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8 hours ago, Red Bridey said:
I just gotta comment that I hate that wolf spin (?) where the athlete crouches and is spinning on one leg while the other leg is outstretched. Even when done well, it looks like the athlete is going to fall over and it's an ugly position. It[s difficult to do well, which is why I suppose it looks like a required maneuver, but it looks awkward and I just don't like it at all.
I'm the opposite -- I don't know how any of them, even with all their training, do anything they do, but that particular move on the beam contrasted with the same on the floor is particularly impressive and I enjoy seeing it.
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6 hours ago, fairffaxx said:
I started first grade at a Midwestern public school in 1953 & was disgusted to find that I had to wear a dress (or at least a skirt & blouse).
I think it's appalling at any age, but particularly for little girls like that, as it can limit your playing options at recess (not to mention put into your head at an impressionable young age narrow gendered notions about dressing).
I never had a uniform or a crazy-strict dress code. I liked dresses, skirts, pants, shorts, you name it; then, as now, my wardrobe had variety. If I was wearing something that wouldn't allow the freedom of movement I wanted at recess/after lunch, I temporarily changed into my gym clothes. It seems like you didn't even have that respite, always having to be decked out in "lady-like" attire, with all its limitations. That's some bullshit.
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1 hour ago, bluegirl147 said:
My ears always go up when I hear something like that. Sometimes I do say something because if you don't people don't learn that what they are saying is bothersome.
Sometimes I just don't have the energy, but usually I say something.
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1 hour ago, Cloud9Shopper said:
Also, whoever invented the phrase “the customer is always right.”
It was Harry Gordon Selfridge, an early 20th century business owner, and what he said was "The customer is always right, in matters of taste”, not the blanket statement of entitlement rude customers like to toss around by only quoting the first part.
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14 hours ago, txhorns79 said:
I did wonder how it was that Rose even got an interview for a job for which she was almost laughably unqualified.
No almost about it (anywhere, but especially in a city the size of Miami); it's like they picked a job out of a hat, for all the sense it made.
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4 hours ago, NUguy514 said:
And that's not even touching the Kerri Strug vault (which I thought was really uncomfortable to watch back in 1996 because she should absolutely not have done that second vault) and He Who Shall Not Be Named carrying her away.
Oh, I felt like I was living in a parallel universe at the time; I was horrified by that entire thing - sending her out there to begin with, and then Creepy Coach hauling her like a trophy - and it was being hailed as one of sports' greatest triumphs. Women's gymnastic is so much less uncomfortable to watch now. I'm watching - and enjoying it - more in these games than I have in a very long time.
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Chicken a la king is on tonight's menu. Not my jam, but I'm still cooking for my parents, and I'd rather reserve a serving of something I find just okay (or, if I'm channeling Eleanor from The Good Place -- "Ya basic") rather than cooking something else. I also reserved a serving of an asparagus and peas dish I made for them; I'm not a huge fan of peas, but these are garden fresh (via a friend's garden), I love asparagus, and there's a sauce with white wine, onions, and garlic, so I'm happy with it. Basically, other than my side salad (mixed greens with avocado and tomato, dressed with lemon vinaigrette), I'll be eating things I wouldn't normally make.
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1 minute ago, isalicat said:
Asking because I really don't know, is this true (that the liver is "highly regenerative") only of cats?
It's the most regenerative organ in the human body, too. But, while it is amazingly capable of repairing itself after physical damage - e.g. being able to regrow to a normal size after up to 90% of it has been removed - there are many diseases (as you noted) that can irreparably harm it.
It's just that with cats, their liver ailments are more likely to be among those that can be treated or pretty easily managed for a long time, especially if caught early -- other than being uniquely vulnerable to the life-threatening condition of hepatic lipidosis, which is a secondary illness that (unlike in humans and dogs) can set in relatively quickly when a sick cat stops eating -- while humans are prone to a wider range of serious liver diseases.
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1 hour ago, StatisticalOutlier said:
None of the news reports mention that lady, and I can't believe that didn't give the team an advantage.
I don't remember which feed I was watching it on (via replay), but they showed the footage and explained what happened in extremely basic terms - runner was in the wrong place, official signaled her, runner got into place in time, avoiding disaster - without any mention of that possibly not being allowed, or being unusual, a nice gesture, or anything. If next-day coverage isn't even mentioning the official, perhaps there's no question they're allowed to help like that. (The only sport in which I'm immersed is NFL football, where the refs do not warn anybody they're in the wrong spot, they just throw the flag if they're still there when the ball is snapped, so I was surprised by the lack of "Can she do that?" or "There's no rule against that" reaction, because to me it was such a departure, but that may just be my limited reference causing my response.)
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2 minutes ago, Anela said:
My cat’s blood count is up into safe numbers. We checked his blood again today, and he got a B12 shot. We have B12 pills to give him, too.
