move to take custody of her person...
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Do you love your mom?
Despite the fact that I do not, and having not spoken with her in about 8 years now, I know that I will feel an emptiness when I have learned she has died.
My mother was a poor mother to me, emotionally. She let me know every day as a child that I had no value; was ugly from my hair to my toes; and that everything I did disappointed her. An example of this is me winning a national writing...
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I found a spoon buried in the cement in front of my door. It was perfectly placed. Is this an old superstition? Thanks.
I agree that the worker was probably eating his soup and dropped it in the cement. Nonetheless, I googled up some superstitions that are fun and will post them here. Was the bowl facing up (omen of an upcoming surprise) or down (omen of pending disappointment) when you found it?
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Give me a definition of the word love, without using any other words that might need defining. Then another for the word respect.
Well...all words need defining: as President Clinton taught us, even the word "is" can need defining.
However, I will give it a shot using first grader accessible language.
Love to me is: the emotion that randomly lifts specific people up above others and causes you to care about them more than you care about strangers. You can't make it come, but you are glad when it...
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IF McCain & Palin win... AND Palin ends up in the Oval Office, will you miss Bush?
No. Palin will not be chief executive and she's not smart enough to matter like Cheney is. It will be horrible for the country, but also entertaining, in a fresh, new way. Yes...hearing Bushisms is entertaining, but a little old now. We can only hear about OB GYN's getting to "love" their patients so many times before we long for another idiot to laugh at.
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I was just served a bagel by a bearded lady at the local coffee shop...Should I eat it?
You'd eat it if it was served by a bearded man, right?
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700 Billion dollar bailout. How would you vote...Yes or No, WHY?
Damn that is a good question. NOW that I know that they intend to contract out the oversight of this (instead of setting up a government agency to review who gets the money); and that it ill be contracted out to...you guessed it, big name firms on WALL STREET, who are hardly to be trusted overseeing THEMSELVES....
I would have to say "no," in its present form and I think this was a...
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I'm a 16 year old female and I have excessive hair and in the last year it's come up (hormone imbalance?) It's on my lower back, bum and starting to appear above my upper lip! Any pills to reduce it? How do I permanately remove it without spending big?
Embarrasingly enough, I have this problem and have ever since I was a kid.
What I know now is this: a waxer is the cheapest, longest lasting way to lose a "lady-stash." Where I live, it cost about $25 and will stay gone for me for about 3 weeks! Really, really worth it in my opinion. FIERCE pain while it is being removed, ripped out by the roots. But then it is OVER. No lingering...
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What cartoon from your childhood do you wish was still on tv?
Speed Racer. (I was truly a delusional child and thought I might MARRY Speed someday--although I was tossed up between him and Racer X!)
Sometimes I catch it late at night, I think on adult swim. It seems so stupid now, but still the nostaligic high is good for a half an hour.
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Zazzy_one signing off. Today is my last day on A.B. Would anyone like to say "bye," or "eat my spit" or anything else?
zazzy_one@yahoo.com
Feel free. If you put "A.B." in the title, I will smile and know it is probably an old friend checking-in!
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If you had to pick between a friend who ALWAYS gives great advice or a friend who ALWAYS makes you laugh, which one is for you?
Always makes me laugh. I am so old that I usually seek my own counsel at this point.
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Can a non custodial father email the judge if the mother is not allowing 'reasonable visitation' as specified in the judges orders?
A non custodial father can set a MOTION. Any time a person sends a letter to the judge, that is ILLEGAL, and will make everyone angry. Will cause you to look like a skumbag. It is called "ex parte" communications. (One-sided communications.) Figure out how to set a motion.
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If me and my landlord verbally agreed to go month to month with no contract and I dont pay my rent how long will it take them to evict me and will I still have to go through the whole legal process if we dont have a lease
The answer to this question is impossible to provide given the information you have furnished. The laws of all states are different on this issue.
Short of calling a lawyer, (which could provide you with the correct answer to your question), I would suggest that you formulate a google-search with the following search requirement specific to your own state: landlord tennant law state of...
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What are your best home remedy's for colds and flu?
I got some pretty good answers to a similar question here. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/998972
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Do you have any irrational fears?
I am scared of things touching my neck. Even though I am not into occulty things, sometimes I giggle about the possibility that I might have been hung in a past life.
When I was a kid, turtleneck sweaters were in. All of them got stretche3d out since I spent the whole day pulling them off of my neck.
Lovers can't touch or kiss me on the neck or...sometimes they do, and that halts all...
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You invent a perfume/aftershave that makes you irresistible to men/women would you keep it or sell it?
Both.
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Google up your AB tag (zazzy_one--without your e-mail account). How many pages of AB results did you find?
Amazingly...I googled up 100 pages of AB stuff.
And 7,250 resulting entries!
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Do you have eyes in the back of your head? Does/did your mother?
I DID...twice.
Once when my son was from 2-5 years old. And when my daughter was about 2-4 years old.
They specifically avoided bad acts when they thought I was in SNIFFING distance even, 2 rooms away.
Since they have both wised up, I have resumed my normal, mortal, non-supernatural abilities.
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Knots Landing, Dynasty, or Dallas?
Dallas BY FAR.
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When your vehicle is pulled over by a police officer and they ask you "Do you know why I pulled you over?" what is the best response?
No officer. Why?
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If you could wake up anywhere you want tomorrow, where would it be?
On a secluded beach in the small island chain of the St. Vincents.
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What do you and I have in common?
I suspect, (and allow me to presume you are a humanoid of planet earth):
The following requirements:
1) Food
2) Water
3) Love
4) Sex.
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What do you think of my brother-in-laws Halloween costume?
Totally love it. But a little too close to home for me in menopause (lol).
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If you could do things differently during childhood, would you work harder? Play more? Take piano lessons? Join more clubs? Read more? Write more? Take sports more seriously? Would you talk to different people now that you can see who and what was REALLY
I would: 1) work harder in high school, instead of let my GPA flake off each year; 2) audition for some screen work (I now know that I was stunningly beautiful, but since I grew up in an abusive family, they lead me to believe and I did believe that I was butt ugly); 3) save at least 20% of all the money I earned (instead of drink and smoke it up like I did); and 4)learn how to eat nutriously...
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This guy i like called me a 'hells angel' in a very flirty way with a cheeky grin!what did he mean by that?
I suspect that he means you are unconventional, willing to do the unexpected even if it rubs people the wrong way. And the "angel" part, that means he likes it (and perhaps that you're cute to him).
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Have you seen people drive endlessly around the gym's parking lot trying to find the closest possible parking spot?
Ha yes. It is HILARIOUS. I used to do the same thing. Then one day I was like...wait...this makes no sense! Now I look for the FARTHEST away. (Great question, really brings our attention to it. 5+)
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Is there an ABA (Answerbag Anonomous)?
Ummm. Well...it would have to be held OFF-LINE. Otherwise it would be like holding an AA meeting in a tavern!
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In the U.S., should all people over 18 be required to vote? Or do you think it is better if only people who care about the issues and are informed vote?
Well...if that was the standard, Palin wouldn't be able to vote and I think she should be able to vote*, just not run be in the national executive.
*She has ove a million dollars worth of property to protect.
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Men: would you become a house husband if your wife had a good paying job?
Too bad my husband's not on AB. That's him you're talkuing about.
He always gets dinner on the table for sure, but he only keeps the house man clean.
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Whats the best thing you've made with your hands?
I am a knitter and currently making a Faire Isle sweater which requires "two-handed" knitting. I am very proud of it.
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What's your favoite way of preparing and eating eggs? Scrambled, poached, hard boiled, fried, or "other?"
My husband makes the best scrambled eggs! In our house we call them "cheesy eggs." He sloooooow scrambles some eggs just barely moving them around the pan over low flame. And in the last 20 secs or so, loads up the cheddar cheese sprinkles. But because of the yellow of the egg, you don't know how cheesy they are until you taste them. Light luscious and yummy!
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I ws talking t this guy i like wen my fone rang he said 'tell them to get lost,im trying to get a hold of your lips!'.i nearly died,just laughed it off,he kept eye contact all the time,is he into me,was that a 'move'???did i mess up?
Um...Okay it was a struggle trying to get through this, because of the grammar. But it IS a very funny story.
Clearly you didn't mess up since he wanted them to get lost. How...could you have messed up? Is he acting like you messed up?
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There's this girl I want to ask out but I'm not sure how. What should I say?
People on AB can't really teach you to pick-up chicks. It is a myth.
It is a myth that there is one way to ask a girl/ guy out at all.
Girls come in 3,363,547,277* different types.
Why would they all be suseptible to the same pick-up line?
*The world population clock says that double this figure is the rough population of the globe as of 10-1-2008....
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My daughter is 17, was hit in the shoulder by a man who is 36 or 37.. they just charged him with a 4th degree assault... do you th ink he should be charged with a 1st degree assault or 4th degree assault...
The way you have described it, it is a misdemeanor, which is often described as 4th degree assault, and I'll assume that is so in your jurisdiction.
But...no one here can truthfully tell you the answer to your question or even pose a reasonable opinion. They have to guess too much. They have to guess: what happened to your daughter after she was hit, whether she bled, bruised,...
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What 3 " Items "do you Run Out of the most /quickest at home --?
1) Milk (I love milk);
2) Onions (We eat onions with everything): and perhaps
3) Diet soda.
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How many times so you hit the snooze button in the morning before getting up?
Zero. That was a problem of mine in my 30's. But in my 40's I am an insomniac. I usually wake up about 4 a.m. every morning, whether I want to or not.
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Can you name a song title containing the word "star"?
I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying by Sting. I like the idea of digging out of deep depression by looking up at the skies and choosing stars for the troubled people and just deciding...everything's going to be okay. (We are short-lived humans, and the stars will outlive our woes anyway?)
Seven weeks have passed now since she left me
She shows her face to ask me how I am
She...
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The guy is called T. Whenever I see T i always smile & sigh. My heart beats 10 times faster and I just want to stare at him. This has happened to me since sometime in March in 2007...so I think i've luved this guy for about a year and 6 months. is it luv?
I don't know that it matters what you call something sometimes as long as you know what it really IS.
If you have had deep conversations and spent time with this person, know who they are and what they want to be, do, what their hopes and dreams are, then maybe you have deep abiding feelings for them, you know and respect who they are and where they want to go in their life, and you...
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What's the most usless piece of rubbish do you have in your home?
I am 42 years old, and for some reason, I still have two of the towels my mother bought for me the night before I went to college. They are raggedy, and they aren't hidden away in a closet somewhere! No, I have them in regular circulation!
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What is the most often pressed button in the world?
The space bar.
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How would you handle it if your husband came to you and told you that he wanted to cheat but hasn't done it?
Honestly, I think that would be the most refreshingly mature thing a spouse on the edge had ever done!
I would definitiely talk it through with him and figure out what it meant for our relationship: does he think that it will be a long term thing. That I don't think I could live with, honestly. But a short term thing...believe it or not, I think I could live with that.
I really...
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It was a Bad storm the other night, and my wife allowed our kids to sleep with us, I told the kids to wear t shirts or go back to their own bed, as they normally sleep naked, My wife says I was too harsh, and was wrong. what do you think?
Good call as far as I can tell.
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I'm smart, i have big boobs, i'm not fat, i'm pretty, i have a good personality... why don't i have a bf?
I don't think that anyone can for sure make any of those calls about themself.
Ask a friend (who has seen you and knows if you have any irritating personality flaws) to be BRUTALLY honest about this question.
AB'ers have a lot of too much honesty and brutal for days and days, but what they don't have is YOU. And without you, we don't know the answer to your question.
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What was your favorite television show of all time?
That changes. But RIGHT NOW I like House.
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Have you ever noticed how angry political people are? why is that?
Passion. If you really believe ______* (fill in the blank) is IMPORTANT, than you can't understand why
everyoine doesn't understand it!
*Christ is lord and the bible is our constitution; the environment is dying; gays are abominations; people should all be equal; we need to help the downtrodden; people need to pick themselve up by their bootstraps....
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I am a black male and whenever I wash my face or put any water on it my cheeks and chin becomes extremely dry and flaky. If I put a moisturizer on it my face becomes even drier and vaseline is too greasy. Does anyone have a solution?
I am a black woman and have diabetes (which DOUBLES my dry skin issues).
Not only have I found magic in a jar, but it's cheap too!
For years I have been looking for a non-greasy moisturizer. But the best I could find were department store moisturizers at about $30 for a teeeeeeeeeensy little pot that is about an inch tall and you can hide in your hand.
By chance I found a drug...
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If someone could stick a price tag on your back, what would it say?
"Reduced for clearance" and "Menapausal!!! Must move QUICK!"
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Sarah Palin did better than expected. Did it occur to folks that she studied really really hard! lol. I mean she bombed in her interview with Katie Couric. Just a thought...feel free to respond.
SP was mostly non-responsy. She had her talking points. Obviously she studied but she was like two different people.
As much as the moderator tried to MAKE her answer some questions, she just didn't know....You can't answer questions you don't know. You can just do shout outs to your local elementary school.
On the surface, she did look "good," but that is just...
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My ex-husband has custody of our children. His current wife kicked him out of their house, but my children are still living there. Is there some kind of legal action I can take because she has no legal right to them.
In my state, it is called a "modification of parenting plan."
But all states are different.
Obviously if you don't even know the name of the legal action you need to bring, you should seek legal counsel in your own home state who DOES know the name of the legal action you want to take.
When there are "change of circumstances," parents can ask for their custody...
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Whats worse to kiss - The taste of stale coffee, stale cigarettes or something else?
STALE BEER!
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Whose the hottest: Michelle Obama, Jill Biden, Sarah palin or Cindy McCain?
Something to think about>>http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1003898
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Have you ever done the "bloody mary" thing in the mirror? What happened?
Um...Well let's see. I was 8. Bloody Mary jumped out of the bathroom mirror and slaughtered my whole small town. (I hid under the sink.) I left to avoid the guilt and well....I don't know what happened after that!
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Do you urinate in the shower? (Yes, this is a serious question, as I've had men tell me that they do.)
I can't answer that on the grounds that it would incriminate me. Err....MIGHT. IT MIGHT incriminate me!
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Be honest, what is worse, hitting a person or hitting an animal?
That is really a tough one. I am surprised that my gut reaction says animal! Mainly because if you hit an animal, for SURE they did not know it was coming.
But then there are so many kinds of persons! What about a coma patient, or a child, or a thin woman with a new nose job?
I would say this question does not have an easy answer. It depends upon the animal...and it depends upon the...
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Can you go through an entire day without speaking a single word?
Yes, yes. Funny thing, I've been close. Was on the web all day long. And ended up playing a late night spades game on Yahoo. I was soooooooo much craving companionship I typed through the whole game. And finally my partner typed: "god you have a BIG MOUTH."
I typed back: "I've been mute for 20 hours."
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Would you continue to work even if you won the lotto?
I would. I enjoy lawyering. HOWEVER, I would only work one or two cases a year. Bringing down the volume would make me a way better lawyer.
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When you drink, do you get all philosophical or just have a good time?
When I'm STONED* I get all philosophical (and see God and stuff). When I'm drunk, I have a good time for about 8 minutes until I fall asleep.
*There. I've done it. Ruined my future in politics by admitting...I inhale and I LIKE it.
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Define Good? this is a political Question i want to see what you think good is politically. Thank you.
Good is the program/ candidate that balances liberty and equality so that every individual gets the maximum of both while losing the least of each.
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Do you think "go take a pregnancy test" is an adequate answer to ALL "am I pregnant" questions? Are there any exceptions or can we just vote on a universal answer?
If the moon is in aquarius and if he puts it there then I did this and moved it there.... We can never know what portion of these questions are spoofs or pulling our legs. Don't forget that part.
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When someone asks "May I be frank with you?", what is your response?
It's usually rhetorical. One can't turn on their heels fast enough to run away before the bastard has the rest of his statement out of his mouth. (But I wish it was possibly.)
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My boyfriend told me he would get checked for STDs. Now he won't go. He says he knows he's clean, despite the fact he has never been tested. He says its insulting for me to ask him to go. We love each other a lot and I'm shocked he won't go. What can i do
Dump him. Not willing to give you peace of mind on a little (should be no-brainer) issue that costs him nothing?
What about when a MAJOR LEAGUE issue comes along? He throws a tantrum and wins that too?
And...no sex until this is worked out. Not for punishmnent, but because I'd rather keep you alive. Most likely he has had (as most of us) risky sex and he's a little scared to...
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How many of you ladies enjoy a full-body massage?
Um...duhhhhh. HELL YEAH!
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Do you have regular hiv tests?
No. I have been married now for 9.5 years. But I will never forget my first one in 1991. I was scared to death. I had graduated from law school and figured it was one of the first things I should do, after waking up from a boozy cloud of school/ parties/ school/ parties. See if my crazy lifestyle had caught up with me. Thankfully negative.
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When was the last time that you had ZERO messages in your e-mail in box? Does it stress you out to never get your balance down to zero?
I think it's been roughly two years ago. Although...I am sooooooooo stressed out about it that I may be supressing the real date.
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It's the first of October and there are loads of halloween questions up here, why is it such a big deal un the US? For such a God fearing country you guys seem obsessed with celebrating the occult. Please explain it to us English.
Two words: kid's holiday.
You good English folk celebrate Christmas, right? The tree, the yule log, all date back to pagan festivals started in your country right?
I suspect that we are no more occultists than your countrymen are pagans.
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Mommy, mommy, mommy, where do babies come from?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq5K9GTEli8&feature=user
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If you could ensure that your children never have one experience that you have had, what would it be?
To bear a child with a man you never loved, thereby insuring he will be in your life for years to come. (Also applies to my son who won't "bear" anything, but knows I would kick his ass if he didn't step up to the plate.)
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What's the funniest "you tube" video that you have seen?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GpZpoaZaSE&feature=iv
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500 years from now a graduate student does a paper on what we have created here. We all become archiological stars, and people decide to identify themselves with aspects of our personalities that came out here on this site. Which "one" are you?
I am the aging, lefty hipster who refuses to shut up after taking it in the breetches about homophobia and the religious right.
I am nonetheless a Deist and spirualist and one of the "ones" who valued this site and its community memebers and tried to make a difference every day.
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What do you do/ how do you feel when you run into blatan racism on AB? Do you feel differently if you are a member of the group in question? See> http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/4159385
Almost every single time I run into racism, I am shocked. That is why I propose not flagging or asking racist responses to be removed. I think we get too complacent and forget about racists if we erase them from the site.
I am not a Jew (who is engaged in some kind of conspiracy against the U.S. economy).
Nonetheless I am offended.
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Other than wood or fake wood, does anything come in brown anymore?
CHOCOLATE!
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You're working airport security, a woman whose water you just confiscated tells you "Do I look like a terrorist? I have blonde hair and blue eyes. Terrorists don't have blonde hair and blue eyes." What would be your response?
The next one might. (Terrorists also don't look like Mexican's with explosives in their shoes.)
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Do you believe in the U.S government and will you ever after this economic crisis?
Either it is a genuine crisis or it is something that we will sail through.
Black Monday turned out to be just fine for most of us normal folks.
So...I'm not sure that when the two sides argue what they believe in, that they are scamming us.
Instead I believe that the economy of any large country is so complex that to predict the results are almost impossible. I think Greenspan...
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When my 3 year old son throws a fit, I like to throw one back at him. It usually makes him stop. Does anyone else do this, or am I just mean?
Both me an my husband have done this when my daughter was younger. This usually lead to all three of us laughing on the floor in the end. It is not mean. It points out to a child how riddiculous they look.
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What do you think about the proposed $700 billion bail out for Wall Street?
Banks fail = consumers can't even get small loans = America is forced to stop spending beyond their means = fewer luxury items are sold = companies can't afford their staff = national firings in the sales and consumer market industries = dad/ mom come home jobless = no one is putting $ i Johnny's college fund and mortgage forclosures continue to escalate.
It is a distasteful...
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Whats the stupidest law you know ?
Illegalization of marijuana but legalization of scotch.
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Do you think a man who has been married and divorced 3 times (to different women) can be a responsible father?
I am the fourth wife of a man who is doing a great job of parenting this time around. Although I admit that even I think he is/ was a shitty father to his first child, now an adult.
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Do any of the Indian grocery stores in Chicagoland sell Horlicks Malted Milk Powder?
As a former Chicagoan...I will say Horlick's was all over the place the last time I was there. Garden variety grocery stores should fit the bill.
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How many of you Answerbag users, who should be on a diet, find it difficult to give up 'stodge'/biscuits/cakes/pastry/confectionery?
Not me. I should be on a diet. Yet my weakness is not sweets, but savory foods, greasy, cheesy meats and such.
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What separates Jesus from other religious figures?
His followers are Christians.
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Has your brother got a girlfriend
Don't know. Me and my brothers are estranged. I wouldn't mind seeing them. But the estrangement has been so long now that it would be hard to sell it to my husband, who has gotten used to considering them "bad."
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As of this moment, how long have you been sober for?
Probably about two years. I am not a tea-totaller or an alcoholic. I actually like to drink to excess. Just don't get around to it too much.
The life I have chosen for myself as a mother and a lawyer (and the wife of a guy who likes to stay home more than anything else, sigh...) has a lot of responsibilites and very few opportunities for embibing.
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Buttermilk - horrible beverage or nectar of the gods?
Horrible BEVERAGE, but INGREDIENT of the gods.
Causes great chemical reactions in pancakes, for instance.
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My close friend told me a secret. It's horrble. I want to tell the police but I promised her I wouldn't say ANYTHING. I love her dearly and don't want to lose her trust but there is a very bad person in her life. I don't know what to do. Any suggestions?
I think there is another (sneakier) way.
Think, think, think. Is there another person who can drop the dime instead of you?
Is your friend in any way exposed to a: minister, social worker, vindictive family member who might want to say "I told you so."
Wait a month or two (hoping your friend's life is safe all this time).
That MAY help to take the suspicion off of...
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Have you ever changed clothes in a car?
Mannnny times. I am a busy professional. I sometimes miss my alarm on exactly the day I need to be somewhere and well...throw myself in the car half dressed with my make-up kit and pray!
But the funniest story I ever heard about this, was my good friend who is Canadian and drives nort to visit family. There is a LOTTA LOTTA rural road between her family and where she lives in the states....
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If you drop food on the floor at home (like a chip for example) do you throw it away or pick it up and eat it?
I used to pick it up and eat it, depending upon the last time we washed the floor.
HOWEVER, my 8 year old is really into the new Food Network show, Food Detectives, which I watch with her during mother-daughter time. Their experiments show that the three second/ five second rule is bull. If it hits the floor, it will get bacteria on it. (The moister the food, say a piece of peel and eat...
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How often and intensly do you argue with yourself?
Every day. Silently, yet intensely. Intensity level: 6.5 on a scale of 1-10.
I am beginning to wonder about myself.
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What will be the first thing that you are going to do in order to get ready for Halloween?
First: get big bags of bargain candy (we never have enough).
Second: find my 8 year old daughter the costume of her dreams. (She may want to be a belly dancer this year since we saw one at a great restaurant a few weeks ago.)
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Fill in the blank: music is my _______ .?
Religion. Even though I am not a big audiophile, I LOVE what I LOVE.
Since I am Deist, and believe in the existence of a creator god but do not believe in religion, I believe that the closest I get to rapture is through music: a temporary release of myself into the artwork created for my enjoyment.
Rock, classical, pop, opera, they can all get me there.
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How would you like to die?
In my sleep, the day after the end of my best exotic vacation ever! But...not before I get to see at least my first grandchild born!
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My friend's husband has an annoying habit. At any buffet, he piles his plate high with food, and then just picks at it. He doesnt eat even 10 % of it...Am too embarassed to discuss it with my friend. Should i?
Parties are for having fun, not for being made the butt of jokes or discovering that (maybe for years) people have secretly wondered about your eating habits. IMAGINE FINDING THIS OUT!
If he ate it, you'd be okay, assuming that he'd had an excessive fat man's good time!
Assume that the food was an investment in his good time. LET IT GO.
Otherwise imagine the consequences...
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How do I bring my sense of humor up to your standards if it’s not the kind of SoH that flows well with the community?
Look. Stop griping about it. One licking-your-wounds question is enough in one day. Any more starts to sound too self-absorbed.
Be yourself and...quit moping.
This forum is not for everybody. It is a free speech forum and tough to handle sometimes.
If you were a character in a play, say Liza Doolitle, perhaps we could re-make you and your sensibilities would perfectly fit into this...
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I just finished watching a program on PBS regarding people in the US who have no health insurance. I spent the hour long program in tears. Do you think that afforable heath care for "all" Americans is the most important issue in this election?
I think it was probably issue number two after all things international: wars, WMP, etc.
But that was until the economy went all to hell and a handbasket.
I think this will, quite unfortunately be another presidency that doesn't get around to this important issue because other things came first.
The money toward the war will now get re-directed to propping up the economy and...
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As a step parent how do you go about telling your significant other that she needs to start disciplining her child? Has an 8 year old that thinks because he is the 'baby' he can do what he wants, when he wants and he can just run to mommy and get his way.
I feel for you. I've been involved in two families where this was a main destructive issue of the family. I am still in one, and if my son hadn't grown up and moved away.... Let's just say that happened RIGHT ON TIME.
I have been both the mother with a child from another relationship, and the mother putting up with a child from another relationship.
Without going on and on,...
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My girlfriend took a drug test today and she failed it. It showed that she had Meth in her system. She is claiming that it's because of the energy drinks that she drinks. Is this possible?
Absolutely not. This is preposterous. Drug addicts are famous for lying and manipulating those around them. Amphetimines are controlled substances. Controlled substances are chemicals that are illegal to sell without (and sometimes even with...meaning a prescription CANNOT even be writen for them) a prescription, ie.: morphine; heroine; marijuana; cocaine; etc. If controlled substances were in...
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How can I make my art more abstract? I think I'm too much of a perfectionist for abstract art. But it's for an assignment and I want to think outside my usual box.
Think slightly off.
Think...that zone you are in right beforeeee you fall off to sleep, or right before you wake up.
Think of what you want to depict and then think how these things might look on another planet.
If it's circular, make it cubic. If it's triangular make it trapezoidal.
Draw the through line in stead of the shape and then see where the lines take you.
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What are you a snob about?
Grammar. (Despite needing to review comma rules annually myself.)
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If you are fat or skinny does it make a difference while dating?
I was working on a psych minor when I was in college. (Never got it but took a lot of courses.)
I read a lot of studies. One of the very FEW that I remember (probably because it had application to my future dating life), was as follows.
If people are rated between one and ten in terms of looks by a large random sample, it is likely that their mate is rated the same as them or close to...
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What time do you get up each morning?
I have insomnia. I am often up and down all night. But the (unfortunate) time that my body usually wakes me for the last time is roughly 4 a.m.
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Do you enjoy youtube.com?
For me You Tube is about HUMOR, often political, but also send-ups of movies and bands. I also watch some video on my favorite musical artists (who are often funny or...drunk...Winehouse).
My You Tube use is about my moood. I can go for two months without watching, usually during really busy times in my career. And then it's like...I REMEMBER it and I can't stop watching it again....
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I am 7 weeks pregnant and I passed a blood clot yesterday and had a pink discharge today. Are these symptoms of a miscarriage?
Yes. Obviously. That is what my miscarriage looked like. But only a doctor could say for sure.
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How much does the morning after pill cost?? coz im broke and scared.
If you already have birth control pills at home, call your prescribing doctor and ask them how many to take.
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Would having a million dollars solve most of your problems?
Indeed it would. The only thing that could make my life happier would be becoming a full time writer and leaving my lawyering gig. However, if I did that, I would lose my house, especially in current economic counditions. It would be nice to have a mil, if all it did was make sure that I could walk away from work for a few years.
Also, if I had a miliion dollars, I could try to start up my...
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Do other peoples' problems overwhelm your mind?
Yes. That is why I an hoping to change my career in the next two years. Um...the current financial crisis does not make it a particularly wise decision for me to go career hunting at the present time.
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If you were stuck in a steel box what would you do?
I would try to fall asleep, for two reasons.
1) To minimize the amount of air, and extend the amount of time someone has to find me.
2) If it is not in the cards for me to live, I'd rather die in my sleep.
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Should i call it quits. i have been married for 7 years now. the past 2 years have not been good. my husband has not worked in 4 years. all he does is set around the house and play on his computer. he treats me like i am his maid.
I think the answer is obvious. But putting it to a popular vote might make you feel better somehow. If you need my vote to get up and do something for yourself, here it is: Zazzy waives her hand in the air.
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Plz help me with a public speaking thing that includes "Tacks" and manipulation ? so want t tell how these things are good by making them sound good. basically i have to manipulate the crowd so they can agree with me even though the thing im trying to jus
I would have the room imagine the world without the tacks, with a bunch of papers all over the floor. Ha! You will probably be able to get a visual on this as tacks are every place: there will probably be a few in the room you are in.
Have the listeners imagine: their rooms at home, other classrooms, their doctor's offices, etc.
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Okk my boyfriend has 3 warrants out for his arrest rightt? So if he goes to his probation meeting on the 7th of next month, will he be arrested on account of those warrants then?? && Will he be drug tested the first time?? What do I do!! :(
It is extremely likely that your boyfriend will be arrested by his p.o.
Drug testing, he will know this better than you. Just ask him if he u.a.'s every time he goes in.
If he is arrested...I assume and hope you will do...whatever it is that will make you feel good about it.
Perhaps you will wait.
Perhaps you will start assessing the relationship.
What will you do is a...
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Is there a certain breed of dog that you automatically associate with violence?
Pit bulls and doberman pincers, even though I have known individual dogs in both breeds that were friendly enough (when their owners sanctioned the outside strangers).
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Do you have more compassion for people or animals?
I have a lot of compassion for all creatures. But if my own dog and a homeless man that I didn't know were both trapped in a burning house, with only enough time to save one, I would save the human.
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A study was done recently asking if people that had children could go back and not have children, about 70% said they would not. If you have children, and could go back in time, would you have children again? Honest answers only please.
