should I still like him?
Okay.. so I broke up with my boyfriend in Iceland and I moved to Luxembourg. From time to time, I feel like i still like him. I went to Iceland last christmas vacation. I saw him and it was a little awkward.. he got drunk and I felt more close to him so I called up two of my friends and we got him in my friends room and then, because one of my friends got rly tired, she fell asleep and my other friend kind of had a crush on me.. My friend started kissing me, but I wasnt kissing back and then my ex started kissing me, I wasnt kissing back. Now, I kind of regret not kissing my ex... But I just think that long distance relationships dont work out most of the time.. :( what should I do?
Singles & Dating - 1 Answers
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He's your ex for a reason. Move on, long distance relationships never work out.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Conneticut legalizes same sex marriage tommorrow: So Who's next
Conneticut legalizes same sex marriage tommorrow: So Who's next?
Conneticut legalizes same sex marriage tommorrow by order of the courts. And polls show 53% of CT people support allowing same sex marriage. Norway legalizes Same sex marriage January 1st. So who's next? Within the United States........ It is legal in MA, CT, 16,000 marriages still valid in CA, and they are transferable to NY. Civil Unions are recognized in: (CA, CT, DC, HI, ME, MD, NH, NJ, OR, VT, WA). So What state are most likely to adopt same sex marriage rights next? I think VT is a big one. Maryland too. What do you think about NY? Any chance of that happening in upcoming years? Maybe NY's a long shot but we have a whole group of liberal states to work through. Do you think we tend to have more success legalizing it through the courts than we do through elections? And as for the rest of the world: Gay marriage currently legal in: Belgium Canada Netherlands Norway (2009-1-1) South Africa Spain Who's next? Civil Unions recognized in: Andorra Belgium Czech Republic Denmark Ecuador Finland France Germany Hungary (2009-1-1) Iceland Luxembourg Netherlands New Zealand Slovenia Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom Uruguay
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I'm sure NY will legalize it soon.
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minnesota is the only state that didn't go for reagan at any time. it has become more purple in recent years but the large majority of minnesotans are still very liberal when it comes to cultural issues (they are just now more hawkish on foreign policy).
Conneticut legalizes same sex marriage tommorrow by order of the courts. And polls show 53% of CT people support allowing same sex marriage. Norway legalizes Same sex marriage January 1st. So who's next? Within the United States........ It is legal in MA, CT, 16,000 marriages still valid in CA, and they are transferable to NY. Civil Unions are recognized in: (CA, CT, DC, HI, ME, MD, NH, NJ, OR, VT, WA). So What state are most likely to adopt same sex marriage rights next? I think VT is a big one. Maryland too. What do you think about NY? Any chance of that happening in upcoming years? Maybe NY's a long shot but we have a whole group of liberal states to work through. Do you think we tend to have more success legalizing it through the courts than we do through elections? And as for the rest of the world: Gay marriage currently legal in: Belgium Canada Netherlands Norway (2009-1-1) South Africa Spain Who's next? Civil Unions recognized in: Andorra Belgium Czech Republic Denmark Ecuador Finland France Germany Hungary (2009-1-1) Iceland Luxembourg Netherlands New Zealand Slovenia Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom Uruguay
Politics - 2 Answers
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I'm sure NY will legalize it soon.
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minnesota is the only state that didn't go for reagan at any time. it has become more purple in recent years but the large majority of minnesotans are still very liberal when it comes to cultural issues (they are just now more hawkish on foreign policy).
Friday, January 7, 2011
QUESTION ABOUT BACKPACKING THROUGH EUROPE
QUESTION ABOUT BACKPACKING THROUGH EUROPE?
My friend and i are going to go backpacking through europe next summer but we need to figure out roughly how much money this is going to cost us individually,,, im wondering where the hostils are and what if there isnt a hostil in the place i am supposed to be staying in? Would it be beter to rent a car for 3 months or just buy a eurorail pass? i found this peice of information while i was looking into passes:: Visit up to 20 European countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland). Choose from 15 or 21 days or one, two and three month trips. Travel days are consecutive - if you don't use a day on the train, you lose it. i dont fully understand what this means. Does this mean that the pass is good everyday for 3 months? can you use this pass more than once a day? What does it mean "you lose it" ? does that mean the entire pass cancels out and it doesnt work anymore? please try to answer all of my questions but thanks a billion for anyone who answers any of them!! Ok everybody is kind of giving me different answers on this... so can i get a eurail pass for 3 months or can i just get one for 21 days?
