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Q: ok so i loove to write my own songs. most of my songs i have are about heart breaks. i want to write about soemthing else other then heart breaks and loving soemone what else can i write about? please give me ideas thaks!
thanks in advance
well, you can write about what you want. about your dreams, about imaginations, about your goals, your life, anything.

Q: okay, so tomorrow i am going to get 2 vaccines, i think cholera, and typhoid, because i am going to india in the summer. I am soo terrified of vaccines, and shots. The last time i had a shot was a looooong time ago. So do you know if cholera and typhoid vaccines hurt? Pleaseeee answer quickly because i am going tomorrow. Please help mee...i am soo scared.

Do they hurt? Have any advice on what is should do? I could bring my ipod, BUT it'd still hurt. im scared, help meee please!! :]
just don`t look at it. keep telling yourself it doesn`t hurt, and no matter what you do, DO NOT LOOK AT THE NEEDLE. that`s what i do. [= &i never have problems with shots anymore.

Q: ok so my boyfriend broke up with me in december becase we had some problems. i was really mad and wanted to find a new guy. so i did and i ended up liking him a lot. lets name my boyfried bryan and the boy i like sammy. i love bryan becase he was my boyfriend for so long. so byran calls me and he says that he loves me and cant live without me. so we end up going out again. i dont know what to do with sammy becase i told sammy i liek him and i kinda do but i love my boyfriedn adn i dont want to hurt sammy. hes really nice. any ideas?
my bestfriend has really low self asteem and she told me to help her bring that up. and i sed sure and she sed that every guy she has ever liked said no to her becase they thought she was ugly. so i told sammy if he can please go out wit my bestfriend so she wont feel so ugly i honestly dont think shes ugly but she insits that she is. and sammy said no he wont becase he likes me not her. so he said that if i do something for him then he will go out with my best friend for a while or atleast tell her shes pretty. because my bestfriend has a crush on sammy. so what he says counts.what should i do in return for sammy he wants me to do soemthing for him i dont knwo what? help! keep in mind i have a boyfriend i dont know what to do! any ideas? advice? comments!? thanks in advance!
okay, i know that this isn`t the advice you want, but you have to hear it: don`t make sammy go out with your best friend. chances are, she`s gonna find out and she`s gonna feel even worse about herself because you had to bribe this guy into faking that he likes her. she`ll probably end up hurt, not to memtion mad at you for trying to pull this. as for sammy, just tell it to him how it is. say that you kinda do like him, but you have a boyfriend who you love, and that you`re sorry it has to be this way, but it`s how it is. btw, sammy probably wants something from you that you can`t even give him because you have a boyfriend anyways.

Q: I wonder about a lot of things and my boyfriend told me he hates calling people and usually we just text eachother well he told me he'd never cheat on me and he's been cheated on before so he really always is wondering if i'm cheating on him which i'm not and i have problems about it too. A lot of girls flirt with him and I understand because hes gorgeous but theres just a few girls who i'm really annoyed of
He calls her a lot and never calls me and I just don't want to bitch at him about it because I already have told him not to do things like that
I'm just wondering why and what it means?
I'm just scared because he ignores me a lot more now
do you think anythings going on?

One time I told him not to say I love you to other girls and I know he still does just not in front of me and its really bothering me i don't know what to do.

thanks
well, sorry to say this, but it doesn`t sound very good to me. the best thing you can do now is to confront him about him. let him know that you`re uncomfortable with the way he acts and find out if he`s being faithful. make sure he knows that if he doesn`t wanna be faithful to you, then you don`t want to have anything to do with him. on the other hand, he might just be wanting some attention from girls. most guys like to think of themselves as "pimps" and they like to think that they got game. just confront him about it and figure out whats going on. once you do, then you can decide where you`d like to go from there.

Q: so im pretty slim.. actually just built small.. because im a 32/34A and 16.. but im tall like 5'7. so yeah. anyway.. i hate my legs. theyre soo flabby and the largest part of my body [actually i think its kinda genetic]. regardless of the 6 years of soccer and 2 years of dance & tennis, theres more fat than muscle in my legs. and i want to get rid of that. how can i slim and tone my legs and butt? i dont want to run and stuff to get bulky muscle, i just want slimmer leaner legs.. maybe like 2 pants sizes down.
definately try yoga pilates and eat right. everything should go from there.

Q: So, there's this guy... He's amazing =] I've been getting to know him and I really like him. I told my friend that I liked him a few days ago. He randomly told her the other day that he's starting to get feelings for me, and she told him that I liked him too and he was really happy and we've been talking and so it's all good. The thing is, I barely see him... I see him maybe once a day, not even. But I talk to him all the time like for hours about everything. Tomorrow we're going on a fieldtrip and he's going to, i want to hang out with him but I don't know we kind of have different crowds and I'm worried he might ignore me, you know? I really have no clue what's going to happen tomorrow. What I'm asking is, how can I make it so that I DO hang out with him tomorrow... I really want to, but I'm pretty shy. Any tips? =] Thanks.
well, talk to him about it today. be like, so tomorrow`s the field trip.. and let it kinda go from there. if he doesn`t say anything, just ask him if he wants to hang out with you and your friends or something, or you can see if he`ll ask you to hang out first.

