halfserious

@halfserious (99)

United States • Age 48

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Should we teach little boys to cook, clean and other things like that?

vokey9472 @vokey9472 (1486) • United States 11 Feb 07

I have a little boy and he loves to help me. As a stay at home mommy, I cook a lot of foods from scratch, like bake my own bread and stuff. Well, he always wants to help me and I have been teaching him how to do all the things...

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halfserious Hey Vokey, I see what you mean, but not every guy is like mechanically inclined either. Some people are good at some things and bad at others, and your dad should have been smacked for saying what he did.

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Do you sing nursery rhymes with your child?

rikkabren @rikkabren (238) • Philippines 4 Sep 08

because i do, my son is a year and two months, and every time we play, we used to sing many nursery rhymes. I mean i would sing and he would act out what i am singing, his favorites are itsy bitsy spider (he would crawl his little...

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halfserious because i do, my son is a year and two months, and every time we play, we used to sing many nursery rhymes. I mean i would sing and he would act out what i am singing, his favorites are itsy bitsy spider (he would crawl his little fingers in his arm just like...

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Why do celebrities STEAL?

western_valleygirl @western_valleygirl (1363) • United States 8 Feb 07

It just drives me nuts everytime I turn on the news and see that another celebrity, or someone with tons of money, is stealing from a department store. I can't understand what they are doing. A part of me knows that it is because...

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halfserious Its attention and the thrill of doing something that is forbidden, or otherwise seen as taboo. In some cases it could be a distortion of their own reality, that is messed up by drugs, alcohol and fame.

9 Feb 07

what will you do stay in a relationship or dumped your partner

aize003 @aize003 (225) • Philippines 3 Sep 08

if you fall out love but don't have the guts to end the relationship coz you don't want him/her to suffer emotionally but deep inside you're the one who's hurting the most...

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halfserious if you fall out love but don't have the guts to end the relationship coz you don't want him/her to suffer emotionally but deep inside you're the one who's hurting the most...

3 Sep 08

Is It True! Money Making Internet

Macthedj @Macthedj (630) 9 Feb 07

Can we really expect to make money from really doing basically nothiing. I see all these sites that everyone is commenting on but am quite afraid that at the end of it all you either wont get paid or you ahev to pay fees up front....

making money

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halfserious What are the auto-pilot sites? I've noticed a few people here posting links to some auto-pilot type sites and they've all been dead links. I'm on about 40 survey and paid-email sites...so far the money has just started trickling in. I'd kind of like some...

9 Feb 07

tabenomo no koto.( about foods to take.)

mimiyosh @mimiyosh (7) • Philippines 2 Sep 08

donna tabemono ga ichiban ii tabemasu kana? Asa gohan no tabemono toki ni? What is the best food to eat that it has good nutrients in every morning?

halfserious donna tabemono ga ichiban ii tabemasu kana? Asa gohan no tabemono toki ni? What is the best food to eat that it has good nutrients in every morning?

2 Sep 08

If you were given a chance to ask god one question, what would you ask him.

huanghaozi @huanghaozi (1472) • Egypt 2 Feb 07

I will ask him to send another christ to save the world again of all its problems.this world we live in today is no longer a place to be I will ask God to do something to help us out of this situation

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halfserious These are all parts of human nature. They are so we protect ourselves.

8 Feb 07

How do you rate your fellow mylotters/mylotians?

beaniefanatic13 @beaniefanatic13 (5076) • Grand Junction, Colorado 8 Feb 07

I have a slight dilemma, I have a few responses throught my discussions that I haven't rated for several reasons and am looking for advise to clean it up. I have a few 1 liners, that while pertain to discussion added nothing....

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halfserious I rate them down if they sound clueless, cliche' or illiterate.

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Why doesn't anyone care enough to use proper punctuation?

halfserious @halfserious (99) • United States 7 Feb 07

It seems that the majority of people on here want to talk as if they are using phone-tap input method, or shorthand/ abbreviated IMs. Is it a lack of caring, education, or both?

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halfserious So you think people just sign up on Mylot to learn English? Wheeee.

7 Feb 07

Haunted from the Grave....(funny)

happygal68 @happygal68 (3275) • United States 7 Nov 06

An old man and woman were married for years even though they hated each other. When they had a confrontation, screams and yelling could be heard deep into the night. A constant statement was heard by the neighbors who feared the...