Other - Europe - 6 Answers
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If you don't use it one day, it is just saying that you can't add a day to your trip just because you didn't use it. You can use the pass as many times in a day as you want to, and it is good for three months. As for Hostels, you're bound to find somewhere to stay in every place you go, or at least near that place, just ask the locals when you are there. If you figure out the cost and the places ahead of time, it's not called backpacking, it's just called vacationing. The whole point is to avoid having to plan. Just know how much money you'll have, and make sure you don't go over it.
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Ok, for the passes, it means that you can travel for 15 (or 21) days during the period you are buying it. This means that, for example, you can only travel 21 days out of that three-month period. If you plan to use the pass for one day, it means you have the right to travel during that whole day, unlimited number of trains. After that day, you will have to use another day of your pass. Watch out with overnight trains, I'm not quite sure how do they count days on them, but just make sure of that. Make sure that the places included in your pass are places of your interest. You might find cheaper combinations if you do some flights and specific rail passes for precise regions. What I also did was flying: Low Cost airlines rock!!! Look at the page that I'm citing, and you can find all the low cost carriers in europe with fares. Really cheap, fast, and convenient. Hostels, well, there's a lot of pages, but I used the one that I'm citing. Convenient too. ENJOY! :D
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Train pass: Much less complicated than you are making it. If you buy a three month pass, you start it on, say the first of June, and it runs out on the last day of August. That's all. Yes, you can use it more than once a day. You can take overnight trains, and save on lodging. You can stop in a town, and then change your mind about it, and hop on another train out of there. Don't worry about the rest of the wording. They send you a list of countries, and a map. The only thing to know is that they often require you to reserve a seat, nowadays, and there are surcharges on a lot of the more popular routes, so you want to figure that in, too. Also. DO NOT. I repeat DO NOT rent a car. You will do nothing but drive around in circles, it will cost you an arm and a leg! And you will wind up lost more often than not. That is NOT how to backpack through Europe, and you do not want the responsibility! Youth Hostels. Just check this out: http://www.international-youth-hostels.com/ You buy a membership on the first night that you stay in them, and you use it for up to a year. It gets you the best prices per bed. If there is no youth hostel, you stay in an ordinary hostel or hotel. No big deal. Best thing to do is sit down with your friend, and decide WHAT you want to do and WHERE you want to go, and how long you want to stay in each place. Make a rough itinerary, and start planning from there. There are some places where the Youth hostels may seem unreasonably far from everything (I felt that way about Paris) or they are out of the way PLUS no more reasonable than the places in town (that used to be the case in Spain, though the cost factor has changed). In such cases, you just stay someplace in the center of town that isn't terribly expensive. You'll quickly figure out how to locate such places. Let's Go Europe used to be the bible of backpackers. Full of good ideas for places to go and things to see, places to eat cheaply, and well, and where to stay. Go to a bookstore and flip through a copy. If you think it's still a valid book, buy two copies!!! (one for each of you...you will want to refer back, and check your pencillings in years to come). Use common sense, and have fun! It'll probably be one of the best adventures of your youth! Oh, and figure on somewhere between $10,000 and 15,000. You have to check out websites to figure it out best...how much is the train pass? Airfares? lodging?
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"My friend and i are going to go backpacking through europe next summer but we need to figure out roughly how much money this is going to cost us individually,,," Budget US $75 per day each, not including your flight to Europe. "im wondering where the hostils are and what if there isnt a hostil in the place i am supposed to be staying in?" Hostels in Western Europe charge anywhere from $15-30 per person per night. They usually have rooms with bunk beds - anywhere from 4-10 people per room. Most hostels have a common room, and some of them also have a small bar, and often the staff can arrange tours for you. Hostels are a good place to meet other travelers, but you don't get any privacy, and if you're not a sound sleeper there can be noise problems with people coming and going at all hours of the night. Most large cities or tourist towns have multiple hostels and there's no problem finding a room even at the last minute, in the summer, but in the rare case that there's no hostel or the hostels are all full, you can find a cheap hotel. Hostels are cheaper than cheap hotels for single travelers, but with two people it costs about the same and you get a lot more privacy. The only places in all of Europe where I ever had trouble finding a hostel were in Spain, and there are a lot of cheap hotels in all large Spanish cities. "Would it be beter to rent a car for 3 months or just buy a eurorail pass?" Definitely don't rent a car. The car rental and gas are much more expensive than taking the train, and parking can be very difficult in the larger cities. Also, you will have a hard time finding your way around strange cities by car. The only time you would want to rent a car is if you want to tour small towns in the countryside in an area with little public transportation. "i dont fully understand what this means. Does this mean that the pass is good everyday for 3 months? can you use this pass more than once a day?" If you buy a 21-day pass, once you activate it, it is valid for the next 21 days (i.e. not like 21 different days over a one year period). If you activate it August 1, you can use it as many times as you want until August 22. "What does it mean "you lose it" ? does that mean the entire pass cancels out and it doesnt work anymore?" No - if you use the pass on August 1, and don't use it on August 2, you don't lose the pass, it's still good until August 22. But you don't get an extra day because you didn't use the pass on August 2 - you lose that one day of the 21-day pass.
