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Your question has received 8 answers so far:

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So I'm not quite sure what you mean?

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I've not heard of it happening with regular Mountain Dew. Looking at the ingredients listed on the Mountain Dew website, I only see yellow dye, not blue. Baja Blast, Code Red, and MDX flavors have some blue dye, but it seems to be pretty light in those.

I think it would need to be something with fairly heavy blue dye concentration like Mountain Dew Pitch Black (which was a limited edition that was really a very dark purple, not black).

Brightly colored cake frosting (like blue, green, or purple) is another example of a possible source. People eating "red white and blue" cakes or cupcakes over the holiday may very well have green poo from that blue frosting. ;-)

I've also heard that if you eat a lot of leafy green vegetables, iron supplements, or iron rich foods that can cause some green tinted poo.

And finally The bile that is secreted in the first part of the small intestine is green tinted. When poo passes through the large intestine, it turns darker and more brown. If a poo "hurries" through too fast, it might still have some of the bile color and not have time to turn brown. This happens most often with diarrhea.

At any rate, if you're not feeling well, and/or still having green poo, you should see your doctor just to be on the safe side.

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It's good that you are going to see a doctor, that's the right answer.

But as for things that can cause green poo... There is a blue dye used in some foods and drinks that can cause bright green poo.

The drinks are usually "grape" flavored drinks, like grape Gatorade, Kool-Aid, or that really dark mountain dew which is actually a very dark grape. Also foods I know that will do this include Fruit Loops or the store-brand equivalent. Any brightly colored breakfast cereal that has blue or purple or green colors in it, can cause green poo.

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I think that's a very wise choice.

Hubby and I were both 26 year old virgins on our wedding night. So you're not alone, it just seems like it these days. And it seems to get worse every year.

So, congratulations on making such an intelligent decision. Don't let anybody else bother you. Why would anybody make fun of you, anyway? How do your decisions about your own person life effect them? The only reason for them to make fun of you is because they are jealous. You make them look like sluts. You see, if they can convince themselves that "everybody" is doing, it, they can feel justified and "normal". When someone comes along like you and shows them that not everybody is giving it away, it threatens their little fantasy world, and that's why they would attack you. Don't let them get to you, you should feel sorry for them.

Good luck.

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#1: Clean the box at least once a day. (And the more cats you have, the more often you will need to clean it.)

#2: Try Tidy Cats Small Spaces kitty litter: http://www.tidycats.com/GetPage.aspx?ContentID=288&D=6086141&T=3422026

#3: Get some baking soda, and sprinkle some into the litter box whenever you clean it.

These things should help enormously.

Good luck!

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You are not the only one.

So many people think that sex = love and they mess their lives up looking for love by using sex. Anybody can lay down and spread their legs, that doesn't mean they found their soulmate. That's also not the way to find one's soulmate, though it seems like most young people think it is. That's why they hop from one guy to the next because they are trying to fill a void that can't be filled through sex, but they don't know any better and just keep trying. Having sex with a guy will NOT make him love you.

If you have sex with some guy who isn't your one and only, I guarantee you that you will be disappointed and wonder what all the fuss was about. Without commitment, sex is empty.

Any guy that won't go out with you because you won't have sex with him, isn't someone you want to go out with!

Just tell guys that you are waiting for marriage. The ones who aren't interested in you anymore are the ones who just wanted to use a few of your body parts occasionally.

A guy who loves you for YOU will be willing to wait. Mine did! We were both 26 year old virgins on our wedding night.

There are plenty of people out there like us. It may seem that everybody is doing it, but it's not everybody. Even some of the people who say they are, aren't. They only say it because they think they should be embarrassed that they aren't doing it.

By waiting for marriage, you will avoid 99% of the heartache and problems that your sexually active friends are going through, and you will have the satisfaction of knowing that your man REALLY loves you.

Don't rush it. When you find the right guy, it will be worth the wait.

Good Luck.

