Room_101

reach level 3? I have just made my first 1,000 points and I am having a party to celebrate.

Bring a bottle!!!

Oh, and before you ask, I know this is in the wrong category. I put it here because this is where I like to be and I respect the answers from the respondents. They're my kinda people!

He said, "Ouch. That hurt!"

a part of that Organisation affect or change your life? Does their teachings still affect how you live your life now? How easy or difficult for you was it when you realised you could no longer live by their ethics?

No crank answers please I have the greatest respect for these people and I will report what I term to be abuse. Be warned

Since I joined Yahoo six weeks ago, I've had a good time asking and answering questions.

Something about the site seems unfair to me, though, and it is this;

You get 1 point for visiting. That's fair enough.

You get 1 point for voting a best answer. Hmm...that's o.k.

You get 2 points for answering a question. Not so fair, when you consider the amount of time, effort and research that some people put into their answers.

You have 5!!!! points deleted when you ask a question. So you have to 'save up' just so you have enough.

What are you supposed to do with the points anyway? Can you redeem them at B&Q, or Morrisons or Argos?

I have just started to have problems with my p.c. The nature of the problem is;

The screen freezes and I cant perform any function what-so-ever. It will not turn off at the box. The only way I can switch it off is by pulling the plug out of the socket.

On re-booting, it has several attempts before it successfully starts up and gives me my yahoo! home page. Even then, it will often suddenly cancel the program and re-start itself.

Does my p.c. have a mind of its own, or is it sick of the sight of me? I am very surprised it hasn't crashed during my typing of this question!

I can't do e-mails or stuff like that and I cant stay too long on-line before it decides it's had enough.

Or should I just beat it with a big stick?

This is difficult for me because I am not out, out. If you know what I mean. My family know I am gay but not my work colleagues. Truth is, I dont feel the need to come 'out' to them because my sexuality does not affect my work in any way shape or form.

The tricky thing is, getting to meet and associate with other like minded individuals.

I've done the gaybar thing and found it full of lost souls. I am too straight acting for my own good. Maybe I should dress up at weekends and call myself Gloria!! I like getting up to my elbows in grime!

Perhaps an Oriental houseboy would suit me better because I just can't seem to find someone who is just a regular kinda guy, with no hang-ups. I aint got any issues, I just get on with it.

I must be a bit freaky to most so-called 'gay' guys.

I have searched the interweb and can find no specific answers to my questions:

How do I volunteer my time to those who would benefit from some counselling help?

How can I volunteer as just someone to talk to?

Where are the groups local to me? (Falkirk, in Central Scotland)

What else do I need to know before I do so?

So many of our youngsters are choosing to end their lives rather than seek help to find a way through the morass of their problems. If I am to be of any assistance to them, I need your assistance to get me started.

Thank you in advance

I have a couple of gay friends who are having a birthday party next weekend. Do you' have any suggestions as to what I should give a gay couple for their birthday?

I planted some tomatoes about three months ago. I am growing them indoors and the plants are about 6 1/2 feet tall, 6 plants in total. Only recently the fruits have started to come through but there is, to my mind too much foliage.

Will it harm the plants if I trim some of the foliage and how can I encourage them to grow quicker and produce more fruits?

Here in Scotland, we have had the smoking ban in place for 15months now and it has had a very mixed effect as far as business and private individuals go.

For example, I can smoke in my own car, but not in the company vehicle I drive. On my own

I can smoke in a purposely set aside shelter at my place of work and even speak to non smokers, but not in a bus shelter.

I have to smoke at the door of the pub but if I discard my butt, I risk a fine for littering!

And many other quirky scenarios aside. Thought's, anyone. It's cost me FIVE points this!!

My closest friend gassed himself in a car, almost ten years ago now and the pain of the loss is as strong now as it was then. Surely this is too long to be grieving for some one. Admitedly, we were very close, went everywhere together, even when he got married to 'the wife from hell'. I knew something was amiss and although I don't blame myself for it, I can't help thinking I could have done or said something to avert the situation, He has left so many people destroyed by one act of selfishness and although, at times I get angry with him for it, I find it so easy to forgive him. The constant merry-go-round of emotions has affected my life, and that of others, and changed it beyond what I once recognise myself to have been. I will leave it at that because I think I am starting to babble incoherently now!