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Hey, it's a chance to be onstage Go for it!
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

Huh? Running out of money before running out of fun is most frightening.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

I'm mostly a portable gamer. Each console generation since Dreamcast/PS2/Xbox has become less desirable, less user-friendly, more restricted in library. I have a PS3 as an external hard drive for PSP and Vita, and got myself an X360 last Christmas for Forza. Eventually I'll get an X1 for Forza and Rare Replay, but I can wait until price bottoms out after the next generation has been out for a few years.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

Questionmarktarius posted...

Zeus posted...

I partly took apart a PSP to clean something, I think? The analog wasn't working well or something iirc.

When the analog starts drifting, any fix is going to be temporary, and increasingly so.

New joystick and conductive rubber contact strip is the cure.

Yep, repairs on PSPs, DSs, 3DSs, GBAs (GBOs and Vita 1000s are seemingly indestructible).

Mods on Atari 400, ST, Sega Saturn, Genesis, C64, etc.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

Just buy a local newspaper.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

DPsx7 posted...

It doesn't have to if you don't let it. Staying active goes a long way towards making sure you don't fall apart. I mean there are 50 year olds who can't get off the couch and 70 year olds who still swim and ski.

Absolutely! Life just continues to get better. 71, teach golf, compete in martial arts tournaments, teach fun recreational stuff in university adult education, take flying lessons, wrench on and drive sports cars.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

10/10! When I was 19 and got my first motorcycle, my parents bought me a leather jacket. 52 years later, my favorite jackets are leather.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

Christmas bottle of liquor, she doesn't know who gave it to her, and she was enough of a drinker that she just drank it. Police investigation didn't find the poisoner. Hospital diagnosis was methanol poisoning.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

I have a friend who didn't stop drinking until she got into some bad booze and went blind. It almost killed her, methanol poisoning.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

Why would anyone care?
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

Butterfly! Perfect, low maintenance, just some plants on the patio. Also bees, fireflies, and the occasional wasp.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

754, 75%, complexity 10.
658 ,100%, complexity 11
Fun!
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

Golden Road posted...

dancer62 posted...

Annoying beggars at every major intersection. They get angry when you hand them a resource card for homeless shelters, soup kitchens, employment assistance, drug treatment. As some of them have told me, "I can get $200 a day 'flying cardboard' on the street to buy coke. I can't get a job that pays that."

Homeless people like being patronized by people who feel superior to them about as much as non-homeless people like it? I'm shocked! Shocked!

So it's patronizing to offer help, but compassionate to give money to feed their addiction (and incidentally fund drug-dealing gangs and drive-by shootings). Interesting logic.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

The definition of "assault rifle" includes selectable fire. Fully automatic weapons are illegal in the US without a Federal Firearms License. What most people like to call "assault rifles" are just hunting rifles styled like military weapons. So, sure, 10/10, military weapons for the military. Why not?
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

Annoying beggars at every major intersection. They get angry when you hand them a resource card for homeless shelters, soup kitchens, employment assistance, drug treatment. As some of them have told me, "I can get $200 a day 'flying cardboard' on the street to buy coke. I can't get a job that pays that."
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

Zeus posted...

dancer62 posted...

32 million dollar plane. Expensive last plane ride.

Oo

Kinda wonder how expensive they are normally, especially since I thought this one was just a private one.

Nope. 75 passenger Alaska Air Lines turboprop airliner. Pretty demanding for one person to fly, really set up for a cockpit crew of two. And it's surprising he didn't rip the wings or tail off with his erratic flying, airliners aren't built for aerobatics.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

I like Cowboy Bebop, Initial D, Excel Saga, Planetes, Samurai Champloo, Wangan Midnight, Yukikaze, Ex'Driver, etc.

The silly high school mock-martial-arts stuff leaves me cold.

And the whole art style of noseless owl-eyed, lipless characters is ugly, ugly, ugly.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

32 million dollar plane. Expensive last plane ride.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

Nope. I did monovision contacts for a while, one eye for distant vision, one eye for near, but it's not legal to pilot a plane that way, so for flying, bifocal glasses are the best solution. I could do distant vision contacts both eyes, plus reading glasses, but that's more cumbersome than bifocals. Lasix would remove any options.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

I watched the Mickey Mouse Club and Walt Disney Presents when I was a kid in the 1950s, and Disney also did some interesting feature-length stuff like Fantasia.

