Obelon

@Obelon (25)

Age 45

Joined myLot 18 years ago

Their are 3 types of people in this world, people who can't count and people who can.

Obelon's Responses

Stuffing Envelopes

jrust55 @jrust55 (26) • United States 11 Dec 06

Here it is Monday morning and here I go getting ready for work agian. (YUCK)I keep trying all these different ways to work from home, however None so far has paid off. A few cents here and there in my account, but not enough to...

stuffing envelopes

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Obelon I would aviod all the things like that, unless you know the program in real life I would avoid giving money in order to make money. I love how they promise you will make $1000+ a month but need to pay $40 to start. Why not take that off the money I am...

11 Dec 06

tv and kids

dudemanw10 @dudemanw10 (58) • United States 7 Dec 09

do you think that all tvs now that we are entering the future should have a parental lock for the shows that there kids watch

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Obelon do you think that all tvs now that we are entering the future should have a parental lock for the shows that there kids watch

7 Dec 09

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thought on public smoking

rfraley23 @rfraley23 (61) • United States 7 Dec 06

i am not a smoker but i do own a bar and our state recently passed a smoking ban in public building. i am ok with people being smoke free or people not going to places do to high smoke content. but do you think the government...

smoking

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Obelon I am from Scotland, we had a smoking ban put in place earlier this year. I am not a smoker but don't mind people who do. No the basis of appeasing non-smokers or trying to get people to stop smoking considering you can legal buy them I feel the government...

7 Dec 06

Do we really have democracy?

fritz_hailey @fritz_hailey (1334) • United States 7 Dec 06

Do you believe that we choose those who are in charge of our government? Or do you believe that its all rigged and pre-planned? Do votes really count?

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Obelon I am from the UK so not to sure how much my voice counts when talking about US politics, but I have always seen the concept of a 2-party system as UN-democratic. I know in theory their can be independent but that fact they are called that might tell you...

7 Dec 06

If you were adopted...

fritz_hailey @fritz_hailey (1334) • United States 6 Dec 06

If you found out you were adopted, or that your mother of father was not your biological parent, would it be a big deal to you? Would you try to find your biological parents and if so, why? If so, how much time, money and...

adopted

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Obelon it does depend on the circumstance, if say my Father wasn't my biological parent but never he or my mother knew with both party's fully belive my Dad was my Father. Then I would accept that. But if they knew and lied to me all my life then thats a different...

7 Dec 06

Does parents' picking up rubbish affect their daughter's going to college?

lcainiao @lcainiao (201) • China 21 Sep 09

Recent days, on net one paterfamilias asked 'my daugther will be to famous college, but it is a very difficult problem for her tuition and cost of living. In fact our income is very limited, but for living, I want to salvage...

Obelon Recent days, on net one paterfamilias asked 'my daugther will be to famous college, but it is a very difficult problem for her tuition and cost of living. In fact our income is very limited, but for living, I want to salvage garbage, Is it affect my daughter's...

21 Sep 09

China’s Birthday Is Comeing!

Shooyao @Shooyao (156) • China 21 Sep 09

we have a long histiory we have a splendid culture we have experienced a long period of war we also lightly by other powers sometimes but now , we have stand up to became a big country that will has a board influence in...

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Obelon we have a long histiory we have a splendid culture we have experienced a long period of war we also lightly by other powers sometimes but now , we have stand up to became a big country that will has a board influence in the world. I know in this...

21 Sep 09

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Responding

Gabs @gabs8513 (48686) • United Kingdom 5 Dec 06

People are asking a lot of times on here why they are not getting a response and yes at times it is genuine But I go back to the Topics I have responded to and most of the time there has been no acknowledgement that my response...

respond

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Obelon I am very new to myLot and so have only been responding to other's discussion but will soon start adding my own. When I do will try my best to thx anyone who adds input to my discussion.

6 Dec 06

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Daughter's Job

beautyoperater @beautyoperater (1890) • United States 5 Dec 06

My daughter was on only her second day on the job and go into trouble. Here's what happened. she was on the cash register by herself and a lady used her debt card. The register printed out the reciept and my daughter gave it to...

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Obelon Things like this should never happen but do all to often. I have seen it in both retail, to manufacturing to many other jobs where power reall does go to some peoples heads, or in their semi-stressful jobs they take that out in everyone they feel is below...

