Other - Society & Culture - 28 February 2007

I really like to talk to people, but I'm a fairly open and emotional person, so sometimes I think I'm a little TOO friendly. How do you make small talk? I'm someone who WOULD be quite social, but I have very little in common with my peers in the way of interests. What is something I could talk to almost anyone about?

-Help Me! (please and thankyou)

2007-02-28 09:46:57 · 1 answers · asked by J-Dub 2

And are there any other famous peoples' graves similarly decorated?

2007-02-28 09:44:01 · 1 answers · asked by LeviTosh 1

bring out the the true hidden feelings of others, i have ben reading through the guy who has a problem with whites and i notice how many racist answers he had received - i also notice how people asume that this person is black, could he not be of another ethnicity?

to all those who answered in a racist way, was this just an excuse to vent your true feelings at someone who may not even be black but just trying to cause trouble and you see it as the perfect way to release your hidden hatred of black people?

2007-02-28 09:43:41 · 2 answers · asked by pam28 3

People come here and ask tons of questions at really are things they should try and find the answers to on their own. Doesn't anyone agree with me?

2007-02-28 09:37:39 · 3 answers · asked by sarahscute2000 2

and you were not allowed to have the money yourself, to which charity would you donate the money?

2007-02-28 09:35:39 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Cops say legalize drugs ask me why?
Prohibition does not prevent cannabis use by children or the mentally ill, the vulnerable populations whom we supposedly want to protect. Instead, cannabis prohibition makes it more difficult for parents, patients, society, and doctors to control cannabis use.

The Drug War makes honest education about cannabis impossible, and leaves cannabis users marginalized in ways that make their lives more stressful. This stress is unhealthy for everyone, but it is certainly most damaging to people with schizophrenia.

Cannabis prohibition is not merely a failure; it is a counterproductive fraud that is harming those whom we claim we want to protect. There are currently more teens in treatment centers for marijuana in comparison to those admitted for alcohol.
Only an idiot would have to ask why alcohol is not the no#1 problem
after all alcohol is perfectly legal ( If you are 21.) That is due to responsible people handling alcohol by way of the carding and id system.


Contraband markets make no age disgression.
Since the crackdown on tobacco there are 75% fewer teens trying or using tobacco.
However when it comes to cannabis and other illicit substances it’s a whole
other ball game.
Control, regulation and better education work prohibition dose not.
Or as John Walters of the ondcp (Office for national drug control policy) calls it “ a war on drugs” (Sorry John but it's true look at the Netherlands)

America loves a war even if it is on it’s own people.

One of several reason they don’t legalize drugs is not because of the harm of drugs,
But people would lose more money in the long run.
Some of the people behind the support of this irrational so called war are
The tobacco industry, the alcohol and distilled spirit industry ( people simply don’t drink as much, or decide not to drink at all with cannabis meaning a decline in there sales.
The pharmaceutical corporations can not make money on whole or raw cannabis, but they can charge an arm and a leg for there synthetic Marinol (dronabinol) CIII.

The textile and paper industry would lose out from hemp production, sinse hemp dose not need to go through all the various processes that ordinary tree products would. Also it’s possible to get two harvest in in one season.

However people don’t know the difference between industrial hemp and smokable cannabis, yet they are able to distinguish between the two in other country’s like Germany, the UK , Netherlands and even Canada, but our `DEA agents are so dumb they cant tell the difference between a stalk and a bush.

The petroleum industry would be affected, sinse almost everything that can be made from petroleum can be synthesized from hemp oil, everything from bio fuel to even plastics. If North America would use a third of it’s land for hemp production we could create enough biofuel to supply an area the size of Canada.

Now also for a moment consider how many people are incarcerated over just cannabis who are currently in the prisons and jails.
If cannabis were legalized and all inmates serving time for cannabis were freed there would be an over abundance of empty cells, and millions of guards in this country would be no longer needed.
The prison building industry would almost be obsolete ( and if all drugs were legalized that would mean even more empty cells.
So the prison system must have some means of gaining more inmates.

Not to mention other areas such as treatment centers, probation.etc

or HIDTA high intensity drug traffic areas where money is fed in to law enforcement,

(they would miss there green $$$)

Drugs , not even alcohol are the cause of the fundamental ills of society, rather than checking people for the presence of drugs, they should first test people for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

2007-02-28 09:29:56 · 7 answers · asked by davegarkie 1

"The United States does not torture." "It's against our laws, and it's against our values. I have not authorized it- and will not authorize it."

These are quotes of George W. Bush regarding the detention of terror suspects. There is proof that the United States has carried out torture. George W. Bush is either authorizing it or turning a blind eye. Either he is not preventing it.

So when George W. Bush explains that torture is "against our laws and values" who is he really representing?

2007-02-28 09:28:47 · 9 answers · asked by Yahoo Sucks 5

2007-02-28 09:25:40 · 6 answers · asked by darla 1

TWO SIMPLE ACTIONS COULD SOLVE WORLDWIDE POVERTY FOREVER:

1. If you can't afford to feed & care for kids, DO NOT HAVE THEM.
2. If you want to be able to buy nice things, STUDY HARD IN SCHOOL AND GET A GOOD JOB.

