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Everybody knows your argument, trust me. "It's my body, I can do what I want" get over it sometimes people can't do what they want because it imposes other freedoms. Just because you don't impose other freedoms does not mean for even one, single second that others in your category don't and won't. Those who nit pick on the people who smoke in their backyards and earn an honest living need to get real but it's not like you're specifically being targeted, people's problems are with those bloody idiots who do impose on others after they do whatever they want to their own bodies. People aren't going to make it legal just because there is a minority like yourself who doesn't get in to trouble. You have a real problem with people telling you what to do, I hope you get over that someday but it's not all about you, it's about other people too who can't control themselves. Take your frustrations out on those who can't control themselves, not the people protecting innocent people from those who can't control themselves. I feel your frustration, but I think you're totally taking it out on the wrong people. If people didn't act like they did while they were under the influence then just maybe more studies and people in general would support legalization of harsher drugs. When you have a spare half hour - an hour go to googlescholar.com and do some homework.

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From my experience on both sides of the fence, majority of the popular people were over dramatic/gossipers/acquaintances rather than actual friends and unreliable. Come to think of it, majority of the popular people I know outside of school act the exact, same way. Chained_life seems to know what he's talking about. Unpopular people are just as bad, usually pessimistic, complainers, make a lot of excuses and cling to your friendship. People suck 8-)

I've been to 3 schools to finish year 12. The first school I was bashed for something I deserved. I wrote a really nasty poem about a girl I hated and her friends got a hold of it :lol: I had about 2 or 3 female friends and hung out with all the year 11/12 boys. So although during classes I was picked on, during recess and lunch time I was fine. The second school I went to, I was pretty much one of if not the most popular girl in my grade. I had moved from my previous high school after being bashed because I was too scared to go back and was lucky enough for the most popular boy in the whole school to have a crush on me. Then he went around telling everyone he was in love with me so I had a lot of friends. I then graduated year 12 in TAFE where I was in both crowds. I didn't hang around the "in" crowds at recess and lunch because I was always in the library studying but I was popular in class, nobody disliked me to the extent as showing it or acting it out towards me. And I helped a lot of people with their assignments so I think they felt obligated to like me :P University was the same, I was in both crowds. In recess and lunch I never hung out with anybody, I studied in the library every, single day. Then during classes I had a lot of friends but once more they probably felt obligated because I always helped with assignments :P I sat in the same spot every day and had a few approach me because they knew I would stop what I was doing to explain something to them or to proof read their assignment etc I also worked in the university's cafe' so I got to become friends with all the lecturers and Phd students :D

If the guy is seriously mentally challenged not just "slow" then talk to him and ask him whether or not he has an aid with him. The school needs to organize one for him if he hasn't already got one. Admittedly, his parents/guardians should have already organized one for him, and if they haven't the school should have, if the school didn't then the teacher should have but since there seems to be a chain of lazy people going on, it's now your responsibility to act on it and help him find out where one is. Please don't sweep this under the rug or you'll add to the chain of ignorance and this poor kid is not going to be getting the help he needs. Secondly, have patience. No, don't try to do all the work yourself because you'll just stress yourself out and you don't need to. A good thing about team work is it teaches you to think "outside the box" to problem solve. You might have to spend extra time explaining things with him and getting him involved, although an aid should be doing most of this for the both of you. Thirdly, speak with your teacher. Don't sulk about who you're with or you won't achieve what you want. But you can say that you don't have a problem working with someone mentally challenged but it's going to take extra time to help him out so whether an extension could be negotiated, or whether you could organize an aid to help your partnership. If your teacher refuses to do this, go to your school's counsellor and they will hook you up with the help you need. If this person is not really mentally challenged just "slow" then put yourself in his shoes, say that hypothetically you aren't very good at mathematics and unless someone in your team sits down with you and explains it to you, you're going to fail the up-coming exam. One guy who is a math whiz doesn't have the patience to teach you anything so instead does all the work and hands it in from the both of you. You now have resentment towards him, you haven't learnt anything at all and you're most likely going to fail anything else that comes up on the same topic. If after having the patience to sit with him and show him how to do something he shows signs of genuinely just being lazy go to your teacher and explain that you have taken the time to teach him and he is not showing your team the willingness to work. If your teacher refuses to do this, once more knock on your school counsellor's door and they will help you. We had a few people like this in university and as you could probably imagine I was stressed out to the point where I wanted to rip my hair out. In the long run, nobody wants to work with these people. The smart people hook up with the smart people and who are the lazy people left to work with? the lazy people... and then they find out that they have even more work to do. They then usually drop off like flies and don't end up coming back.

