Good Articles That Don't Deserve Their Own Threads

[Pimpernel Smith]

 

[Dropbear]

Unmmm … ok, loser.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Unmmm … ok, loser.

It's not me pretending to be hip with the kids.

 

[ter1413]

How ‘sexiest’ label has backfired on soccer player Ana Maria Markovic

Although soccer pro Ana Maria Markovic is grateful for the positive press she’s received, there’s one adjective she isn’t exactly fond of.

nypost.com

 

[Grand Potentate]

Rural America Reels From Violent Crime. ‘People Lost Their Ever-Lovin’ Minds.’

Murder rates didn’t soar only in cities during the pandemic. Homicide rates in rural America rose 25% in 2020, the largest rural increase since the CDC began tracking such data in 1999. Small-town sheriffs and prosecutors are overwhelmed with homicide cases.

www.wsj.com

 

[Dropbear]

Not that ‘good’ of an article, but you lot were arguing about this topic recently:

Juneteenth Is Now a National Holiday. Are Reparations Next?

The drumbeat for reparations for Black Americans is sounding again, perhaps louder than ever before

time.com

 

[Sammy Ambrose]

The New York Post is a not my usual source of news and this article is 2017. But it reckons that most if the dancers on the famous American TV dance competition show, both the girls and the boys, were gay and that it had to be a well-kept secret. An interesting story I think.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2017/03/12/american-bandstand-kept-secret-that-teen-stars-were-gay/amp/

 

[doghouse]

that it had to be a well-kept secret

Was it though?

 

[Sammy Ambrose]

Was it though?

According to the NYP yes. Dick Clark knew but American parents didn't.

Btw, the video clip there shows a mixed race audience but black dancers came a bit later.

 

[doghouse]

According to the NYP yes. Dick Clark knew but American parents didn't.

Btw, the video clip there shows a mixed race audience but black dancers came a bit later.

I don't know. I think that's one of those willfully ignorant things. Everyone knew a lot of Hollywood people at the time were gay too but pretended they weren't, like Anthony Perkins and such.

 

[Sammy Ambrose]

I don't know. I think that's one of those willfully ignorant things. Everyone knew a lot of Hollywood people at the time were gay too but pretended they weren't, like Anthony Perkins and such.

Possibly, yes.

But that aside, I find these Bandstand YouTube videos fascinating. The prizes and the ads and the method of voting. And Dick Clark was a star.

 

[Dropbear]

I don’t think there are many male dancers who are straight in this culture. And I imagine the stigma would only have been worse back then.

I keep encouraging my 12yo some to take some dance classes, because women appreciate someone who can dance and some day he will value the fact he is surrounded by fit girls. But, of course, he won’t step out of his martial arts and fencing lane.

 

[Sammy Ambrose]

I keep encouraging my 12yo some to take some dance classes, because women appreciate someone who can dance.

Aged 11 at school a weekly lesson was ballroom dancing. As it was an all boys school that meant dancing the waltz with another boy.

 

[Dropbear]

Aged 11 at school a weekly lesson was ballroom dancing. As it was an all boys school that meant dancing the waltz with another boy.

Same at my all boys school, but aged 14 we had to do either table etiquette or dancing. We all left knowing our teaspoons and soup spoons apart, with two left feet!

 

[Sammy Ambrose]

Same at my all boys school, but aged 14 we had to do either table etiquette or dancing. We all left knowing our teaspoons and soup spoons apart, with two left feet!

We had etiquette, too. But it was compulsory as was ballroom dancing.

 

[The Ernesto]

Wow. You blokes must have gone to some hoity toity schools.

 

[Grand Potentate]

Wow. You blokes must have gone to some hoity toity schools.

right? table etiquette? these damn british satrapies creating fancy little lads.

 

[Sammy Ambrose]

Wow. You blokes must have gone to some hoity toity schools.

Yes. And trousers had to be properly ironed and creased and shoes had to be shined. I think a Shooman genie must have been somewhere behind the scenes.

 

[Dropbear]

Wow. You blokes must have gone to some hoity toity schools.

For sure. I went to school with Stuart McGill, Heath Ledger and Tim Minchin. I sold drugs to them all.

 

[The Ernesto]

For sure. I went to school with Stuart McGill, Heath Ledger and Tim Minchin. I sold drugs to them all.

Hope they credited their success to you.

 

[CodPiece]

I keep encouraging my 12yo some to take some dance classes, because women appreciate someone who can dance and some day he will value the fact he is surrounded by fit girls. But, of course, he won’t step out of his martial arts and fencing lane.

Take your son to see a really good hiphop performance, the athleticism is amazing. I encouraged my son to take up drums, fencing and hiphop, it was a virtuous circle of timing and physicality. He was always one of the few boys who danced, surrounded by girls.

 

[Grand Potentate]

A Serious Gas Leak Happens Every 40 Hours in the U.S.

More than 120 Americans have died from gas explosions in recent years, a new report finds.

gizmodo.com

 

[Grand Potentate]

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3182767/china-bans-over-30-live-streaming-behaviours-demands-qualifications?module=lead_hero_story&pgtype=homepage

the chinese, once again leading the way.

 

[Dropbear]

Mad Dog got hitched by Elvis. Thill a fucking legend!