Macys actually has some really nice cheap ones.

Your friends are probably idiots that have never taken a health class.

There is a wide, wide, range of STDs that you can
get orally. Gonorrhea. Herpes. Syphilis.

You need to see a doctor NOW.

And learn from this. Make sure you thoroughly research STDs before you do anything sexual. And next time, how about ASKING the guy if he has anything?(If he's an asshole, he'll probably lie to you, but you should ask anyway).

Some STDs stay with you for LIFE. So don't be stupid and actually KNOW about them and can avoid getting them before you're stuck with one forever.

I am really sick of answering questions about 2012. If you read up on the subject, you'd know it's a load of bullshit intended to scare people.

I've answered this question abotu 2012 : http://www.advicenators.com/qview.php?q=578706

Here are the main points of that ^ answer, just incase you dont' feel like clicking the link:

> The Mayans have marked this date down. However, they do not believe that this is the end of the world, just the end of a long cycle, just like in our calendar, in which Dec 31 marks the end of a 365 day cycle. We don't freak out when Dec 31 comes around each year, so we shouldn't go crazy when 12/21/12 rolls around.

> The 2012 movie included shifting of earth's poles. What they dont' tell you is that earth's poles are constantly shifting. And, unlike in the movie, where the poles reverse in a day, reversal takes THOUSANDS of years. You wouldn't even notice it.

> Comets are not going to collide with the earth and destroy it. If some object was hurtling toward earth, it'd have been detected already.

Reread your question.

He DISLOCATED YOUR SHOULDER over a soda. Does this sound NORMAL to you?

If he does anything to you physically that you don't like, then he has no right to do it. It doesn't matter if you "deserved it" (which you didn't, not in this case, at least).

And "putting you in your place"? The FUCK? What the hell is he, your parent? He doesn't have a damn right to hit you whenever he thinks you're being out of line. That's RIDICULOUS.

Of course, he justifies his actions by calling it "playing" rather than "hurting you". Maybe he really thinks he's just playing, maybe he makes that excuse to himself so he doesn't feel guilty about it. But he's definitely telling YOU that he's playing and doesn't mean anythign by it so YOU don't think anything of it. He's just severely sugarcoating.

But if he's hurting you, you have to be up front about it and tell him how you feel. Sit him down and have a talk. Don't drop a bomb on him. Calmly explain. Tell him that what he does is not okay with you and that he needs to stop. Dont' just put up with it because your friends say so. Your friends aren't dating him. You are.

And don't let his excuses get to you. If he's hurting you and you want him to stop, then he should respect you and quit it. Tell him that if he has a problem with you, he can talk to you abotu it instead of resorting to "playing". If you have a talk with him and he STILL insists that he's right and you're wrong, and still continues "playing", you should seriously start considering if you want to be with someone who doesn't give a shit about your opinions.

Besides, if he's willing to dislocate your shoulder over a soda, imagine what he might do to you over a more serious matter.

Since I can't find the option on the phone for this:

Take out the SIM card and put it into a phone that DOES enable you to save contacts to SIM cards. Enter your contact.

When you're done, put the SIM card back into your iPhone, then go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendar > Import SIM contacts/

First of all, TSS is very RARE. Potentially deadly, but rare.

> Pick the MINIMUM absorbency tampons necessary. Meaning, don't use the Super Duper Ultra Absorbency brand if you anticipate a very light flow.

> Wear tampons only when you NEED to. Don't wake up, put one in, come home at midnight, sleep with it in, and change it in the morning. This is BAD. Do not, under ANY circumstances, sleep with a tampon in. And most tampon brands caution against wearing one for more than 8 hours at a time.

Well, with scholarships and financial aid, a lot of students can go to college for a ridiculously small amount of money.

One college I applied to offered me a scholarship that pretty much equaled a free four years (I'd just have to pay for food and textbooks), and that's WITHOUT FAFSA or other forms of financial aid. And there's colleges that are free, period. Cooper Union is one of them. And the CUNY Macaulay programs PAY kids to go to school; students get a free Macbook AND a nice annual check.

So it really depends on the school.

$8 seems like a really weird number, but it's possible.

> Spell better. Learn how to write in proper English. It may be a pain in the ass, but a story writn omg lyk dis really SLOWS down reading. Poor grammar hurts your story, as well. Read more books and stories. This may .. help good grammar seep in more.

The only exception to this is a character's speech; if you want the reader to get a certain impression of a character, you can help generate that impression through the way you have them speak.

In V for Vendetta, V had a HUGE vocabulary. The rest of the characters... not so much. From this, one can infer that V is far more intelligent than the citizens, that he knows what he's doing, etc.