Q: okay....... so i really like this guy but im not sure that he likes me back. I mean i have given him everything. He knows i like him and that he can talk to me whenever he wants. (My friends thinks he does like me btw)but the problem is that he doesnt tell ME that he does. when anyone asks him how he feels about me all he does is stammer and say uhh-uh-uhhh idk. Does he say that becuz he doesnt want to hurt my feeliongs? pleezze help
thanks
he either does it because he doesn`t want to hurt your feelings, or he`s just really shy and doesn`t know what to say, my advice is for YOU to talk to him. get him alone, in person so he can`t try to avoid it, &ask him if he likes you or not, because you don`t want to be wasting your time and that you`re a big girl and it won`t hurt your feelings, but you want to know if you should move on or not.

Q: You know how in movies where cops or some other martial arts guy makes someone pass out by pinching a spot in there neck? Are they killing them or making them pass out? And is that even possible without long term injury?
okay, i`m not exactly positive that i know what you`re talking about, but i`m pretty sure i know. by pinching that spot on the neck, it brings the adams apple up, like when you swallow, only the adams apple stays there. that cuts off air passage to the lungs, and basically, you get no oxygen in your body whatsoever. you can make them pass out, but if it`s held for too long, you can kill someone doing that. it is possible without long term injury if you don`t hold it for to long.

Q: I am 19 years old and a college sophomore. I am 5'7" and extremely athletic. Because of sports and probably a naturally fast metabolism I get hungry for an incredible amount of food. I eat 6000 to 7000 calories a day. My friends often tease me about this. They don't mean anything by it but it sometimes bothers me when other people are around. It bothers me more when I hang around new people. How should I handle it when we eat lunch somewhere and everyone is full except me? I sometimes get hungry at unusual times and if I don't get enough to eat I can get extremely hungry when no one else is. Many people tell me to have a doctor check me for this or that. I have been to the doctor and I find this rather annoying. It is especially awkward if I get very hungry when I am at a friends house. No one will want to go out and my friend says "get whatever you want from the kitchen". I often find this awkward because no matter how understanding they are I feel funny cleaning out my friend's fridge. Last Saturday I met a friend for lunch after 4 hours of swim practice. We had a small lunch and went to her apartment. After a couple of hours I was very very hungry. I ate a cup-o-noodles and 2 sandwiches and a banana while she made me some falafels. I finished the falafels and started making another sandwich. My friend started raving "are you STILL HUNGRY!!?? - how can you eat so much? - where does it go!? - you have to tell me where it goes!!" I have no answer. I'm just hungry. I'm sorry. Actually I finished the sandwich, some chicken salad and 2 more bananas while my friend continued her questions. The fact that I had a 30 minute run before breakfast and 4 hours of swimming after that doesn't figure in to her thinking. This kind of thing makes me feel awkward and when it is in a group or with strangers I don't know how to handle it. I want to hear any advice on how to make things smooth and not feel awkward.

well, you shouldn`t feel awkward about it. you should feel lucky that you can eat so much and not get fat. i can too. personally, i`m proud of it. [= just think about it that way. atleast you`re not getting fat, right ? haha.

Q: I have naturally straight hair, and recently got a perm for the first time. My hair stylist did a great job, and the perm turned out fine and everything, but now I miss my straight hair. How long does it usually take for the curls to lose their form? And what does anyone reccomend I do in the meantime?
well depending on how much you spent, it can last anywhere from 3 to 6 months. possibly a year. this also depends on you hair. if each strand of your hair is really thick, it will come out faster. if it`s thinner, it will come one slower. [not your hair in general, each strand by itself.] in the mean time, you can flat iron it if you would like. other than that, there`s really nothing you can do.

Q: there's this boy i really like. i know for a fact he likes me back; he's a pretty obvious flirt and he always says shit like "im single, do you want to date me now?" and yeah. the problem is that he's good friends with one of my friends. at first i kind of ignored his advances and laughed at him because it was just a little crush and i knew that my friend would be pissed if i dated him. but now i REALLY like him, i mean he really is the sweetest boy i've ever met. i can't get over him. and now i have two problems: 1) i kind of made it seem like i didn't like him when i ignored him flirting with me/i'm pretty sure my friend told him i wasn't interested and 2) my friend would be PISSED. i've seen it happen with all of her friends before. i like him so much and i hate it. what can i do to let this kid know that i'm actually interested without hurting my friend?
talk to your friend about it. your friend shouldn`t care who you have relationships with. if she really wants to control that aspect of your life, you`re better off without her. a true friend would be okay with it if you explained that you just can`t get over him.

