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ok so on friday my friends and i want to get a little buzzed before going to a dance. we are each going to drink one bear. then my mom is going to drive us to the dance. is she going to be able to tell that we were drinking? (by the way we look, smell, or acting?) please don't say I am too young. and any other tips on this please share!

she probably won't be able to tell by the way you look or act unless you're a lightweight, but she may be able to smell it on your breath. one beer will not do much to you. but... if it's a school dance, you could get in serious trouble if anybody finds out you're buzzed. and i'm going to take a wild guess and say that you're a minor, so that would definitely not impress the cops. if you can have minimal contact with her, then it shouldn't matter much, but don't go up to her and breathe in her face or something. personally, i think it's a bad idea. but i'm not going to preach to you. just be careful about how you act around your mom. if it were my mom, she would definitely shoot me if she found out i had been drinking, which is why i don't drink. anyway, please be careful.

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Okay well today i got my braces tightened/ajusted.... and they gave me the elastic (rubberband) things.... and i have no clue what they are supposed to do to your teeth... Can someone explain to me what they are supposed to do...??
Thanks!

they adjust your bite, if you have an overbite or underbite. that means that your top teeth go out farther than they should, or your top teeth don't go out as far as they should. so the rubberbands kind of reposition your mouth so that your bite is corrected.

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I'm a 16/m and I have never had a girlfriend. I used to be kinda fat in middle school, but i have lost alot of weight and am in great shape. I would say im good-looking, and have a lot of friends who are girls, but it seems like no girls think im boyfriend material. maybe its just that i cant tell if a girl likes me or not. so what should i do?

maybe the problem is that the girls you know have known you for too long. i know that sounds stupid, but hear me out: most of the guys that i'm friends with, i met in the second grade. so it would be creepy if i dated any of them. the best thing to do is try to meet new people, either at your school or people from different schools. if you keep meet a few new people, that will open so many doors. because think about it: if your friend from school has a friend from another school and you start hanging out with the friend from another school, pretty soon you will meet a lot of people from that other school. there's this one guy who doesn't even live in the same city as me, but pretty much everybody at my school hangs out with him. so it's kind of a networking issue. anyway, just meet new people and surely you'll find somebody.

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can vegetarians eat animal crackers? is that considered eating fiber, but thinking about meat? i just want to know... :]

haha, this question makes me smile :) yep, they can eat animal crackers. since they are really just crackers and not actual animals, vegetarians can still eat them.

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Okay, I don't want to hear any statemates such as "you shouldn't have done it". Because I know that it was wrong in the first place.

I had about 4-5 hits of pot, and I don't know when my next drug test will be. I never do drugs, the last time I tried was in the summer and it was only 1 hit. So I don't have much in my system.

My question is how long would it stay in my system, and how can I get it out of my system faster?

Thanks!

i believe that it would normally stay in your system anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. it kind of depends on your body. you can get it out of your system faster by drinking lots and lots of water. make sure you get the recommended 8 glasses a day. also, exercise... i've heard that running helps a lot. and if you do exercise, make sure to drink even more water to make up for the fluids you lose through sweat.

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Ok I'm gonna burst now. I haven't had enough sleep at all for the past few months. My room's in a very bad position. The road is just right in front of my room and the moment cars whiz by, I wake up, esp if they are huge trucks or buses.

In fact, my whole house is in a very bad arrangement. I live in a single storey house and all the rooms are exposed to the living rooms, kitchens and my neighbours. My neighbours can actually look into our rooms. So whenever any noise is made in the living room , kitchen or by our neighbours, it gets heard in our rooms.

I'm going crazy. My eye bags are very horrible and I look awful. Someone please help me! My dad and my sis seem to be able to sleep through all these noises but both my mum and I can't .

Please don't tell me to use the white noise machine or white noise because I don't think it'll work and besides, I don't intend to get one. Leaving the radio on doesn't help either. I actually got kept awake because of leaving the radio on. Anyone can help me to change my attitude towards such noises and for good ness sake, sleep properly at night? I don't think anyone's in a worse predicament than me.

for the time being... nyquil. but, you could also try ear plugs, or one of those sleep masks that people used to wear. it will help if you can somehow get your room to be completely dark. also, if you have crap all over your bed or your floor, clean it up... i don't really why a clean room helps, but it does, trust me. you might want to buy a cd or make a playlist of really soft music to lull you to sleep?

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Is a 27 inch waist small, average, or large for a 15 year old girl? 5"4

i'd say that's small, i'm 15 and my waist is like a 30 inch and i'm average sized.

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I'm having my braces removed in a couple of days. I'm concerned though, 'cause the dentist said that it's a 2-day process.

I got them on October 31st, 2005 (no candy for me that year, i know!). So it's been like 2 point something years so far. What should I expect during and after the removal? Blood? Weird nasty tastes?...Tooth decoloration? Pain?

Also, the dentist will file my teeth 'cause they're not all similar in length. Will that hurt or bleed or anything?

