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I know this is silly, but when I open a bag of chips, I have this irresistable compulsion to eat the smallest pieces from the bottom of the bag before I can eat the larger ones. I try to stop, and people look at me funny, and ask "What are you doing?" and I get embarrased. Why do I do this? Am I the only one? I told you it was silly, but I had to know. (BLUSHING BRIGHT RED):-) (link)
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Hmm... I don't know that I have exactly that compulsion, but I do go for the broken cookies in a fresh bag (or batch) first, so we are equally bizarre if it's a rare habit.
I would guess it has to do with wanting a bag or batch consisting only of "perfect specimens" at some point in the eating process. Who wouldn't want that? And when selective munching makes it possible... well, you'd be crazy not to. So, your friends are crazy, we are sane. Yippee!
Hope that helps!
metawidget
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Give a brief biography of three scientists, other than Mendel, Watson, Crick, Franklin, or Wilkins, who have played (or are playing) a key role in our understanding of genetics. Include their contributions in your description. (link)
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Nice try... but this is Advicenators, not Homeworkenators.
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How can i make a room feel calm
and want to work
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Make sure it's not too hot, and well ventilated. Minimize non-work items in the room. Don't use it for anything but work.
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I've always had trouble keeping my abs in shape. Well actually just the bottom portion. I don't know if it's skin or baby fat or what, but there's a little pooch there. My mom suggested that it was just THERE and the only way I could lose it was with surgery. But I don't want to do that. The rest of my body is pretty trim except for inner thighs that have little fat pockets. I want to know a good way to try to work that lower pooch. I've heard crunches only work underneath the skin...I need something to give me flat lean abs if possible. Thanks for your advice! I'm sure there are more questions like this floating around, but I felt the need to ask my specific question. (link)
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Your mom is probably right: it's probably just there. I am not an expert, but everything I've heard says that you can't spot-reduce: you can build muscle in places, but fate and your genes determine where the fat associated with your activity level and food intake go.
If you have visible upper abs, you're way ahead of me... but I suppose "working under the skin" with crunches might be something you can do... that's all any exercise can do, and if you have strong abs and back muscles (i.e. be sure to get a variety of exercise... unbalanced exercise can often equal pain), your posture will improve and your belly will consequently probably be more to your liking. That and (particularly with biking for your back and stuff), you'll be able to do more stuff with less strain, have a healthy heart -- and die anyway, but probably later and in less pain :)
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how do I becom a better speler and reder? Im deslecksic (link)
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If you're in Canada, then you may be able to hook up with a volunteer one-on-one tutor through an organisation called Frontier College... their philosophy is to figure out what the learner wants to do, and help them get there. No set curriculum, regular meetups, moral support and a tutor who's probably learning as much from the experience as you are. I imagine there are similar organisations elsewhere.
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Is it bad to have wet dreams? (link)
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In a word... no.
I mean, do you really have any say in whether you do? (Short of finding some other way to make way for fresh germ plasm as it is made, that is.)
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Lately my boyfriend is being very cold to me. He doesn't want to hug or hold me, he barelly calls. I try to be very affectionate with him but it hurts when you get no affection back. He constantly thinks that I am either lying or cheating on him, which I am doing neither. I love him very much and I want things to work out between us but I don't know what else to do to show him I am good to him. What should I do? (link)
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Try talking to him, find out if he has a good reason for being a little off, explain that you're not up to anything... If he continues to be cold and suspicious, dump him like the waterlogged ballast he is.
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I recently just became boyfriend and girlfriend with this really nice guy. I really like him and I know he likes me, but he doesn't want people to know about us yet. A dance is coming up and I REALLy want to slow dance with him but I also don't want to give him away to all his friends. I also heard him telling someone he doesn't like anyone when i was right there. I respect that he doesn't want people to know...But i do. What should I do? (link)
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I'm not a dancer and would much rather go on a walk under the stars, eat some nice food or see a good movie... but keeping things hushed to the point of actively denying that I like anyone is a bit much. Like everyone else here, I say talk to him and find out why the secrecy (and lying)?
On a related note, it is always better to let a few people know than for everybody to figure it out...
