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My boyfriend and I have been together for 10 months and the flame is slowly dying out. I really need a song to remind him how much I still love and care about him. I've found tons of songs, but none of them just really hit home about the way I truly feel. I need something that says how hard I'm trying and how much I truly love and care about him.

Any help is greatly appreciated please and thanks!

Love songs that pander to feelings and emotion are like sticky-sweet cotton candy. I'm sure they make you feel good, but they have very little substance and really aren't very good for you. If you and your boyfriend are mature enough to realize what love is really about, then a song like that will be a nice gesture, but have little real meaning anyway.

To that end, I suggest "The Weight", by Thrice:



There’s many who’ll tell you they’ll give you their love,
But when they say “give” they mean “take.”
They’ll hang ‘round just like vultures till push comes to shove.
They’ll take flight when the earth starts to shake.

Someone may say that they’ll always be true,
Then slip out the door ‘fore the dawn.
But I won’t leave you hanging on.
Another may stay till they find someone new,
Then before you know they’ll be gone.
But I won’t leave you hanging on;
No, I won’t be that someone.

And come what may, I won’t abandon you or leave you behind
Because love is a loyalty sworn, not a burning for a moment.
And come what may, I will be standing right here by your side;
[ Thrice Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ]
I won’t run away, though the storm’s getting worse and there’s no end in sight.

Some talk of destiny, others of fate,
But soon they’ll be saying goodbye.
But I won’t leave you high and dry.
Because a ring don’t mean nothing
If you can’t haul the weight,
And some of them won’t even try,
But I won’t leave you high and dry;
I won’t leave you wondering why.

And storms will surely come,
But true love is a choice you must make
And you’re the one that I have set my heart to choose.
As long as I live, I swear I’ll see this through.




Remember, your love for your boyfriend is a loyalty sworn, not a burning for a moment.

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hi i saw that u answered a question about someones mom bleeding a lot, and well did it ever occur to you that maybe someone on Advicenators had that problem and thats why she asked?

Perhaps, but it's possible that, although the symptoms of two conditions to be similar or even identical, the problems to be entirely unrelated and thus resulting in a wrong diagnosis. This happens to doctors who have access to your medical records and medical history. Volunteer advice-givers on the internet stand almost no chance of properly diagnosing anyone we've never met.

In any case, even IF we at Advicenators could somehow correctly diagnose someone over the internet (A long shot, at best), we're in no place to tell anyone what to do about it. Telling you what's wrong is one thing, prescribing treatment is entirely different. Especially in serious medical cases like your mother's.


We're not doctors. Don't treat us like doctors.

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Ok, so my mom had had (mind you, i told her to get checked) shes had diarhea for about a year now...and today she pooped a whole toilete full of blood, any idea of what it might be?
Thank you.

I wouldn't jump to conclusions and say it's HIV, but if it's been happening for the past year (!!), it's definately something serious. Even something as minor as a cough is serious if it lasts for a year.

We're Advicenators, not doctors. Please have her go see a doctor, and next time skip asking us altogether and go get whatever it is checked out.

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What is a good program for converting m4a and wma to mp3?

GoldWave is a fantastic professional tool for converting almost any audio file into any other audio file, as well as having a host of other functions. It's served me very well for the past few years.

http://www.goldwave.com/

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hey so ive seen the video two girls one cup but i want to show it to my friend, whats the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKp5SB1Pghg
Show this to your friend. He/She'll be ten times more amused/disgusted than if you showed him/her 2girls1cup. It's ultimately less damaging, too. Really, you'll be doing your friend a favor.

Times like this really make me wonder about the nature of internet humor lately. Remember StarWars Kid? Remember the fat guy dancing to the Romainian techno (NumaNuma, I think)? What happened? How did we get from there to here?

In any case, I can't say I agree with your taste in porn, or your taste in viral shock-video. Nonetheless, I WOULD provide you with the link, but if I would, I would promptly be B& and V&, so I won't. Sorry.


I lied. I'm not sorry.



PROTIP: If it's anywhere on the internet, chances are it's on google. Google IS your friend, even if we at Advicenators refuse to be.