And is the switch from braces to a retainer a big jump? Did anyone get braces then retainers?

I'd like to know what it was like for you guys. If you haven't had them, it's ok, i'd still like to know what you think awaits me!

I'm 18/f.

Thank you. =D

i had braces twice, and got them off twice. first question: blood? no. weird nasty tastes? probably, but it's not really that bad. tooth discoloration? probably not, unless you eat mud. and it can be fixed with crest whitestrips in three days. pain? i didn't have any pain, there was a little bit of pressure but basically they just come off like that (snaps fingers). teeth filing: that will not hurt at all. you can't even really tell what they're doing. switch from braces to retainer: no. everybody gets a retainer after they have braces to keep the teeth in place. mainly, you just have to wear a retainer at night. they also might put in a permanent bottom or top retainer (but it is behind the teeth, so nobody notices, and you can't even feel it... i have a permanent bottom and i wear my top retainer at night). having a retainer is so much better than having braces!

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Ok well I have to make a brochure on a country can someone answer these questions?

Do you put captions under pictures?

If I'm tlaking about the food do I put a picture and talk about the food or do I put a picture of a restaurant and talk about the restaurant and the food there?

And any other useful help? thank you SO MUCH!

i'm on yearbook staff at my school so i can probably help you a bit. captions: yes! you can even put them on the left, right, or above the picture. but here's how that works... if you put the caption above the picture, you would say: "(below) so and so blah blah blah." and if you put the caption to the right of the picture, you would say: "(left) blah blah blah." it makes it more professional. it would be better if you had a picture of the restaurant, because people can pretty much guess what food looks like, right? you can put a picture of the food if the restaurant has like a world famous dish, in addition to the pic of the restaurant. i'd talk about the restaurant and the food... like the foods the restaurants offer. other useful tips... if your brochure is in color, come up with a color theme... don't just use random colors that you think of. use the same fonts throughout for captions. make sure to spell check everything (no duh, haha) and line things up... like if you center everything, then make sure you do that for every part of your brochure. things look so much nicer when there's a consistency. good luck!

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I have a shih tzu named Oreo, he's black and white. I just got a new brown and white shih tzu and I was just looking for a name that goes with Oreo. Any ideas?

hmm, brownie? because brownies and vanilla ice cream are the same color. or, (this is probably really dumb), tiramisu or a variation on it because i think tiramisu are those colors. this is probably also dumb, but maybe the next time you're at a grocery store you can look in the cookie/sweets section and see if they have any cute names.

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Hey i am going to asume if you are reading this you play the keyboard or piano i use keyboard because i dont hvae a paino but anyway. I am not that good at playing by ear is there anyoe that is really good because there is this song i need to learn for my school talent show And its really easy but i cant play by er and it is no where on the internet. The song is Autumns Monologue by From Autumn to Ashes. If you listen to it you might laugh by hjow easy it sounds to play but please can anyone teach by you finding or learning by ear. or tell me how or something. thanks.

i've played piano and other instruments for 10 years, and i play by ear so i know what you're talking about. the best thing to do is get a cd with the song on it and go to a music teacher (guy at a music store, band director at your school, private lessons teacher, choir director, whoever) and ask them for help on it. i can't exactly tell you how because i've never heard the song before and it would be really difficult for me to try to write down notes, and then you try to decipher what i'm talking about. so it would be best if you found somebody who has been involved with music in some way. keep trying to play it by ear... if there are words to the song, try learning to sing the words (even if you suck like i do), and then try to find out which notes the words are. it slowly starts to come together! then you can figure out what the chords are. also, if there is a guitar tab or chord chart thing online for that song, you can look at that and at least tell what key it is supposed to be in. google for guitar tabs and surely you will find something useful. well, i hope you do well in the talent show :)

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i need tab with the words under it for the band evanescence ~going under ~tourniquet ~imaginary ~everybodys fool ~cloud nine ~sweet sacrifice ~missing ~hello ~snow white queen ~further away ive looked everywhere i cant find it. plz if anybody knows a sit withat least some with the words under it.

guitar tabs i suppose? go to ultimate-guitar.com (i think that's the url). or go to google.com, which pretty much works for me. the most effective way to find tabs on google is to type in... guitar tabs evanescence "going under"... and then it gives you a huge list. but most tabs do have words underneath.

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i no this question doesnt really fit this category but i hav msn and on a bunch of ppl's personal names tht deal w/ love hav a sign: 3 sum lik tht 1 of those 2 ive asked a bunch of ppl but WAT does it mean???

Delesha :)

haha, i didn't understand that at first either, but turn your head to the side and

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I'm 13 and I'm about 5' 1" and I weigh 79 lbs., and I know that's in the healthy range for BMI's but I can tell I have too much fat, especially on my stomach and thighs. Anyone have any advice on how to lose it?

everybody else is correct, your weight should be twenty pounds more than it is. of course, depending on your frame, it could be different, but whatever the case... you definitely don't need to lose weight. if anything, you need to gain weight. so my advice is, instead of thinking about losing weight, think about turning your fat on your stomach and thighs into muscles. situps, crunches, et cetera will help that. but definitely don't try to lose weight, because as another person said, your weight is technically in the anorexic category.

