jbl1975

@jbl1975 (374)

United States • Age 49

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How did your parents choose your name?

Wizzywig @Wizzywig (7847) 21 Mar 10

My parents had decided that, if they had a daughter, they would call her Kathleen. (My grandmother was called Kate). Whilst my mum was still in the hospital, dad went off to register my birth and, when he got there he gave me a...

baby

changing your mind

choosing a name

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jbl1975 Mine was biblical. My name is Jonathan, and my older brothers are David and Matthew, and apparently they're all friends in the Bible.

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How many children do you want?

momtrying2makeit @momtrying2makeit (3270) • United States 18 Dec 09

For me I have two girls already so I know I am blessed. However my boyfriend and I have been trying to get pregnant for awhile now but to our trying it has not happened yet. So my question is how many children would you like in...

big family

how many kids

little family

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jbl1975 Well for me I wouldn't mind having one kid, and it wouldn't matter to me whether or not it's a boy or a girl. Right now there's girl on my mind whom I think is the one, and since she's the same age as me (35) and has no kids and neither do I, if we get...

19 Dec 09

President Obama to Send 34,000 Additional Troops to Afghanistan

anniepa @anniepa (27955) • United States 25 Nov 09

I'm surprised I haven't seen anything about this here. It's been reported by numerous sources that President Obama has made his decision regarding Afghanistan and will announce next Tuesday that somewhere around 34,000 additional...

000 additional troops to afghanistan

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jbl1975 Personally I wish he would just pull all troops out of everywhere and have them here where they belong so they can actually defend the country instead of offending other countries. In a lesser sense, I would be for this as long as he pulls the troops from...

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What book are you reading or have you read any books lately

venshida @venshida (4836) • United States 21 Sep 09

Reading was something I did daily, but since the internet I have reduce my reading. I am a shamed to say it, but I did not read a book in over a year. Well that change recently, I was at a garage sale and the title of a book...

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jbl1975 I personally have read a boatload of different books lately. I usually read at my full time job as it can be rather boring there at times. I have read everything from Uncle John's Bathroom Reader books, to a few Judy Blume books ("Forever", "Are You There...

22 Sep 09

I Thought Girls Liked For Guys To Hold Doors For Them?

grumpybear @ShortyAkbar (384) • United States 21 Sep 09

I was going to the campus cafeteria one day and this girl was behind me. She was very pretty and I held the door open for her. The fact that she was pretty wasn't the only reason I held the door open for her. I always hold doors...

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jbl1975 I never had a problem with it myself. I do recall trying to be hooked up with a girl back in 1996, and I found myself going overboard with the chivalry, and had actually offended her with it. I didn't understand it. I was only trying to be nice, but I guess I...

22 Sep 09

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What's wrong with being left handed?

cambiste @cambiste (1244) • India 19 Sep 09

I used to go to a tutor whose daughter used to be left handed. But her parents forced her to change to writing with the right hand. Very few survive writing with the left hand, and there is occasionally one in my classroom. One...

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jbl1975 God I cannot stand people like that who keep "making" their kid be right-handed. My mom put a spoon in my right hand, I quickly switched it to my left and started eating...and that was it! I love finding left-handers. They all live here in Vegas now.

20 Sep 09

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Never use your hairdryer in the bath or under the shower?

katerina @thea09 (18305) • Greece 14 Sep 09

I'm so happy that this instruction came with new travel hairdryer I was just pulling from its wrappings otherwise I might have been tempted to try to both wash and dry my hair at the same time. How many people out there can so so...

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jbl1975 I might not be the first to say this one here, but I saw the following on one of those windshield sun blockers: WARNING! DO NOT DRIVE WHILE THIS IS IN PLACE! REMOVE FROM WINDSHIELD BEFORE STARTING IGNITION! What's funny is when I had one, I actually started...

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Baby born 48 hours too soon left to die by doctors because Government guideline

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 12 Sep 09

prohibits them. This is how care is rationed in government run health care. There's been a lot of talk about "death panels" and of course, the chosen examples are always about "pulling the plug on Grandma" an example used...

death panels

government run health care

health care reform

socialized medicine

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jbl1975 Rollo do you realize how many times this kind of stuff has happened to people with HMOs? While yes HMOs were created by the feds in the 70s, they are still for-profit insurance companies who would rather pay their CEOs outlandish bonuses, and pay their lawyers...