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You answered my question about skipping meals.

What you said about starving kids in Africa was interesting and that explains a lot. But I was actually wondering if you knew why then anorexic people are so skeletal? They don't eat very much at all and are EXTREMELY THIN.

*And no I do NOT think that skeletal is the way to look. I don't want to be that thin. I was just wondering why they do not have really bloated stomachs like the starving kids, if what they are essentially doing is starving themselves.

Anorexics will go through what you're going through for the first few days of their starvation. This, of course, encourages them to keep eating less. Eventually, their body is forced to process the stored energy (fatty bloatedness).

In a sense, anorexics have nothing to "stockpile", because they eat next to nothing for long periods of time instead of "just" very little every now and then (Like you, who skipped meals for "only" two days, or starving kids in Africa who still eat, albiet not as much as they should).

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if you steal something from the abercrombie or hollister in the marketplace mall in rochester, NY do they have those stupid sirens tht go off? i know they have security tags but do they even have ink them? and will they set the sirens off?

NO SMARTASS ANSWERS SAYING IM POOR
SAVE YOUR BREATHE

Chances are, yes, they do. Stores like the ones you listed tend to channel their profits into security systems.

You're on the internet now, so why don't you shop for clothes online? You can get a shirt online for about $10-$15, which is cheaper than at Holister, and DEFINATELY cheaper than jail time.

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I'm in an Oral Communications class, and we have to give a speech in a few weeks. I'm not shy about getting on stage or anything I just can't figure out what to do it on.

It has to be a demonstration on how to do something. A.K.A a how-to.

But I don't really have any good ideas yet, and I need to get started. My only idea is to do something with my guitar cause that's really my only talent, but what do I do? If I used my guitar I can't really explain to everyone how to do certain chords. It just takes practice. So I couldn't really do that.

So... any other ideas?

When I did this, I did chess. After explaining the basic rules of the game, I ended the presentation with a sample game against a volunteer (I tounced him), explaining my strategies as I go along.

Other people did their presentations on things like cooking and playing HALO. Just pick something you enjoy doing and are good at.

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is anyone here schizophrenic? it was one of my vocab words and the definition is "a state characterized by the coexistence of contradictory or incompatible elements." what do they mean by different elements? like you're living in two different worlds? i once saw a movie associated with someone who is schizophrenic, but what is life like?

This doesn't answer your question, but that's the definition of neurosis, not schizophrenia.

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Does anyone know a band that is like DK or something? It stands for something but I forgot what it was.

Don't listen to the two below me. DK are the Dead Kennedys, a fairly popular punk band from the 80s.

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Hello, I have a quick question that warrants a not-so-quick answer. What is the difference between Communism and Socialism? Every website I go to gives a different explanation. My AP Gov teacher explained Socialism as being Communism with natural rights, while a website told me Communism is a part of Socialism.


As a Commie, you'll probably be biased in your answer slightly, but it'll still probably be helpful. Thanks!

Popular culture likes to divide the two (And a third, Marxism) in to three separate ideals. They aren't really. The same popular culture likes to depict communism as a totalitarian state. It isn't (nessessarily). This is because most nations that call themselves "communist" are totalitarian states, but those same nations fall quite short of the admittedly lofty expectations of a communist state.

Karl Marx was a philosopher in the 19th century who, along with Friedrich Engels, wrote a book/essay entitled "The Communist Manifesto", which is considered something like The Bible for communism. The Communist Manifesto is available to read free on the internet in many places, and I highly recommend it if you're looking to learn more about the subject. His teachings are collectively refered to as "Marxism" and thought to be something seperate from both Socialism and Communism, which is silly since most Socialist and Communist movements are based on his works.

Socialism is described by Marx as a transitional period between Capitalism and true Communism. In modern times, the term is most often taken to refer to a socioeconomic system in which many factors of production are publicly owned (By the government), but private ownership is still allowed. Some examples of this include Scandonavian countries like Sweden, Norway, and The Netherlands.

