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Changing the way I look is something I have wanted to do for some time now. Problem is I want to be unique... and I am male. I asked my dad how he wore his facial hair when he was a kid and he said he got the most reaction when he wore a toothbrush mustache. Great, so what in the world does that mean?

Can anybody help? He just smiles and will not explain. If you know what it is, would I look cool?

Lol, there is a reason he smilied. A toothbrish mustaache is the one Hitler wore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothbrush_moustache

Hope that helps :)

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I want to get my nails done but I don't know if I should get acrylic nails or solar ones. How much difference is there?

These links might help:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070330184824AA7ZhUN

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081118173101AApKYFg

Hope that helps :)

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Opinion question-

What do you prefer out of:
One Lip Piercing.
Snake Bites.
Spider Bites.
Double Spider Bites.

Totally your own opinion.

Personally out off all of those I like a simple lip piercing. I think it's harder to pull of the others.

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Life is a game, and in time we will learn the rules and how to break them and in this process, there are many factors and lessons... so I was just wondering what your opinion of "winning" the game of life was? For example, my idea of winning the game of life would be, "peace, happiness, close friendships and loves, and an ever-present desire to stimulate the mind."

-gt :)

Well gt,

To me, it's really imporant if I'm satisfied by how I played. If I got peace and happiness, but I did nothing on my own to get it, it seems pointless.

Nevertheless, I think that my idea of winning the game of life would be having lots of people by my side that I truly care about, reaching the goals I have set for myself, and forever helping those around me. That as well and peace and happiness because you just can't consider winning without them ;)

-Annie.

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I heard on the news that there was a bomb tonight in New York City's Times Square. What happened? Is everybody OK? Who did the bombing and was it like nuclear bombs or what? I'm really scared because I live in New York but my mom doesn't let me watch TV much and I couldn't catch all of the information on there and I'm just SCARED! Please, somebody tell me what's going on in New York with these bombings...

Read this: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-02/new-york-police-report-finding-car-bomb-in-times-square.html

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why wont my exgf come and get her stuff from my apt? She broke up with me in jan. I ask her many times to get her stuff so I can move on and heal my broken heart. She keep telling she still trying to find a place but no luck etc...Anyway I still care about her but i know she move on her reason for breakin up with me she told me it was wrong for her to have feelings for two people at the same time n i deserve better...i cried over her many times...once in awhile i get this ache in my heart.

Thank you for being more specific this time.

Well, like I said before if you haven't tried already, you can put her stuff in a box and put it away. Having it there will only remind you of her. I'm sorry it was such a sad breakup for you, but maybe you should listen to her. As bad as you feel now, you might have felt worse if you caught her cheating. So perhaps your ex didn't want that to happen.

I know you still like her and have feeling for her and sad to say those feeling won't go away overnight. They will start to go away when you are ready to move on. So, please try to look at the bright side. I know you want to move on and not have to feel this anymore so try hanging out with your friends more and distract yourself from these feeling until they are ready to go away.

I hope that helps and best of luck! Feel free to ask another question if something didn't make sense or you want clearification :)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger said something about being a fluffer or never wanting to be a fluffer. I don't know exactly but my friends think this is absolutely hilarious. The only "fluffing" that I know about is when you fluff your pillows at night or when you fluff up your hair. I know I'm missing something but I don't want to just blurt it out in front of my friends that I have no clue what being a fluffer means. What is a fluffer?

Here...this might help: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fluffer

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16/f
The little piece connecting the inner center of my upper lip to my gum really hurts (like in a stinging type way). What's up with that?

Well first off you can try this site: http://symptoms.webmd.com/ It lets you check your sympotoms to what they might be.

I'd also advise you to just give your doctor or nurse a call. It's not difficult or time consuming. Just tell them your symptom and ask wheat it could be or if you need to get an appointment. Most likely it won't be anything serious and they'll tell you what to do. It's much safer to do that then to have people guess what could be wrong.

Hope that helped!

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i watch an 8 year old kid everyday after school for an hour, give or take 20 minutes. usually we (being my sister and i) start watching a movie to keep him occupied, but sometimes he wants to watch something on TV or have a snack. anyways, to the problem...

he's 8 years old. he's a boy. he's hyperactive and annoying, and knows that he is hyperactive and annoying. sometimes he's annoying on purpose. he'll bug my sister and me by throwing stuff at us, poking us, being gross, turning off the TV, and just, you know, plain out being a pain in the ass. i dont know what sick sense of humor this is, but it pisses me off and i yell at him, but it does no good. he thinks its funny. so, i try to ignore it, which makes him try harder. two weeks ago, i'd had enough to the point where i kicked him in the shin, really hard, and left a bruise. i told my dad, who told his parents, and when i apologized and explained that i'd just lost my head for a minute and it wouldnt happen again, they agreed to let me keep babysitting.

since then, the kid has learned not to be as obnoxious since he realizes i'm a hormonal depressed teenage girl. i don't want to hurt him again, i think of him as the little brother i never had because he can be a sweetie when he tries. its just that he also annoys me like a little brother would, which makes me act like an older sister would towards her little brother; hitting, screaming, kicking, etc. i know i'm not speaking for all older sisters here, i know that there are people out there with more patience than i have, surely. but i'm just not used to this kind of aggravation since i only had little sisters, never a brother.

some of you may be thinking all of this shouldn't annoy me so much, but it does. i have a very low tolerance for shit like this. so my question is, how can i keep my head on straight and not totally lose it again?

