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Q: i've always wondered if getting a brazillian wax and like bikini waxes and stuff was weird? Haha, like they're all up in your business and what if you have discharge and stuff, is it me or does anyone find that getting these types of waxes is a bit personal? lol

i do, i wanted to try it but then i thought about it more and i changed my mind mostly because it was a guy doing it and i thought he would be staring at me to much lol, but yes i think its weird to!

Q:

I had this dream last night, I was at a place it looked like a church I remember seeing a lot of children with a teacher or a woman they were singing and praising. The woman gave me a booklet to participate when I opened the booklet I realized that they were all buddist so I exsplained to her that I was not buddist..infact I told her I wasn't religious at all and that I have tried Christianity, Judaismn...but then I decided I would try it and so I slowly started to participate in it and then I remember entering a room I found people on their knees praising and a woman singing while she was lighting candles when I looked up I saw a glowing colorful tree I felt warm and happy and beside me sat a two dogs attached at the hip..what does this mean? I want other peoples opinions on it and please no links.

(I am not a religious person, I don't intend to be religious because it really doesn't interest me at all)

it probably doesn't mean anything, dreams are just dreams i drempt a few nights ago that i was a professional volleyball player.. and im not interest in volleyball what so ever and in fact its my least favorite sport, so not all dreams mean anything there just.. dreams.. have you secretly wanted to try budism? thats the only i can think of otherwise it was just one of those crazy dreams people have

Q: My pictures I edit are very high quality. And sometimes I do multiple edits on them with different editing devices.

First I upload my pictures into Picasa 3
I edited the lighting, sharpness, and I remove any pimples I might have or any spots I dont like.
I save
Then I move to PhotoScape.
This is where I do all my 'fancy' things like Cross Processing, backlight, film effects, ect ect.
Now sometimes after texting out all the PhotoScape things, I decided I dont like them and don't use them.

Now here is where you should really pay attention.
Myspace alloweds pictures to be uploaded ONLY under 5MB.
Pictures USUALLY come out to be 6MB-8MB, due to all the editing.
NO. I will stop editing my photos.
So, with the bigger pictures size it makes me go back to Picasa to crop my pictures untill they meet the needed size.
Sometimes no amount of cropping will help.
I do upload them to tinypic and then just re-save them. But that doesn't always work since it messes up the editing.

For my birthday I'm going to buy photoshop and I'm guessing that will really up on the MB.

SO. My question is. Is there a website where you can upload pictures and the website will make them a smaller MB, WITHOUT cropping them?
My photos are saved with the .jpg, if that matters at all.
And NO, I will not save my photos at a lower quality.

Examples (I had to upload these as a smaller size so the edits didnt get screwed up)-
Without using PhotoScape - http://tinypic.com/r/33yosg7/3

Cross processing - http://tinypic.com/r/jzf70m/3

Color deepening - http://tinypic.com/r/n16z36/3

MB - Megabite.

try uploading them onto Piknic and then go to the save file button piknic usually makes them smaller without messing them up.. or you can just use piknic for your editing they have cross processing, and a bunch of tools, teeth whiting, the pimple earasing and all of those and all those effects for free, thats wear i upload pictures and they come out just like those ones and myspace lets me upload them.

goodluck

Q: I don't have a job, so I can't really save up money to buy one myself lol. I don't get an allowance either. I know my dad isn't the type that would make me work for something. Does anyone know any ways that I can convince my dad to buy me an iPod Touch? If anyone can tell me the pros and cons of the iPod Touch, that would help a lot too. I just don't feel like asking, cause I already feel like he's going to say no. The only thing that could help me, is that I've had 2 iPods so far in my lifetime. I believe they were both $200 each. I want the iPod Touch 8GB... that's only like $230 right? About $30 more isn't so bad. He's also bought me and my sister a $300 camera. (I think it was that much)... So why wouldn't I be able to buy an iPod Touch? I mean, my dad has bought things in equal value to the iPod Touch or greater. Maybe I could sell my current iPod 3rd generation to save some money. but I wouldn't know how to convince my dad to let me sell it, and where. o.o I don't know where my dad stands in his bills right now, I don't want him to need loans. xD So what do you guys think? Thanks in advance :)

it sounds like your dad buys you a lot of things.. and since you've already had two ipods maybe he wont see why he needs to buy you another one, truth is .. he shouldn't have to. If you want one, sell your other one like you said and maybe you guys could go halfs on it like you pay half and he'll pay half i know i would never ask my parents two by me an ipod touch if i already had 2 of them before even if they were broken.. i would feel bad. I can't really come up with any good reason why someone would have to buy you an ipod touch they do the same thing as the others except it has internet and its *touch screen* and the internet is stupid on those you can only use it near someones wireless internet so theres no point there honestly not as cool at they sound.. probably not what you wanted to hear, sorry

good luck

Q: Does anyone know the name of older shows on TLC about large families?

