All categories - 12 September 2007

I'm 24 wks along with my 1st. Advice from friends, family, and complete strangers has already started rolling in, along with awkward questions from total strangers. How to deal? I'd rather not be rude. For example:

When I tell people we're only planning on having one child, some of them act like it's a form of child abuse not to provide my kid with a sibling.

When strangers ask me about my breastfeeding plans. Yes, I plan on breastfeeding, but is it really everyone else's business??

People who try to talk me into or out of things like epidurals, cervical blocks, and natural, drug-free childbirth...and then there's the whole stay-at-home mom vs. working mom issue...all personal decisions...

I've even had little old ladies ask me about my bowel movements?!?

Just wondered how the rest of you dealt or are dealing with all that... Maybe the pregnancy hormones are making me extra annoyed...thanks :)

2007-09-12 04:58:29 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Pregnancy & Parenting

2007-09-12 04:58:26 · 13 answers · asked by Tom B 1 in Friends

To tell him I am the new Distant Learning Coordinater for the International Prisoners Union?
If yes, can you supply me with your course# and Prison, so I can varify if he starts poking around my hard drive?

2007-09-12 04:58:22 · 18 answers · asked by Marla ™ 5 in Polls & Surveys

I know its a mixed economic system but can anyone explain further?

2007-09-12 04:58:19 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Economics

instead they get britney??..and they never let kanye west perfom

"Stronger" would've been great to open up the VMA's

2007-09-12 04:58:16 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Had this discussion with someone the other night, and it got me thinking.

I also asked this at work this morning, and it's amazing how many people thought hardly anyone would turn up.

And before you all start yelling at me, thanks, it's going to happen to us all at some time or another.

2007-09-12 04:58:13 · 45 answers · asked by Hello Dave 6 in Polls & Surveys

I have been wth my boyfriend for 5 years now, and we are very happy and scared at the same time. The problem is I live with my parents. We have been planning to get our own place for about a year now and a few months ago bought a peice of land, we have been looking around for a mobile home to put on this land, but really don't have the money for one at this time. Well I am going to college full time, and working 30 hours a week. My parents have made it very clear how mad they would be if I were to get pregnant and I am very scared to tell them. Any advice....

Please note my mother is kinda crazy. awhile back my 24 year old brother got his gf preg and he told my mom, she FREAKED out I mean freaked. He was soon to graduate college at the time, and I just didn't understand why she got so angry. That's why I am even more scared!

Do you think 20 is too young to have a baby? I will be 21 when the baby come in may, 2008

2007-09-12 04:58:06 · 18 answers · asked by bluemoon 3 in Family

Liberals are so used to the good life that they can't seem to comprehend that there are people that hate us.

'Poor' people with cars, cable TV and myspace pages complain about having no money. Have they ever heard about third world countries that live off of dirty water, walk around naked and have flies buzzing all around them?

You'd think 9/11 would have woken Americans up to the fact that we had to fight for all that we take for granted. Alas, six years later and we are once again dozing off......oblivious to the threat against us, fighting those who are trying to protect us, while sympathizing with those who try to kill us.

Maybe some hard times is due for our great nation. Just so we can appreciate what we have and what others wish they had.

2007-09-12 04:58:02 · 18 answers · asked by Frank Dileo 3 in Politics

What would be the freezing point?

2007-09-12 04:58:02 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Physics

I can understand not coming to work all dirty and stinky or not coming to work dressed to go to the beach or something. But, why do people have to get so darned dressed up in suits and their hair done conservatively or whatever to go to work? Why not just some jeans and t-shirts or something?

2007-09-12 04:57:58 · 6 answers · asked by M 1 in Other - Careers & Employment

2007-09-12 04:57:52 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mathematics

2007-09-12 04:57:46 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-09-12 04:57:35 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Poor guy doesn't think He's bald

2007-09-12 04:57:16 · 8 answers · asked by DAMN SILLY BILLY 4 in Polls & Surveys

In all this national talk about foreclosures, does anyone with a legal background know what happens to the homeowners if the bank short sells the property for a lot less than is owed on it because there are no buyers. Suppose there are just NO buyers and the bank forecloses on a house that is appraised at $500K but there is a $350K loan on it. But even with such a large discount the bank still can't sell the property for $350K and instead sells it for $275K. Does it still attempt to collect the difference from the original homeowner -- after all, it's not the homeowner's fault that the bank took a bad offer b/c it was unwilling to wait for a better one.

2007-09-12 04:56:58 · 12 answers · asked by curious shopper 1 in Renting & Real Estate

Let me get this right. The republicans are passionate in their hate to pay taxes to help the United States. you know for tings like better public roads, beaches, National parks, forests, public schools etc.