Hmmm. I cannot answer that question on the grounds that my children might google this answer up after my death.
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How to delete questions from answerbag- if not answered?
I've successfully removed one by going here. http://www.answerbag.com/feedback_edit
This is the feedback site, which is also where one can go if having troll problems.
The link is located at the bottom of this very page, on the top line, right hand side: "Feedback."
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Do your kids have 'Moonsand'? and does it drive you nuts when they play with it?
Yes AND Yes!
AND it makes me wonder if the woman who gave it to my daughter is TRULY a friend or mine! (I thought she was before THIS!)
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Can you name all of spongebob's friends
I would say Sandy and Patrick are S.B.'s only true "friends." He has an boss; a guy HE thinks is his friend, but clearly isn't, Mr. Squidward; he has a PET....
MMMMMMMMaybe Mernmaid Man (why he isn't Merman we don't know) and Barnacle Boy....But they find S.B. more an irritant than anything else. I guess that just doesn't fit my definition of...
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Have you been shunned?
Oddly often by fellow KNITTERS. I am gregarious, and when I find myself in a circle of knitters, I expect to spend some girl time. Usually that is EXACTLY what happens. Every now and then I am sitting somewhere, side by side with another knitter, and I make small talk with her but she cuts it short.
I attribute this to several things. Sometimes (unfortunately) I think it is racism. Other...
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Have you ever used a public restroom while barefoot?
Yes. Unfortunately. At our local beach after swimming. And yes, it was very gross. However, I think I, like most people, probably low my cleanliness standards at the beach. (You have to don't you?)
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What would you do if...you thought the dog ate your wedding ring?
CRISIS AVERTED! We found the ring under the bed. Either he played with it or in my sleep, my arm flipped it off the bed side table.
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Whats the craziest thing you've ever one to your hair ? ex (dye it a weird haircut and so on)
I had many of the punkish, Sweet Georgia Brown colors.
THE craziest was probably BRIGHT pink. Oh and yes, I was a lawyer when I did this, way too old (but I'd started hanging out with a punk crowd). Oh and I am African American and I always kept my normal cut. So it was punk and NOT punk, pink yet relaxed and hanging straight. Lol.
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What's wrong with your ex? (see link)
Controling, stubborn, bi-polar-acting, overly fastidious, doesn't make friends, doesn't keep friends...
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What is your favorite vinegar and its use?
A rich, aged balsamic (read: the more $, the older and richer. Perhaps at least $70.) I top fresh strawberries with this. It is...virtual orgasmic eating!
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What was a toy that you played with during your pre-school days?
We had some foam blocks (nerf-like...hmm...softer even, actually) and you could push em together and make a "bed" or stack them high, and when they toppled down, no one got hurt!
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If you could inhabit the world of any video or computer game, which one would you choose?
Definitely not Missile Command!
Simm City, perhaps.
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Why do some people ask very few questions?
I have a friend who has asked zero. I think that he asks none because he is less interested in the "virtual game" aspect of Answerbag than the really trying to help people aspect.
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My 5 year old is complaining of tummy pain. (gas) What can I giver her to help?
Can you get her a little sugar-free ginger ale or 7-Up? Perhaps that will help her bring the gas up.
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Have you ever kissed a bare butt?
Kissed, bitten, nibbled AND licked. But...I liked that butt very, very much.
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When I was a child, the law of the land was that to vote, one needed to prove one could read. I KNOW my father voted in every election, and I know he was illiterate. Your thoughts?
Proving you can read...was like poll tax, to prevent poor, African Americans in the south from voting.
I...don't know where you are getting this. Do you have a citation?
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What was the best song about a car from a car commercial that you have ever heard? What are its lyrics?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HksXMVhxdxY
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When you were a child and dreamed what your life would be like when you were older, did it fit the scenario of where you are now? Or had you pictured something quite different?
Pretty much I nailed it. I have always wanted to be a lawyer. I am a lawyer. I remember in my dreams I had a three-story home. (Lol.) My home only has two stories.
I think too...I was a happier lawyer than I am now.
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What is the first ever board game you remember playing?
Chutes and Ladders.
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If there were no laws at all, would you become depraved?
I was going to jump right in and say "no,"...but then I realized that I'm not really sure what depravity is. I was assuming sexual only (and I don't have any abnormal urges...I don't THINK).
But when I looked "depravity" up in my "New Websters Concise Dictionary: Encyclopedic Edition, 2003, I found that the definition of "depravity" is...
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If someone is accused of having bad taste in their selection of wardrobe, what would you expect to find in their closet?
DEFINITELY some plaid, polyester pants. As a matter of fact...everything in the closet is man-made fibers!
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Have you ever tried to go veggie or vegan and failed miserably cos you missed meat, like me?
MANY times.
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Do ratings indicate merit or popularity?
A little of both, I suspect, plus a third factor which you haven't considered: TIME.
By mere fact of me having been here since winter 2006, I would have more points than...Stephen Hawking, if he were on this site.
Stephen Hawking is a physicist and a genius. I am not. But for sure, on day one, he would have zero points and I would have more.
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If you're travelling away for the weekend, do you take everything you can "just in case you need it", or do you prefer to take almost nothing and buy what you need?
I travel like my LIFE depended on it.
I take everything I MIGHT want to do, and a little work (JUST in case). I take cosmetics I haven't worn in 6 months because I MIGHT want to wear them this weekend. I take my sudokus even though I haven't worked one in a year. I have MEANT to start my tooth whitening kit for weeks, so I take that because I MIGHT get started....And on and ON.
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How much money did you spend today?
Today I did nothing, except for dinner I went to a Greek restaurant ($53 for me, hubby, and daughter) and saw a belly dancer ($4.00 for her tip...I felt really cheap but I had no other cash on me).
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Do you get out much?
In general, no. However, I did get out tonight and have some Greek food and see a belly dancer. Lol.
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**Knitters**!! How do you keep your hand knitted garments looking like new after washing? How do you wash your knitted pieces?
I am scared to hand wash. I am starting to send mine in for dry cleaning!
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No one said you had to stay, so why are you still here?
Addiction.
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Do you like 'Toblerone'?
I would enjoy it 100% more if it weren't the exact wrong shape for a human mouth.
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AMENDMENT: I couldn't stop thinking about the big "T" after I read this! I went out and bought one and ate virtually the whole thing today by myself. (I believe that there are two triangles left!)
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Have you ever read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck? How old were you?
I was 17 and a high school A.P. senior. It moved me greatly, and I still consider it one of the greatest books I've had the opportunity to read.
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I am white and you are black ... Yet you do not call me your brother ... Why? ... If I did the same and discounted all races as my brother except whites ... Would I then be classed as a racist? (no offense intended)
Dude....You are my brother. Why assume you are not?
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Do you think that somebody ever missed you so much that it made them cry?
When I first took my son to daycare, he would cry.
(My daughter, being a different type, when she first got to leave the house, she NEVER LOOKED BACK! That made ME want to cry. Still to this day--she is 8 now--she would rather meet a new person than stay with me.)
Also, when I broke up with a fiance in my 20's, he didn't speak for a week. It was discovered later that he'd...
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What are your planned weekend activities > Do tell?
We're going out to eat Greek food tonight and see a belly dancer. I haven't been to this place in years, but I figured my 8 year old would love to see the belly dancer.
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What is the dumbest or funniest question that you could ask a potential employer during a job interview?
Did you know I was the star pitcher on my little league team? That might serve you next summer during softball league!
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Can someone explain what it is about gay drag queens? Why would other gay men be attracted to what looks like a woman?
Here's a twist. I'm a WOMAN attracted to men in drag. Sigh....Talk about your unrequited loves!
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AB Etiquette:
What is proper eitquette when we answer Qs & the asker NEVER responds by awarding points or making comments? do those answering
A) Remind the asker?
B) Be stern?
C) Blacklist?
D) Ignore & keep answering the same Asker's Qs?
E) Other?
I'm in one of those right now. I have chosen not to worry about it and move on. But (interestingly enough) she is engaged in banter with all of us. Ha.
I thought for a moment about a comment: "you know, traditionally a questioner donates points to people who show up. It's like a door prize."
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Say! Here's an idea! How 'bout, in the interest of balance in government, the runner-up, gets to be Vice President?
I don't dislike that idea. But I suspect that this person would end up being a paid nothing. Why would the president confer with this person? The vice prez does enough nothing already. This plan probably insures that s/he will be KING nothing.
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I want to see a movie with subtitles on my ps3 but it doesn't show the subtitles. what should i do?
Sometimes there is a subtitle button on your t.v. remote.
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If you're a little tipsy, is it better to take the breath test after being pulled over for a DWI, or to refuse?
In most states to TAKE it.
Reason: driving is a privilege and not a right.
You don't have a legal right to refuse so you can automatically have your driver's license revoked merely for refusing the test.
If you take the test and the machine says you are over the limit, at least you have a right to trial and to negoatiate with a prosecutor about any terms and conditions.
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Would you date a doctor that you were formerly the patient of?
No problem. Even if I had a communicable disease. HECK...especially if I did, figuring my options were becoming limited and well...good to have a doctor on board if I'm going to be dealing with a chronic or life-trheatening disease!
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I was told that I am a "Fumpy" dresser because I wear oversized tee-shirts and tennis shoes with jeans? So are you a Fumpy dresser? Fumpy is another word for sloppy.
It's "frumpy." Does your judgmental friend have some kuind of speech impediment? (J/k.)
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Life is just a bowl of cherries....and..........?
Some days are sweet and juicy but some days you'll hit a pit, break your molar, and end up in dental surgery, usually after hours at $400/ hour.
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What is your favorite historical novel?
Tale of Two Cities.
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If you could tattoo one word on your body, what would it be?
FREE!
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What is your favorite/least favorite commercial jingle?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FspHU8hOxhY
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Do you care if a politician smoked marijuana when he or she was young?
No I care if they pretend, for the sake of politics, that the "never inhaled." I would rather elect a former stoner than a current liar.
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What is a snazzy jazzy meal for two, that takes under 1/hour to cook.
Get a roasted chicken from the supermarket deli. Slice it into small pieces. Grate some cheddar on top. Put between two tortillas. Put in a baking dish. Pour some of your favorite salsa over it, after stirring a few tablespoons of red wine in. (Mine: corn and garlic.) Bake for ten minutes about 350. Light some candles put on the table cloth and have some she-she quessidilas.
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What is the most socially damaging kind of prejudice?
I think it is "assumption." Being so superior that you assume that you know who people are and what their world view is. (An example is assuming that the black, former slaves race of our own country are stupid, lazy.)
The problem with assumption is that you never ask. And if you never ask or analyze or try to learn (because you already know...) then you never truly learn. And good,...
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In your dreams - are you in control of what’s in the dream or are you at the mercy of your dream?
A little bit of both. Mostly I am watching however. Like I fell in sleep in front of the t.v. the other night. Once I woke in the middle of having a dream about becoming a house flipper. Guess what was on the television at the time: an ad about how to invest in property and re-sell them. (In the current econonmy?! ARE THEY INSANE?!)
I woke up later in the night and on the screen was an ad...
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I want to call my bf but I feel like if I call him right now I'll seem clingy or needy or something because I called him and then emailed him twice yesterday. Would I seem that way? What should I do?
When people are ADMITTEDLY in love, then they can act naturally and their partner is okay with it to some extent. However, if he is not in love with you and is still in the figuring out whether the two of you can love each other stage, then men do tend to be scared of the overly calling/ writing/ visiting female.
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Does Sarah Palin really worry about anyone using witchcraft against her? A story online today states that 3 years ago, just before she ran for governor, she was blessed by a Kenyan pastor to protect her from witchcraft.
Politicians often do things to display a respect for other cultures. I am not a supporter of the woman, but I would not drag on her about THIS one. This is the only thing she's done that I've heard about recently which I actually have even the wee-est bit of respect for!
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Do you know anyone that has a very cynical view on life?
Gregory House. However...he only "lives with" me once a week for an hour.
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What enhancements to Answerbag would you like to see?
I'd like to see some standards about flags. What is or is not a flag.
And then...if you aren't the first to flag something, I don't think that you should be negged for being right but just late. (Happens.)
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Where do you like to see dawn?
I like to see dawn rise over the beautiful snow-capped Cascade mountains. Observation point: my home town, Seattle, Washington!
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If somebody offered you one trillion dollars or the contract to Apple what would you pick?
Trillion sounds good. I like things black and white when it comes to money.
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If there anything a mom's kiss can't fix?
Mom-spit is kinda like duck tape. http://www.duckproducts.com/products/subcategory.asp?CatID=1&SubID=1 There are a WHOLE lotta things it fixes. It is the universal solvent, too, I understand. It can spit-shine ANYTHING.
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Why do cops ask you if you know why they pulled you over?
Damned good question! I suspect because they want to know what you are doing illegally that they DIDN'T know about! (And perhaps you are too stoned not to blurt out.)
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Have you ever shared a telepathic moment with another person, animal, or plant?
Just yesterday I laughed when my dog was mad because I'd put him out in the rain. He seemed to make a POINT of looking me in the eye...and then intentionally looking up at the sky, back and forth...as if to say, "are your kind too stupid to know when it is raining outside?"
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What is one lesson about money you can recall learning from your parents?
I learned zero (wise) messages from my parents about money. I was lucky enough to be a minister's daughter. We lived in a parsonage and didn't have to pay rent, otherwise (and I just realized this as an adult) we were probably certifiably lower-class poor!
We had very little spare money but my mom scrimped to get us a vacation every year.
But when it comes to...saving,...
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Why do some people wear the same pants 3-4 days in a row, but bother to change their shirts? Don't the pants get as dirty as well?
This is a disgusting habit. However, I will speculate....
Unless you are a child, you may not be wearing an undershirt. So, pit stains will MANDATE a change of shirt sooner.
On the otherhand, unless you are Cosmo/ Kraemer, http://www.sonypictures.com/tv/shows/seinfeld/episode_guide/?sl=episode&ep=604 then you probably DO wear underwear, which (if your disgusting ass changes THEM...
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What have you got in your hand right now?
Right hand: the mouse.
Left: resting on the right in a truly unusual for me position! (As though I were cupping a ball-headed cane!)
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Sometimes I feel like I am a terrible person and I tell my boyfriend that he deserves better, he says that he loves me so much and hates when I say that...so why do I continue to act that way?
Hasn't Been has it right, I think, above.
The only thing I would add is that when the boyfriend gives you the compliment, it's like asprin for a brain tumor.
It's making the symptoms temporarily better, but somebody is ultimately going to have to go in and do some heavy lifting.
A healthy relationship with one other person who isn't in this cycle might help you...
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I sometimes see protesters on the news with signs that say "God hates fags". Isn't it said that God loves everyone? Shouldn't their signs say "I hate fags ... and I'm just using my religion to justify it"?
God does NOT hate fags.
It is illogical. God is not illogical: extremists are illogical.
IF there is a God and IF God is omnipotent and IF God is omniscient and IF God is not stupid then God made "fags." If God hated gays yet continued to reissue a hated model, then God would be stupidly ignorant (which, by definition he cannot be, or he wouldn't be God).
Perhaps God...
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I'm 23, I've just broke up with my gf after she cheated so i'm depressed, i have my own design company but i'm extremely broke, my laptop is 4 years old and past it, should i treat myself to a 24" Apple imac on my company credit card? your thoughts...
Either...you can afford the laptop or you can't. Mixing the two into the same question indicates that you are trying to "treat" yourself because you need a pick-me-up.
But if you can't afford the pick-me-up, then you're just digging yourself further into a hole...which is not a treat.
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If you were to condense the current US economic crisis down into one sentence of 10 words or less, what would you say? (I realize it's more complicated than that, but what's your take on it?)
Fake WMD's + corporate welfare (versus mortgage relief) = next "Great Depression."
10 words.
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When you go for a job and the employer says that God brought him to where he is today, would you run out the door, hide your religion, or say God told me about the vacancy?
Lol. This kind of thing happens to me frequently. I am a lawyer and I have a contract to help people try to get their children back from foster care.
Many of these clients have either: drug addiction, mental health problems, horrible criminal history, assaultive and angry behaviors, or all of the above.
MANY of them reform their behaviors and social problems and regain custody of their...
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How many people (if any) do you trust completely, 100%, with everything and anything?
None. My husband sometimes keeps secrets. My daughter is only 8 and she is in a lying stage right now (lol). I am pretty much on my own.
But I trust my husband 90%
And I trust my daughter (such as she is capable at 8 years old) at about 85%.
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If 2 partners are argueing and the woman hits the man is it ok for the man to hit back?
....If two people are fighting and a MAN hits a man, is it "ok" for the man to hit back?
Under the law, "no." But it gets dicier than that.
If a man punches you and drops his arms and grins at you in a satisfied manner, then you are unlawful when you hit him back.
However, what MOST likely happens is, that when the police come, you will report that he was coming...
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My exwife has kicked out my daughter 2 times now, she won't be going back to her mother because she is being emotional mistreated by her mother & step-father. How do I get permanent custody of her & the 4 younger girls so that they cannot mistreat them?
I am a family law attorney. I MAINLY represent people like you--men seeking custody of children. (I have decided to work predominantly with men, because MY home state treats men so badly, treats them as though they are secondary parents to mothers.)
Anyway. It is most unlikely that I work in your state, as I am in Washington State.
And family law is VERY particular to the individual...
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What's your favorite online game and why?
Yahoo Spades!
1) It is addictive, so the why is that I don't control it, IT controls ME.
2) You get to chatter and play cards, just like in real life.
3) If you are a games addict like I am, you can play 24 hours a day. (If you have ever tried to get a bunch of friends to come to your house and play cards even at a normal time on a weekend, then you can appreciate this.)
4) You...
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If my bf and i broke up a few times and he has decided to stay with me for now at least and i got an apartment should i ask him to move in bc i really love him and want to be with him or would that make things complicated for our relationship
"Saving one's self" [as a female] is an outdated concept.
If you want to have him with you as a companion, live together.
However, if you hope that this will lead to something more, I suspect it won't. People don't get together and break up/ get together and break up (in my experience) if they can make it through time together.
Making it as a couple means that...
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Ladies, do you like to go bra-less? or do you need the support all the time.
I'm a DD. Bra-less would be painful. Bra-less only at work.
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Would you be less nervous about having your car break down on a back road in Iowa than a back road in Mississippi? Why do you think that is?
I am a black woman. My answer...probably goes without saying. But I'll tell you an interesting thing. Until I saw the movie Deliverance, I didn't know that white people can be as scared of rural whites as we are.
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I have to take a drug test tomorrow and I smoked yesterday but Ive been drinking water and Im taking niacin pills will I pass the drug test?
Best thing you can do is make sure that every meal you have until the test is full of fat and nothing else. Example: cheesy eggs and steak.
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My husband needs to be in pick up bars and get high in order to be happy. He doens't do it often though because I do not like it. But it makes him unhappy. Do you think he could be an alcoholic?
Did you say...sex-a-holic?
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What is the difference between a dress and a gown?
A dress is a woman's garment that has a long or short skirt sewn into the bottom.
A gown is a type of dress which must be long and must be formal. A short formal dress is not a gown (like a little, black cocktail dress). A long, informal dress is not a gown (like a long, twill or cotton sun dress).
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If your family had a motto, what would it be?
LLL! Lucky, lazy, lard-asses! (Somehow despite the family penchant for being heavy, lazy, procrastinators...we all make it in the end!)
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I'm gay, and I want to know the truth on the amount of people on average who are okay with it and who have a problem with it. Thoughts?
I am happy that you are who you are. I would never do anything to belittle you purely based on your gayness. And every time I get the opportunity to fight for your right to marry, I do so. It is very important to me right now. My father was a black civil rights champion in the 60's, and I think it is your turn now. We should all come to your aid in making sure that your equality is fought...
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Sex on the beach, good or bad idea?
Done it. Been there. It was excellent. Never to be forgotten. Cops didn't come until the afterglow. LOL.
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Do you consider your "Friends" here on AB real friends or just friends here in the AB universe?
Great question! 5+ I've had this conversation with AB friends over and over again, and sometimes...it gets a little fighty.
I used to think that these were AB-friends, and that somehow they were different than "real" friends.
However, I have been associated with this site for almost two years now. And it's more complex than that.
I definitely say that there are...
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My father is strict wen it comes 2 gg home late. I am turning 20 soon. I wan freedom.What can i do to change his mind? I tried talking to him..And broach on the topic of religion into this matter .A rule tt i could not be out after night unless married.
Freedom is given in direct proportion to maturity and responsibility. I assume that since you are living with your dad, and (probably) not paying any bills or rent, it is his home and his rules. If you want to set a few of your own rules, start paying some of the bills. I ASSURE you, once the money rolls in, making it easier on your father, he won't be able to walk away from it, and you...
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How do you go about telling a guy that he's at fault and you don't want to be abused anymore without getting the crap beat out of you?
DO NOT TELL HIM. YOU DON'T OWE HIM AN EXPLANATION! That is how so many d.v. victims end up dead or mamed. Why, why, why do you owe "closure" to a fellow that doesn't owe you the respect of not "beating the crap out of you"?
Spend 24 hours making a secret plan and LEAVE.
I tried to get some tips a week ago from women who have been through this experience and a...
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Does anyone else think that Obama will fall apart in the debates? Without Teleprompters?
A lot of people are saying this, even my husband (and we are supporters). I don't understand or would have never thought so. I am a law school grad, not even from Hahhhhhvahd like he is. And one thing I know is that in the CRUNCH, academics bring home the good!
Meaning to say, academics are used to pulling out all the stops and studying for the big test. He is a professor too. And I...
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I'm pregnant. Not much I'm going to do about it now. I don't want to be pregnant right now but now that I am is it OK to be happy and want my baby? I'll be 19 when I give birth with a very supportive father : )
I had my first child, a son, when I was a 19 year old party girl. I was a HOT MESS. Having him slowed me down a bit. I don't even know where I would be without him, perhaps a skid row crackhead.
Instead, I am a lawyer, with a pretty good practice. He lives nearby and we go out to eat about once a week.
It is hard, hard, hard to see an end from where you are at, sister, I know.
...
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Aside Batman who is your favorite non-powered superhero?
SPIDER MAN! (Let's hear it for Stan Lee!)
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Do you think Breast Augumentation is cheating?
Yes. I think too that all humans should walk around butt naked, without earrings, other jewlry, make-up, hair plugs, BVD's or more generic underwear, Italian suits, and expensive shoes.
Oh and big fat wallets.
That way everyone can have a what you see is what you get philosophy and no one will ever get ripped off by what they find between the sheets.
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They say the 'mirror never lies', but can it sometimes?
Yes. The mirror can obviously lie since the only way we can view it is through the human brain. Annorexics are famous for looking in the mirror and seeing fat girls, even if they weigh under 80 pounds.
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How do you forgive yourself when you say something stupid to a date or significant other when they've said it was okay but you still feel guilty?
Be a friend to YOURSELF. I find that so many of us help our friends get over things and tell THEM not to beat themselves up, but we find it hard to let ourselves off the hook for anything.
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What really happens if you put lipstick on a pig?
In response, I will say that I have examined this picture with microscopic precision. IF this creature HAS a lip, it is very minimal. I suspect that if you worked hard enough to FIND the lip on this creature, you'd have bigger fish to fry then trying to get a good LIP LINE!
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/05/01/0205PIGS_narrowweb__300x365,0.jpg
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Y'ever just feel *old*? Now it's less than 52 years until I'm 100!!!
42 and things...do seems to be catching up with me!
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I need an objective thoughts on whether it is reasonable for my friends to be mad at me for this… (details in answer)
I think it many depend a lot upon more circumstances than you have provided for us.
The most important to me are: 1) the age of these people (and I guess, yourself);
2) whether anyone was "treated," or whether everyone paid for themselves; and finally 3) whether you really just wanted to spend time with the small group without the whole horde.
For my answer I will make the...
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What would make a language perfect?
If it could be 100% phonetic then kids wouldn't have to take spelling tests and misspellings would be limited to typos!
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What are some excuses a person that is Lying might give, when caught?
An ember from a meterorite which blew through my house attached to tarred pieces of roofing tile, fell into my lap and singed my privates. I wasn't able to concentrate on the report deadline because I became obsessed with thoughts of my own sterility and ugly loins and wondered if anyone would ever want to make love to me again. You couldn't reach me on the phone because our...
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Why are rock stars the disproportionate victims of plane crashes?! http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/6171
http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=2308
The only reason I can guess is that they fly more often than most other jobs. But still....
Has anyone here EVER known a NON-rock star who died in a plan crash? I sure haven't.
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Are there any male knitters out there? (Or do you have a story about a male knitter?)
I am a knitter and I have to admit...I AM ABSOLUTELY FASCINATED by male knitters.
But then...I love gender bending in all things.
My sen-sei (um...mentor) is a man, and he is absolutely the best knitter I've ever met, despite being half my age!
I once took a sweater in to him with a gaping hole and zoop, zoop, I don't even KNOW what he did, but in less than five minutes the...
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What is your favorite ALL TIME recreational thing to do? ex. (fishing, skiing)
Because of my hobbies, I can probably fit two in at once: knitting and watching a classic movie with my hubby.*
*This would only work with what I call "mindless" knitting. One couldn't lace, for instance, and do this. Ohhhh you knitters know what I mean! (Lol.)
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What is a good sweet wine and champagne? other than sangria (yummy)
Gewurztraminer. A great, sweet white from the fine region of Alsace! Great for summer on the deck. And NOT as sweet as the zinfadels that I hate ohhhhhhh so much.
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Has it ever taken for you to read about something to realize that you were a victim of it? for ex. a battered woman reads an abuse pamplet and realizes shes being abused etc....
Yes! I was once reading a novel and they described the fat protagonist as having my exact weight and height! I was like...WHAT?
That is when I realized that I had a weight problem and joined Weight Watchers.
Actually, I also read around the same time about the young Mohammed Ali's starting boxing weight. And I was like...that can't be right!
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When out of your house and in the open, you avoid __________.
....drinking so much that I will ever be stuck needing to use a HONEYPOT.
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The first moment of love > do you want the feeling of falling in love every day?
I, for one, would LOVE IT. I would feel young (despite my age); happy (despite my objective circumstances); satisfied (despite my actual level of saiety); beautiful; loved; loved; loved.
I'm pretty sure life would be less drudgery and I would not spend so much time sedating myself from reality.
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British TV are showing a programme called 'Lost in Austen' where a girl is transported in time to the 'fictional' period of Jane Austen's Mr Darcy et el. If you could live in a fictional world of a novel what would it be?
Cool! They got that from Red Dwarf! Lol.
Speaking of which...I think I would go on the....
Nope. Was going to say the Dwarf ship, but then I would have to either be: the last surviving human in the cosmos; a humanoid evolved from a cat; a mechanoid; or a dead man turned into a light beam. I'll pass.
On the OTHEr hand, Star Trek Next Generations future doesn't look too bleak...
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Is your Inner Child disgusted with the failure you've become?
Perhaps yes. And I am going to try and appease her within the next few years. I MUST find a job that I ENJOY doing. I know for a fact that it would make me feel younger immediately.
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Would you rather buy a cd or download a song off the internet?
CD. First of all I have downloaded and not gotten the songs before and then I am stuck arguing with Amazon or whatever asking them to let me download it again, when I've already paid.
Also, I have had really low-quality downloads from allegedly first rate companies like Amazon, skips in the tracks, etc.
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Do hot dogs taste different when eaten upside-down?
Sure! A little bit.... Afterall, the meat will hit YOUR meat (dog to mouth) first.
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What is your favorite scene from Red Dwarf?
The last line ever, Arnold JUDAS Rimmer's, response to Death telling him what to do when the got down the river stix and what to do with his coin, immediately after Arnold kicks Death in the groin, doubling him up in pain:
"Not today Matey! Remember, only the good die young."
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Have you ever worked really hard to provide facts and sources in an answer, only to find out the question was deleted afterwards and now no one can see what you said?
Yessssss. It is really discouraging. I wish the staff would help us understand why they are exercising so little discretion. Honestly, it feels like if someone flags something, it is GONE. That no one is checking whether the flag makes any SENSE.
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Your boy/girlfriend of 2 years just dumps you for your best friend. You react by ________.
What does "reacting" get you?
I think one of the things maturity brings us older gals (I am 42) is the ability not to "react" as much to everything around us. Emotiveness doesn't really get anyone anywhere. It is a release and feels good, but then, the facts are still the facts when you get back. Love has moved on.
We can't control how people love. We...
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Without looking them up, are you familiar with any of the following: The Shadow, Burns and Allen, My Friend Irma, Dragnet, Boston Blackie, Suspense, Amos and Andy, Life of Riley, The Great Gildersleeve, etc.?
Yes. These are from my parents' generation and not from my own. But they were so great, that some of the storylines were told in my house growing up.
No one knows: The SHADOW knows. (Is that how it went?)
These all started out as radio shows, before television existed. When television was invented, some of these shows moved over to t.v.
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What, if anything, excites you about your job?
I have the ability to help change people's lives for the better. It is depressing when changes aren't made, but it is invigorating when people do change.
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Trying to eat healthy! i'm sick of grilled chicken and salad!! i tried stuffed peppers, sweet potato/ground turkey shepard's pie, turkey burgers with wheat buns, etc. but i don't eat fish so recipes are limited. any great tasting healthy recipies for me?
This is a Rachel Ray recipe and it is really tasty, even after you remove ALL the butter and substitute a few teaspoons of olive oil instead, using Pam if the skillet needs a little more lubrication. The only "baddy" is the butter and perogis and they are easily eliminated. Oh yes, and I use Turkey kilbasa instead, and eliminate the saurkraut. (Hate it.) Nonetheless it is still one of...
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Why do girls get into relationships with military guys?
Why...does ANY girl or guy get involved with ANY kind of girl or guy? Why do girls get involved with butchers?
Um all soldiers/ sailors/ marines/ airforcemen/ are unique just as any other kind of man or woman is unique.
I assume that the answer is as complex as human love.