In Shakespeare's Othello, Iago does not speak in iambic pentameter (neither do certain characters in A Winter's Tale). This implies that Iago is an IDIOT.

> Be original. Be creative. Nobody wants to read a story with a plot they've heard at least 50 times before.

> Be creative. This doesn't mean you have to make up everything and make everything weird. Just find a way for your stories to stand out and be unique. This applies to characters, as well; make sure they'r enot just humans with names. They need a personality and characteristics.

> BE CREATIVE.

> Don't be afraid to incorporate your personal life experiences into your stories. The author Charles Bock based many of his characters on people he knew. In his novel Beautiful Children, Bing was based entirely on Bock's older brother. And the whole pawn shop chapter was based on Bock's childhood experiences (a family member of his owned a pawn shop, as well).

> Leave your reader with something to think about. No matter how long a story is, it should bring something to the table. Even stories like The Golden Key (http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm200.html) leave the reader off with SOMETHING.

Good luck.

Your husband told you it was "not the right time", or that you should wait until you can afford it.

First of all, if you can't afford to bring a child into this world, then you shoudldn't. It's not fair to the child and it sure as hell isn't going to be fun for you if you can't afford to support him/her.

Second of all, maybe he's just not ready. A child changes your entire world; once you have one, the child comes first no matter what. And it will stay like this pretty much until they leave for college. Maybe he can't handle that transition yet.

Yeah, he could've been more supportive when you lost the baby, but you have to realize that bringing up a child isn't all about you and your wants. Because both you and your husband have to be involved, both you and your husband have to be ready. If one of you isn't, the experience will be hell for you both.

What you need to do is just sit down and talk to him. You two are MARRIED, after all, you should be able to do this. See if when he says it's "too soon", he really means it or if he's just saying that to not hurt your feelings because you want a child so badly. If it's the former, you should wait until you both can handle raising a child.

If he just isn't ready at the moment, then wait. If you two are certain that you will have a kid at some point, start putting money into their college fund now (I seriously wish my mother did this for ME). If he jsut doesn't want kids, period, maybe you should start considering if staying with him is worth never having a child.

12/21/12 is utter bullshit.

Yes, the Mayans marked it down. But it's just the end of their calendar. Not the end of the world as we know it (do you freak out at about the apocalypse every Dec 31, when OUR calendar ends?). The Mayans didn't believe in the world ending at that day; they saw life and the world as a series of cycles. 12/21 was just the end of one cycle. The stuff you saw in the movie 2012 about Mayans committing mass suicides nearing the date was a load of crap; Mayans do not believe that the world is ending. They're living life right now as if nothing's wrong. And so should you.


Honestly, the world can end at pretty much any given date. If Yellowstone DOES erupt, the entire planet will enter nuclear winter due to the vast amount of volcanic ash thrown into the atmosphere. But that doesn't mean it will happen on 12/21. It has as high a probability of erupting on 12/21 as it does three months from now or thirty years from now. Geological forces can be extremely unpredictable.

Another part of the 2012 movie was the shifting of earth's magnetic poles. Guess what. The pole is shifting CONSTANTLY. Seriously, some people have jobs that entail driving around in a snowmobile and tracking where the pole is. The magnetic north pole has been shifting toward the north, I believe. And at the rate that it's traveling, it's estimated that in 50 years the north pole will be somewhere in Siberia. Yes, the traveling speed of the magnetic north pole has increased over the past couple of years. There is a possibility that at some point in the future the poles may completely reverse, but nobody knows (And this happens like every couple hundred thousand years or so). Clearly, nobody's been around to witness it to know the effects or how quickly it changes. But I doubt it'll END the world. Furthermore, even if it were to happen, it takes THOUSANDS of years to complete. Your life will be over before you can even notice that the poles have shifted.

Also, no planet / comet / etc. is going to collide with earth. If it were going to, we would have detected it a LONG time ago.

I also answered this question about 2012 a couple months back: http://www.advicenators.com/qview.php?q=573996


Sources: geology class, documentary on 2012, internet, logic.

If you have any other 2012 theories I forgot to address, feel free to bring them up.

But I can assure you, you have absolutely no reason to be afraid. The world didn't end in the year 2000. It did not end on 6/6/06. It sure as hell isn't going to end on 12/21/12.

Size TWO? Why the hell would you want to be a stick figure..?


Anyway:

1) Eat smaller meals. Eat more frequently. This will boost your metabolism. Also, don't stress out about dieting. Believe it or not, but more stress can actually cause you to gain weight in the long run (Mainly because women just loooove eating when stressed. Like eating ice cream straight out of the carton when dumped).