I can't find a post explaining the underlying problem, but I'm glad to hear whatever it is has improved, and hope it continues. B12 injections have done wonders as a supplement to treatment for a number of conditions, so I hope that will give a great boost to the existing progress.
Just now, Anela said:They said he had something going on with his liver, but they didn’t know what it was.
(From another thread)
Have you ever tried him on Denamarin? The liver is a highly regenerative organ, and that's something that can help it do its healing thing with a variety of liver ailments.
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3 minutes ago, Anela said:
My cat’s blood count is up into safe numbers. We checked his blood again today, and he got a B12 shot. We have B12 pills to give him, too.
Oops, wrong thread, but please post in Pets and keep us updated; those B12 shots can work wonders with a variety of conditions, so hopefully he continues to improve.
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About the men's synchronized springboard finals: Goddamn, I was rooting hard for Mexico.
About the diving competitions in general: Goddamn, I might make more of a splash getting in and out of my bathtub than some of these people do hitting the water.
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I feel so heard -- so many people expressed hatred for the ad where a dad asks AI to create a fan letter his daughter can send to the athlete she admires, Google has pulled it from its rotation of Olympic ads.
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4 hours ago, Mrsmaul2021 said:
Morris is the only character in ER history that I was once disliked but grew to like
I paid so little attention to those seasons when I watched on Pop several years ago, I really don't remember him, so for me the one character who fits that description is Pratt. When he got over himself and helped Chen after she ended her dad's suffering, I softened on him. So of course they killed him.
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1 hour ago, Daisy said:
Khelif failed gender tests
I think the NewsHour article linked above explains it better:
QuoteKhelif was disqualified from the 2023 world championships after failing unspecified and untransparent eligibility tests for women’s competition from the now-banned International Boxing Association.
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Khelif reached the final of the 2023 world championships before she was abruptly disqualified by the IBA, which cited high levels of testosterone in her system. The circumstances of that disqualification have been considered highly unusual ever since it happened, and Khelif called it “a big conspiracy” at the time.She had previously competed without issues and was disqualified by the sport’s governing body only after she defeated Russian boxer Azalia Amineva in the 2023 tournament. The IBA is controlled by Umar Kremlev, who is Russian and brought in the state-owned energy supplier Gazprom as its primary sponsor and moved much of the governing body’s operations to Russia.
This week, the IOC described it as “a sudden and arbitrary decision by the IBA” in which Khelif and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan “were suddenly disqualified without any due process.” Lin was suspended for failing to meet unspecified eligibility requirements in a biochemical test.
The reasons for the two disqualifications are extremely murky, as is almost always the case with the IBA. The governing body has revealed little about the nature of the tests, including what was tested and who tested it. This lack of transparency would be unacceptable in major Olympic sports, and the IBA has been banned from the Olympics since 2019.
The IOC noted Thursday that the boxing association’s own documents say the decision was made unilaterally by the IBA’s secretary general. Those documents also say the IBA went on to resolve at a meeting that it should “establish a clear procedure on gender testing” after it had already disqualified the two fighters.
Carini's reaction does not seem to be universal:
QuoteKhelif is a formidable athlete with respected fighting skills, contending in top international events — including major amateur boxing tournaments over the past six years, such as the Tokyo Olympics. She’s won a few regional gold medals.
But Khelif was decidedly not known as a dominant champion, an overpowering physical specimen or even a particularly hard puncher at her weight — not until this week in Paris.
Khelif defeated Carini in just 46 seconds Thursday, with the Italian boxer’s tearful abandonment of the fight leading to innumerable portrayals of Khelif as an unstoppable punching machine whose presence threatens the health of her opponents.
The reality, to those who actually watch or participate in Olympic-style boxing, is quite different.
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Khelif eventually caught the attention of Algeria’s national team, making her major tournament debut in 2018 with a first-round loss at the AIBA — now the International Boxing Association — world championships. She lost five of her first six elite-level bouts, but improved and excelled.Khelif was one of Algeria’s first three Olympic women’s boxers sent to Tokyo three years ago. She won her opening bout but lost her second to eventual gold medalist Kellie Harrington of Ireland.
She also raised her profile by doing well in the next two world championships, and she even became a UNICEF national ambassador early this year.
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Carini’s unusual actions aside, it’s highly unlikely anyone else in the women’s 66-kilogram division thinks Khelif is unfightable.“I’m not scared,” her next opponent, Anna Luca Hamori of Hungary, said Thursday. They will face off Saturday. “I don’t care about the story or social media.”
Khelif is a medal contender in a sport where the Olympic draw can often determine the semifinal field by randomly pitting top fighters against each other too early in the competition.
But Khelif isn’t yet considered to be at the level of defending Olympic champion Busenaz Surmeneli of Turkey or 2023 world champion Yang Liu of China, the top two seeds in Paris.
Opinions about Khelif’s presence in Paris have ranged widely, often directly correlated with awareness of the news cycle raging outside the athletes’ village.