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Should I be mad? This is the second time that my my husband takes a 2 week vacation with my mother in law, and he always complains that she is a nag. The day he is to fly out is on our anniversay. He only took 1 day off for my surgery.
I might be mad. But perhaps instead you should fly somewhere and vacation while he is doing so.
Because the only real reason for being angry is that he is spending family finances on something that doesn't include the family.
Vacations are generally saved up for by the family for the hard work that went into the work year.
Where is YOUR vacation. Just BOOK It.
He can find out...
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Have you ever heard of a Potato Cannon or am i just that far outta the loop?
I've owned a potato GUN. You stick the end into a potato and it pulls out a little plug which you then shoot at someone, kind of like a spit ball.
It stings a little bit.
But I bet a cannon with an entire POTATO in it would be dangerous! I'd stay away from that. What if someone got in front of you.
Now a MASHED potato cannon...even I would admit, that could be funny.
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I am addicted to dill, got any easy recipes heavy into dill?
Refrigerator Cucumber Pickles (These are enjoyed both by Eastern European Jews and by African Americans from Southern states. So me and my husband share a love for these.)
1 Large seeless european cucumber, sliced thin. Use a mandolin or slicer if you have one. You want to read through them
1/4 cup of white vinegar
1/4 cup of lemon juice, tastes horrible if you don't use fresh...
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I am addicted to dill, got any easy recipes heavy into dill?
Sprinkle dill into your tuna or chicken salad the next time you make it. Yummy!
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Can someone give me three challenges brought on by technology for our society?
Computers CAN be too efficient. They can overrule judges. (Smile. I am a lawyer and I have SEEN it happen.)
I have had a court order in my hand to get a client released from jail, signed by a judge. But as soon as the jailers physically released her, the computer would pop up and say ARREST her. So we went over and over this. Then I would run downstairs and tell the judge she wasn't...
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Ronald McDonald is ________.
A creep clown who shills burgers to babies.
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How many of you have seen Jesus with your physical, waking, sober eyes?
Sorry. This was a comment not an answer.
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Joke contest! Pile em on! As many as you can THINK of!
LOL! Oops. This was a comment. No ratings!
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Have you ever been to a restaurant and seen something that has caused you to never go back to it?
Roach. Not the fun kind.
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Has anyone else noticed the meanies are on AB again?
Actually, "meanies" are part of life in general. If you have 100 people anywhere out in public, a certain, percentage will be mean/ anti-social/ trying to or unable not to rub people the wrong way.
There is really no way of getting rid of mean people in society. If we...say...killed them, then WE'D be turning into the "mean" people.
They didn't go anywhere...
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It's not a party until ___________.
Ahhhhhhhh This is MOTO!
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It is better to regret what you HAVE done instead of what you SHOULD have done?
This is a GREAT question! 6+
At FIRST, I was just going to give the points and walk away. It seemed too complex to wrap my head around(at least before my morning coffe).
So I actually shouted the question into the kitchen at my husband who made me realize...in most major heart-wrenching incidents...there is no difference between have done and SHOULD have done.
For instance, last night...
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How should i tell my daughter the father she knows is not her real father? What age? In what way should i approach it, as she is 5 years old now?
I used to be an adoption social worker. The "normal" way to deal with these issues in our modern times is to tell the child from the moment she can start understanding such things!
Reason being: if it becomes natural to them, they cannot be hurt by it, EVER.
Also, there are too, too, too many examples of Drunk Aunt Cathy spilling the beans at a Christmas party. If everyone...
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Remaing as female or male by mind, action or look etc ... Guys, would you prefer to have a womens sexual organ (V)? ... Girls would you prefer to have a guys (P)? ... Do tell?
Emergency roadside peeing has ALWAYS been tempting to me! Also...well...pleasuring the little lady is so complex. You guys don't even have to DO anything, just LOOK at something yummy!
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Which day is World sorry saying day?
What the heck! Let's make it weekly, perhaps on Sunday. Enough religions create guilt as a preventative that it kinda makes sense!
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Sometimes it is kind to be cruel. Have you ever intentionally hurt someone for their own good? What was the outcome?
I have a contract with my county to legally represesnt parents who are trying to get their children out of foster care. I have been known to call a drug addict a drug addict. Sometimes they are shocked...and I am shocked that THEY are shocked. Apparently, sometimes they have only had social workers and other helping professionals who tip toe around the issue.
Sometimes this kind of frank...
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Ladies, how often do you go braless
Only when all my bra's are dirty. Lol. Then I try not to forget to take my jacket off in the courthouse. This happens...aboutttttt once every two months.
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Where would you never expect to find yourself?
A Republican National Convention.
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My GF wants to get married to me secretly before she goes abroad for 3 yrs for further studies. What options do i have? We love eachother.
You...um...have the option to say "no."
I just met a young guy getting ready to go away to Iraq. He told me something so smart. I am his mother's age. And as all us old broads will do, I was bugging him about girlfriends. I was actually kinda worried. He has been in the service since he left high school and he's 25. When do you DATE? I said.
He: I am going off to Iraq...
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Should voting be made compulsory in the U.S. as it is in other countries around the world?
No. Unfortunately, freedom also means the freedom to not give a fuck (imho).
What is the point in giving the vote to people who don't care. That means they don't research and understand the positions of the candidates and may be pressing a button randomly.
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What would you tonight if there was a power failure ! !?
Read one of the many books that are stacked up and which I've been ignoring due to...well...internet obsession and over-worky job stress.
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What would it take for you to kill?
I would kill to defend any other human life, or my own life. But I would have to know that there was imminent danger and there was no other choice. Example: I see a stranger pointing a gun at my neighbor's kid and (for some reason) I am holding a gun. It is a no brainer. I am going to try to take him out before he does it, not worrying about if he is just kidding or not planning on...
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Is it just me or does anybody find Miley Curus annoying??? GOD ITS FREAKIN ANNOYING.. give your thoughts.. i would love to read them
Sorry. I love Miley. And since I have an 8 year old girl, I am hearing her far more than anyone.
I am generally a hard rock girl, so it is a little irritating.
But I don't want to be the kind of mom that hates everything my children love.
So, it could be worse. The girl is cute and innocuous. She's not going to send anyone over the edge into anything harmful. Yes, she's...
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Could you be friends with someone who was blatantly racist or sexist?
Absolutely not. I am black. I could not be a friend with a black racist. I could not be a friend to a white racist, Jewish, Arab, NO KINDA racist.
I could engage in business with a racist, and I often do. I find it not hard to discuss their racism with them. Like how can they possibly think they are getting good legal care from a black lawyer and yet still some part of them tells them that...
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Do any women (or men) here who have had d.v. experiences in their past have the courage to speak out about their stories. I think it might benefit the young AB's who...don't seem to get it, who think that they can stay and be party to fixing their lovers.
Classic dv behavior is striking out at your lover and then coming back later, appologizing and SWEARING it will never happen again. Abusers ALWAYS appologize and say they will change. And we hope that they do. We wish them well with all our hearts. We know that they have bad family backgrounds most likely. In our capaity as women we have a large amount of love and understanding. What we...
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Went to mc donalds and my boyfriend thought i went to see another guy. he pushed me down by my throat and threatened to spit on me took the rent money and my puppy.. came back apologized... time to leave?
Um yes, hon. Yes. This is classic dv behavior. Abusers ALWAYS appologize and say they will change. And we hope that he does. Why does he have to change on YOUR time, though? How dare he take your property! That is an issue of power and control. I'd be out of there. But sometimes it takes a woman twice.
Indeed it took ME twice. The first time was getting thrown against the wall. The...
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Do you suffer from memory loss?
I am going through menopause. I can barely remember mine own name. I understand it from my friends that this phase lasts about two years or so. Until then, perhaps I will leave myself voice mail messages telling me where I left my car!
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Have any of you ever put off your "second" job in order to get your work here, on AB, completed?
I swear to god...I have stopped flat in the middle of a deadline and checked AB (in procrastination mode) and decided that I HAD to help a poor, obviously clinically depressed Anony-bagger! Lol. Ohhhhhhhhhh if I could get paid by the entry!
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What is the last honest to goodness POSTER you remember hanging on your wall. (I mean those cheap, shiny things that kids hang in college dorms, not expensive prints that you might be tempted to frame.)
Did anyone have the famous FARAH! (Perhaps the most widely-sold poster of all times.
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What is the last honest to goodness POSTER you remember hanging on your wall. (I mean those cheap, shiny things that kids hang in college dorms, not expensive prints that you might be tempted to frame.)
Around about the time of the...was it the 1976 Olympics (?), McDonald's put out collector posters for several of the sports. Me and my brother mixed and matched them and traded with our friends.
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What is a great song with much meaning to you?
"Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot" from Mercury Falling by Sting. I was getting my first divorce when it came out and it seems (although I don't think Sting talked about it) that Sting too was perhaps in the middle of a divorce or separation because all the songs would be about that.
Every time I play these songs I think about my first husband and how we liked each other so much...
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Am 22 have severe anxiety and i believe i am very depressed... Have not been able to work in the past 5 or 6 yrs, usually am unable to walk. because i dont work i just lost my g/f of 6 yrs. that is not helping. I dont know wat to do, does any1 else?
Good luck to you, Hon. Depression is a hard, HARD thing to beat. PLEASE see a doctor and tell him the 100% truth about how you feel. Oftentimes docs (without even sending you to a psych) can prescribe medications for you that will make your chemicals balance out better/ help you to feel "normal." The one issue with the drug is that they don't work instantaneously. Takes about 6...
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Is McCain's campaign falling apart? It seems they keep grasping for whatever news they can, with cheap attacks, and he continues to look like a doddering old fogey. His geography is terrible and he thought Czechoslovakia still existed. Is he done for?
Nope. He's not done for. Certain members of his constituency will vote for the ideology every time. They don't care about lies, geography, competence. Nothing.
An example is Rush Limbaugh. He preached on his show about hating drug addicts, they should be killed. When it was discovered that HE was a drug addict, did he lose his show due to his hypocrisy? Nope. If you are a...
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Is god is all powerful why do people feel the need to declare wars in his name?
GOOD QUESTION! But then there have always been people who thought that god told THEM the truth/ what to do/ the answers. God's children. Sarah Palin thinks that her son has been sent off to fight god's war, for instance. So...apparently the U.S. are the children of God.
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If you found yourself in court this year, most likely what would it be for.
Child welfare issues.
I am a lawyer and I have a contract with several counties in my state to defend parents when their children are taken and placed into foster care.
These cases last for years (in my state) with the hope that the parents will work on their issues, which most often include: drug addiction, mental health, domestic violence, criminal incarceration, or accessive and...
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What is your favorite Montey Python quote?
Just oneeeeeee theeeeeeen mint? Wafer thin?
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Where does religion originates?
The need for religion probably originates within ourselves. Before there was science, humans look around them and tried to explain what they saw in nature or within human character. Since there was no science and causation was not being investigated, the ancient myths were created to account for natural occurences and human characteristics/ flaws that repeat themselves over and over. In...
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What jobs are available to you if you have a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Psychology?
I'm sorry that someone took points from you on this answer. I tried to push you back up. Absolutely appropriate question.
I know in my state that they will higher you as a social workers in the area of child welfare. State: Washington.
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Dudes: Do you perform all your tricks the first time in case there is no second or so there will be a second time?
Um....YOU HAVE TRICKS! (Please tell my husband.)
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"U.S. students consistently score below the international average in mathematics, science, and reading compared to their compared to their counterparts in 30 industrialized nations." Can you explain this?
As I've seen this play out in my own home: my middle class son spent most of his time on-line and playing with all of the toys that we were affluent enough to bestow him with. He paid very little attention to school or social life aside from on-line friend.
So, my from-the-hip reaction is this.
When immigrants hope for their children's futures, they may deprive their children of...
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What sentence is uttered most often online, and why?
OMG!
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Is there a movie that you had watched more than 4 times?
All that Jazz about the life and times of Bob Fosse. This is due to it being my ex-husband's favorite movie, and then the movie grew on me too.
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Why do women think it's ok to tease men about going bald? Men would be considered total scum if they teased women about loosing her breast. It's the same thing---it's a body part! Try loosing a breast or a hand and see how it feels!
Not the same thing at all. MORE like: teasing a woman about getting DROOPY breast. Both of these things are a normal part of the aging process for men and women respectively.
American comedians routinely make fun of both of these processes.
We, as individuals, should not make fun of ANYthing that our partners are particularly sensitive about.
If you are particularly sensitive, tell...
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Will it hurt to get my belly button pierced i dont know what to do im 12, and others say it wont and some say it will. i need some good advice. I really want it dont but im not sure? thanx
Good luck, hon. People have been glorifying the human body since we were on this earth. But the ONE thing I don't hear you mention in your question is YOURSELF! What IS mentioned is other kids/ other people and what THEY want. I think at 12 years old it is likely illegal for you to get peircings without your parents' consent. I know that isn't a barrier to you doing what you...
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Any secrets on how to get backstage at concerts?
Be a cute, young gal; lick your lips during the concert; and wait until the lead guitarist points his frets at you. A roadie will be around promptly with your pass.
I haven't read this book, but I have skimmed it in my local library. It is awful fun, especially if you remember the 70's rock band scene.
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/06/16/225749.php
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I won a gift certificate for an airline and asked my recent ex who lives abroad if he'd like to meet me somewhere exotic (my treat). His reaction was not very inspiring though he says its just b/c he's stressed with Uni. Should I believe it?
Sometimes the simplest answer is the truth. People don't often want to be in a romantic atmosphere, in a romantic location, with someone they aren't romantically involved with. Perhaps he has moved on, as he should. (But I don't know you two. Maybe you are ex's with benefits.)
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Does being alone make you feel lonely?
Not really. But my world doesn't give me much oportunity to test this to the max. If I were the last person on the earth, it would probably take me a few days before I got bored. I'd be SAD, but not lonely.
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Which is more romantic, sunrise or sunset?
Sunset.
Sunrise = morning breath and bed hair.
Sunset = Miller time + Let's get it on!
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Why can't Christians just worship God alone and not Jesus, a man?
Back to ancient times: Mesopotamia, Egypt...and on and on...man has always had humans who were personifications of God/ humans who mingled with god/ were born of god/ came out of god's brain or his or her groin.
Christians aren't the first and are unlikely to be the last who worship a man who has become or was born a god.
Perhaps it is important to have something...
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Have you ever hidden bills from a partner or spouse?
Oh HELL YA! He pays them so the credit card bill will come into his possession at SOME point. No need to RUSH it! Every day of life has VALUE.
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I'm doing a yearbook and I need to come up with different names for the parts of our book that has to do with transformation (like butterflies). There is student life, academics, clubs, sports and people. Do you have any ideas for this?
Spark.
Launching Pad. (Lol...I just can't stop!)
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I'm doing a yearbook and I need to come up with different names for the parts of our book that has to do with transformation (like butterflies). There is student life, academics, clubs, sports and people. Do you have any ideas for this?
1) Metamorphosis.
2) Chrysalis
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When you yell its usually at_____?
The ones I love. I am usually immediately guilt-ridden.
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What is your one word description of John McCain?
Disappointing. (Given his history, he's not what I expected.)
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What does it mean if he says he's not good at relationships, then laughs that he hasn't really had any? He's certainly sexually experienced & told me he was trying not to be too keen, then texted that he missed me already & went distant when I responded
All signs evidence PLAYER. If you like players or aren't in it for the long haul either, stay aboard.
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The sillyville Bakery is flooded I Have a bunch of pies to get rid of what kind would you like? Their is alot of Apple Grape Pies,Pinneapple Cherry,and Bunch More,,,,
Apple Grape???! Do you have RECIPE for that?!
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Have you ever felt burnt out by Answerbag? Like you're on it so much that it's difficult to come up with the words for good answers?
Yes. Sometimes I've been on so much that I see a question I want to answer, but don't have the energy to answer it then. I save it to my favorites. (I figure it's also like doing a favor for the questioner, since the question will be revived a few days later.)
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Nescafe is really ripping us, should we boycott the product?
I don't have problems with boycotting a company. But would you tell us what it's all about?
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What euphemism do you hate the most?
I was once at a child rape trial (when I was in law school), where a little girl had been assaulted by the neighbor. The mother had taught her daughter to refer to her vagina as a "pocket book." So not only did I have to deal with the depressing facts of the case, it also had me start thinking about my own vagina as some kind of coin purse.
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All physicists are mathematicians, but not all mathematicians are physicists?
I would say all physicists are scientists, yet not all scientists are physicists. I think physicists are able to manage high level mathematical equations as a side tool to assist them in their scientific calculations.
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I had a big fight with my spouse. There were a lot of sore subjects brought up. Today we are acting like everything is fine. Should I try to get those problems talked out even though it might start another fight or should I just forget about it?
I don't think you two can work this out without a professional. I would suggest asking if he will discuss those "trouble spots" with you in front of a counselor.
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How many girls have to say no to your offer of asking them out before it is not your choice to start dating?
Keep asking, unless your hand and you can get a marriage license in your state.
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Whats the best High?
Honestly, I have done drugs, alcohol, men.... On and on. Gambled a little even.
That was the past.
I did all that because I didn't have what I have now: a husband who would do anything for me and an beautiful 8 year old daughter who thinks I am the best mom in the world.
Having these two in my life is better than any drug. And I suspect that the feeling I get when I snuggle up...
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My boyfriend recently got a vasectomy without me knowing. We talked about marriage and kids. I'm really upset, should I leave him? What are my options?
Vasectomies are reversible (although expensively so).
But in some respect I think the train is out of the station. If you MUST have biological children in your future, this man is not the man for you. What IF you ask him if he would get it reversed if you two got married and were ready. And then WHAT IF five years from now you are safely married, economically comfortable and he won't...
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Do you know anyone who is just so adorable you want to hug them all the time?
My 8 year old, who considers herself a BIG girl and doesn't want to be hugged NEARLY as much as I want to hug her!
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How do i even get organized? i clean my apt, but its messy in no time...already freaking about classes college student here ....HELP!
I guess the number one tip I have (as a sometimes junkmeister myself) is that I do better when I put everything back in its place immediately. This is a two step process: 1) determine a place for everything and then 2) PUT everything back immediately.
It is natural to come home from a long day of school or work and just throw your coat on the floor, books on the desk instead of the shelf,...
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I got an F on my test, what should i do, if i dont want my mom to get mad?
Come up with a PLAN, before you present the information to your mom!
I.e., approach your teacher and find out if you can re-take the test, or if you can do extra credit to bring up your grade, find out if you can figure out what went wrong, what you don't understand so that you don't miss this same information if the next test builds upon it....
In short, act like an adult. Do...
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Isn't it strange that Sarah Palin won't talk to the press except the one interview last week? She won't take questions at rallies either.
Extremely. I would never vote for such a person, who is so ignorant that she is scared to speak free form on topics she hasn't been trained on.
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Where are the pictures of your ex?
In the family album.
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What is youre favorite NFL stadium
Soldier Field.
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If i was your slave ... what's the first thing you would make me do?
Duh! CLEAN MY HOUSE. Lol.
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What is a cumquat?
It is a little miniature orange looking fruit, but you eat the skin with the insides. Wait.... I will try to find a picture of it for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumquat
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Can you keep your hands out the cookie jar?
YES! Although I have a weight problem and eat more than my fair share of CRAP, I am a savory/ greasy/ meaty type girl. Lol.
Twinkies/ cookies/ cakes hold no allure for me. That doesn't mean that when everyone else has dessert that I skip it. But that I don't tend to scarft down huge amounts of sweets uncontrollably. Nor do I crave them. If someone left me in a room with 10 thousand...
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Ladies: How would you handle things if your husband was a gynocologist or a breast implant surgeon?
Well I'd handle more money in my pocket by getting free service (if my husband were a gynie man)!
If my husband saw breasts for a living, I'd handle THAT by having a wonderfully much higher standard of living since we'd be rich as hell!
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Do you really know anyone who likes anchovies as a pizza topping?
I am usually pizza incompatible with my lovers. Anchovies just WILL NOT stay on one side of a pizza!
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My boyfriend broke up with me last week, im about to have his baby in about a month & we still live together. It hurts me to say this but I dont think i want this baby anymore, maybe its just because it all just happend but idk should i give this baby up?
There are many people who could love your baby in a way you might not be able to do at this stage in your life; but of course that is decision that only you could make. I wish you well.
And please, PLEASE, do everything you can to get out of the same apartment with that fellow! It can't be emotionally good for you. And I suspect that he doesn't want a long term commttment with you...
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Have you ever been completely naked in a public place? Or would you ever go nude on a nude beach?
I have been on many Californian nude beaches. I also have been to a whaky nudist sex club. (I stayed alone and watched.) And recently I have taken to weekly attendance at a nude Korean health spa. IT IS GREAT!
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How often do you go out of the house not wearing underwear?
I go...everywhere without wearing underwear.
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If you were going to someone's house for a dinner party, what would you bring?
Living flowers (planted in dirt). That way your gift out lasts all the rest as a remind of you long after the party is over.
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Is there a more intimate act than making love?
Perhaps preparing the dead for burial. (I know women who have made their loved ones hair and done their make-up. I don't think I would want to do it. Too...well...intimate.)
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You get three toppings--what type of pizza do you want?
Pepperoni, onions, and anchovies!
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You get: one type of cheese; one type of bread; one condiment; and one vegetable--what sandwhich will you make for yourself?
Pastrami on dark rye with German mustard and a pickle on the side!
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What a list of (10!) things that tell you youve found your soul mate? thank yoo! :D
1) If they fart you laugh instead of run.
2) If they throw up, you move closer to help instead of farther away to get farther away.
3) You think about forever.
4) If you have a bad day, they are the first you want to call.
5) If you have a good day, they are the first you want to call.
6) If they ask for your last $50 dollars, your only thought is "how long will it take me...
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If you were a long haired hippy biker type, what would your nick name be?
Flea Bag!
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No matter who you are voting for, can you find one positive thing to say about the candidate(s) who do not have your vote?
Positive about McCain: I used to think he was a maverick. He had me convinced.
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What is something you would never buy at Walmart?
Sushi.
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O a man's wife is mad at him and says "Tomorrow I want something sitting in the driveway that will go from zero to 180 in under 20 seconds." Next morning she goes outside and finds a bathroom scales.
Is she right to be grumpy?
Way funny! 6+. She does have the right, but most likely it took 20 YEARS.
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Whether you do or do not believe in God is it possible that you could be wrong?
Great question! WHEW! You nailed it. Yes: I believe in God. (And no, I don't believe in religion.)
But of course, I could be wrong. Perhaps there was no intelligent entity that created the universe.
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I love coffee, but i always find it very difficult to find/make a great cup of coffee in my home. I know Starbucks are great, but i live in ireland (we dont have Starbucks) Any ideas?
Two words: French Press. Cheap and the best coffee ever.
http://www.starbucksstore.com/products/shprodli.asp?Keywords=french+press
You can purchase starbucks coffee on this same sight.
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What do you believe, but cannot prove?
I believe in "the fabulousness," that something fabulous happened at the beginning of the universe to turn nothing into something. Some people call this "God," and require their followers to believe that they KNOW the answers of God, what he is all about, and ancient stories that would have us believe God spoke regularly to ancient men but has somehow become mute in modern...
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Is being a 28 yo with a degree in biomedical science and being a medical doctor worth 9 years of college?
HELL YA! I did eight as a lawyer and wish I'd gone the other way, to med school.
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If someone told you they wished they were Al Qaeda, do you think it would be OK to call them a Wanna Be Terrorist?
I read the entry. I think he was (quite unfortunately) trying to be funny. But I don't think there is any problem calling him anything you want to call him. Bad joke = he shouldn't be surprised if people are angry with him. Why? Did someone's response get blitzed by the clueless staff?
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If you love to BBQ outside, at what point in the year do you pack it all up til "next barbecue season"?
I never "pack it in." I live on the West Coast. Packing it in never becomes necessary. Where I live, near Seattle, there is almost EXACTLY one snow storm a year and that usually equates to two inches of snow max which has all disappeared within 24 hours, usually not enough time for the kids to get two sledding events out of it.
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What question did you ask that got the most answers?
58. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/746504
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What are you battling with?
Career boredom. I will work HARD in 2009 to change my career path. I don't want to be a whiner anymore and just sit around bemoaning and not DOING anything!
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Do you panic when you have to face someone who is angry?
I do not or...I would have a different job. (I am a divorce lawyer.) I have a psychological trick which works, amazingly, most of the time. And perhaps being a woman increases the likelihood of it working. I don't know. But the more escalated someone gets, the calmer I force myself to be. If they are really up there, I might find myself at near-whisper, Romper Room levels of gooey...
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If you were a t.v. show, which would you be?
I would definitely be Red Dwarf: interracial with an international flair; slightly hip (but only in an underground way); magnating extremely weird and intense fans; farcical and hard to believe when you see me with your own eyes; never following the established rules; slighty off-beat, and DEFINITELY not for everyone/ not everyone's cup of tea.
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Why do Black men oppose the fact I am white and my wife is black more than white people do?
Don't worry, brother. We love who we love.
I was driving down the street with a male client in my car this week (I am black, he is white) and he said did I realize that he is getting hate stares from black guys wondering why he is with one of theirs?
The world is a jacked-up place. Very few of us have the ability to change THE WORLD (like Ghandi, etc.)
So we just...
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Will there be no end to the senseless downrating? How about we all stop to tell Jodie44 how much she does and stand tall against some vicious trolling? And this is just one example...
Hey, Jodie. I don't know what this is all about. As you know, sometimes I leave AB for a long time and get lost with all the cloak and dagger histrionics that can develop (of course that is why I leave in the first place).
I'm back for awhile now, although I was cursed out twice yesterday for honest answers and accused of being a friend of yours, Jodie. Lol.
I stand PROUD as a...
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Are you afraid to answer my questions because the second and third pages of my answers are getting hit by hit-and-run downrates?
I...don't understand your question. (By the way, I have generally found you engaging, witty, and one of the "nice guys" around here.)
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Who keeps flagging my questions nonsense?
I did a BRIEF review of some of your recent questions. People don't always get humor questions here. I once had the same problem. But you just have to keep being who you are. I didn't notice, are you filing your questions under the humor categories, outside the bag et al?
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What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word, "domestic"?
Violence. Sigh. It is very unfortunate. But I am a family law (divorce) lawyer.
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I have a cat that just got spayed she has not gotten out I know for sure but the vet said she was pregnant my sister and 2 friends took their cats to the same place and they all were pregnant. I know my cat wasn't pregnant, what should i do?
Call Law and Order Special Victim's Unit.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0629754/plotsummary
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I have a problem that might seem strange to the most people. But still, it is a real problem for me.
Is it possible to diminsh breasts without a plastic operation? I'm an nineteen year old female with a full C cup and I want to change my gender...
Believe it or not, brasierre-sizers are certified professionals and can work out a lot of breast problems. They are usually found in top-notch department stores. And the bra's the sell usually aren't the cheap ones. But call around and find out if you can speak to a certified bra fitter. The stores I am thinking about are like: Marshall Field's, Nordstroms, I Magnin, S5...
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Marines or Former Marines- I had met a man who was an ex Marine. He's 52. He was VERY drunk but told me he was a Jarhead & a leather neck. Was he totally wasted or does that make any sense to any of you?
Jarhead is a nickname for marines, and not a GOOD one. My understanding is that it comes from the thought that the Marines unscrew your brain like a jar, dig out what you used to think, and fill up your brain with Marine stuff, which you are stuck with forever.
I have never heard of Leatherneck.
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How many people must you have for it to constitute a line or queue?
Two points defines a line on a plane/ in two dimensional space.
(Lol. If your line is three dimensional, then there will have to be three points. That is why a stool with three legs rests perfectly while a stool with four legs often rocks, because it is hard to make perfectly identical legs.)
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What is the unsexiest thing you've ever done?
I got so drunk once in law school and (apparently) needed to use the can so badly, that I went into a tavern men's room, the women's room door being locked, straddled, the urinal, and pee'd.
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What is the opposite of a feminist?
Hmm. Feminist is a woman who believes she has every right a male does.
So perhaps the opposite is a man in a wife beater who throws his dinner against the wall if she doesn't make it to his liking.
(This is a joke, because of course a feminist can be a male too.)
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How can someone shop online, if they don't want to own a credit card?
Um.... DEBIT.
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I keep skipping periods in my run-on sentences, am I pregnant?
Depends. Did you use precautions?
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Are there any answerbaggers who think they might NOT be pregnant?
Um....The hubby and I are having some marital difficulties. I am NOT pregnant!
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In this modern, scientific world, is it reasonable to believe in creation?
I am the adult child of a Christian minister. I am also a lawyer and a non-church-going spiritualist. I have struggled with my beliefs for many years, although never much of a creationist. (I was taught, thank goodness, that the bible stories were symbolic, not literal.)
I have recently decided for myself, and I mean like THIS MONTH, that I believe in "God" but not in...
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I feel like the guy I'm with is the one. How do you know someone is the one you will end up spending the rest of your life with?
There is absolutely no way that anyone can know that they will spend the rest of their life with someone. No human is stagnant. We all change over time. It is impossible to know even how your own life line will stagger, sputter and speed bump. The attempt to determine how two lives will evolve and how compatible they will be over the factor of time is exponentially more difficult.
But...
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Why is there such a hang-up about sex? Historically there have been varying attitudes on sex. One is that it's wrong or bad, especially if done in the context of infidelity, homosexuality. Another view is that it's a very holy, sacred event.
Sex is like God, it's been around forever (in human time).
Since it has been with us since the beginning of our time on this earth, we have had a lot of time to come up with lots of different theories of what it is all about, what it "means."
Human beings are story-tellers. Joseph Campbell and many scholoars on ancient myths believe that this is what we do. We...
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I consider withholding information in a relationship lying! But my boyfriend thinks it is not a lie not to tell! what do you think?
I think this is a complicated question.
Of course not telling something very important is probably not "technbically" a lie.
However, we all know that there are things that are important to our relationships and that are intentionally withheld that are damaging to that relationship.
If, for instance, I am "not lying" to you if I'm having an...
