Other - Society & Culture (Society & Culture) - 4 November 2006

I am having problems with people at school using the word "retard". I normally don't find words that offensive because I am not that kind of person. I am 14 and in middle school and every couple days or so in 1st period study hall this down syndrome kid walks but our classroom and makes a lot of noise. Sometimes I see people giggling and laughing quietly while I'm doing my best to ignore it. I have a brother who has cerebral palsy and in a wheelchair. This is one touchy subject that I hate to feel sensitive about but I just am. What can I do to make myself not feel so bad?

2006-11-04 07:38:31 · 4 answers · asked by Taylor 1

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what do you think of celebrities' endorsements in causes, whether humanitarian or political?

2006-11-04 07:34:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

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Most countries drive on the Right-hand-side of the road. Besides UK, which drive on the Left?

2006-11-04 07:30:58 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

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Why do people who stink not realise?!?

evry1 else smells dem milez off but they dont seem 2 relize dey stink demselves

2006-11-04 07:28:56 · 9 answers · asked by sweetnezz28kc 1

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Am I Xenophobiac?

Am I the only one who didnt like the warrior princess?

2006-11-04 07:16:00 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

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How to support my brother?

He's studying abroad and is having lots of exams now, and a really short time to study, do you have any words of encouragement that can really lift his spirits?

2006-11-04 07:03:30 · 2 answers · asked by Sea Mist 3

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manners+the chauvinistic years? i'm freaked!?

many people here seem angry by the fact that people don't have manners..for instance there were some guys here said their girls are not ladylike+should be..some others agreed.

then there was this other post about men not opening doors to women..and many people on there said that in "the good days" men used to treat women like ladies and then the women lib made them stop +it's very bad and that they miss the good days..etc

then i notice that there are a lot of stay at home moms..i know! i respect that but..

if you think about it.. back in "the good days", women had to act ladylike, they had to be gentle, the majority were stay at home moms and were just there to give birth..

my mother told me all about it..she had to wear skirts,learn how to cook+knit @ school and the boys took woodchop (50's+60's)..it's segregation!

i know it's not like that today and i have equal rights but many people miss the old days..and if so we might go back!

does this make sense or am i nutts?

2006-11-04 07:00:43 · 6 answers · asked by pokerface 4

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How to deal with evil Shoppers Drug Mart work abuse?Feel totally trapped.Feel like a heretic,slave.Suggest?

At this work place you are not to state your own side!Whatever someone is lying about you stands.Often things are so twisted,you are BLAMED FOR THE EXACT OPPOSITE YOU DID.Try state your own side.They will want to shout at you.They shout and say "Dont talk back".They will say you lie.Feels totally unamerican--NO human rights.Feels like 3rd world kangoroo court.
I am sick of it,feel trapped in it,feel like an utmost slave with no rights.It is killing me.This is in North- American corporate world.Any evilness and unfairness is OK.There is nothing you can do about it.I do not hope you are able to give me a suggestion,but please,try.

2006-11-04 06:55:50 · 3 answers · asked by escapetofreedom 1

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can you refute this theory with intelligence?

We only eat cooked food because of the taste of the heat. If we have a natural aversion to eating something in its natural state we were not made to eat it, such as meat. Take 2 identical cans of soup. same ingriedients both taste the same, both have been cooked before canned, yet you would rather eat the one you heat up just for the taste of the heat, right?

2006-11-04 06:46:12 · 6 answers · asked by twin city 1

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