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I cannot read my Email,the site says error on page and I don't know enough about computers to figure out what to do.I also am new at using a computer and I don't undestand the terminology.I am unemployed and homeless.I am using my churches computer and I am lmited to very little as to what I can do with it.I need to be able to read my Email to get a job.I need help that isn't going cost me much.I prefer free advice at this point.I am a 57 year old male.I do not type. (link)
Hi there,

This is a rather infamous problem with hotmail and older computers or rather, older web browsers.

Here is a step by step guide to getting around this, with pictures for each step:

http://help.ninemsn.com.au/support/hotmail/error_on_page.asp

... If the instructions on the first page don't resolve it, there is a "next" button on the bottom of the page, which will take you to the next thing to try.

Please, if there is anything else I might be able to do to help you, feel free to write a note in my inox here by clicking the link that says: "Ask DangerNerd a question."

I wish you luck getting back on your feet.






I cannot read my Email it says error on page. (link)
Hi there,

This was asked twice. The one that will be answered is here:

http://www.advicenators.com/qview.php?q=594594

Thank you.


How come whenever me and my boyfriend are messing around, i cum so much. It's gross and i dont know why it happens but its embarrasing. (link)
This isn't a bad thing. Two points:

1) It means you are very into your boyfriend.

2) It means you are very healthy down there.

The person who said "it will get better as you get older..." is way out of line.

As you get older, and sex is less exciting, you will be less wet. When this happens, you will wish for the way things are now.

note: Guys know it is a problem if this DOESN'T happen. Guys aren't stupid, they know if you don't do this then you aren't turned on by them.

Let me put it another way:

If someone wrote on here: "Every time my girlfriend and I fool around I get an erection! This is so gross and I don't know why this is happening but I am so embarrassed!"

... would you think that person was stupid?

Don't answer that! :-) You wrote the female version of what I just wrote.


My husband and I have been married for 11 years and together for 16 years. He had 2 kids proior to the relationship. I helped to raise the children and wanted a family of my own also. He agree to have more children but later said that, I wanted the 3 beautiful chldren that he gave me and that he was ok with just the 2 he had. also that when he sould be involved in something that I would need support he lets me do it myself. I had helped with the 2 other children which one had brain damage from a asthma attack when I was there and the mother never helped with any of the care for the children she only made things very difficult. I feel that what ever happens in our relationship I am on my own because it is what I want and not what he wants. He always buries his head in the sand and I always take on the responsible position in the relationship. So if something goes wrong with the decision then he can point a finger. Making me feel incompitent to do anything that works for both of us. When I talk to him about things that he needs to be there for he gets very defensive and makes excuses that I dont work so I can do it so he can work. for example I am being sued for bills and other decision that related to a business that we both agreed to buy that did not work out. Lots of the debt was in my name so he let me deal with it. Says that he will get involved when it may involve his pay. I want to know if he does this because he really does not love me just in the relationship for the comfort? (link)
Hi there,

I am certainly sorry for all you have been through. As for what his motivations might be? Hard to say, exactly.

Could be he is overwhelmed, just like you are, and this is how he deals with the overload.

Is it the best way? Nope... but it may be the only way he knows how.

There are so many issues between you at this point that it would be almost impossible to deal with just one at a time. And the two of you resolving this alone, with him appearing defensive? Not likely.

Counseling. Not optional. You guys really have to have some help sorting through this.

If you don't get some support, things just go down hill from here.

Here is the one thing I ask you to remember: He is probably just as stressed out as you are, people just show these things differently.

When you are overwhelmed, you only see yourself drowning... even when the other person is in drowning too.

He has to be honest with you, and likewise you to him. This is the only way this can work.

Good luck to you, and I hope you decide to do something about this sooner, rather than later.


was my previous question answered? (link)
You will get an e-mail when your question is answered.

You may also look at your list of previously asked questions at any time by clicking here:

http://www.advicenators.com/qview.php?mode=myque

Good luck.


NEcesito un consejo...

Si mi novio y yo estamos tratando de quedar emvbarazada y si cuando tenemos relaciones el se viene primero y despues yo..hay riesgo de que no pueda quedar embarazada?

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English por favor.


Whenever I come on here to give out advice, I see questions that are so ridiculous..

- where can i get a dress?... ummm the mall??????
- am i pregnant?.... get a pregnancy test and find out yourself???
- how do i tell him i love him?- ........ just say you love him????
- do i have a yeast infection??..... how should we know? google it.

honestly. Is it just me, or is anyone else kinda frustrated that people are posting the most obvious and ridiculous questions ever??? (link)
You should have a REALLLY close look at your own account before you throw stones here.

You have asked questions on the following:

Where can I get a cheap prom dress.

Ugh, I am obsessed with a tv show but it is too confusing for me.

How do I make my period not come at the right time.

I need a picture that looks like this other girl, but I am not going to tell you why.

...etc. Oh, and this classic:

http://www.advicenators.com/qview.php?q=588309

... so, yeah.

Try and remember, that the average user here is 5 years younger than you, and cut them a break.

Sure, it is maddening, but your suggestions leave something to be desired as well. Google isn't going to tell them if they have a yeast infection... They already tried google, and that is how they ended up here.

Most 13 year olds have no idea how to use a pregnancy test properly. Most take it the same night they have sex, then wonder why it doesn't work.

And I imagine you are the most outgoing person in the world, right? You are drowning in friends and it is easy for you to just walk up to a guy and tell him you love him to pieces, right?

No? Well then, try and treat other people like you would like to be treated.

If a question frustrates you, don't answer it. There are plenty of others that will challenge you a bit more.

I know you are probably just having a bad day... but try and be nice.

Spend an afternoon reading through your old questions before you freak out on someone else next time. ;-)


I have Microsoft Works and I have an Online college class that requires you to Attach your file to the email. Problem is, I have Works and the professors all use Word. Is there a way I can convert it for them? Or saving it a certain way so the Prof will be able to open it with no problems?

Also, It's nothing fancy. The work I'll be sending him is 4 page essays and 4 page outlines. (link)
Hi there,

How do you Convert works to Word? Well, the answer is a good one: OpenOffice.

It can read most variants of MS Works, and save in a whole bunch of flavors, including Word.

OpenOffice is a free replacement for Microsoft Office.

Once you use it to do this conversion, you can write all your future papers in it and save them as Word files. Some professors are now wanting PDF files, which this can also do. :-)

You can download the suite here:

http://www.openoffice.org/

Good luck!

DN.


20/F
I have dated the same boy since I was in the 8th grade, we dated all throughout high school off and on, with the longest time being about four months that we were separated and even then we still hooked up and talked and everything. However, every single time we broke up he was the one who dumped me, and every time he did I always begged him to take me back. Senior year we both got into the same university that is in our hometown. However, that summer I ended up changing my mind and decided to go to a college in another state, the two schools are roughly 2 hours apart so it's not a huge difference. It put a strain on our relationship but we finished out the summer strong and tried to figure out ways to maintain our relationship on in college. I visited him many times, every break we spent together and I would come down to his school for football games etc. However he only came and saw me once. It didn't matter to me though because I knew a lot of his friends who went there and it was in my hometown so it made more sense for me to come to him. Things ended up going pretty well that semester, however towards the end they got very shaky. And finally about two days before Christmas he broke up with me. We both were planning on rushing fraternitys/sororitys and he said that with both of us pledging it would make a relationship very hard. It was rough but pledging did keep both of us very busy, in fact we didn't talk much at all this semester. Maybe about once or twice a week. About a month before I came home, we started talking more regularly, he told me how much he had missed me how he couldn't wait to spend the summer with me etc...so naturally I thought we'd get back together. The first night I was back we got in a huge argument because he had gone through my phone and seen messages I'd sent my friends about him and how i wasn't sure what was going to happen. After a few days we started talking again and he said he wanted to see me but that he wasn't going to get back together with me right away but that he wanted to work things out with us, so for the past few weeks we've been seeing each other about twice a week and we usually hang out, hook up and then go out and eat, pretty normal. Except that we never talk unless were together. So the other day I was going to his house and we ended up getting in a huge argument over something stupid, I left to cool down and then came back hoping we could work it out. However, he basically told me that he still loved and cared about me but that he did not want to date anyone at all. He said he was nowhere near ready to get married and that this was the first time he'd ever really been single. I told him that it bothered me that he felt like he could do this to me, knowing that when he's ready to date me I will have been here waiting on him, he has me tied around his finger and I know it. We both dated around and hooked up and talked to other people this past semester, but it was nothing serious for either of us. That same day I ended up leaving his house crying, and he texted me later on that night saying we both had messed up etc. He then asked me to come get him bc he was drunk and couldn't drive home, so I went and got him and ended up staying at his house. The first thing I told him when I saw him was that this is just proof of the fact that regardless of how much he puts me through, anytime he needs me I am always there for him.
My question is should I believe him? he says there is nobody else and I do think I believe him, I haven't heard of him being serious with anyone. But is it really possible to love someone but not want to be in a relationship? I've always thought that if you love someone enough nothing else matters, you only want to be with them. Should I wait it out? Or do my best to move on. It's crazy but we've been together almost six years, and I really think that this is the person I'm supposed to be with. But I don't want to spend my time away from him miserable, but I also don't want to lose him either. (link)
Hi there,

You really are in a tough spot, aren't you? :-(

Well, from experience, I would like to share a couple things with you which may shed some light on something you haven't mentioned:

When you are in love with someone... you don't have sex with anyone else. Period.

This whole idea of having sex with other people, but nothing serious, is a cop-out for people who want to rack up a fine collection of emotional baggage and STDs before inflicting all that on the one person they expect to spend the rest of their life with.

If you can die from it, become infertile from it or get cancer from, then it is pretty serious, right? Condoms do not stop herpes or HPV (Genital warts, cancer, etc) because they don't cover your whole body.

What he is doing, and calling "nothing serious" is collecting strains of HPV to infect you with. Please think about this. There are over 100 strains of HPV, and the vaccine only prevents a very few of them.

If you are out there, doing the same thing... collecting diseases and emotional hurts that don't go away, then what does this say about the relationship you want to be in?

Please consider something else, which I can assure you is true:

If a man loved you and wanted to be with you AT ALL... the thought of you having sex with another man would be enough to send him into an absolute rage, a depression that could last for years... or both.

NO guy says: "I love you and I will want to be with you some day, but for now... just go screw a bunch of random guys. I will get around to you again some day."

NEVER will you hear this from any guy that loves you. Not going to happen.

I know it will hurt to separate from him for good, but you are already sexing different people anyway, so how much more broken could the relationship be, right?

As you said, he knows he has you where he wants you. As long as you stay there, he will continue to use you for sex when he can't get it from someone else that night. Hurts when I put it that way, doesn't it?

I am sorry, but the truth here is just that: hurtful. If you tell him that you are done waiting... then be done waiting. Cut him out of your life completely.

Perhaps, once he realizes that you aren't just going to wait around while he shags every girl on campus, he will make up his mind and straighten out.

If he doesn't give up all the skanks he spends his time with now... then you know that he never cared, or at least doesn't anymore.

You MUST find out. The whole "I just want to be single for a while" thing is a lie. It is really: "I just want to screw as many people as I can, because I can always count on you to be there when I feel like settling down."

If you don't believe me now, then you will in 10 years... I promise.

I am sorry you are in this awful situation. Please don't stay in it. It will only ruin any relationship you have in the future if you do.

I hope the best for you,

DN.


how do i erase my history on mozilla firefox (link)
Here is a link with a tutorial on how to clear your history of visited sites in FireFox:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Clear%20Recent%20History

... It isn't hard at all.


I'm 18 years old and I think I might be pregnant. My parents have already told me in the past that if I ever got pregnant as a teenager, they'd kick me out of the house. Is there a way that I can go about getting an abortion without them finding out? (link)
Hi there,

While it is possible for you to get the abortion without their consent or knowledge, at the time, I would like to ask you to take a second and think about something that may not have occurred to you yet:

Things like this will be found out. Many women suffer from crushing guilt after having an abortion. If they don't have someone to talk with, the guilt causes too many of them to end their own lives. :-(

So what do you do? Well, look at the reason that your parents said that... do you think they said that so you would have abortions just so you could stay living there rent free?

Nope. They said that to you to make you THINK TWICE about having sex while they are still paying your bills. maybe you did think twice about it, but you did it anyway, and here you are. They said something like that to you, in hopes that you would never be in this position.

So, what now? Well, the odds are that your parents don't feel the same way they did about this when you were 13. At 18, you have a better chance of being able to take care of a baby.

You need to tell your parents about this and see what they say. Trust me on one thing: Things like this don't stay secret forever.

How stupid would you feel when they find out you had an abortion, and they tell you they would give anything to have a grandchild? Then proceed to disown you for having an abortion?

Once upon a time, my Dad told me that he would rather see me dead than working for someone outside the family. This caused a great deal of heartache, since I took him at face value.

He didn't mean it, he just wanted me to work with him and thought my chosen career path was heading noplace fast.

Same difference... Your parents don't want your baby dead, and they don't want you to have to live with the guilt that sometimes causes people to take their own life... They just didn't want you ruining your life, and used the only leverage they had to scare you into making smarter choices with your body.

Talk with your parents. You are 18 years old and responsible for your own self. Odds are, they wouldn't want you to have an abortion so you can keep living there. If you think about it, that doesn't even make sense.

My parents are all about the grandbabies. Your parents are too... even if they haven't figured it out yet. :-)

Please let me know if there is anything you need.

DN.


She came over to my house crying she wouldn't tell me why. Should I comfort her or not ? (link)
Hi there,

Everyone here has figured out that it is one person asking all these questions about comforting someone.

If you have a good explanation for this, which you should leave in feedback, then it is JUST possible that we will not delte your account for blasting these questions over and over and over again.

Please let me know if you want to keep your account.


i cheated on my husband and at first when i told him he was very angry. we have been able to talk about it but i still feel like we need more help because it feels like we have just swept everything under the rug. What do i do or do i just leave it alone? (link)
I would like to add another vote to the idea of immediate counselling.

There is NO going forward with this until you figure out why you did it, and confess that to your husband. I suggest you don't do this at home.

This is a huge deal, and if he is willing to keep you after your betrayal at all... it is going to take years before he will even trust you 10% as much as he did before you did this.

From experience, let me tell you something about the way men think:

We can overcome ALMOST anything, as long as there is a sound, logical explanation for it. Example:

Say you dated a real scummy piece of crap before him, and had sex with same.

If you have a perfectly logical reason for both of these actions, most guys will be able to deal with what would otherwise make you damaged goods in their mind.

If, on the other hand, you dated someone who was very obviously bad for you, and just decided to stay in the relationship for no reason, then left that person to go with your husband... also for no reason... well, guys aren't stupid.

We know then that you don't have reasons for the things you do, and any life we build with you will be destroyed at some point for no reason at all, or a reason you won't even admit to yourself.

This is why you MUST explain exactly what happened. Whatever the REAL reason is, be honest. Do not lie about this, because I promise you will never get a second chance to fix it.

No matter how stupid, or seemingly valid the reason you did this turns out to be, just tell the truth and get it out there.

Counseling will really help with this part.

If you don't know why you did this, you are probably lying to yourself. Maybe you just thought the guy was hot? Maybe you wanted some excitement you thought you were missing... whatever the reason, if you don't FIX that first, then you are basically doomed to do this again.

FIX whatever it was that made you think it was a good idea to throw your marriage away and break your husband's heart over having sex with someone else.

If you can't fix that, you can't fix the marriage.

Again, please seek counseling. Today would be a good time to call. Letting this cook, will only make things worse.

I hope you two are able to work things out, but if you aren't able to be honest with him, please let him know right away so that he knows what he is dealing with.

Good luck.

P.S. Another note: We all know that "It isn't you, it is me..." really means: "It is SO you!" so don't bother saying that. Just tell the truth, and the best possible thing will happen.


Lately, whenever I come on Advicenators. This is what I see....
http://i52.tinypic.com/2chtd0o.png
Blank layout, then...
http://i54.tinypic.com/5x7k8x.png
See, the content is off the page and below the layout? I'm using Windows 7 and I recently update Internet Explorer (Yes, I know it's terrible but I've never had a problem with IE while using Windows 7 before.) IE 9.0 (link)
Hi there,

This is something microsoft did to force people to re-code their websites to work with IE... which of course makes them look bad in other browsers, usually. :-(

It is a known issue, and there is a fix:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956197

... that link will tell you how to enable "compatibility mode" in IE9. When they first put out IE8 beta versions, there was an outcry you wouldn't believe among testers, because it broke so many site's designs. They created compatibility mode for internet explorer in order to quell the uproar.

Please enable it in your browser, and then let me know how things look.

Sorry they are still doing this... we all hoped they would grow up and stop trying to force people to do things their way when IE 9 came out, but apparently it only got worse. :-(

Please let me know how it turns out.

Thanks again!

DN.


I don't believe in God. I think that it is delusional to do so. I think he is a fictional character. (link)
Ok... that is a statement, not a question.

As a friend of mine once said in response to something like this:

"When you stand before G-d on judgement day, be sure to tell him to his face that somebody just made him up. Maybe he will admire the courage of your delusion, maybe not... either way, it will be too late to worry about it."


My friend hit me on the nose reall hard with a basketball yesterday (she has a strong pass(. it didn't bleed but i can't touch it because it hurts too much. i also have a very sensitive bump on the right side of my nose near the arch. Is my nose broken or fractured?? (link)
Only a doctor will say for sure, but from my personal experiences it sounds like your nose was broken. Go in and have it set. If you don't, I promise you you will NOT be happy with the result. I have had acquaintances think it was no big deal, only to have it heal all bent and weird looking.

Always, ALWAYS get something like this looked at IMMEDIATELY. Much cheaper than a nose job.

If your friend did this on purpose, make sure she, or her family, pay your medical bills.

If it was an accident, try not to hold this against her. These things happen from time to time.

Good luck!


Basically. May 18 there's a video compition abd there's a pokemon tournament.
I need stratagies for my team.::

Glaceon: hail, blizzard , barrier abd swagger, ability snow cloak

Luxray: crunch, thunder wave, thunder fang, superpower, ability Rivalry

Blaziken: blaze kick, bounce, superpower, protect, ability blaze

aggron : rest, iron defense, iron head, earthquake ability Rick head

espeon: physic, shadow ball, morning sun, attract; sycronize

Salamence: outrage, attract , fire fang , roost, intimidate.

Please help
(link)
Hi there,

This really isn't a pokemon fanclub, and this is a hardcore pokemon question. May I suggest you visit:

The PokéCommunity Forums:

http://www.pokecommunity.com/

... or:

Pokeboard:

http://www.pokeboard.com/


Hello, I am 18 years old and have graduated highschool.
I am a virgin still. And am dating this guy for 3 months now. My question is, is it too soon to be fingered/hand job in your opinion. I have done this before but with a guy I was in a relationship with for a year. I want to do it, I mean it's not like im going to have sex or go further but i also sort of feel a tad sad for my mom because we are so close and i feel she would be dissapointed in me. :/
(link)
There is an old saying that goes something like this: "If you are thinking of doing something that would make your mother ashamed of you... you probably shouldn't do it."

That saying, in my experience, has proven true.

Here are a couple other things to think about:

1) You CAN get STDs from fingering.

2) Even if you don't think this is leading to sex, I promise you the guy does, no matter what he says.

3) If you are going to be honest with yourself, you know this is a step to sex for you. Kind of like drugs... one sexual activity leads to another. That is the whole point of having a sex drive... reproduction. We are built to reproduce, and those drives aren't going to stop at mutual masturbation.

Wait a while. Tell this guy what you are feeling and see if he waits around until you guys are in a serious relationship. If not, then he only wants one thing.

Good luck, and I hope you choose wisely.


I am about to buy the software but I have a feeling it is one and the same thing as Easy Click Profits give or take a few modifications. Is it my worthwhile as a source of traffic? (link)
I can't state with certainty that this is a scam, but I can tell you that it has one of my personal key WARNING signs. By the way, when they say that the video of their clickbank account can't be faked... well, that is a lie. Any person who knows their way around video editing software can do that with little effort.

That isn't the big WARNING sign... the warning sign you should always look for is when they show you their earnings, but they do NOT check the boxes for the debits against their account. Refunds, chargebacks and bounced payments can take better than 50 percent of that money away. With really bad products it can be more like 90% refunded.

So you are thinking what if I found an Easy Click Commission video review that was honest and said that you would only make 10% of what they were showing as earnings? Wouldn't 10% still be good money? Well, it would, BUT if they are lying about the earnings, then you know they are lying about other things, right?

Let me ask you a question: If you had a push-button way to make millions of dollars, would you give it to someone else who will ruin your market? Would you sell 1 million dollars for $49? Nope. They aren't either.

Only buy things sold through clickbank. When the thing is garbage... ALWAYS apply for a refund. This is going to make you one of the people that are the reason that they don't check that refunds check box. ;-)

Good luck to you.

P.S. The other thing: "I know this uber nerd and he gave me secret software." Is ALWAYS a sign you should run away.


this would be helpful (link)
Hi there,

You just asked people from the entore Earth to babysit your child. This site serves users internationally.

Perhaps your local paper would be a better choice for finding a babysitter.




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