umart13

@umart13 (841)

Ireland • Age 58

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When reading the newspaper......

Modestah @Modestah (11179) • United States 6 Jun 09

When you grab the newspaper - which section do you turn to to read first? Or do you read from front page to back in order. I know a lot of people will go right to the obituary and birth announcements - Others go directly to...

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umart13 Hi Modestah, well in my opinion it depends on two major factors. The first factor is what age I am. For example, really old people have a tendency to go to the obituaries to see if they or a friend died yesterday. At the opposite end of the scale young people...

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Methods to avoid headache

DEEPA333 @DEEPA333 (108) • India 29 Jan 08

After a long strained reading mostly I have severe headache but rarely it lasts too long, but after I had consulted with a doctor it is known that I have to have good relaxation methods adopted after reading or just avoid...

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umart13 Hi Deepa333, my worst headaches are those I have at night, where I am trying to sleep. I do not want to take tablets. Then I give up and go looking for the tablets, but I find that I have no paracetmol. Then the tension induced headache gets worse. On these...

6 Jun 09

federer the greatest of all

mrack001 @mrack001 (10) • India 28 Jul 07

federer definitly the greatest tennis player of all times.......

roger federer

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umart13 Hi mrack001, well I do agree that Roger Federer is a great player and he is a lovely player to watch, but I do not believe that he is the greatest player of all time. I still believe that Bjorn Borg is the greatest player I have ever seen. It was interesting...

6 Jun 09

Books: Used, New, or Library

celestemichelle @celestemichelle (429) • United States 21 May 09

Where do you get your books? Do you prefer to get brand new books or browse the used book store? Do you use the library? I love used book stores, it's cheaper than buying them new, and I can find rarer books that way too....

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umart13 Hello celestemichelle, well I love to browse through second-hand book shops. I grew up in Dublin, Ireland and I used to go to the second-hand book and record shops every Saturday. Nowadays I live in Germany and I buy and sell books over the internet, although...

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World has been changing everyday. Do you prefer to live today or in the past?

faisai @faisai (1138) • Hong Kong 21 May 09

The world is always changing, new discoveries and inventions come out nearly everyday. So, our lives should be greatly improved? Or is it not? My parents always tell me that when they were kids, their lives are very simple and...

good old past

life

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umart13 Hello faisai, well there are many views on this with some philosophers saying that those who ignore the past are destined to repeat it. I think it was the German philosopher Hegel who said that the only thing we learn from the past is that we learn nothing...

22 May 09

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Do you think schools force students to learn foreigen languages right?

hxstar @hxstar (510) • China 14 Apr 09

Hi,mylotters I am a student,and I have been learning English for many years,I started to learn it when I was in junior school!I understand it is inportant to master a foreign language.But do we really need to learn it at school...

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umart13 Hello hxstar, I understand your point of view. I grew up in Ireland where we were forced as students to learn the Irish language. The approach was totally wrong and caused many of us to hate those classes. I became teacher myself and learned that a language...

16 Apr 09

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Ideal Age gap between couples-opinions please!

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 15 Apr 09

I had been invited to my son's friend's house .Actually they are newly wed youngsters and I came to know that the lad is just 20 days older than the girl.I immediately said that 'Ah!can keep fighting [like classmates after...

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umart13 Hello kalav56, Funny you should mention this, as I was out with my friends last night in the pub and the same topic came up. Ronan came up with a formula, which I think is fun to use to calculate the youngest age which a woman should be for a guy. You take the...

16 Apr 09

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What is the Strangest thing you've ever seen??

bonnie @bunnybon7 (50973) • Holiday, Florida 15 Apr 09

I will tell you my 2 strangest things I've seen and I know you all will think im quite the nut now, but they are honestly true. Of course my eyes could have decieved me I suppose One,an ex husband of mine, when we...

life

paranormal

strange

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umart13 Hello bunnybon7, It was when I was a teenager that I was fishing with my cousin John on the harbour wall in a town called Greystones in Ireland. It was getting fairly dark, but we stayed as we thought we would have a better chance of catching something. As we...

16 Apr 09

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Would you pay the bills of someone you were dating ?

ronnyb @ronnyb (6113) • Jamaica 23 Feb 09

If you were dating someone and they asked you to pay their some of their bills for you would you? .What would be the issues that you would have to consider before doing so? Do you even think it is proper for someone to ask you...

paying your gf bills

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umart13 Hello ronnyb, I think it is a very generous act when somebody pays the bills for their partner or the person they are going out with. If they are totally committed to each other then the money should not matter and hopefully if the relationship lasts then...