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I was recently divorced after 17 years, we have a 11 year old son. My ex will not even speak to my child or me he saya he doesnt care and doesnt want to see our son. This is terrible hurt for my child. How do I make my child feel better about this whole t
I really think kids need professional help in many of these instances. Reason: because you too are wound up in the emotional upheaval of what is going on.
The problem is that finding a really good child counselor is hard. And you don't want no schmucks! Because the work that s/he does with your child will be evidenced many years down the line.
Talk to friends, teachers, counselors....
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I heard that you get very good benefits for sleeping on hard surfaced, is it true? I see a guy placing a door on top of his bed to sleep on it.
UNDER the mattress. My father's doctor had him put a wooden board under the mattress for his bad back.
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If you were a spider, what would you try to catch in your web?
A whole lotta damned money! I'm tired of working soooo hard!
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What is beyond Form?
Essence. You can't get to the essence without bypassing the form...which can aways be a trick, like when a lazy fourth grader buys the most expensive, shiniest book report cover to put on the book report that he took five minutes to write.
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What do you think is the essence of human being?
Frivoloty. Not in a bad way.... I mean: what we do with our free time.
All animals and some plants appear to make choices. Even a plant, for instance, will turn toward the light.
So all plants and animals do what they MUST do to stay alive and perpetuate their species: eat, drink, defend our lives, have sex....
But humans seem to have plans for the spare time, the leisure...
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Have you or would you ever pick up a hitchhiker?
Last year I saw a soldier walking down the freeway (1-5) in a way busy area outside of Tacoma.
Even though I have never picked up a hiker before, I pulled over and picked him up. (I was a little scared and had thoughts about mass murderers.)
I am so glad that I did. He just landed getting back from the war and the rent a wreck he was in broke down.
A week earlier...
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What do you think about some of these comments about Answerbag?
I saw this for the first time this morning. What I think is that many of the comnmentors are Outlanders, have been banned. So they are giving a poor reputation to the rest of us.
I also think that not everything is for EVERYbody, (like cabernet.) That doesnt' make that thing bad.
But some things REALLY aren't for a LOT of people. I think AB falls into that category....
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It's not a party until ___________.
I asked my eight-year old love child this morning, and she says it's when the DANCING STARTS! (And then she shooke her booty to show me what she meant.
I think perhaps it is that one point where several conversations are going at once and you can tune out to one and into another. Sometimes over music.
I USED to think it was when the liquor arrived or when the first bong was passed....
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What is the most hurtful thing your mother has said to you?
One year I got my mother a bread machine because I'd loved mine so much. But my son (her grandson) told me that when she saw it she said: "who needs this shit? She should have just sent money."
Um...that was the last time I gave her anything, and it is likely the last time I ever WILL give her anything.
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Is extra postage required on an envelope that is 11 inches by 5 inches?
No. See these sites.
http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm100/what.htm
http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm100/postage.htm
It is still considered a "letter."
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Can anyone explain to me how you are pasting You Tubes inside of your answers (so I can too.)
Trying again on Green Freak's (very) hard work with my ignorant self! Thanks for not giving up even though you were frustrated.
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Can anyone explain to me how you are pasting You Tubes inside of your answers (so I can too.)
Okay.... Let's see if I can do this based on Green Freak's directions. (Drum Roll......)
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You meet someone that you are completely compatible with. However, they practice a/different religion. Would you go out with them?
I do/ have. I have married two Jewish husbands despite being the daughter of a methodist minister. But...I'm not sure the inquiry is all that helpful to anyone. Afterall, people's religions mean different things to them than to me.
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Have you ever keyed a car?
No, because it is cowardly and illogical. (No anology given. Anologies distress the questioner.)
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What is a good haircut for a female with a square face?
Jodie, will you please check this out for me. I hate it when people go off on me for no reason. Honestly I just don't get it. Guy seems nice enough in general. http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/4003206
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What kind of discipline would you give a police officer for leaving their loaded gun in the public toilet of a coffee shop?
Oh my god. This reminds me of a jail sheriff that asked me to date him for months and I finally agreed to go out to dinner with him. (I was a lawyer and he had to check me in to visit clients. I couldn't avoid him. Absolute bozo. Let me know in the first five mins that he was so, happy that a black girl had dated him. He really, really, REALLY wanted a black girlfriend. *Sigh. Not a...
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Can you supply a video with an upbeat song to get the day really romping for everybody?
Is this "romping"? Perhaps not, but it SURE DOES make me laugh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GpZpoaZaSE&feature=iv
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Have you ever keyed a car?
No. I have a mouth and maybe a LITTLE bit of smarts. When I am angry at people, I let them know in ways that are legal, non-cowardly, and non-anonymously.
Keying a car is like trolling an AB answer: it indicates that you don't have the balls to walk up and tell me why you don't like me and what your gripe is.
I also suspect that it indicates that car-keying people fear that...
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Do you believe there is a reasonable chance at all that the Large Hadron Collider will really form a black hole that will eat up our Earth?
I admit that I am scared about this possibility. But then again, I am a damned fool about sciency stuff. I have a high-level, liberal arts degree. (Lol. So don't go counting on ME for this one!)
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How Girly are you? Try the quiz and share with us.
I endorse this site. This result is exactly what I expected.
You Are 44% Girly
You're a little girly, a little boyish, and probably a whole lot indie.
You have your own unique style, and it pretty much defies gender lines.
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Do the trolls of the far left/ right, one-way (or)/ the other, it's black/ it's white) variety think that by negg'ing you to death, that they will change your opinions? Punish you? What is the point?
I suspect in some juvenile-based philosophy when you answer pro-whatever when they are pro-the-opposite, and then you find that answers of yours from YEARS ago are getting kamakazied, that...they are "punishing" you.
Even they can't think they are changing your mind.
When the playground bully sticks his scrawny little fist in your face and says "shut up! Don't say...
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This guy i really dont like.. saw me with my new haircut and suddenly said " hey y r u trying to look prettier" .. was tht an insult or a compliment.. he tends to say things to girls but they way he says it just ruins it.
Sorry but imho it was obviously an insult. TRYING to look prettier is (alas) not the same as actually looking prettier.
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My 2 year old is horrible to my partner and his 9 yr old daughter.. they are nice to her all the time yet she is still horrible to them. What can i do?
Two year olds can be horrible to...EVERYbody except their mum. They are in a stage of child development where they are selfish and don't even know it yet: they don't know the difference between themselves and everything OTHER than themselves. Two year old ARE embarrassing, and yet we love them still. This is easier to deal with in a traditional family, I suspect, because then...
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What's the best Senior quote you've heard?
"Running free in '83!"
(j/k.)
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Is there a politically correct term for stripper?
When they organize for better treatment, they call themselves "sex workers." That would include: strippers, porn actors, prostitutes, etc. (And in THIS case, "etc." is an extremely loaded term!)
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What is your least favorite Jelly Belly Jelly Bean Flavor?
Boogers. Or...as Harry Potter In the Hood would say "Booger Flavored Beans," which actually can be bought in stores.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuBm0dvIzcc&NR=1
http://candyaddict.com/blog/2005/11/26/review-bertie-botts-every-flavor-beans-just-the-gross-ones/
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Ok. how about the equation "4 more than half of a number?" Is it 1/2x + 4
1/2x(4) is how I would write it, in order to clarify that x is sometimes a variable and sometimes a multiplication table.
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I am a brown man married to a white woman for two years who thinks we will have ugly kids because they will not be white. So she does want to have any kids while I do. I never thought she felt this way till I started talking about kids. What should I do?
Um...you are married to a racist? (You DO know she is a racist, right? I hope you are not making any excuses for her!) Do you love her??? Good lord. The only person I know who has had experience with this is my husband, whose ex-wife didn't know he was Jewish until after they were married. HE on the other hand didn't know that she was an anti-semite BIGOT until after they were...
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Do you know anyone who has Herpes and have had children? Were they born with disabilities? or later discovered their child had autism?
There is no such link, to the best of my knowledge. I think in the worst case scenario...they get HERPES. (I have herpes. My daughter was born without any developmental disabilities. She is a third grader reading at 7th grade level.)
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If you had one minute to live, what would you do?
Hold my eight year old love child in my arms, surrounded by my husband and son and just talk about the most important things in life.
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I'm a black guy,who is bi-curious,how do I tell my straight male friend i might like him.
Ahem....I am going to say this as...carefully as I know how. WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU DO THAT!
Sometimes sir, people focus on them and THEIRselves.
Read your own question, dude!
YOu KNOW HE'S STRAIGHT! WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM HIM?
How would you respond to me posting a question that follows.
"I'm a woman and I've fallen in love with my...
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Who's smarter Biden or Hilary?
I suspect Biden, at least regarding experiential which is important to me. I STILL don't understand how Hilary gets 35 years of anything out of her resume. And counting your spouses' time in office reeks (imho). I am a democrat. Still don't understand the appeal of her.
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Who is a red dwarf fan?
ME! I scooped out some dough on the boys last month, so I could meet Robert Llewelyn and also buy (and have him autograph) the entire collection of episodes. I've never bought a gift for myself which has bouth me so much joy!
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If you were payed a half of a million dollars to stay for a week in a haunted house, would you?
You can spell that with a capital "HELL YEAH."
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What is the character that appears from holding down the alt key and entering your birthyear?
Doggone it! NO character. Apparently my secretary has set it to do a spell check!
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Are you in love or lust with your s/o?
Love. The lust has DEFINITELY cooled down.
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Ladies - What's most improtant in a relationship for you? Commitment? Being in-Love? Fidelity? A man's sexual skill or size down there? Security for the future? Be honest! what drives women in relationships?
Friendship. If everything else falls away, including our hotness for each other, we can still (and are still) making it as a couple. We are just too good friends to break up.
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Do guys enjoy wearing panties?
I have opted for the option of a panty-free life based upon the discomfort of panties. So...guys wearing panties, with more...ahem...down there, I assume they would be uncomfortable too! Probably not about comfort is my guess.
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Ladies would you stay with your man if he told you he liked wearing womens panties because he found them more comfortable than mens briefs?
This does not sound like 100% cross dressing. But even if he WERE a cross dresser, and assuming I loved him in the first place, this would not be a deal-breaker and I would continue to love him. People who are educated about cross dresser's know that they are not homosexual and generally don't want to go out in public in cross-dress attire. But AGAIN, even if he did, it would not...
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Now that you are an adult do you still have a bedtime?
I have a "cant-keep-my-eyes-open-past" time.
It is really sad. I estimate the time at about 9:30 p.m. I only know this because I know the beginning to every Law and Order and Monk...but STILL don't know who the murders are. (I must fall asleep in the middle somewhere.)
Believe it or not, I used to be a party girl!
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When you get pizza do you start eating in the car?
Can you say: Scalded Cheese Mouth?
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What is your favorite blue thing?
The episode "Blue" from Red Dwarf. Blue is a common British expression for depression, more so than here.
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Are you worried about being ushered into the netherworld of the unemployed?
Absolutely. My whole family relies upon my primary paycheck!
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If you could say one sentence to stop someone from starting to smoke what would it be?
"I wish I could go back in time, as the adult daughter my father never got to meet, and tell him how much I needed him around, cancer-free and alive."
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When using the word "the" in a sentence before a word starting with a vowel, I was taught that "the" should be pronounced like "thee".e.g go towards "thee" exit. Lately, I've been hearing people saying, Go towards "tha" exit. Did something change?
I am surprised this is TAUGHT anywhere, but it is true, right. It is something that our mouths automatically do. Try to do it the other way! It doesn't really work so easy. But if you can DO it, it is not improper to do so. Pronunciation is a part of living language. If English speakers revolt and chose to pronounce "cheese" like "GOIT..." it is not improper. It will...
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Which prescribed medication are you on?
Hellllllll naw! My fingers are too tired to type in all the words necessary to relay that information. (And aside from that, who can spell all that shit?)
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Can a true patriot criticise their country?
A true patriot is OBLIGATED to criticize their country. If more German patriots had criticized Hitler, perhaps our Jewish brethren wouldn't have lost a whole generation to history!
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How would you fit your life into a jar?
Since, I have been pretty $ fortunate, I would order a custom-made jar, and make sure that it was at LEAST as big as the block I live on!
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Why do some people still use cars, etc. instead of public transport when they live in an area that has public transport?
I am a lawyer in the area of complex litigation. I consider myself relatively green. However, my "files" are banker's boxes that can fill up my entire car. I always want to ride the bus, but my files are to big to get to the courthouse without a car!
But because you reminded me, I will make more of an effort on days where I have a light load.
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Do you take your pet out in public?
Well.... I should more often but he is the hyperist little bichon in the world and well it can be EMBARRASING. A person only thinks a strange dog jumping up in their face is cute the FIRST time...IF THAT.
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If you look to your right and tilt your head up, what is it you see..?
Calendar.
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My ex daughter-in-law consistantly trys to cause problems-like daily-she moved in with an older man (she's 30, he's 48) thought she would be so happy with him, has joint custody with my son of my 4 year old grandson. What is her problem?
My husband is 24 years older than me and we have a beautiful 8 year old.... To the best of OUR knowledge...we have no "problem."
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Have you ever lost your child in a store?
Omg yes. It is a funny story now but I was frantic at the time.
I have a chronic bronchitis cough. Have had it for like 20 years now.
I was running up and down the aisles looking for him. And HE found ME.
Only when he was an adult did he tell me how he did it. He stood very still and then walked toward the coughing!
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A friend of mine is going to the UK.
she asked me what i wanted. is there something cool to bring back from the UK?
Wool blankets or knitting yarn.
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Do you ever have those days that you just want to have a pitty party for yourself and listen to sad music all day and think about nothing but sad stuff and it feels like real therpy for you?
I think I am an undiagnosed bi-polar. So yes, and it can last a long time! Weeks even.
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Who is brave enough (females, of course) to go out in public with no makeup on, no artificial anything at all, for a month? How about a week? One day? Let people see who you are..not your makeup/hair extensions and false whatevers. How about it?
You're kidding, right?! Some of us girls are au naturale all the time! I am a lawyer and go to court almnost every day without an OUNCE of make-up on. Just laziness actually, but it has turned into my personal style. Every year I swear as my New Year's resolution that this year I am going to wake up five minutes early EVERY day of the YEAR so that I can put on my make-up. But now...
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What’s a memorable flaw of your first car?
An old Honda which had rust holes in the bottom so you could see the highway as it passed under! (Also the manual transmission was sooooo awful, that you could hardly turn the corner if you stopped working out for a few weeks and let your bi-cepts go to pot!)
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Your walking down the street. You smell something MAGNIFICENT! You follow it and what do you find?
An acre of roses of every color from white to almost black-red, and with all the peaches, yellows and oranges between!
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Do you approve two gay's being married?
To each other? I guess that would make the most sense. So I will say yes, whole-heartedly. But even if these theoretical "two gays"* want to marry two OTHER gays...or a gay and a straight, that is okay with me!**
*Damn that's funny! You don't KNOW ANY do you?
**I'll see your two gays and raise you a hetero and a bi!
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What 2 words, when written, are always a lie?
"I'm illiterate."
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Do women find tattoos of women on men offensive? and if so, what kind?
Tattoos are personal expressions of the wearer.
I would no more choose or object to someone's tatoo than to their clothing.
I do not think that any particular type of tatoo would cause me to not date someone. Hmmmm. Well maybe if there were decapitated women tatoos! But I would be pretty flexible about anything else. I do not have prudish thoughts about nudity. So...I don't...
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My fiance is pro- playstation 3 and I am pro- xbox. Do you and your SO have any weird conflicts like this?
Me and my husband are pizza-incompatible.
I want anchovies, he doesn't. And anchovies is NOT something that you can have on half a pizza: the smell goes all over the whole pizza. Lol. And it tends to ooze over in the cheese too.
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What are some odd things you have licked?
Um okay. This is embarrassing. But I've licked my dog's nose. I got to thinking one day...my dog is always licking my nose. This must mean "I love you, I love you, I love you" in Dog. He must think I am INCREDIBLY RUDE for never licking his nose.
So one day, I like him back on his litle, black Bichon nose (tasted salty like a pork chop).
He was WAY UNHAPPY...
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I am socially awkward. I often don't understand why people make fun of me and I often feel like most of my friends think of me more as a joke than as a real friend. I sometimes feel like I can't fit in no matter what I do. What's wrong with me?
Everyone is different. If you feel uncomforable, perhaps they are doing something to make you feel less than a real friend. I am all for the talking/ walking approach to MOST things. I find it works in a lot of areas. I would try to talk, sincerely about my feelings to them (just like you have told it to us here). If you don't feel satisfied after you've talked it through, then feel...
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What do you do when a teachers picks on you all the time?
I would talk to someone superior to that adult. Bullying is not acceptable whether the bully is a child or an adult!
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How mant people have used kinoki foot pads?
Oooh! Thanks for asking. I have never used them but am often tempted by the commercicals. I'd LOVE to hear from someone who actually has used them! 5+ for the question.
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Why would Republicans be calling for "change" when their party has been at the helm for 8 years?
Great question! Made me laugh as soon as I saw it. I gave you 5 points for the question.
But you have to remember, McCain is just barely a republican! He was probably the least liked member of his party until they realized that America is so fed up with republicans that a "real" republican couldn't win!
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If Answerbag was to charge a montly rate for a user to be on Answerbag, would you still be here?
Perhaps. Not excessively so. If I had to buy an annual subscription, I probably would do so, up to $100 annually. Any more and I could not support the expense to my husband.
It would kind of be like a dating service then too, I would probably be getting more solid advice and getting rid of trolls.
There would still be a few trolls, and just paying $100 doesn't prove you...
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Do you know anyone who is a moocher.
Me. My eight year old daughter calls me "Mommy the Mooch," because if she doesn't eat the food on her plate, I will take it and eat it while she isn't looking!
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Not including the movies, have you ever seen a man actually wearing a top hat? What about spats?
I used to date a man who wore a top hat nearly every day. But we were punkish. For instance, his hair was purple. And he would were a skirt about twice a month too.
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What mindless song will you listen to over and over?
I LOVE THIS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMlPVpXtkJY&feature=related
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Obama says "Lip stick on a pig", is he referring to Palin? (YOU DECIDE. VIDEO INCLUDED)
I'm so GLAD you posted this! I just hear the comment "lipstick on a pig" out of context--as the media tends to do. Thanks so much!
I keep hearing LOP LOP over and over. I had no idea of the context! Out of context, it made me mad. Now that I see the context, it is not an issue for me.
I think that he probably IS trying to get in a sideways jab. But it doesn't bother...
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Do you feel that this question requires clarification? "If the word ends in -dge, what can it be?" This question was nuked before I was given the opportunity to clarify it.
It is VERY unfortunate. I have been around AB two years or so now. If someone says it should go, often AB just yanks it. It makes me angry that they use so little discretion. Apparently they don't have enough time to give a care about it.
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I really want to get something special for my mum for her birthday next week. She loves gardening, cooking (esp Thai), and loves collecting weird but beautiful things... anyone have any ideas what I can get her? Need to find something soon so pls help!
If there is a local Asian supermarket, a gift certificate there.
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Do you have an answer from a while back that still gets DRed? I do and honestly, I have no idea why. The only thing I can think is that it must be by people who are butt hurt that they've been denied so they're lashing out. What's your opinion? (see link)
I think there can be a mob mentality about this stuff sometimes. If someone goes through old answers to a question and sees you down at the bottom, they assume you deserve to be there. Yes, this has happened to me.
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What would you do if you knew that your neighbor (female) was being beaten by her live in bf?? would you stay out of it, or get involved... I dont know what to do please help!!
I would use another person's cell phone to make an anonymous call in the middle of the battle. History tells us that the victims have so little self esteem that they won't think for themselves. So many of them end up dead. And she will probably go back to him or some other abuser. But you will prevent her from dying THAT night.
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Are you FREE as a BIRD?
Yes. I work for myself and I don't wear panties!
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4 words you never want to hear?
Your fly is open. (I don't wear underpants!)
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What caption can you write for this picture? See my answer!
As this recent photo shows, Robert Downey Jr.'s last drug rehab did not stick. The only bitches he can pull now have tails.
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Have you ever been in a stressful situation and been indifferent about it?
I am a divorce lawyer. My life is one big stress to another. If I can't feel indifferent sometimes, my heart would explode.
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What is your idea of a perfect romantic evening?
Staying at a five star hotel with a top rate restaurant, pool. Great if there is a hot tob in the room. Perhaps massages for the two of us in the room and vodey-odey-OH as long as we can go.
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Would you hook up with someone at work?
Have done. Didn't work. PLUS when it broke up, the office scandal was torturous.
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I'm dating a single parent. He said that he will "never" marry again. (Trust issues that are getting better with me) However should I wait for marriage to live with him? I'm afraid that once I'm in, it will never happen. Am I being unreasonable?
No and no.
If you feel that your life won't be fulfilled without marriage, I would suggest that you continue looking. I had the same situation. It lasted for six years. I finally DID bully him into marrying me, and it all fell apart to hell. Some people want to marry and some don't. If you want to marry and he doesn't, I don't think people get turned into...
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What have YOU done to stop Global Warming? (I've started using more efficient lightbulbs)
I traded my gas-guzzling Jeep Liberty in for a Honda.
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If ___ did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.
White Castle cheeseburgers.
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If what goes around doesn't come around, where is he lost?
When Whatgoesaround doesn't COME around, Whatwent around puts more change in the ride!
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If a casual friend asked you for a 10 dollar loan because they lost their wallet and needed taxi fare home, would you lend it to or give it him/her?
Ten bucks doesn't mean much to me. Most like he would say, I'll get it back to you. But I would never press him/ her for it. I would never lend someone money that I expected back.
I just "leant" a friend $240 this weekend because he became tragically homeless with his 5 year old daughter. He said he would only take it if I promised to allow him to pay it back. I...
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What does this mean in a sentence :0)?
Oh no, you guys.... I thought it was shock and awe! The "0" is a mouth opened with shock; and in this particular instance, the ")" substitutes for a chin.
I just googled it and am finding some support on Wikipedia for my gut level response. See the first blue table, for instance. 0's imho always stand for an open mouth?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon
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I'm all for abolishment of the minus button in favor of the plus one. Who is with me?
Sometimes things are sooo offensive that you are glad it is there! I disagree with the flow. But as you can see from my 95% ratings given, I am slow to use the neg button. But I sure AM glad that it's there when I need it!
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I got called for jury duty i'm so nervous never done it before, have you any tips on what to expect ? Thanks :)
I am a lawyer who has picked jurors for trials before.
Most of your day may be boring. Bring some knitting or reading or something to do. There will possibly be a lame movie to watch that you've seen a million times before like (in our case) "Sister Act II." For this, I truly appologize. Lol.
The whole day is about coming and going. They never know when a trial will...
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Right now, I'd love to eat a nice plate of_________.
White Castle cheeseburgers.
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I have filed my taxes just moved lost or misplaced 1099 form need copy to get loan
I own a small business. The IRS has become very user friendly recently. They are easy to get on the phone. And they have internet question asking service and also a fax back service for questions. Get in touch with them.
http://www.irs.gov/
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This is in response to "http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/291055/date_desc?page=2&" Alot of the answer say "...it's not your fault you are gay..." Whos fault is it?
1) First of all, homosexuality is not a "fault." It is one of the many blessings that brings diversity to our world. If we were all straight, white, uni-cultural, middle-class folk...oh the world would be beige and boring indeed.
2) Secondly, if one believes in God, then it is God's "fault." God made us all. Perhaps the gays, who have wonderfully enriched our world...
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In legal terms on my pre-trial scheduling order it states that all discovery disputes shall be completed in four months. what does this term mean?
"Discovery" is the legal process where parties exchange the evidence that they intend to present at trial.
In the Western political systems, trials are not about surprise. Each side is supposed to be able to prepare, know what the other side will be saying and what documments will be offered. That way both sides can present their "best evidence," and hopefully the...
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What is your main goal in life?
To engage in a career where I can help others and at the same time earn at least enough money to keep my family together, comfortable and have at least some of the extras that keeps life interesting.
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How would you politely tell your friend that her make-up / outfit is probably a crime?
Girls...don't generally have a problem with this.
But just as an example: I always start off with "I like x but I maybe y would be better."
Like: I like your eye shadow, but I think a pink top would go better with those pants.
This way, you never really say that you don't like ANYthing, only that perhaps another choice would be BETTER.
And in...
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What kind of questions (subject) in AB do you feel you are most qualified to answer?
Generally: relationship, legal, and religious/ philosophical. (I am a divorce lawyer and a child advocate.)
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I am 31 and I am interested in a girl who is 21. I can't help but worry that maybe she thinks I am too old for her. What do you think? And what should I do to ease my fears around this issue?
People like each other or they don't. My husband is 24 years older than me. It works for us. That doesn't mean it will work for YOUR GIRL.
The only person who will know that is her. Sign-off Answerbag and ask her, man!
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If my parents are both dominican born & raised but I was born in the united states, what does that make me?
You are a "naturalized" American citizen. I believe you would have to establish dual citizenship elsewhere but you citizenship here is...well...natural and requires no work.
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Will you describe how you're feeling in a four letter word?
Full.
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What to do - my SO only wants to stay home and either watch movies or play video games all night..every night. He never wants to do anything fun, and tells me I never suggest anything, but when I do he doesn't want to do them. Help!
This is a compatibility issue.
You should give some serious consideration to how you would feel ten years from now if he were still acting the same way (because people don't change that much. They are who they are and you either fit with them and can deal with who they are or you can't).
I don't think enough couples think about compatibility when they are making...
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Black _______?
...is the new white.
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They've started building dog parks, which is a good idea. What would be found in a 'cat' park?
I'm not sure EVERYthing that would be in said partk. But I'm pretty sure that there would have to be some human volunteers who would be available to stroke or to be ignored at a moment's notice!
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What highway do you use the most?
1-5! Which is sometimes called B.C. to B.C., British Columbia to Baja California.
What a great north-south road.
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I am pregnant by my ex-boyfriend I told him about it, and he's not too happy. I don't want him to be in my life anymore, but I want this baby. How do I go about having all rights removed from him? Is that possible?
You are very much in charge unless he files suite and asks for paternity to be established, etc.
Many times these guys don't step forward, obviously.
But if he does, and he likely will if you seek public assistance or child support, then he has equal rights of parentage as you do. He will likely establish a parenting plan and have weekly or every other week visitation.
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My husband's ex girlfriend keeps calling his parents to watch her child. It's not my husbands child, but his parents are close to her. This ex girlfriend has tried to break us up many many times by using her daughter as bate. How do i get rid of her?
This is an immensely irritating woman. However...we can't control love, and it sounds as if the parents may now love this child.
I am on board with the other posters, asking the husband to encourage the parents to quit.
But yet still, they are human. What if they refuse to do so? We put our parents in a horrible situation when we ask them to care about our significant...
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I have many ideas for poetry I am writing.I have joined many sites and Im getting a good amount of views but not as much as I could be getting. I have been wondering what is the quickest way to make money and get recognition with my poetry and articles?
1) Write almost every day, even if just for a little while. 2) Join a local "critique group." That way, not only will you be able to get selling/ publication/ marketing ideas from other writers, but you will also find out any flaws in your work from more experienced writers and just get to be around people who make writing a part of their lives! 3) Buy a 2008 copy...wait they come out...
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Do you think it possible to love someone you didn't enjoy kissing?
It would be really difficult. (My worse kisser was a drooling guy. I could never imagine being with a drooler forever. GAWD. I wonder if he married!)
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What color socks, shoes, and shirt goes with yellow-green pants?
Grays of all hues and shades go well with the all primary colors. And obviously the naturals: white and black. Even though browns "go with" greens and yellows, I would advise against it since well...then you will look like a tree or shrub from the garden!
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What is growing on you?
My belly.
Jussssssst kidding. Law and Order "grew on me." As a lawyer, at first, I thought it was hokey and they get a lot of stuff wrong. Now I can't stop watching every re-run. It's like popcorn for the brain. Even though you KNOW whether the defendant will get convicted!
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If a blind person asks you, "What is the difference between blue and red?", what would you say?
Red SHOUTS.
Blue whissssspers.
Red is PARTY HEARTY.
Blue is official work clothes, navy commanderish.
Red is a rose that makes you fall in love and want to weep, it is the deepest part of your woman's love.
Blue is the veing that pops out on your bosses forehead when you show up late.
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What should I make a documentary about?
Give up something quite common for a year. That has been all the rage lately! (Fast food, working, etc.)
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Can I add anything to mashed potatoes, apart from butter and milk to make them more interesting or tasty?
Roasted garlic and olive oil!
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Do you take public transportation to get back and forth to work everyday? If so, how do you pass the time while being driven around?
When I take the bus, I knit, KNIT, KNIT!
I love to knit. Lol.
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Are you a smiler or a frowner?
Smiler. In some circles I am considered too friendly to be a divorce lawyer.... Yet I still am one. Still: looking for other work!
Bumper Sticker: "Mean people suck....But they make great divorce attorneys."
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Do you think it is right to force a child to sit there and finish everything on their plate?
Definitely not. Any pediatrician will tell you that human children do not starve themselves.
We wonder why the nation is full of fatty when we're force-feeding satiated children!
Instead of force-feeding them, quite to the contrary, we should EAT LIKE THEM. Lol. That would be a good diet book. You can only eat the things that your six year old eats. (Boogers aside.) Oh...
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I am 16 and so is my business partner. We are busy setting up an online auction website. We currently have the problem of not being able to set up because we cannot open a business account because of our age. What are our options?
This is a difficult business problem. Most states call contracts made by minors "voidable." That is why most people don't want to contract with minors, because it gives the minor an upper hand if there is a problem in the future.
"Voidable" means that any contract you enter into you can decide to bag-out on it for any reason you want or no reason at all. Say...
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What gets on ur last nerves?
I have a WEIRD thing about getting my neck touched! It just freaks me out. I can't get some spa services because of it (like a full body wrap), and OF COURSE I don't wear turle necks.
I tell everyone that I was guillotined royalty from the French Revolution in another life.
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Is it normal for me, a 15 year old, not to be allowed to go to the store by myself? My parents know I'm not the kind of person who would steal or anything like that. They mentioned I would need to go on a major road WITH A SIDEWALK for a few minutes.
Sounds too, too overprotective, in an unhealthy way.
I too was the child of a way overprotective mother.
I was able to get some assistance by telling other adults in my world these crazy-assed stories. They, incredulously, would ask her if this was true and counsel her about healthier, more normal parenting.
My mother was the pastor's wife. So the people I...
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When I say bald who is the first person you think of?
The fictional character George Costanza, who did so many episodes about baldness.
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What are you currently obsessed with?
Yahoo Spades.
Red Dwarf (I just bought every episode as a present to myself)!
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What kind of makeover would I need in order to become a Goth guy?
Invest about $100 in a ceramic hair iron.
http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=ceramic+hair+straight+iron&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
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What did you have for breakfast?
[I had a homemade sausage egg mcmuffin with cheese]
Warmed-over, doggy-bagged Chinese. Beef Yuk Kew.
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If I only eat healthy foods and do an hour of cardio and a tiny bit of weight training every day can I lose 10kg in one month? (no advertising or telling me it's unhealthy.....I need this)
It is probably possible, if only slighty so. Believe it or not, I knew a guy who lost 34 pounds in two weeks once! But he weighed about 400 pounds to START and was on a medically supervised liquid-only diet.
So, I suspect that the answer depends on how much you weigh NOW.
Also, I don't think it is probably healthy for you (or for him) to have this goal.
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How would you react if a complete stranger tried to hug you?
Answer: it really, really depends upon a lot of things. 1) What emotional state are they in? 2) Do they have a boner? 3) What are the circumstances? I mean if I am in the crowd at Wrigley Field and the Cubs have just won the series, EVERYbody will be hugging EVERYbody!) 4) How clean do they look/ smell? Etc.
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You've been captured by a pack of vicious AB trolls, they are forcing you to eat the most horrible things you can imagine. What is the most awful food you can think of that the trolls would force upon you? And what would you be drinking?
Exrement-filled Twinkies washed down with Jack and urine.
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Do all couples in relationships have to have 'the talk?' you know, the one where you both discuss the worst things you have done in the past etc? If you've had one what did you discuss and how did it work out
With me...I have found that it is not about HAVING to have the talk, it is about wanting to have the talk.
I am the kind of person who wants to share my story. I have been through a lot of adventures, good and bad. Some sooo bad, that they aren't fit for public consumption. Lol. But I swear, one of my life philosophies is that there is very little value in the world; but one of...
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Does everyone know that John McCain has never used E-MAIL?! What do you think about this? http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/08/13/john_mccain_technology/
To me this is a deal breaker. It's like voiting for a guy who's never driven and gets around in a horse and buggy.
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Why does achievment matter?
Achievement doesn't really "matter," on an individual level except insomuch as we choose it to matter for our own lives.
Achievement is an amorphous definition of how we mark our time on earth. No one can define what achievement means to me. You can choose that achievement means: try to get the most money; get the most sex; help the most people; help the most dogs.... or,...
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Is it ever rational to commit suicide?
The only truly "rational" reason for suicide to me would be to eliminate pain that you have no way of escaping otherwise, i.e., your life has no happiness due to the unremititng pain that you are powerless over.
Earlier today, I asnwered on a different question, that I might commit suicide if I knew that I had inadvertently caused the death of one of my children.
I...
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If love was a color what would it be?
A really, really deep and flowery pink that is so warm, you can feel it buzz on your lips.
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What's the quickest way to kill the passion in a relationship?
1) Stop bathing and 2) become a nag (of either the female or male type).
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What is something that would cause you to commit suicide? Everyone has their breaking point...
Perhaps: 1) an immense amount of pain or 2) knowing that I had inadvertently cause the death of one of my children.
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Could you please say something shocking to help me get rid of the hiccups? :)
Your father is really a gay, black, illegal-alien, midget who seduced your mother with a thimbleful of grain alcohol.
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If guns kill people, do spoons make them fat?
Lol. This reminds me of one of my favorite weigh loss quotes: "The woman who continues to eat after she is full, digs her own grave with a fork."
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I had a very short marrage been split up nearly 2 years and he wont sign the devorse papers any ideas what i can do next there are no children involved.
In my state, I would easily file a dissolution/ divorce petition and set a motion for divorce and default him if he failed to appear.
But I would advise that you call the Bar Association in your state as to how to handle this situation.
American spouses cannot hold their husbands/ wives enslaved in a marriage. Each state has methods for dealing with this situation.
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Is bmx new to the olympics this year?
Yes. This appears to be its debut year.
http://thinkpop.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/olympic-history-with-bmx-racing/
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Do you get most of your world and local news from a source that is not mainstream? If so, would you share the source with me?
I am really embarrassed by this fact, but since Yahoo is my home site, when I sign on in the morning, their news pops up.
So...Yahoo is my source for news. (This is the first time I am coming to grips with this humiliating information. I am a political science major!)
This means of course that I know slightly more about Paris Hilton and Britney Spears than John McCain or Joseph...
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Anthony Bourdain: genius, asshole, or both?
Both, I think. One of my favorite non-fiction books of all times was his Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Cuilinary Underbelly.
It is like having a back stage pass into New York's best kitchen, and seeing what REALLY goes on back there.
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How many of you would boycott KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut (all owned by one company) for their cruelty to chickens?
Love to, but I'm a lard ass. How could I keep my ass size up without these places?!
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What wouldn't you dare mix with gin?
I'd like to try a few black peppercorns in the bottom!
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What news source do you distrust the most?
Fox, second only to the Enquirer and other tabloids.
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If someone gives you a million of dollars would you take them for you self or share with other people?
I feel like a million dollars is too much to keep purely for my personal pleasure.
I would make sure that both of my children had some amount invested for them.
But I would also make sure that my children SEE me making a difference in some way with some portions of the money.
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WHY PARIS HILTON IS SO CRAZY?
Crazy like a FOX! I'll see you at the debates bitches!
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My strawberry plant leaves keep getting chewed or eaten by either my cat or my dog, which one is it most likely to be?
DOGS HATE VEGETABLES/ VEGETATION! (Lol...in my experience and humble opinion.)
I have a lil' bichon frisee. He will eat ANYTHING, even plastic. But if a vegetable drops on the floor, it is like poison to him!
I suspect it is actually neither, probably some type of aphid. But if the only choice is the cat of the dog, my vote for the cat, since we know that cats at least will eat...
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How can you say that you are different?
I have far fewer isms (I believe/ hope) than many people.
I would never not vote for someone because of race or sexual preferences and am amazed that people do.
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Mix a fruit and a vegetable - what do you get?
Avococolli.
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What do you fear most?
Anything horrible happening to my children, especially my 8 year old girl, since she is young and defenseless.
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What do you want more than anything right now?
To be fit.
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How do you handle paranoid people who think EVERYTHING you say or do is about and against them and their interests?
Why...handle them. Sometimes the correct plan is to stay as far enough away from toxic human trouble as possible.
It is near-impossible to truly change people. People change themselves. It is even more impossible for people to change QUICKLY.
So if these folks are people who have control over you (bosses, for instance), you may need to look to get away from the situation as...
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Wouldn't it be funny if those rightous christians who think they're going to Heaven instead came back as starving african babies?
This is a hilarious "what if." Thanks for making me laugh.
I'm still amazed that so much homosexual scandal surrounds the party of "family values."
And don't get me wrong, if there was less gay-hate amongst the right wingers, these poor fellows wouldn't need to be tapping their shoes in the airport johns.
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Cat got your tongue? Picture in first answer needs a caption...
That's why call me SPIKE, bitches!
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Are "pen" and "pin" pronounced differently where you are from?
I am a Seattlite raised in Chicago.
Every now and then someone (usually from the South) stops to correct my pronunciation of the word "pen," saying that it is PEHN. (Sounds close to "pan" in my ear.
Apparently Chicagoans, I believe, say both of these words the same, or so similarly as to be hard to distinguish.
Seattlites also, don't hassle me...
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What was the "Sundance Kid's" real name?
Harry Longabaugh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Longabaugh
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Have anyone here had bad experience with Progressive car insurance?
Yes. EARLY in their ad campaign the thing that impressed me was that instead of calling all around for quotes, they claimed that they would tell me the competitor's quotes.
I called and asked for their quotes and then asked what were the quotes of their competitors and they said: we don't have any today.
Lol.
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Do you hate people who work hard and get rich?
Absolutely not.
I tend not to hate ANYone. But I would be more likely to hate the Paris Hilton types who would be unlikely to make it in the real world if they hadn't been born to money. Um...not even smart enough not to allow video taping of sex play with an un-long-term-committed fuck buddy.
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What springs to mind when I mention the letter Y?
Yreka, California: the oddest-named town of all times.
Either named for: bakery backwards minus the "b" which had fallen off the sign (orrrrr this is just and old joke that Mark Twain used to tell) OR it is an Indian name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yreka,_California
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If god suppose to forgive to forive us for our sins why is there's is an hell.
Theoretically...there are those who do not ask for their sins to be forgiven, right? Because they think that what they have done is A-OKAY.
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In your Opinion, Is soup a food or a drink
Food. Especially since you said soup, not broth. I don't expect "chunks" of ANYthing in my drinks!
Broth or stock would have me thinking a wee bit longer, but "soup" or "stew" is clearly (in my mind at least) food.
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Can a 16 year old man have legal sexual relationship with a 19 year old women in the UK? even if her parents disagree with their daughter?
Error post.
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How is it that the McCain (7+ houses, private jet, $500 loafers) campaign has managed to paint Barack Obama (grew up on food stamps, scholarship to Harvard, relatives live in huts in Africa) as the "elitist" in this race?
Damned fine question!
Politics is funny. My understanding by the way is that when they first asked ol' John how many houses he had, he responded he didn't know! He'd have to check into that!
Lol. That is hilarious. I struggle with my mortgage every month only to find out that there are people that have soooooooo many houses they don't even know how many--they have to...
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How many examples of personal questions can you think of? And how many examples of puerile questions can you think of?
My life is generally an open book. My friends can ask me anything.
But, I guess, if I would probably think if a stranger asked me the following questions, I would think it was too personal.
"Do you like anal sex?"
"What kind of sex do you like?"
"Are you gay or straight?"
"How much money do you have in savings?"
"Were your parents...
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What will happen when an organization cannot comply with discovery requirements?
In my state, at least, there is the potential that they lose the whole SHEBANG for being stupid.
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What comes into your minds when I mention the word 'oodles'?
Sundays in my dorm room, when a freshman at college. The cafeteria was closed for Sunday dinners and I was poor, and without a job. My mother would send me Oodles of Noodles and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese to heat up in my hot pot.
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Were you bullied or were you the bullier at school?
When you are the victim of bullying, it is hard to forget. (Ask eminem.)
I was victimized by a bully in church, of all places, as a young child. My father was the minister and that didn't prevent it.
Life is long and you would think something like that would pass...but it hasn't. It is one of the memories I carry with me and not one of the memories that has been erased and...
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What is your hertiage?
I am African American, and like so many of us, I would love to know more but all I can say truly is that at some point in time, one of my relatives was probably brought over to America on a slave ship. Country of origin: unknown.
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Who do you talk to when your ex lawyer defends your husband in a divorce?you say its a conflict of interest to him. and he say no i can do it. i then asked my court appointed lawyer and he says its okay. last week a lawyer told me they are wrong help me?
Call the bar association of your state. They may not take it as lightly as the other professionals. Conflicts are defined differently in different states. However, if you ARE right, then the bar association WILL help you to take action to file an ethical or bar complaint.
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If you hit re-dial on your phone RIGHT NOW, who would you get?
The Clerk of the Court of King County (Washington). Since most days I work from my home office, my home phone often gets hauled in to do double duty--since the home speaker phone works better than the speaker phone on my cell.
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If the devil collects souls, what could he possibly want with 'em?
Wouldn't it be funny if the devil, himself, actually posted this question, like as marketing research for his future communications with humankind.
I mean...the Devil WOULD be an anonymous sock puppet WOULDN'T he???
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What is a better/cooler way of saying "I'm the man for the job"?
"I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty." Um...substitute in your own name, of course.
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Can a 16 year old man have legal sexual relationship with a 19 year old women in the UK? even if her parents disagree with their daughter?
Don't gamble your future life on the answer to an off-handed question on Answerbag. Call a lawyer from your own home state. The laws are different in every state.
If you have no money, call the local public defender's office and ask to speak to the "attorney of the day." They will know the answer for you locally. I know: I used to be that attorney of the day.
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Who is Al Dente?
Mysterious fellow. Hard to sink your teeth into 'im.
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Butt......?
...comma, like big.
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At what age did you finally grow into your head?
About 38. My first child didn't have the opportunity to be raised by the "adult" me.
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I am in 9th grade and i have been really thinking hard about it and considering the options and i really think i want to be a veterinarian when i grow up... do you have any general advice or comments for me? it will really help thank you
One of the up-sides of being a vet is the possibility to be your own boss. That...of course can also be a down-side, since in a pinch, you would also have to rely only upon yourself.
Of course vets don't have to work alone, and so that is another up-side: the POSSIBILITY of opening your own practice, without the obligation.
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What are your struggles and how do you cope with them?
My main struggle right now is hating my job. Currently, I am too swamped IN my job to CHANGE my job. But I hope that in the fall I will send out loads of resumes! I am coping by knowing that pretty soon there will be a glimmer of hope.
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Can you give us an interesting sampling of say ten or so of the sites on your favorites list, and the reasons they got marked?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKKlhYF53w
My fav Utube of all times, but then I studied
classical piano for years.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/23/earlyshow/leisure/main697230.shtml?source=search_story
I was flown into New York to shoot this segment.
I am the lawyer. Used to be tape of me on the site, but now just this still of my client.
...
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Is there really a religion that believes someone must be buried whole in order to reach heaven? (No organ donors, no cremation, etc.) Who are they and what is the story behind this belief?
Hmmm. I know of no formal religion for this. I know my whacked-out mother believes this. She was the wife of a christian minister (my father) who died years ago.
For all I knew, she was the only person who believed this.
I once challenged her on these thoughts. (Specifically, the idea that she could not donate any body parts because she didn't want God having any trouble getting her...
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How many times has WIll Smith saved the earth (and which one was your favorite)?
I've lost track: 1) Men In Black I and 2) II; 3) that time where he's an airforce pilot and he and Jeff Goldblum save it; and (my personal favorite) 4) I LEGEND.
I Legend is one of the best apopalyptic action movies I've ever seen. And he carries almost the whole movie alone! All other characters having only extremly minor roles.
Which ones have I forgotten? Oh yeah, the...
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Why are so many men considered to be dogs?
The battle of the sexes flames on and on. Women damage men too. I want to stand up for men and say this: there are good men out there. I know because I have one. He is the father of my beautiful 8 year old and without him, life would have been so much more sad/ difficult/ etc.
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Do you wink to be friendly, or only when you flirt?
I rarely wink anymore. It is a youthful thing. I don't think I am young enough to look "cute" doing it anymore.
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What kind of food do you hate the most?
Steamed vegetables, lacking any flavor other than vegetable.
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What are you an expert at in real life?
I am a lawyer. My primary expertise is child welfare cases. I generally work from the parent's side, i.e., your child has been placed in foster care, and I help you get them out. But I also represent children who are in foster care and the relatives that love them and hope that the Courts will place with them [the relatives].
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What is the worst way to break up with someone in your opinion?
I.M.:
"CU Nev."
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My son's unit in Iraq has a pet scorpion. What should they name it?
Lil' Reaper.
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How many cups of coffee have you drunk in the last 4 hours?
Half of one, milking the second half as we speak.... But it is a REALLY big "cup."
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What is the personality of your closest major city?
Granola and Birkenstocks (Seattle).
http://www.birkenstockusa.com/men
No matter WHAT it says on the international web site, both women and men wear MEN'S Birk's in Seattle. (I don't think I've ever seen a pair of women's.)
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I'm really hungry, would anyone be willing to fix me a snack?
I left-over half of my Spicy Italian from Subway for tomorrow...but if this is really an EMERGENCY MUNCHIE situation...you can have it friend!
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Do you think that weed or pot is a drug , and should it be legal legal world wide?
Due process and equal protection. The legal status of alcohol cuts in favor of a caucasian cultlural bias.
Pot is no worse for us than alcohol, and it is a LOT worse in some instances, for instance consumption by pregnant women. So...why is it that the majority culture raises their intoxicants to an obnoxiously high brow level with the nose of the wine and the fullness, roundness, nuttines,...
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Why am i feeling movements in my stomach if i am not pregnant?
Our intestines and stomachs use gastric juices to digest our food.
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Name a situation where you forgot your manners?
Sometimes when I see people who are intentionally sexually ambiguous, I catch myself staring. I am sure that they are offended, but the truth is I LOVE GENDER BENDERS!
I am admiring more than anything else.
So all you eccentrics of every shape size and color, don't assume the worst of us straight-ish looking folks. We're not all as bad/ straight/ narrow as we look.
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What is your strategy for life?
1) Love, is my primary rule: I love people and think love matters in the world.
2) Treat others well.
3) Work on myself before I work on others.
4) Try to continually work on my own prejudices.
5) Treat all people courteously, until they give me cause to stop (for instance if someone was trying to kill by daughter, I am human, and the love and courtesy would come to an abrupt...
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How much time have you got left?
Zero time. I am a diabetic and living on borrowed time, unless and until I get my junk food habit under control!
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If a genie granted you three wishes, what would you wish for?
1) just enough money so that I wouldn't HAVE to work the rest of my life*, could keep my current house, and could have a lengthy annual vacation oversees; 2) that my daughter live a happy life; and 3) that my son live a happy life.
*I am a lawyer and enjoy the law. I will always want to keep a few cases working, even on a voluntary basis.
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What is the worst news your daughter could tell you?
That she has been molested and it happened a long time ago, because THAT would be bad news about ME: that something about me, made my daughter think that she couldn't trust me, and so she missed some help that she so much needed in trying to handle the situation on her own.
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Is it worse to get dog poo on your shoe or cow poo
Dog poo. Cows are vegetarians. Dogs are carnivores. Veggy poop is just more vegetable matter.
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What is your favorite BBC comedy/ sitcom of all times?
Red Dwarf RULES!
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What is your home page for your internet browser?
Yahoo. I'd like to make it Yahoo Games, but haven't gotten around to it, and, well...it probably would be good for my earning potential if I did!
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What bad habbit/s do you really wish you could stop?
Eating junk food.
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What is the greatest question?
"If we had a powerful enough telescope to look back at the beginning of the cosmos, what would we see? If it was a big bang, what do we see before THAT?"
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What is the greatest question?
"What is the meaning of life?"
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What is the greatest question?
"Is that a gun in your pocket, or do you REALLY like me?"
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What kind of wildlife do you see regularly, where you live?
South King County, near Seattle.
At home:
Stellar blue jays, finches, black headed towheys, coyotes, racoons, opposoms, moles, salmon, herons, red-tail hawks, bald eagles, pheasants, ducks, Canada geese, red-winged black birds, sea gulls, hummingbirds, woodpeckers, frogs, bats, swallows, rats, cormorants.
A 45 min drive to the Cascade Mountain Range:
Bears (mostly black), deer, marmots,...
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How to get Maximum Point in Q&A in answerbag.com ? Is there any rule?
Despite what it looks like, the site started out as a place to help people. It has devolved into something of an on-line reality game.
So, I anticipate the question will irritate some of the old guard. You will here people say that it's not about the points. That clearly isn't entirely true.
There are tricks.
It seems to me that the best way to "win," is: 1) commit...
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If you found out your partner had a one night stand would and should you forgive him/her?
Forgiving isn't the hard part. It is the forgetting.
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Would anyone like to see me off? Wish me well? Curse me to hell? Advise on how to keep my promise to myself? On June 1st I will be signing off of AB until I finish writing my book, which never gets worked on since I am often HERE in my spare time!
I already have a full-time job. Sometimes it seems like AB has become my part-time job (lol). I hope to turn writing into my part-time job, with the hope of promoting it to my full-time job (if either of my two books is successful).
THEN...I could feel less guilty if AB again becomes my part-time job.
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What is stopping you from getting a tattoo?
My husband + my job. Particularly that my husband is thinking it would look weird, me standing in front of a jury and making closing arguments with a Calvin and Hobbs tat on my ankle. I plan to do it nonetheless, but he has slowed me down.
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What word means a global disease?
Pestilence (too?)
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Have you ever missed out on someone you thought would be great for you because you where in a relationship? now single looking back and saying crap i new i should of gone for it?
Many times. Our society makes us choose.
Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind
Lovin' Spoonful
Did you ever have to make up your mind
Pick up on one and leave the other behind
It's not often easy and not often kind
Did you ever have to make up your mind
Did you ever have to finally decide
Say yes to one and let the other one ride
There's so many changes and tears...
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Do you sometimes pity the person you know could have taken the high road and you watched them miserably flush it all down the toilet?
Believe it or not, I used to have these thoughts for Mark Furman...more his children though. I thought about how his children would grow up knowing that their father was perceived as a racist by the world. Then I wondered if they were being raised to think that was a good thing.
Short answer: almost everyone that is involved in scandal I feel sorry for.
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If you take an apple laptop into the store to be fixed due to a monitor that seems to be disconected [since the screen is blank even when the laptop is on], do they look at your internet files or history or anything like that?
The very first thing they check is your porn history. CTL ALT DEL!
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Is taking 'potable aqua' a successful way to pass a drug test?
No. I have at least a thousand clients over the years who have had to take drug tests at different labs. The drug tests are set to watch for those who imbibe too much potable agua/ aqua. The results are deemed "diluted," and said tester is deemed to have failed. Yes, it is legal to drink more water than humans generally drink, but yes it is also cosidered a PLOY to confound drug...
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Are you a man or woman based on your avatars i'm not sure?
Your guess is as good as mine.
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I'm looking for a metal love song. perfferably older 80's metal like Dio, Accept and Iron madien. But any metal/hard rock song will do. I'm not looking for a "i want you back" or an "after breakup song". Just a love song that helps show I really care.
My favorite metal balad of all times is "Still Loving You" by the Scorpions. God I love that song!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H2SmMmNw4OU&feature=related
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Still Loving You
Time, it needs time
To win back your love again
I will be there, I will be there
Love, only love
Can bring back your love someday
I will be there, I will be there
I'll fight,...
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Why do you always disagree?
I am a lawyer: I was designed this way.
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Have you ever read a book that captured your interest to the point you couldn't put it down?
The Red Tent by Diamante.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
Beloved by Toni Morrison.
The Kite Flyer.
The Spirit Catches You and you Fall Down.
These are just my most recent's.
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When shopping groceries do you use reusable cloth shopping bags?
Alas....I have purchased the bags and they are in my trunk. I always forget to take them in. And then I am too lazy to go out to the car and get them. (I know that this is week!) I don't seem to be able to get into the habit.
This is one of my goals. If I don't have this under control by the end of the year, it will be my New Year's Resolution. (This question is a great...
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What’s a project you’ve given up on, that you’d like to start again?
I am in the process of re-learning the First Movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (which I knew by memory in my youth) so that I can play it along with a flautist for a party coming up at the end of June. I WILL play something, even if I don't have the entire movement memorized.
(I am also writing the flautist's accompaniment which...is...quite a task, having not even...
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Both me and my lover were committed to another person when we met and started dating secretly. We did everyth and still have a gr8 bond. In two months time he s getting married to his 6yr gf. Should I try to convince him when I know we really click 2gethe
Why NOT give it a shot. You two might have a beautiful future together. He might be setting himself up for misery with his fiance. But after the marriage, I'd say, that you should respectfully bow out if he doesn't choose you over his marriage.
You have seen The Graduate, right. You have up until "I do" to clear this up. Lol.
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What’s a project you’ve given up on, that you’d like to start again?
I had three partially-knitted sweaters for myself that I never finished. I have given them away to local schools for craft projects. Now I wish I could finish them.
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What is the worst song to play at a wedding?
Love Hurts.
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If you saw a dog being beaten or other types of cruelty-outside on a 2 ft chain, no water and 100 degrees, etc, would you get involved to help the animal?
Yes. As a matter of fact I am currently conspiring to liberate my neighbor's Jack Russel terrier. The dog is pure bred, beautiful, and lives outside, never is let inside, in a very skinny strip on the side of the house, his water is never freshened, the last time I looked in the bucket, there were maggots floating in it and mosqito larvae. The only up-side is that every now and then the...
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How do you know if a white guy likes a black girl?
Races are not species, no matter what you hear in some segments of the population. We blacks communicate in the same ways as other people, and I'm sure that I have never had difficulty understanding communication from white people.
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If you could cancel one TV show, what would it be?
None. I agree with Free Speech. Even if it doesn't appeal to me, I endorse it. Even Teli Tequilla gets a pass from me. If I don't like it, I don't have to watch it!
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Who is your favorite in-law?
My ex-mother-in-law. She died while I was still married to my ex-husband and I am sure that she was a better mother to me than my actual mother EVER was or will be.
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My microwave, dishwasher, and garbage disposal all conked out at the same time…in what order do you think I should replace them?
1) Microwave; 2) dishwasher; and 3) garbage disposal.
In the worst case scenario, the garbage can still go into the can or the recycler. It should be given last priority.
The dishwasher IS important in present day society, but of course, you can wash dishes by hand (even though it is a horrible time imposition).
BUT it isn't as great an imposition as trying to cook three meals a...
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Can you share some tips for ways to decrease your bills? Do less laundry, less showers? Buy less food? How do you save money?
Buy a thermos and make coffee at home instead of stopping at Starbucks.
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Who would you say is the sexyest person on answerbag?
I think my AVATAR is the sexiest avatar. Lol. A little showin' a lot to the imagination!
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Are you the type of person who enjoys house work?
I am a lawyer. My life is stressful. It requires sometimes HERCULEAN mental gymnastics which can bring me to the brink of physical illness.
No matter HOW much physical work it takes, it is just physical. Somehow...when you are "cleaning up your house," it is not only stress-relieving, it is also symbolic, symbolically straightening up your symbolic house: fixing yourSELF.
Also,...
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Would you shave your head for $25,000.00.?
I'd shave my head for $800.00. Maybe $200.00. I am a woman and I have nice hair. But hair grows back. I am a lawyer and a well known eccentric. I think my judges would just think, call the press, here she goes AGAIN!
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If you really like a guy/girl but they have a horrible first name would this effect your decision on going out with them ? why/why not
Not. I am too old to be that shallow.
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Now, what are you really good at?
Knitting.
Arguing.
Writing poetry.
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Wat if a guy friend had liked u for 2 yrs&wen u found out u went out on a date but messed the whole thing up badly.He didnt talk 2 me 4 a wk or so&so i sent him an email seeing if we could still be friends which he said yes 2. Can it ever be more tho?
Good luck, sister. But don't bang your head into a wall. You have no control over the feelings of other people: you can only control your own feelings.
You can't make him love you.
I have heard extremely funny and tragic stories of people's first dates...and they ended up together for years. One of my friend's mothers threw up on his father's HEAD on their first...
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Will you or have you avoided answering or asking a controversial question in fear of losing points?
Fuck naw!
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Is it wrong for me to go around giving everyone -5s just because I want a lower ratings given percentage?
Was that YOU this morning?!
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Is it wrong for me to go around giving everyone -5s just because I want a lower ratings given percentage?
Was that YOU this morning?!
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Which celebrity would you least want to go out on a date with?
Johnny Depp! He's so dddddddddddddddddreamy!
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Whats the worst thing to say to Hillary Clinton?
Don't get your lady parts all in a dither about it!
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Whats the worst thing to say to Hillary Clinton?
GROW UP! BE A MAN!
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What is the biggest baby you personally know about?
Scotty Pippen.
I will never forget when he wasn't getting enough floor time and he sat on the bench with a towel over his head to register his objection. (I think he will never get over the fact that he isn't M.J. If M.J. hadn't been around, HE would have been M.J. but at a certain point you get over it and move on.)
I also stayed in a hotel room two doors down from him...
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Go to your primary bookshelf. Go to the upper, right hand corner. Can you name the first ten books that you come to?
Hmmm. My "library" is very important to me. Unfortunately, I have chosen a part of my bookcase that isn't very impressive. This is my humor section with comic books, etc. But here goes:
1) Little Follies by Eric Kraft (this guy writes GREAT humor novels, not read enough);
2) Women of Substance: A Collection of Estrogen-Rich Cartoons by Revilo (mostly fat chick cartoons. Got...
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What is on your night stand?
(OH MY GAWD! I haven't cleaned it off in weeks but I'll try.)
1) Toenail Clipper.
2) Safety Pin.
3) Water Bottle Cap (so the dog wouldn't choke when I gave him the bottle to play with).
4) Pile of ball points.
5) Bracelet (Weight Watchers. Beads help keep track of points).
6) Stitch Holder. (I am a hobby knitter and a lot of this...
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What does "failure" mean to you?
Failure is whatever causes me to be unhappy.
If it doesn't cause ME to be unhappy, it's not failure.
I don't make as much money as I could, yet I'm happy where' I'm at, so I am not a financial failure, for instance.
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How come random people get there ratings and levels boosted in less than a week?
There is...no magic in it. It might be that this "boosted" person was sick/ stayed home that week and got more bagging in.
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I've got a friend who is having a affair, should i tell his wife, i know she would leave him if she new though
What...kind of friend ARE you? (Lol. Just kidding.) I think that the definition of friend doesn't include what you are proposing. If it is your intention to remain his friend, and if what he is doing is (and it sounds like it's reached this point because clearly you are struggling with it)--if you cannot support your friend's ethics, then you can: 1) try to talk your friend into...
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12 more years of school, or 5 years in jail?
SCHOOL! I LOVE SCHOOL! (Lol.) I think, perhaps, you must be much younger than me. I suspect that once you've made it out into the "real" world, you'll be scrabbling to get back to school yourself!
