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HI I AMM FRUM DHA TOWN OF CONWAY S.C. .. I PERSONALLY DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS ARTICLE AND I THINK THAT IT IS HOWEVER STUPID AS HECK TO SIT HERE AND SAY DHAT BLACKS ARE THE ONLY ONES TO GO ON WITH THEIR PREGNANCY!! WHERE IM FRUM THERE IS A VARIETY OF BLACK WHITE HISPANIC OR HOWEVER YA SPELL IT HAVE BABYS...NO MATTER WHAT SITUATTION YOU ARE IN YOU SHOULD CARRY IT OUT BECAUSE ONE ITS A SIN AND TWO IF YA GROWN ENOUGH TO LAY THERE AND MAKE HIM/HER THEN YA NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THAT DANG BABY!!! SO WATT IF YA GOT MONEY YOUR WASTEING IT ON KILLIN SOMETHING SPECIAL.GROW UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im13 and i wet the bed on purpose 3 times then i started wetting it by accident i dont want to tell anyone and i also pooed my bed by accident but i liked it so i do it on the toilet but in my knickers then empty it im annoyed and want to stop but i dont want to tell anyone
It would have been nice to have a reference to the original study so we could read more about the psychology of smiling. I have a student looking for information about whether or not smiling is contageous...this would have been a big help!
This is such a thought provoking thread. I had recently viewed a video with Larry King ( I love and respect Larry as a talk show host ) playing with his very adorable toddler boys. It was absolutlely pitiful to watch that very fragile, hunched over old man attempting to play with and keep up with his very active children. On the other hand I watched my son-in-law roughhouse with his two young children just this past weekend. His young ,strong virile body easily tossing the children over his head with them laughing with glee! What a beautiful sight! Ahhh I must say every fiber in my body KNOWS that nature intended the young and the strong to reproduce, it is truly poetry in motion.
so in that case , the more sons you will be having the richer you will be? Now tell me , Is it then right to say that the riches iperson in bangladesh is someone who has huge number of sons?
Some people try to march back as the truth approaches towards them........It's not the matter of miscommunication, or the oldest language in this world which people are trying to express here........ofcourse, we all have the truth within,but most of us are not ready to accept...........We need to prepare ourselves for a better life, not to degrade anyone in rush of proving individual greatness......
Concept of oldest language itself is a nonsense.............
Every tiger will say I am the only king but unfortunately, none of them know the reality.........
Proven fact ay!!! and who has proved it??? some dumb and unaware person of the western world??? there is nothing wrong in being proud of the culture... sanskrit is the mother of ALL languages in the world. It is a hard fact to accept. You won't I know . Why would the western world take this from the most gifted people right! INDIANS HAVE BRAINS. They are amongst highest rankings in army, scientists, doctors, engineers, technicians, IT professionals. You name it-- you see them standing right at the top. So they cant be dumb. Well if you dont want to accept the sanskrit is mother of all languages, I would re-phrase it for you. Sanskrit is the oldest language and the creater or most languages in the world (not only india).
HI I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO KNOW THAT YOUR COMPLETELY RIGHT IN THIS SITUATION. I AM IN THE SAME SITUATION AS YOU. I AM 18 YEARS OLD IN COLLEGE TO BECOME A ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER AND I AM DATING A OLDER MEN. HE IS IN HIS 40'S. I LOVE HIM SO MUCH AND HE LOVES ME. WE DONT CARE ABOUT OUR AGE DIFFERENCE. I DO GET ALOT OF CRITICISM AS WELL, I HAVENT TOLD MY PARENTS YET. I JUST MET HIS PARENTS AND THEY LOVE ME, EVEN IF THEY ARE IN THEIR LATE 80'S AND EARLY 90'S. HIS PARENTS SAY THAT WE SHOULD GO FOR IT AND EVEN HAVE A BABY! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT! I DONT THINK THEY ARE READY TO KNOW. MY BOYFRIEND HAS 3 KIDS FROM HIS PREVIOUS MARRIAGE AND IT IS SOOO HARD BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL IN THEIR TEEN YEARS. YES, THEY KNOW THAT I AM DATING THEIR DAD AND THEY ARE HAVING A TOUGH TIME WITH IT. I AM GETTING A CLOSER RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS MIDDLE DAUGHTER THAT IS 14 YEARS OLD. I AM HOPING THAT ME AND HIS DAUGHTER WILL START HANGING OUT SOON AND THEN I HAVE TO FIND SOMEWAY TO GET HIS SON AND OTHER DAUGHTER TO APPROVE. ME AND MY BOYFRIEND WANT TO GET MARRIED AFTER I GRADUATE AND HE WANTS TO BE THE FATHER TO MY KIDS. CAN ANYONE ELSE GIVE ME ADVICE. I REALLY NEED IT! THANKS
First of all, india is not the one producing the terrorists, its pakistan and Afghanistan. And the only reason they are terrorists is because of big stupid Americans, who drive pickup trucks and think they can afford to buy a 60 inch tv when they are defaulting on several mortgage payments. Im going to go ahead and assume that you fall under this category. The reason you dont give a shit is because you cant. You lack the capacity. Your comments, short in nature and seemingly to the point only affirm the stereotype that has been building across the world, that Americans are stupid.
