Bongoheads

@Bongoheads (283)

Age 62

Joined myLot 19 years ago

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Finally!!!!!

Jewels @Tetchie (2932) • Australia 10 Mar 07

I got my blue star. After sooo long a 10. It's a nice change from red. Thanks everyone who helped.

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Bongoheads Congrats Tetchie - a very well deserved bluey! I'm mystified as to why I've got one too, I don't think I deserve it but am happy with it because it matches my avatar beautifully - the red 9 also looked jolly nice but the other coloured stars would be a concern...

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Taking it too far

soccermom @soccermom (3198) • United States 5 Mar 07

The big news story is this 17 year old kid that decided it would be funny to get his 4 and 2 year old nephews high on pot. Looking at the video it is obvious it's not the first time these toddlers have smoked this. What was this...

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Bongoheads What an ignorant stupid little ***** - my blood's boiling here! If he'd done that to my kids I'd beat him up - it wouldn't matter what the authorities did I'd make him pay my own way. His age does not excuse his behaviour - at 17 I was doing all sorts of...

6 Mar 07

Should we live longer?

Thomas73 @Thomas73 (1467) • Switzerland 6 Mar 07

Isn't it ironic that, as we age and acquire a certain wisdom, both body and mind start deteriorating? As we should be starting to apply our life experience to solving some global problems, we are instead more concerned with our...

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Bongoheads I can see a snag with this fantasy Thomas! This longevity would initially be an expensive process - not something available to everyone - and therefore I could see a situation developing where only the wealthiest would be in a position to afford it. They're...

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Celebrities-are they morally excused

chocolatebaby @chocolatebaby (21) • United States 4 Mar 07

I don't like to judge people for what they do in their lives because not one of us here on earth is perfect. I often look at the happenings of celebrities and their lives and wonder if anyone thinks like I do when it comes to...

celebrities

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Bongoheads Hiya, I have a theory on this because, like you, it's something I've wondered about also. Celebrities are feted, treated differently from the rest of us, given preferential treatment in many situations and handled very often with kid gloves. They don't...

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Have you ever noticed...

littlemoo @littlemoo (317) • Australia 3 Mar 07

That it's almost impossible to find a menu at a restaurant or bar that has no spelling or grammatical errors? It's something a friend pointed out to me, and ever since, I've been noticing it as well! There are those that just...

writing

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Bongoheads Absolutely with you on this one. I notice spelling mistakes everywhere - television captions, on packaging, I even saw a spelling error printed on the side of a van. No-one seems to double check anything these days it seems to me. It doesn't annoy me though, I...

3 Mar 07

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Woman Who Don't Know that they are Pregnant when they go into labor

kyrandia @kyrandia (80) • United States 28 Feb 07

I have read that there are woman that go into labor and they do not even know that they are pregnant to begin with. How is this possible? I am currently 8 month pregnant. And I am VERY aware that I am pregnant. I am huge, my baby...

labor

parenting

prenancy

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Bongoheads Hi, apparently some women carry their babies very high right up in their ribcage. Some also don't get the telltale swollen belly that most of us experience. Menstruation can continue right through pregnancy in some women also and whilst many of us felt...

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Were You Confined to Bed During Labor?

birthlady @birthlady (5609) • United States 27 Oct 06

Why?

birth

childbirth

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Bongoheads Unfortunately for me I had a very stressful job and an extremely unforgiving boss who was waiting for my pregnancy to cause him grief. So I felt obliged to work the whole way through my pregnancy and act as if everything was fine even though I vomitted 3 or 4...

3 Mar 07

What is your current motivating agenda?

Jewels @Tetchie (2932) • Australia 23 Feb 07

Is your main reason for getting out of bed to tend to the kids? Is it your well paid job? Are you currently motivated to get into a relationship? What is it right NOW that you are focused on and WANT? Is it happiness? Stimulation?...

life

people

relationships

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Bongoheads Obviously I have to get out of bed in the mornings in order to take my daughter to school but, once she's there, I come home and work. I worked for years and years away from home and missed an awful lot, now I've set my business up and am busy building it my...

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Making others look bad, for your own benefit

Denmarkguy @Denmarkguy (1845) • United States 26 Feb 07

What is the deal with people who try to make others look BAD in order to make themselves look BETTER? I was reading some discussion or other on myLot, and a person was lamenting how she had written an article on another site,...