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Hey, I can't help you with your questions, but I want to recommend a hostel in Berlin. I was there last week and it is not expensive, pretty much in the center of the city, very clean and the staff is helpful. It's the hostel "Singer109". http://www.singer109.com/ I found this hostel when I was searching on this website: http://www.hostels.com/ Good luck with the preparations ;)
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Just to clarify the whole 15-21 day rail pass thing... There are two kinds of passes: the unlimited pass, and the "flexi" (or other similar names). You purchase it according to what you need and what you want to pay. The flexi-pass allows you to pick certain days on which you want to travel. Ex: over the space of 6 weeks, you can pick 15 travel days. (So it's really not all that "flexi.") The unlimited pass is just what it says - 1, 2, or 3 months of unlimited travel on any day from day 1 to the end. This is your best bet. Which one you buy just depends on how long you'll be traveling. Once you validate your pass on the first day, all you'll have to do is show it to the conductor, no matter how many trains you get on that day. (But as I think someone else said, you may need to pay for reservations on certain trains.)
My friend and i are going to go backpacking through europe next summer but we need to figure out roughly how much money this is going to cost us individually,,, im wondering where the hostils are and what if there isnt a hostil in the place i am supposed to be staying in? Would it be beter to rent a car for 3 months or just buy a eurorail pass? i found this peice of information while i was looking into passes:: Visit up to 20 European countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland). Choose from 15 or 21 days or one, two and three month trips. Travel days are consecutive - if you don't use a day on the train, you lose it. i dont fully understand what this means. Does this mean that the pass is good everyday for 3 months? can you use this pass more than once a day? What does it mean "you lose it" ? does that mean the entire pass cancels out and it doesnt work anymore? please try to answer all of my questions but thanks a billion for anyone who answers any of them!! Ok everybody is kind of giving me different answers on this... so can i get a eurail pass for 3 months or can i just get one for 21 days?
Other - Europe - 6 Answers
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If you don't use it one day, it is just saying that you can't add a day to your trip just because you didn't use it. You can use the pass as many times in a day as you want to, and it is good for three months. As for Hostels, you're bound to find somewhere to stay in every place you go, or at least near that place, just ask the locals when you are there. If you figure out the cost and the places ahead of time, it's not called backpacking, it's just called vacationing. The whole point is to avoid having to plan. Just know how much money you'll have, and make sure you don't go over it.
2 :
Ok, for the passes, it means that you can travel for 15 (or 21) days during the period you are buying it. This means that, for example, you can only travel 21 days out of that three-month period. If you plan to use the pass for one day, it means you have the right to travel during that whole day, unlimited number of trains. After that day, you will have to use another day of your pass. Watch out with overnight trains, I'm not quite sure how do they count days on them, but just make sure of that. Make sure that the places included in your pass are places of your interest. You might find cheaper combinations if you do some flights and specific rail passes for precise regions. What I also did was flying: Low Cost airlines rock!!! Look at the page that I'm citing, and you can find all the low cost carriers in europe with fares. Really cheap, fast, and convenient. Hostels, well, there's a lot of pages, but I used the one that I'm citing. Convenient too. ENJOY! :D
3 :
Train pass: Much less complicated than you are making it. If you buy a three month pass, you start it on, say the first of June, and it runs out on the last day of August. That's all. Yes, you can use it more than once a day. You can take overnight trains, and save on lodging. You can stop in a town, and then change your mind about it, and hop on another train out of there. Don't worry about the rest of the wording. They send you a list of countries, and a map. The only thing to know is that they often require you to reserve a seat, nowadays, and there are surcharges on a lot of the more popular routes, so you want to figure that in, too. Also. DO NOT. I repeat DO NOT rent a car. You will do nothing but drive around in circles, it will cost you an arm and a leg! And you will wind up lost more often than not. That is NOT how to backpack through Europe, and you do not want the responsibility! Youth Hostels. Just check this out: http://www.international-youth-hostels.com/ You buy a membership on the first night that you stay in them, and you use it for up to a year. It gets you the best prices per bed. If there is no youth hostel, you stay in an ordinary hostel or hotel. No big deal. Best thing to do is sit down with your friend, and decide WHAT you want to do and WHERE you want to go, and how long you want to stay in each place. Make a rough itinerary, and start planning from there. There are some places where the Youth hostels may seem unreasonably far from everything (I felt that way about Paris) or they are out of the way PLUS no more reasonable than the places in town (that used to be the case in Spain, though the cost factor has changed). In such cases, you just stay someplace in the center of town that isn't terribly expensive. You'll quickly figure out how to locate such places. Let's Go Europe used to be the bible of backpackers. Full of good ideas for places to go and things to see, places to eat cheaply, and well, and where to stay. Go to a bookstore and flip through a copy. If you think it's still a valid book, buy two copies!!! (one for each of you...you will want to refer back, and check your pencillings in years to come). Use common sense, and have fun! It'll probably be one of the best adventures of your youth! Oh, and figure on somewhere between $10,000 and 15,000. You have to check out websites to figure it out best...how much is the train pass? Airfares? lodging?
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"My friend and i are going to go backpacking through europe next summer but we need to figure out roughly how much money this is going to cost us individually,,," Budget US $75 per day each, not including your flight to Europe. "im wondering where the hostils are and what if there isnt a hostil in the place i am supposed to be staying in?" Hostels in Western Europe charge anywhere from $15-30 per person per night. They usually have rooms with bunk beds - anywhere from 4-10 people per room. Most hostels have a common room, and some of them also have a small bar, and often the staff can arrange tours for you. Hostels are a good place to meet other travelers, but you don't get any privacy, and if you're not a sound sleeper there can be noise problems with people coming and going at all hours of the night. Most large cities or tourist towns have multiple hostels and there's no problem finding a room even at the last minute, in the summer, but in the rare case that there's no hostel or the hostels are all full, you can find a cheap hotel. Hostels are cheaper than cheap hotels for single travelers, but with two people it costs about the same and you get a lot more privacy. The only places in all of Europe where I ever had trouble finding a hostel were in Spain, and there are a lot of cheap hotels in all large Spanish cities. "Would it be beter to rent a car for 3 months or just buy a eurorail pass?" Definitely don't rent a car. The car rental and gas are much more expensive than taking the train, and parking can be very difficult in the larger cities. Also, you will have a hard time finding your way around strange cities by car. The only time you would want to rent a car is if you want to tour small towns in the countryside in an area with little public transportation. "i dont fully understand what this means. Does this mean that the pass is good everyday for 3 months? can you use this pass more than once a day?" If you buy a 21-day pass, once you activate it, it is valid for the next 21 days (i.e. not like 21 different days over a one year period). If you activate it August 1, you can use it as many times as you want until August 22. "What does it mean "you lose it" ? does that mean the entire pass cancels out and it doesnt work anymore?" No - if you use the pass on August 1, and don't use it on August 2, you don't lose the pass, it's still good until August 22. But you don't get an extra day because you didn't use the pass on August 2 - you lose that one day of the 21-day pass.
5 :
Hey, I can't help you with your questions, but I want to recommend a hostel in Berlin. I was there last week and it is not expensive, pretty much in the center of the city, very clean and the staff is helpful. It's the hostel "Singer109". http://www.singer109.com/ I found this hostel when I was searching on this website: http://www.hostels.com/ Good luck with the preparations ;)
6 :
Just to clarify the whole 15-21 day rail pass thing... There are two kinds of passes: the unlimited pass, and the "flexi" (or other similar names). You purchase it according to what you need and what you want to pay. The flexi-pass allows you to pick certain days on which you want to travel. Ex: over the space of 6 weeks, you can pick 15 travel days. (So it's really not all that "flexi.") The unlimited pass is just what it says - 1, 2, or 3 months of unlimited travel on any day from day 1 to the end. This is your best bet. Which one you buy just depends on how long you'll be traveling. Once you validate your pass on the first day, all you'll have to do is show it to the conductor, no matter how many trains you get on that day. (But as I think someone else said, you may need to pay for reservations on certain trains.)
Saturday, January 1, 2011
European Mobile Phones
European Mobile Phones?
