Other - Society & Culture - 2 July 2007

A female called asking for me last night at midnight my nephew answered she said....

" Is ______(my name) there"?
He said "yea but she's sleeping".
She then asked "Who is she" he said "My aunt"
She asked him "How old is she"........he found that question strange and hung up on her.

My nephew is 15.
What gives? A call like that at midnight???

2007-07-02 12:20:47 · 20 answers · asked by ? 2

It doesn't have to be Wal-Mart (which I hate); it could be Target or any supermarket.

5 minutes...what would you do?

2007-07-02 12:20:46 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

my teacher says you do because we're our own little state of happy and joy. is it true? why?

2007-07-02 12:19:21 · 27 answers · asked by ul have to c... 2

Have you ever noticed that non-Americans speak 2,3,4 or more languages? I'm proud to be an American, but I'm rather irritated that it is not compulsatory in school for us to be at least bilingual. Do you feel the same way?

What would have to change to make America a better place? What's America's biggest problem, in your opinion?

Question for Non-Americans?

What do you think of Americans, in general? What are stereotypes about Americans? Do you like/dislike Americans? Do you think of Americans diverse, or do they all sound and look the same to you?

2007-07-02 12:15:02 · 12 answers · asked by Surf Forever 5

My wife is always suspicious and jealous of me and she thinks I'm doing something outside that I'm not. And when I come home, she asks me where I've been supsiciously but I'm totally loyal to her

2007-07-02 12:14:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I drink four cans of budweiser everyday because of family problems and arguments, and that gets me into drinking. I dont like it; I want a peaceful life and I want the best for my family as well but for a long time it has always been comotion and misery.

2007-07-02 11:54:54 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Evolutionary psychology tells us that we just have had civilization in the last few seconds in terms of the history of men and we are still carrying forward the psychological drives created by scarcity and life in the wild. Obesity being most visible. Seems GDP is in direct relation with how obese a nation is. In any case, in evolutionary terms, we are given to excess of hedonistic pleasures (food being only one). But the question is, how do we become modern? How do we adopt to the pace of modernity and un learn the evolutionary instincts? Obviously, these instincts are bringing us to the brink of destruction. Aggression, excess search for comfort and pleasure, hoarding of resources, insularity, racism all seems to be the footprint left by evolution in terms of the difficulties we had faced while making this journey to modernity. How do we become modern then? How best to adopt to the current? Is it through education as Rousso or Plato thought? What do we do???

2007-07-02 10:48:31 · 5 answers · asked by fundirse 1

2007-07-02 10:24:28 · 7 answers · asked by a_m_a_n_d_a 2

2007-07-02 10:19:44 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Aren't you one or the other? Which is it? Friend or enemy?

2007-07-02 09:39:44 · 4 answers · asked by trer 3

If so, what was it?

2007-07-02 09:35:18 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-02 09:28:25 · 3 answers · asked by aaron.lattin 2

2007-07-02 09:22:17 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

so i like punk rock and sorta emo music i listen to pop and rap but i don't connect with it. i dress kinda preppy and i'm into the whole abercrombie,hollister, Juicy Couture,Vera Bradley stuff. I love my coach bag and i really want a Tiffany and Co. bracelet. now you have to understand i live in a rich white neighborhood and yes im black. my older sis is the total opposite of me and it really hurts my feelings when she calls me white girl. all my life i've heard comments like "your the whitest black girl i know" and stuff like that. i don't get why people have a problem with my style and omg i dread family reunions because my cousins are like hey here comes the white girl. I mean it's how i grew up and how i am so why can't people accept the way i act and talk and the music i listen too? is it becuase i don't fit into the mold of a black girl? why does it bother them? it's not like im TRYING to be different it's just that i like it and im comfortable the way i am

2007-07-02 08:59:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

anytime I hear things about AIDS, world hunger, global warming, religious conflicts, natural disasters, man made tragedies, etc, to me it all comes back to overpopulation. We have too many people next to each others, im not saying start world war 3 or spread around bird flu, but its hard to imagine things like that not approaching to "balance" out everything the way the planet tends to do.