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Bongoheads Sadly, this person is my eldest brother. I'm the youngest of three children - two elder brothers and then me. It was never really an issue when we were children other than brother number 1 being slightly domineering and always playing the 'I'm the eldest'...

3 Mar 07

Indian Males With Female Avatars

Thomas73 @Thomas73 (1467) • Switzerland 6 Feb 07

What's the deal with so many Indian male posters -- at myLot or elsewhere -- who have a woman, usually a Bollywood actress, as an avatar? I would like my Indian friends to enlighten me, as I don't think it is due to the fact that...

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Bongoheads oooh I love Radiohead :-) ... Anyway, this is a rather tardy reply to your discussion (apologies but we've only just 'met' as you know). This is something I've wondered myself - I associate the avatars with the person posting and if I see a female photo I...

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grandparents raising grandchildren

DADCARES @DADCARES (64) • United States 2 Mar 07

My wife and I are raising 6 of our 11 grandchildren. There are many horror stories associated with them coming to us. I'll be talking about them in the weeks to come. We are katrina survivors from the Loewr 9th ward. Our house had...

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Bongoheads Hi, I'm in England, a very very long way away from the horror that was Katrina, but we saw what happened and feel deeply for everyone involved. I watched a programme aired on English TV recently that showed the devastation a year on and I was shocked to see...

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I can't believe she said this!

soccermom @soccermom (3198) • United States 28 Feb 07

As most of you know, I butt heads with my MIL in this sick, passive aggressive sort of way. Anyway, my hubby calls me at the office today and says his mom is having an impromptu family get together, would I go over there after...

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Bongoheads This isn't a competition and your MIL is obviously a pain to you HOWEVER my MIL wins hands down for being quite possibly the most awkward, selfish and irritating person alive - oh and she's also got OCD, agoraphobia and takes incredibly strong tranx. I...

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Have you ever got into an online argument?

bananamanuk @bananamanuk (835) 14 Feb 07

I'm curious if anyone has ever got into an online argument, the reason for asking is that somewhere like myLot you are able to ask many forms of questions on hundreds of subjects and the whole point of debate is to question and...

argument

debate

mylot

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Bongoheads As you quite rightly point out it's a very fine line between debating and arguing. Sometimes a heated debate can be confused for an argument. I love debating and discussion and I'm happy for people to disagree with me (we're all entitled to express our opinion...

2 Mar 07

"The Boring Topics" present: What is "real music" from your point of view?

Profetu @Profetu (1253) • Romania 2 Mar 07

What is "real music"...and who is performing it for delighting your ears?Is it Wagner?Beethoven?Dame Shirley Bassey?Frank Sinatra?Is it The Rolling Stones?The Doors?Or maybe just the nightingale...? I am so curious...who...

frank sinatra

music

wagner

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Bongoheads Good question and one I must answer because music is massively important to me - I have a big collection and listen to music most days. My musical tastes range from Jimi Hendrix (whom I absolutely worship - what an axeman!) to the Dandy Warhols, to the...

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ATTENTION WINNER,Is this email genuine,or a scam,am I in the money?.please help.

aerialitis @aerialitis (104) 28 Feb 07

Have just received an email from Redboath finance and securities, that my email address as emerged a winner of 505000euro in the euromillion loteria espanol 2007 promotions, it does say I will be required to pay for the...

winner

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Bongoheads It's a con - I receive many of them from various places and all have one thing in common - my email address has allegedly won X million pounds on a lottery that I never entered. The scam is that you reply and they then start asking you for money before they...

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Name 3 of your best qualities, what you like about yourself.

Jewels @Tetchie (2932) • Australia 24 Feb 07

Time to boast just a little, get your feet wet, don't be shy. My top one is having the ability to get people to open up without coaxing. They say things about themselves they didn't know they were going to say, bottom of the heart...

inspiration

life

people

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Bongoheads Blowing my own trumpet - not something I'm comfortable with doing however you posed the question so nicely needs must! I'd say I'm a positive person, an eternal optimist -my glass is always half full. I'm also great in a crisis, a natural troubleshooter,...

2 Mar 07

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