Society & Culture - 23 June 2006

I am an Australian mother of a 12 year old girl and we have offered to host a 16 year old French exchange student for a couple of weeks. Obviously, I will be asking the student about her individual interests but I was just wondering if there are any activities in general that 16 year olds enjoy?

2006-06-23 01:54:13 · 17 answers · asked by natstar36 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

I have always been interested in how people can tell the difference (or how they can't) between accents, English especially.

Mainly, I'd like to know the difference between a British, Australian, and American accent when the person is speaking English. What about if someone's accent is from another language and they speak English. What would that be like?

I personally have heard a lot of different accents but I can never tell the difference between them. I don't know why but for example when someone tells me that two particular people are speaking with a British accent, but I can clearly understand one and not the other, I don't get it.

I got interested because my whole life, a lot of people everywhere I go (including people like sales assistants) keep on guessing what my accent is and they always have different opinions. Some said I had a British accent, some said American, some said Australian, etc... even a couple had thought I spoke in a French or Japanese accent.

2006-06-23 01:53:49 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

so you believe God is three identities which are Father, holyspirit and son?

ok say i wake up in the morning and want to pray. which one should i direct my prayers to? to the father, or son or holyspirit?

2006-06-23 01:53:46 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i been readin that jewish (during Jesus time) crossed Jesus.
and a jewish woman poison Muhammad
how about Moses? how did he die?

2006-06-23 01:52:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Which of the following best describes you?
'TECHO PHOBIC'- TOTALLY TERRIFIED'.
'TECHNO FUZZY'- Totally confused.
'TECHNO CLUTZ'- Totally clumsy.
'TECHNO DIVA OR TECHNO DUDE' not quite a whizz you know the basics but stilly a bit foggy, apparently Matrix isn't just a film.

http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/techno-phobic-anonomous
techno-phobic-anonomous@yahoogroups.co.uk

2006-06-23 01:51:35 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-06-23 01:48:05 · 26 answers · asked by slumi 1 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-06-23 01:47:06 · 17 answers · asked by taylor m 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I'm 5 ft. Everyone looks down on me! I can't reach my kitchen cupboards without standing on a chair! Clothes don't fit me properly! Children are bigger than me! Are you small, or tall?

2006-06-23 01:45:47 · 50 answers · asked by R.I.P. 4 in Other - Society & Culture

It seems every race in America can have pride in their race, You see other races , for example I see "asian pride" on cars every where in my city. Is it wrong to say your white and your proud? And if you're not white what do you think about a white person saying they're proud to be white?

2006-06-23 01:43:09 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

does he needs help too?

2006-06-23 01:42:57 · 17 answers · asked by Askful dodger 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-23 01:41:15 · 10 answers · asked by Humdy 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-23 01:41:03 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-06-23 01:37:45 · 15 answers · asked by dishabhatta_22 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-23 01:36:42 · 8 answers · asked by cgdchris 4 in Mythology & Folklore

2006-06-23 01:36:01 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I could have asked him myself but I guess I was too shy. The person was freely entering Chinese Logographs on what we'd think of as a 'normal' keyboard. How does someone do this? By memorising the Unicode values of every Chinese character?

2006-06-23 01:36:00 · 6 answers · asked by XYZ 7 in Languages

2006-06-23 01:35:27 · 20 answers · asked by gina_e_mikhael 1 in Religion & Spirituality

a pimp, a drug dealer, a car thief, then aren't they the same? Where does this leave the black men who are dedicated to their education, good grades, and skilled trades or profession? If "street cred" leads to millions, what message are black people sending out? Wouldn't a gangsta be more of an Uncle Tom , an oreo, a sellout because he is conformring to a white racist stereotype?

2006-06-23 01:35:00 · 10 answers · asked by mithril 6 in Other - Cultures & Groups

as the koran says when all the billion or so muslims end up in heaven , where will all the non muslims end up after they kick the damn bucket?

2006-06-23 01:33:29 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Ten points for the most imaginative aswer!

2006-06-23 01:33:00 · 18 answers · asked by metafrastria 4 in Other - Society & Culture

Why do Catholic people pray to Saints (all Christians are Saints) like Paul, Mary, Jude, Christpher......instead of praying to God through Jesus.......Jesus says that no man shall enter heaven but by him.

2006-06-23 01:31:14 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

honest answers are needed

2006-06-23 01:30:26 · 9 answers · asked by Askful dodger 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-06-23 01:29:51 · 27 answers · asked by $ Fresh Guy $ 1 in Religion & Spirituality

by the way, we hate the americans as much as you do...only you don't have to be lumped with them all the time!

2006-06-23 01:29:22 · 15 answers · asked by canada grl 4 in Other - Society & Culture

I'd been paying on my gross but I'm trying to figure out how to pay less tithing. My federal tax rate was 35% last year! I attend a nice church but the tithing fee is just killing me.

2006-06-23 01:29:17 · 19 answers · asked by idspudnik 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Muslims fly commercial airliners into buildings in New York City. No Muslim outrage.
Muslim officials block the exit where school girls are trying to escape a burning building because their faces were exposed. No Muslim outrage.
Muslims cut off the heads of three teenaged girls on their way to school in Indonesia. A Christian school. No Muslim outrage.
Muslims murder teachers trying to teach Muslim children in Iraq. No Muslim outrage.
Muslims murder over 80 tourists with car bombs outside cafes and hotels in Egypt. No Muslim outrage.
A Muslim attacks a missionary children's school in India. Kills six. No Muslim outrage.
Muslims slaughter hundreds of children and teachers in Beslan, Russia.
Muslims shoot children in the back. No Muslim outrage.
Let's go way back. Muslims kidnap and kill athletes at the Munich Summer Olympics. No Muslim outrage.
Muslims fire rocket-propelled grenades into schools full of children in Israel. No Muslim outrage.
Muslims murder more than 50 commuters in attacks on London subways and busses. Over 700 are injured. No Muslim outrage.
Muslims massacre dozens of innocents at a Passover Seder. No Muslim outrage.
Muslims murder innocent vacationers in Bali. No Muslim outrage.
Muslim newspapers publish anti-Semitic cartoons. No Muslim outrage
Muslims are involved, on one side or the other, in almost every one of the 125+ shooting wars around the world. No Muslim outrage.
Muslims beat the charred bodies of Western civilians with their shoes, then hang them from a bridge. No Muslim outrage.
Newspapers in Denmark and Norway publish cartoons depicting Mohammed. Muslims are outraged.
Dead children. Dead tourists. Dead teachers. Dead doctors and nurses. Death, destruction and mayhem around the world at the hands of Muslims .. no Muslim outrage ... but publish a cartoon depicting Mohammed with a bomb in his turban and all hell breaks loose.

2006-06-23 01:25:30 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-23 01:25:20 · 24 answers · asked by Germain 77 2 in Religion & Spirituality

saw one today that said...
My boogers itch!
didn't know where to list this question!

2006-06-23 01:24:36 · 6 answers · asked by thundakat312 4 in Other - Society & Culture

Peter Popoff? Pat Robertson? Paul and Jan Crouch? Benny Hinn? Bob Larson? Joel Osteen? Kenneth Copeland?

Tell me more....tell me more?

How much money do they personally take in a year from the ministry? What kind of mansion do they live in? Do they have their own Lear Jet? Do they have a limosine? Do they take exotic vacations? Do they have any sex scandals?

2006-06-23 01:23:54 · 22 answers · asked by idspudnik 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Are there Scriptural examples of Israel giving land away?

2006-06-23 01:23:27 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality