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if i had anal sex am i consider a virgin? (link)
No. You have opened yourself up for diseases, which means you aren't safe for anyone in the future, and you have lost your sexual innocence and purity, which is what virginity is all about.

Pity people never seem to ask questions before the act. :-(

This doesn't make you a bad person, but if you wanted to be sexually pure, clean and innocent (a virgin) then that is no longer an option.

Make sure not to ever lie about it in the future.


are vaginas supposed to look wrinkly ? (link)
I can't believe a woman answered NO to this. Really? Have you never had a look at your own anatomy?

Anyway, ignore that answer. You show me a vagina that doesn't have wrinkly-ish labia and I will say you made it up.

Perfectly normal.


I have a 1987 Chevy G20 with a 4 barrel 400. It just started dying when i start to come to a stop or slow down to turn. It will not usually restart for about 30 to 40 minutes after it dies, just keeps cranking! I have changed the fuel filter. I NEED HELP PLEASE!!! I have 4 children that ride in this van and dont want something to happen because I break down in an intersection or major road! PLEASE HELP!! (link)
Hi there,

The three most obvious causes for the situation you describe are either a problem with the float valve in the carb, vapor lock trouble or an intermittent fuel pump.

I would lean heavily toward the float from your description. I have had that experience, where it floods whenever you come to a stop.

Fortunately carb rebuilds aren't that bad. If you are pretty handy, you can do it yourself, but if the concept or messing with throttle linkage and vacuum lines scares you, best to leave it to a pro.

Some places will sell you one that has been rebuilt, and take your old one in to rebuild for the next person. Shops like these can have you in and out very shortly.

Failing that, I would look toward the fuel pump. There are some important details missing for any further help we might be able to give. As an example: Does it only do this after so many miles, or does it only do it when it is fully warmed up? Is it worse going up or down a steep grade?

Anywho, whatever the case, you may need to have it checked out by a pro.

One more thing, as I recalled an oddity of Holley carburetors: There is a tiny extra fuel filter inside the nut that couples the fuel line to the carb. I doubt that is what it is from your description, but just as a note for the future, there is, or there should be, one right there also.

Good luck and I hope whatever is wrong turns out to be the cheapest of the options. :-)


Hi I want to die but I can't bring my self to do it I am crying while I write this message! My girlfriend after 3 years dosent want me anymore I ant got anything with out her I gave up so much and I dnt have anything (link)
I am sorry to hear what you are going through. :-(

I am almost as sorry that I know from experience what this feels like.

Before I say anything else, if you are still feeling like you want to hurt yourself, please call this toll free hotline and talk to one of the caring people that will answer for you:

1-800-273-8255

If you just need to talk to someone, who has had something like this happen, call (number removed after call), which is my home number. You can also reach me on skype under the same username I use here: DangerNerd

Now that we have the contacts out of the way, let me give you the good news:

You will not believe me, right now, but I absolutely promise you that this gets better. The feelings you are having now, are overwhelming, more like crushing, but they do calm down in a shorter amount of time than you would think.


Right now it feels like NOTHING will EVER be ok again. That isn't true.

My wife, now ex, abandoned the family 3 days before our 10th wedding anniversary. This last March 12th makes four years, and I have still never heard a single word from her.

She actually had her computer set up with a queued e-mail set to be delivered later the night she left, but for reasons of me being out looking for her, fearing an accident, and then the internet provider being down in the area, I didn't get to read her e-mail until 5am the following day.

The short version is this: She left with a smile, to go and keep her mom company at a doctor visit, and then they were going to go out to eat.

She was smiles and "see you soon" knowing that she was never returning.

There was no warning, no fight, no argument... nothing. As far as I knew, things were on their way up.

The e-mail, getting back to that, was really something. It made it sound as if she had had a mental breakdown. It was really strange and if you were to read it you would have no choice but the fear the worst for her sanity.

After six months of trying desperately to find her and get her some help, her mother came clean and told me what was really going on.

She wasn't in any danger... She had been planning to leave for years. She went directly from our home to another person's home in another state.


I later discovered that she went directly to a car in her name, a place to live and job that had been arranged for her by the new person she chose to share her life with, and was not only never in any danger, but was living the life she had long dreamed of living with someone else.

While I am glad that she is alive and well, it always saddened me that I had to find all this out 2nd hand. That she didn't ever, after 10 years of marriage, develop enough love for me to call me just once, and tell me what was going on in her own words.

Anyway, four years on now and I only know what I have gathered. I know where she lives, where she works and all that, and have never bothered her in any way.

You know why? Because I didn't make the problem. I wasn't the one that left. If she ever wants to contact me again, I am easy enough to find. Perhaps the guy she met on World of Warcraft will bore her enough that she will give me a call just to say that she is ok, and happy... who knows?

The point of all that was this: She made a decision. Your girlfriend made a decision. There is NOTHING that you can do or say that will change this fact.

I know this isn't what you want to hear. You want to fix things and make it all work out, right?

Sadly, these two didn't want to work things out. If my ex-wife had wanted to work things out, she would have tried talking about things... just ONCE before running off to her new life.

Your girlfriend, she would have tried to work things out if she had wanted it to work. That is the key that would have helped me if I would have grasped it sooner than I did: no matter what I think is going on, the fact is that it just doesn't matter.

Whatever it is that she has going on in her head belongs to her alone. She owns it. It takes two people to try and fix things, and if one of them doesn't want to try... there is nothing the other person can do about it.

This is hard to accept, especially when you have no idea why things went the way they did, but you MUST accept it.

Be prepared to hear something from people you currently consider friends: "Get over it!"

You know... I think there should be a law: Anyone saying that to someone who is grieving should not be allowed to press charges for the thorough beating you lay on them. In fact, if you were grieving the death of a child and someone told you to get over it... which prompted you to send them to intensive care, I don't know if any court would hold you accountable. Grief is grief.

I wanted to tell you this for one reason: You aren't alone. Anyone telling you to get over something like this before you are ready... is either a cold, heartless piece of scum or someone who hasn't had their life completely destroyed, and so can't understand.

You aren't alone. Call anytime. It does get better, I promise. Just hold on for a while and you will see.



Do you know anything about Xtreme Profit Robot? (link)
Hi there,

I went ahead and watched the sales video, and it has all the usual trappings of a scam, but I haven't seen the product personally so I am not prepared to answer is "Xtreme Profit Robot" is a ripoff or not.

I did a little digging, and found dozens and of fake reviews for this product. Each one telling you how great it is and offering you a link to click to buy it... a link for which they will get paid.

While I couldn't find ONE honest review of the product (this is a bad sign,) I did find something that will tell you WHAT the product is.

It turns out that the tutorial videos for this product are hosted on YouTube, and I found then quite by accident. Here is a link to the first one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr8oo6FPtpU

... and if you click to show the other videos on the account, you will have the full idea of what is really in the package.

I will watch them later, if I have a chance, but I am not terribly excited about this. It sounds like a dozen other products released in the last year.

Any time you hear someone say they can make millions with the push of a button, or in this case, that they made money by accident because they turned it on before they went to sleep... LOOK OUT!

If you add to that the old saw about: "I was just like you, and now that I have made it... I want to help the little guy." You pretty much lock it in as a scam.

The fact that I couldn't find a single REAL Extreme Profit Robot review? Well, that is just icing on the cake of suspicion.


i m from Pakistan.i need to know where is my girlfriend AND is she Love me? (link)
Hi there,

We don't tell the future, we just give advice. Please, can you tell me what you saw that mad you think we are all psychic?


m nt a virgin....n had crius urine infctn aftr dat....wot if i again go for physical relatn....??? (link)
Ok... Please, speak English. No chatspeak is allowed here.

If you re-ask your question using real words, it will be approved.


how is my life patner? (link)
Where did you get the idea that we tell the future? I am serious. There have been many questions like this lately, all from India, and I am curious why. Can you tell me please?


im 19 and im seeing thia boy and im just wondering will it seem wrong if i give him a handjob i know im not ready for sex yet but im willing to give him a handjob but i don't want it to seem wrong. Is it wrong? (link)
Here is a thought: Since you can get STDs from ANY form of sexual contact, including this (HPV (genital warts,) herpes, etc...) why not make this rule for yourself:

I am either ready to have ALL kinds of sex with this person or NO kind of sex.

That way, you don't slut yourself out to someone who is only using you to be able to tell his friends you did this or that with him.

Wait until you are sure before you do something that will let him trash your reputation, and open you up to diseases that don't have a cure.

Sound good?


advice for a friend cheat on the test

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Please re-ask this with more details. We have no idea what kind of advice you might need here.


Both of us are in college.

She asks me if I can see us together, what it'll be like, how we'll live, kids, etc etc. Problem is I'm not sure I can think that way. See I'm excruciatingly busy, as is she, and things are very uneasy right now, e.g. I don't have a clue what I'll be doing next week let alone next year. So when she asks me to explain the future, I don't know what to say.

Subsequently we broke up, mostly due to the fact that she doesn't want to be with someone that doesn't see a future. Its not that I don't see a future with her as I don't see a future period. I honestly have no idea what things are going to be like or what I'm going to do. I still love her, and she says that she loves me as well.

Should we have broken up? If not, how can we get back together (my thoughts haven't changed, nor have hers). Thanks. (link)
This question just screams: COUPLES COUNSELING!

My friend, you were very honest in your assessment of the situation, and that is ALWAYS a good sign.

Have you explained this to her, just the way you did here? What you have written here, is logical and certainly nothing to end an otherwise good relationship over.

Like you said: It isn't that you don't see a future with her, just that you don't know how to plan for 15 minutes from now.

You see a future with her, you just don't know what it looks like yet. If she can't accept that, then you two aren't a fit. Her demands are unreasonable, unless she doesn't understand what you are saying.

I would try counseling. I really would. You just may not be able to explain it in a way she can understand.


Me and my boyfriend have been together for for nearly five years. We had decided that we wanted to get married and start a family. But in the last two months things have gotten very hectic. He is extremely stressed because he had not been working.I was going to school and working to pay our bills. He gets very depressed and thinks that I will be better off without him. He has cheated before but that was four years ago and we have already worked that out. Now he thinks that he will do it again and can't be with me because he believes that he will only end up hurting me. I can see that he is happy with me and he does love me, but I don't know how I can fix the problems if he is unwilling to help. (link)
I am sorry to tel you this, but one person can't fix a relationship by themselves. Both people MUST be willing to work things out, or there is no hope.

I would see what he says about couples therapy. If he is good for it, then go and try to work things out. If not, trust me, there is little hope.

As for the cheating thing, what I hear him saying is: "I am still not getting what I want out of this, so I am always tempted to get it someplace else."

You MUST find out what it is he is looking for, and why he isn't getting it with you... if you want this to work.

If it turns out to be something that you simply cannot offer him, then don't be surprised when he cheats again. He even told you in advance he was thinking about it. :-(

Hard as it is to hear... this may not be the right guy for you.

Good luck, and I hope the best for you.


Im 13 and my friends talk about their girlfriends quite often. they ask if iv'e got a girlfriend and I reply "iv'e never had one".
WHY IS THIS!
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Don't worry about this my young friend. They are collecting girls like they were trophies or something. You are waiting for someone you are actually in love with. Good for you!

Take your time. Have fun being 13! Girls make things VERY complicated, so enjoy living the simple life for a while longer.

You may be worried about this now, but when you look back on this time, you will be glad you were able to do all the things you wouldn't have if you were tied down in a relationship so young.

I agree with the other person here, though I don't know that I would use the word princess... that is likely to get you laughed at. I would tell them the truth: I haven't found the right girl yet.

You will find one... and when you find the right one, you will be glad you didn't mess around with the wrong ones.


i had a boyfriend for 2 yeras.i broke up with him 2 years ago.now my parents arranegd my marriage with another person. can my husband be able to find that i am not a virgin? is hymenoplasty surgery realy worthless & have side effects? how much cost of this aurgery?in calcutta which hospital do this surgery? please dont tell that "tell him the truth" it is the matter of my parents selfrespect.i dnt want my parents suffer for my fault. (link)
I am sorry to say that most men who are tricked like this eventually find out. I found out when the "virgin" I married turned out not to be one. Her mother accidentally told me she had been in another relationship just before me. Her mom thought I knew.

I didn't find out for a long time, but if I had found out earlier, I would have ended the marriage.

The other user has already provided a link to explain the risks of the hymen reconstruction surgery, and you should read that.

The other user obviously has no idea what your culture is like, and I apologize for that.

The problem is a simple one. You knew that you were shaming your parents when you did this. Now you must live up to that shame. It isn't their fault you did what you did, you are right about that, but one way or another this will come out some day.

These secrets don't stay hidden.

It is possible that your husband-to-be will keep your secret. Perhaps your beauty will be worth the shame your culture puts on a man who marries a woman who has already been used by another man.

Who knows? If you know the man well enough to guess, or to ask him about this, you can find out.

You can also tell your parents that you do not wish the marriage. You may be better off depending on caste, to tell your parents, or at least your mother, and see what she says.

This is not hopeless, but you need to know that the secret is going to come out some day. Better now than after you have been married 10 years.

Remember: Being a virgin isn't about having a hymen. It is about being sexually pure and it being IMPOSSIBLE for you to have a sexual disease.

You aren't sexually pure, and it is possible for you to have sexual diseases because you don't know, honestly, all the people the man you already gave yourself to has slept with.

You should have yourself tested for STDs, even if you choose not to marry, many of them can ruin your health. You must get tested for your own health.

I assume this was also your question:

http://www.advicenators.com/qview.php?q=591783

Please don't just keep asking until you get someone to lie and say what you want to hear. Even if someone does that, it will not make the truth go away.

Perhaps some day you will marry for love instead of an arranged marriage. Perhaps you will find a man who doesn't care who had you before him. There is always hope.


Well me and this guy plan to have sexx in the summer time and i trust him and all and he even says he loves me more than anything but we are both virgins i was just wondering is it good or bad to to have your first time with a virgin?

Because many of my friends tld me its a bad idea.
So can you help me out? (link)
Up until very recently, when people started slutting it up, just about everyone's first time was with a virgin, and they were also a virgin.

Anyone who did otherwise was labeled a loose individual. It is really sad that you are AFRAID of doing what has been completely normal for thousands of years.

The best thing to think about here is if you are really ready to have sex at all. If being with a virgin scares you, then you probably don't know enough about the way sex works to be having it just yet.

There is no rush. Remember: Sex never fixed a relationship, it only complicates things. So be sure you are in a relationship that can handle those complications. If you aren't, he will be gone, and you will probably feel dirty, since the sex ended the relationship.

Be smart. Think twice.


people say that insulin overdose leads to painless death. is that true? (link)
Not true.

Please see the answers here for more information:

http://www.advicenators.com/qview.php?q=555893


hi i work at autozone and theres this program on the computer for employees to access its called the doc. you can get policies, store info paychecks etc on there. i have access at work but i need to do something on there at home and my manager told me that there is access to it online through the az website (www.autozone.com) i was wondering if anyone knows what the site is? thanks (link)
As far as I know, you can only access AutoZone's "Daily Online Communication" website from the store's network.

If there is a way to access it without logging on from the store's network, there is no reference to this that I could find anyplace on the net.

Ask your manager again and see if you can get more info.


do birds fly away because of predeters
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Sometimes. Other times they fly away because they want to go someplace else... same as us. :-)


Hi I was with talk talk business for my phone line and I was in a 2 year contract. After this period I change to another phone company and now talk talk business are saying that I am atill in a contrat with them. That automatically renews every year, if i dont find out the date by phoning and end the contract by letter. So now talk talk business want £103 for cancelling the contract early. I do not find this fair as I feel that the original 2 year contract is not just a 2 year contract but a continuous contract, so is there any way that I can get out of paying this? (link)
Let me start be telling you that I am not an attorney, and what I have written is from my own experience.

You have a serious issue here if the original contract you signed, spelled all this out.

You could get a lawyer, and take them to court, but it will cost far more than the cancellation fee.

Cell phone contracts are like this. I know every one I had contained a very narrow window to exit before the contract renewed. Usually 30 days before the initial contract period expired.

They make it as annoying to complete as possible, so they can keep you on the hook for another year of mobile service.

I can tell you that one of the less intelligent decisions I ever made was sticking with service that wasn't working the way I wanted, just to avoid a cancellation fee.

If you would like my opinion: Pay the fee and be done with them.

With your new contract, go forward on your calendar and make a note on the date you are first able to opt out of the contract. If you are happy when that time comes, stay, and if not cancel without having any additional fees.

Good luck.


22/f.

So typical breakup dilemma. My ex and I had a terrible breakup about a week ago. His last words to me were 'Go slash your wrists and die you bitch' I responded telling him never contact me again. I was the one who broke up with him as I got sick of us fighting. As miserable as I've been (and god I have been) I was starting to accept he was out of my life.

Then I get a message today telling me he wants to meet in person to "simply exchange our things in a pleasant manner." I'm like, sure, ok, whatever. He suggests this park where we "went for ice cream once." I suggest he just post the stuff to me, and he just ignores that and asks what day/time would suit me.

I have a DVD of his and he has a book and a CD of mine, stuff I simply don't care about.
I told him I wouldn't be able to get the DVD for a while as its at my parents place (not mine) and he said there's no hurry. The truth is I think seeing him will set me back and make me feel worse.

So my question is, should I meet up with him and face him and do a "pleasant exchange" or should I simply post his stuff or get a friend to give it to him? Also what could his motives for seeing me be... does he want to talk or just get his dvd back?

Thanks (link)
I don't think this has anything to do with the stuff he has mentioned.

Sounds like you dumped him and he is having a hard time with it. Odds are he wants to talk about getting back together, but that is just a guess.

People don't usually break up because they fight... they usually break up because they fight about something that doesn't get resolved. Whatever it was that one or both of you were not willing to work out, well... just remember that before you entertain the thought of getting back together. If that doesn't get fixed, it is just going to be more of the same.

You mentioned that a week ago, you broke up, and I was just curious: Did you really break up with him because his family didn't buy you anything for your graduation?

I saw the previous question (donors can see past questions asked, but it never says who you are or anything) and wondered, since the timing is exactly right.

Good luck, and I hope you are happy with your new life without him sooner than later. I know it takes time. Hope it isn't long.




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