Oh boy. I know how you feel. It's so difficult to just try to ignore what going on and not get angry.

I would say that there can be thing you can do to make him act better. This way it'll reduce the times he acts annoying and makes it easier to keep your head on straight.

The weather is getting nicer so I would suggest taking him outside to play maybe in the backyard or a nearby park. If he is hyperactive then letting him run around if more effective then keeping him sitting watching TV. And little boys love playing catch (with a big or foam ball) and running. All you have to do is challege him to a race, etc. This will help tire him out so he doesn't think of ways to annoy you.

Try rewarding him. Maybe by some cheap toy cars (or anything he migth like) from the dollar store and tell him if he behaves (ex stops yelling) he can have one. This will give him a reason to act nicer because he probably thinks that you telling him is not enough.

This should help him act nicer because I think that's the only way to help you tolerate him. You can only ignore his behavior so much.

Well, I hope that helps. Best of luck!

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why dont my exgf come and get her stuff from my apt? She broke up with me in jan.

Well, there could be several factors:
1)Maybe she's afraid you got rid of them and doesn't want to find out.
2)She might have frogotten about some of her things.
3)She might think that it's best to not have contact with you.

I would suggest that you take her stuff and nicely gather it up for her. Maybe put them in a box. Then you can try calling her and ask her if she would like her stuff back. Even offer to bring it to her. If she doesn't answer your calls, try getting in touch with one of her friends. Ask her friend if she would like her stuff and to let you know how she feels.

I'd give you advice that is more specific, but your question is pretty vague. So I hope that helped. :)

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Hi well I'm a young writer, I'm writing a book now. I'm taking my time, writing it so it can be very good. It's a horror type mystery book. When I'm finished I haven't decided what to do with it. My boyfriend, my best friend and another friend read my prolouge and they think I'm a very good writer. XD I was thinking about uploading it to some site so they can preview it and what not. I'm not sure..what do you people think I should do? Thanks ;p

I would suggest that you go you your friends and maybe some teachers (english teachers to be more specific) and ask them to read it first.

You should be careful with the sites you put it on. And if you are thinking of getting it publlished then you might want to think of copyrighting it before you put it on the internet.

Also here are some sites to help you:
http://megankelleyhall.blogspot.com/2007/09/ive-written-book-now-what.html

http://www.authorsden.com/categories/article_top.asp?catid=20&id=55750

I can always look at it too. I love reading/writing and I'm already helping another of my friends with one of her books. Let me know if you're interested.

Hope that helps and best of luck!

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I just graduated high school a month ago and it's summer vacation where I am now. It's just been bothering me that my close friend hasn't talked to me since then. She's been talking to her other friends on Facebook but she never said hi to me. Maybe I'm paranoid but I'm just wondering if it was weird if a close friend hasn't contacted you in a month. Idk if she just probably doesn't wanna talk, but I also gave her a letter last month that said I thought we wouldn't be friends for long but I was wrong and also stated how important she is to me and how much I love her and stuff. Do you also think I should say hi first? Idk what to do. Please help.

Thanks in advanced!

xoxo
Naomi
16/f

So three weeks ago one of my friends ignored me and three of my friends. We had no idea what was wrong. So finally I confronted him about it. The funny thing was that he didn't even think he did anything wrong. And so now we're all cool again.

So the point of that is that you should most definetly be the first to say hi. In the end it won't matter who said hi first just that you guys are keeping in touch.

Just ask her to hang out or have a movie night or something you guys used to do all the time before.

Hope that helps :)

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I was with this guy for almost three months. Things seemed to be going perfectly as far as I knew. There are a few years between us, but we established from the start that that didn't bother either of us. We'd already said 'I love you's but I hadn't force him into it, by any means. Every time he wanted me to come over, I did. (He worked a lot and I wanted to make sure he still had guy time without me, so we saw each other like, an afternoon during the week, and I came over late on Friday and spent the night and left in the afternoon on Saturday. )

We never argued or fought. His friends all like me and think I'm good for him as far as I know because I calm him down. His friends girlfriends all like me, too. (He likes to rant. Haha) and its as important that everyone likes me because they're always together. We aren't exactly alike, but I feel like we compliment each other. We keep each other in check.