(On a slightly unrelated note, those same socialist Scandonavian nations have higher literacy rates, lower infant mortality rates, lower unemployment rates, etc etc. Obviously, they're doing something right)

On the other hand, Communism is a socioeconomic system which takes socialism to the next step. Private ownership doesn't exist -- Everything belongs to everybody. A "government" in the traditional sense wouldn't exist, because everybody owns everything, everybody would be part of the "government". This in effect makes everyone equal, since there would be no more socioeconomic distinctions between people. If you're a Star Trek fan, think of the system of economics that is present on the show (Nerdy, I know, but an excellent example).

Obviously, nobody has managed to do this yet, and any nation who has claimed to has been lying. It requires a maturity and empathy that mankind hasn't quite been able to achieve yet. Still, I personally see it as an inevitabilty, so long as we keep moving forward and don't cling to what seperates and divides us.


I HOPE that answered your question. If not, I'll be more than happy to clerify anything.

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I've skipped breakfast and lunch and barely had anything for dinner for the past three days.
And the weird thing is, I actually look fatter to myself. I feel gross and bloated.
So why is this? I thought skipping meals was supposed to do the opposite.

I know that skipping meals is bad, just I can't think of anything else to make me look skinny. I'm only 105 lbs and 5' 4", but weight isn't my issue. I don't look as skinny as I want to be. I run, do sit-ups, eat healthy, blah blah blah. It's not working.

But I would like to know why the skipping meals is making me more bloated.

Skipping meals shuts off your metabolism, putting your body into "stingy mode" where the food you DO eat ends up being "saved" as fat, instead of processed immediately as you normally would. Ever see pictures of kids in Africa where their ribs are showing but they have huge bloated stomaches? That's malnutrition, and that's what you're doing to yourself.

(The theory is that this kind of behavior is a survival mechanism, and evolved during times of hunger and famine in the past, where people who had the "stingy gene" would have a higher chance of survival)

But anyway, skipping meals is actually doing you more harm than good. That's the reason they say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and that's why they say that it may be healthier to eat five "mini-meals" in a day instead of the standard three.


TL;DR: Skipping meals makes you fat and bloated, not skinny. Don't do it. Eat all your meals, and snack often.


By the way, at 105 lb 5'4", you're a stick. You should be trying to GAIN a few pounds, not lose them.

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Now I've had sex before, and it's not like this is my first time or anything. Lately, I've been wanting to have sex with this guy in my car. (My house has been ridiculously crowded.)

But I want it to be completely unplanned... well for him at least. I don't want to be like "Hey, let's have sex in my car!". I want to kind of just have it happen, but I have no idea how to move things from the front to the back seat, or how to just park. Or even how to just start driving aimlessly.

How should I get it into the backseat without saying it? Better yet, how do I get him to just drive around with me aimlessly?

First, even though you're trying to make it SEEM random, be sure to put a lot of effort into planning the whole thing.

If you're going to be driving, be sure your car has a reasonably spacious backseat, especially if you or your boyfriend are tall people. A Honda Accord is better than a Honda Civic in this case. The ideal vehicle would be a minivan with rear/mid seats that fold down/are removeable (A Toyota Senena, for example). If you have one, be sure to do all this work before the date starts.

Chances are, the "surprise" car sex will occur toward the end of the date, or at least during a time where you and your boyfriend aren't already doing something. If you ever have one of those "What should we do?" moments, that's the perfect time to suggest something like "Want to go for a drive?". If your boyfriend needs convicing tell him something to the effect of: "It can be entertaining enough just to drive around and talk to each other, and it's good for our communication." Besides being convincing, it's also true.

If you're driving, look for a quiet suburban neighborhood with no streetlights (Or at least, few streetlights). Find a spot not directly in front of a house, but in front of a bush or something. If your boyfriend is driving, make subtle suggestions to him to get him to drive where you want to. ("Turn here", "pull over here", etc etc). It helps if you have a place in mind beforehand, so a little bit of preperatory scouting may be nessessary.

As for moving into the backseat, just start kissing or making out or whatever it is you do, and then stop, move into the backseat, and call him back. He won't say no.

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I had sex about 3 weeks ago on my period & we didn't use a condom!