2) Running or swimming. Intense running can be bad over a long period of time because each step puts pressure on your joints. Swimming doesn't do this. Both great exercises.

I answered this question on weight loss today, too:
http://www.advicenators.com/qview.php?q=578653
I'd retype my answer again, but that'd drive me insane. So there's the link. It's basically a more in-depth version & explanation of the first thing I mentioned (smaller portions and not stressing out about it).

A one-hour difference isn't going to change anything. And changing the hour back and forth may throw you off.

It's keeping a schedule that's important.

Can you? Yes.

Should you? Depends. It's messier. It grosses the hell out of some people.

But if you & your partner are okay with it, go for it.

It was a stupid nightmare. Move on.

People tend to dream about stuff they know about. I think this is because sleeptime is when all your daytime experiences get encoded into long-term memory. The hippocampus and amygdala (memory-related things in your brain) are active while you dream.

So what happened was stuff you've thought about (and stuff that went through your mind subconsciously) made its way into your dream. The end.

A lot of people think dreams are symbols about your subconscious concerns. Maybe. I don't know enough about that to comment on it. But what I do know is that dreams are not a window to the future. We're all capable of making predictions based on facts, but that's it. We don't know EXACTLY what will happen. You said it yourself, you're extremely concerned about 2012. So no wonder you dreamed about it. (2012, by the way, is bullshit. Nothing is going to happen, just like nothing happened on Y2K and 6/6/06. I've explained this in a previous question: http://www.advicenators.com/qview.php?q=573996 )

So no. Nothing will happen in four days. The world will not crumble. Don't worry yourself about it; if you will, you will likely frantically watch the news that day and link WHATEVER horror story comes on with yoru dream (news flash: bad shit happens every day in this world. four days from now will be no different, so there will be some sort of mugging or accident etc. to report). This will drive you INSANE.

Seriously, just forget about it.

Yes.

No.

iTunes syncs your iTunes library to your iPod. So whatever's in your Library goes into your iPod, not the other way around.

So if you choose to sync your new iPod, whatever's in your library will be copied into it.

> there are more people out there who think they're fat than there are people out there than are ACTUALLY fat. You should talk to a doctor and see if you actually ARE overweight.

> DO NOT DO NOT DO NOOOOOOT stress out about dieting and controlling your eating and your figure etc etc etc. Studies have shown that restrained eaters (people who put constant limits on what they eat) are at higher risk of bringing this guard down when something negative happens. For example, you're on a super strict diet, something bad happens, you're super stressed. Chances are, you will turn to high-calorie foods. Even stress caused by being on a super strict diet or body image can cause this. So please please try not to worry too much about every ounce of food you consume or your weight. Because this can stress you out insanely and cause you to GAIN weight.

> Portion size, portion size, portion size. They tell you that it's all about WHAT you eat, but a great part of gaining weight is how MUCH you eat. For example: French people's diets have much more total fat than Americans', and yet a higher percentage of Americans is obese. (This is called the French Paradox.) Why is this? American restaurants serve much more food (portion size is about 25% greater, I think). Are the French being underfed? No. The thing about eating is that feeling 'full' isn't only triggered by high blood glucose levels. It's very psychological. They did these studies to see how much soup a person can eat before feeling full. Half the group was given an ordinary soup bowl. The other half was given a 'bottomless' bowl, in which a pipe underneath the table was connected to the bowl and pumped more soup into it. So the amount of soup in the bowl stayed constant no matter how much a person ate. Anyway, the results: the people with the bottomless bowls ate much MUCH more than the people with ordinary ones. Why? The amount of food you have influences how much you will eat. I'm not saying that if you put a single grain of rice on a plate, you will feel full after eating it. But if you're the type of person that eats an overflowing plate of food, then seven scoops of ice cream for dessert (

I think the error is the fact that you're asking advice columnists stupid riddles.

Windows Movie Maker.

or, for Mac, I think it's called iMovie.

There's a chance of pregnancy, but a very small one.

And sperm lives for a short while in open air. It doesn't die immediately.

"as soon as he got off he put some on his finger and the he fingered me"
>I hope by this sentence, you mean that it got on his hands, not that he PUT it on his hands. Because if it's the latter, he's an idiot...and why the hell would you allow him to do it if you weren't sure of the risks?

Fun facts:

I am a champion procrastinator.

My hair has been every color of the rainbow.

I like art. In a perfect world, I'd be an illustrator or graphic designer. But in this world, I'm probably going to end up an engineer or an architect.

I tend to be pretty blunt. If you don't like it, too bad.

I have more piercings than I can be bothered to keep track of. They're all on my ears.

Oscar Wilde is awesome.

Julian Beever is awesome.

Hans Zimmer is awesome.

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