So here's the thing: last week he asked me if I wanted to go to dinner with him, just the two of us to be special cause we're always with his friends. We made plans, but some how we both ended up kind of sick, so we just grabbed some food and went back to his apartment and watched a movie. That night went really well, and even though nothing amazing happened, he said he was really happy that I was there to kind of baby him when he was sick. On Saturday, we kind of had a general conversation about the future. We were on the same page about not like, getting engaged or anything anytime soon because we're both young and don't want and couldn't afford anything big or major anytime soon, so that was fine. That was Saturday afternoon.

On Monday he seems all freaked out about something, but tells me he'd rather talk to me about it in person, so we do on Tuesday.

On Tuesday he tells me he's really unsure about his future (he graduated from college and he's working at a dead end job applying everywhere possible for a job that is actually in his field) and doesn't know if he wants me in it or not. He said that right now he just can't seem to manage his time very well. He said that he doesnt know if we'd be compatible enough to last. (Although I'm not sure why. )

He and his friends play a lot of video games and card games (magic) and he said that even though I say I don't mind, he doesn't just want me to sit and watch and tolerate (which I don't. I told him I like it.). He also said he felt like he HAD to choose between me and his friends, (which I don't know why. I have no problems with his friends.) And that sometimes he just wants to get wasted with them, then just watch a movie or someething with me. (Which I don't mind boys nights.) He and his friends drink a lot, and although I don't see anything wrong with that, I don't drink much so I don't feel comfortable getting drunk around some of his friends that I don't know very well yet.

So what I'm asking is... do you think he'll come back? I really, really want him to and he fits in with my friends as well as I do with his, so I don't know what happened. It just doesn't make sense that on Saturday I woke up to forehead kisses and an 'I love yoooou!' And on Tuesday we broke up.

Plz help? :/

I think that he's just overwhelmed with all that's going on. Perhaps he just panicked about his life and doesn't know what to do.

I also think that he just needs time to think. Meanwhile, maybe you can let him know you're there for him.

I'm sure he'll come back if he feels comfortable again. He probably broke up with you because he thinks that way you don't have to worry about him or he doesn't want to ignore you while he's busy. Don't take it too hard and give him time. He's just stressed.

I hope that helped :)

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I am an overweight college student, and I hate it. I'm always tired, and seem to be the only one yawning in class. I want to lose weight, and I know a large part of that comes from portion control. However, once, I attempted portion control for an entire week, and I was ALWAYS hungry. I had to literally force myself to put my plate in the sink. Between meals, I would eat small, nutritious snacks like granola, yogurt, protein bars, and a few pretzels. I know how to "fill up" on water, but I can't constantly be leaving class to go to the bathroom. can anyone help?

(FYI, my mom does all the cooking in my house, and she cooks healthfully. I just usually eat too much. Also, as far as my nutrition, I'm healthy, i'm just overweight.)

Well here are some tips that you can try to help:

-Use small plates. If you say use the small salad plates instead of a dinner plate then you won't feel the need to fill it up. Also when you see the small plate filled with food, it'll still make you feel like you ate a lot.

-After you fill your plate with food I would suggest that you eat somewhere where you don't have to see the food as you eat. So you can possibly try going outside and eat say in your backyard or maybe keep all the food in teh kitchen and not on the dining table. This way you won't be tempted by looking at the food.

-Eat slowly. It takes about 10 minutes for your brain to know your stomach is filled. If you eat slow enough then you'll know you're full before you eat more. So chew more throughly, strike conversations with others as you eat, or take smaller bites.

-When you go to a restaurant, immediately ask for a take-out box and put half your food in that. This way you can still enjoy the food without overeating the huge portions restaurants tend to give. And a plus is that you get to enjoy the food for another meal.

-Chew gum. This will only distract you from eating for an hour and at most two. So perhaps use this technique when you get hungry and hour or two before you actually eat lunch or dinner.

-Before you eat a meal, eat the fruits or veggie first. Studies show that people who ate an apple before lunch ate less of their lunch and overall felt fuller when there they were done.

-Eat snacks that are super chewy so they take longer to eat. I find yogart is useless. It never gets me filled because i can eat it super fast. I tend to eat apples because it takes forever to eat.

I have to tell you though, in the beginning you will feel hungry. It's only natural. it takes times for your stomach to shrink. But trust me when it does, it makes eating less so much easier. It's like how when smokers quit, the first couple weeks are the hardest and it gradually gets easier. The reward will easily outweigh the hard times you'll face now.

I hope that helps!!! Best of luck :D

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19/Female

I am applying for scholarships for my sophomore year of college. I recently filled out my FAFSA form, and I am not receiving enough financial aid to cover my college so this is the first time I have to apply for any.