6 Dec 06

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What you like homebusiness or normal job

balabrahmam @balabrahmam (1071) • India 6 Dec 06

What you like homebusiness or normal job

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Obelon yet to try a homebusiness right now in a normal job but looking at giving it a try. Not having to travel seems to be a big benift.

6 Dec 06

ADOPTION - what´s right and wrong?

Marie2473 @Marie2473 (8512) • Sweden 5 Dec 06

I have 2 friends that are both adopted by different families. One has always known that she was adopted since she hasa different skincolor thanher parents. She is one of the happiest people I know though. She has never felt the...

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Obelon While I wasn't adopted (or if I am never been told), I can only imgine how I would feel if I was told I was adopted as an adult it isn't something I don't thing I could handle to well. But oddly enought I very much belive as a child it is something at a very...

6 Dec 06

PHP or ASP?

gp2sbeta @gp2sbeta (275) • Brazil 6 Nov 06

I like PHP (opensource), and you?

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Obelon also in the PHP camp :)

5 Dec 06

Kids acting and dressing older than they are

kristypants @kristypants (305) • Canada 4 Dec 06

I was at the mall yesterday and I saw these girls. They couldn't have been older than 10. All of them were wearing make-up, tight fitting clothes, and shoes that had a bit of a heel on them. They seriously looked like mini 16 year...

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Obelon I suspect your parents likely felt the same why when you where younger but current up and comming generation are wanting to grow up much faster and while I don't agree it with I don't make up what kids find fasionable. The problem comes that once something...

5 Dec 06

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Nuclear power

kahheng @kahheng (281) 4 Dec 06

In view of the recent call by UK government to lessen world polution by spending less power, reduce burning, quit smoking and reduce in fossil fuel usage, would it be a good idea to introduce nuclear power to all nations world...

nuclear

nuclear power

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Obelon its a nice idea in theory, but their is a large number of nations you really don't want to have nuclear power, thier are also security conscerns outside of them being able to make nukes from the waste but such power plants are terrorists targets and if one was...

4 Dec 06

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Loosing interest in movies..

dhawanbm @dhawanbm (3705) • India 3 Jun 09

Ever since I have joined some of the most happening social sites like mylot, its that I am loosing interest in movies. Most of the time its computer and coments or socialising with others, the list of friends is growing fast. On...

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Obelon Ever since I have joined some of the most happening social sites like mylot, its that I am loosing interest in movies. Most of the time its computer and coments or socialising with others, the list of friends is growing fast. On the movies the last one was...

3 Jun 09

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Do you find Runescape addictive?

tim4mel @tim4mel (12) • United States 21 Nov 06

I love that game. Everyone tells me to upgrade to WOW, but I'm not ready to quit RScape yet.

runescape

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Obelon I also like Runescape and have been playing for some time I probally should move on to something with better graphics as my system can more than handle nearly all games out their. But their is something about runescape that keeps me going back, while I do...

4 Dec 06

do you enjoy solving sudoko?

pree70 @pree70 (525) • India 13 May 09

it is said that solving sudoko increases the brain power. i am not very good at sudoko, but i nevertheless try to do it. unfortunately, i only manage to complete very few. it is said that once you get a grasp on the logic behind...

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Obelon it is said that solving sudoko increases the brain power. i am not very good at sudoko, but i nevertheless try to do it. unfortunately, i only manage to complete very few. it is said that once you get a grasp on the logic behind solving sudoko, it is very...

13 May 09

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Illegal Contents

divir_vij @divir_vij (1591) • India 3 Dec 06

There are lots of Websites and File sharing software. Where one can exchange illegal content. How should the governments stop these.

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Obelon As others have said it is unlikely that sites and software that allow illegal downloading will ever be stopped. As they clamped down on it the pirates will find another way. An example of this if you go back a good number of years they was no peer to peer or...

3 Dec 06

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Parents!!

buffetwoman @buffetwoman (623) • United States 2 Dec 06

Ok here's my situation.... My parents gave us a sum of money for our daughter's education. (She's 11 months old) Well we had to use it to get into our current apartment as we were a bit strapped for money. It made me sick to do...

birthday cards

overbearing parents

parents who butt in controlling parents

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Obelon Hi, I hope you don’t mind me adding my 2 cents in :) From what I can see from your post, your parents are right, but so are you. Family relationships are very complicated. While this will be little in the way of help it is the way it is. I do know a...

3 Dec 06