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What do you buy someone who's got everything
Nothing. Make them or find them something special.
I once knew a macho man prosecutor who had learned how to knit and knit his wife a scarf when they were both in law school and struggling for money. The gift (in my opinion) was him learning to knit, more than the scarf.
Also, sometimes finding or doing something is the special thing. I have a friend who was raised in a poor family....
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I really don't understand why people get tattoos. Can someone explain this to me without saying they liked the art, picture, or whatever it was they put on their body? I just don't get it
Well...without saying one likes the art.... That is like saying tell me why you like the circus, without using the words "animals," "peanuts," "shows," or "acts."
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What benefits, if any, have you seen from the revamping of the Outside The Bag category in terms of the quality of questions?
Sometimes people just stir up a pot for no reason. When a community gets used to something I think it should be let be, unless a change will improve things. This was a change for change sake.
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Have you ever felt the thrill of living?
Every now and then I kick into a lifestyle improvement phase. I lose a lot of weight and live life to the fullest. That always makes me feel like: "why don't I do this all the time?"
It is hard for me to keep up and slowly I slip back into NOT waking up early in the morning to go running and NOT watching what I eat, etc., etc., etc. This is where I'm at now. It makes me...
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What comes to mind when you hear 'Seattle'?
"Happiness," "Clean City," and Health."
I moved here with my first grown up job after law school.
I remember the first day I got off the plane and was like...what's THAT I smell? It was trees, evergreens. Immediately I thought, a human can live a longer life in a state with cleaner air!
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What is the most beautiful sound to you?
When a baby has had enough milk, they just sigh and shove the nipple out of their mouth.
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When I say Connecticut, what's the first thing that pops into your head?
Beautiful trees and walks through the woods.
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What's your favourite George Dubya Bush quote? http://tinyurl.com/3rmz6
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jqcfGp2tMW0
Here are a slew though, if you want to pick your own.
http://www.peacecandy.com/gwbush/quotes.html
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Have you ever asked a question and then been like: Really? This questions been asked before?
Yes. I first got to this web site trying to figure out if I could feed salmon skin to my dog instead of throwing it in the trash. I had no idea what this web site was but got directed here by google and, unbelievably, there was a lively conversation about that precise topic.
I was like...somebody else has had this thought before me?!
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Whats the best ' yo mama ' joke you ever heard?
You mamma so fat, she sweat gravy!
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Is this inappropriate, or just plain ole funny? ( hillarious video in answer...)
Just funny, dude. 6+ for question.
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If I wrote you a letter, would you write back?
I always return person letters. Sometimes it takes a while. And if it is hand-written, GOD HELP ME...I write my response by hand. (We have an ancient relative who refuses to let us get her a letter. I KNOW that our letters wouldn't be worth toilet paper to her if they came from a computer. She just isn't the right generation. I think she thinks computers are like evil robots!)
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When was the first time you kissed a boy?
When I was a "girl," 25 years ago. (Smile.)
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What would you say is the most useful website (beside AB) that you visit on a regular basis?
#1 Google. (Hopefully Microsoft will keep its grubby hand off of IT.)
#2 Wikipedia.
Both of these sites are great for settling those sort of bar bet questions/ chest-thumping "nawwwww you're WRONG" moments. Lol.
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I have been with the same woman since i was about 13 we had children when i was very young 17 the kids are grown up and we have nothing in common anymore we seem to live two seperate lives I am thinking of just dissapearing off the face of the planet help
Please don't do that. There is no reason. Some people do start to feel trapped and unable to get out. It is an ILLUSION. I think the illusion is orchestrated by societal norms.
We are expected to stay happy with one spouse until death do us part, etc.
But when you really think about it...no one holds the keys to your handcuffs except yourself.
Yes, given what you two have been...
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Your life will be playing in a movie.. what will the Movie title be?
Law Babe Rulz!
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HOW A BOY CHANGES TO A GIRL?
http://www.drspock.com/article/0,1510,5276,00.html
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HOW A BOY CHANGES TO A GIRL?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_reassignment_surgery
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Do you read the questions that are 3 lines or longer?
My attention span is that of a 42 year old. I have no problem.
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What is your favorite cult film?
The Blues Brothers.
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What was your favorite high school hang out?
The nurse's office. Umm sad but true. (I was something of a neurotic.)
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Who do you know to be as a troll?
Fifty-FOUR percents?! http://www.answerbag.com/profile/?id=102907
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What movie made you fall asleep in the theater?
My Dinner With Andre--LITERALLY, both me and my boyfriend.
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How will you post your crazy thoughts now that crazy thoughts has been removed from the Outside The Bag category?
"This or That."
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Did you marry the first person you ever dated? I married the third person I dated and I think it was beneficial. What are your thoughts?
I married the...112th person I "dated."
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Is it up to governments or individuals to slow down climate change?
Government. Individuals have already shown that they will not or cannot save the earth. For instance, if everyone knows that solar or wind power is the way to go, but the technology is way outside of the budgets for average consumers, then govermental assistance is needed, if we care about the future of our species on this planet.
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I've found that most families pick a basic cookbook and stick with it for generations. Which of the old stand-bys does your family use: Betty Crocker, Fannie Farmer, Good Housekeeping, Joy of Cooking?
We are a four-generation family now of Joy of Cooking users. My mother gave me a set when I left home. Both she and my grandma kept copies in their kitchens. And I just got my son his first one: the 75th anniversary edition. Now I am JEALOUS, and asked him to get ME one for Christmas.
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What's your nearest degree of separation from fame?
First.
I just saw Stephen Colbert interview Barak Obama. I used to wait tables with Colbert, so that gives me two degrees of separation from Obama! Not to mention one from Colbert. (Yeah to both.)
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What's your nearest degree of separation from fame?
Sorry. This is a duplicate. See http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/765560
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What's your nearest degree of separation from fame?
Sorry. This is a duplicate. See http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/765560
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I tried to take a break, but here i am....Please tell me how to break this addiction?
I took a one year break from the internet, March 3, 2007 through 2008 and am writing a book about it.
I missed this site IMMENSELY.
It was hard because of the addictive nature of the internet (and this site in particular).
I did it by filling my time with other things, things that I love to do but don't get to because of the internet: going out with friends, knitting, and most of...
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Did dragons really exist in the past? If yes, is there proof to back this up?
People theorize now that dinosaur remains were found in the middle ages and imaginations filled in the rest, including the wings.
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What is the apperence of a journal name in a citation and reference list
A "byline."
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If god had a car what do you think it would be
God is FOR SURE going to drive up in a rent-a-wreck and looking like a hobo. When you spit on him, you are DOOMED.
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Can you describe your chilhood in 1 word?
Guarded. (I was the minister's daughter and grew up slllllllow.)
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What is one food you love to eat, but hate to cook?
CHITTERLINGS! (Never cleaned em and never will!) They take all day to clean for...obvious reasons and they must be VERY clean or risk the eater's illness. For that reason, I will only eat them when a little old black lady has scrubbed them down good! (Lol.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitterlings
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Which is the least nutritious vegetable?
Iceburg Lettuce. http://freshcutproduce.com/nutrifax/lettuceiceburg.html
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What are some of life's little pleasures?
Hiking in nature with the added benefit of it being free! DOUBLE PLUS if it is up a mountain side!
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You're hungry and i'm going to make you a sub. What ingredients would you like me to use?
Shreaded pork and sweet pickles on a bun, a la CUBANO.
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Why did i get in trouble for saying f*** on the bus after someone pulled my hair and they did not?
Because some people (very often older people, unfortunately...giving the rest of us a bad name...) are too, too concerned with cursing. Makes them blind to everything else.
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Would you ever go skinny dipping? (swim naked)
Would and have. Was one of the sexiest things I've ever done http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/764532
Aside from Mile High Club.
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Have you ever made love on a beach?
Oh yes. Lake Michigan. Circa 1986. All you have to do is wake up before the cops and go skinny dipping.
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If you had absolutely no clothes in the house, what household items would you use to cover yourself so you could go out and get some? (Extra points for creativity)
I HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN IN THIS SITUATION! When I was in college, on my all-girl dorm floor, my boyfriend and I got up early to take a shower.
While we were in the shower, one of my floor-mates snuck in and took both of our towels and every SINGLE wash cloth of everyone else on the floor so that we had NOTHING to cover ourselves with as we walked back to my room, not even a small square of wash...
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What would you write in a farewell letter to Answerbag?
What a long, strange ride it's been.
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What song would you want played at your funeral?
Bridge Over Troubled Waters by Simon and Garfunkel.
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Have you ever found it hard to mix some of your friends with other friends?
Yes. Me and the hubby have an incredibly tough time with this and I should say...my husband is a bit of a prick about it.
He is a writer. I am a lawyer.
At our wedding, the two groups pretty much kept to themselves.
Once, when my husband was angry for my planning a party around him (he doesn't like to socialize so much), he threatened to call all of his friend, behind my back, and...
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I am humbled by BingoBongo, I admit to using Old Spice original. I will change my choice to the most popular suggestion. What do you ladies prefer for Mens deodorant?
Calvin Klein rocks. (But expensive-ish.)
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What does your shirt say right now?
My shirt is captionless. But there is a cartoon of a fat woman in her robe on a scale. And she is pointing a gun down at the scale (threatening it to read what she wants it to?)
This is my exercise t.
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You meet someone, you are both having a great time chatting, laughing, you have so much in common. They leave the table go to the bathroom and you notice they have a a crippled leg. Answer honestly... What do you do?
Honestly, I hope that we can continue to get to know each other. I don't...have any bias against this handicap.
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Women who continually date men who are abusive, or put up with abuse or make excuses for the guy, what is their deal? Are they naive, can they really not see the signs, or just don't know what to do? Or do they think it's "love"?
I believe that it is sort of like cigarette smoking, alcoholism, gambling addiction or any other type of addiction/ism.
None of these things is good for one or useful, yet certain people keep going back to them, due to certain weaknesses in THEMSELVES.
These women have certain weaknesses, personal histories which leads them to make these choices over and over again. The weaknesses might...
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Can you help me collect 105 positive thoughts right here?
The love you save is equal to the love you spend.
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What is your favorite all time movie and why is it your favorite?
The Sixth Sense
Edward Scissorhands
The Meaning of Life
The Sound of Music
I am Legend
Men in Black
Casablanca
The Killing Fields
Ghandi
Blades of Glory (I...duhhoh...it just makes me laugh)
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If somebody here on AB has sent you a friend request, do you add them straight away or have a nose in their profile to see what they are really like before adding them?
I generally add them straight away. I figure, if they want to review my q/a, it will make it easier for them to do so.
But my own AB routine has nothing to do with these friends. I rarely look at my own friends list.
My AB routine is that if I have a few minutes, I sign onto AB and then: 1) check my own feedback and 2) check new questions and see if there are any I want to respond to.
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Ive got back hair and im a teen girl, can i get rid of this by shaving?
Hair can never be permanently removed by shaving. (I'm a hair gal too.)
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Can you list five true facts about yourself, that are REALLY uninteresting and have nothing to do with height/weight/age/location/birthdate?
1) I'm married.
2) I'm African American.
3) I am a family law lawyer with a specialization in child welfare.
4) My Dell Vostro is my external brain.
5) I know how to swim.
Err...was that "uninteresting" enough?
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I’m going to a birthday/house warming party for a friend, the birthday is for his girlfriend I never met, what do I bring?
House plant for HW, wine for party.
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When a euphemism replaces an offensive word & gets used often enough, doesn't the euphemism become as offensive as the word it replaced, and therefore require a new euphemism of that euphemism?
Good FRIGGING POINT!
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What's one food that as a child you hated, but now can't get enough of? Or as a child loved, but now can't stand?
Brussel sprouts and Spanish rice...however my husband is a WAY better cook than my mother ever was.
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If someone was knocking on your door, right now, who would you want it to be?
My client! I am sitting here waiting for her and she is routinely late. I wouldn't care so much but I was up all night with insomnia and now I'M TIRED.
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What would your porn star name be? (It's the name of your first pet + the street you grew up on.)
They say that your porn star name is a combination of your first pet and the first street you lived on. I would be "Frisky Greenwood."
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Who are you currently involved in a love-hate relationship with?
The internet.
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Who are you currently involved in a love-hate relationship with?
Obama.
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Who are you currently involved in a love-hate relationship with?
American politics.
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Who are you currently involved in a love-hate relationship with?
AB.
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What's the strangest thing you ate/put in your mouth during your oral phase?
I used to eat chalk.
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Is it just me, or is AB really glitchy?
It's glitchy. Although...right NOW for me, it is fine. But earlier today, horrible.
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You must perform at tonight's talent show. What will you do?
I will play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. The beginning will be strong. The middle will start to struggle. And the end will trail off....
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Which of these would be the worst for you...being ridiculed, being ignored or being stalked?
I have been a public defender stalked by a former client. I had to be let in the back doors of courthouses and was checking over my shoulder all the time. I must say...hurt feelings is nothing to being scared outta your fucking skin.
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What's the most disturbing film you've seen?
I have not seen, and refuse to see: Faces of Death. Shows actual death: attack by a grizzly bear, electrocution death penalty... I would never be able to erase it from my mind.
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What is the NUMBER ONE best part about being married?
No more singles bars.
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If you could live off only ONE meal, the same meal for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?
Oh god! THAT IS TOUGH. I have to choose in the order of preference:
1) Indian (East)
2) White Castle Cheese Burgers (Cuisine? LMFAO)
3) Seafood (Heavy emphasis on lobster and crab)
4) Thai
5) Italian
6) Mexican
7) New AHleans
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What is your favorite question on AB?
I just found this one and it had me rolling for about an hour. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/353846/?page=6&
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My guyand I are in love, of that I have no doubt, and he treats me like his girlfriend and lover, but he says he doesn't want to label me as such. He claims he doesn't want to have to answer to any one particular girl just yet. Should I worry about this?
You should only worry if you DO want a boyfriend who wants one girl only and who isn't worried about calling you his girlfriend in public, where it might limit his options with other girls. If your goals are different from his: worry. If your goals are open-ended like his: don't worry.
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When filling out a new job application what should i put for reasons for leaving. If the reason I am leaving is I am tired of the bullcrap after nine years. How do I say it nicely?
WhatEVER "line" you use (and I like the "looking for better opportunities), do NOT rag on your former boss to your potential future boss: that is very unlikely to land you the gig.
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25 x3 -5 +1000,000 x 0 =
This calculation cannot be conducted without parentheses.
For example:
(25 x3) - (5 +1,000,000) x 0 = 0 BUT
25 x (3 -5) + (1,000,000 x0) = -50
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Would you agree that the Song of Songs 7:3 might be a reference to cunnilingus?
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunnilingus#Song_of_Songs)
Wowwwwwwwwwww. I woulda gone to church more OFTEN. I have read from this book before: the poetry is beautiful. Now I only wonder how much more beautiful it would be, if it weren't cleaned up with a scouring pad by white guys.
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If you want to use pot but don't smoke, does it work as a self made suppository? Stuff is meant to get absorbed well in there.
Dude, seriously, "perhaps I'll stick it up my ass" is rarely the right answer to anything.
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Do you think if the government hid scales all over the place like on benches and sidewalks that displayed one's weight on huge billboard it would shame people into losing weight?
It might have some effect. But then there would have to be at least as many scales as their were Pizza Hut commercials. And there are so many fat people in America, I think that the embarrassment wouldn't be as great as one might think.
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Why do guys ALWAYS talk dirty to me.. like joking around. its always to me, too. i dont wear hoochie clothes. i dress normal. but, they always get "personal" w/me? is it cause im like one of the guys or what? haha
You're gorgeous. (You know that right?) Perhaps they can't separate you the person from you the gorgeous babe and hope (deep down inside) that one of their "jokes" gets them laid. Like "I'd love to _____ you!" And you're like: let's go!
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What would be a good name for a rock band?
Chocolates for Va jay-jay.
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Who would be the worst possible person to have in the hospital room while you or your spouse was in labor?
Larry David. He would be complaining about everything: sterility, how ugly my vagina was, how ugly the BABY was.... On and ON and on.
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Would laser hair removal be a good gift to give someone? IF they asked for it.
Um...Yes. Anything that a person asks for is a good gift. I would LOVE that gift.
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I an nursing my son and my husband wants to nurse also. do you think i should let him or is it just wierd for him to want to nurse. i need some advice as to how to deal with this.
There is nothing to worry about. I think it is like any other sexual thing: you are either into it or it turns your off. If you are okay with it: IT IS OKAY. If...as seems to be the case...it freaks you, then don't do it. It's like anal sex. If you don't like it/ it's not
for you, then don't do it.
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Does anyone else find it amazing that some people actually vote based on political party (I.E. "I always vote Democrat. I don't care who the candidate is."), instead of making an educated decision and voting for the most qualified candidate?
I do not find it AMAZING. Since the parties are set up to represent some main platforms in political thought, it wouldn't surprise me if all candidates a person votes for in their lifetime are of one of the major candidates. If I am an environmentalist, and gay with hopes of marrying my long-time partner, and my father marched in civil rights rallies in the 60's of which I am...
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I cry in my sleep alot. What are your strange sleep habits?
I ball my hands up into tight fists (stres) and wake up in pain. I'm developing carpal tunnel syndrome. Probably will end up getting surgery for it.
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Are you always understanding?
I am understanding to a flaw...to my own detriment. One of my client's hasn't been able to visit her children because they are three counties away so this weekend, I agreed to pick up her children, drive them to her for a supervised visit, and chill on my heels so I can take the kids back three counties away after the visit. Both kids are young, one an infant, both in child seats and...
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What makes road trips so fun, especially with friends?
Sharing adventures together. I remember getting locked out of my car in the middle of the Utah desert with family and a semi-trailer driver found us about 40 minutes later. We actually had a good time because we were together.
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What does a guy friend want a friend that's a girl to get them for their birthday? (teenage guy turning 17) who just says he doesn't want or need anything
Guys are WAY harder than girls to shop for. I have found this to be a life-long problem myself. There are so MANY things in stores aimed at women and so few at men. I actually think it is near-impossible to just go in a store and pick something up for a guy. I always try to think about the specific guy, what he likes, and get him something. Like...if I have a guy who likes comic books, I try to...
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Do you think this outfit is appropriate for a job interview?
Of course, it depends upon the job, I guess. But I...can't think of one it would not be appropriate for. It looks professional enough for me. I am a lawyer and hire women to work for me. I would hire you in that dress if you were the right candidate.
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What does your dream guy/girl look like?
Slightly crooked nose. More grey than brown. More wrinkled than smooth. Smiles a lot. Very often holding a broom, dish rage, vacuum handle or something intending to help me clean our surroundings. He's been my husband for 9 years now.
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Do you think your parents did a good job raising you?
OH GOOD LORD! To even begin to answer that question, I'd need to renew my Prozac prescription and call-in an emergency therapy session!
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Does a screaming child piss you off?
Even though I am a mother of two...a child's yell...especially when it is not your own child...can really get on your nerves. I can sort of block it out and pretend to be patient, but deep down inside I am thinking PLEASE GOD MAKE THE BABY STOP!
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What ultra cheap thing did your parents do when you were a kid?
We ate grilled Spam for meals...and I do mean ALL meals. My mother thought it was a full service meat. And sometimes we had it with government cheese melted on top. Actually, the shit's pretty GOOD! Um..I'm making myself hungry. I'm thinking about driving out and getting some Spam now (understand they have a "Lite" version nowadays.) Hmmm. Perhaps I will pretend that...
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What were some of the reasons you were teased, picked-on or ridiculed while you were in school?
My mother didn't understand that pants were supposed to cover one's ankles...at LEAST.
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What names do people call the police where you live? (i.e., po~po)
The fuzz, Smokey, The Black Man's Delimma.
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What do have in the trunk of your car? (Be honest !)
I have a huge Rubbermaid, flat plastic container. I call it my "road warrier kit." It has: a few spare meals, spare water, emergency radio, spare make-up and hair supplies, snacks, book, knitting, blanket, a folding chair.... In short anything I could NEED.
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We all say those cheesy comments to our girlfriends. So what is the cheesiest comment you have said to your girlfreind?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyO-z_7Ip9c
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What color are the walls of the room you are in? what color is the carpet?
The theme of this room is: the Republican Rainbow Coilition. Beige is the answer to both.
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Which do you prefer to date, younger or older people than yourself.....
Older. I don't want to be anyone's mommy. I don't want to advise. I am a lawyer. I advise for a living. I need to be off when I get home.
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What, if anything, have you been forced to give up because of the worsening economy?
My jeep. (Traded it in for a non-gass-guzzling Honda Accord.)
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I get easily aroused when my girlfriend kisses me ("French") or cuddles up on me or when I give her a massage. I bet she can feel or see it. How can I minimize the embarassment/awkwardness? (We're both 20 BTW but never had sex)
Why...be embarrassed? I am always aroused by my partner's arousal. Um...that is how things WORK my young, inexperienced friend!
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What are the pro and cons of dating a man who already has children?
Pro for me was that it brought out the worst in me, my jealous side. I was jealous of the time spent with his daughter instead of my son. (I was a much younger woman then, in my 20's. I am in my 40's now and KNOW that I am a different woman than the hot head I used to be. I could totally handle it now.)
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First thing that comes to your mind when you see the word "wax"
Those shaped-candy lips and moustaches we used to eat as kids.
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If you could have a personal bodyguard for yourself, or your loved ones who would you choose: A) Jason Bourne, B) The Rock, C) Chuck Liddell(UFC), or D) your own choice?
James Roday and Dule Hill...but only in character. They aren't buff but the are smart and...not too painful on the eyes, either one! And...after all, they saved Tim Curry cum Simon Cowell when they were body guarding for HIM!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Eb2NLcHtllU
And...who didn't like tears for fears?
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What if all of AB was a big group study on human behavior...everytime you clicked on anything? Who knows?
It probably is. Joel is a professor.
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What amount of money is okay to spend without having to tell your S/O?
I think it depends on your joint wealth.
I have learned the hard way, that on our meager incomes, $2,500.00 for plastic surgery is too much. Secretly saved, secretly spent, I will probably never live it down.
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Do you use cash,debit or credit cards and why?
I get furious when I go someplace and they only take cash, ESPECIALLY a fast food place. I'm like: who...has cash anymore?!
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I'm 13 and I don't know how to dance, casual or formal or whatever. When I ask people how, they just tell me to move to the music. I find this incredibly unhelpful. I do want to learn to dance. I dont have money for lessons either. Any advice?
Where I live, in Seattle, there are older dancers that meet weekly in a local community center. I saw them once there, and they were so excited that a whipper snapper like me was interested, (I am 42) that they told me to come any week to learn ballroom dancing from them. Imagine how excited they would be if YOU walked in...if they think IIIiii am a whipper snapper.
Moral of the story, if...
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What kind of cookie does Cookie Monster wike to eat?
ChocITcheeeeeeeep!
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What is your favorite all time movie and why is it your favorite?
Currently out? I am Legend with Will Smith. It is one of those movies that you are still thinking about when the lights are out and you're supposed to be in bed.
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Have you ever had a serious crush on a cartoon character? I really liked Liono from the Thundercats and Ulysess ... but it was the Silver Surfer that I loved the most and wanted to spend the rest of my life with.
Speed Racer. The only one who competed with him in my dreams was his mysterious brother...RACER X!
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What would be some great baby girl names? First and middle please. Im planning a tribute to my baby girl that i misscarried and want a name to tatoo on me in her honor.
Madison Rochelle.
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What did you go to jail for?
I was a public defender for years. I went to jail to visit felons, juveniles, misdemeanants. My favorite was they used to let us eat lunch with the fellows on the floor while interviewing (chili).
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Why are minorities expected to "get-over" the bad things that have happened to thier ancestors?
Thanks so much for asking this question. I am an Affican American woman and hear that same sort of thing recently. Just move on! It would be like telling the Jews...just FORGET the Holocaust. Why...would that be smart. If we forget human enslavement and the Holocaust, aren't we destined to repeat?
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Do you procastinate a lot?
I am the Queen of procrastination and AB is my sceptor!
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If you're at the hospital, and your friend visits, what one thing would you want them to bring you?
White Castle cheeseburgers.
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I used to hate peanut butter, But now Ive been eating it every day for about 3 weeks. Ive even concocted some really simple recipes to to liven it up. Why the change and does anybody else love peanut butter as much as me?
No worries. Just go with the flow! I agree with Kid A, that our tastes change over time. Just recently...I can't seem to stop drinking milk! More specifically, milk over ice, through a straw (I never use straws). I call it my "milk coctail. Lol.
HEY! Why not tell us your peanutbutter recipes?! 5+ for the question.
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Michael Stipe says, "You know with love comes strange currencies." What is the strange currency of your love?
Credit. (Lol.) When I met my husband, he had no money and I had a great job but poor credit. Together we make up one complete financial being.
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Do you own an excessive amount of bath products?
Yes. Mainly because that is my husband's (unimaginative) default gift on Mother's Day, Birthday's, and Christmas. I finally told him this year that "I have enough. THANKS DEAR!"
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Do you know when to butt out?
....50% of the time. The rest I am all butts on deck!
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If Jack helped you off the horse, would you help Jack off the horse?
Jack...is on the ground and you never put him anywhere else but down.
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Is there any television prop that you would pay to have a copy of?
I would pay up to $200 (perhaps more) for an accurate copy of Jeannie's bottle from I Dream of Jeannie. (I always loved that thing.)
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What natural resources does Saudi Arabia have besides fossil fuels?
http://www.idreamofjeannie.com/
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How bad is your hang over this morning? And was last night worth the way you feel now.
Great, funny question. I'm sure you'll hear some good ones. I fell asleep knitting a sweater. I have yet to get a hangover from worsted.
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If you answer a religion question and then get negative downratings for weeks, do you start to whine about it in questions and answers all over the board or take it like a (wo)man?
Honestly, when I answer a religious or politically sensitive question, I KNOW that trolls will be upon me. Sometimes I whine about it a little, but when I answered the question, I braced myself in advance.
Mostly it seems (quite unfortunately) that the more conservative elements think that God has put the hammer in their hands, personally. Like AB points are important to God.
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If someone invited you over for dinner, what would you hope they weren't serving to eat?
Tofurky.
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Do you ever give people ratings because you see they have been downrated for their opinions, even if you don't necessarily agree with the opinion?
I do. I consider it "Restoring" them to the place they were before they got trolled.
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In nature, alot of animals have camouflage or defences for protection against being eaten. If the circle of life is essential to the survival of animals on this planet then why have they got protection as the food chain must continue?
Because the circle includes them that eats as WELL as them that gets eaten.
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Where do u get a mood ring?
1976.
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If a person is jealous, does this mean they must care a lot?
I think by definition, almost. In my opinion, jealousy could even be described as caring too much about something that you wish you cared nothing about.
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Does my 17 yo whom is Deaf and mild CP qualify for Social Security Income?
This is the frequently asked questions site for social security benefits. Try researching here. Good luck!
http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/ssa.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_lva=&p_li=&p_page=1&p_pv=&p_prods=&p_cv=1.105&go=GO&p_hidden_prods=&cat_lvl1=1&cat_lvl2=0&p_hidden_prods=&p_search_text=&p_new_search=1&search_type=answers.search_nl
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Are you mean when you are irritated?
Apparently. I have recently had to make a major appology because of an "inicident." Lol.
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What is it about life that makes you want to keep living?
Surprises. Even when you're low, you suspect that something great could be around the corner.
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After I've eaten a meal, my stomach sometimes make funny noises. They're not hunger noises, what are they?
Digestive noises. Digestion is a fairly violent physical and chemical process.
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It's a hot summer day and we're all at the Boardwalk..we're very very hungry...you have the Hot Dog/Hamburger/Bratwurst stand...the Veggie Burger/Falafal/Hummus Stand...the Fish&Chips/Taco/Pizza Stand..Which line are you in?
Since it's hot I'm going to keep asking until I find that one of them makes smoothies in the back.
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What is the reason humans have eyebrows?
To catch dust particles from dropping into your eyes from above.
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Would you rather have a cantaloupe, hondeydew melon, or a watermelon?
If you have a sweet, cold cantaloupe (or crenshaw)...none of the others compare. There is more water in the other melons, especially honeydew...and who thinks "yummy" when they think water?
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Can you please tell me - if God is real what is the reason for creating us and the universe? Just searching for answers here - I'm not being disrespectful. I just need to know WHY he created us...
Why do people knit when buying a garmnet is cheaper, easier, and quicker: to display their creative intent. Perhaps we are God's artwork.
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What is your Sunday sermon in just a few words?
Let love be your drug.
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I'm trying to think of a title for something that includes photography, satanism, and information about drug abuse. any ideas?
Flash Fried Satan Nuggets with a Side of Smack.
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My girlfriend doesnt trust me even though I tell her she is the only one for me and do things to prove it. How do I make her trust me?
Without discussing how this distrust developed, it is what it IS, now.
You can't control other human beings, you can only "make" your self do things. One isn't even all that much in control of our OWN feelings, even, so controlling her feelings is out. She has them. She is in charge of them.
So ultimately this comes down to how long this tension will last....
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Dude, Where's My Car?
Perhaps you're like me and you always try to park in the same spot, but you got there late, had to park down the street, and forgot where you car is.
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What goal are you almost, or about to accomplish?
I am close to finishing my first fair isle sweater (knitting). This is two handed, color-stranded knitting. I am proud. The sweater is beautiful and I mostly taugh myself.
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How do you spell the name Jessie? Jesse? Jessy?
"Jesse" is generally a girl. "Jessie" is male. and that other thing: "Jessy," to the best of my knowledge, no human has ever been named that.
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What would you do if you were invisible and could get away with it?
I'd sneak into some of the homes of the rich and famous and see if the tabloids had it right. Perhaps snap a few photos, make a few bucks. (Hmmmm. Now I am starting to feel slimy all over!)
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Im eating a grilled cheese sandwich..How does that make you feel?
Desirous and...proud (that I am preventing myself from running into the kitchen to make my own. I am trying to lose a few pounds.)
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Is paprika a flavoring agent or just a prettying-up agent? (Does it make food taste better or just look prettier?)