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Don't try so hard. Just be yourself, and let your personality show. Never put on an act, or you will attract guys who like a person that doesn't really exist. You want to attract a guy who likes your true personality.

Also, when you are anxious and desperate it will show through. You don't want to attract the kind of guys who are into "anxious and desperate"!

If your main worries are about pressure to have sex, there is such an easy, EASY solution to that.

When you meet a guy you like, tell him up front that you are saving sex for marriage.

If the guy isn't interested anymore, then guess what? He just wanted to use your body parts! You saved yourself a lot of time and trouble and heartache.

Any guy who really likes you would be willing to wait. Mind did. :-)

By the way, I was 26 before I had a real relationship, so just because 13 year old are having sex these days, doesn't mean that's the way it should be. Also, sex does not equal a real relationship. Anybody can lay down and spread their legs, that doesn't mean they found their soulmate. That's also not the way to find one's soulmate, though it seems like most young people think it is. That's why they hop from one guy to the next because they are trying to fill a void that can't be filled through sex, but they don't know any better and just keep trying. It's very sad, actually. :-(

Good Luck.

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Only feedback in the last 30 days is counted in the average, so what's most likely happening, is that some 5's are dropping out of the calculation because they are becoming over 30 days old.

That keeps your average roughly the same if you are receiving close to the same amount of 5's as you are losing.

As the lesser ratings become over 30 days old, you will see your average increase for the same reason.

Also, remember that ratings for personal questions asked to you don't count in the feedback rating, only ratings from the general pool of questions count.

And finally, there is nothing wrong with a 4.5 average! The rating system is terribly misused. 5's should be relatively rare, only be handed out for truly awesome advice that went the extra mile. Alternately, 1's should only be given if it was an abusive answer and the person should be ban-slapped for it. The vast majority of answers should receive something between a 2 and a 4. If the rating system was used properly, most decent columnists would probably have about a 3.5 to 4 average.

To give you an idea:

1 - Pretty bad advice: harmful, abusive, or trolling for trouble (if you receive a 1 and you were not doing any of these, file an abuse report.)

2 - Not harmful, but not useful either

3 - Decent enough advice: somewhat helpful, the person at least tried

4 - Good advice

5 - Really awesome advice: The person really answered the question in detail, went the extra mile for you, or the advice simply couldn't get any better than this.


Hope this clears things up. :-)

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Do you *really* want to know?

If you can find a book called "The Wastemakers" by Vance Packard, you should read it, and you will understand.

The following info on that book is something DangerNerd wrote recently, so I'm quoting him here:

"Published in 1960, it details the change from durable goods to things that aren't worth carrying home.

In this book he tells what he thinks the future would be like unless someone brought the advertising moguls down to Earth... everything he said would happen, happened.

The thing reads like prophecy. He said we would end up with a generation of pure-bred consumers. Young people who are unaware that they even have a function outside of buying whatever they are told to buy.

Does this sound familiar?

He also indicated that when they had kids, that would be it for us as a nation. With no skilled workers, we would have no productive industry.

Does this sound familiar?"


As he mentions, this book is about how business, advertising, and marketing is basically manipulating us to buy, buy, buy. Everything from planned obsolescence (deliberately manufacturing items of low quality so that people will have to go out and buy another when it breaks/wears out), to creating "fashion" so that people will stop using perfectly good items and buy yet more items in a different color/design/fashion, so as to be "in".

Think about it, if something you buy lasts a long time, you won't be buying another for a long time. They lose money if you don't buy.

If they can convince people that an item is "out of date" even though it still works/wears just fine, then people will go out and buy new things when they don't really need to. And they make lots and lots of money by brainwashing people this way.

It's actually pretty disgusting. Many people all over the world would love to have the things that we throw away as "unfashionable" or "out of style". It's a wasteful shame.

There was a re-write of the book in the 80's as a paperback, but they ruined it, so find the 1960's hardcover version.

