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I'm a 29 years old woman living in Quebec, Canada. My native language is French, though I do manage to surprise oh so many when I tell them that! I love animals, I've had many pets in my life including several cats and dogs, a hamster, fishes, parakeets, finches, mice, tortoises. I currently have some fishes and 2 really sweet male rats. I like fantasy novels, my favorite being The Fionavar's Tapestry trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay. I love Tim Burton's movies and Danny Elfman's soundtrack music. I love japanese animation, of most kind, though some really don't appeal to me. I also like to play video games, mostly strategy RPGs, good RPGs, DDR, some shooters (though I am bad at them). But overall any genre but sports games and extreme violent games. I'm usually bad at those profile descriptions but currently amaze myself at how long I've been going.

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    As a kid I went through communion and confirmation, mostly just because everyone just does it (heck, they are pretty much introduced as just any other classes at school if your parents decided to register you to the religious classes). So that means that in the worldwide statistics, I am counted as a catholic.

    But honnestly, I don't give a damn about religion, I am atheist, and while I'm sure there are a bunchload of people like me stuck in the wrong statistical group, I was wondering how to set things straight?

    9 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade ago
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  • Why do people love fish soups so much?

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    Are people just simply ignorant?

    Are they all just not realizing that there are dozens and dozens of specialized forums and websites out there where they could actually learn about the PROPER care of fish?

    Don't they realize that fish are living creatures that deserve respect?

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    I'm still very well connected to my router (wirelessly), and the modem is still very well functioning, and every time just disconnecting and reconnecting does the trick... until it drops again a few hours later.

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    7 AnswersFish1 decade ago
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  • Reporting messages received?

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    18 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade ago
  • With all the different religions based on the Bible...?

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    7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade ago
  • Où et comment vous êtes-vous rencontré(e)s?

    Je suis pas du genre très sorteuse, donc je ne rencontre pas beaucoup de monde. Résultat, presque 29 ans et seulement 2 petites-amies (je vais faire ça Euro-friendly :p). Durée totale des relations, 6 et 8 mois.

    Oui oui, c'est déprimant!

    Remarquez, si je voulais du sex pour le sex, ça serait probablement facile à trouver, mais moi c'est pas ce que je veux. J'ai besoin d'être aimée d'abord et avant tout (pour le reste je m'organise pas trop mal toute seule pour le moment hihi).

    Mais là je m'éloigne de la question. Je voulais savoir, vous, vous avez rencontré votre conjoint(e)/partenaire comment? Où?

    Je ne suis pas trop type club de nuit, ça me branche pas trop et j'ai peine à imaginer trouver quelqu'un pour une relation stable dans un endroi comme ça.

    Si vous avez des suggestions pour moi, je vous invite à les faire! J'habite présentement en banlieue de Montréal, au cas où ça serait pertinent.

    À plus!

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    I really wonder why some people seem to think that Yahoo! Answers is better than seeing a specialist, especially in the case of emergencies such as the examples posted above. Why do some people seem so... dare I say stupid?

    (Note that I pulled the examples out of my own mind, paraphrasing questions I have seen all over the place here in the past few days)

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    Any advice on the type of equipment I should get? I've looked online and there are so many products at various prices that I wouldn't even know where to start, and I just have no idea how to tell the good from the crap?

    Any advice would be appreciated.

    9 AnswersFish1 decade ago
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