Because, I must attest, even though I use it all the time, I can hardly taste it. I tried some deviled eggs today with and without: VERY minor difference. (But I will take the advice above and make sure that I get some FRESH and SMOKED.
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I meant what I said, and I said what I meant....What is your ending to this Dr. Seuss quote?
My boobs are for real: one HUNDRED per cent!
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What could be better than seeing a bunch of hunks playing volleyball out in the glistening sun, with no shirts on! mmmmmmmm
If it was on a nude beach!
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Ever told a friend something and later wish you had not? Because they either held it against you or beat the issue like a dead horse?
When I was in high school, a friend once told ME something. I called her and asked: what were you doing? She wouldn't tell me so I pressed her. She finally admitted that she had been shitting and still was. Lol.
Every time I called her afterwards I envisioned her on the can. Eww.
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Ladies:Do you like it when guys wear flip-flops?
I like men's feet. HOWEVER, a flip-flop is the least sexy of open shoes on men. Image: I don't give a shit and I may be extremely poor since my shoes are made of rubber.
Ironically, I don't get the same feeling about the sports sandal, which is also made of rubber. (Lol.)
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What will I FIND on the pathways to your HEART?
That: I am VERY complex, intelligent, a whore for food, love to knit almost as much as being with you (it is sad but true), and that you shouldn't come between me and my daughter or you will see a BIG, MEAN MAMMA BEAR come out.
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You like him, he likes you, how many dates does it take to consumate things?
Less than one. (Things HAPPEN!)
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What's the worst kind of music to listen to while on hold with customer service?
ELEVATOR.
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What would cause you to listen to someone else over your s/o about his or her feelings for you? How can that person even know how your s/o feels? He or she doesn't know what's going on inside your s/o's heart.
I miiiiiiiiiiight be tempted if that person: 1) has known my s/o a long time and 2) has no apparent reason to want to stab s/o in the back. It also wouldn't help if s/o had demonstrated untruthfulness with me in the past.
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Why would the fbi be involved in a simple unauthorized credit card usage case
Interstate commerce: whenever things pass over state lines (purchases in more than one state; or card holder in one state and purchases in another, say catalogue purchases), it becomes of federal interest and the states defer to federal jurisdiction.
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Do you think you have a soul mate? What do you do if you think YOUR "Soul Mate" has already passed threw your life and is with someone else?
"Soul Mate" is just language. It describes that which is perfect for us. This person is not perfect for you now. The mere act of being GONE means that they are not perfect. A soul mate would have worked with you on whatever was the issue that tore you apart.
Good luck to you in moving on. So often we get stuck on the wrong guy. So often too, we expect the fairy tale: Prince...
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Has anyone read/seen the "Postsecret" series of books? I think they are a beautiful representation of us humans. What are your thoughts on the books?
They're great. And they are ARTISTIC too!
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Are you living or just surviving?
Just getting by. Trapped in a crappy job. If I had no mortgage to pay/ kids/ husband to support, I would start working for Burger King and spend my weekends catching up on my reading and knitting.
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Do you ever type LOL when really you aren't laughing?
Yes. But never when I'm not laughing on the inside.
I actually think that is one of the problems with on-line life: that it is robbing us of emotionality. Typing "lol" is not spontaneous, and our feelings haven't always caught up. Perhaps we are slowing training the emotions out of ourselves.
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Have you ever felt sick with fear? It happened to me tonight.
I missed a law school exam (mischeduled it). Could have caused me to flunk out. They told me I had to speak to my dean but she was out that day! I had to try to sleep all night long, crying, getting up, getting back to bed. Stomache sick as hell.
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How do you solve a rubiks cube?
I can rip all those stickers off and paste them RIGHT back on in under 45 seconds! (Proudly bows.)
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If a guy looks at you and then you look back at him and he keeps looking at you does that mean you're scaring him off?
Are his eyes directed at your boobs or your eyes?
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Is your style of dancing similar to John Travolta, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Ginger Rogers or a spider trying to avoid going down the plug hole?
More like...an epileptic trying to fall to the ground but propped up by puppet strings. This is QUITE DISTRESSING being a black woman, and quite embarrassing. But as I joke to my friends: black lawyers can't dance.
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If you found Osama Bin Laden, and were alone with him in a room, what would you do?
I am just a woman, a mother, and a lawyer. I would have to attempt to kill him, however.
That is like all the Hitler questions. If you, alone, had the opportunity to kill Hitler, even if it meant you lost your own life, would you. I would have to say: yes. Hopefully my relatives would reap the benefit of the world's love for generations.
(By the way, I am a hippy pacifist. This is...
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Will this election come down to race, party affiliation or something(S) else?
I think the election will come down to ANTI-race. Is America far enough away from it's ugly racial history to NOT consider race an issue in this election.
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What is the most random, pointless fact you know?
One of the ways of identifying an anorexic is that their upper arms are as thin as their lower arms. (It is normal for a humans upper arm to be thicker than their lower arm.)
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What is the most random, pointless fact you know?
Your arms, from your shoulder to your finger tips, are as long as your legs from your hip to your heel.
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Do you think that John McCain is too old to be president, or does age not matter?
I agree with Keithhold: it ISN'T age. It IS function, but I see things differently re his level of functioning. Even though I am a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, I have always respected McCain because it is VERY clear that he follows his own conscious and not a lot of party bullshit. I have followed him closely because I respect that in him.
However, I should say, (as a lawyer, and one who...
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Do you rate up all the answers which you receive for your questions or only those answers which you like?
I try to rate all, but every now and then, one really gets in my craw. Sometimes, I won't rate if I think an answer near the top is not deserving of being as high as it is, but these things are rare. Usually I want for everyone who puts the time in to come to my question to get points.
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What's the lyrics, Blinded by the light "reved up like a duce another loner in the night"?
I always sang "deuchANT" (douchant?). Lol. I never knew what the F@C& they were talking about. I've always wondered...why write a song that no one can understand. Like when the Chili Peppers came out with Scar Tissue, and no one knew what the lyrics were until the radio d.j. interpreted. I mean...E-NUNC-I-ATE BOYS! ("With the birds, I'll share this lonely...
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Any good uses for an old refrigerator that will otherwise be sent off to a recycling place or whatnot? I really would like to find some DIY uses for the components of one. I have two that Were getting rid of.
I have an extravagent yarn "stash," as us knitter/ crafter types call our hordes of yarn that we save and couldn't use in a lifetime.
I've heard some stashers keep their yarn in retired refrigerators. The door storage is especially useful for creating a "filing system."
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If a man makes all the money, should he have the final say in all the rules of the house?
Presumably we are talking about a "wife," and not a white slave. No.
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What are you doing home-ON A FRIDAY NIGHT?
I own a business, I am a mother and wife.... By the time Friday comes around I'mmmmmmmmmmmmm OUTTA IT!
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What was ann franks b-day and when did she die? i cant find an exact date
Here's her birthdate. Perhaps you'll search forever and still not find her date of death. They were knee-deep in problems and perhaps it was not properly recorded. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank
Born: June 12, 1929–early March 1945.
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Other than a person, what is your number one comfort?
My knitting. If I get over-the top stressed, I just pick it up, knit, pearl, knit, pearl, knit, knit, pearl pearl....
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Why did Humpty Dumpty have a great fall?
Because the folliage was beautiful so he took a drive through the Berkshires.
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What is your name (in real life)?
Nicki D.
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What kind of food can make sadness go away?
Food doesn't make sadness go away. Overeating increases sadness in the end. Sadness has to be met face on.
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Ladies: you desperately need to go to the toilet. Funnily enough, there's always a long queue. The gents seem empty. Do you wonder over to the gents? or continue queuing? I stay where I am but I have seen some people going to the gents!
I do. All the time. It started originally out of desparation. Now I just have gotten used to not holding my bladder!
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Under what circumstances would you marry someone who cheated on their spouse to be with you?
Under the circumstances that I had been newly brain damaged and determined not fit to make decisions in my own best interest.
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My cats don't think they are (cats) & WILL NOT eat cat food, they will only eat can'd tuna. I do provide quality dry cat food that they can access all day, but are they still getting enough nutrients?
Ummm. How did they find out about the tuna? Read the labels and hold you at claw point until you opened the cans? (Hehe.)
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When your child is said to have ADHD, is it better to put him on medication or let him be himself?
I suspect neither is a good rule. I really believe too many of these kids are over or inappropriately medicated, but we aren't doctors.
Better than the two suggestions is a plan of: 1) educating yourself about the disorder (before you make any drastic decisions, by going to support groups, industry web sites, conferring with other parents etc. MUCH MUCH MORE information is better than...
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Do i have an ourstanding warrant in state of missouri
Check for yourself.
http://www.publicrecordcenter.com/missouripublicrecord.htm
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My girlfriend & I have a 3 yr old son. We don't have any family members that we want to look after our son. Can we nominate friends to legally become his guardian
Yes. Definitely. You are talking in the case of an emergency right? You need to speak to a lawyer in your jurisdiction to get the proper paperwork done. Otherwise your desires will not be followed in the case of an emergency.
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My friend had a kitten that goes completely limp whenever she holds it. What could be causing this? None of the other kittens do this!
Clearly it is a kitten from Gary Larson's far side.
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Have you ever wanted to take your bag of points and beat someone with it? (on or off the site)
HAHA! Funny question, but sooooo true. Mostly when I get that urge, I spin around with my bag and there is no one there! Like when Questioner says: what did you do for summer vacation. I answer what I did and then find a neg 4 on my record.
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Do you enjoy talking to people about their problems? or do you absolutely HATE it?
I am a lawyer. I usually enjoy it. I do much of my work in poverty law, however. I often find myself hating it, when I bang my head against the wall and can't get people to understand what bad things are ahead if they don't change the path they are walking. (Not just poor people get in these ruts. I have advised wealthy people as to the bad results they will get if they continue...say...
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Why would someone need a sitter for their child on a permanent basis when they are home? This boggles my mind.
I've done this job: was a night nanny. That is how I made it through my first year of law school.
It also boggles MY mind.
I don't understand why the wealthy and stars even bear children if they want others to raise them. (I don't get it but perhaps this is a class thing. I was raised lower-middle class.)
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What's the first thing that comes to your mind when I say, "Just get it done!"?
How unhelpful those sayings are: like Nike's "just do it!"
I am a lawyer and once told an agorophobic client to JUST fucking (I was very frustrated...many times she had been unable to keep meetings) get up an hour earlier so that she can check the oven and doors a million times, and STILL make it to the meetings on time.
She looked at me like I was the crazy...
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If there was one thing you could change in your life what would it be?
Employment: from lawyer to full-time writer.
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What one thing do you currently miss the most?
My father. He died when I was ten, and I am 42 now, yet I've never forgotten what an extraordinary man he was.
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Have you hugged some one you love today?
Everyone I love is still asleep. That is when I sneak in my Answerbag time!
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Would anyone be willing to say a little prayer, or think some positive thoughts in my direction? I go for a gestational diabetes test at 9:00 today, and I NEED to pass, or I can't have my baby with my midwife! ...and I am so afraid of obstetricians...
Peace be with you my beautiful sister. I always find strength and beauty in your face. The universe will smile upon you.
I KNOW (from all the answers I've read from you) that you have the strength to deal with whatever the news is and whatever steps you have to take. Because in the end, it is all about getting your baby over to the other side with us, healthy and happy. Focus on that.
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What would happen if you swore on answerbag?
I fucking swear all the time~!
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MY 17 YEAR OLD GIRLFRIEND IS PREGNANT, I AM 21 BUT I WAS 20 WHEN SHE GOT PREGNANT, WE LIVE IN TEXAS... CAN I GET IN TROUBLE?
It appears to depend upon the months of your birth. 17 appears to be the age of sexual consent if there are less than three years difference between you. And, that is in a legal defense to a charge. Looks like it is possibly still chargeable. (Yet there is a difference often between what the law says and what they do.)
BOTTOM LINE: 1) learning the law of your state AFTER you impregnate a...
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What would you take from your house if it was on fire and you could only take one thing?
My daughter's life and my life. Daughter is the only "item" worth risking my own life for.
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What would you do if your sons friend, knocked on the door and asked if they could pitch a tent in your yard, he was kicked out of his home, wore out his welcome everywhere, been on the streets for months with his girlfriend, no jobs? I have helped alot
If it were in the middle of the night, and I had a BACK yard, I'd let him do it, or invite him in the house perhaps even if I didn't like the kid much. I don't want kids/ young people out on the street any more than the next mom.
However, in the morning, some SERIOUS talking would have to be had, including: the SHORT-TERM nature of this agreement, how much time he thinks he...
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Where can u go to get free back ground checks
Background checks are in no ways "illegal," as per john pennington, above.
However, they are not "free" either.
Many nations, including mine, the U.S. are nations of public documentation. So if you've done something illegal, it is the government's DUTY to keep that information available to other citizens, so that if they chose, they could protect themselves...
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I want to act in TV show X-files.It is my only one dream of my life,But how?
Lol.... Perhaps after you're dead...in the afterworld, they will have a casting call of allllllll your favorite off-air hits!
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They say that "a penny saved, is a penny earned;" but isn't it just as possible that this penny was found, robbed, or embezzled?
Clearly...a penny saved was not necessarily properly earned.
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Why do you do drugs?
Ummmmm.... My Clintonesque response is...what is the definition of "do"?
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What is one profession you would never take take up?
"Bring out your dead."
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Which is worse: ticking off a ninja or a rattlesnake?
Rattlesnake. If I tick off a ninja, perhaps I get to the hospital for help. If I tick off a rattlesnake, I might get to a hospital and they don't have antidote! (I live in a state, Washington, divided by mountains. On the east of the mountains it is arid and desert-like. There are rattlesnakes over THERE. On this side, it is lush and rainforesty. There are no rattlesnakes over here. In a...
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Who is your true love?
My 8 year old daughter, Matti; who is also the true love of my husband; which makes each of us more lovable in each other's eyes.
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What do you think YOUR hair tells the world?
About half the time: I don't give a rat's ass,
but then the other half: I pay over $90.00 for a precision cut. Hmmm.
I think it says that I am schizophrenic!
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Est-ce que tu aimes faire du shopping?
Certainment!
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As a Seattlite, I want to know how do you order your coffee?
Seattle has influenced the rest of America through Starbucks. It is fascinating. I have different fav's, but number one is "Grande, iced, carmel latte, syrup AND real (two types of carmel) leave the real on the bottom, float the syrup on the top, skinny, no whip."
It's hilarious!
When I left Chicago in 1991, in my home town, I was used to using ONE word to...
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What is your FAVORITE breakfast?
1) Lingonberry pancakes, the kind they make at IHOP with maple syrup (I know the syrup is a little strange) OR IHOP GERMAN pancakes (but this is my fantasy so I will have BOTH now that I think about it);
2) Coffee with REAL (whipping) cream and sugar;
3) potato pancakes;
4) bacon; (I'm getting heavy even THINKING about all of this, but I am more of a taster than an...
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Where will you be when you die?
On the freeway. It will be a normal commute and then...one of those evil TRAFFIC BUBBLES will come along. You know the ones where everyone is flying down the freeway at 70-80 and then, for no apparent reason at all, traffic slows to almost zero in the space of a second. I'm going through the window, shearing off the side of the car, and driving toward the shoulder so as not to take anyone...
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If you could think of one reason for why you would ever emigrate what would it be?
The only reason I can think of* is if we don't rest back the country from the right real soon--otherwise there will be nothing to stand up for because all civil liberties will be dead.
a*nd I don't think I would actually go...I might if I were single, but not not dragging my family with me.
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CAN YOU GET Arested for being naked at ur job
Well...there is no one answer that is correct, since some jobs require it!
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Have you ever had to do a "wrong" thing, in order to get the right result?
Asking, because as a divorce lawyer, I am totally beginning to confuse the two!
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My son is in foster care. He is 17 years of age and is in a program called Independent Living., federally funded. He is bi-polar, will I have to pay child support., he will be 18 September. Will I have to pay till he's 21?
I am a lawyer specializing in this type of case IN MY STATE. But child support is governed on a state by state basis. If you gave me the state, I MIGHT be able to research this for you.
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Have you ever told all of AB who you are in real life, or are you keeping it a well-guarded secret?
I guess you'd have to patch it together. But my profile is pretty much letting it hang all out there. And I have posted video clips to me in other locations. Then when I thought I could legally help someone, I posted my e-mail. On and on.
I actually think that if I had an AB "fan," they might know more about me than my family does, since I've blabber mouthed who I...
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Yahoo games: does it make any sense, their so called security methods? Why type in the bleery letters, struggle to see them, etc.? Also, if it is really a security device, why do they let you keep trying over and over and over again?
Is there really any security in this, or is it just a way to further alienate and frustrate your users? (It's pretty clear that they don't give a rat's ass about the user anyway. They set up the applications and leave, not listening to site recommendations, or further developing. It's just a free for all.)
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How do some black women have straight hair?
I am a black woman. I occaisionall have straight hair (although I am wearing it "natural" now and have been for about 10 months.)
Although I am not a stylist, I will tell you what I know.
There are many ways that black women go about having straight hair: more and more techniques are developed with time.
Some black women are BORN with staight hair, believe it...
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Is there anyone out there, like me, who thinks that Mother's Day is geered toward more perfect creatures than themselves? (3 cheers for us moms who are BARELY holding it together!!!)
Sometimes when I see Mother's Day commercials (like from the Bon Marche) I think...who lives that way. The whole house clean and sparkling; perfectly coiffed children bringing breakfast in bed (wrapped in their terri robes).... Sometimes I'd like to see a Mother's Day commercial for the mom who WANTS to take the day off for Mother's Day with her family, but has a filing...
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What's the hardest thing you've ever had to deal with in your life?
The death of my father when I was only ten years old, and left with a cold mother who (apparently) never loved me.
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If you could-Which TV Reality Show would you be on?
The Biggest Loser. I don't think I could disappoint America as many times/ as much as I've disappointed myself.
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Have you ever felt sick before you had to go to work and called in "sick" only to feel 100% fine a short time later?
(Like an hour bug or a two-hour bug?)
Yes. More importantly, did you feel GUILTY. (LOL.) Answer for me: yes and no, depending upon if my boss is a dick.
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Do you think its unprofessional to wear flip flops to work?
I live on the West Coast. The answer is generally "no" here. I think the answer is different, depending on: 1) where you are; 2) what you do; and 3) whether it is "Casual Friday."
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When you walked away from your computer the last time what did you go and do?
Knit on my sweater.
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How often do you click on a question, with every intention of answering it and then decide not to? What changes your mind?
Great question! I would say that this happens to my once every two days or so, at least, and sometimes more.
I am a divorce lawyer. My off-line life is STEEPED in stress. I come here for escapism.
Sometimes, I may have even typed in my anwer (on generally a religious or political question) and I erase it at the last minute thinking: "who NEEDS the weeks of antagonistic,...
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What are your options if you get someone pregnant while you're way to young to handle a child. Other than abortion.
You...the impregnator are optionless. In this country, the mother has all power and authority over an unborn fetus. Your only option right now, is to wait until she plays the main card. You can invest this waiting time in trying to influence HER decision, but that's all you have right now.
Signed: a father's family law attorney (who loves to work with young men, like yourself).
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What is your favorite thing to do (besides AB) when you have free time?
Besides...A..B?
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If you're disciplining your child because your child really needs discipline, and someone gets in the way of you disciplining your child, how would you react?
I'd need to know what form of "discipline" you were using before I could answer. Some things that people consider "discipline" are clearly out of lines at all times.
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My wife tells me that she is not "in Love" with me anymore, should i be worried about her "platonic relationships"
The words "hell yeah" come instantly to mind.
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Is it normal to bleed heavily while having sex?
Only if you have an intact hymen (it is your first time and somehow over the course of the years yours is one of the rare ones to make it to the "first time).
If this is not the case, you need to promptly see a gynie.
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Weve been together for 3 years. two weeks into the relationship, I kissed a dude while on a carribbean cruise. ( nothing else. just kissed) we have an incredible relationship and ive never done anything else. Should I bother bringing it up?
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Do any of you think its wrong for an 11 year old girl to STILL sleep with her parents? she sleeps in the bed during the week and on the floor during the weekends. am i wrong in thinking she needs to grow up?
If you need a vote of support, my hand is waving HIGH IN THE AIR. (If there has been a recent family trauma, she needs some professional assistance perhaps).
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If you decide not to buy a grocery item you've already placed in your cart, do you a)take it all the way back to its rightful place, b)leave it on a more convenient shelf, or c) hand it to the checker and tell him/her you changed your mind?
In order of likelihood:
1) to teller (sometimes);
2) ditch it in the magazine stand (sometimes, too lazy);
3) walk allllllllllllllllll the way back to the section
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What is one thing that you wish you could change about your spouse? "crusty feet, lose weight, financial habits"
Be more truthful.
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I am Happiest when.......?
I enjoy the work I do to get paid instead of just doing it and picking up a pay check.
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Why don't you just BEAT it?
Because it is still sore from the last time.
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What is up with Answerbag and toast? Seriously. Do you all just sit around eating toast all the time?
Haha! AGREED. Don't forget: the pills that people find and want to consume ( !); the "can my girlfriend get pregnant if I do it this way insted of that?"; and "my schmuck of a boyfriend raped the entire Dallas Cowboys Cheerleading Squad, should I take him back?" questions.
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My girlfriend who is to be my wife after 9 years of dating, is not a sexual person.. never has been.. i never know when she is in the mood cause she dosnt get horny or wet like normal womaan.... what do i do to make her want it all the time..
I agree with the "you can't make someone want it all the time," folks. But I want to go further.
If you are WAY sexual and she is lowly sexual...I would really advise that you talk to someone professional (perhaps a professional couple's counselor) about whether you two should be getting married.
People should always assume that what goes in comes out. I mean, ASSUME...
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How would you describe your ex?
Selfish. (In a word. This is a great question and a potential primer/ textbook on how not to become an ex!)
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When wearing a wedding band and engagement ring, which one goes on first?
I think the traditional "proper" way is with wedding band close to your heart. I have seen more modern women, including myself, go the opposite way. It just makes more sense to me, that they should go on in the order of receipt.
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What are your views on hunting, and how do those views stand up against the fact that in nature animals hunt and are hunted?
I live in Western Washington State, but I grew up in Chicago. I did not grow up knowing hunters much (although occaisionally when I was a little girl, my father went out hunting rabits, and I now know that they were draining in my basement sometimes and I was unawares).
Despite much history with hunters, I endorse them and think it is a better way to live. To kill you meat when it had...
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At what age did you learn how to cook? What was your first creation?
I was way older than most, I think. But when I was about 15 years old, I started making myself cheesy scrabled eggs in the morning for breakfast. No one taught me. I still make them.
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Do you think its the goverments fault that 9/11 happened?
No. Eventhough I am a rabid left of demo, I think that some things are just unpredictable. Imagine what our world would look like if we tried to predict and stay safe from every even-crazily-potential harm.
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Do you believe that Greek Gods might actually exist and are just hiding/resting right now?
Edith Hamilton, one of the modern Western academes, to analyze the Greek Myths, told us that the Greeks were the first to create their gods in a human form, for many reasons, but mainly because they LOVED their humanity, their corporaelness.
We are again, through the Dark Ages, Victorianism, Edwardianism, and everything in between. BACK to loving the human form more than any other...
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There are more long distance phone calls on Mother's Day than any other day of the year. Why do people move hundreds and thousands of miles away from their Mother?
I can only tell you why Iiii did.
My mother is toxic.
I have made a successful life for myself exactly half a country away not having to listen to her nagging me about: not the right job, husband, kids not behaved, and on and ON.
The assumption is, in my mind, that the answer to your question is: a whole LOTTA moms, are not living up to the reputation of being...
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What are you getting your Mom for Mothers day?
I wish I (like the majority of you) had a mother who deserved something for Mother's Day.
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What is the best cure of frustration?
Meditation.
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Is Italian the best food in world?
If not, DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDAMNED CLOSE!
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Have you ever thought "Oh to be in England"?
I've often thought that! The Devonshire countryside specifically...near Exeter. My thoughts specifically go: oh, I wish I had the $ to take Matti (my 8 year old) to Devonshire in order to see some of the beautiful contryside that I saw when I was in law school! Ahhhh to sit on The River X with a pint and a sandwhich! (Sigh.)
Sometimes in this Zazzy-Daughter fantasy, we go to...
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Hey, guys. Are you like Billy Joel,..a downtown guy, in love with an "uptown girl"? How is it working?
One of my girlfriends is a lawyer (though from a humble background herself), married to an airport tech who is also a part-time car mechanic. They love each other to DEATH!
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A man was born in 1898, he is still alive now at the age 33. How is this possible?
Was he born on leap year?
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Is there a thing you envy in the life of one of the gender opposite to yours?
I'd really like to pee standing up. Would come in handy while camping.
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I usually have game night mondays for me and my friends, we need some new ideas, any suggestions?
Apples to Apples. Card game to purchase. Adult and children-adult versions are hilarious. This is one of the fewwwwwwwwwwww games that adults can play with reading age children and not get bored. But the adult version is fun for adults alone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apples_to_Apples
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Can you describe yourself in one word...that one word starting with the letter "R"?
Rigatoni-ful!
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My boyfriend and I have a flawless relationship. But whenever I come online lately he signs off automatically. He ignores my texts and when he says he wants to chill with mehe ditches. Yet when we are together theirs no problem. Am I doing something wrong
You're not doing anything wrong...but neither is he. Most relationships can't bear-up under 24 hour scrutiny. That's why God invented work. (Lol...someplace where we can escape our spouses.)
We are just at the front-end of how the internet effects relationship. History hasn't been written on it yet.
But I suspect that since many of our generation are on-line...
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What is the longest period you went without shaving?
Summer to summer.
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Where's the nearest card hobby shop to me(I live in Anna Illinois)that sells Yugioh single cards? I don't usually like to buy over the internet so please don't suggest that.
You're town is famous. I grew up learning about your town and that it was a scary place for my people to go, since the initials stood for
A'int
No
Niggers
Allowed
in Anna Illinois.
Are thing better, racially, there now?
Regarding your question, I would suggest you call some of these folks in Carbondale at: (800) 297-2160.
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Where is the worst place to run into your crush?
At a lap dance, you being the dancer.
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Why are oil companies under so much scrutiny and pressure while companies like Google and Microsoft, whom make huge profits as well, are not?
Because Google uses brain power instead of depleting a natural resource (from other countries where we've instigated political situations in order to even get access to the oil), burning it up in the atmosphere, and blowing holes in the ozon from which humanity will never recover, requiring the terraforming of Mars.
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What is the scopes trail?
Trial? If you mean the Scopes trial: it is the first trial to debate whether schools should teach evolution/ Darwinism. In the South they couldn't wrap their brains around how evolution wasn't evil, given that everybody knew that God made Adam and Eve: END OF STORY! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_trial
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A man is standing between two buildings, both the buildings are pulling it with gravitational force.so why doesn't the man fall towards the buildings..?
Not enough gravity. They are pulling at him, just not reaching him, not pulling hard enough. Perhaps like a cheap toy magnet. It will pull at a paper clip, but not if you take the paper clip across the room.
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What have you learned today?
I've learned that an 8 year old CAN accept some responsibility! (My daughter decided that she wants to feed the dog every morning: this is her first day.)
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How much money would it take for you to go back in time and re-live the last ten years, exactly as they happened the first time?
You couldn't pay me. I would feel trapped in my own skull. Knowing which errors lead to which results, and not being able to do anything about it. 5+ for the question.
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I just had my birthday and one of my co-workers got everyone to sign a card for me. I work in a small department with only about 7 people. Everyone signed the card except for one person. I always sensed she disliked me. Should my feelings be hurt?
Work isn't generally about feelings. Try to put it behind you. She didn't stab you in the back or make you lose any money.
This is a chick-thing. I too have got hung up in emotions at work. I actually quit a job because of how another woman made me feel.
But this is just a slight, not daily harrassment.
True that: there is nothing in life more important than...
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Have you ever done a beer bong?
Many. I think the value of the beer is overrated. There is no benefit other than there being a cool liquid to work the carburator. Water works just as well. SO would anything else (imho).
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If you wouldn't date you....Then why should anyone else?? Isn't that like...To be loved you have to love yourself first? Why/Why not?
I actually think that is a great test of whether one should be dating: whether you'd date yourself.
There is a lot of dead weight out there (baggage). The baggage seeminly hopes that they will find their Prince/ Princess Charming and latch onto others to make a better life for THEMSELVES.
When the baggage is someone else, we recognize it.
When the baggage is...
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What's the moral of your life story?
If your family is dead weight, don't feel obligated to pay their freight.
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When am i going to see my lost dad that i havent seen for 15 years now.
Hire an investigator. The research tools are incredible now. They will FIND him. The question is...will you be happy that you searched?
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I would like you guys to get for me a penpal. thank you
http://www.europa-pages.com/penpal_form.html
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What kinds of food do Ogres like to eat?
For some reason...I see them eating Oreos and Pabst Blue Ribbon together, and not smart enough to vomit.
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Are you looking/not looking forward to anything this week?
Cleaning my house. I always say top to bottom, but I rarely have enough energy. See if I can really do it this weekend.
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What are the benefits of pondering?
Being able to become your own best advisor.
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In three words describe your boss.
Great in bed!
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My cousin is only 11 but weighs 180 pounds and she's is starting to loose weight but her worst thing that she does is drink coke all the time and her mom said only one coke a week is that a good idea or should she have one coke every other week?
One Coke per week is the least of her problems. People who don't have weight problems don't know how hard it is to lose. If she does well everywhere else and has one Coke a week, she will lose.
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My Christian flatmate tells me that I will go to hell because I don't believe in Jesus. She also said my relatives are burning and being tortured in hell as non-believers. Is this what Christians believe?
No. Hell has not come to pass yet. Christians believe that hell is in the future so...I suspect that your friend is like many of the Christians out there, picking and choosing and really not all that biblically literate.