I am getting ready to right an essay on leadership and how it has affected my life and I need some advice on doing it. I want to right about my mother having Multiple Sclerosis and how I have had to step up to the plate since we found out. I don't want to come off as needy or looking for a charity vote though. I just need some pointers on how to keep it from getting sappy or sounding pathetic.

I also am unsure how to go about writing it. Should it be exactly like papers I do for my classes? Or can it be a little more personal? I guess what I am asking is if it would be okay to say something like this,

"I thought long and hard about what I was going to write this essay about. Leadership has played many roles in my life, but I have learned most about it through the diagnosis of my mother's MS. If anything has taught me leadership skills, it's this."

Or something along those lines. Should I keep it formal and not mention I am writing the essay, or not?

Thanks. Any more pointers are welcome as well! :)

I think it will have a greater affect if it's personal.

I also think that you should include a little bit about what Multiple Sclerosis is. If you don't explain what the symptoms are and what you have to do to help your mother and your family, then the reader will not understand the severity of the situation you were in. If you don't explain why you take the role as a leader in your home, then what you do will seem meaningless. For example, you can mention how "because the symptoms of MS include problems in speech I find that I have to speak for her to get her point across to others."

It might help if you explain how the skills you learned from this experience helped you in other times, for example "the responsability i had to develop helped me perform better in school as I learned how prioritize my time."

I really think it would also be benefical to not have it strictly formal. However, you can keep it from getting sappy by not mentioning too many feeling like it might not be wise to say "even though at the beginning i cried every night becuase the stress was unbearable..." Such a phrase does not contribute to the purpose of your paper, which is your leadership abilities.

Another idea is to say how you acted before the diagnosis. This will show how you have changed.

I would also advise having friends and teacher read it and have them tell you if it's too touchy feely, etc.

Those were soem thoughts I had, I hope they helped a bit. If you need clearification, let me know.

Best of luck on your essay!

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How do I center my website so everything is centered and not moved over to the left?

Here is the site: http://flowersitters.com

Well...it looks like you figured out how to accomplish this on your own :)

Great website by the way :D

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where do u find info on when lisi harrison started writing books.and when did she get her first book published????????????????????????????????????????????need help please

Do you mean Lisi harrison from The Clique?

Here are some links that might be helpful...
http://lisi-harrison-official.webs.com/

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_did_Lisi_Harrison_begin_writing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clique_series

Hope that helps... :)

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so i like this guy at my school and he talks 2 me sumtimes but not alot how do i no if he likes me?

Try this link: http://www.wikihow.com/Know-if-a-Guy-Likes-You

Everyone is different so you might not be able to know. It's important to see how he acts towards you compared to how he acts towards other girls.

You can always ask a friend to ask him for you. That way you don't have to worry about it being awkward.

Also, maybe you'll find out how he feels about you if you hang out and get to know him more. Hope that helps... :)

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Everytime I pee lately, my bladder stings afterwards, and twice a tiny bit of blood has come out. Also, sometimes it feels like I have to pee a lot more than I actually do. Whats wrong!

This question is difficult to answer without more information. Without the necessary info, I'm afraid you won't get many helpful answers....

For example, if you have had sex recently, you could have UTI. For more information on what the symptoms are visit the following link: http://www.medicinenet.com/urine_infection/page4.htm If you think you might have this I would suggest going to a doctor so they can give you the proper antibiotics to help.

You can also check your symptoms here (http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/sym/urination_pain.htm) and see if you fit any of these conditions.

But the best advice I can give, is to simply call up your doctor/nurse, explain your symptoms and ask if it is necessary to schedule an appointment. It'll be the best you can do for yourself to get better. The longer you wait, the more you risk getting worse.

Hope that helps and best of luck :)

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There's this guy...(oh I can't believe I'm asking this)...and I really like him. And i've liked him for a looong time. And of course, we've never dated. There were serveral different rumors about him asking me out (of course, before I liked him) but that was quite a while ago. Anyways, my number one buddy has been telling me that she thinks he likes me. I don't know. But I wanna know.

How do you tell a 14 year old boy likes you?

-M:]

I found some links that can be helpful. But I have to say beforehand that everyone is different. Where one person makes fun of you because he likes you, another might make fun of you because he doesn't like you at all. It all depends on the kind of guy he is. Also, to know if he likes you, you not only have to look at how he acts towards you, but also towards other girls. For example, if he hugs you a lot, it might not mean much if he usually hugs other girls.

Ok, so here are the links:
http://www.wikihow.com/Know-if-a-Guy-Likes-You

http://dating.lovetoknow.com/How_do_You_Know_if_a_Boy_Likes_You

Of course another way might be asking him :P or better yet ask someone to ask him.

I hope that helps... :)

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