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ok we get our yearbooks on the last few days of school i really want to know what a good thing to say to everyone in their yearbook i need good ideas like not the simple ones like have a great summer i want mine to stand out so can you people give me some good ideas please i reaslyl need them
please help thanks yearbook girl (link)
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It is impossible write a whole yearbook bio without saying something that won't stand the test of time... or sign other people's without saying a few things that'll look silly in retrospect.
That being said, if you want to be a page people go back to when they pull out their yearbooks, write about the most exciting thing you did with a bunch of classmates in the bio (along with the usual stuff), and the most exctiting thing you did with THAT PERSON when you sign and leave a note in other people's yearbooks. If there's a photo of that thing and they don't mind you signing away from your bio, write there.
I hope that helps!
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Okay, today at lunch a guy that's friends with my friend "Tim" asked me out for Tim. Nice, huh? Well, problem is, I don't feel the same way about Tim... I don't wanna say no to him, cuz I'd feel soooo horrible, but I don't wanna date someone when I like this other guy A LOT. One of my best friends said that I should date Tim for a week, and dump him if I don't like him. I think that'd be evil! WHAT SHOULD I DO?! (link)
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Um, I'd send the messenger packing and go with how you feel... which sounds like letting Tim know "thanks, but no thanks".
Getting third parties to negotiate going out is so medieval. Discourage it if you can.
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So... I've been dating my boyfriend for a very long time (going on six years now), and our six year anniversary is coming up. I would like us to have sex for our anniversary. I have all the proper protection and am of proper age (late teens). I'm on the pill and have a secret stash of different kinds of condoms in my bedroom. I'm a virgin, but he's not, so he has been tested. He is clean (meaning no STD's). All good and well, yes?
No. I'm worried about what my friends will say if my boyfriend and I have sex. Should I be? I mean, of course I'm going to tell them. No way around that, because I just can't keep that kind of secret. They are the ONLY people I would ever tell, though, and I trust my boyfriend completely. But I'm just worried about what my friends will think of me. Again, should I be? (link)
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Well... if you're worried of their reactions, why do they need to know? Sex is private, they can infer as they please. But really, it should be about whether it's right for you. If PR is important to you, then consider PR in your decisions. I think PR shouldn't play too much of a role in your personal life, but that's debatable and is something you'll need to decide for yourself.
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what does 69 mean???? (link)
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42 + 27 and 23 * 3, among other things.
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...I have my very *first* job interview coming up! And since it's my first one, I am very nervous. :) I want the job mostly because I need to raise some money- but I know that's not the answer that the manager will want to hear. Any suggestions about what to do for the interview, other than dressing up? ;)
Much Love!
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Scout ahead beforehand... you'll find out how long it takes to get there, see how busy the place looks and how the staff dresses (you'll want to be just a bit snazzier than them for your interview -- don't overdo it).
Think about other reasons you are taking the job, or why you're applying there rather than another job -- you need a job, but you chose this one in particular because you like ________. The answer in that blank will be a handy one to think of. And experience/proving yourself/preparing for the future are all good reasons to work... you might want to mention what you're saving money for -- college, a trip, furnishing an apartment, etc -- it's more interesting than just needing cash.
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My oldest daughter's biological father lives in a different country and we haven't spoken to each other since I was 19. I am now 30 years old. I let my daughter use my maiden name in her birth certificate but have indicated there who her real dad is. I've been married for 8 years now and my husband has been great to my oldest daughter. My dilema right now is should my husband legaly adopt my daughter so she could have his last name. My daughter sometimes says she is the only one in the family that has a different last name and that she doesn't look like her brother and sister. She already knows that her father is different from her brother and sister and I told her that it is not important that she uses a different name but what's important is how much her dad and her siblings loves her very much. I just wanted to get opinion if it would matter if she changes her last name or not. (link)
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If she wants to change her name, and if the whole family has adopted your husband's name, it sounds like a good course of action to make the name change formal. Go for it, it'll cause less confusion now than later when she has all kinds of work experience and documents and stuff.