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I can tell you that MorningStar Farms corndogs are awesome. If you like corndogs, you should try those. I haven't tried their plain hotdogs, but if their corndogs are good, I think their hotdogs are probably worth a try.

I'd love to hear from you on the other products you have tried. There are so many choices now, as you mentioned, I don't know which to try... Like have you tried the deli sliced "turkey" products? Or the "bacon"? Feel free to email me at DangerWench@gmail.com if you like. :-)

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Thank you for the compliment! :-)

As for the ellipses, I wish I could say that they are there for some really cool or mysterious reason, but I can't. :-(

It's just an aesthetic thing... You know how girls are about arranging furniture, everything has to be just so. It's along those lines, I'm afraid. ;-)

For some reason, I prefer some space between the username/date information line, and where my answer starts. So I put the "..." up as a filler line to push the start of my answer down.

I know it's kind of silly, but there you have it. I'm glad you think it's cool. ;-)

Though, in thinking about it now, if I were someone else looking at that, I would probably guess (knowing that I'm a follower of Christ), that it represented the Holy Trinity. Now I'm probably going to think about that every time I type those in the future. Cool! :-D

So thank you for helping those ellipses to grow into something more meaningful for me!

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I have that problem too. The reason it happens to me is because I have sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is basically when I'm asleep, I stop breathing multiple times throughout the night, and my body has to pull me out of my sleep to wake up enough to gasp for air... Even though I don't remember waking up multiple times a night, it happens. I know this because I have a husband that sees (and hears) it happen. If it weren't for him, I probably wouldn't even know it.

It can cause me to wake up with a headache because of repeated lack of oxygen, and repeated interruption of sleep.

I don't know if this could be happening to you, but it might be worth mentioning to your doctor. Some people are more prone to it because they are born with a soft palate (the area in the back roof of the mouth where the sinus cavities end) and this can cause sleep apnea.

For more info, see this link:

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

In the short term, try arranging your pillows so that your head is tilted backwards as much as possible. The closer your chin is to your neck/chest, the worse any apnea will be.

I arrange a number of pillows, so that one is rather vertical and supporting my neck, while another is behind that one, horizontal, and thus not as tall... that way my head is tilted back as much as is comfortable.

Again, this may not be your problem, but I didn't see any other answers covering this possibility, and I wanted to make sure you knew about it.

Good luck.

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Lots of women have one bigger than the other, some by quite a bit. Mine are that way also, 2 different cup sizes. It's completely normal, and it is not unhealthy.

Try putting some padding underneath the smaller one, to lift/push it up more evenly with the other one. If the large one is still overflowing too much, you may be wearing too small of a sized bra/swimsuit. Or you may want to wear a swimsuit that isn't cut as low.

Good Luck.

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I'm not sure about vitamin C, but I'm positive that the B-Complex vitamins turn urine bright yellow. Sometimes neon yellow. The color is lessened by drinking more water.

Example of another source citing the phenomenon:

http://www.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_atoz/hw6580.asp

Quote from that page: "Vitamin B supplements can turn urine bright yellow."

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Vitamin B will absolutely turn your urine bright yellow. It can be quite startling if you don't know that in advance. ;-)

But it's completely normal, and nothing to worry about.

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This is kind of hard to answer without knowing more details... It's difficult to imagine he would make you angry enough to slap him just because you wanted to go out with your friends, so there is probably more to this, correct?

Was the argument about him not trusting you? Or was he afraid you would get drunk and sleep with another guy? Or have you had words when he wants to go out with his friends? Have you given him any reason to not trust you 100%? Have the friends you wanted to go out with given him any reason to not trust them?

What exactly was he yelling about? Without knowing the details, it's difficult to know what the real situation is here. And I know it's hard to be impartial, but try to give the details from both sides of the story. Imagine that he was also here telling his side, and what he would say from his point of view... Make sure to include that too, so I can try to help with a whole situation, rather than a one-sided one.