And even if youre not American, i would look on that as even more of a failure on your part that you have no idea what is going on in the Eastern hemisphere. Well i suppose if your headline news involves the saving a small cat and how the heroic fireman climbed the tree, then i wouldnt know either. but then again int hat situation i wouldnt attempt to comment on something i have absolutely no idea about. I guess in that case you would be one quiet little sad man with all the intellectual capacity of a small turnip. Anyway im not here to uncover facts about people so all i would advise you to do, is that before taking part in a conversation of some intellectual stimulation, give a shit, and you will see it makes a world of difference
Well its obvious that most of the people in this thread are pseudo braniacs. The topic is not what Indian language is oldest but what is the oldest in the world in terms of spoken phonetically. The micro crisis that seems to arise here is that none of the people in this thread (including some people who are clearly white and perhaps even inbred) understand or write english very well. Now if youre going to comment on something someone has read, at least have the decency to check whether your comment is pertaining to the topic.
And yes we all know Wikipedia and many indian sites exist where most of the information posted below is probably given so that it may be conveniently copy-pasted. And BTW im Indian.
wow you are either blind or just plain stupid, you really want to know the real pattern, the one main thing that have in common is that they are poor but i guess you didnt guess thatone did you , try again
so did anyone actually try this tea? i mean its nice to hear all of your stories but someone needs to actually tell if it works
The warmest weather on Earth lags the solstice by about six weeks, so that statement doesn't seem correct. We would expect an asymmetry, though the asymmetry would shift from one side of the equator to the other.
On Uranus, the conditions are even more extreme due to its 98-degree tilt. During the years of those photos, Uranus was nearing Equinox, which it reached in late 2007. In other words, they were all taken during the same season, and you would expect an asymmetry to remain about the same during such a short period of the 84-year Uranian orbit.
Many of those photos would be credited to Heidi Hammel. clicking her name will take you to the website about her biography, Beyond Jupiter, which I wrote in 2005.
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heyy i dident no that there were other people with the same problem. I have hair practically everywhere and i get really depressed about it. none of my friends know and i try to keep it that was because i would just hate it if people made fun of me because of it. i get some of the hair on my body waxed but it just come back within 3 or something days. i dont go swimming or anything with my friends because i just get really depressed and worried what other people think of me. I was going to get laser treatment but its to expensive. hopefully the tea works fingers crossed. Im 13 by the way x.
This has been such a relief to read all you guy's comments. I have always felt like the odd one out. Asides from my palms and feet every single part of my body is covered in hair. My sister looks so American and she is naturally hairless. I have hair all over my forehead and sides of my face, neck, chest, stomach, back, butt... you name it.
The sad thing is, I'm fourteen years old, and even when I was 5 I had really hairy legs. My mom knows how to do threading, which I highly suggest on your face. I get my forehead and cheeks and upper lip and chin threaded. I wax my arms (trust me ladies, it doesn't hurt that much, you get used to it). I shave my legs and genitals, but the hair comes back after 24 hours (but I'm okay with it). Now my big issue is the back of my neck and back (which has a LOT of hair, people have commented on it NUMEROUS times in the past). Also, my butt and stomach. I have a great body and once I get rid of my facial hair I get really pretty. My only issue is HAIR! So when bikini season rolls around instead of shaving it I'm going to bleach the hairs and make them blonde.
I'm going to try the tea thing soon, though. I wonder if it works.
Good luck my fellow girlies. Don't be jealous of hairless girls -- there's always a way around these things.
Best of luck,
Tee J. <3
No wonder college departments hire so many adjuncts to teach. It's a pity there is really such a gulf between those who have full time jobs inthe field and those who adjunct semester by semester to scrape by, often w/o benefits.
In response to the morons who cite "hyperbolic" femininism that supposedly claimed that women cannot have vaginal orgasms, I suggest you get your facts right. I am a graduate instructor of women's sexuality.
Freud's frigidigy has long been used to constrain female sexuality and this article is but a recent recurrence in a long line of attempts to tell women that there is a right and wrong way to acheive an orgasm. We should not have to fit our anatomies into an A OR B box. Vaginal orgasms please most men more because they derive their pleasure from vaginal penetration but 50-75 percent of women cannot acheive orgasm from vaginal penetration alone.
Feminists have NOT taught that NO women can acheive vaginal orgasm, but we have illuminated the fact NOT all women can and there is nothing wrong with clitorial orgasms, vaginal orgasms, or what most women actually prefer, the combination orgasm.
And for you women who using your personal experience of a vaginal orgasm to deny the history of women who anatomically cannot acheive a vaginal orgasm being marginalized and oppressed, you seriously need to rethink your stance. We did infibulations in this country until the 70's to "cure" frigidity but no one wants to talk about or hear about that.