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halfserious Actually she will. It's always been considered very disrespectful to bury someone upside down.

7 Feb 07

Respond until you drop - posting against the hour..

freesoul @freesoul (3021) • Egypt 7 Feb 07

I really don't know, i see people saying they do 100+ quality posts daily in 4 hours?!!.. if they work like a machine making a post every 5 minutes (12 posts an hour) it will be 8 and a half hours to post 100 Actually it's hard...

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halfserious So you think. I bet you also think that they're taking over all of the online poker sites too. The reality of it is that there may be a few people making bots here and there, but most developers are too lazy to combine the idea of posting with a bot and...

7 Feb 07

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Driving Pet Peeves

emeraldisle @emeraldisle (13139) • United States 7 Feb 07

I was doing errands today and saw a few of my pet peeves from other drivers so I thought I'd see if anyone else has some. My three main ones all deal with the right. I know strange but they do. Mine are: Right turn on red, so...

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halfserious They do that to prove a point: You're not going fast enough and YOU are being a jerk. Get out of the way.

7 Feb 07

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What would you do if you encountered children on the side of the road begging?

caribe @caribe (2465) • United States 27 Dec 06

Christmas Day we went to the beach here in Nicaragua and there were probably a hundred or so children along the highway waiting for a car to pass and some would throw a shovel full of dirt into one of the many holes on the road...

beggars

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halfserious Maybe you want to beep at them or run them off the road.

7 Feb 07

What are your views on begging?

butterflygirl @butterflygirl (498) 18 Jan 07

If I see someone selling 'The Big Issue' I always buy one, but when I see someone begging I am always unsure of what to do. I never know whether to give them money, buy them some food, or just walk on by. I'm not too keen on...

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halfserious They may be physically fit and mentally incapable. This makes it somewhat difficult, but that is your criteria. If someone with a change jar/can is actually doing something useful..entertaining with music or whatnot I will throw some change in the jar. But...

7 Feb 07

Your username?

NrgDfenZ @NrgDfenZ (1810) • Belgium 18 Aug 08

Hi all Is there something special about your username ? Something it stands for ? Or is it just a random pick ?? My username is almost the same as my gamer name.. Gamer name is .Nrg#DfenZ.Be I am not going to explain that...

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halfserious Hi all Is there something special about your username ? Something it stands for ? Or is it just a random pick ?? My username is almost the same as my gamer name.. Gamer name is .Nrg#DfenZ.Be I am not going to explain that again :D So what does...

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please please please come to me and advise me for making money in the net

amrnagy @amrnagy (175) • Egypt 7 Feb 07

please please please come to me and advise me for making money in the net i didn't have any job and my state is not good i want to make money please advise me with free sites and give me links for it thanks a lot

money

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halfserious What does your husband being Egyptian have to do with anything?

7 Feb 07

What do you do with Java?

layney @layney (1053) • Italy 5 Feb 07

I'm a computer engineer and my job is Java programmer. I use Java both for web programming, in combination with the Struts framework, both for client programming with GUI. What about you?

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halfserious I've done J2ME for mobile apps, J2SE for Swing based desktop applications and file parsing utilities. Only a little J2EE for server & PHP integration.

7 Feb 07

Why doesn't anyone care enough to use proper punctuation?

halfserious @halfserious (99) • United States 7 Feb 07

It seems that the majority of people on here want to talk as if they are using phone-tap input method, or shorthand/ abbreviated IMs. Is it a lack of caring, education, or both?

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halfserious What's race got to do with it? If you're going to learn the language, do it right. Why do a half-assed job?

7 Feb 07

Why doesn't anyone care enough to use proper punctuation?

halfserious @halfserious (99) • United States 7 Feb 07

It seems that the majority of people on here want to talk as if they are using phone-tap input method, or shorthand/ abbreviated IMs. Is it a lack of caring, education, or both?

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halfserious Forget about academics. For all of the people out there so self-conscious about how they appear (myspace) how did it become suddenly trendy to present themselves as dumb?

7 Feb 07

Do you want to keep on earning money from internet ?

huanghaozi @huanghaozi (1472) • Egypt 6 Feb 07

Hi , members . Do you want to keep on earning money from internet ? I don't want to keep on earning . Why I say it ? First : I cann't earn big money from PTR , PTC , PTPsite . Second: There are more and more HYIP scam sites on...

earn money

internet

mylot

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halfserious Where do you check to see if they are honest?

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