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  3. Snoring, my personal cross to bear

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    Posted · Edited by dazed-and-confused

    i've used the breathe-right strips and found them to be very effective. my wife, on the other hand, simply refuses to accept the fact that she, too, snores...lol

    you mentioned one other factor...losing weight. my weight sometimes goes up and down, right now it's up, and i've noticed how much better i sleep without snoring when i'm slimmer. i guess that wherever the snoring comes from, that gets fat too and inspires the snoring. weird.

  11. Arranged Marriages

    in Family

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    As one who also has had a great deal of exposure to Indian culture, i can say that in India, arranged marriages are the norm. Not all of them, howevever, work out. Along with the caste system, there is a set of rules concerning male and female roles, SPECIFICALLY in the poorer population. These too, however, can be overcome if the marriage is right, that is, if it follows their religious teachings.

    There is also much abuse towards women in India, to the extent that some men (and their families) will marry only to obtain the brides dowery.....yes, that is ALSO an active tradition in India. At some point after the marriage, i regret to say this, women have been set on fire with the intention of them dying. Since wood stoves are still common in India, or dung stoves, and a woman's sari is so long and burns easily, it is too easily said that she simply got caught too close to the open flame.

    While some of these men have been convicted and sent to prison, others do not, speacially if they are wealthy and their family can influence the court..something ELSE that is VERY common in India.

    All this being said, I have been to India several times and find it to be a very interesting.

  24. Movie Mix-and-Match

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    Do---do you think I chose to be like this? Do you have any idea how lonely it is, how dangerous? I would *love* to be upstairs watching TV or gossiping about boys or... God, even studying! But I have to save the world. Again.

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

    (ahem...private note. i will NOT let this thread die. the potential for genious and humour bordering on MADNESS is too great. TOO GREAT i say)