Marissa Williamson Pohlman of Australia lost to Khelif in the Netherlands last May, and she said Khelif was particularly strong.
“I did notice it, but you just keep fighting, though, don’t you?” Williamson Pohlman said. “It’s just a part of the sport. All you want to do is win, so you just keep chucking punches.”
Khelif also received support from peers like Amy Broadhurst, the accomplished Irish amateur who beat Khelif in the 2022 IBA world championships.
“Personally I don’t think she has done anything to ‘cheat,'” Broadhurst wrote on social media. “I (think) it’s the way she was born & that’s out of her control. The fact that she has been (beaten) by 9 females before says it all.”
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15 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:
So for all those that have seen Deadpool and Wolverine, can we all agree that Hugh Jackman is still hot AF?
That's something I would not watch if you paid me, but I will always agree about the attractiveness of Hugh Jackman.
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As someone who had the Netflix DVD rental service until the day it died, one of the things I miss about it is how many TV movies it had available. There were always terrible productions, and some that were awesomely bad, but for a very good stretch there we also got some enjoyable, well-made movies. Some are available on a streaming platform, more as unauthorized YouTube uploads which can, of course, disappear at any time, and then Netflix was this wonderful additional resource.
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On 7/31/2024 at 8:01 PM, buttersister said:
Goose? Do you suppose someone was a Top Gun fan and thinks he has a canine wingman?
Ha - that was my first thought upon reading:
On 7/31/2024 at 12:18 PM, abbyzenn said:And who names a dog Goose?????
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4 hours ago, NUguy514 said:
After her shaky beam routine, I honestly didn't think she could get a floor score that was quite high enough to pass Alice, but she threw down the best floor routine I've seen her do just when she absolutely needed it.
In an interview NBC aired during its abysmal prime-time recap, she said she didn't think she had any chance at a medal after that beam rotation, so just decided to go out there and have a whole lot of fun on the floor.
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3 hours ago, MaryMitch said:
for example, at the Women's gymnastics all-around, there were many members of the USA men's basketball team there.
And almost all of them were watching Simone's floor exercise as captured by the camera lenses of their tiny phones rather than taking advantage of that opportunity of being in the audience. Presumably so they can post "I was there" footage on their social media and rack up likes? I will never understand this phenomenon of being too busy documenting one's experiences to actually live them. Look up and around!
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6 hours ago, Dimity said:
I noticed a bunch of posts on my FB feed (the usual total strangers posts that FB seems to think I want to see) anyway a bunch of sad men are bemoaning that some of the women's teams have chosen not to wear bkinis.
That's why not officially requiring women to wear bikinis does not erase the problem; if they're still strongly encouraged to because that's what brings in the viewers which brings in the funding, the choice of what to wear is not being made freely.
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54 minutes ago, SoMuchTV said:
Not to downplay your peeve at all, but can I say, a few years ago I got a food scale for about $10, maybe as much as $20, and I've used it way more than I expected to.
Yeah, I had never used one in my decades of cooking, but when one was offered on Freecycle several years ago, I got it, figuring I'd pass it along if I never wound up using it. I only use it once every month or two, probably, but I do use it -- I obviously did fine without it, but it is a handy thing to have.
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I think it's an honest reaction, since she lists the things that didn't go the way she wanted them to; in her head, a lot went wrong, and she's up against people who make this sort of food every day and whose dishes look delicious (since she sees them, but doesn't get to taste them), so she figures the judges are going to find more faults with her dish than theirs.
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7 hours ago, CeeBeeGee said:
There's more work to do but think of where we were twelve or even eight years ago.
It always seemed like an inherently abusive system to me, so I enjoyed the athleticism but was uneasy with the whole package, and when the Athlete A documentary confirmed and expanded all my worst fears, I found it hard to watch at all.
I have no illusions it's all hunky dory now, but I felt a lot better watching this year than I ever have. They're still in sparkly leotards, they still have to do the flouncy let me entertain you shit in between athletic moves their male counterparts don't have to do, but they don't look pre-pubescent despite being far from it, they don't all have glitter and bows in their hair, etc. -- they're not simultaneously infantilised and sexualised as they had been for some time, and hopefully the rampant sexual abuse at the hands of Nassar also exposing the other systemic abuses to which they'd been subjected means they have a degree of power they never previously did (which seems to be the case).
Also, I love the Golden Girls team name, since they have an average age that is old, sad as that is, and won the gold.
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Chit-Chat: What's On Your Mind Today?
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That's why I only put clear polish on my fingernails. My toenails I always use colored polish, but if I do it on my hands, then the first little piece that chips off is all I can see and it bugs me. With clear, I can go longer in between paintings because more of it can wear off before it becomes noticeable.
The only time I get a mani/pedi done by someone else is when it's part of a spa day (so, not very often; I think the last time was for my friend's wedding [when I was World's Most Reluctant Maid of Honor]); I've never gone to a nail salon.