13 Apr 09

Where's the bookcase?

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 11 Apr 09

When I go into someone's house I always look to see if they have a bookcase or at least some books lying around. I am finding that this is a rarer sight these days. 52' plasma screens, racks of DVDs, but few books. Of course they...

reading

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umart13 Hello P1kef1sh, I have 10 bookcases in my office. I would say I have read about 150 of the 1000 plus books, which I have there. The other books I bought originally through EBay with the intention of selling them. Even if I do not sell them all, they still look...

13 Apr 09

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internet: Can you survive without Using internet??

Gladys22 @Gladys22 (416) • Philippines 10 Apr 09

sounds crazy right? since we are using it for our daily lifes and put it to our worlds. Can you survive withou it?

gladz

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umart13 Hello Gladys22, I know thaht I survived without the internet before I had it and I dare say that if it ceased to exist then I would return to the way things were. However, I appreciate all that it has brought me in term of banking, booking flights, selling...

11 Apr 09

Do you meet your online friends in person?

rakesh284 @rakesh284 (1472) • India 10 Apr 09

I was thinking that when we are networking online there are many friends which we make around the world and some around our locality. Whom we make friends just by understanding there words. Have you ever made a friend online then...

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umart13 Hello rakesh284, I think that it is important for you to meet your online friends, if you want the relationships to develop and grow. It could be however that you are perfectly happy with how the online relationship is and that you think that meeting would add...

11 Apr 09

Do you repair your clothes or do you throw them away and buy new ones?

Just an Ordinary Owl? @owlwings (43910) • Cambridge, England 10 Apr 09

I am talking about simple repairs like sewing on buttons, repairing tears and worn patches, mending pockets, darning socks and so on. My mother would always repair clothes until they were really no longer wearable. Our socks...

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umart13 Hello owlwings, I was discussing this same topic with my mother yesterday and asked her to sew a suede jacket which has a tear under the arm. It was given to me by my cousin's husband as it does not fit him anymore. It would be such a shame to throw the jacket...

11 Apr 09

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Does anyone still use handkerchiefs?

dragon54u @dragon54u (31634) • United States 12 Mar 09

I've gone through 3 boxes of Kleenex in the past week--I don't have a cold but I think my allergies are acting up with all the wildly varying temperatures. At $2 a box, that's a lot of cash thrown into the trash!...

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umart13 Hello dragon54u, funny you should ask, because I started using handkerchiefs again recently after many years. The drawers were I keep my ties contained them, including many which were still in their original packing. I think I got tired of paper handkies...

10 Apr 09

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Do you ever long for a simpler life?

sharra1 @sharra1 (6340) • Australia 16 Mar 09

I love reading books set in the past and seeing a world that appears to have been much less complicated. It had its own problems but it makes me think that we have made this world too busy, too stressful and too demanding. We have...

complexity of life

getting away from it all

simple life

stress

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umart13 Hello sharra1, yes indeed, I do often wish for a much simpler life. That is why I chose to live outside the city and near to forests and rivers. If I could I would move even further away and go and live in the Carpathian mountains in Europe, where there are...

10 Apr 09

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Do you consider yourself patient?

laydee @laydee (12798) • Philippines 8 Apr 09

Patience is indeed a virtue. But I don't think that's one of mine. You see, I don't like waiting. It's not only waiting for someone to come type of a deal, I don't like waiting for news (in cases where I have no idea what's...

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umart13 Hi laydee, patience is indeed a virtue. I sometimes say about myself that I have the patience of an oyster. Indeed when I was training to be a teacher, I remember the teaching-trainer saying to me that I had a few important qualities, which would make me a...

10 Apr 09

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If student life is best part of life

puneetchhokra @puneetchhokra (214) • India 9 Apr 09

everybody from us must been a student for some specific time.do u think that,that part of our life is best part of life??I think so# as that time is golden time.as a student we dont have any kind of responsibility except...

notension

student

worryless

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umart13 Hello, My best friends come from school, which is proof that it was a very important and special time of my life. You would have to be sorry for our teachers, as we were good students but we had a wicked sense of humour and played lots of games on them. I...

10 Apr 09