Whats the possiblity of me being pregnant?


I've had sex with him before without a condom & never got pregnant!

Your chances are completely irrelevent. Find out for sure. Get tested. Twice.

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I have a razr. Quite frankly, its getting out of style. I want a new phone for Christmas and I had two I was thinking of.

Blackberry curve, or Moto Q lime.

I found out that for the Moto Q and Blackberry you have to buy internet, which is an extra fee every month. I don't really want to do this because I already pay for my own unlimited texting. Is it worth it, though? Is there any smartphones that you can buy WITHOUT getting internet?

Also, If these choices didn't work.. I was thinking of a sliding phone. I don't like the shine or the glimmer.. so I've been looking around.

Any idea's would help!! :)

The Nokia N96 comes out in the US fairly soon. It'll probably cost an arm and a leg though ($650+), but it'll be the only phone you'll need for years to come, and since "style" seems to be important to you, it'll make your friend's jaws drop, too.

If you're unwilling to wait, the Nokia N95 is out now and a little less expensive. The specs on it aren't quite as impressive, but it's just as impressive looking and it's still a freaking fantastic phone.

If you're on a budget, the Nokia N70 is a few years old now but still amazing.


The downside is that all these phones work with AT&T only, and you can't get any of these at a lower price with a 2 year plan, if you're in to that.

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Okay so me and my boyfriend had sex over 2 weeks ago. We used a condom and everything and so i didn't really think anything of it. The condom didn't split as far as i know but now i'm really worried.

I'm probably over reacting but my period is now 3days late (i know that probably sounds silly) But i'm really worried and paranoid about it. The last 4 months have been precise and it's a bit strange that i'm not 'on' yet.

So yea.. ANY helpful advice really would be great - at least to help put my mind at rest a little more anyway!

Thanks a lot. x

You didn't meantion your age, but being 3 days late is nothing to worry about, especially if you're young. Your period won't be "precise" until your mid-20s or so.

Instead of worrying about whether or not you could be pregnant, get tested and find out for sure. Closure will put your mind at rest more than anything we Advicenators could say to you.

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Okay so my friend told me she and her boyfriend had sex like last Tuesday and she was supposed to get her period almost 6 days ago, but she hasn't. She's only 14 and CANNOT tell her parents. What should she do if she is?

I want to try to be the best of friend I can and help her through it, but I'm not sure how. Thanks.

14 year olds do NOT have regular periods. It's common for periods to be several weeks late up into a woman's mid-20s. 6 days is nothing for a 14 year old. I'd be more surprised if she was "on time".

Before freaking out and causing a ton of drama, have your friend get tested. Twice. There is a good chance she isn't pregnent. If it turns out she is, ask another question once you're sure.

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Growing up, the cornerstone of my being and identity was thus: Do good, and good things will happen.
I'm a religious guy, and I always, always, do what I think is right.
Up until 7 years ago, no matter what happened or whatever came my way, I stood my ground and persisted.
Then I met a person, who I thought I could trust and trusted me. And this person, in time, wronged me in response to me doing what I thought was right. And in the process, they tore the foundation of my self-belief down, and made me out to be essentially a bad, horrible man.
Traditionally, it's been my experience that karma, or justice, always does its thing. But in this case, there was no vindication for me.
I've recently checked in on said person who wronged me through the wonder of blogs, and discovered that while I'm a graduate who is jobless, love life on the rocks, and his dreams increasingly out of reach, they are happy in their love life, have a good job, and everything is going their way.
While I've been trying to still live like a good person, this person who is selfish and cruel is happy, while I'm still second-guessing the motivation behind every good thing I do.
I'm not asking how to get my self-belief in karma back. I've accepted that nothing I do is going to change my life to a happy one, even if I remain a good man (in my mind at least). All I want to know is, where do I go from here now that I know that being a horrible person apparently gets you happiness and being nice leaves you hating yourself?

I'm going to try to keep my answer as religion-neutral as possible.


A wise man once imparted three truths about life to me: "Life isn't fair. Life is hard. Life is a choice."