13 Sep 09

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Would traveling to a new place help to relieve depression?

clorissa123 @clorissa123 (4926) • United States 17 May 09

Sometimes it might work this way. If you deeply depressed, you might just leave this sad place to somewhere new, you never been before. You visit there with an unknown direction of your heart, you might find something new and...

depression

new place

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jbl1975 In a way, I did leave where I lived all these years and moved across the country. Of course, I needed to mostly for the money, as where I lived my whole life until two years ago has the worst case of unemployment I have ever seen. It helped also to try out a...

18 May 09

Do you make silly mistakes with your grammar?

mimpi @mimpi1911 (25464) • India 21 Apr 09

Here are some common mistakes that make us look stupid. I am sure we all have been there sometime or the other. 1. Loose for lose 2. It's for its (or god forbid, its') 3. They're for their for there 4. i.e. for e.g. 5....

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jbl1975 I do my best to not make those silly mistakes, but I can almost laugh when I see that kind of stuff here, or on any bulletin board or chat room. The other one I see is people who say "are" when they mean "our". That's just ludicris.

22 Apr 09

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Do you take the free stuff when you stay at a hotel?

Toofancy @Toofancy (548) • United States 15 Mar 09

When you are ready to check out at a hotel, do you take the complimentary items, such as shampoo, conditioner, shower caps, pens, pads, coffee, sugar, creamer, etc.? I, of course, would never take towels, or anything like that -...

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jbl1975 Heck yeah I do the same thing. We could always use soaps and shampoos, so why not? I stayed in a Best Western for a little more then a week in Ft. Dodge, IA, and I collected every bar of soap they gave me, and in order to deplete my stash, I just used them all...

16 Mar 09

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Do you wear your seatbelt?

JenInTN @JenInTN (27514) • United States 13 Mar 09

It's a law here that you have to wear your seatbelt as it is in most places now. Even though, a lot of people refuse to wear one as they think they may do more harm than good. They'd rather get a ticket than risk not being able to...

law

seatbelt

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jbl1975 I was one of those as a kid who hated to be forced to do what others didn't have to. In most cases, I was lucky enough to have a father and brother who didn't care if I wore a seat belt because they didn't. I recall being in a car before the seat belt laws in...

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Would you rather die from illness or in your sleep?

blungel0830 @blungel0830 (841) • Philippines 9 Mar 09

I used to think that if I can make a choice, I'd like to die in my sleep or some other quick death rather than die of a lingering illness. A friend of mine said that she'd rather die of cancer because if she knows that she is...

death

dying

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jbl1975 I guess the obvious thing would be to die quickly and painlessly. I believe that's how my mom, one of my grandfathers, and my mom's best friend's dad died. My mom died of a brain anyerism when she was on the phone at her office and just dropped to the floor,...

10 Mar 09

Do you take the phone?

missybear @missybear (11391) • United States 4 Feb 09

You know when you got to go to the Bathroom you just got to go. What if you expecting a phone call and you really have to go? Do you take the phone with you or do you hope they don't call while you in there? My...

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jbl1975 I actually do take the phone in the bathroom with me. I just make sure I don't flush if I'm doing whatever in there if they do call. Or in case of using the bathroom while talking, I find myself putting my finger over the mike when I'm doing it.

5 Feb 09

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Digital tv, good or bad?

snowcat46 @snowcat46 (2322) • United States 27 Jan 09

Are you looking forward to going digital? I'm not. If there's bad weather, all you get is a screen going "ahahahahahaha". Not terribly entertaining! Are you glad they're giving you another 4 months to buy the box? Just think,...

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jbl1975 Well, I'm like a few people. I already have cable, so it's no affect for me. However, as one should know nowadays with new technology, it's better to have the blue screen, then the loud snowy screen we used to have in the day. I personally am a little wary...

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On which HAND do you wear your WRIST WATCH...Left or Right???

uditpanda @uditpanda (1023) • India 18 Jan 09

Its probably a custom to wear the watch on the left wrist...most people I have seen do that. But I have also seen people deviating the rule,who keep it in their left wrist. I think the decision should be about personal choice &...

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jbl1975 A simple answer. I wear it on my right wrist, which for stereotyping means I'm left handed.

19 Jan 09

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Did you have your own room as a child, or did you have to share?

miraclefreebies @miraclefreebies (3043) • United States 22 Dec 08

Sharing a room with a sibling isn't so bad is it? I just have to ask because I don't have any brothers or sisters, I've always wondered what it's like to have at least one sibling. I always had my own room when living with...

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jbl1975 I pretty much had my own room growing up. I think my older half-brothers had to share at some point, and I faintly remember sleeping on the bottom of a set of bunk beds at some really early point, but I otherwise had my own bedroom. Now, my bedroom has been...

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