Now, Disney is just a proliferation of cookie-cutter feature-length toy commercials and unnecessary Star Wars spinoffs. Meh.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

Dakooder posted...

SmokeMassTree posted...

Is a car not used the first time it's used?

I consider someone poor if they drive a car that is from 2008 or older.

*some exceptions for really nice older cars

Eh, my 95 Land Cruiser and 83 Yamaha XJ750 are in better shape than most cars from that year still on the road. You really can't judge a person's financial situation on their ride. So many cars coming into my work from 2012 for instance are pieces of shit because they haven't been taken care of. Nobody that can afford to buy an Avalon new should be skipping axles because they're too expensive.

Yep. I consider people poor if they can't afford to buy for cash and have to make car payments instead. And, yes, older vehicles, especially classics, are a much better value.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

rogerskg1979 posted...

I wouldn't say buying new or used means a person is poor. What would mean a person is poor is if they own a run down piece of junk clunker that is falling apart. Nobody chooses to own a clunker. People who have a clunker simply cannot afford a better used car.

Not "can't afford", but "don't want". I prefer to buy broken cars and fix them myself. That way I don't end up sacrificing the price of a house for a rapidly depreciating new car, or buying someone else's troublesome used car. Nor do I pay a dealer's markup either way. If I buy a project car and do the work myself, I know exactly what I have. The last new car I bought was in 1971. My current stable is a 1994 Mazda Protege for a cheap everyday grocery-getter, a 1997 BMW convertible for a comfortable high performance cruiser, and a 1982 Supra for a fun car. The 1997 is approaching the age limit for a practical car, it's a bit too new and too much computer-dependent, I really should have bought a 96 or earlier.

What do I leave at the airport when heading out of town for a week or two? Obviously the beater Mazda.

I spend a lot less in parts and tools for three cars than I would for car payments on a cheap disposable new car.

BTW, I'm helping a neighbor rebuild his 1971 Buick Skylark.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

Several hundred a year. Got hooked on The Expanse TV show a couple of months ago, binge-watched 3 seasons, then read all the books and novelettes.

I prefer paperbacks, Amazon Kindle Unlimited is a good deal, and my nearby regional library is good and also has a digital lending program.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

b_hamnite posted...

No Malcolm Reynolds? For shame.

Yes.

Captain Jack Harkness was also overlooked
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

I'm a retired healer and mage, so, no, I let my licenses lapse when I retired, no more required CEUs, yay! I still compete in martial arts tournaments, empty hand and weapons, so, warrior.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

Anti government control of women's bodies. I'm sure there would be no debate if the men who are so vociferously antiabortion were forced to carry the fetuses to term themselves (and then raise them for at least 18 years)
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

One kiss is all it takes? Herpes was my first thought. Mono was my second thought.

My third thought was the old saw: "Men are like dogs, they do disgusting things with their mouths and then try to kiss you."
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

I like to try different craft and specialty beers, and brew my own. Mexican beer with a twist of lime is always good. I think the best beer I've had is Scottish Claymore.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

Alien/Aliens, Them!, The Thing (both versions), It: The Terror From Beyond Space (prototype for Alien), Event Horizon, Flash Gordon, etc.

In fact, hundreds of science fiction movies are better than any in the Matrix franchise.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

Dancer is okay, even though I'm mostly retired. I sold my ST162 and bought an E36, so I would need a name change.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

DPsx7 posted...

What's a drake? Other than Uncharted and a bat creature from Dragon Quest.

There is Drake University, in Des Moines.

A male duck.

I've also run across the name as a quasi-celebrity. I'm guessing reality show or maybe a televangelist.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less

Lokarin posted...

jramirez23 posted...

Maybe you might consider whether older teachers tended to share their life experience or maybe younger teachers might have been easier to relate to. What did you think?

Umm... do people actually think like that? Our teachers were just... there. Do the lesson and move on. No better or worse than a Doctor or a Clerk

This. No vote. Public school, 10 years of college, instructors as individuals, age never mattered. On my dissertation committee, one older than me, two younger. Eh.
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If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less