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ADDENDUM: About five minutes ago I asked my mom where are the summer pants (ones I didnt try on and showed her) that looks like Emmett Kelly pants (clown huge pants). She said; I hung them up in the den closet; I told her that the pants are like Emmett Kelly and she said; I know you told me that a lot please stop obsessing;. Her phone rang, she answered it and then came back to me and I said to her; I am only saying this because of the comment you made a couple of weeks ago; She said; that is your problem; I then said to her; well I like loose pants; And my mom said; Ok you like lose pants; SO MY QUESTION: Can I finally stop obsessing and accept the fact that she acknowledges I like loose pants? THIS WAS THE OLD QUESTION I ASKED BEFORE THE ADDENDUM:What I am afraid of is that because of the story below that every time I wear a pair of pants she is thinking that I lost weight and the pants that I am wearing are big,today I tried on 2 pairs of summer pants asked her what she thought as I tried each one on and she said the pants look fine. Am I overreacting and projecting what I think she will say.I am thin and A FEW DAYS AGO when I came home from work I changed into a tee-shirt but wore the same pants I wore to work. She asked me as I sat down to eat if I lost weight, and I said no, but this upset me. I said to her that she always tells me I look beautiful. She said you do look beautiful but your pants look bigger. And she told me that I am skinny enough. However, I feel as if she is telling me to gain weight and I look ugly - is this in my mind and am I overreacting. HELP" WHEN I ASKED MY FRIENDS THEY SAID THAT IF MY MOM WANTED ME TO GAIN WEIGHT SHE WOULD KEEP PESTERING ME TO EAT OR SAY YOU ARE NOT EATING ENOUGH AND SHE NEVER DOES THAT TO ME - SHE ALWAYS ASKS ME IS THAT THE RIGHT AMOUNT









I'm sorry if this seems rude, but I see your questions all the time and you really tend to freak out over nothing. Your mom didn't mean anything by what she said. Jesus Christ. Get some confidence and maybe every little thing people say about your weight won't piss you off. I'm sure you look fine, however you are. "However, I feel as if she is telling me to gain weight and I look ugly"- oh my God, if she wanted you to gain weight, don't you think she would say so? It is in your mind. You are overreacting. And as I notice about all the other tens of thousands of questions you ask, you (or your made-up third person aliases) overreact about a lot of things. Nobody actually cares about your weight, even if you are standing behind a partition/store counter/or wearing a parka. Chill out. Nobody likes to hang out with somebody who has a stick up their butt all the time. Hope I helped :)

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Ok well i'm thinking about going to a concert soon, and i was just wondering if you would advise me to wear earplugs because i know that its going to be really loud in there, but is it better to wear ear plugs or not to?

it's technically better for your ears if you wear earplugs around really loud things, but it doesn't actually matter since it's just one concert. you should really only wear earplugs if you have a previous ear problem, or if you are in the live music business and are around it every day. nobody else will be wearing earplugs there, so i'd say no. unless you're really paranoid about your ear safety, and even so, it's not much damage at all for just one night. i'd say no. i go to a lot of concerts and i've never worn earplugs. so unless you just really really want to, i'd say no.

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im writing a play and need to know...
how can i find out the color to these names? i dont know what they look like:

strawberry blonde
platinum blonde
beach blonde
peroxide blonde

and does anyone know any additional ones?

hmm, dirty blonde (what i am!)... yeah, if i had to rank them from lightest to darkest, it would go peroxide, platinum, beach, strawberry, then dirty blonde. peroxide blonde is when they look like they spilled white paint on their head. platinum blonde is paris hilton. beach blonde is sandy blonde... it's still blonde, but an in-between color. strawberry blonde has bits of auburn/red. usually has a reddish/pinkish/orangish tint but with more blonde. dirty blonde is blonde and light brown mixed together. try google images if you need more info.

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for school i have to write about an event that "broke down a wall" for racism meaning something that like opened new doors and stuff? i can't think of anything! does anyone have ideas?

when rosa parks refused to give up her seat on the bus... that was a big one. pretty much anything martin luther king jr. did... he did a lot more than the "i have a dream" speech. also, when people quit having separate entrances to buildings for white/black people. they used to have separate drinking fountains too. pretty crazy stuff. the emancipation proclamation was kind of the beginning of it, but the white/black racism still hasn't ended yet.

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just as the title says

chick lit = books that have a lot of emotion, like love stories
chick flick = movies that have a lot of emotion, like love stories
so chick lit would be like anything by sarah dessen or meg cabot or any of those people. chick flicks are generally like "the notebook" and movies like that.

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can anyone clarify
teen, preteen and tween?

teen is the teenage years (13-19). 18 and 19 are sometimes considered adult. tween and preteen are pretty much the same. they are around 10-12.

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