I recently cracked the screen of my black Sony Ericsson w580i -- a phone that I hated with all my heart. (Horrible buttons, fragile casing, frustrating software, etc.) My friend happened to drop my phone while it was in my purse when we were out, and somehow that still happened to ruin the screen. My plan doesn't allow me for a free phone until about December or January, but I don't plan on waiting that long for a new one. (This is making it really hard to see text messages from my friends or missed calls from my boss.) I am, however, taking a trip to Europe in about a month -- and I would really like some advice on whether or not I should get a phone there. According to one of my friends, European phone stores are a godsend, like a candy store of brightly colored, electronic trinkets. (He has never gone before, but he has allegedly seen pictures.) I will be touring France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Austria, and Luxembourg. Where would be the best place to get a phone, and which phone should I get? Or should I just go ahead and buy one of our American phones? Most phones should work if I plug my AT&T SIM card in, yes? Thank you in advance for any help. It would be very much appreciated. By the way, I'm not looking for an amazingly fancy phone. At this point, I just want something with a decent sized screen and maybe a camera (seeing as how I was never able to fully take advantage of my old one -- it kept telling me other applications were in process, even when I JUST turned on the phone). Texting-friendly would also be marvelous. I'm willing to pay up to $150 USD for the phone, which again just needs the basics. Again, thanks much! @ Andrew -- Thanks oh so very much. (: I should have about $500 or so saved up by the time I leave for Europe, so maybe shelling out $400 wouldn't be so bad. I make about $15 an hour tutoring, so when I get back I should be able to live alright. The investment seems pretty solid, too. I was thinking about just buying a permanent phone for my personal use there, but I'm guessing by your response it would make more sense to sell anything I get off? Thank you thank you thank you, by the way. (:
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Well i would buy one in Italy, because they sell unlocked phones by law. So that would be the easiest phone to buy without running into problems traveling country to country. Your budget though is a little slim for the types of phones they offer but you will do okay. One idea could be to spend a little more cash and buy a new iphone 3gs, use it on your trip then sell it on ebay when you get back state side. You original investment will easily be doubled, because "true" unlocked phones fetch a far better price than hacked ones, because no matter how many updates are preformed on them, they won't lock to a service provider. It is just a way to buy a nice phone and use it for your trip and make money to pay for your new phone. If you don't want to use the iphone (although this would yield the highest, greatest return) i would say get a named "new" phone like sony ericsson X1, or Nokia N-98, or any hot ticket item going for a lot of money on ebay. I would plan to spend 200 euro or about 400 US to do this though,but you will get $800 back. Or go in half with a friend. Hope i helped:)
I recently cracked the screen of my black Sony Ericsson w580i -- a phone that I hated with all my heart. (Horrible buttons, fragile casing, frustrating software, etc.) My friend happened to drop my phone while it was in my purse when we were out, and somehow that still happened to ruin the screen. My plan doesn't allow me for a free phone until about December or January, but I don't plan on waiting that long for a new one. (This is making it really hard to see text messages from my friends or missed calls from my boss.) I am, however, taking a trip to Europe in about a month -- and I would really like some advice on whether or not I should get a phone there. According to one of my friends, European phone stores are a godsend, like a candy store of brightly colored, electronic trinkets. (He has never gone before, but he has allegedly seen pictures.) I will be touring France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Austria, and Luxembourg. Where would be the best place to get a phone, and which phone should I get? Or should I just go ahead and buy one of our American phones? Most phones should work if I plug my AT&T SIM card in, yes? Thank you in advance for any help. It would be very much appreciated. By the way, I'm not looking for an amazingly fancy phone. At this point, I just want something with a decent sized screen and maybe a camera (seeing as how I was never able to fully take advantage of my old one -- it kept telling me other applications were in process, even when I JUST turned on the phone). Texting-friendly would also be marvelous. I'm willing to pay up to $150 USD for the phone, which again just needs the basics. Again, thanks much! @ Andrew -- Thanks oh so very much. (: I should have about $500 or so saved up by the time I leave for Europe, so maybe shelling out $400 wouldn't be so bad. I make about $15 an hour tutoring, so when I get back I should be able to live alright. The investment seems pretty solid, too. I was thinking about just buying a permanent phone for my personal use there, but I'm guessing by your response it would make more sense to sell anything I get off? Thank you thank you thank you, by the way. (:
Cell Phones & Plans - 1 Answers
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Well i would buy one in Italy, because they sell unlocked phones by law. So that would be the easiest phone to buy without running into problems traveling country to country. Your budget though is a little slim for the types of phones they offer but you will do okay. One idea could be to spend a little more cash and buy a new iphone 3gs, use it on your trip then sell it on ebay when you get back state side. You original investment will easily be doubled, because "true" unlocked phones fetch a far better price than hacked ones, because no matter how many updates are preformed on them, they won't lock to a service provider. It is just a way to buy a nice phone and use it for your trip and make money to pay for your new phone. If you don't want to use the iphone (although this would yield the highest, greatest return) i would say get a named "new" phone like sony ericsson X1, or Nokia N-98, or any hot ticket item going for a lot of money on ebay. I would plan to spend 200 euro or about 400 US to do this though,but you will get $800 back. Or go in half with a friend. Hope i helped:)
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