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I think it would depend on the recipe. Is the ground beef supposed to be combined with something in the recipe? Or is it supposed to be in whole patties?

If it's whole patties, I don't see why you couldn't use fillets instead. You may have to keep an eye on the grilling time, as it may be different with the fillets, depending on thickness.

If the ground beef is mixed with something and is supposed to hold it's shape with other ingredients (like meatloaf), and then grilled, I don't think fillet pieces would work, as it wouldn't be able to hold together.

If it's a loose mixture (like stir-fry type of mixture) then I think sliced fillets would work just fine. Again, adjusting the cooking time accordingly.

So, as I mentioned, it depends on the recipe. ;-)

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I can certainly understand how this could be upsetting.

You could always try talking to your ex and saying that if your son is spending Father's day with his step-dad this year, it's only fair that next Mother's day he spends with his step-mom. If your ex doesn't agree, then she is being unreasonable, as that's a blatant double-standard and completely unfair.

You could also try to contact your son at a time when he would be able to speak freely with you (i.e. his mom and step-dad aren't right there listening). Talk to him and find out if this is really his idea, or if his mom is trying to talk him into it. Try to sound casual about it, though, not angry, or you may not get the real story.

If it's really his idea, it's probably a teenager thing. At that age, it's hard to see past one's own wants. He may have stuff going on, friends he is hanging out with, or a girlfriend, that he doesn't want to leave right then. Yes, it's selfish, but pretty typical for that age. :-(

Good Luck.

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It's a double-standard and it's not fair.

I disagree with those who say you shouldn't give her a taste of her own medicine. I absolutely think you should. I think you should take something that she is lacking (big butt, small butt, whatever) and point out a celebrity who has that thing that she lacks, and parrot your girlfriend's exact words back to her, but switch the "six-pack" part with whatever the female celebrity has that she doesn't.

If she gets upset, then you can ask her what the difference is between you saying that about another female, a her saying the exact same thing (just a different body part) about another male. Hopefully, she will be smart enough to use her recent experience to put herself in your place and realize how hurtful she has been to you.

Some people might say that females are more sensitive about these things than males. I say that's bull. From my experience, females are more open about their feelings, males keep it to themselves. That's the difference. Same hurt, different reaction.

If she can't see that it's unfair for her to be able to comment on male celebrities but you aren't allowed to comment on female celebrities, then I worry about her. That's pretty basic logic and common sense there... If she can't see the logic in that, who knows what the next thing will be? If she is a potential wife for you, do you really want your life-mate and the mother of your children to be someone who has no sense of fairness and can't see things from someone else's point of view?

Now, on the other hand, if she isn't upset by your observations about other women and has no problem with it, then she isn't guilty of a double-standard. It means she just thinks it's ok to talk about these things. In that case, you can either shrug it off, join in and keep commenting on female celebrities, or tell her that even though it doesn't bother her, it does bother you, and hopefully she will understand.

Good Luck.

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As mentioned, a Christian is a "follower of Christ". We follow the Christ of the Holy Bible, and believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God.

The Catholic Church believes that the Bible is not the only authority. Their teachings include such documentation as Catechisms, and Papal Encyclicals (defined as "authoritative teaching instruments from the Vicar of Christ" (the Pope)) which have been written and added to throughout the years of the history of the Catholic Church.

Because of this, the Catholic Church has many teachings, beliefs, and traditions that are different from a Christian who believes the Holy Bible is the exclusive authority of Christianity.

A Catholic Christian believes in the Catholic doctrines, teachings, and traditions which include, but are *not exclusive to* the Holy Bible.

Most non-Catholic Christians believe the Holy Bible is the *exclusive* authority of Christianity... No other documents.

Much argument comes from this, as quite a few non-Catholic Christians believe the Catholic doctrines to be un-Christian and not corresponding with Biblical scripture. And obviously, Catholics disagree.