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How come there is no boys asking questions? I'm a guy and I have a question... anyways... I'm kinda shy when the topic asking girls out comes up. I'm 13 and I dont ever think im going to get a girlfriend, because im so scared on what would i do if i asked someone out and then they said yes? i mean i dont know how to make out and stuff like that... what should i do? (link)
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Hmm... well, being a boy and asking questions from time to time (although many of them aren't obviously guy questions -- lentils are an equal-opportunity culinary nightmare, and many work issues are the same for guys and girls), I can tell you that we do, just that the boy population's a tad small here, for all kinds of demographic reasons I guess.
Making out isn't hard-wired into anyone, it's something you kind of have to figure out or make up... in some ways you start over with each new person, so really you'll want to get used to the mystery. No pressure though... a lot of "going out" is about being there to talk, and going places/doing stuff together, and all that, there's no rush to get into mashing face right off. So, go forth, ask people out when it seems right, get to know lots of them, be yourself and have fun (etc. etc. -- you get the picture)!
There's a lot of complaining about cheating and other stuff here, because "everything is going fine, we're happy and comfortable with where things are going" makes for a pretty boring love life question.
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okay. one of my best guy firends...yeah...i think im falling for him. ive been thinking about this for the past 3 months. we're really close and i really love spending time with him. my school's semi formal is coming up and id really REALLY like to ask him.
but i have some issues.
a) i dont want to ruin a quality friendship by throwing "love" into the mix
b) I dont know how to "ask" guys out. im just not really "into" the whole guy thing...WHTA THE HELL DO I DO????
c) how do i even know if he likes me? what are some hints that he would drop? because my friends are pretty sure that he feels the same way about me as i do about him. but im just not sure!!
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Friendships can survive all the love-related weirdness, it just takes a little time and the right kind of friendship.
Don't "ask him out", just ask him if he'd like to go with you to the semi-formal.
Look directly into his eyes and see what happens. It may give you some idea of how he feels.
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ok now wht makes popular people so popular i mean what is it about them? i mean theres like a bunch of popular kids at my school and i dont see how they r so great i mean all they do is talk behind eachothjers backi mean im not in the popular group but in like the semi-popular i guess is what its called and we never do that top eachother i mean i cant stand these popular kids and i wann know how they become so popular and why? (link)
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Semi-popular always worked for me, if it means knowing a few people pretty well and having people know your name without being involved in the schoolyard intrigues.
I suspect it's a combination of priorities, aptitudes and dubm luck that gets one into one group or another. Popular kids live some part of the life everyone wants to live -- at my school it was sports, money, being pretty or a combination. They also tend to have very nice or very forceful personalities.
You can have a bunch of these assets, but not in the right combination, and you may be in the semi-popular group. Or you may have only some, and the stars were in the right place, or a butterfly flapped its wings in Canberra, and you wind up in the popular group.
You can encourage luck a little but that's basically what it comes down to.
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I like this girl, but i dont know if she likes me. People say that we would be a great couple, and people also say that she does liek me. But if i ask her out and she says no, then i would be so embarressed. Mainly because we have been friends for a while and she might not see me the same way.. What do i do?
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In my experience, it's a little weirder for guys, and things may take a little while to return to normal if things don't work out, and some people have that silly love-at-first-sight-or-not-at-all thing... but still, if you think you'd make a great couple, go for it.
Try suggesting a night out with a movie and dinner (I'd suggest movie first, then a late dinner or coffee -- you'll have a fallback topic of conversation and your dinner chat won't be cut short by the movie schedule)... it's a little classier and less awkward than "will you go out with me?" and if she's just interested as a friend then she can ask if she can bring someone or just treat it as two friends catching a flick and some food. That way, you're not cornering her, there's no awkwardness in responding however she pleases.
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ewwww.......I am constantly spitting out green mucus in a styrofoam cup as we speak...any thing that will get rid of it? Help! its so gross... (link)
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My aunt swears by reducing the amount of milk products you consume while you're sick... and hot, clear beverages like tea or mulled cider, or acidic stuff like orange juice will make it feel better and maybe cut down on the mucus too.
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This is going to sound dumb, but how do you put your four-ways (lights) on in a car? (Does each car have a different setting for that?) I checked my car's manual and can't seem to find any information regarding them. (link)
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It's often near the radio, in that stretch of controls between the front seats. I don't know why...
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