umart13

@umart13 (841)

Ireland • Age 58

Joined myLot 16 years ago

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Do you get up in the morning to do the exercises on a TV Fitness Show and ?

umart13 @umart13 (841) • Ireland 18 Jul 09

Ok! I will admit it. I am 43 and I find that all those bone-joints are beginning to stiffen up, especially if I have been sitting at a desk or computer all week. However, a few months ago I saw this fitness program in the morning...

tv fitness shows telegym

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Are men more romantic than women?

umart13 @umart13 (841) • Ireland 18 Jul 09

I had a great live discussion yesterday about this topic. When I asked the men what they thought, the first answer generally given was "No!". Then one man would say it varies, before the next would say that men are more romantic,...

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Is TV a romance killer?

umart13 @umart13 (841) • Ireland 18 Jul 09

Yesterday I had a great live discussion with a group of people about who is more romantic - men or women. Then the issue of the TV came up and a lot of people felt that the TV was destroying not only the romance between couples,...

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Which animal would you like to be if you were reborn?

umart13 @umart13 (841) • Ireland 29 Mar 09

Many people believe in reincarnation. Some believe that they may have been an animal in an earlier life. Which animal were you in your previous life, or which animal would you like to come back as in your next life, and why?

reincarnation

Can an English dog speak to a German dog?

umart13 @umart13 (841) • Ireland 29 Mar 09

Does a dog say woof-woof or bow-wow? How does a German cat understand an English cat's meouw, if the German cat says miau? How can an English speaking female hen find the right partner if he says kikeriki each morning? What do...

animal talk

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Have you noticed that more and more people are living from Trash Cans?

umart13 @umart13 (841) • Ireland 8 Feb 09

Have you noticed that there are an increasing number of people living from trash cans or bins? I have watched the number increase here every year, even before the recession started. Here the people are usually looking for bottles,...

looking trash cans bins collecting bottles

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How many people on MyLot are using their real names?

umart13 @umart13 (841) • Ireland 27 Jul 08

Hello everybody! I find it interesting, when people ask you - do you like your name? and would you like to change it? but they themselves are using a false identity. :-) How many people on MyLot are using a name, which is even...

mylot writing

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Should it be illegal to advertise jobs which do not exist?

umart13 @umart13 (841) • Ireland 25 Jul 08

Hello everybody! Have you ever applied for a job advertised by a firm or a job-agency and been told that your CV is great, but that they "have received applications whose experience more closely match ... the specific job...

job advertising

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What is the optimal time to spend on MyLot?

umart13 @umart13 (841) • Ireland 22 Jul 08

Hello everybody! I have noticed after two weeks on MyLot, that it can become slightly addictive and that you start to answer all sorts of questions, which do not really interest you. You also forget to go out for fresh air and...

mylot quality of writing

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Does MyLot need a quality control on discussions started?

umart13 @umart13 (841) • Ireland 19 Jul 08

Hello everybody. I got annoyed two days ago on MyLot.com. I know that you are not allowed to complain about the quality of English, as all are welcome, but are you allowed to complain, when somebody starts a topic about "Anhiser...

mylot quality of writing

quality control

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Should you use a dictionary when you are writing for MyLot?

umart13 @umart13 (841) • Ireland 19 Jul 08

Hello everybody! I am an English native speaker, with a university degree and a further professional education and I still use a dictionary to improve the standard of the English that I write on MyLot.com. Does anybody else use a...

dictionary

mylot

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Why can't good people have children, while bad people have lots of kids?

umart13 @umart13 (841) • Ireland 17 Jul 08

Hello. I heard the same story again today. A drunken mother has taken to the bottle again and it looks like she's beating her kids. The last time she let vagrants occupy her house and they raped her daughter, while the mother...

problems having children

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Is it a myth that women can multi-task?

umart13 @umart13 (841) • Ireland 17 Jul 08

Hello. I cannot remember exactly when this buzzword started, but over the last two years it seems to me that women have been granted by God this new wonderful gift of Multi-tasking. However, whenever a girlfriend answers with the...

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Have you made real friends through XING, LinkedIn or Facebook?

umart13 @umart13 (841) • Ireland 16 Jul 08

Hello. I started using the XING networking site about two years ago. I let the number of contacts I had made peak at about 135 and stopped there to get to know these people better. I have watched as other people have increased...

networking

xing

Why does a woman in a 15 year relationship who doesn't want kids have to flirt?

umart13 @umart13 (841) • Ireland 16 Jul 08

Hello everybody. I live in Germany where a lot of couples of my generation decided not to have kids and not to get married, but to live together in long-term relationships. Can somebody explain to me why a 42 year old woman in a...

flirting

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Do you consider "Yeah Right" to be an abusive answer on MyLot.com?