For more information about the differences between Catholicism and *exclusively* Bible-Based Christianity, see the following link:

http://www.russpickett.com/apolog/catindex.htm

If you do not want to be characterized as a Catholic, you do not have to be. Just because you were baptized as a baby, doesn't mean the choice was made for you. You have Free Will and can make your own decisions. Pretending you are something you don't want to be is not good for you. Think carefully about your beliefs... Pray about it... And make your own decisions.

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I'm DangerNerd's wife. We met on an internet personals site back in December, 1996. He flew across country to meet me for the first time in late February of 1997, and we were married a few weeks later. We've been together 9 years now. :-)

If you want to mail me, my email is DangerWench@gmail.com

Yes, I do sometimes copy and paste my own answers to answer different people's similar questions. I still personalize/edit them when necessary... but for instance, my advice about diet and exercise it going to be pretty much the same every time, and that's a very common subject for questions here... so there's no point in typing the same thing over and over and over again. ;-)

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Yes, hubby and I were both virgins on our wedding night, at the age of 26. Yes, we are both Christians, but we greatly dislike what "Christianity" (or "Churchianity") has come to represent in many people's minds these days... Hypocrisy, greed, pride... Things which the Bible says we are NOT supposed to do. We are supposed to be a good example, not a bad one. :-(

If you have a Christian acquaintance who is hitting you over the head with "Jesus will bring you peace and joy and happiness" tell them to listen to this:

http://www.dangernerd.com/kirkcameron.mp3

(It's 9 megs, so it may take a bit to download)

If you can't download MP3's for some reason, you can download the zip file.

http://www.dangernerd.com/kirkcameron.zip

If they are an actual preacher/pastor, this one is geared more towards them:

http://www.dangernerd.com/raycomfort.zip

Send them the link, or burn it to CD and give it to them, whatever it takes.

If they really listen to that, they will see how the Bible itself says the way they are annoying you is wrong. :-)

If you are a Christian, please listen to it, even if you aren't beating people over the head with Jesus. I promise you, it will give you a new perspective. It's totally awesome.

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I'm also fascinated by prophesy, and I do think we are living in an age where we are seeing many things come true that were prophesied 1,000's of years ago.

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There has been a lot of hubbub lately regarding my views on the differences between Catholicism and *exclusively* Bible-Based Christianity... Mostly due to my not making myself clear. I did have a big long explanation here, but this time I will opt for the KISS method (Keep It Simple, Stupid). Yes, the following is the simplified version. ;-)

The Catholic Church believes that the Bible is not the only authority. Their teachings include such documentation as Catechisms, and Papal Encyclicals (defined as "authoritative teaching instruments from the Vicar of Christ" (the Pope)) which have been written and added to throughout the years of the history of the Catholic Church.

Because of this, the Catholic Church has many teachings, beliefs, and traditions that are different from a Christian who believes the Holy Bible is the exclusive authority of Christianity.

A Catholic Christian believes in the Catholic doctrines, teachings, and traditions which include, but are *not exclusive to* the Holy Bible.

Most non-Catholic Christians believe the Holy Bible is the *exclusive* authority of Christianity... No other documents.

Much argument comes from this, as quite a few non-Catholic Christians (myself included) believe many of the man-made Catholic doctrines to be un-Christian and not corresponding with Biblical scripture. And obviously, Catholics disagree.

For more information about the differences between Catholicism and *exclusively* Bible-Based Christianity, see the following link:

Roman Catholic Doctrine vs. The Holy Bible

And a final note about that link... That e-book isn't written by Jack Chick, I have a lot of problems with Mr. Chick. Some of his tracts are great, and some of them are way "out there" if you know what I mean. I do not support Jack Chick. This e-book is written by Rick Jones, who was a Catholic for many years, not Chick.

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"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." (2Timothy 3:1 - 7)

"And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring..." (Luke 21:25)

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Yahweh is my God, Yeshua is my Savior.

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