I'm not talking about Table for 12, J&K+8, or 18 Kids and Counting. I mean older shows from years back. I met one of the kids from one of them, and I forgot the name.

although i have been watching TLC all my life i can not think of the show your talking about so..

this website has all the TLC shows made.. so it says

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

hope you find what your looking for!
let me know in the feedback if you do, i'd actually like to know myself haha

Q: I'm going to a festival from Friday to Monday and I'm trying to pack but I'm sure I've forgotten something. I live in the UK and it's going to be wet over the weekend. So far I've got clothes, wellies, sleeping bag, sleeping mat, tent, food, wet wipes, handwash, dry shampoo, plastic bags, cosmetics/toiletries, tissues, alcohol and a raincoat. Can anyone think of anything else I really need to bring?

tarps, i learned from all my festival days to bring tarps the more the better, one to lay down before you put your tent up so it will stay dry in case it rains and then another one to put over your tent because the the tent covers they come with dont do anything , and bug spray lots of it and extra shoes because the festivals i go to, i always end up getting my shoes mud logged

Q: I know that there was a show called Toddlers and Tiaras. Were there multiple episodes of it? And if there were, where can i watch them online? i saw the one on Youtube (wtih like Karlee adn Lexie, and Bella).

Thanks!!

try this : http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=wnT&resnum=1&q=toddlers+and+tiaras&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1#

or just go to google videos and type there, i found one there im not sure though if its the one you've seen. Otherwise im not sure there is anywhere on the web you can look to watch them. You could try going to a local movie store and buy the first season?

hope that helped.
sorry i couldnt find more

Q: i really want to do something good this summer like going to new orleans or something to help out families especially children who have lost everything. i want to give my time and exerience for a good cause. does anyone know of any programs or anything that does this?
thanks

Red Cross

Q: i've had the honesty box application on facebook for many, many months.

throughout september and october, i've gotten notifications that someone has sent me an honesty box message, but when i go to my box under the "unread", the last message is from august.

i usually receive emails from honesty box telling me that i have a new honesty box message, but for some reason, i didn't get emails when i supposedly received the messages.

i wanted to know why this is happening and how i can read my messages? i've gone through all the tabs and even clicked on "sent" message threads but the messages i've received are brand new threads, not responses to my honesty box messages to other people.

thank youu.

something may be wrong with that application.. like on myspace sometimes randomly it will say new friend request or message and you click on it and nothing is there, its just the bugs there working on most likely

Q: does proactive work well? tell me about it?

with my experiences with it, is it dries out your skin alottttt, and the first couple weeks i used it, it actually gave me more acne but then after like 2 months of using it, it did work pretty good.
everyones diffrent though so your skin could act in a diffrent way, and it could clear it up pretty fast.

Q: ok, this guy and i have known each other for about 3 years. we met on myspace through a third party but only officially met this weekend. over the years we've been friends but only started gettin pretty close a couple months ago. he lives about an hour and a half or a little less away from me, and came down to see me friday night and i went to see him yesterday and hung out with his friends and family. im 17, and he's 19. saturday is my birthday. and im not doing a damn thing, which is pretty pitiful for an 18th birthday. friday night his family/neighbors are having a party/get together and he asked me to come and celebrate my birthday with them. the problem is he wants me to stay the night [not just me, most of the people that will be there are]. now running this by my mom is gonna be WAY difficult. he and i do like each other, but in keep in mind that we're not going to be do ANYTHING sexual, other than like kiss. im a pretty modest person and i do have standards for myself, im not some sleeze and he's not all after that. im still a virgin.. i was raised to not be a hoe and my mom knows this. im not one who says that and then gets caught up in the moment & it happens anyway. no, i know where the stopping point is. ive been in the situation before and nothings ever happened. my mom trusts me and lets me do just about anything i want to. but shes very uptight about me stayin over at a guys house, even if its just a friend or for a party or whatever. i'd have to get up at like 8 am the next morning and leave for work anyway, so yeah. his family drinks, their like the social drinkers. im not a big drinker, but you know. i hate the taste of alcohol honestly. so the point is nothing bad would happen. but i still think my mom wont go for it even though im turning 18. i really want to see him bc like i said i do like him and hes in the army so hes not home much. i have two options here.. either tell my mom the whole honest truth and hope she says yes which is doubtful, and miss my chance to hangout with him and be bored on my birthday, or say im staying the night at a friends and then go down to where he lives, but i'd feel really bad about lying about something like that. i dont know, any advice?

