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Welcome to Yahoo! Answers hits the streets: Episode 3. In July, we launched our second question and got some great responses. We hope you’re enjoying the series as much as we are.

And now, this week’s question…

Throughout your life, the chance of having a bad roommate is big. We’re pretty sure you’ve experienced at least one messy, loud, or annoying roommate. So please tell us — or anyone having this problem — how do you get rid of them?

Think you know the answer? We know our community can do better. You’ve heard their answers, now we want to hear from you! Give us a shout and tell us what you think. Just click on the question below to submit your response.

Question: How do you get rid of a bad roommate?

Episode 2 Winner

Congrats to Beauty Killer Jeffree Star for Episode 2’s Best Answer. Here’s their answer:

“Just say something like, ‘Hey, sorry, but would you mind if we talked about this later, I have to finish this [current project] by [due date] and I’m not very far on it.’ And, just to lighten things up, you could add a joke or smile, or an ‘Oh goodness, I had better get started or I’m dead meat’ -expression. No need to be rude, just honest. If they still can’t shut up, then you need to be a bit harsh. (:”

Get Featured

You can be the next winner and get 200 EXTRA POINTS and get recognized on our Answers Blog.  Heck, if you have a webcam and we like your video, we may even feature a video of you on our Answers Blog! We’re not the only ones that can make videos. Simply upload your video here. In submitting your video keep in mind your obligations under the Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. Also, you must be 18 in order to submit a video.

So far we are really loving the responses from our community. Please keep them coming and if you have a few minutes, suggest a few questions for future videos.

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The suspense is over. Welcome to Yahoo! Answers hits the streets: Episode 2! Last month, we introduced to you Answers on the Street, where we take YOUR interesting questions and travel coast to coast to find the answers to just a few of them.

And now, this week’s question…

We’ve all been in this situation. You’re at work, finishing a project, and there’s this co-worker that just gets under your skin. They’re too loud, they won’t stop talking, they just won’t shut up. What do you do?

Think you know the answer? We know our community can do better. You’ve heard the answers on the street — now we want to hear from you! Give us a shout and tell us what you think. Just click the question below to submit your response.

Question: How do you deal with a co-worker who talks too much?

Episode 1 Winner

Congrats to janet a for the Best Answer to How do you tell someone they have bad breath? Here’s Janet in her own words:

I love the Internet. My daughter recommended Yahoo for email, and one day I clicked on “Answers” and I was hooked. I love the Senior section, all of the Medical categories (I’m a retired x-ray technologist), and the Jokes and Riddle Category, oh, and the Food & Drink (Recipe) category — I could go on and on!

When I’m not on the computer, I’m usually outside with our 3 Chihuahuas – My husband and I live in the mountains and take at least 2 walks every day, and of course the dogs go with us. I love to cook and love to read, especially mystery novels.

Thank you again for the Best Answer — it was exciting and fun!”

Get Featured

You can be the next winner and get 200 EXTRA POINTS and get recognized on our Answers Blog.  Heck, if you have a webcam and we like your video, we may even feature a video of you on our Answers Blog! We’re not the only ones that can make videos.  Simply upload your video here. In submitting your video keep in mind your obligations under the Terms of Service and Community Guidelines.  Also, you must be 18 in order to submit a video.

We had over 2000 answers the last time so keep them coming! Don’t forget to check out our blog for future videos. We’re just getting started.

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We could probably go on at length about what it was like to be part of this global spectacle but honestly, you just need to watch the video:

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We asked you to pick your “Team of the Tournament” last month by picking the top 11 players from this year’s World Cup.

Happy to share that we got a great response from our community. We received more than a thousand answers. Thank you to all who took the time to share your top players.

We promised 110 BONUS POINTS to the exact match or even the closest match. Congrats, Steele W with 8 correct matches! Here’s their answer below:

GK: Casillas, ended tournament with no goals for last 433 minutes of play.

RB: Sergio Ramos, constantly posed an attacking threat while still getting back and playing excellent defense
CB: Lucio, great and powerful defender, even had skill to push forward on many occasions
CB: Carles Puyol, always hard worker, saved Spain on many occasions, best center back of the tournament, game winner against germany that sent spain through
LB: Phillip Lahm, provided leadership and skill for germany playing left back, constantly pushing forward and threatening in the attack

CM: Xavi, created more goal scoring opportunities than any other player by far, kept his cool when spain at times looked like they could lose it, was never rattled.
CM: Bastian Schwiensteiger, real leader for germany, superb skill and great defensive play, was the glue that kept the german side together
CM: Wesley Sneijder, dutch master, scored five goals from the midfield, single-handedly beat brazil in a way only Zidane was able to do back in 2006

LW: David Villa, Spain’s attacking force, scored five of the most important goals in spain’s soccer history
RW: Thomas Müller, only 20 years of age and won best young player and the golden boot, the future looks bright for Múller and Germany, the next rudi völler? possibly.
ST: Diego Forlán, carried uruguay to the semifinals, scored five goals of beauty. shone far brighter than most other stars coming in to the tournament.

Check out the full list from our very own Brooks Peck on the Dirty Tackle.

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Since we first made changes to the Search experience on Answers in March we have received extensive feedback from the Answers community.  We’re pleased to say we’ve been incorporating this feedback in developing some exciting new changes to how Search works – with some cool new functions to help you get the best out of this feature which we will be unveiling later this week.

However, before you can see the future of Search on Answers, we need to take you back to the past… just for a few days!  For Technical reasons we have to rollback to an older version of the Search page before we can add code to introduce new features – it’s a bit like when the Yamster’s wheel gets stuck.  We have to roll it back a little before it can go forward again!

As from Monday we’ll be using the old URL structure on Search pages.

Here are the impacts and how you can work around this until we get the new page live:

1) If you’ve bookmarked your Searches you will get the error page as the URL will no longer be valid. In the interim you will need to go to the Search page and enter your search again.  This will return you the full set of results.

2) If you currently edit the Search URL to use &orderby=+date (to sort by most recent) and &orderby=-date (to sort by oldest) you will need to use the previous parameters.  These are:

• Instead of &orderby=+date use &s=+date
• Instead of &orderby=-date use &s=-date

We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause, but we can assure you it will be very temporary and that you will really value the new Search functions we’re launching in a few days!

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