Description : Is Fluther getting just too ugly-spirited lately?
Last Answer : “What’s with all this violence?” asks man while punching his neighbor.
Description : Can I get a group hug? (Details)
Last Answer : I just hooked up with a new girl. Thought she was awesome. Turns out, she's got a lot of problems. I was really happy at first, but now it sucks. I got a new job. At a great place. Problem ... that may have cost me a great job, that would have really improved my life. Just venting, I guess. Sorry .
Description : Would you share some of your favorite Fluther memories?
Last Answer : Ah! A shift from the recent heat. I don't know if you were around at that time, but there was one April Fool day in 2014 when Pi and the mod team decided to make a goofy category called ... argument, look at the bigger picture and decide for ourselves whether to let go of the anger and move on.
Description : Your favourite sign of the season changing?
Last Answer : Being able to open the windows.
Description : What is your favourite part of your bedding?
Last Answer : answer:I can't pick one thing. It's a combination of things that create a wonderful environment. I love my pillows, but I love having a soft, comfy bed topper too. The one on my own bed is sheepskin ... putting it under my neck when I go to sleep. It really helps to cool me down and thus to sleep.
Description : Hi, I'm new here, any unwritten/unspoken rules I need to know about?
Last Answer : answer:Not really. Just respect the guidelines when writing questions. Welcome to ask-public.
Description : What's in your pockets?
Last Answer : I have my PC plus loyalty card, a $10 bill, 1 toonie, 4 loonies, 1 quarter and 2 dimes.
Description : The Jelly Below Me loves to... #1?
Last Answer : I love to randomly search through dusty old books when I visit the library, to see what may have been forgotten. TJBM loves to…
Description : If you live in the suburbs, do you know your neighbor's names, do you talk to them?
Last Answer : answer:His name is Anthony. Can’t remember his girlfriend’s name to save my life. Their dogs are Diesel and Tonka. And we helped them move from the house on one side of us to the house on the other side of us (Sounds crazy, but the other place has a fenced-in yard.) That’s about as close as we get.
Description : What are some community service options for a school club?
Last Answer : Right now food security is at an all time low. Could you help out somehow with a food pantry or kitchen.?
Description : Share some memories of a place you loved that closed?
Last Answer : I don’t know if I loved it, but the club where I met my husband closed down a few years after we met. Then eventually it reopened. Last time I was there it was gross, about 10 years ago. I hope they have renovated it since then.
Description : Do you feel you are part of the world?
Last Answer : I know I am part of the world and universe for that matter. But my world exisists here in where I live, work and play. Not to say I am not tuned into the wars, famine, disasters and suffering that ... world is for living each day the best possible way you can as you never know when it is your last.
Description : Second Life: What's the Point?
Last Answer : I'm part of a science group that gets together once or twice a week to listen to radio programs together and then chat. We are University professors, teachers, techs, business people all walks of life ... more umm.. interesting than barely literate 13 year olds. If you want to know more, PM me.
Description : How well, and to what extent, do you know your neighbors?
Last Answer : Not at all. I know she’s a woman, and that’s about it.
Description : How do I get cars to slow down on the road I live on?
Last Answer : Put some flowers by the side of the road, so it looks like someone died there from a car crash, you will be amazed how well it works at slowing people down.
Description : Have you ever been involved in leading a large community project?
Last Answer : I started an annual river cleanup event in my town. This year will be the 4th year and it grows in size and scope every year. 30 volunteers the first year, this year will be 100+ easy and shooting for 6 miles of shoreline.
Description : What should we call a technology company that builds online communities?
Last Answer : Cyberhood Neighbornet Neighborweb Cyberunity
Description : Can you tell a true story about asking a stranger to behave better, and having it work out really well?
Last Answer : answer:When I first moved to San Francisco I lived in a terrible neighborhood and I got mugged. I called the police and they took me to the station to give a statement. I had to ride in the back of the ... and he hadn't meant to scare me and he would never do it again. So I'd call that successful.
Description : If you could give me one idea, proposal , change or the like what would it be? Why would it be that? How would we do it?
Last Answer : People are unemployed because there are more people than jobs. The recent recession only exacerbated this growing problem that started years ago. My solution is to shorten the work-week. What with ... to 100% with shorter hours, yet everybody could still earn pretty close to their current incomes.
Description : Would you make a good ambassador for the town where you now live?
Last Answer : answer:“GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!!” Nope.
Description : Why pay for other people to be healthy?
Last Answer : Its called compassion. or human.Or just call it a good deed
Description : Shall we congratulate whatthefluther ...
Last Answer : Much love
Description : Anyone a member of Lockerz.com?
Last Answer : I’ve only heard of it from the recent spam all over a certain image board. I thought it was just a scam. Can you explain what it actually is?
Description : Some progress is better than no progress. What's your milestone? (cont'd).
Last Answer : ==================== Sunday, August 9th, 2009 ==================== I attended my fifth consecutive weekly yoga class at the Y and also logged my first cycling workout. My retirement date is only seven weeks away now, and I am eagerly preparing. That’s when I’ll get back to my writing projects, too.
Description : What use to society is an archive?
Last Answer : “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” – George Santayana Beyond that, folks use archives to research things such as land ownership, genealogy, how certain practices come to be accepted as normal, and so on. An archive serves as a collective memory.
Description : What's great about America and what's great about other countries?
Last Answer : what the US could learn from other countries? - build better non-rubbish cars - drop the black and white, good versus evil worldview and see the complex nature of international politics. - ... not justice. let specially trained judges, in more serious cases aided by advisors, make the decisions
Description : Are you a member of a minority group?