Remember the ancient eastern adage: "Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he eats for a lifetime."

So, how do we "teach the poor how to fish" instead of constantly throwing free fish at them, which teaches them nothing and perpetuates the mentality of victimhood?

2007-02-28 09:24:39 · 11 answers · asked by t_o_w_e_r_i_n_g 3

why not husband and wife, wife and husband, woman and husband or husband and woman??

why can't people et out of this ballshat that men are supposedly superior than woman?????

2007-02-28 09:22:03 · 18 answers · asked by truelylo 3

What is it about blondes that all men go crazy about ? Because everybody knows brunttes and redheads are far more sexier than blondes. Or tell me something else!

2007-02-28 09:17:39 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

What would you do? Where would you go?

2007-02-28 09:15:14 · 6 answers · asked by po8t1 2

Is being high and being stoned diffrent? someone told me that high was the fun part, but stoned was like a pot hangover. is that true? or are they the same? please explain the procces of when your high, because i am confused.

2007-02-28 09:12:42 · 10 answers · asked by Sega B 1

Im a supervisor in a shop! customers are sometimes rude and talk to me like im stupid! it winds me up! what do u think of people who work in shops?????????

2007-02-28 09:02:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-28 09:00:45 · 10 answers · asked by comedycatalyst 2

Right am asking this because sometimes i look in the mirror and think ok you look quite preety today but then a photos taken and its like were did that huge nose come from??? or sometimes its the other way round! any ideas

2007-02-28 08:59:52 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-28 08:57:43 · 8 answers · asked by Kristin S 1

2 guest speakers come to a High School. THye bring Anti-Islamic panphlets. Freedom of Speech? Or is that crossing the line??

2007-02-28 08:57:30 · 4 answers · asked by anne s 2

and moreover, why do they still think that they can alienate themselves from America and not concern themselves with the day to day affairs of this country?

do they not think that they are living on American soil?

is their religious belief so pure that they need to be completely separate from everyone else to the extent that many do not have social security numbers?

come on, they aren't indians, its not like they were here first. at least they have an excuse.

yes these are questions and i want answers.

thank you.

2007-02-28 08:54:14 · 9 answers · asked by bassdog65 4

Im a Catholic, so im not sure if this is true. This show on Discovery channel claims they found the location that Jesus Christ was supposedly buried. I havent read much of the Bible, but I think it says that Jesus ascended into Heaven after he ressurected, therefore, he cant have a tomb. Even so, when he died, they just put him in a cave, and the show says that this is his family tomb. The show is contradited by the Bible, or vice versa. What do you think about this whole deal?

2007-02-28 08:51:37 · 11 answers · asked by cold 6

Why do people think frats are some kind of prestigious organization? I mean, you pay like $400 a semester to be member, why is that so important? My family is part of a country club where annual membership is $13,000. $800 per school year is nothing, and on top of that, most of these frat boys come from famalies that can't even afford to send them to college, they are on financial aid for crying out loud!

Is it the "secret ritual" (LOL) that makes them so self-important? Really what gives with these guys?

2007-02-28 08:51:04 · 4 answers · asked by Dr. Daniel 2

I do consider myself a logical person, I’m not as closed minded as most but I just would like to think on a higher level. I love to read and write and my mind is never dormant. I just want to become more aware of my surrounding and how other people think. I’m usually too concerned with my own thought and thinking my way, I fail to consider other’s logic as much as I would like to. And the way I think really does not agree with the “norm”. Both of my English professors acknowledged my way of thinking, they approved of it. I just wish I knew how to reiterate or translate the way I think better also.

2007-02-28 08:44:50 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-28 08:44:02 · 11 answers · asked by Dangler 2

I once opened a stocked refrigerator that had been without power for a year in August (over 90 degrees). I almost died from the stench.

2007-02-28 08:43:41 · 4 answers · asked by KC Slim 5

If you think it please read this. Cos i find alot of ppl think it's ok when it's not!!

Who is coloured?
When I born, I Black,
When I grow up, I Black,

When I go in Sun, I Black,
When I scared, I Black,
When I sick, I Black,
And when I die, I still black…

And you White fella,
When you born, you Pink,
When you grow up, you White,

When you go in Sun, you Red ,
When you cold, you Blue,
When you scared, you Yellow,
When you sick, you Green ,
And when you die, you Grey…
And you calling me Coloured ??

2007-02-28 08:35:37 · 26 answers · asked by deb_star_82 3

white mice and snowies al the way!

2007-02-28 08:35:26 · 9 answers · asked by monkey kyle 2

2007-02-28 08:34:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-28 08:30:37 · 4 answers · asked by KC Slim 5

2007-02-28 08:29:33 · 10 answers · asked by ashley f 1

2007-02-28 08:28:53 · 6 answers · asked by ashley f 1