And as for the article above, it simply reeks of sexual repression. It is not women's anatomies that are at fault. There is nothing psychosexually wrong with sexual variation in the way women's bodies are formed sexually. Men need to adapt their sexual styles to adapt to a variety of of anatomical differences in women. Not all women get off in the same way. We never have.
I just met a DVM who is now working as an executive secretary. She could no longer work in barns because of respiratory problems
umm i am a guy but i don't neccesarily disagree or agree like can't a person just be nice all the time like there doesn't have to be a reason or motive behind everything someone does like i am 16 and i try my best to be a good respectable person around everyone. maybe a guy acts nice around a girl so that she may respect him not because he is way out of her league there's such thing as being a human being rather than a player or (Pick-up artist) so just let that sink in. Not all men are animals as women supposably think. This just makes me mad how women think they know so much about how we men feel and our motives like we need you guys because without you we feel inadequate or useless you make us feel happy and good about ourselfves you make us whole. How are we supposed to talk to you girls if you think everything that comes out of our mouths is ment to bang you like grow up like if i see an attractive girl i would gladly go up to her sit beside her just cause i am interested and want to know more about her and what to expect so i would then talk to her and try to get to know her maybe make her laugh quite a bit because that makes things easier and she opens up more all a guy want is for a girl to listen to him and actually care about what he's got to say (well thats what i want) but at the same time keep the conversation going.
why you should think a guy would only be nice cause you think he's outta his league is F*cking dumb and cold
and if he says he doesn't like you he won't talk to you simple as that.
Can anyone help here? I'm wondering if the 15% of OCD patients and 10% of TS patients could have some biologic/genetic trait that makes them more susceptible to complications from strep than the control groups. Is that possible, or does this study rule that out? I don't see that it does.
Mine started as a result of weeding in a mulched area of my lawn. I am certain it was then because as I pulled up the last several weeds (after sundown) I was bitten in several places in succession. I assumed they were mosquitos doing the biting, however, the sting was more pronounced and left a larger "puncture" mark and a distinct redness arond the bite. They took what seemed like forever to heal and one of the bites is still not completely healed over. That was in August; it is now the end of November.
Have the same problem,
i have hair in my face (at my upper lip) and in my legs.
i always wished i wasn't like this so that i can fit in with the other people..
BTW,where can u buy spearmin tea ?
Last two comments were made by the same person (btw)
Let me get some thigns straight rele quick; i love weed, makes everything better. I smoke about twice a week with my friends then we go out and have a blast. Point being ive personally enjoyed and experienced weed as a recreational drug so im speaking from just common sense, not a preconcieved hatred or straight facts. As a gateway drug i see it being plausible for the extreme habbitual users, upwards of like (throwing a number out there) 3 or 4 times a day, who have built up a decent amount tolerance. Depending on the person, they might want to experience a better high and might seek other means. Personally i thought about doing shrooms, cause i heard its like a better version of weed. I havent yet, but the reasoning isnt beyond everyone. Does this make week a gateway drug? More or less, depending on the person, but it could be the same deal with alcohol. The main idea revolving around the desire to attain the effect more efficiently, could prompt a small amount of people to try other things (also considering the assibility of the other drugs contrast to weed). Does this make weed worse? Not rele considering this chain of events is mostly tailered to the person, accessibility, and the drug being used.
Weed, for all intents and purposes, is marginally bad for you. The carbon particles created by the burning of the leaves, easilly eliminated by a vapo, high end bong with multiple filters, and or baking. The only 2 side effects ive gotten is i sometimes forget small things (like where i put my keys) and im more prone to getting sick (especially during the winter). Ironaclly this prompted me to become better organized (so i can find my stuff easier) and eat healthy immunity boosting foods (like yogart) with regular excersize outside of highschool sports. I can drive high no problem and whats even funnier is that every single person i know that smokes and drives (around 50) acually drive rele slowly when theyr high. Honastly, wat other drug has "built in" safety side effects like that (not recomending doing it, just stating something i find humorous).
Finally, why the fuck do i care wat other people do if its not bothering me. If u do it cool, call me up ill rip with ya, if u dont, w/e i dont rele care. As long as ur not hurting anyone and being respectful of other peoples' opinions then go crazy. If u had a long day at work or u just finished a hard school week, go rip a joint with a few friends and watch a movie. Honastly, it'll probably do u some good.
Hey i feel very bad about what is occuring with ur family, having personally gone through a sloppy divource with my parents i know how harsh it is on the individuals involved. However, from what i read i believe that ur husband's problem lies in his personality and genitics, not in the acual substance. Im not a doctor, but from personal experience ive noticed that the habbitual use of weed is caused by some personal and or emotional problem. Not being able to understand when a substance is hurting u, when it has been proven time and time again that it is not addictive, is a key note in a phycological problem. Blaming it on the weed is only a short sighted and convienant scapegoat.