Before I tell you my opinion is the person really mentally challenged or are you labeling them as mentally challenged because they don't get things as quickly as you do?

play games, complete online surveys (I just earned 40 bucks in 2 hours), I'm also a part of online survey panels/forums who give opinions on how to better their products etc Red bull just paid me 10 bucks for a 5-10 minute survey. I'm also a part of a parenting forum that pays you to publish your advice, also get paid accordingly to how highly they're rated, how many short answer responses I reply to advice with and to rate other articles.... so yes lots of writing stuff. I cut out the middle man and sell cheaper products and share the profits globally online. I sell jewellery to brides to be over the net. I buy and sell ebay products to make a profit. I enter competitions although the best thing I've won recently is a mouse pad with my poem printed on it so nothing special. I sign up to sample free products from nappies to cosmetics. So when I'm not on those things making extra money I usually play runescape, zone.com (bejewelled or scrabble rack up) mostly. Or if I'm feeling smart, reading up on things that interest me or even things I haven't got a clue about and try to learn something new so I'm not limiting myself.

The question with my family is not what disease's we have but rather what disease don't we have? The main one's being mental illness, cervical cancer and diabetes. Everyone on my mum's side of the family has bipolar disorder so I'm quite lucky to skip it, although I was misdiagnosed with it for about 7 years. This was discovered when taken off mood stabilizers that I was a "normal" person again. I do have an anxiety disorder though and I do resort to flight or fight when under stress/perceived personal attacks. I don't need medication for it as it's not severe enough. There is also substance abuse that runs in our genetics (although the argument is did mental illness create the substance abuse problem) and even Schizophrenia in 2 known relatives. We also have Autism running through a few of my cousins (although if you look at studies mothers with mental illness in particular mood disorders and depression are more likely to give birth to children with either autism or aspergers) but that's not to say that mother's with mental illness cause autism in children, studies just show that children born with autism/aspergers are twice as likely (although I did find one source that quotes up to 4 times as likely) to have a parent with the aforementioned disorders. I'm currently under-going procedures and getting cells cut out of my cervix as I'm at medium-high risk for cervical cancer. I'm getting the rest of it cut out in 2 days time. There is a 20% chance that it will just grow back so if that happens I'll have to keep cutting it out so it can't progress to cancer. I can't have the cervical cancer antibiotics because the cells were already detected before it came out :( And I also have type 2 diabetes at high risk for type 1 that has been traced back to when I was at least a teenager but went undetected until the birth of my son. There was literally no chance at escaping this one because it's been passed on in our genetics for centuries but my parents never took me to get tested for it. It makes a whole heap of sense now when I had black outs, fainting and extreme fatigue.

I pretty much do this with a few exceptions anyway so I'll just blog it and bump it when April is over :D

I don't really find any words interesting... I tend to stick to simple English unless needed.

Rebdragon is like space matter, he doesn't need to be "cool" because everything he does "just is" ;)

Indeed it is (thanks for asking) :D And I'd go through the pain all over again :P

Should have worded myself better, it wasn't sliced off literally, it was dangling by the smallest piece of skin

Awwww they have curly hair :

I believe in homework if it's actually teaching you something. I lost count how many times in primary school I had to take something home that was bloody pointless and time consuming. And then getting punished (picking up rubbish at lunch time) because it wasn't done. I did kind of deserve it though, despite being one of 3 kids who was being taught mathematics and linguistics with the principal instead of with the rest of the class, I've always had a mouth on me and wouldn't do something unless I believed it would be somehow beneficial. For example, one time I had to make a star sign advertisement for English and I didn't hand it in because 1. I thought star signs were a crock of [cabbage] and 2. I wasn't planning to be in marketing or real estate :D

I was playing hide and go seek with the kids and I locked myself in a huge bird avery and couldn't get out :P So I guess I wasn't looking at what I was doing and sliced it off! looks normal now, they did a great job of sewing it back on. The only dodgy thing is the nail but you can still see the stitching under light. Can't complain, could have been left without my finger.