But when it comes to Iraq they gleefully get scared by Bush and send U.S. tax dollars to the "cause" in Iraq.

I don't get it. On the one hand they hate paying taxes for America and our great country and people. Yet on the other hand Bush simply scares the republicans and they give money like candy to Bush in Iraq.

So being a sensible taxpaing patriot is crazy. But getting scared and throwing $3 Billion dollars a week away on Iraq is sensible?

2007-09-12 04:56:58 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Find a counterexample to show that the conjecture is false.
Conjecture: The product of two positive numbers is greater than the sum of the two numbers.

A. 3 and 5

B. 2 and 2

C. A counterexample exist but it is not shown above.

D. There is no counterexample. The conjecture is true.

2007-09-12 04:56:52 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mathematics

You would have to be one boring idiot to waste time wacthing the 64th ranked Michigan Wimpareens versus the 69th ranked nutter lame irish =)).

How can any stand watching that garbage???

2007-09-12 04:56:45 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Football (American)

when it comes to burgers and fries which food chain do you prefer?

2007-09-12 04:56:45 · 44 answers · asked by shrink 2 in Fast Food

2007-09-12 04:56:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Men's Health

i have a compact fridge by frigidaire that stands about 4 feet tall and 2 feet wide. the freezer is seperate and on top, just like a normal fridge...but lately, it has not been getting very cold. this has happened before, and when i left it unplugged for a while then plugged it back up, it began working just fine. so i'm wondering if it has anything to do with the freezer being too full and/or the vent in there being blocked?? i don't wanna unplug the fridge cuz i have some food in there; so if it's the freezer being too full, do i just need to take some stuff out for the fridge part to get cold?? does anyone know what's causing this?? thanks in advance!

2007-09-12 04:56:38 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Maintenance & Repairs

Apple picking (I haven't yet)
Corn Mazes (I haven't figured out why people do this)
Carve pumpkins (I haven't in a while and the neighborhood kids would only smash them)
Decorate inside or outside your home for Fall? (No one sees inside our place, or they rarely do, but I'm thinking of doing something Fall-like in the windows)

2007-09-12 04:56:24 · 16 answers · asked by Lady G 6 in Senior Citizens

Hi My mother in law is a very nice woman. Shes kind, giving and most of the time really sweet. My problem is religion. My husband grew up in a baptist home, went to church two to three times a week, read from the bible almost every night as a family. Me on the other hand grew up more new age I guess. We read tarot cards, learned to meditate, learned to follow our own path, spent a lot of time outside exploring nature. I'm not a Christian, my husband knows this, he doesn't consider himself a Christian anymore. Life if fine and dandy, except his mother won't lay off. We have a six year old son and she keeps pestering us to have him go to church. I try to be nice and say "no thank you" but she won't stop. Its always something, the lord should be in his life, he needs church, why can't he come to bible school. She sneaks bible stories in our truck when we aren't looking, I give them back. My husband tells her to cut it out. I just don't know what else to do.

2007-09-12 04:56:22 · 19 answers · asked by Jesse 4 in Parenting

.......Really?......

2007-09-12 04:56:13 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

I've seen some eloquent versions of it and I'd like to keep one on file, to paste for people who ask Pascal's Wager questions.

2007-09-12 04:56:11 · 8 answers · asked by KC 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I am pissed at my boyfriend today so I am ignoring all of his phone calls... Am I being caddy or a ***** or something?

What happened is...

He is away at college and I am currently filling out applications to transfer to a new college. I asked him to take a look at my transfer essay when he had a chance and just let me know what he thinks. He did not look at it until 11:30 last night and when he did, he looked at it for 10 minutes, told me where he thought I should change stuff and then said "Is that it? I am really busy and I have to go", instead of working on it with me like I asked, I would totally understand him being busy except that he told me how he spent 2 hours earlier in the day showing his roommate how to give fellatio... And I was asking him to look at my essay ALL DAY since before he started his little workshop...

Am I wrong for being mad?

2007-09-12 04:55:45 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-09-12 04:55:37 · 3 answers · asked by POOHDALU 1 in Words & Wordplay

Thank you for the help this is the equation: (by the way. at the start where it says 2x2 the second 2 is a squared)

y = 2x 2 + 3x

2007-09-12 04:55:36 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mathematics

If someone is pulled over for not having his/her drivers license with them and NOT appearing in court result on a warrant?

2007-09-12 04:55:16 · 8 answers · asked by ♥ mocha-baby 4 in Law & Ethics

please help, im stuck on my textilies homework!

2007-09-12 04:55:09 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help