well, your turning 18, and honestly your moms opinion doesnt matter anymore once your 18 ha you can consider it but your legally an adult now so you can make your on decisions. If your really into like listening to everything your mom tells you well if she trusts you now still then i bet she will trust you to not be a "hoe" as you put it.. (by the way look up the definition of hoe) not everyone who has lost there virginity before 17 is a hoe. =]

goodluck

Q: my friend is 16 and pregnant and shes my best friend, and shes thinking about abortion but like its her fault and the fathers, that she got pregnant what can i say to her to make her listen to other options like ive tried to bring it up but she keeps saying she wouldnt feel guilty and all this stuff
what should i do or say?

her parents no, and there behind her 100% so if she kept it she would have all the help she needed.. but shes bragging about being pregnant and how shes going to kill it.. im not like preaching to her.. im just trying to open her mind up to other possibilities

Q: i'm really nervous about uploading a pic of myself on myspace.
My whole family has been threatening me.
"If you put a picture of yourself on myspace some guy can scan your picture and get your adress and stuff and stalk u and rape you"

im really scared!
haha but all my friends do it and they done get raped!
what should i do?

.. just because you put a picture up doesn't mean your going to get raped the people that get raped are the stupid ones that turn myspace into something horrible that its not, don't upload pictures of yourself half naked and doing sexual things and don't put any of your real information on like where you live .. and set your page to private and all your pictures to private so only your friends can see them and your profile, if you do that, you wont get raped

Q: wats the diff between race and ethnicity and nationality?

race- is what you are like the human race.. the animal race..

ethnicity- is where you decend from.. like are you asian.. hispanic... mexican... british.. native american.. ext

nationality- is like your loyalty and relation to your country like citizenship

Q: whats a site youve used that works THAT CAN SEND ME FREE SAMPLES of anything? like random.. or just anything. please list all that apply. thanks =]]]]

i know of one site...
www.trojancondoms.com

haha they send you free condoms

Q: so my mother whos is a cancer patient had a bottle of mophine pills sitting out and my friend and her bf who i dont really know that well came over, i was talking on the phone in the other room for a bit, while they were watching a movie in the other room with my little brother who is 6. when i cam back the bf was acting really wierd, and kinda out of it and my friend was acting like she was hiding something from me. what i want to know is what does a person who took morphine (who didnt need it) look or act like? it was a 60 mg morph sulfate.
i just want to be sure before i accuse..
thankyou!

its a pain realiver so someone would probably act really high... hah like all happy and laughing probably and just looking out of it most likely

Q: are rottweiler dogs scary? if so, why? can they kill people?

they can be scary..
depends how they were raised.. the Rottweiler image is them being a scary mean dog thats why people think they are, but in reality it just depends how they were raised.. they can kill people if brought up to, like police dogs.. all there lives they were trained to attack .......

Q: how much does it cost to legaly change your name?
and where do you have to go to change it????

you have to go to court and get a court order and change your records it depends where you live on the price where i live i think its somewhere around 210$

heres a webs site about it: http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/changename/changenameFULL.html

Q: how much does it cost to get plastic surgery on your boobs? cept for making em bigger i want to make em smaller(from my DD to a B) how much would you think that'd cost????

heres a web site all about it..and it talks about price if you scroll down
http://www.plasticsurgery.org/patients_consumers/procedures/ReductionMammaplasty.cfm?CFID=103212349&CFTOKEN=34169418#nine

but sadly nobody on here can give you an estimate price it all depends on where your location is, how much experience they have ext...

goodluck

Q: this question is mainly for the people who have analyzed every single facial feature...or people who know a lot about piercings. i want a piercing, but i cant decide which kind to get. what piercings draw attention TO a certain facial feature? and what about away from? do certain ones make you looky boyish, and certain ones make you look girly? like if i were to get snakebites or whatever, but only on one side..which side? the side i part my hair on or other? i've always noticed that people's noses always lean a little bit more one way. and people always have one eye that is a little bit bigger and well shaped that the other. well yeah, you get the point. help please! thanks

i know a couple people who have there monroe pierced and the always seem to get it done on the right.. same with snake bite if your getting one.. you really can put it on witch ever side you want but most people get it done on the right, the only pericing i think is to boyish is getting your nose pierced like a bull .. i think that ones a little bit to boyish but it doesnt matter anyone can get it done