Kate

I just went in and checked some of the answers I responded to in the last few months, and there are "thumbs down" all over the place - in almost every category

Not just my answers, but everyone's.

In some cases, ALL answers are given a thumbs down, but in others, all answers but one ... leaving no doubt as to who did the thumbs down on that one.

I know that they lose points for it, and fair enough.. but it's just so juvenile and it ruins it for people who are trying to do the right thing.

I will give a "thumbs down" if an answer is just a joke or is nasty, but never simply because the answerer disagrees with my opinion. We're ALL entitled to our opinions, and most of try to help in the best way we know how to.

I also give a "thumbs up" to answerers that have gone out of their way to answer a question with correct information or who have something positive to say.

Why doesn't *answers* do something about it - like keep a better eye on the people who are just playing games?

I've been a Family Daycare Provider for years now, and I've searched everywhere I can think of for on-line support or social groups.

It's not an easy job, and as good as my co-ordination unit is, it's hard to take most of my concerns or questions to them, so an online support group or even talking to other carers would be a Godsend...

Thanks in advance!

I was just checking some of the resolved questions I had answered, and when I checked 3 of them, 3 answers had been rated "best answer" even though numerous people had already responded with the same answer - making these people 10th or whatever, in line. It's always obvious when someone has rated their own answer, because they give a "thumbs down" to every answer preceding theirs.

Or when you go to the trouble to help someone, and to give a correct answer, and then these people vote for an answer like "Ur Mama" - which is obviously their own answer, because everyone else has recieved a "thumbs down".

I just find the whole thing frustrating, and wonder if anyone else has noticed it ?

First person with all the correct answers wins....

1. Which creatures live in a formicary ?

2. If an American football player talked about his 'zippers' what would he mean ?

3. What do climbers call a peak higher the 3,000 ft ? (914 m)

4.. Which president was NOT born or did NOT die on the 4th of July?

5. What is the unit of currency in Poland ?

6. What is the pirate's flag with the skull and cross-bones called ?

7. What country started the Christmas tradition of exchanging gifts ?

8. You suffer from misopedia. What do you have an abnormal aversion to ?

9. Who was the only bachelor president?

10. Where in the body is the labyrinth ?

Can you tell me what the animals are?

(for example, "To run away or escape" could be a "flea")

1. hair-control foam

2. very exposed

3. tellin' falsities

4. a lamenting cry

5. a dull person

6. a precious or loved one

7. first you get a parking ticket, then you get this

8. these make up a chain

(no googling.... use your brains. <grins>)

There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don't give up.

1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.

2. In each house lives a person of different nationality

3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

The Question : Who owns the fish ??

Hints:

1. The Brit lives in a red house.

2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.

3. The Dane drinks tea.

4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.

5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.

6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.

7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.

8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.

9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.

10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.

11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.

12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.

13. The

what phrase would you use, to show you had found it - and that you were excited about finding it?

(approx 4 words)

I remember that it had some sort of cookie base, choc pudding, nuts and cream, but I can't remember how to make it.

I would love to make it for my Aussie friends.

Thanks !!

A friend recently posted her 3 yr old daughters photos on her blog ( not private), calling her *My Sexy Little Girl * !!!