Other - Society & Culture - 23 April 2007

Ok, so I'm English and dont get the American gun thing. I understand the concept of having a gun to defend your home - we have the phrase "an Englishmans home is his castle" ok, fair do's - but a fully automatic machinegun?? who the hell you defending your home from - the iraqi republican guard? and you have no limit on how many you can buy in most places?... what, you still dont feel safe holding just the one thing that spews nickel plated lead 400 times a second?
I'm ignorant, ill admit it, so please educate me - why does ANYONE need something that has no other purpose than to kill alot of people, very quickly (lets face it - you cant use the 'i use my gun for hunting' excuse when talking about an uzi)

2007-04-23 11:24:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

do you people notice that humans are ignorant, they don't realize what is happening to our world(ex: government, poaching, extinction, world wars, poverty and many more serious problems). all i see is wrestling this, make-up that, ohh my boy friend, ohh my girl friend "ohh how could he break up with me". people don't seem to notice the real problems, that is why they keep happening.

2007-04-23 11:21:39 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-23 10:49:41 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-23 10:49:01 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

...long for someone to concoct a theory of evolution ?

All you have to do is look at chimps, apes or even some of my colleagues at work to see that, although not quite human, they're almost there.

2007-04-23 10:28:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is there someone special you want to be with. Maybe far away like where I want to be right now?? Or a special place of significance.

2007-04-23 10:15:43 · 9 answers · asked by j_emmans 6

2007-04-23 10:15:09 · 15 answers · asked by MS 2

In a recent global TIME magazine poll of countries, people were asked to rate a country as having a negative, positive, or neutral impact on the rest of the world. 19% viewed the US as nuetral, 51% as negative, and only 30% positive. The worst five, ranked from least to "most" liked were:

Russia
North Korea
US
Iran
Israeal

Now look at that list again. The US is only better than Russia and North Korea. Iran is better for the world than the US.
By now, I bet most Americans reading this are in outcry. I am a born American. And you know what? I am with that 51% of countries who hate us. With Bush as our mascot, I'm not surprised at these stats. But it's not just Bush. Look at the catastophe in Iraq. Look at our nation where OBESITY is a problem in a starving world. Look at the US refusing to sign global enviornmental treaties. Look, and wake up.


Now, the question is, what has this changed for you? And how will the Americans out there influence the world when it comes to vote in 2008?

2007-04-23 09:58:28 · 8 answers · asked by John Doe IV 3

2007-04-23 09:56:57 · 2 answers · asked by Brad F 1

2007-04-23 09:46:40 · 16 answers · asked by Travis Bickle 1

Studies show that despite age, race, sex or religion...everybody has a least one. So, what's your's?

2007-04-23 08:55:10 · 15 answers · asked by Chad S 2

2007-04-23 08:37:07 · 16 answers · asked by christinebarrow@btinternet.com 2

the horrific slaughter revealed not only the poisons lurking in popular culture but the crisis of young males in a feminised society

2007-04-23 08:26:59 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-23 08:21:16 · 8 answers · asked by Yvette S 1

I am fed up with all these do gooders saying they should be allowed out of prison, because they have been rehabilitated. Did these animals give their victims or their victims families a second chance? I say lock them up and throw away the key, after the victims parents have been granted special visitation to the convicted nonce. This is only my opinion and would be grateful to receive all arguments. Please do not reply with silly things like "hang them" as the death penalty has been abolished in the uk. Thanks

2007-04-23 08:17:52 · 5 answers · asked by david h 2

2007-04-23 07:32:57 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous

so why do I have so many questions?

2007-04-23 06:32:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

like i don't have nothing agains nobody, but i when to a what they call a black people bar..which is so stupid..and every body look at me like i was a alien or something..can this be stop?and so if i'm not racis why they are like that with hispanic people then?because white people is with them?

2007-04-23 06:29:51 · 11 answers · asked by claudia m 3

Could it be McDonalds?

2007-04-23 06:21:36 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-23 05:58:16 · 9 answers · asked by Lisa 6

By all means I am all for a woman president, but recently saw a commercial of the "Mind of Mencia" show, in which he asked the same question. The answers the women in the survey gave suprised me. So, you feminine yahoo fanatics, let me know why YOU think a woman President would/wouldn't work, and please explain. Thanks!

2007-04-23 05:46:05 · 12 answers · asked by Papi 3

My mother is elderly and is not able to get around too well any more. Ever since she was little girl she has loved Westerns and all of her heroes are the lawmen, bandits and desperadoes of the old west (fictional and real). As she grew up she learned more about what the old west was really like and liked it just as much as it was portrayed on all the old B&W epics, and not a week goes by when she doesn't spend her Saturday afternoons in front of the TV watching the old re-runs.

My family never really had enough money to travel a lot but I now have saved up enough to take her on a two-week long holiday to the States (we're British).

I'd like to know where I can take her to see some of the sites that were an an integral part of the old west, or where the natural scenery remains unchanged to a degree; any ideas?

Also I have heard about whole towns where the old west lives on as re-enactments- are these as good as they sound.

I just want to give her the time of her life.

2007-04-23 05:38:09 · 4 answers · asked by Gregory 1

All the talk is about the importance of recycling, but the first tenet in the conservation creed is "Reduce." We have gotten away from many ways of life our parents and grandparents lived (thankfully, some of them -- e.g. only bathing once a week) and with our big, expansive homes, have forgotten how to live frugally. What are some frugal practices you grew up with?

For example, keeping the thermostat set low in winter and wearing a sweater around the house. Opening the windows and running a fan instead of using the air conditioner. Closing vents off in unused rooms during heating/cooling seasons. Saving old bits of soap and either melting them down or smushing them against the new bar of soap. Reusing birthday candles. Limiting long distance phone calls. Turning off lights as you leave a room.

2007-04-23 05:36:45 · 9 answers · asked by The Skin Horse (formerly ll2) 7

I have seven children, ranging in age from 3 years old to 19. Inevitably I encounter people who seem hostile to me. I truly have no clue why someone would be angry.

I am not, nor have I ever been, on welfare. I am college educated, and have a very strong marriage and faith in God. My children are well behaved, some of them home schooled but some are in public school. I pay taxes; I work for a living; I spend time with my children. My oldest serves in the armed forces.

When some people find out the number of children I have they ask rude questions such as, "why would you need/want so many children, do you have a farm to run?"

Each of my children will be college educated and productive members of society if I have anything to say about it. Many are on the honor roll, and volunteer in church.

So what gives?

:-)

2007-04-23 04:48:47 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've just had to get off a bus because the person sat in front of me stank of pee.
I nearly threw up. It's disgusting.

2007-04-23 04:21:34 · 19 answers · asked by ♀SaintsRLFC♀ 4

2007-04-23 03:48:30 · 4 answers · asked by Konfuzius 3

I just heard on the radio a man was sentenced for 9 months for punching his 6 week year old baby in the face!!! What on earth is wrong with people???

2007-04-23 03:35:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

You can use your imagination on this one.... be my guest!

2007-04-23 03:33:45 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-23 03:01:42 · 1 answers · asked by RICK 1

Americans make Black people sit at the back of buses and drink from different taps.They are all fat from eating at McDonalds and they have sex with their sisters. Their government interferes in the affairs of other countries and they murder Arabs in order to steal their oil. In the Southern States they call black people 'Boy' and hang them from trees. What is wrong with these people?

2007-04-23 02:28:18 · 8 answers · asked by Sean D 3