I vouch for this product, my mother quit smoking successfully after 20+ years of smoking like a pack a day and unsuccessfully trying to quit 2-3 times before that. It didn't work so much in the way you described (blocking nicotine receptors and seeming pointless) but it made her feel nauseous every time she had a cigarette (much like how I smoked a bad brand for the same effect). The first 2 weeks were hard and then the withdrawal phase left her. She still feels the need for a cigarette sometimes but it's more psychological rather than actually wanting one. She's successfully quit now for about a year or two.

The second most painful thing was slicing my finger off. I was running around and didn't even notice that it was missing because somehow it went completely numb for a while, and then when my mum saw it and started freaking out, trying to cover it up it hurt like hell. Gross I remember throwing up blood and everything, had to have microsurgery. Screamed the hospital down when they removed all the cloth and this bone was sticking out :thumbup:

Sure, tell her what you think but just be there for her when she falls. You can't make people understand and realize what they're doing unless they want to. I have a girlfriend who constantly chooses bad relationships and I always let her know what I think but then I just shut my mouth and support her when she needs it. Once he hit her and she didn't want to do anything about it because she 'loved him so much' and so I took photos of them, dated it, recorded it and kept a hold of it in case she needed it later. Then he stole her tv so she was lucky I held on to her receipt so she wouldn't lose it. Just be one step ahead and be there for her when she crashes and burns. Sometimes I wish people would realize what the hell they're doing but love makes you put up with some really stupid things. And it would be rather hypocritical of me not to mention I've been there way too many times. But in the long run those people who put up with "some really stupid things" learn lessons the hard way and become wiser in time. I guess that's why people who "can't do", "teach". They're no longer together (it took 6 years) but being that one step ahead got the loser the justice he deserved.

Yeah sorry about that we popped across the road to get some chicken :lol: We'll catch up with you sooner or later anyways.

:P My brother was horrible when it came to darts, once it rebounded off the board and stabbed himself in the foot and the other time the dart landed in the middle of an electrical cord and he pulled it out :wall:

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Child birth - any takers? :lol: it felt like somebody got a hunting knife and decided to go SLASH down your privates. That's your reward after about 10 hours of feeling like somebody is ripping out your insides :D ever crapped something the size of a watermelon? yeah, no? :P :lol:

I'd leave the experiment, knowing that in psychological experiments I can choose to opt out at anytime as well as the person "being shocked". I would have caught on the second they said "go on... you have no choice" er.. actually I do by law lol but obviously I have no idea what would happen if I had no prior knowledge of the experiment. But you can apply this to anything in life that has leaders, such as the workplace or even this very forum. Sorry but if I don't think it's the right thing, I'm not going to shut up and nod. I've never been one to follow something that I disagree with (for valid reasons) just because someone with a rank in front of their name says so. So with that in mind, although unsure of how I would react I have a fair idea that I'd tell them to [bleep] off. I've done it many times before, so would hope I would react the very same way in this experiment. I don't believe in superiors, only equals with titles in front of their names. Some take it to their heads and others don't. But I'm not likely according to past events to shut up and do it because somebody with a rank says so. I'm more likely to tell them to [bleep] off - but I'm sure people know that by now. I'm more concerned about what's right for other people over what someone else thinks or wants from me. I guess you could say I'm not easily manipulated and pick up quite easily when someone is trying to do so. Btw I like Zierro's idea of gender and age differences. Probably add in different ethnics as well or even size! On a completely unrelated note I remember reading one study saying that if you sit next to an obese person in a group job interview that you're less likely to get hired :lol: Also Um bong - I agree with what you said about ethnics. People honestly believe IQ tests are intelligence indicators when they're ethnically biased.

What's your msn? my fiance' was in the Aussie defense force if you want someone qualified to talk about options. Also have an entire msn full of mates over in East Timor/ Afghanistan etc from Brisbane that you might like to talk to, all from different fields.