Last Answer : What is your definition of minority? I am a white male of Cajun decent.I married to a woman. I have 3 children, one is biological and the other two are are not biological they are adopted interacial ... terms" a minority, but how many people out there are just like me? Isn't everybody a minority?
Description : Will you miss me while I'm gone?
Last Answer : Yesh!
Description : Askvillans?
Last Answer : answer:I still check in now and then, but I seem to have lost my enthusiasm for Askville. It’s a shame. I really like the Askville format better, but it now seems moribund. I do notice that some of the best answers at Ask-public come from Askvillians.
Description : When was the last time you had an emotionally cathartic experience?
Last Answer : Last Christmas. Not Christmas day, but the couple of weeks or so leading up to it. I allowed myself to really miss my grandmother. Ten years ago I had a falling out with my mother - there was some ... needed it. This year I'm buying a goddamn krumkake iron if I have to get it directly from Norway.
Description : Can violent video games be cathartic for children?
Last Answer : answer:There have been studies done, but to my knowledge they are inconclusive at best. I've played my share of violent video games in my life, and I've never really had any violent ... becoming violent. Parenting and a litany of other influences will also effect, and have much greater effects.
Description : Would it be cathartic for you to share a miserable Christmas memory?
Last Answer : 1. Yes it would probably be emotional purging if I did have a not so happy holiday memory. Though the only real one would be when I spent new years alone as my family went out. I had planned ... good. 2. I do not think its/it would purgative: a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
Description : Why, oh, why do I love cleaning so? Does anyone else find cleaning cathartic?
Last Answer : Could you come over to my house?
Description : When reading your comments, do you find it a little bit cathartic that you're just as nuts as everyone else?
Last Answer : I don’t use ask-public as catharsis, and I don’t think very many of us are nuts.
Description : In what ways does shakespeare play provide an valuable lesson the destructive effect of hatred?
Last Answer : Need answer
Description : Jealousy + Hatred towards a new student?
Last Answer : Tell your friend (s)he's wrong. Your friend dislikes the new student out of jealousy and insecurity. Being nice and welcoming to the new student will make him/her feel better. He needs to fake it until he ... was the new kid? Wouldn't he want people to be welcoming? He needs to work on his empathy.
Description : Does hatred justify violence?
Last Answer : No.
Description : Is ethnic hatred always wrong and bad?
Last Answer : Yes, it is. It is, because you are automatically including every innocent person of that ethnicity in your hatred. In case of discriminating against that ethnicity, you also victimise and abuse innocent ... do you think it would be good for members of that ethnicity, to hate everyone of yours?
Description : Can you offer me any suggestions on how to overcome my intense hatred of wearing a retainer?
Last Answer : I do not have a success story to share, because I hated my retainer and never wore it. However, as an adult, I have contemplated getting the invisalign (or whatever they're called) braces ... more than you realize, so the progressive approach of the invisalign-type system might be better for you.
Description : Why so much hatred of science?
Last Answer : I don’t hate it, do you?
Description : If continents weren't separated by large bodies of water, and the entire world lived on one piece of land (but still with lakes and rivers) do you think there would be less hatred and ignorance in the world?
Last Answer : No – I think it would be as bad or worse since some of the worst conflicts are between neighboring countries or tribes.
Description : Have you ever felt a strong need to rid yourself of hatred? How did you do it?
Last Answer : Hate is not good at all. You need to sit and get your head around that. Then just find your inner peace.
Description : Did this woman (and her article in the Daily Mail) deserve such online hatred? See details inside.
Last Answer : While I would not have been as harsh, she is at most a 7/10. The fake smiles do not help either.
Description : Why is there so much hatred in the world towards women ?
Last Answer : I don't think most western males hate women but they do (generalization here) seem to feel they are superior. That feeling has been promoted by a male dominated culture. But it makes no sense to me ... must be equally important. It just seems to be hard for most males to come to that realization.
Description : Why the hatred towards Two and a Half Men?
Last Answer : I didn't know people actually hated it like that. I assume because one of the guys is a pig' and influences the child maybe. But I usually disregard people that say they hate something for no reason. ... and they still can't form a thought, that shows they have no idea what they are talking about.
Description : Is hatred a natural response to fear or is it taught?
Last Answer : No, I don't think hate is necessarily a natural response to fear. I do however, think that humans, for biological and evolutionary reasons, be hardwired with an us/not us worldview. And I don't mean an ... like us and that can all lead to fear and lead to hate. Hopefully that made some kind of sense
Description : Fox Redux--Should Brian K. be fired for the racial hatred displayed in his recent comment or just for his sheer stupidity?
Last Answer : Why are you watching Fox? It’s all crap!
Description : Promoting hatred and mass murder and totalitarian systems - Should this be legal and protected by the freedom of speech?
Last Answer : In a free society (presumably where uncensered information is readily available) YES! for every idea should stand on it’s own merit! And free people have the right to choose amongst em’!
Description : Why do I have this visceral hatred of Dane Cook?
Last Answer : Wow, maybe there's something wrong with me cause i think Dane, Jeff, and the Cable guy are all absolutely hilarious. I understand why you can hate them and not think that they are funny. ... with Paris Hilton being ridiculously famous for no reason. Just how the public as a mass precepts others.
Description : How do you control hatred?
Last Answer : Embrace it. Let the hate flow through you. Only then will it give you the strength to destroy the rival before you my young apprentice.