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If you were miserable with your job, knowing the market is low and it's hard to find a new one, much less get the income you are used to making... What do you do?
Personally, I am trudging on through and sticking with it. NOT because of myself, but because I am the primary breadwinner for my family. If it were just me, I'd start a job working with Burger King and live in a box instead of this shit.
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International Harvester vs. John Deere?
I had a college internship with my Illinois General Assemblyman. He had a J.D. tractor on his desk. I have to say, I have always held JD in my heart and think of my home in Illinois every time I see them. This even though, I understand that they have long since moved their home offices out of state.
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What triggers evolution?
Mutation.
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Would you rather have an Extreme Makeover on your body or on your home?
Body. I would LOVE to be in Fit Club or the Biggest Loser or whatever.
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What's the coolest thing you've done lately?
Learned how to "steek" a sweater. I am so proud of myself. That is a method by which you knit the whole sweater in the round and then you (COURAGEOUSLY) cut up the sides where the sleeves should go!
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Does a person have to keep a promise to someone who is no longer considered a friend?
That all depends upon what kind of person one is. Since, clearly, we all have free will, no one "has" to do anything.
So of course, this is not a question anyone can answer for you, but only a question that you can answer for yourself.
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What was the last thing you said to an inanimate object?
Although...I can't remember SPECIFICALLY, I only talk to things when I'm pissed off. So, I assume the word "fuck" was involved somehow.
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What's the best part about getting a gift?
The nanosecond before you breach the wrapping paper. At that very instant, it might be anything in the world.
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Do you truely consider yourself to be a good person?
I am a trying-to-be-good-yet-flawed person.
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Hi everybodies! could you write ansomething happy in the answers to feel happy because i'm a bit in a bad mood
Always remember, you could have been born at the BOTTOM of the food chain!
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Can a person only hold the US presidency twice? I thought they could hold it twice, leave it once and then run again afterwards! Am I completely wrong?
Yes. Nothing illegal in that. Only that there is a cap of two terms.
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What do you think of the qu'ran (koran)?
Very few non-Muslim Americans have read the Koran. I too have failed to do so, although it is on my reading list and hopefully I will get around to it, or significant portions of it soon.
I think that it is immensely ignorant and rude of us as a society to not try to educate ourselves more about the culture of Islam.
But because our public schools do not do so, I am obligated to...
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Do you know anyone who's a dwarf? What do they prefer to be called? Little people? I don't mean to be insensitive.
I work with a lawyer. Sometimes it looks like her briefcase is taller than she is, and when she has a trial going on, one of her co-workers walks over to the courthouse with her to help her out with the excess of files and notebooks.
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Are there AB members globally? This is just Itchy asking-not an 'official AB" question-Just curious. If so, please drop by and say hi and let us know where you're from--ok?
Seattle, Washington (actually the rural part of South King County, 45 minutes from downtown Seattle).
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Are you made up of more love, more fight, or more fear?
Honestly, Love is very important to me. I think of it constantly. I often try to figure out how it can help me solve problems, think about things. I don't think people "use" love enough in their daily pursuits.
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What do you associate with the number 8?
8-ball, pool, too much beer and mediocre performance on the long tables.
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If you have ever cheated on a partner, Why did you cheat?
Because I was young, reckless, attractive, sexually charged, and becaues the guy I was cheating on had assaulted me and I just hadn't gotten up the courage to leave him yet.
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Men Get Just as tired from giving birth as Women do. yes?
Um...I will believe that when I see a man shoot a bowling ball out the head of their penis.
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What's the best adjective to describe someone who enjoys freaking people out, and bending social conventions?
Outcouragous!
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Scientologists claim that they can cure homosexuality, what do you think?
Scientologists couldn't cure a ham.
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What can i do about my dogs unusually smelly breath?
Whatever you do, don't sneak any mouthwash into his dish. I once saw a stupid, young guy do this to his mom's dog. Apparently dog's teeth are more pourous than ours. The stuff stayed in his teeth for at least a week. Poor dog: miserable, refused to eat, and just out of sorts until it wasn't with him any more.
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Where were you when you first saw the TV video of the aircraft ramming into the twin towers on 911?
I was driving to a trial. (I am a lawyer.) It was very scary because a normally whacko d.j. was on the radio in near-tears and trying to convince people this was NOT a joke. I got on the phone, called my husband and tried to figure out if I should turn around and go home since it was WWIII or something. But I live on the West Coast and even though he and I talked on the phone the whole 45...
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Are you sure we should be doing this?
No. I KNOW that I should not. I could be: spending time with my daughter, spending time with my husband, catching up on my reading, editing my book, working on a client motion, getting ready for trial, cleaning my house....The list is infinitely long.
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Where is the most beautiful cemetary in the United States?
Seattle's Capital Hill. A beautiful stroll where you can see mountains and woods yet never leave the city (because that's what kind of town it is). And both Brandon and Bruce Lee's grave stones are there. They are beautiful right next to each other.
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What do you ache for?
Utter joy (that picks me up in her wings and steals me away from the duldrums of the every day work/ home/ clean/ sleep world.
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When I say Corn, what US state comes to mind?
OW-ah (Dubuque, Inc.)
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Do you see many foxes where you live?
It is my understanding that no one sees many foxes: they make it their job not to be seen, and there are more around us than we know.
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What is the meanest breed of dog you can think of?
Rottweiler comes to mind, but I think any dog can be mean and any dog can be great.
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What is Microsoft's next operating system that will replace Vista?
Whatever it is, it will be all buggy, crash your system until you upload a patch, and there will be no appologies for them having (supposedly) the best programmers in the world, yet realeasing a faulty product.
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What do you do when your ex (whom you still have feelings for) starts going out with your best friend (who knows about your current feelings!!)?
You try to move on. Seriously. There is a reason he is your ex. Focus upon that and try to figure out what the future holds for you. Figure out if the friendship is worth more to you than the bitterness--or let the bitterness go.
I wonder too about these ex-friends, having the whole world to choose from and choosing their best friends ex. But apparently it happens over and over again.
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My dog couldnt walk and kept falling over. When he did walk, he was pigeon toed and wobbly. What is wrong with him?
I am wondering if it could be an inner-ear problem. Sometimes little children wobble and fall because they are having an inner ear infection.
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My puppy keeps indicating he wants to poop inside but when i bring him out, he just wants to play. But when i bring him in, he goes. How can i stop him from doing this?
Don't TAKE him out. Send him out. First for an hour. If he still comes in and poops: then for two hours. And on and on. I had the same problem with my overly friendly Bichon Frise. We've found that left out for an hour, he will do it (after a loooooooong period of whining on the step: "why did you kick me OUT, MOMMY?!")
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Why aren't the faces of missing children put on postage stamps? Seriously, wouldn't that help to find them?
I am EMPOTHIUS. I exude empathy to such a great extent that I often forget to bill my clients.
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What do you want to change?
I want to leave lawyering and become a full-time writer.
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A man divorces his wife. He takes nothing. The assets are very significant. What are your thoughts? Is he wrong? Is it fair to his next partner?
There is no one who has an interest in this except for him and her and any children involved.
A romantic relationship is complex. He can and should do what he wants to do and what he thinks is ethically rigtht. He will have to live with it SOLELY. He is the only person trapped with this choice.
He owes a future partner nothing. That is a preposterous suggestion. His future...
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Have you ever got so drunk you thought you were using the toilet but it ended up being the drawer of your night stand? Apparently I did on Saturday night.
This is Answerbag.com not dailyconfessions.com (another fun site.) Answer: no.
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Have you ever had a long term meaningful relationship with someone you slept with on the first date?
My current husband. Although Iiiii say it was three dates. We met each other for breakfast, stayed through lunch and dinner and then made out on his couch when one thing lead to another....Maybe FOUR dates. (LOL.)
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Can you remember what you did right after your breakup with your last b/f or g/f?
Went out to dinner with the new boyfriend!
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Whats the strangest animal you've found up your tree? We had a big black bear up our tree last summer with all 5 dogs keeping him up there!
Opposum....But I don't think you're going to find anyone to beat YOU.
When I first moved to Wash State, black bears were mauling the children in some of our Seattle suburbs. I was like...oh GOD, I MOVED TO THE WRONG DAMNED PLACE!
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Would you rather live life without music or with out movies?
Movies. Movies are an occaisional thing for me. Even though my husband watches about one a day (he is retired) I am too sleepy to concentrate on one at the end of a work day. But I try to keep some music with me wherever I go.
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What do you tip when the service is bad?
Bill Murray once left my roommate a $100 bill. The most I ever made was $200 on a party once.
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Do you think i should kill myself? my parents only care about my damn sister and she is a bitch I MEAN SHE IS FAKE AND ONLY INTERESTED ON THEIR MONEY.. I CANT STAND IT ANY MORE... I HATE THEM
One of the most important parts of growing up is figuring out how to make your life be about YOU, and not what your friends or family or strangers think.
But the hard part is in getting the young you through to the other side where you have authority over yourself. That just takes patience. And sometimes it is very hard because everyone wasn't born into the perfect family..
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What do you tip when the service is bad?
In all honesty, as an Af. Am. woman, sometimes I tip decently anyway. I know "we" are supposed to tip badly. I dont' want to perpetuate that stereotype. I feel trapped when I am served poorly. Either I will be considered cheap, or I'v let a server walk all over me.
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Today is my wife's Birthday !!!!! Suggest me a surprise gift that is really cool !!!!
Spa treatments is my second thought. But now that I think about it, more women would appreciate spa time than an instrument or lessons.
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Today is my wife's Birthday !!!!! Suggest me a surprise gift that is really cool !!!!
Has she ever wanted to play an instrument? Piano or violin lessons?
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I have just made contact with a lady who is the daughter of my grandmothers sister, what relationship is she to me, can anyone help please
At the minimum, you are cousins. Cousins defines all releatives who are vertically related and not parents and child. Even aunts and uncles are technically cousins.
Here is a chart of how people are related. I am a lawyer. These charts are used in wills and trust law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin
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Do you believe the "war on terror" is anyway justified?
The up side is that there is one less tin pot dictator in the world. Let us not forget: he WAS evil.
The downside might be that our on-going occupation may be creating the tin pot dictator of tomorrow in some small boy who is angry of gringos running his village.
There is nothing easy about this mess that the Presitard of the United States has gotten us into. But the death of a...
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A woman came to my tag sale. She said she had no money, but wanted to buy some items and if I brought them to her house, she would have the money. When I went to her house, she set her dogs on me. Is she crazy? What should I have done?
Here is the answer. DO NOTHING. This woman is criminally violent. Yes...you could call the police and file a charge against her or file a small claims suit against her. BUT...she knows where you live. Anonymous Girl was right. You shouldn't have taken the stuff to her house. Now that you have, cut your losses. Your life, sanity and being left the fuck alone are worth more than recovering...
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Do most of you if not all think that having a lingerie model in your avatar to represent you has anything to do with the actual male AB user? Does it even make a difference?
You talking 'bout me?
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Im in a hotel room right now... What should i do in it?
Magic Fingers?
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We have been told that the Fire Department can not legally charge you to fill your pool ( however you can give them a donation). Is this true?
Asking a question on Answerbag of this variety without including your jurisdiction is useless. Of course all fire departments all over the country (and the world, since ABer's answer from around the world) do not have the same rules. Your question sounds bizarre to me. However, I assume something like this is going on around where you live: some seriously generous fire departments with too...
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What would you call your favorite kind of summer outing: a shindig, a bar-b-que, a clambake, or a whatever?
A hike (preferrably mountain).
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If you were to described the word and the meaning of the word NO to someone from the Ppanet YES, and No was not in their language nor was it in their being and they were to pick that last apple on the tree of knowledge what would you do?by force?
Very interesting question. Too bad so many spelling errors, and discombobulated so that (I suspect) few will answer.
My answer is that no such world can exist. Opposites are mandatory. On all worlds imaginable and with sentient beings there must be a "no."
You are either, for instance, either explaining the concept to them or "no" you are not explaining it...
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Explain your best friend in one word.
Late.
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What, if anything, have you done to make your parents proud?
My father died when I was ten, and my mother is never proud, no matter what I do. I suspect this is because she never reached her own dreams and not because I am a bad daughter and not worthy of her love and respect. (If my father were alive, I'm sure he would be proud I'd become a lawyer.)
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I want to go to prom with my friend. I truly like him and want to be with him(but he doesnt know that)so.. how do I ask him to go to prom with me without making it obvious?
There is no such thing as asking him to the prom and not having it be obvious. These are the issues that all youth struggle with trying to get to the other side. This is really two questions, as I understand it, and you haven't been clear so I am going to assume that asking to the prom with have to be obvious and what you are really asking is how to let him know you like him without being...
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I have a paper due in like....an hour and im an idiot and im procrastinating...what should i do? WHERES THE MAGIC?
I think...you're...coming DOWN with something.
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Ladies: In decending order (start w/ most favoured), what's your preference: bald, dyed, & grey?
If we're talking my MAN: Grey, bald, then dyed. I just guess I like a more natural man.
If it's me: Grey, dyed, and bald is a way, WAY distant third.
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Describe yourself in 3 words beginning with the first letter of you name, here goes: Loving. Leggy. Loopy
Just indicating that I am usually nude while bagging. LMAO.
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I need a good reason for a girl to go can some one give me some i gave her like 15 an she said they wont good so any 1 got any answers?
ABer: Go out with me.
Sally: Give me a good reason.
ABer: Because I promise to listen to everything you
say and try to understand who Sally really is.
How many people have REALLY listened to you
today?
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Does anyone else stay on AB till they can barely see anymore, when its late at night, but they are just an addict?
I cannot answer this on the grounds that any client of mine might figure they know what I was doing instead of preparing for their divorce trial.
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Why do doctors always seem to be running late? Yesterday I had a dr. appt. and rushed to get there only to be told he was running over 2 hours behind schedule. This happens all the time to me.
Because the health care system forces him to have more patients than (s)he should have. My belief is that this is a sign of a GOOD doctor. Schedule enough time for the delays, take something to read or do with you, and you will insure that you too have a doctor who is actually paying attention to you, listening, saving time for questions, and will not just etrude you through the insurance scam...
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Show me some pictures of your pets. please...
Here's my Bichon Frise, Beau. I love him and hate him. He is an alpha dog. He only follows commands if you have meat in your pockets. Yet he is just like a powder puff. (I SWEAR he smells like baby powder) and is adorable.
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Rough guess, what % of AB questions could be answered by "see a doctor"?
10% See a doctor.
20% Please see a lawyer FROM your own jurisdiction.
10% Yes, your girfriend CAN get pregnant if you do that.
2% The ___ (color) pill with the ___ marking is a sex change hormone pill: take them at your own, drug-adled risk.
8% (S)he is a dog. Nobody treats somebody they care about that way. DITCH them!
20% Yes, Answerbag has flaws of all sorts. We love it...
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You have ten minutes to pick out something to show me from your home. (Nothing sexual please!) What would you show me? Why that?
A picture of my dad sitting around a table with Jesse Jackson and some big wig civil rights dude forming Operation Breadbasket with became Operation Push (probably early precursers of The Rainbow Collition).
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What would you write on the moon for everyone to see?
Teraform Mars: start TODAY.
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If everyone was home schooled, how many billions of gallons of gas can be saved per day by not having busing?
And on the other hand, how would the GNP crash as 50% of family incomes got sucked into this great void?
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Why do we hang out on this site
Because it's like an alcoholic losing his sobriety at one of those happy hours that have great free food but the drinks are like $8.00 each.
I came into AB for "free," but my time...well it is lost forever.
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Which of the following adjectives fit your personality. Be honest. Frenzied, possessive, maniacal, melancholic, anxious, delusional, passionate lover, passionate hater, sexual, visionary, hallucinatory, fearful, phobic, addictive, self-starving, depressed
Frenzied: always trying to do 15 things at once.
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Why is it that everything "green"and anything good for you is so expensive to start? Is that why Americans rank high in obesity?And if we were saving the environment shouldn't they make it affordable so ppl can actually afford to help?
My GAWD that's a lot of question! In my humble opinion, there is no logical nexxus between obesity and enviromentalism.
These are two differnt American problems.
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What have you done lately to make this world a better place?
I signed up with "Democrats Work" to clean up local parks this weekend. http://democratswork.org/
Democrats Work is a non-profit run by the Democratic Party that donates time volunteering in local communities.
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I met this guy on the internet and i really like him what should i do?
Make sure you have his full name and date of birth and let a private dick check him out.
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How did your family get F@(%#D up?
Hmm. I would have to start back with my alcoholic grandfather on my mother's side. You would never BELIEVE how that can mess up a girl child (my mother) who then got pregnant by a preacher man (my father).... That's as far back as I can tell. However, I DO know that alcoholics don't generally pop out of nowhere. There was probably something going on a generation before him too.
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Are you hungry? If yes what would you eat right now?
Lobster with drawn butter. (And since this is MY dream, a gorgeous, shirtless slave, let's make it Vincent D'onofrio, is cracking the shells for me at my table so that I don't have to do it myself.)
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Can you describe yourself in one word?
Complex.
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What do you watch on tv
1) Monk (Monk RULES);
2) Psych (Both cuties RULE);
3) Law and Order Criminal Intent (Denofrio RULES);
4) Comedy Central Presents (Stand-up Comics RULE);
5) Celebrity Fit Club (a little embarrassed about that one);
6) House; and only occaisionally
7) The Colbert Report (I used to wait tables with him); and
8) The John Stewart Show.
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What do you do on your saturday
Knit. (In a silent room, I try to knit a little peace into my life. So when people ask me what I'm knitting, I say "peace.")
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What are some words that rhyme with "Pudding"?
Looking.
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What are some words that rhyme with "Pudding"?
Hooding.
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Where can i buy cute bras for DDD's?
Nordstrom's. Don't shop on line. Go IN to your closest store and have a professional bra fitting (by a certified specialist). Then ask to see the bra that Oprah wears. http://shop.nordstrom.com/C/2378696/0~2376776~2378685~2378696?cm_ven=google&cm_cat=keyword&cm_pla=depts&cm_ite=nordstrom%20lingerie
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Would you kill a person and his whole family his kids, parents, wife, siblings, and dog for 10 million dollars if you knew you could easily get away with it?
Even if I parked my soul in Alberqueque, the answer would still be no: it is not wrong because I'm caught: it's wrong because it's wrong.
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Can being stared at be considered as a form of torture?
I'm pretty sure the victims of actual torture would say ofmuthafucking COURSE not.
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Who was your very first celebrity crush?
Believe it or not, Michael Jackson. Back when he was still black.
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Is a friend to all.. loyal to none?
One's own heart.
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If your dog could talk, what would (s)he be saying right now?
My people were once KINGS of the forest...and now you have me in this...poodle cut!
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An angel offers to pay off your mortgage, or give you a new home with new appliances only 500 sq.feet smaller. Which would you chose?
Pay off my mortgage. My home was brand new when we bought it: we were the first owners. We've been here for nine years and I have utterly fallen in love with it.
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Was there a common reason as to your past breakups?
I grew bored with my partners and wandered off. One day I loved them: the next, love was gone.
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Is shunning discrimination?
Yes and No.
Discrimination, as the word has evolved in our country, means acting upon feelings of bias against a certain class of people.
The denotation (dictionary definition) of the word also includes just choosing between one thing and another. One is said to have discriminating tastes if they can recognize a great glass of wine and pick it out from ten glasses of ten buck chuck for...
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Would it be fair to charge overweight people more money for health insurance?
Yes. Don't worry about where the line is drawn (Just Curious). The actuaries will set it mathematically, at a place that science tells us is an obtainable, healthy weight.
If this were true, I really WOULD stay on my diet.
Science is science. We all know that being overweight increases your likelihood of contracting everything. Why is it logical for you triathletes to bear the burden...
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Jerry springer show is soo fake about as fake as wrestling ,cant anyone tell that the fights and scenarios are set up?
Who SAID we couldn't. If reality was the only thing people were interested in, we wouldn't all be here, wearing fake avitars; there would be no "reality" t.v.; soap operas would have zero viewers; and boob jobs would be for cancer reconstruction only.
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Would it be racist to have a "white history month"?
"WHITE" is not a culture. WTF?!
Black history means African American history. We come to this country via a common historical vessel: literally and figuratively, a slave ship.
We have developed a common culture from that ship to here. Our diverse cultures prior to that were erased in hate.
"White" people are Italian, Irish, Transylvanian, Lithuanian, Finlandian....
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What would make you not contact someone after a first date?
10 I find out you don't like kids. (I have two and even if I didn't, I think there exists some weirdness in people who don't like a phase of life they, themselves have passed through.)
9 Find out you don't have a job.
8 Your hair is perfect. (I can rarely attain hair perfection. This would make for a beauty-boy and the beast couple that would depress me beyond...
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You borrow weapons from a sane friend. Then your friend becomes insane from the fact that his girl is cheating on him and asks for his weapons back. Do you give him the weapons? Does that make you moral or immoral?
Something similar happened to my husband and a former girlfriend (now a friend of myself as well). We still have her rifle in our garage, hidden from a hateful, evil ex-husband who at some point would rather have her dead than alive.
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Why does it seem that 99% of the time people live in utter triviality? Banality seems to be the word of the day in the world. . . at least to me.
Posting such a question to ANSWERBAG is a funny conundrum, n'est pas?
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Is fear the opposite of faith?
The classical philosophers considered Despair the opposite of faith. I must say that I have to agree.
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To celebrate that I am getting paid tomorrow, I have budgeted one gift for each of you. So, what do you want?
New job, please. No stress and LOTS of moolah. (If you can't find one of those in my color, I would settle for LOW stress and enough money to pay my mortage and about $500 extra.)
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How does a college kid manage to afford school, a car, an apartment, all on minimum wage these days?
He doesn't. He sets his priorities. He can probably have some of it. Just choose.
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35% of men say they will never do this without asking
their wives first - what is it?
Take their balls out of the wives' purses.
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35% of men say they will never do this without asking
their wives first - what is it?
Look in wifey's purse.
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What are some famous quotes about life?
Life is a big shit sandwhich and every day is another bite.
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What is the best plase to go for a HONEY MOON?
A Princess or Royal Carribean tropic cruise to any old set of islands. No packing unpacking. Allllllllll leisure.
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What is behind every successful woman?
A housekeeper.
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Why is it that when some people pray for something and they don't get it they always think that their prayers weren't answered? Could it be that the answer was no?
Very profound. Cool. Never thought of it that way.
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Is there someone in your family that you don't speak with because of a a dispute? If so. how long has it been since you have spoken to this person?
I haven't spoken more than 20 words to my mother (outside of a courtroom) since she tried to rob me of custody of my son, for no apparent reason. That was about 8 years ago.
I called her up from husand and my place in Seattle, pregnant with my second child. Called her because the pregnancy was complicated and kid having teen attitude and I couldn't handle both. Sure, I can help....
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Why do people hate lawyers so much?
Cause we're so purty!
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What's worse: the way girls fight or the way guys fight?
Girls are worse. Guys seem to enter into a contract of sorts: we gonna fight it out, yeah, okay, here?
With girls, the next thing you know from outta nowhere, you have a nail slash through your eyebrow.
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What are you resisting?
White Castle cheeseburgers.
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What is your favorite auto racing movie?
Taledega Nights. Lol.
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Try typing your name with your nose and put in what you get and then type your real name.
nicki
WOW. I did it. (Couldn't manage the caps lock though.)
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If you had to identify yourself by ONE of your material possessions, which would you choose and why?
My laptop. It is always with me and...of course...it is my extrnal brain.
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What sucks?
Mean people suck (but they make great road bumps).
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Most motorboat engines are two cycle, their exhaust is piped down to the propeller. This is done so the engine doesn't need a muffler. The cold water will condense the oil vapor and create an oil slick, why isn't this considered water polution?
Um...perhaps because not everyone knows this. I just LOVE chicks with mechanical know-how! GO SISTER!
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Do you reckon that if everyone who hasn't ever had kids stood up and, as a protest, said: 'We're not going to bring any children into this world until all these environmental problems are fixed', the Government might actually do something significant?
Since...overpopulation is one of the major factors EFFECTING the ecological crisis...perhaps the government should...give each of those rebels a pat on the back and a cigar! (Maybe a tax credit if they'll make it formal and have a doctor sign-off on the surgery.)
I mean...doesn't this question confuse cause and effect?
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Does anybody else think it's a little annoying when somebody comments your answer with only "Thanks" or something to that extent. Because when you go to see somebody commented you and you click it and all it says is "Thanks" I feel a little screwed inside
Please get over it, Hon. We all have full time jobs too.
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Men, if you are interested in a woman would it scare you if she had an ex who committed a violent crime against a woman in his youth and has had some mild issues of anger management since then? Would it scare you if she was somewhat scared of him?
I'm not a guy, but machoism is over-rated. Weapons level the playing field.
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My cousin have legal custody of our 12 yr old cousin cause her mom was in jail, now mom is home and big cousin is ready to give little cousin back but mom haven't been awarded custody back yet. If big cousin give her back anyway what will happen?
Please strongly advise against that! Do it through legal methods: seek a court order first. If not, and mom is ever in jail again, the court will never ever trust this cousin again and the child might end up in foster care. And foster care is no place for a vulnerable child.
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Have you heard about Guillermo Vargas Habacuc's dog art?? It's NOT art to me and angers me very much!! Let me know what you think... I am going to post the video in the answer to this question!
I'm pretty sure that most people would think this is horrible.
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Is fruit essentially plant semen?
My understanding is that fruit is plant OVARIES.
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Where does this last screw go?
Missionary-style, please.
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If you were Irish, and had a Polish instructor explaining to a class what it is like to be an Irish person in (insert country here), what would you think?
I think people are way too racially sensitive. A famous writer was challenged about writing Vietnamese short stories. (He is white and his wife is Vietnamese.) His response was to write a story from a parrot's point of view, challenging the critiques to ask how he knows what a parrot thinks.
I am African American and was taught Af. Am. studies in college by an Irish priest. It was...
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What will happen when the truckers stop bringing food to the grocery stores because gas costs to much?
Those yard squirrels are going to start looking tastier and tastier. (And god help the dog!)
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A friend asks to borrow $100.00, you have been best friends for many years. you know that you will never see your $100.00 again, even though your friend signs a makeshift contract or IOU. to loan or not to loan?
Depends on: if you have it to spare and whether borrowing is habitual (and perhaps upon whether (s)he has a drug abuse or gambling problem).
If above questions answered to your satisfaction, a good friend (in my humble opinion) is worth a hundred. It sounds like this hasn't been a habit.
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How do I handle mouthy step-children, when my spouse does not correct them when they speak harshly to me? I've tried to correct them myself and my husband tells me I'm to sensitive. I'm not, they're very rude...
There is no right or wrong to whether they are "too" rude. Obviously they exceed your own personal rudeness standards. That is the important part.
And well...we all know that we can't control others only ourselves. And I am talking here about your husband, not his children.
So my advice is two part: 1) make sure your husband is saying that he TRULY does not intend to...
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Do you have a Netflix account? is it worth it?
I don't. I am totally satisfied now with a combination of On Demand and "My DVR." My DVR is on our cable system, like poor man's Teevo. It let's us record all cable and network programs and movies. I have about 30 hours saved up. I will never get through all of that.
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When you say "Surprise me" what do you secretly want?
Either:
1) A GODAWFULLY expensive dinner that probably has lobster somewhere on the menu; or
2) Something hand-made that you really spent some time with; or
3) Something inexpensive that you really THOUGHT about (for instance, going to the library and copying my favorite comic for the last five years...Lol. This is a dream gift that no one has ever done for me); or
4) While you are...
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May sound silly….But, I'm not really sure when I ovulate, is there an easy way to find this out or to determine when? We want to have a baby and I need to know the best time to conceive.
Generally three days or so before your period starts. If you take your temperature each morning for a few months, you will find the exact point, because there is a slight bump (up, I believe) when you are ovulating. For about ten bucks you can buy an ovulation kit at the pharmacy which is essentially a thermomter and an instruction booklet, or you can use your OWN thermometer and follow these...
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I am 4 1/2 months pregnant and married my husband 2 months ago. He's become abusive again after 4 years since a restraining order was ordered and I need to get out asap but he's threatening to take custody of our unborn child. What are my rights?
I am a lawyer. This is not enough information to answer the question. If you let me know what jurisdiction you are in, I will refer you to some professionals that can help you. Often their are lawyers who volunteer on this type of situation.
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Its pouring down with rain here so i inpulsively decided to go out and jump in the puddles and dance in the rain, how often do you do things on impulse?
Unfortunatel daily. My credit card bills are evidence of that. I am in a (spiritual) process of making sure more of these impulses are free, natural, and actually giving me some of what I am searching for.
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Who is the Messiah the Jews are still waiting for?
Don't know, but sure has big shoes to fill: he will be replacing, arguably, the most famous human being of all times. (Try to imagine a human being whose name has been said more times than Jesus. Just today, say in the State of Texas, his name has probably been said thousands of times and he hasn't been alive in centuries.)
I am a preacher's daughter living a...
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Is 16 to young to get engaged? My boyfriend and i have been dating for 2 years, have been best friends for 4 years. He gave me a promise ring for our 1 year anniversary and are now talking about getting engaged. its love and will have a long engagement.
Good luck to you. Two years is about two years longer than any relationship I had until I was way into my 20's. That is in your favor.
No one can stop you from "being engaged." So, it is really a personal decision.
You are not your own legal person though yet, so don't forget that part. Unless you are emancipated, your parents (either set, or even one from...
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Do you guys think that mcdonalds should be banned because the obesity problems in the world?
No. We live in a free society. McDonald's doesn't cause obesity. Overeating causes obesity. If you stay home and never leave it, (and btw never exercise) and make yourself grilled cheese sandwhiches all day, you will be obese and you won't have the golden arches to blame for it.
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What do you find impressive?
I find the self-educated extremely impressive. Very rarely I meet a person who seems to know a little bit about a lot of things, back to antiquity and up through current politics. I am often pleasantly surprised to find that they have very little formal education (such as it is nowadays) and have taught themselves in the subjects they are interested in.
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