Q: okay so my friend gave me this make up and i loveeee it and use it almost every day. its running out and im trying to find it but im having no luck. the color is "twirling taupe" from maybeline, and it's called "roller color." i searched it, but i dont want to buy it from ebay. ive seen it on uk and canadian websites but i dont want to order it from there. im trying to get it from the us.. thank you sooo much for any help you can give me!
http://www.pronto.com/search.do?query=Roller+and+Ice+Hockey+Equipment&selectedFilters=MB%7Cmaybelline&goldenCategoryId=144
you can order it there.

the item you are talking about is specifically a canada/u.k. product. that`s why it`s so hard to find.

Q: i turned in an application on tuesday of this week at an icecream place, and i havent heard anything back yet. how long does it normally take to hear back if they are interested. im sure they will ask for an interview and if so what types of questions will they ask and what types of answers should i have. if i dont hear back from them in a certain amount of time am i supposed to call them? and if i am what do i say to them if i do? thanks so much!
on average, it takes about a week, but it really just depends on how many people applied.

Q: ok well this is kinda a dumb question but i need to know. so if you have a tampon in (when you have your period, obviously) when you have to go to the bathroom do you take it out? and what if you don't have any extras with you, do you put it back in?

thanks in advanced
if you go to the bathroom with your tampon in, it doesn`t affect it in any way, the holes are different. [it sounds funny, but yeah.] just don`t forget to change your tampon every once ina while.

Q: Please!!!!! help. I am a 13 year old girl. I am pretty small (5 ft, 87 pounds). I want to know if I am getting my period period. I have had pubic and armpit hair for like a couple years and I have had discharge for probably a year. OKAY HERE IS THE STORY! On Sunday, I noticed some blood when I was going to the bathroom, I decided I would worry about it if it happened again, then when I went to the bathroom yesterday there was a little bit of blood, and that happened again today. It is not that much blood though so I am not sure if it is my period or not, or is it a sign my period is coming? PLEASE HELP OR IF YOU DO NOT KNOW JUST TELL ME YOUR IDEAS! PLEASE, THANKS!
it is possible, but it might not really be started. just have pads and tampons at home just in case, and wear panty-liners.

Q: what is drill team? like is it jazz or hiphop or tap or ballet or what? and at a private school, are the tryouts for drill team hard? like what do you do at the tryouts, and if there's someone that's never done jazz or hiphop or tap before, do you think they could get in?
the drill team is basically the cheer squad. you don`t really need to know to much. you just need to be flexible and be able to learn routines fast.

Q: I haven't made out before but I think that I will soon with my boyfriend. So this is exactly wht I need,


1) when you made out for the first time was it awquward, did you mess up

2)Exactly how should a girl make out with a guy (I don't want to mess up)

3) tips for making out

4) where should arms go so its not awquward

5) anything else helpful

thanks
for my first time, it wasn`t really awkward. just relax, and follow what he does, let him lead. but your arms around his neck. breath through your nose, NOT your mouth. eat a mint before, not gum, gum messes with your salivary glands and makes it worse. &try not to drool all over him. if you relax and believe you an do it and just follow what he does, you should be fine.

Q: 14 / f and my best friend is 14 /f

well. my best friend lives in another town - not far, like
30 or so minutes. so she goes to another school.

well we call each other our best friend - but the thing is,
she's ALWAYS busy. and like, i thought i thought up a
solution - to just send really really long emails and when
she gets a chance, she can respond.

well i have written several long emails, but she hasn't
responded. i know she's not mad at me cause she does
not have a reason to be, but i think she's just busy.

it's really frustrating - i dont really like anyone from my
school. so i always look to her for guidance with
my problems and such.

i have tried talking to her about it, and she apologizes
proFUSEly but it just.. she's just a busy girl.

i have a diary, but it's not the same as a person.
i have other friends, but i can't tell them stuff like
i tell her.

please help...
okay. a friendship doesn`t work if it`s one ended. if you`re trying, but she`s too busy to even try, there`s no point. either ask her to work out a schedule where she can help you out, talk to you, and still be your best friend, or just find someone else to talk to. there`s not much else you can do if she`s not trying, and sounds like she isn`t.

Q: okay so ive liked this guy for almost two years and we used to talk all the time and we went out then i said some stuff to get him to break up with me. and it worked, now for the two years that ive liked him he wont really talk to me. if i call him and he feels like talking he will act like he likes me and tell me he wants to do stuff with me but then he wont talk to me again. a couple weeks ago i went to see him (we live in different towns) and we made out and now he wont talk to me. he really hurts me
what should i do?
well, the best thing to do is just forget about him. if he`s going to play with you like this, i doubt he`s going to change. i was in your situation, and still kinda am, and i know how you feel. either try to forget about him and find someone else, or try talking to him. ask him what his deal is and why he`s playing with you like this. other than that, there`s not much you can do.

Q: why are some people making a big deal about tomorrow.... whats tomorrow?
tomorrow is 420, or "weed day". it`s supposedly a "tradition" to smoke marijuana on 420.

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