I, like you, always do what I think is the right thing. However, where we differ is that you seem to do good because of the promise that good things will come in return. It doesn't always work that way. Life isn't always fair. In a perfect world, maybe, but not the world we live in. This in itself is no reason to abandon hope, or the things you stand for and believe it. Sometimes you get the stick, and other times you get the carrot. If this truth alone is enough to dissuade you from doing good in the world, are you truely doing good, or simply accepting a percieved form of bribery from the universe? Do good for the sake of doing good, and to hell with what you get (or don't get) in return.

Life is hard, and you're experiencing this first-hand. You may find some comfort in that, at least in some point in their life, everyone has problems, and some people have problems bigger than yours. I don't think I need to expand on this any more, so I'll leave it at that.

So, to answer your question: In the same way that it's your choice to accept that being a bad person makes you happy and being a good person makes you miserable, it's your choice on where you go from here. A different, unrelated wise man once told me "Tell me where you start out, and I'll tell you where you end up". From your current outlook, it seems to me that you're going to spiral downward into a life of cruelty and selfishness because of the apperant lack of consequences. However, life is a choice, and if you wish to change that, it's well within your power to do so. If you change your outlook, your future will change accordingly. If you change where you "start out", where you "end up" will change accordingly.

Life isn't fair. Life is hard. Life is a choice.



Also, keep in mind that not everything you read on the internet is true, and people lie (especially about themselves) quite often. If it makes you feel any better, chances are things aren't going as well for your "friend" as he or she would like you to believe.

Lastly, changing your beliefs isn't nessessarily the end of the world, and is quite common as people grow older, mature, and see more of the world. Judging from the maturity of your question, it's safe to assume that you're not one of the 13 year old girls that usually ask questions on this website, but maturity can happen at any age, and at any point in your lifetime. What I'm trying to say is, don't always fear change. It usually leaves you some place ultimately better than where you began. After all, the ability to grow and adapt is part of what helps make us human.

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So on Friday me and my boyfriend had sex, it was my first time & since he sneaked into my house he could'nt be able to buy a condom so instead we had unprotected sex ( i really don't wanna hear your smart comment about well you really should used a condom if you did'tn wanna worry about that!) cause i know it was stupid of me and that will the first and last time i ever have sex without a condom. But anyways, it was my first time and so was it his too we had no lub or condom so it hurt soo bad but im so scared that i might get preg cause at once he was about to bust and then he took it out and then did what he had to do to cumm...But then i told him to wipe it off he wiped it off with his hand and made sure he did'nt have any cum anywhere on his penis and then we went on...im scared of precum i've been doing research on that..and it says theirs a possibility you can get pregnant of it or maybe that might have cum and im so scared!

So what is precum? & can they feel it when they let it out? & how do you know if they precummed inside you?

please help me im so stressed out right now.

Firstly, "wiping it off" with a hand is far from the best way to steralize a penis after ejaculation. Chances are, he didn't get it all off. In fact, I'm willing to wager he couldn't have since there was probably sperm left over in his tube.

Like betheexp said, Precum is a clearless fluid that is emitted when a man is sexually aroused. Unlike what betheexp said, there IS sperm in precum. Figures vary on what your chances are of getting pregnent from precum, but they're all between 30%-70%. Your chances are probably a bit higher since your boyfriend had fresh leftover sperm all over his penis.

Speaking as a man, it's nigh impossible to feel precum coming out under the best of cases, and truely impossible in the heat of the moment. Safe to assume that if an erect, uncovered penis comes in contact with your vagina, there is some precum in you.

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THIS QUESTION IS FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE BLACKBERRY PEARL 8100 FROM T-MOBILE! OR IF YOU ARE CERTAIN OF YOUR ANSWER. thanks(:

okay,so right now i have a sidekick slide. i didn't get the internet package on it,so basically i only have a regular cellphone.
and,if you dont take the internet package,you dont have the AIM service on your phone either.

so i was wondering,on the blackberry,if you don't take the internet package,can you still have the AIM service on your phone? or is it the same as the sidekick slide?

If you cannot access the internet, you can't access AIM, regardless of which phone you're on or who your service provider is.

No internet = no AIM.

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