So why isn't birth control being pushed more? Instead we look for the more complicated solutions instead of trying to cut the problems off from where they spawn.

2007-07-02 08:37:20 · 7 answers · asked by Papa Johnathan 4

Are there any straight women that think the female body was made to be (and is) more attractive than the male physique?

2007-07-02 08:23:15 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

At this point of time women in America have almost as much rights as men in some cases even more especially by the law. They can vote, run for president like what hilary clinton can do, and even volunteer to join the army. So if America is to believe in full equality should women be required as men to sign up for the selective service if they are mentally and physically capable as men?

2007-07-02 08:22:32 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

one of every nine americans is a resident of california. I understand cali is a large place but texas, florida, new york, pennsylvania, colorado, new mexico..heck, alaska is the largest state in the nation, and none of those are close to the population of california. so what is so marvelous about CA that so many people live there besides a super high cost of living?

2007-07-02 08:13:45 · 7 answers · asked by ILuvTaraReid 2

It would be stereotyping to say everyone but a lot of people i know dont like it when people (especially celebrities) get implants or when they find out they have implants. Why is that? are people that jealous or something?

2007-07-02 08:12:13 · 14 answers · asked by ILuvTaraReid 2

how can u get a out of body expirience????

2007-07-02 07:10:41 · 12 answers · asked by im so so crazy 1

Is there a moral decay in America that parallels that of Rome?

2007-07-02 06:52:25 · 5 answers · asked by tatereatinmic 3

Do you think that we have overcome the bad upbringing of our parents and have more positive things to offer the world than negative things? Well, for the state of music I'd say that we're in the pits, but we seem to have better values than our parents in some ways.
I'm gonna get a lot of mixed responses from people, but I just want to see what people will say to this question.

2007-07-02 06:51:06 · 8 answers · asked by tatereatinmic 3

Is it because of fear of being targeted by terrorist groups? Or is it something else?

I have seen some Muslims speak out publicly, but not as many as I'd like to see speak out.

2007-07-02 06:49:54 · 9 answers · asked by michiganfan 3

2007-07-02 06:42:50 · 7 answers · asked by ? 7

No one that argues this side has ever explained the logic behind it. If you can, please go ahead.

2007-07-02 06:39:48 · 3 answers · asked by indie124 2

Tidy up? I've procrastinated all day and have to get it done before I go to the pub

2007-07-02 06:25:28 · 3 answers · asked by franevilbob 3

2007-07-02 06:24:40 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think this so called Pro Wrestling should actually be banned from television and i also believe theres nothing about it that's real other than the idiots that actually do the wrestling. I also believe it teaches children violence and were all aware of how many kids get badly hurt each year trying to mimmick what they see these idiots doing in the ring.

2007-07-02 06:23:56 · 5 answers · asked by circle_of_life 2

Have you ever sat on a train and/or bus, and seen two complete strangers start a conversation over say, a book one of them was reading.
When i see that, i ask myself how do people do that, i get so self concious I never start a conversation, and if some one does, im so uncomfortable i smile, answer and look down...

Anyone else do this or am I just an awkward teen ?

2007-07-02 06:21:13 · 2 answers · asked by Mister-meaner ! 2

money, he said he and his daughter were visiting from South Carolina, and they didn't have any money to eat, my first thought was how do you have money to travel, but you don't have money to eat?But I gave him the money anyway, because he really appeared to look poor, but today at McDonald's drive through the same man approached me again, I remembered him, but he did not remember me, but this time he said he was he and his wife was visting from New York, and did not have any money to buy food. " I told him no, and told him that yesterday he told me he was from South Carolina, and it was his daughter instead of his wife. He walked away looking very disappointed.I feel guilty for not giving him the money, but had he stick to the same story perhaps I would of felt some sympathy for him. Has that ever happened to you? Was I wrong?

2007-07-02 06:17:27 · 11 answers · asked by Virgo27 6